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without Authority). (proof of which Authority lies upon the accused)
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stores bearing the Queen's mark. The Act of 1867 was repealed in 1869 and re-enacted without the sections above referred to, and as the naval Authorities are now in the habit of selling old stores, without obliterating the marks, and the purchasers are liable to the penalties of the above sections; it is necessary to assimilate the Colonial Law to the Imperial Act of 1869.
No other change in the repealed Ordinance was made by the Bill introduced beyond a few verbal alterations, and omitting the prohibition to search for stores within a hundred yards of the boundary wall of the Mint, but in Committee a clause was struck out, which I gave pawnbrokers licenses the same precarious tenure which attached under Section IV to the licenses of Marine Store Dealers. The Council thought that the subjects were distinct and as there was no apparent necessity for so stringent a provision the members concurred with His Excellency the Administrator in the propriety of removing the clause from the new Ordinance.
I have &c.
(Signed) John Bramston
Attorney General
(True Copy)
Jeci J. Smit
Acting Colonial Secretary
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