Colonial Produce Auctions Duty Free Act 1850 No 34a (NSW)

Her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled " An Act to regulate the " licensing of Auctioneers and the collection of Duties on Properly sold " by them " it was amongst other things enacted that there should be raised levied collected and paid in such manner as is therein mentioned to Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors for the purposes of the General

No. XXXIV.

A n A c t t o e x e m p t from du t i e s all Sales by

A u c t i o n	of	Colonial	P r o d u c e	and	Sheep
Cat t l e	a n d	H o r s e s .	[1st	October,	1850.]

WHERE AS by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales passed in the eleventh year of the reign of

General Revenue of the said Colony for and upon all manner of sales by way of auction as therein is mentioned within the said Colony the rate and duty of ten shillings for every one hundred pounds of the purchase money arising by sale by auction of all property of every description whether real or personal And whereas it is also by the said hereinbefore recited Act enacted that each and every auctioneer as therein mentioned shall within thirty days after the expiration of every calendar month deliver or cause to be delivered to the Colonial Treasurer for the time being or at his office or to such other officer as shall from time to time be appointed to receive the same an exact and proper acoount in writing of each and every sale made by him or his agent or other person acting on his behalf in such form as in the said Act is mentioned And whereas it is desirable that every sale by any auctioneer or seller by commission whether by auction or by private bargain or contract of any wool tallow hides skins or other produce the growth of the Colony of New South Wales and of all sheep cattle and horses and of the station on which the same may be depasturing shall be freed and discharged from the said rates and duties Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That from and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one all sales by auction or by private bargain or contract or otherwise of any wool tallow hides and skins actually grown and produced in the Colony of New South Wales and of any other produce of the growth of the said Colony and of any sheep cattle and horses and of the right or supposed right of the owner of such sheep cattle or horses to any demise or license for the occupation of any waste lands of the Crown in the said Colony on which the said sheep cattle or horses shall or may be depasturing whether the said sheep cattle and horses and the right or supposed right of the owner or owners thereof to any such demise or license of any waste land of the Crown in the said Colony on which the said sheep cattle and horses shall or may be depasturing shall or shall not be sold at one and the same time or at other and different times or to one and the same person or to other and different persons or whether the right or supposed right of such owners or owner to any such demise or license shall or shall not be given in to the purchaser or purchasers of such sheep cattle and horses shall be and the same are hereby declared to be wholly exempt from the said rates or duties imposed by the said recited Act.

2. And be it enacted That every auctioneer or seller by com­ mission or other person by whom such last mentioned sale or sales	shall be had made or effected shall include all particulars of any such
sale or sales in any account which he or they shall or may deliver to the Colonial Treasurer or at his office or to such other person or per­ sons as shall be appointed to receive the accounts of sales made by persons exercising the trade or business of auctioneers or sellers by commission in the same manner as is now required under the provi­ sions of the hereinbefore recited Act.

No. XXXV.