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10. All Arrears of Rate to be recoverable in
    a summary way.

11. This proposed Ordinance shall not extend
    to the Sale of Goods under the authority of the
    "Licensing Ordinance," or of the "Auctioneer's
    Ordinance."

12. For the purposes of the said Ordinance,
    the term "Goods," shall be held to mean Flour,
    Salt, Coals, Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors, Tea,
    Coffee, Sugar, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, Hard-
    ware, Crockery, Glass, Linen, Woollen, and
    other articles of Clothing, Stationery, and all
    other Goods, Wares, or Merchandise.

SCHEDULE.
When the amount for which Goods shall have
been sold during the last quarter, shall not
exceed-

£50 ......................... £1 10 0
Exceeding 50 and not exceeds 100 ... 3 0 0
" 100 " 150 ... 4 10 0
" 150 " 200 ... 6 0 0
" 200 " 250 ... 7 10 0
" 250 " 300 ... 9 0 0
" 300 " 350 ... 10 10 0
" 350 " 400 ... 12 0 0
" 400 " 450 ... 13 10 0
" 450 " 500 ... 15 0 0
" 500 " 550 ... 16 10 0
" 550 " 600 ... 18 0 0
" 600 and upwards...... 20 0 0

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd January, 1845.

H IS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified, that it is not in contemplation
to raise the Property Rate before October, 1845.

By Command
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

COUNCIL—PRIVATE BILLS.

Council Office,
Auckland, 28th December, 1844.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct it to be notified for
general information, that persons intending to
apply for Private Ordinances during the ensuing
Session of the Legislative Council, must trans-
mit drafts of the Bills to the Clerk of Councils,
on or before Saturday, the 15th day of March,
1845.

J. COATES,
Clerk of Legislative Council.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 23rd December, 1844.

WHEREAS, there are now about four
hundred Deeds of Grant lying at the

Colonial Secretary's Office, ready for delivery—
and it is expedient that they should be forth-
with issued:-I am desired to give notice, that
an Ordinance will be proposed to the Legislative
Council having for its object the establishing a
certain fine to be paid on Deeds allowed to re-
main at the said Office more than one month
after their advertisement in the Gazette.

The operation of such Ordinance to be re-
trospective as far as January 1st, 1844, and
the fine to encrease monthly.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified, that the Correspondence of
individuals with this Government upon their
Private affairs, must be prepaid.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 23rd December, 1844.

THE GOVERNOR hereby requires and directs
all Police Magistrates and all those em-
ployed in the Police Department to assist the
Collectors of Revenue in serving notices of lia-
bility to the penalty specified in the eleventh
section of the Property Rate Ordinance.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 23rd December, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor has directed
the publication of the following Letter,
as a Warning to Land Claimants.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Sir,-Referring to my letter of the 27th of
June, last, in which you were informed of the
deficiency reported by the Surveyor-General in
the land contained in Claim No. 250, as com-
pared with the award of the Land Commission-
ers, and were required to pay into the Colonial
Treasury, the difference between the actual
contents of that Claim, and the Land obtained
in exchange for the same-I am now commanded
by the Governor to apprise you that, no notice
having been taken by you of the above com-