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Number of live-on-ward hawkers was filthy. They have since increased in number, and become at some places a regular nuisance by spring for sale, hawking salt fish, Her, and obstructing the road. A number of hawkers may be very apt and convenient for a great number of the population, but those who are employed by the people in the markets to offer for sale after certain hours of the day, the Fish, then, unsold, might perhaps be restricted if the Registrar-General thought fit to do so.
52. The Fees for Official Signatures are $45 for the signature of the Governor, and FR Dark for signature of the Colonial Secretary to certificates and other papers required, and the charges are, I believe, neither high, nor complained against.
65. For registration, Deed, Conveyance, &c., the Fee is $5 on each registry, a charge moderate in itself, and which would be felt to be more so if the documents for carrying landed property could be made out in one or the other Government Office; as it is, people employ a professional scrivener for drawing the necessary documents, in itself an expensive affair, and after all the purchaser of landed property finds perhaps afterwards that, although he has a long paper which has been duly registered in the Land Office, it is of little value, owing to negligence on the part of the conveyancer.
The registering Officers are simply bound to register what is brought before him, without reference to the correctness or completeness of the documents to which the memorial refers, in fact he does not refer.