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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Regulations for Collection of Rates under Section 7
of "County of Westland Act, 1867."

1. Rates shall be of two kinds—General and
   Special.

2. General rates may be levied for the purpose of
   providing means for executing general works, that is,
   works for the benefit of the road district generally.

3. Special rates may be levied for the purpose of
   providing means for executing special works, that is,
   works for the special benefit of any particular portion
   of the road district.

4. The Board shall decide what are general and
   what special works.

5. Fourteen days at least before making any rate
   the Board shall prepare and post up in writing at the
   office of the Board a notice showing—
   (a.) An estimate of the probable cost of the
   works intended to be executed by the Board,
   and of the probable amount required to be
   raised by rates.
   (b.) A list of the properties liable to be rated,
   and of the names of the occupiers or owners
   of such properties, with the rateable value
   of such properties.
   (c.) The rate on each pound of the rateable
   value of all such properties necessary to
   produce the amount required to be raised,
   and shall forward a copy of such notice to
   the Chairman of the County Council, and
   shall notify either by advertisement or in
   such other manner as the Board may con-
   sider best calculated to give publicity, its
   intention of making a rate.
   (d.) The place and the time (not being less than
   ten nor more than fourteen days from the
   date of such notice) at which a meeting of
   the Board for the purpose of hearing and
   determining appeals, as hereinafter men-
   tioned, shall be held.

6. For the purpose of ascertaining the rateable
   value of any property, the Board shall appoint two
   assessors, who may be members of the Board.

7. No rate shall be made unless the Board shall first
   have received the written sanction of the Chairman
   of the County Council to such rate.

8. No special rate shall be made unless the Board
   shall first have received the written consent of at
   least one-half of the persons liable to pay such special
   rate.

9. Every rate shall be entered in rate-book to be
   kept for that purpose in the form in Schedule A. to
   these regulations, or as near thereto as the circum-
   stances of the case will permit.

10. Any ratepayer may at any time, not being
    less than three days before the day appointed for the
    meeting, to be held in accordance with the notice
    hereinbefore required for the hearing of appeals as
    aforesaid, give to the clerk of the Board notice in
    writing of his intention to appeal, and may appeal as
    hereinafter provided against the assessment, on any
    of the following grounds:—that he is not the occu-
    pier or owner of the property of which he is stated
    to be the occupier or owner—that the property of
    which he is the occupier or owner is assessed beyond
    the fair annual value—that any rateable property
    is omitted from the assessment—that any rateable
    property is assessed below its fair annual value:
    Provided that in case of appeal being made on either
    of the two last-mentioned grounds of appeal, the
    appellant shall prove to the satisfaction of the Board
    on the hearing of the appeal, that notice of the
    appeal, and of the grounds thereof, have been given
    not less than three days before the day appointed for
    hearing of appeals to the owner of the rateable pro-
    perty alleged to have been omitted or assessed below
    its fair annual value, as the case may be.

11. Appeals against assessment shall be brought
    before the Board, and may be heard and determined
    by the Board at a meeting to be held for that pur-
    pose, at the place and time mentioned in the notice
    by section five of these regulations required to be
    given as aforesaid, or at any adjournment of such
    meeting; and the order in which such appeals shall be
    heard shall be the order in which the notices of such
    appeals shall have been given to the clerk of the
    Board. And upon the decision of the Board in regard
    to any such appeal the assessment shall be altered
    or amended as may be required, in accordance with
    such decision.

12. No general or special rate to be levied in any one
    year shall exceed one shilling in the pound on the
    assessed value of the properties rated.

13. No lands or buildings or other property used
    by the Government for any public purpose, nor any
    hospital, lunatic asylum, benevolent institution or
    building used exclusively for public purposes, nor any
    church, chapel, or school, shall be liable to be rated.

14. If there be no notice of appeal against the
    assessment served upon the clerk of the Board
    within the time hereinbefore limited for giving
    notice of appeals, the Chairman and the Secretary
    shall forthwith sign the rate-book. If any notice or
    notices of appeal shall have been so served, the rate-
    book shall be signed upon the decision by the Board
    of such appeal or appeals, and so soon as the rate-
    book has been signed by the Chairman and Secretary
    of the Board the rate may forthwith be collected.

15. For the purpose of collecting the rates the
    Board shall appoint a collector, who may be a
    member of the Board.

SCHEDULE A.

An assessment to the
rate made this
day of
in the year of our Lord 18 , after
the rate of
pence in the pound, under tho
regulations made by the Governor in Council on
day of
186 , and published in the New
Zealand Gazette, No. dated
,

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that the Governor has dele-
gated to His Honor the Superintendent of the
Province of Canterbury, within that Province, His
Excellency's powers under "The Prisoners Removal
Act, 1865."

E. W. STAFFORD.

THE partnership hitherto existing between Alfred
Shaw and Co. and John Williamson, ironmongers,
of Dunedin, Hokitika, and Melbourne, has been this
day dissolved by mutual consent, so far as concerns
John Williamson. The business will still be carried
on by the said firm, who will make and receive all
payments owing by or due to the said firm.

(Signed) ALFRED SHAW AND Co.
"
JOHN WILLIAMSON.

Dunedin, 2nd May, 1868.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.