NOTICE. Colonial Secretary,s Office, Auckland, December 24, 1844,

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 14, 11 January 1845, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTICE. Colonial Secretary, s Office, Auckland, December 24, 1844,

In the General Dealers' licensing Ordinance, the following will be proposed as the substance of the principal provisions :—: — 1. After the [first day of July] next, no person sh.'il} carry on business as a merchant, or dealer jn gopd3 impoited into the colony, either on his own account, or as a factor, agent, or consignee, without a License. 2. A License shall be issued to any person on payment of the sum of [£2], and shall continue in force for [ane year."] ,3. Every Licensed dealer, who shall not make a composition for the same, shall pay a rate in respect of imperial goods, sold by him, according to the scale in the annexed schedule. " + 4- In lieu of such rate any person may I make a composition for the same, by paying the sum of [£20.1 5. In the first weelc of February,.of April, of July, and of October, in every year, every merchant or dealer who shall not make such composition, shall make a return in writing, stating tge amount of rate payable by him, and shall ,at the same time pay the due proportion of such rate, 6. Every merchant ox dealer who shall compound for the rate, shall pay the whole composition in adyance, or quarterly at tfce said periods. The first of such payments to be made at one af the said periods next following the date ,of the License.. 7. The juim.es of all Licensed merchants or dealers, and the returns of rate required to be made by the Ordinance, shall be published in the Ggvarnment Gazette. 8. Dealing in imported goods, without a License, shall be liable to a line of [50j. 9. A false return shall be punishable by a, fine of [50]], by forfeiture of the license, and by disqualification to hold a License in future. 10. A^ arrears of rate to be recoverable in a summary way. 11. Tjjis Bjpposcd Ordinance shall not extend to the sale of goods under the authority of the *-' Licensing Ordinance," or of the "Auctioneer's Ordinance." • - I 12. For the purppsesg>of the 1 said Ordinance, the term " Goods** shaltfibe held to mean flour, salt, coals, wines, malt liquors, tea, coffee, sugar, tobaWo, pigars, srrufF, hardware, crockery, glass, . linen, woollen and other articles of clothing, stationery, and all other goods, wares, or merchandize. ■'', ,