Approved to Hold A Licence

My Third Great Grandfather, James Blackman, is approved to hold a licence. But I do not know what the licence is for.

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
Sunday 5 March 1809
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The undermentioned are the names of the Persons approved of to hold Licenses at Hawkesbury, Parramatta, and Out settlements.
HAWKESBURY.
Andrew Thompson … James Simpson
John Yeoman … William Addy
William Aspinall … William Mason
John Norman … Matthew Lock
John Jones … John Jones
John Bolton … John M’lntosh
Richard Ridge … William Roberts
John Baylis … Edward Field
Richard Fitzgerald … Thomas Rickerby
James Blackman … James Badgery
George Hall … Thomas Green
Thomas Biggers.