VIII. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ave., 1899. 
hereinafter prescribed. Applications for licenses shall be so lodged on or before the 
fourteenth day of December, March, June, and September in each year. Applications 
for the renewal of licenses shall be so lodged on or before the fourteenth day of December 
in each year. 
Duty of clerk of petty sessions. 
7. Upon the receipt of every such UE the clerk of petty sessions shall 
forthwith forward a copy of the same to the local authority of the district and also to 
the inspector. 
Representatives of local authority. 
8. The local authority of the district may make to the Licensing Court such 
representations, in writiag or otherwise, with respect to every such application, as the 
local authority thinks fit. 
Report of inspector. 
9. It shall be the duty of the inspector, upon the receipt of every such copy of an 
application, to inspect the premises in respect of which a license or the renewal of a 
license is applied for, and to report thereon to the Licensing Court. He shall either 
make such report in writing under his hand, or, if directed so to do by the chief 
inspector, shall personally attend at the sittings of the Licensing Court, and there 
orally report to the Court upon the same. 
The hearing. ‘ 
10. The Licensing Court shall sit for the hearing and determination of all 
applications for licenses on the first 'luesday in the months of January, April, July, 
and October in every year. 
The Licensing Court shall sit for the hearing and determination of all applica- 
tions for the renewal of licenses on the first Tuesday in the month of January in 
every year. 
After considering the report of the inspector and the representations, if any, of 
the local authority of the district, the Court may, subject to these Regulations— 
(1) Grant the application; or 
(2) Adjourn the application for the purpose of the execution by the applicant 
of such works as in the opinion of the Licensing Court are necessary to 
render the premises suitable and proper for the slaughter of stock; or 
(3) Refuse the application. 
Duration of license. 
_ 11. Save as hereinafter provided, a license for a slaughter-house shall remain in 
force for the period of one year, but may from time to time be renewed for a like 
period. Provided that a new license granted for a slaughter-house shall only remain 
in force until the s:tting of the Licensing Court held in the month of January 
following the date on which such license was granted. Provided further that all 
existing licenses shall remain in force until the sitting of the Licensing Court held in 
the month of January next. 
Frees for licenses. 
12. The annual fee payable in respect of the license or the renewal of the 
license of a slaughter-house shall be twenty shillings. 
‘ Fees for defraying expenses. 
13. The fees payable by the licensee of a slaughter-house for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of inspection shall be as follows, that is to say :— ’ 
S. d. 
For every bullock, steer, cow, or heifer slaughtered ... 0 38 
For every 12 sheep or calves slaughtered E-ORES 
For every head of swine slaughtered... ... rammed 
; Such fees shall be paid by the licensee to the inspector monthly, or at such 
‘shorter intervals as the inspector may require. 
Receipt. 
14, The inspector shall, upon the payment of such fees, give to the licensee 
a receipt under his hand in the form of the Second Schedule hereto. 
Delivery note. 
15. When stock are delivered at a slaughter-house to be slaughtered, the owner 
of the stock shall deliver to the owner of the slaughter-house a way bill or delivery | 
note of the stock, setting forth the number, the description, and the brands or marks 
of the stock, and signed by the owner thereof. 
The owner of the slaughter-house shall retain and preserve every such way bill 
or delivery note, and shall, on demand, produce the same to the inspector. 
