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9. To be sworn in and act as a constable, especially when required by Magistrates or the Police.

10. On all occasions to render every assistance, and to supply information to Magistrates and to the Police in the execution of their duty.

11. To keep a clean and orderly house, and to render it as comfortable for the accommodation of travellers, as the circumstances of position and distance from towns will allow.

12. To keep at all times a safe ferry-boat (punt) in good working order, and ready for conveyance of passengers across the Waitangi, between the hours of five a.m. and seven p.m. in the summer, and between the hours of seven a.m. and five p.m. in the winter. The fares to be as follows:—

For foot passengers, two shillings each, between the hours above named, the fares to be doubled at all other times.

For sheep, threepence per head.

For horsemen, five shillings.

For merchandise, per ton, twenty shillings.

For wool, per bale, two shillings.

For drays and other vehicles, ten shillings.

Officers of the Supreme Court, Magistrates and police constables on duty, and prisoners, to be ferried free of charge.

To afford every assistance in his power in directing strangers to a safe fording across the river.

13. The license to be cancelled by order of any three Justices of the Peace, if it be proved to their satisfaction that any of the conditions of the license are not regularly fulfilled, or if any drunkenness be proved to have been allowed on the premises, or if any spirits shall be supplied from the house or premises to any aboriginal native of New Zealand.

14. A printed or fairly written copy of these conditions, and a tariff of all charges, to be kept at all times posted up in some conspicuous place in the tap-room, and in all the sitting-rooms for the information of travellers.

15. To provide a Visitors’ Book, which shall be kept in the custody of the licensee, but whenever asked for shall be produced to visitors and lodgers, for the insertion of any remarks on the accommodation or attendance; a notice to this effect to be kept posted in the same manner as the tariff of charges. The book to be open at all times to inspection by Magistrates or the Police, and to be sent to the Clerk of the Bench at Timaru, a week before the Annual Licensing Meeting, for the purpose of being produced at that meeting.

16. To keep a copy of the Public House Ordinance in the house.

BURGESS, JOHN, BURKE’S PASS.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the taproom or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than eight beds for travellers, in not less than two separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least five horses.

4. At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle.

Conditions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Brown’s.

12. Nil.

Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Brown’s.

16. To keep a copy of the Public House Ordinance in the house.

FITCH, JAMES SAWYER, SALTWATER CREEK.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the taproom, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than eight beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least five horses.

4. At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle.

Conditions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Brown’s.

12. Nil.

Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Brown’s.

16. To keep a copy of the Public House Ordinance in the house.

JONES, W. B., MAHIKI.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair, to provide in his house, besides the taproom, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.

4. At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle.

Conditions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Brown’s.

12. Nil.

Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Brown’s.

16. To keep a copy of the Public House Ordinance in the house.