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422 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.
Modes ofletting 12. All buildings in markets shall be let by the Surveyor General in manner
buildings in
markets.
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 [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867. ]
Not more than 13. No person shall occupy or hold , for himself or for another, more than one
one building to
be holden.
building in a market, without the written permission of the Surveyor General [ " Regis
trar General" as amended by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867] upon cause shown .

New buildings. 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.
Partnerships and 15. Every lessee or tenant, as soon as may be after being accepted as such, and
shop seals.
[See Ord. No. 5 of before entering into possession of any such building, shall furnish the Surveyor General
1867 s. 7.]
["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 busi
ness, to be carried on thereon or incidentally thereto, and also the impression of the
seal (if any) of his shop or firm.
Absence from the 16. No actual lessee or tenant of any such building, registered as the sole lessee
Colony.
or tenant thereof, shall be at any one time absent from the Colony for a period of six
consecutive months.
Alterations of or 17. No alteration in or addition to any such building shall be made or commenced
additions to
buildings. by the lessee or tenant thereof, without the written sanction of the Surveyor General
being first obtained.
False weights, 18. False or unlawful scales, weights, or measures, counterfeit coin, and base cash ,
coin, &c.
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.