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The Gun License Act, 1885

(8) By the occupier of any lands using or carrying for use a
gun for the purpose only of scaring or of killing birds or
vermin, or of firing at a mark or target on such lands, or
by any person using or carrying for use a gun for the
purpose only of scaring or of killing birds or vermin on
any lands by order of the occupier thereof.

(4) By any gunsmith or his servant using or carrying for use a
gun by way of testing or regulating its strength or quality
in a place specially set apart for the purpose.

In any information for the recovery of the penalty imposed by this
section, it shall be sufficient to allege that the defendant used or
carried for use a gun within the limits aforesaid without having a
license in force under this Act, and it shall lie upon the defendant to
prove that he is a person not incurring the penalty, by virtue of the
proviso contained in this section.

8. When a gun is carried in parts by two or more persons in
company, each and every one of such persons shall be deemed to carry

a gun.

9. It shall be lawful for any police constable to demand from any person using or carrying for use a gun (not being a person in the naval, military, or volunteer service of Her Majesty, or in the police force, using or carrying for use a gun in the performance of his duty, or when engaged in target practice, or an honorary member of a volunteer corps using or carrying for use a gun when engaged in target practice) the production of a license granted to such person under this Act.

If the person upon whom the demand is made shall not produce a license duly granted to him under this Act, and permit the constable demanding the production thereof to read the same, it shall be lawful for such constable to require such person to declare to him immediately his christian and surname and place of residence, and if such person shall refuse to declare his christian and surname and place of residence as aforesaid, he shall for such refusal forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Two pounds, over and above any other penalty to which he may be liable under this or any other Act.

And it shall be lawful for such constable to arrest such person so refusing and to convey him before any Justice of the Peace, and such Justice shall upon due proof on oath of the offence, or upon the confession of the accused, convict such person as aforesaid.

10. All offences against this Act shall be summarily punishable upon conviction before a Justice or Justices of the Peace in petty sessions.

11. It shall be the duty of every collector, sub-collector, or other person appointed in that behalf as aforesaid issuing licenses under this Act to send in a report to the Colonial Secretary of the names, descriptions, and places of residence of all persons to whom they shall have issued licenses during the past month, and such names and additions shall be notified in the Government Gazette.'

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12. Sections A and C of The Shortening Ordinance, 1858,' are

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The Gun License Act, 1885

hereby incorporated with this Act and shall be taken to form a part of this Act.

13. This Act shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of Commencement January, 1886.

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F. NAPIER BROOME,

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THIS is to certify that

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is hereby licensed, under 'The Gun License Act, 1885,' to use and carry for use a Gun within the boundaries of any municipality, or within a distance of five miles beyond such boundaries, from the date hereof until the

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This license expires on the

SCHEDULE B

Register of Gun Licenses

THE following persons have been duly licensed under The Gun License Act,

1885.'

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No. 19

An Act to Dissolve the Corporation of The Governors of the Perth Church of England Collegiate School,' and for other purposes.

[Assented to 24th September, 1885.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Legislative Council, made Preamble,

No. 2

and passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her present Now see 52 Vic. Majesty, No. 12, of 1863, the Lord Bishop of Perth, the Very Reverend

Dissolution of
Corporation

Vesting of land,

Committee

Church of England Collegiate School

the Dean of Perth, and the Venerable the Archdeacon of Perth, for the time being, and the other Governors for the time being of the Perth Church of England Collegiate School elected or thereafter to be elected in pursuance of the Statutes and Regulations thereof as adopted by the council of Governors, and specified and set forth in the Schedule to the said recited Ordinance annexed, were constituted and declared to be one Body Corporate by the name of The Governors of the Perth Church of England Collegiate School;' And whereas the said Corporate Body has not been able to carry out the objects for which it was incorporated, and it is expedient to dissolve the same; And whereas the surviving Governors of the said Collegiate School and the majority of the principal donors of the funds contributed for the purpose of purchasing the School site, buildings, and premises, are desirous that the same should be vested in 'The Standing Committee of the Synod of the West Australian Branch of the Church of England,' to be held and applied by such Committee to such educational purposes as such Committee shall consider to be most nearly in accordance with the objects for which the said School was originally established; And whereas the said school site comprises the parcels of land known and marked on the Government plans of the city of Perth as allotments H 7 and H 1, containing together one and eighttenths acres or thereabouts; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. From and after the passing of this Act the said Body Corporate established by the said recited Ordinance by and under the name of 'The Governors of the Perth Church of England Collegiate School' shall be, and the same is hereby dissolved.

