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tion payable to the Treasurer of the Province for the Public Uses of the Province, or without consideration, and may authorise the depasturing of cattle of any description, during the daytime, but in all other respects shall confer the like rights and exemptions, and impose the like duties and restrictions upon the Licensee and his assigns as other Licenses issued under the authority of this Ordinance.

15. In the construction of this Ordinance words of or importing the masculine gender shall extend to and include females, and the singular number shall include the plural also, and the plural number the singular also; except, in the said several cases, there shall be any repugnancy to such construction in the subject or context; and the term 'Cattle,' where not expressly restricted, shall include neat cattle and sheep, and also horses, mules, asses, goats, and swine; and the term 'Assigns' shall include executors and administrators; and unenclosed lands cultivated without the privity of the owners thereof, or which were not in cultivation on the 30th day of September 1854, and also unenclosed lands in grass, shall not be deemed cultivated lands, but shall be deemed to be lands lying waste and uncultivated within the meaning of this Ordinance.

16. And whereas the Superintendent has already issued four several Licenses bearing the date the 30th day of September 1854, and referred to in the Schedule to this Ordinance, which Licenses purport to authorise the Licensees therein named to depasture neat cattle and sheep on the lands lying waste and uncultivated within such portions of the Town and Town Belt as are therein respectively specified until and including the 31st day of December 1854:—

Be it further enacted, that the said Licenses shall have the same force and effect, and be read and construed in the same manner, and the said Licensees and their assigns shall be subject to the same obligations and restrictions, and the consideration moneys payable for such Licenses shall be recoverable in the same manner, as if the said Licenses had been issued under the authority and pursuant to the provisions of this Ordinance.

Passed the Provincial Council the tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Speaker.

Assented to on behalf of the Governor the twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

FORM OF LICENSE.

In exercise of the powers in me vested by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of New Plymouth, passed in the 2nd Session of the said Council, intituled "An Ordinance to regulate the occupation of certain unenclosed lands in the Town of New Plymouth [and Town Belt] as is delineated on the Plan hereto annexed and therein colored.... [or any other other convenient description of the district may be inserted].... Exclusive of Crown Lands and Native Reserves within the said limits—[Here insert any necessary exception excluding and protecting particular Streets or Public Places]. From the day of [the day of sale, or—where the sale shall be made prior to the expiration of any current license comprising the pasturage sold—the day of the expiration of the current license] until, and including the day of 18 subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the Ordinance above referred to.

Issued under my hand at the Town of New Plymouth, this day of 18 .

LIST OF LICENSES ALREADY GRANTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT AND CONFIRMED BY THIS ORDINANCE.

Printed by G. W. Woon for the Provincial Government.