holding right to such rents, or otherwise to obtain relief from them.

16. If any person shall refuse or neglect to pay such assessment for the space of fourteen days after the same has become payable and been demanded from him personally or at his dwelling-place, or by public general notice in the Government Gazette or a newspaper, it shall be lawful for such Collector and his assistants, without any previous action or suit, but simply by virtue of a warrant under the hand of any Justice of the Peace, which he is hereby empowered to grant, to enter into any part of the house, land, or tenement so assessed, and to levy the assessment by distress and sale of the goods and chattels therein or thereon: And in case it shall be impossible so to levy the assessment by reason of the property assessed being unoccupied or otherwise, the arrears shall at any subsequent time be leviable in like manner upon any goods which may be found upon such property, the party or parties whose goods and chattels shall be so distrained and sold being entitled to relief as aforesaid.

17. It shall be lawful for any Collector of Assessment, or other officer appointed by the Town Board, or for any other officer so authorised, to sue for and recover any assessment to which any person is liable in any Court of competent jurisdiction; and for the purposes of any such action or suit, such assessment shall be deemed to be due and payable to such Collector or other officer.

18. Whenever the Town Board shall adjudge, which they are hereby authorised and empowered to do, any new Drain, Sewer, or other improvement, to be specially beneficial to any particular district, or any particular properties, within the town of Dunedin, the expenses occasioned by the making of such Drain, Sewer, or other improvement, may be recovered as private improvement expenses from the owners, tenants, and occupiers of properties benefited thereby, and not exempted from assessment as hereinafter mentioned, by a Special Rate, over and above any other rates to which such persons may be liable under this Ordinance; and the sum to be annually levied by such special rate shall be a certain proportion, to be fixed by the Town Board, of the whole expense incurred as aforesaid, and shall be allocated and be payable by such owners, tenants, and occupiers yearly or half-yearly, as the Town Board shall determine, during such period as shall be adequate for securing and paying off by means of such special rate both the said expenses, or any money borrowed for defraying the same on the security of said special rate, and also the interest of said expenses or borrowed money; and the amount of any such special rate, together with the costs of any proceedings for recovery thereof, may be recovered in like manner as any general rate authorised by this Ordinance to be levied; and the Town Board shall cause their Surveyor from time to time, as occasion shall require, to describe and define on a Map or Plan of Dunedin every separate and distinct district, for the purpose of special rating as aforesaid, and shall cause separate and distinct accounts to be kept of all monies collected and recovered under any special rate, and of all payments and disbursements in respect thereof; and they shall apply the monies so collected and recovered for the several purposes only for which the said special rates were laid on and authorised to be levied.

19. All proceedings under this Ordinance, in so far as not otherwise expressly provided, may be laid and taken in the form prescribed by the Summary Proceedings Ordinance of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, Session II. No. 5 (1842).

20. No assessment shall be made on any Gaol, Hospital, Custom-House, Police Office, or Station House, or other Government offices or buildings; or on any waste lands of the Crown or land reserved for Municipal or other public purposes, or lands or buildings belonging to Government; or on any property used solely for Religious and Educational purposes.

21. The word “proprietor” and the word “owner” occurring in the foregoing enactments shall be held to include all persons having right to the rents of lands, buildings, and hereditaments.

Passed the Provincial Council this seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Clerk of Council.

Assented to on behalf of the Governor, at Dunedin, the eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.