-Building Society for the [year, half-year, or quarter] ending 188 FOURTH SCHEDULE. 66 Profit The Building Societies Act.-1881. We, the undersigned, being auditors of the Building Society, do hereby certify that we have examined the books and vouchers of this society, and compared the same with the above statement of receipts and expenditure, and that the same is correct. Building Society on the day of £ 8. d. CR. By amount due upon £ 8. d. advanced upon shares and freehold and leasehold security to shareholders (interest to date only included) Amount due on mortgages (not shareholders'). Amount invested in Government stocks or securities, or securities We, the undersigned, being the auditors of the Building Society, do hereby certify that we have examined the securities held by the said society, and compared the same with the books and vouchers of the said society, and that the above statement of assets and liabilities is correct. Secretary. DR. Profit and Loss Account for [year, half-year, or quarter] ending 188 £ s. d. £ s. d. CR. By Rent, fines, premiums, interest, &c., as above (Here state any other sources of profit, such as subscription, or profit forfeited on withdrawals, redemptions, &c., and distinguishing nature of same.) per share of six months old, and the to the credit of profit and loss. Profit on Shares for Half-year. The directors have to inform the shareholders that the profits will allow of a division of carrying forward of £ Total Profits. £ s. d. Adelaide By authority, E. SPILLER, Government Printer, North-terrace. £ 8. d. £ s. d. Secretary. £ An Act to authorise the Establishment of Manufacturing WHER [Assented to, November 18th, 1881.] HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the Establish- Preamble. by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the 1. This Act shall be called, and may be cited as, "The Manufac- Short title. turing Districts Act." the 2. For the purpose of assessing the compensation to be paid to Definitions. persons, and in the cases hereinafter set out, the Ordinance No. 6 of 1847 shall be read as part of this Act, and the words " promoters of the undertaking" in the said Act, No. 6 of 1847, shall include all persons from whom compensation is recoverable under this Act; and the expressions "the works" and "the undertaking" in that Ordinance shall include everything done under this Act for which compensation can be claimed. The word "manufacture" shall, for the purposes of this Act, include every business and process as well as every manufacture which the Governor shall by Proclamation direct to be included within its meaning. 3. Ratepayers of any corporate city or town, or of a district Procedure to obtain constituted or being a district under "The District Councils Act, establishment of a 1876," desiring the establishment, or an alteration of the boundaries trict. of a Manufacturing District within or co-extensive with the limits of Contents and signatures of petitions. Signature of petitions. The Manufacturing Districts Act.-1881. of such corporate city, or town, or of such district under the "District Councils Act, 1876," may, by petition addressed and presented to the Governor, pray him to establish in such corporate city or town, a Manufacturing District, or to alter the boundaries thereof, or to add to the manufactures to be carried on in any existing Manufacturing District established under this Act. Householders desiring the establishment, or an alteration of the boundaries of a Manufacturing District in a place other than a corporate city or town, or an addition to the manufactures authorised to be carried on therein, or than a district constituted, or being a district under "The District Councils Act, 1876," and dwelling in houses situated within the boundaries of the proposed or existing Manufacturing District may, by petition addressed and presented to the Governor, pray him to establish a Manufacturing District in such place, or to alter the boundaries thereof, or to add to the manufactures to be carried on in any existing Manufacturing District. Whenever there is not any inhabited house situated within the boundaries of a proposed or existing Manufacturing District, any person may by petition, signed by himself, and addressed and presented to the Governor, pray him to establish a Manufacturing District within such boundaries or to alter such boundaries, or to add to the manufactures to be carried on in any existing Manufac turing District. 4. In every petition praying the establishment of a Manufacturing District shall be specified the proposed boundaries thereof, the manufactures which it shall be lawful to carry on within it, and the laws, orders, regulations, and by-laws, exemption from which is sought. In every petition praying an alteration of the boundaries of a Manufacturing District shall be specified the desired alterations; the boundaries of the district, or additions to the manufactures to be carried on in such district, after the desired alterations or additions shall have been effected; and the reasons why the alterations are desired. In every petition presented under this Act shall also be specified all other particulars which the Governor shall, by order or regulation, require or direct to be stated therein, and each petition shall contain a prayer specifying the relief which the petitioners wish to obtain. Every petition by ratepayers shall be signed by not less than three-fourths of the ratepayers of the corporate city, or town, or of the district under "The District Councils Act, 1876," named in the petition, and every petition by householders shall be signed by not less than three-fourths of the householders dwelling in houses situated within the boundaries of the proposed or existing Manufacturing District, and if there is not any inhabited house situated within such boundaries, the signature of the petitioner shall suffice. The Manufacturing Districts Act.-1881. granted until after the 5. No part of the relief prayed for in such petition shall be Relief not to be granted until one week after the petition shall have been published publication of the by the petitioners for three successive weeks in the Government petition. Gazette, and shall also during such three weeks have been published by them in such other newspapers (if any) and so often as the Governor may direct, and shall also have been laid before both Houses of Parliament for one month after the presenting thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, or if not, within one month after the commencement of the then ensuing Session, and if an address be presented to the Governor by either House of Parliament within such month, praying that such petition may be refused, the Governor shall thereupon refuse the same. The first publication in the Government Gazette of each such petition shall take place not later than fourteen days from the date of the presentation thereof to the Governor. relief. Publication of memorials. 6. Any person may, by memorial addressed and presented to the Cause may be shown Governor not later than one week after the third successive publi- against granting the cation in the Government Gazette of any such petition, show cause why some or all of the relief prayed for it should not be granted. In each such memorial shall be specified the objections to the granting of the relief prayed for, or of such part thereof as the memorialists object to, the grounds on which the objections are based, and all other particulars which the Governor may by order or regulation require or direct to be stated therein. Each memorial shall be published by the memorialists for two successive weeks in the Government Gazette, and shall also, during that time, be published by them in such other newspaper (if any), and so often as the Governor may direct, and the first publication thereof in the Government Gazette shall take place not later than fourteen days after the third publication therein of the petition to which it relates. 7. After the second publication of the memorials relating to any Governor may require petition, or if there be no such memorial, one week after the last statements to be proved. publication of the petition as aforesaid, and after the said petition shall have been laid before both Houses of Parliament, and not refused, as hereinbefore provided, the Governor may by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, grant or refuse all or some of the relief prayed for, and with or without such alteration or modification as to him may appear necessary or expedient; and before granting or refusing it, may require that the statements in the petitions and memorials respectively, or either of them, shall be substantiated by such proof and within such time as he may direct, or may appoint some person to inquire into and report upon the matter of any petition and of the memorials relating thereto. Districts. 8. The Governor may by such Proclamation exempt such Manu- Governor may estab facturing District, or any part thereof, from such of the enactments lish Manufacturing of "The Public Health Act," and of "The Public Health Amendment Act," and any other Act now or hereafter in force relating to public health, and of any regulations made under them, or either of |