(Sec. 27.)

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license

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capacity, only for distilling fresh water from salt water, on his premises, situate from this date until the day of next ensuing, under the provisions of "The Distillation Act of 1884," and of any regulations framed thereunder.

And I do hereby acknowledge to have received from the said sum of Ten Shillings for this licence.

the

Treasurer.

THE TWELFTH SCHEDULE.

(Sec. 30.)

Table of Fees for Licences.

For every Wine Manufacturer's Licence

£ 8. d. 500

For every Distillation Licence

For every licence to keep and use a still for medical, chemical assay, photographic or scientific purposes, or for distilling perfumes, or other manufacture where a still is necessary, and in which no spirits are made

For every licence to distil fresh water from salt water

Adelaide By authority, E. SPILLER, Government Printer, North-terrace.

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No. 320.

An Act to amend "The Dog Act, 1867."

[Assented to, November 14th, 1884.]

HEREAS it is desirable to amend "The Dog Act, 1867"- Preamble.
Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of

South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present
Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Except so far as inconsistent therewith this Act shall be in- Incorporation. corporated and read as one with "The Dog Act, 1867."

2. The first schedule to this Act is hereby substituted for Alteration of Schedule A to "The Dog Act, 1867," relating to the description of description of dogs dogs intended to be registered.

registered.

3. The fee provided by the scale of fees contained in the Second Alteration of fees. Schedule to this Act, and which may be applicable to the particular case, shall be substituted for the fee of Five Shillings which by "The Dog Act, 1867, is provided to be paid on the registration of every dog.

4. Whenever in "The Dog Act, 1867," reference is made to the Construction. Schedule A to that Act, or to the fee of Five Shillings mentioned in section three of this Act, "The Dog Act, 1867," shall be read and construed as if reference had therein been made to the Schedule and fee substituted by this Act.

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5. The

Existing registrations.

Act to apply to dogs of aboriginals, but each adult to be

allowed two dogs free pf registration.

Police officer to be registrar in districts where there is no other registrar.

Amendment of sec. 8 of "The Dog Act, 1867."

Registrar to supply

metal disc, with date tration and of district

and number of regis

to be attached.

Repeal of Schedule C of The Dog Act, 1867," and amendment of sec. 15.

Registration to be available only till 30th June.

Registrar to make inquiries in his dis

dogs with power to get search-warrant.

The Dog Act Amendment Act.-1884.

5. This Act shall not affect the validity of the registration already made of any dog.

6. The words in section 3 of "The Dog Act, 1867," beginning "but nothing," down to the end of that section, are repealed; and that section shall be read as if the following words were inserted, namely: "And this Act shall apply to dogs owned by aboriginals, but so that each adult aboriginal shall be entitled to keep two dogs without registration."

7. Section 7 of "The Dog Act, 1867," is repealed, and in lieu thereof it is enacted as follows:-"The principal police officer in charge of a station in any district where there shall be no other registrar shall be ex officio the registrar for that district, unless the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall otherwise direct."

8. Section 8 of "The Dog Act, 1867," shall be read as if the words "Two Pounds" were substituted for "One Pound."

9. The registrar, on the registration of any dog, shall deliver to the person registering the dog a metal disc of a size, shape, and color to be prescribed, annually, and to be annually varied, on which shall be inscribed the date of the year and the registration number and district of the dog registered. The collar to be worn by a dog shall not be required to bear any inscription, but the disc shall be kept suspended from the collar in such a manner as to be plainly visible; otherwise the dog shall be liable to be destroyed as if unregistered; and the absence of such disc shall be prima facie evidence of non-registration.

10. Schedule C to "The Dog Act, 1867," is repealed, and the words in section 15 thereof beginning "with the number corresponding" and ending "Schedule C to this Act" are repealed, and that section shall be read as if the words "with the prescribed disc attached thereto" were substituted for the words so repealed.

11. In section 10 of "The Dog Act, 1867," all the words which follow the words "that is to say " shall be repealed, and the following words shall be substituted, namely “until the thirtieth day of June next following such registration: Provided that only half fees shall be payable on registrations effected between the first day of January and the thirtieth day of June."

12. It shall be the duty of every registrar, before the thirty-first trict for unregistered day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and before the thirtieth day of June in every year thereafter, to cause inquiries to be made on all the premises occupied by any person within his district for the purpose of ascertaining if any unregistered dogs are kept thereon, and the registrar, or some person authorised in writing by him, on proof to the satisfaction of any Justice of the Peace that there is reason to suspect that any unregistered dog is

kept