Important to Sheep Fanners

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 147, 22 May 1886, Page 3

Important to Sheep Fanners

,t The attention of sheep owners is dire c ted to sections 21 and 22 of the She. Ac: which an- as follows : — (2IJ Eve _ owner of sheep shall, between the fir ' «nd thirtieth day of June in every ye:i J deliver or cause to be delivered to tl * Chief Inspector a written return, in tl - form provided in Schedule A. of tl s number of sheep and lambs of each si 3 exceeding three months old owned by hi on the thirty- first day of May preceedir specifying in such reiurn the ear»marl \ and brands upon such sheep. Evei m persoD refusing or neglecting to delivi or cause to be delivered such return i afore- said shall be liable to a penalty nc • exceeding twenty pounds. — (22 ) Evei " owner of sheep shall on or before the fir: » day of September in every year, pay 1 i Receiver of Land Revenue, or to sue p other person as may be authorised l> j the Governor to reeeire the same, tL sum of two shillings for every huudre ( or fractional part of a hundred sheep c lambs owned by him on the last day c May preceding, and specified in Ihe re turn furnished by him as provided in th last preceding section. AH and ever ; such t« irly mm or sums of money pay able as aforesa d shall, in case the sum be not paid on or before the said first da; of September, be a debt owing by tin owner of such sheep to the Crown, anc may be sued for and recovered ia an; Court of competent jurisdiction. Continuation of reading matter on Wi pagi