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Form B. (1) Applicant's full name : (2) Applicant's calling or occupation : (3) Applicant's postal address : (4) Date of application : (5) Situation of magazine to be licensed : (6) Total quantity (in gallons) of petroleum to be stored : (7) Description of magazine : I declare that the above statements and answers are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Dated this day of ,19 To the Collector of Customs. [Signed.] Assented to this 21st day of November, 1928. S. S. Allen, Administrator. THE ORDINANCES REVISION ORDINANCE, 1928. Western Samoa.—No. 6, 1928. An Ordinance made by the Administrator of the Territory of Western Samoa, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of that Territory, and in pursuance of the Samoa Act, 1921. Title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Ordinances Revision Ordinance, 1928. Vacant Titles Ordinance, 1921, repealed. 2. The Vacant Titles Ordinance, 1921, is hereby repealed. Powers exercisable by Medical Officer of Health to be exercisable by Chief Medical Officer. 3. All the powers which are by the Samoa Health Ordinance, 1921, exercisable by the Medical Officer of Health shall during any vacancy in the office of the Medical Officer of Health be exercisable by the Chief Medical Officer or by such other Medical Officer as the Administrator shall direct, and all the provisions of the said Ordinance with respect to the Medical Officer of Health shall extend and apply to the Chief Medical Officer or to such other Medical Officer, as the case may be. Water and Water-power Conseivation Ordinance amended. 4. Subclause three of clause five of the Water and Water-power Conservation Ordinance, 1928, is hereby amended by substituting for the words " Any owner or lessee of land " in the first line thereof the words " Any person." Assented to this Bth day of December, 1928. [l.s.] S. S. Allen, Administrator. THE NATIVE PERSONAL TAX AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1928. Western Samoa. —No. 7, 1928. An Ordinance made by the Administrator of the Territory of Western Samoa, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of that Territory, and in pursuance of the Samoa Act, 1921. Title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Native Personal Tax Amendment Ordinance, 1928, and shall be read together with and form part of the Native Personal Tax Ordinance, 1927 (hereinafter called the principal Ordinance). Administrator may divide Territory into districts for purpose of Ordinance. 2. The administrator may for the purposes of the principal Ordinance divide the Territory of Western Samoa into such districts as he shall think convenient for the administration of the Ordinance. The production of the Western Samoa Gazette containing a copy of a notice purporting to be signed by the Administrator, declaring the division of the Territory into districts in pursuance of this clause, and the respective limits of such districts, shall be sufficient evidence of such division and limits. Request by village re payment of tax in copra. 3. (1) The Samoan Native taxpayers of any village community shall, if they desire to pay Native personal tax in copra, sign a request addressed to the Administrator in the form in the Schedule. Administrator may direct payment in copra. (2) If the Administrator is satisfied that such a request has been signed generally by the Samoan Native taxpayers of any village community, and that it is otherwise desirable that the Samoan Native taxpayers of such village community shall be permitted to pay in copra the Native personal tax payable by them, he may by writing under his hand direct that it shall be so paid, and such tax shall accordingly be payable in copra as assessed under subclause two of clause nine of the principal Ordinance, to be delivered at the time and place and in the manner stated in the notice given under subclause four of the said clause nine. Provisions in event of deficiency in quality or weight of copra deliveied. 4. (1) In the event of less than the assessed weight of copra being delivered at the time and place and in the manner required, or in the event of any copra delivered being of a quality unsatisfactory to the Administrator, the Administrator may reject the whole of the copra so delivered, in which case the tax shall, notwithstanding any direction under the preceding clause, be paid in money. (2) If the Administrator, instead of rejecting the whole of the copra so delivered, shall accept the same or any part thereof in part payment of tax, the following provisions of this subclause shall apply in reference to any deficiency in the weight of copra so accepted : — (a) The value of such deficiency shall be calculated by reference to the tax price of copra in the district in which such village community is situated. (b) To the value so calculated shall be added a surcharge of twenty per centum of such value. (c) The resultant sum shall be payable by the several Samoan Native taxpayers of such village community on a date to be fixed by the Administrator. (d) The proportion of such resultant sum payable by each Samoan Native taxpayer shall be the proportion which the tax payable by such taxpayer bears to the total tax payable by all the Samoan Native taxpayers of such village community. (e) The production of the Western Samoa Gazette containing copy of a notice purporting to be signed by the Administrator stating the sum payable under this clause by the Samoan Native taxpayers of any village community, and the proportion of such sum payable by each such taxpayer, and the date fixed for such payment, shall be sufficient evidence of the matters set out in such notice.