71 



Clause 59. 



59. Where the name of the owner of any holding is unknown to any person giving 

 notice or taking proceedings under this Act, any notice required to be given may be addressed to 

 the owner as such without mentioning his name, and any order or decision may in like manner 

 be made or given against the aforesaid owner as such. 



Mr. CAMERON (Ivanhoe) proposed, "That clause 59 be passed as printed." 

 Mr. VABCOE (H.illston) seconded the motion. 

 The question was put to the meeting and carried. 



Clause 60. 



Moneys charged upon holdings. 



60. Whenever by any section of this Act, any sum of money is expressed to be charged 

 upon any private holding or land, any person thereafter becoming the owner of such holding or 

 land shall be affected with notice of such charge, and shall be liable to pay the sum so charged 

 or so much thereof as may for the time being be unpaid as if he were the person originally 

 liable ; but nothing herein contained shall operate to determine the liability of any person 

 originally or previously liable. 



Whenever any sum of money is charged upon any private holding or land, and any portion 

 of such holding or land is detached from the residue thereof by subdivision, withdrawal, or 

 otherwise howsoever, the portion so detached shall be charged with a ratable part of the aforesaid 

 sum. 



Mr. OAKDEX (Cobar) moved, " That in line 16 ' private ' be struck out, and also in line 23." 



Mr. WIMVKS (Broken Hill) seconded the motion. 



The question was put to the meeting and carried. 



Mr. LESLIE (Forbes) moved, and Mr. GARDEN seconded, " That the clause as amended be adopted." 



The question was put to the meeting and carried. 



Clause 61. 



Power to raise money ly mortgage. 



61. It shall be lawful for any owner of a holding who holds the same as mortgagee to add 

 to the mortgage debt any sums expended by, or recovered from, him for the erection or repair, 

 or as a contribution towards the 'cost of the erection or repair of any rabbit-proof fence upon, 

 near, or for the benefit of such holding ; and it shall be lawful for any trustee of a holding to 

 raise the sums required or recovered for any such purpose by mortgage of such holding, in the 

 same way as if a power to mortgage had been contained in the instrument creating or declaring 

 the trusts thereof. 



Mr. ATKINSON moved, " That clause Gl be passed as printed." 



Mr. LESLIE (Forbes) seconded it. 



The question was put to the meeting and carried. 



Clause 62. 



Power to make Regulations. ' 



62. Whenever in any section of this Act the expression "prescribed" is used in connec- 

 tion with any matter, and whenever in any section of this Act "Regulations" are referred to, the 

 Governor may, in every such case, frame regulations for the purpose of giving effect to the 

 provisions of such section. And for the purpose of carrying this Act into full effect generally, 

 the Governor may make Regulations which may provide for the enforcement thereof by penalties 

 not exceeding, in any case, ten pounds, and shall, upon being published in the Gazette, be valid 

 in law : Provided that a copy of every such Regulation shall be laid before both Houses of 

 Parliament within fourteen days from the publication thereof, if Parliament be then in Session, 

 or otherwise within fourteen days after the commencement of the next ensuing Session. 



Mr. LESLIE (Forbes) moved, and Mr. CAMERON seconded, " That clause 62 be passed as printed." 



The question was put to the meeting and carried. 



The Cn AIRMAN then adjourned the Conference until 2 o'clock. 



Clause 5. 



The question of recommittal of clause 5 was put and carried. 



Mr. ALISON (Canonbar) then moved for Mr. A. Brown the following amendment, " That the 

 franchise for the Pastures and Stock Protection Boards be on the following basis : 



10,000 to 20,000 sheep 3 votes. 



20,000 30,000 4 



Above 30,000 5 



He said that clause 5, as moved by the Honorable Rupert Carington, provided that the Pastures and 

 Stock Protection Boards should be the Rabbit Board for the district, and that the working of the Rabbit 

 Act be placed in the hands of the Pastures and Stock Board. The next sentence went on to say that the 

 Crown might be represented on those Boards in proportion to the revenue paid by them as assessment to 

 the Rabbit Destruction Fund. Now he understood that later on they had substituted for that the 

 proposition that the Government should nominate one member. As a consequence the following words 

 should be struck out, " the Crown may be represented on the Stock and Pastures Protection Boards in 

 proportion to the revenue paid by them as assessment to the Rabbit Destruction Fund." 



The CHAIRMAN then put the question of striking out these words, as it was a necessary consequence 

 of having passed the resolution that the Government should nominate a member, and it was carried. 



Mr. 



