"On the Ist February the Council d to put the above Tax in force, ow increasing number of these shop: Settlement, which are daily crowded customers jand the Council hereby inform the proprietors of the above shops of the according ty the extent of their" busi ness, in order t" improv Drains, &e., in the Settlement."
This not impose xes vf their own motion, without the sanction of the Rate-
Budget for 1870, passed last, ima posed, under the head o License: tas of $30 per quarter upon every "Native shop or store soiling For Wine, Spirits or Beer."
But it mentions n selling purely native The Council, base their a jon on the Revised Foreignei shall vend spi its or liquors, or intoxicating drugs of any kind or desetiy of Public En Hall, limits, or ply, let, o at, horse or public. yeh which th lin inder the authority of thi For every Win Shop or Store For every Billiard, "Bow orDanein loons on opening or keeping any. such House of Publi at, Shop, Store, Music Hall, Thi tre, Circus, Billiard, Bowling, or Danei Saloons, without having first obtained the License' ut the Council, shall, over and above the east of the License' and Summons, be liable to a penalty. or fine not exeoodling Fifty Dollars ($50.)"
"In respect of such licenses, the Council may charge on such seule us may becuthos ised at the meetings held nuder the authority of these Regulations" meetings, that is, of Rate-payers. But we de think it a dangerous atthe Council should ase sume tion which it was never intended to convey to them, We will not now enter into the wisdom, justice, or amount of the tax imposed; but simply call attention to the Couneil'saction, And expression of surprise that no ed minutes, ty the intended nor notice given in a shape whi likely. to reach the Foreign as the Native section of the commun: though the matter must certainly have been under discussion for a long time bewrites North but boy ult. the struct lo Lew ty Corrupt hich shows that oar enemies wotsed from thei i without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.