virtue of this Act, to the payment of the principal sums mentioned in such certificates or notes; and the Treasurer of the said City and County shall give one month's public notice by advertisement in one of the Newspapers published in the said City, for calling in the said notes, when he is prepared to pay off the same, and from and after the time specified in such notice the interest on said certificates or notes shall cease. 7. The County Treasurer shall be entitled to have and retain the sum of one pound per centum on every hundred pounds, for his services in receiving and paying the said moneys so to be assessed under the provisions of this Act, and no more. 12th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 1. An Act in addition to and in amendment of an Act intituled An Act for the more effectual prevention of Fires in the City of Saint John. Section. Section. 1. Within what limits stone buildings, &c. 2. To what buildings certain Sections to exto be erected. teud. Passed 8th March 1849. WHEREAS the Act defining and establishing the limits in the City of Saint John within which all buildings to be erected or set up are required to be constructed of stone or brick, (with certain exceptions,) and enacting other regulations as to their construction, has proved of great and essential benefit to such parts of the said City, and it is deemed expedient to extend the said limits; Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The line and limits within. which no buildings other than stone or brick, or wooden buildings of a certain height, as mentioned in the first Section of an Act made and passed in the third year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act for the more effectual prevention of Fires in the City of Saint John, shall and are hereby made to extend to all that part of the City of Saint John on the eastern side of the harbour which is contained within the following described bounds, that is to say,—Beginning on the north side line of Union Street, where it is intersected by the prolongation of the now established line along Germain Street; thence along the said north side line of Union Street to Charlotte Street; thence on the west side line of Charlotte Street to the north side line of Duke Street; and thence on the said line of Duke Street until it strikes the line already established along Prince William Street; and thence on the said established line, according to the said recited Act, to the place of beginning. 2. The fifth, eighth, ninth, and tenth Sections of the said Act, and all and every of the provisions thereof, shall be applicable and are hereby made to extend to all buildings now or hereafter to be built, erected, raised, enlarged, removed, or roofed contrary to this Act and the said several Sections of the said recited Act, within the said additional and extended line and limits aforesaid, as fully and absolutely as if the said recited Act had first included the said line and limits now hereby established. 12th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 2. An Act to authorize the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John to purchase or lease a lot of Land for the purpose of enlarging the Country Market fronting on Charlotte Street in the said City. Section. Section. 1. What Corporation may purchase, &c. 2. Land for Market not liable for debts of for Market place. Corporation. Exception. Passed 8th March 1849. WHEREAS from the increase in the extent of the City of Saint John, it has become necessary to make provision for enlarging the Market fronting on Charlotte Street in the said City: And whereas under the provisions of an Act made and passed in the ninth year of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act relating to the Public Debt of the City of Saint John, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John cannot legally contract and agree for the leasing or purchasing and payment of the land necessary to enlarge such Market, unless thereunto authorized by law; Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. Notwithstanding any thing in the said recited Act contained, it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John to contract and agree for the leasing or purchasing and payment of a lot or parcel of ground for the enlargement of the said Market, fronting on Charlotte Street in the said City, and to make, execute, seal, and deliver all such deeds, bonds, mortgages, leases, or other assurances as may be necessary for the payment or securing the payment of the rent or purchase money of such lot of land so to be leased or purchased for the purpose aforesaid; provided always, that no such deeds, bonds, mortgages, assurances, leases, contracts, or agreements to be made and executed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, under the provisions of this Act, or any judgment to be obtained thereon, shall affect or in anywise be binding or operate upon any real estate of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City, other than the land leased or purchased under and by virtue of this Act. 2. The land leased or purchased by the said Corporation under the provisions of this Act, and every part thereof, with the improvements and appurtenances, shall not in law or equity be liable to be levied upon or taken in execution for the debts of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City of Saint John, or any other person whatever; provided always, that nothing in this Section contained shall be construed or held to exempt the said land so to be leased or purchased, or any improvements thereon, from being levied upon or taken in execution for any debt incurred by the said Corporation for the rent or in payment of the said land, under the provisions of this Act. 12th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 7. An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act for establishing and maintaining a Police Force in the Parish of Portland, in the City and County of Saint John. Section. 1. Assessments, how made. Section. 2. Certain offenders, how tried. WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether under the provisions of an Act for establishing and maintaining a Police Force in the Parish of Portland, in the City and County of Saint John, the assessment thereby directed to be made shall be levied on the inhabitants of the Parish of Portland generally, or on the inhabitants of the Portland Police District; Be it therefore declared and enacted, &c.-1. The rate or assessment of the amount required for the purposes of the said Act shall be inade as provided by the forty fifth Section of the said recited Act, and not upon the inhabitants of the Portland Police District as mentioned in the forty fourth Section of the said Act. 2. Any offender within the Parish of Portland against the provisions of an Act made and passed in the third year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to repeal all the Acts regulating Tavern Keepers and Retailers, and to make other provision in lieu thereof, who by virtue thereof might be tried and convicted before any Justice of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, may be proceeded against, tried, and convicted before the Portland Police Magistrate in the manner provided in and by the said last recited Act; and any fines and penalties imposed and levied in the mode pointed out by the said Act shall, upon the recovery thereof, be paid over by the said Police Magistrate, and applied as provided by the thirty second Section of an Act made and passed in the eleventh year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, intituled An Act for establishing and maintaining a Police Force in the Parish of Portland, in the City and County of Saint John. 12th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 52. An Act in addition to and in amendment of the Act relating to the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John. Section. 1. Former Act to what extended. Section. 2. Witnesses attendance, how enforced. Passed 14th April 1849. Be it enacted, &c.-1. From and after the passing of this Act, all and every of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the seventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for more effectually securing the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John, in the City and County of Saint John, shall and are hereby made to extend to saw dust as well as to slabs, edgings, rinds, bark, or chips, in the same manner and as fully and effectually as if the said saw dust had been included with the said slabs, edgings, rinds, bark, or chips in the said recited Act at the time of the passing of the same. 2. Whenever any proceedings may be commenced before any Justice of the Peace under this Act or the said recited Act, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice, by summons, to require the attendance of any witness or witnesses that may by him be considered necessary to give evidence or to produce any document before him in such proceedings; and if any witness who shall be summoned to give evidence or produce any documents as aforesaid, shall not appear at the time and place specified in such summons, or if the said Justice shall deem it to be necessary, before issuing any summons, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice to issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, to any constable of the City and County of Saint John, requiring such constable to bring the said witness before him at the time and place therein specified, in order to compel the attendance of the said witness to give evidence or produce the documents aforesaid, touching any breach of the provisions of this Act or of the said recited Act. 12th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 68. An Act in further amendment of the Charter of the City of Saint John. WHEREAS it is expedient that the Charter heretofore granted to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing date the eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, should be altered and amended in the manner hereinafter mentioned ; |