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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Licenses.
35. No liquor licenses to be granted for
the occupation of native lands unleased to
the Crown, except with the consent of the
native owners, and on the recommendation
of the Resident Magistrate.
36. Every person engaged in trade or
business of any kind within the limits of the
gold field, shall obtain from the Commissioner
a business license, for which he shall pay the
sum of five pounds (£5) annually, and shall
be entitled to occupy an allotment of land,
the size of which shall be left to the discre-
tion of the Commissioner.
37. Every holder of a wholesale license
for the sale of fermented or spirituous liquors
in quantities not less than two gallons, shall
pay a fee for the same of twenty pounds
(£20). Such license to remain in force for
the period of twelve months from the date
of issue.
38. Every holder of a retail license for the
sale of fermented and spirituous liquors in
any quantity shall pay a fee for the same, as
fixed by the Governor. The holders of busi-
ness or liquor licenses shall, if so required by
the Resident Magistrate, be sworn in as
special constables.
39. All business licenses may be with-
drawn and cancelled by the Commissioner,
upon proof to his satisfaction of a breach of
the regulations of such gold field, or of any
disorderly conduct upon the premises held
under such licenses; and all liquor licenses,
whether wholesale or retail, may be so with-
drawn or cancelled by His Excellency the
Governor, or his deputy, on the recommenda-
tion of the Resident Magistrate.
40. All business premises of whatsoever
kind, shall be subject to the same inspection
as is provided under the "Licensing Act."

Table of Fees.
Business License ... £. s. d.
5 0 0
Wholesale Spirit License ... 20 0 0
Retail Spirit License ... 1 0 0
Miner's Right, ... 1 0 0
Registering Written Agreement 0 10 0
Registering Transfer of Claim 0 5 0

Fees in Wardens' Court.
s. d.
Hearing by consent, without
previous Summons, includ-
ing Adjudication ... 1 0 0
Summons, Hearing, and Ad-
judication ... 1 10 0
Juryman's pay, per diem ... 0 7 0
Mileage, for every mile over
ten which the Commissioner
shall travel to hear any case 0 2 0
All Fees to be pre-paid.

*** The following Sections of the Gold
Fields Act, 1858, of the Licensing Act, and
of the Sale of Spirits Ordinance, are ap-
pended for general information:—
XXVIII. Any person not being the
holder of a miner's right or of a lease
under this Act, who shall mine for
gold upon any proclaimed Gold Field,
and any person who shall employ any
such unauthorised person so to mine, and
any person not being the holder of a miner's
right, license, or lease, duly empowering him
in that behalf, and not being an authorised
person within the meaning of this Act, who
shall occupy any waste lands in or become
resident upon or at any proclaimed gold field,
shall be liable to the penalties following, that
is to say:-For the first offence, a sum not
exceeding five pounds; for the second or any
subsequent offence a sum not exceeding ten
pounds nor less than five pounds.
XXIX. Any person who shall knowingly
mine or employ any person to mine for
gold on any land belonging to a private in-
dividual, without the consent of the owner
thereof, or his duly authorised agent, shall
be subject to the like penalties as are men-
tioned in the last preceding clause.
XXX. If any person shall forge or alter any
"miner's right," license, lease, or other docu-
ment issued under the authority of this Act,
with intent to defeat the provisions thereof,
or to defraud any person whomsoever, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on convic-
tion thereof before any Court of competent
jurisdiction, shall be subject to fine or im-
prisonment, with or without hard labour, not
exceeding three years, or both, at the discre-
tion of the Court.
XXXI. If any person shall use or ex-
hibit any forged Miner's right, license,
or lease, issued under the authority of this Aet,
or purporting to be
knowing the same to be forged; or if
any person shall fraudulently personate
the holder of any such Miner's right, license,
or lease, or shall falsely and fraudulently
represent that any servant or other person
is an authorised person within the meaning
of this Act, or shall fraudulently use or ex-
hibit as his own any Miner's right, license,
or lease, belonging to or granted to any other
person, or shall use or exhibit as a valid
Miner's right, license, or lease, which shall
have expired, he shall be liable to a penalty
for every such offence not exceeding fifty
pounds.
XXXII. Every person committing any
breach, whether of omission or commission, of
any of the rules or regulations, made under
the authority of this Act, shall for every
such breach be liable to a fine or penalty not
exceeding ten pounds for the first offence,
and twenty pounds for any second or subse-
quent offence.-Gold Fields Act, 1858,
On Persons Selling without License.
XXXVII. If any person, not being duly
Licensed, shall sell any quantity of any
fermented or spirituous liquor, or permit the
same to be sold in or upon his house: or.
premises, he shall forfeit and pay, for every
such offence, the sum of fifty pounds, to be
recovered in a summary way. -Licensing Act.
Supplying Spirits to Natives.

1. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieu-