Business Licenses on Goldfields.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VII, Issue 316, 1 December 1875, Page 7

Business Licenses on Goldfields.

The following are tho main clauses in an Act which has been passed by tho General Assembly entitled tho "Goldflelds Acts Amendment Act, 1875 :" 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or implied in "The Goldfields Act, 1866," any person being the holder of an agricultural lease, under the said Act, who shall occupy and carry on business on land held under such lease, shall bo entitled and authorized so to do without payment for a business license under the said Act in that behalf. 4. Tho seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth sections of " The Goldfields Act, 1866," are hereby repealed : Provided always that this repeal shall not affect any act or proceeding done or commenced under the said sections hereby repealed, but the same may respectively be enforced and completed as if this Act had not been passed. 5. The compensation henceforth to be paid for the determination of the lease, and for any improvements which may have been made on any lands comprised in any lease which may hereafter bo cancelled under the sixteenth section of " The Goldflelds Act, 1866," shall be paid to the same amount and determined in the same manner as is provided in sections ninety-eight to one hundred and three (both inclusive) of "The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872," for the determination of pastoral leases over lands outside of gold fields.