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Modes of letting buildings in markets.
Not more than one building to be holden.
New buildings.
Partnerships and shop seals.
(See Ord. No. 5 of 1867 s. 7.)
'Absence from the Colony.
Alterations of or additions to buildings.
False weights, coin, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1858.
Markets.
governed by such of the aforesaid bye-laws as shall relate thereunto; and no person shall be allowed to vend any articles in any such lan or entrepôt as a wholesale trader or dealer therein, except under licence approved by His said Excellency in Council, who is hereby empowered from time to time to grant such licences as aforesaid, and make such regulations for the duration or conditions thereof, and the fees or taxes to be imposed or levied for the same; and such licences shall be granted to all approved applicants for whom there may be accommodation, but shall not be transferable.
12. All buildings in markets shall be let by the Surveyor General in manner following, that is to say: the letting of all houses for one year certain, and from the end or other sooner determination thereof from year to year, and at the highest yearly rent that can be reasonably gotten for the same, the first yearly rent thereof for the year commencing on the first day of July now next coming to be ascertained by way of public auction, and the highest bidder thereat of approved responsibility to be declared the lessee for the said term, with right of preference, in the renewal of every such term, to the actual tenant thereof: But the letting of all stalls and lan to be by the month, and the lessees thereof to be ascertained by way of lot from among the applicants for the same, with the like right of preference, and at such rents as shall from time to time be, by His said Excellency in Council, ascertained and fixed and signified unto the said Surveyor General. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867.]
13. No person shall occupy or hold, for himself or for another, more than one building in a market, without the written permission of the Surveyor General ["Registrar General" as amended by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867] upon cause shown.
14. The rent reserved in respect of any new or additional building in a market shall be after the same rate, and payable at the same time, as the rents of other buildings of the same kind in the same market.
15. Every lessee or tenant, as soon as may be after being accepted as such, and before entering into possession of any such building, shall furnish the Surveyor General ["Registrar General" as amended by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867] with a written statement of the names of all persons, if any, having any copartnery interest with him in his business, to be carried on thereon or incidentally thereto, and also the impression of the seal (if any) of his shop or firm.
16. No actual lessee or tenant of any such building, registered as the sole lessee or tenant thereof, shall be at any one time absent from the Colony for a period of six consecutive months.
17. No alteration in or addition to any such building shall be made or commenced by the lessee or tenant thereof, without the written sanction of the Surveyor General being first obtained.
18. False or unlawful scales, weights, or measures, counterfeit coin, and base cash, are hereby forbidden to be used in any market by any such lessee or tenant, and all such scales, weights, and measures, coin and cash, shall be impounded and destroyed by the Superintendent of Police.