2. The said Perth allotments H 7 and H 1, together with the &c., in standing buildings thereon and all rights, easements, and appurtenances thereto belonging, and all other the lands, tenements, and hereditaments (if any) now belonging to or vested in 'The Governors of the Perth Church of England Collegiate School,' shall be and are hereby henceforth vested in and shall be held and applied by 'The Standing Committee of the Synod of the West Australian Branch of the Church of England' for such educational purposes as such Committee shall consider to be most nearly in accordance with the objects for which the said School was originally established.

Power to make rules and reg.1lations

Power to mortgage

3. It shall be lawful for the said Standing Committee to make such rules and regulations for the management of any School or College that the said Committee may hereafter establish as to the said Standing Committee shall seem meet, and from time to time to amend, annul, or repeal such rules and regulations, and to make new rules and regulations in lieu thereof.

4. And whereas the Right Reverend Henry Hutton Parry, Bishop of Perth, the chairman of the said Governors, has with the sanction of the said Governors expended certain moneys in building upon, repairing, and improving the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and it is deemed expedient to authorise the said Standing Committee to raise, by mortgage of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments hereby vested in the said Committee, sufficient funds for the repayment

Church of England Collegiate School

to the said Bishop of the moneys so expended by him as aforesaid, with the interest due thereon: Be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for the said Standing Committee to mortgage the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or any part thereof, in fee simple or for any term of years, for any sum of money not exceeding the sum of Fourteen hundred pounds, in such manner as the said Committee shall think fit, and to assure the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or any part thereof, to the mortgagee or mortgagees thereof, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, either with or without a power of sale and leasing respectively, in case of default being made in the payment of the principal or interest moneys by such mortgage secured at the time or times therein appointed for the payment thereof respectively, and with such other powers and provisions as shall be deemed expedient; and to give receipts for the money so to be advanced; and the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments shall be held and enjoyed by the mortgagee or mortgagees thereof, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, freed and absolutely discharged from the trusts to which the same may for the time being be subject.

5. The said Standing Committee shall, with and out of the moneys Repayment of so to be raised by mortgage as aforesaid, repay to the said Bishop the moneys exmoneys which shall be proved to the satisfaction of such Committee

to have been expended by the said Bishop upon the said lands and premises as aforesaid, together with such interest as shall then be owing thereon.

pended

6. The said Standing Committee may from time to time demise Power to lease the same lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or any part thereof, to any person or persons, for any term of years not exceeding seven years, at such rent or rents and under such covenants and conditions as the said Committee may think fit.

7. The said Standing Committee shall pay, devote, and appropriate the whole of the rents, issues, and profits of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments, towards paying the interest due upon any moneys raised upon mortgage under the power herein before contained, and towards paying off and reducing the moneys so raised, until the said moneys and interest shall be fully paid.

Rents and profits

to go in reduction of principal

Orown and other rights

8. Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect Reservation of any right, title, or interest of Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or of any body politic or corporate, or of any other person, save and except such as are mentioned herein, and those claiming by, from, through, and under them.

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9. The said Ordinance 29th Victoria, No. 12, of 1863, intituled Repeal An Ordinance to incorporate the Governors of the Perth Church of England Collegiate School,' is hereby repealed.

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.

Loan Act, 1884-Re-appropriation

Re-appropriation of certain

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An Act for the Re-appropriation of certain moneys appropriated for the purposes of a Telegraph from Roebourne to Derby, and for certain Miscellaneous [Assented to 24th September, 1885.

purposes.

WE

HEREAS by 'The Loan Act, 1884,' it was made lawful for the Governor of Western Australia to raise under the said Act, and The General Loan and Inscribed Stock Act, 1884,' any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole Five hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, to be expended on the Public Works enumerated in the Schedule to the said first recited Act; And whereas by the said Schedule a sum of Thirty-five thousand pounds was appropriated for a Telegraph (Roebourne to Derby), and a sum of Twentyeight thousand pounds was appropriated to Contingencies, &c.; And whereas it is expedient to appropriate out of the said sum of Thirtyfive thousand pounds a sum of Four thousand five hundred pounds for the Northern Telegraph line (Northampton to Roebourne), and to appropriate out of the said sum of Twenty-eight thousand pounds a sum of Fifteen thousand pounds for requisite works and improvements in connection with the Eastern Railway; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

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1. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appropriate out of the said sum of Thirty-five thousand pounds in the Schedule to The Loan Act, 1884,' appropriated to the work Telegraph Roebourne to Derby' a sum of Four thousand five hundred pounds for the purpose of completing the construction of the Northern Telegraph line (Northampton to Roebourne); and also to appropriate out of the said sum of Twentyeight thousand pounds in the Schedule to The Loan Act, 1884,' appropriated to Contingencies, &c.,' a sum of Fifteen thousand pounds for requisite works and improvements in connection with the Eastern Railway.

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F. NAPIER BROOME,
GOVERNOR.

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