Superintendent may authorise special meeting to grant licenses.

8. The Superintendent in the case of any emergency which shall be made to appear to him by memorial may with advice of his Executive Council appoint a special meeting to consider any application for an auctioneer's license but in every such case the same length of notice must be given the same certificate obtained the names of applicants and householders certifying published for the same period and all other matters must take the same course as if the application had been heard and considered at the annual meeting for licensing Auctioneers: Provided that the fee for any license granted at any such special meeting shall be the same in amount as if such license had been granted for the whole year except in the case of any auctioneer having a license at the passing of this Ordinance who upon obtaining a new license for the year 1863 shall pay a fee for the same only in proportion to the period such new license will have to run from the expiry of his current license such new license expiring as all other auctioneers' licenses on the second Tuesday in the month of January in each year.