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Markets to be licensed.
Licences to be sold by tender or public auction.
Proviso as to regulations for holding.
Markets to be under the superintendence of the Chief Magistrate of Police, &c.
Markets to be built of stone, &c., after an approved plan.
Markets built of wood and requiring repairs to be re-built of stone, &c.
Provided the repairs required shall not exceed $100.
Buildings of wood and mat on sea-shores to be removed by Police.
Penalty against offenders.
Penalty, how recovered, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1854.
Markets.
2. That all markets already established shall be licensed and their owners are hereby required to take out such licence within fifteen days after the passing of this Ordinance under the penalty hereinafter mentioned for each and every day that such markets shall continue open and unlicensed, and that each of such markets shall be let to the highest bidder for the tenancy thereof, and that such letting shall be by tender or by public auction before the Chief Magistrate of Police, as shall be deemed best by the Colonial Secretary and that each of such markets shall be let for a term of years not exceeding three years. Provided always that the party or parties renting each of such markets shall hold the same subject to such regulations for the conduct maintenance and repairs thereof as shall from time to time be officially published by the Officer Administering the Government of this Colony.
3. And be it further enacted and ordained, that all markets or buildings in which markets are held shall be under the immediate superintendence of the Chief Magistrate of Police, who is hereby required to take all requisite measures to prevent disorders and to preserve peace and tranquillity therein.
4. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every market or building for the holding of markets, hereafter to be built, erected, or established, shall be erected, built, and established of stone or brick, according to a plan to be approved of by the Surveyor General.
5. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever the markets or buildings wherein markets are now held, already erected, built, or established, shall become dilapidated, in want of extensive repairs, or shall require to be re-built, such markets or buildings shall be re-built of stone or brick according to a plan to be approved of by the Surveyor General: Provided always that if the repairs required to be done shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars on any one house or building, then and in that case the Surveyor General, upon being furnished with proper estimates of the cost of such repairs, and having verified the same, may grant permission for the repairs to be carried into effect.
6. Whereas certain person or persons in the neighbourhood of markets and elsewhere have encroached upon Crown lands and the sea-shores, and have erected thereon divers buildings of wood, matting, and other inflammable materials, to the great danger and peril of the town of Victoria and the inhabitants thereof; and whereas also the said buildings so erected as aforesaid are inhabited by persons of ill-fame and reputation, and afford shelter to rogues and vagabonds: It is hereby enacted and ordained, that it shall be lawful for any Magistrate of Police to order such buildings to be pulled down and removed as a public nuisance by warrant to be issued on the information of the Surveyor General, and the materials thereupon to be condemned, sold by public auction, and the proceeds paid into the Colonial Treasury.
7. And be it further enacted and ordained, that any person or persons, who shall offend against the provisions and enactments herein before contained, shall for every offence forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as penalties are made recoverable by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844: Provided