LICENSE

Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the City of Dunedin by virtue of the authority in them vested in that behalf—That from and after the day on which this Bye-law shall come into force, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to offer either by private sale or public auction, any horse, horned cattle, or carriage, in any bazaar within the said city, unless such bazaar, repository, or sale yard, shall be duly licensed by and under the authority of the said Council, and every proprietor or owner for the time being of such bazaar shall pay a license fee of £10 for the same, and such license shall be renewed annually, and a like sum of £10 paid for such renewal; and any person selling either by private sale or public auction any horses or carriages in any bazaar, repository, or sale yard, without being duly licensed as aforesaid, shall on conviction forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of ten pounds to the Corporation of the City of Dunedin.

XI.—A Bye-law to regulate the Sale by Weight or Measure of marketable commodities within the City of Dunedin, and to define the Hours during which certain of such commodities may be exposed for sale.

And whereas with a view to prevent fraud and unjust dealing, it is necessary to provide regulations in reference to the sale or disposal of marketable commodities within the said city: Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the said city, by virtue of the authority in them vested, that from and after the date of this Bye-law coming into operation, the following shall be the regulations in force:—

1. The owner or reputed owner, or vendor of any marketable commodities or produce brought into the said city for sale by weight or measure, or offered or exposed therein for that purpose, and reported on by a duly appointed officer of the said Council as being of unjust or illegal weight or measure, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of ten shillings for each and every load or other quantity so brought for sale, or offered or exposed as aforesaid.

2. Any person within the said city selling or delivering, or causing or permitting to be sold or delivered, any goods, wares, or merchandise of any kind whatever, under the weight at or for which such goods, wares, or merchandise shall have been sold, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum of two pounds.

3. It shall not be lawful for any person to expose for sale upon any of the said public stands, provided by the said Council, any hay or firewood, excepting during the hours following, that is to say—during the months of October, November, December, January, February, and March, between the hours of five o’clock in the morning and seven o’clock in the evening; and during the months of April, May, June, July, August, and September, between the hours of six o’clock in the morning and five o’clock in the afternoon. And any person exposing or offering for sale the said goods, or either of them at any other time, or not clearing the stands at the hours respectively, lastly above-named, shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum of one pound.

4. All penalties and sums recoverable under this Bye-law shall be payable to and recoverable by the Corporation of the City of Dunedin.

XII.—A Bye-law to restrain the keeping of Houses of Ill-fame in the City of Dunedin.

Whereas it is necessary for the peace and comfort of the inhabitants of the City of Dunedin that houses of ill-fame and repute within the said city should be restrained and if possible suppressed: Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the said city, by virtue of the authority in them vested—That from and after the date of this Bye-law coming into force, any person keeping any such house, or being the reputed proprietor and occupier thereof, or having the chief control, or conduct or management of the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds to the Corporation of the City of Dunedin for every such offence, and all Inspectors of Nuisance of the said Council, or other officer thereof, being special constables, are hereby required to lay and prefer informations for a breach of this Bye-law, at the instance or on request of any two respectable householders resident in the neighborhood of such reported house of ill-fame and repute.

(L.S.)
WILLIAM MASON,
Mayor.

Passed by the Council of the City of Dunedin, this first day of December, 1865.

JOHN LAZAR,
Town Clerk.

The foregoing Bye-laws having been laid before the Provincial Council of this Province for fourteen days, have been submitted to me for confirmation, and it having been certified to me that none of the said Bye-laws are repugnant to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” or to the general spirit and intent of the laws in force within the Colony and the Province, I do hereby, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, confirm the said Bye-laws.

As witness my hand, at Dunedin, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

29° VICTORIÆ, No. 26.

SCHEDULE A

I, THE undersigned Charles Edward Haughton, hereby make application to register “The New Orleans Quartz Mining Company,” registered, under the provisions of the “Mining Companies’ Limited Liability Act, 1865,” and I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the following statement is, to the best of my belief and knowledge, true in every particular, namely:—

1. The name and style of the Company is “The New Orleans Quartz Mining Company,” Registered.

2. The place of operations is at Arrow River.

3. The nominal capital of the Company is four thousand pounds, in four hundred shares of ten pounds each.

4. The amount already paid up is twenty pounds.

5. The name of the Manager is Charles Edward Haughton.

6. The office of the Company is at Arrowtown.

7. The names and several residences of the Shareholders, and the number of Shares held by each at this date, are as follows:—

Dated this twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

C. E. HAUGHTON,
Manager.

Witness to signature—
LOWTHER, BROAD B.M.