regulations, by pains, punishments, and penalties, in such and the like manner to all intents and purposes as the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty may now do by virtue of the Charter of the said City, or otherwise by law, with regard to the Harbour and places within the limits of the said City.

9th GEORGE 4th-CHAPTER 2.

An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace of the City and County of Saint John to raise a sum of money for completing the Court House of the said City and County.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. It shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace in and for the City and County of Saint John, at any General Sessions of the Peace for the said City and County, to borrow such sums of money as may from time to time be required for the completion of the Court House lately erected in the said City, not exceeding in the whole the sum of four thousand pounds, to be paid off and discharged in the manner hereinafter mentioned; the same to be taken in loans of not less than one hundred pounds; and that Certificates or Notes in the following form, or to that effect, shall be prepared and delivered to the persons from whom such loans may be obtained, viz :—

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"Number

City and County of Saint John, ss.-These are to certify that [here insert name, residence, and addition of lender] hath lent and advanced to the Justices of the Peace for the said City and County the sum of one hundred pounds currency, which sum is payable to him or his order, together with lawful interest, pursuant to an Act of Assembly made and passed in the ninth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace of the City and County of Saint John to raise a sum of money for completing the Court House of the said City and County.-Dated the

day of

twenty

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

C. D. Clerk.

By Order of the Sessions.

A. B. Presiding Justice." Which same certificates or notes shall be signed by the Justice presiding at the said Sessions, and countersigned by the Clerk, and shall be respectively numbered according to the time in which the same may be made and issued, and a memorandum thereof shall be duly entered by the Clerk in the Minutes of the Court.

2. The said certificates or notes shall be negotiable in the same manner as promissory notes, and the holders thereof shall be entitled to receive interest for the same annually, to be paid by the Treasurer of the said County out of the assessments hereinafter mentioned.

3. It shall and may be lawful for the said Justices of the Peace of the said City and County, and they are hereby authorized and required to make a rate and assessment of four hundred pounds in the present year, and a rate and assessment for a like sum in each and every succeeding year, besides the charge for assessing and collecting, for the purpose of completing the said building and discharging the principal and interest of the loans contracted for that purpose by virtue of this Act, until the same shall be paid off; the said several sums to be assessed, levied, collected, and paid in such proportions and in the same manner as any other County rates for public charges can or may be assessed, levied, collected, and paid under and by virtue of any Act or Acts which at the time of making such assessments may be in force in the Province for assessing, levying, and collecting of rates for public charges.

4. The moneys to be assessed as aforesaid shall from time to time be applied, after discharging the yearly interest due on the several loans, to the payment of the principal sums mentioned in such certificates or notes in due order according to the numbers, beginning with number one; and the said County Treasurer shall from time to time give one month's public notice by advertisement in one of the Newspapers published in the said City, for calling in such and so many of the certificates as he is prepared to pay off, specifying the numbers in such advertisement; and from and after the expiration of such notice the interest on such certificates shall cease.

5. The said County Treasurer shall be entitled to the sum of three pence on the pound for his services in receiving and paying the said moneys so to be assessed under the provisions. of this Act, and no more.

9th GEORGE 4th-CHAPTER 4.

An Act relative to the Streets and Squares in the City of Saint John.

WHEREAS in consequence of the irregularities of the ground upon which the City of Saint John is laid out, it has been found expedient to make various and extensive alterations in the level of the streets, which have rendered it necessary in many instances for the proprietors of houses fronting on such streets to erect steps or stairways in order to have access to their respective houses; and it is considered that the general width of the streets of the said City will admit the placing of such steps or stairways without any material obstruction to the passage along such streets, and the same have been authorized by the Corporation of the said City: And whereas doubts have arisen whether the said Corporation is empowered by Charter or any law now in force to permit the erection of such steps or stairways, and it is expedient that the said Corporation should be allowed to exercise such power under certain limitations and restrictions;

Be it therefore enacted and declared, &c.-1. It shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, or the major part of them, in Common Council convened, to authorize and allow the erecting, placing, and maintaining of steps or stairways for the convenient access to the ground floor of houses adjoining any street or streets in such parts of the said City as they may deem proper, and from time to time to make, establish, and ordain such bye laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations, as well for the keeping, erecting, placing, or maintaining, as for the better regulating and ar

ranging with uniformity such steps or stairways, and also for the taking down and removal either in whole or in part of such steps or stairways as are now erected or hereafter may be erected in the said City; provided always, that no steps or stairways shall be allowed to extend out upon such streets or any of them more than four feet, or more than a tenth part of the breadth of such streets as are less than forty feet broad; and provided also, that no steps leading to any other than the ground floor or story shall be placed upon any part of the said streets.

2. And whereas the enclosing of the two public Squares in the said City, called by the names of King's Square and Queen's Square, with an open fence or railing, and planting the same with trees, would conduce much to the ornament of the said City;-It shall and may be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, or the major part of them, in Common Council convened, to authorize and direct the said public Squares to be enclosed either in whole or in part or parts with open fences or railings, and the same to be laid out and planted with trees and shrubs in such manner as they may deem expedient; and from time to time to make such bye laws, ordinances, rules, and orders for the erecting, keeping, and preserving such fences, railings, and trees, in order to prevent damage or injury to the same, as also for the due regulation of such Squares and the passage of foot passengers in, through, and over the same, as to them may seem necessary and proper; provided always, that no such enclosures shall be made so as to narrow or interfere with the passage of the public streets running along the sides of such Squares, nor shall any fences or trees be placed or set out within sixty feet of the buildings fronting on such Squares or either of them.

3. And whereas it would much add to the ornament and convenience of the Court House lately erected in the said City, on the east side of King's Square, if a portico were placed in front of the same ;—It shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace of the said City and County of Saint John, in General Sessions assembled, with the consent of the Common Council of the said City, to erect, place, and maintain a portico and steps in front of the said Court House; provided the same shall not extend more than fifteen feet upon the said public Square.

4. Provided always, that no bye law or ordinance to be made by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, in pursuance of this Act, shall be in force or valid until the same shall be confirmed by His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and His Majesty's Council, and that when so confirmed the same shall not be altered, amended, or repealed, by any other bye law or ordinance of the said Corporation, unless such other bye law or ordinance shall likewise be confirmed in the manner aforesaid.

5. Provided also, that all bye laws or ordinances, before they shall be sent up to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and Council for their confirmation, shall be published in one of the Newspapers of the City at least four weeks before the same shall be so sent, which publication shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Lieutenant Governor and Council before such confirmation shall be given.

6. This Act shall continue and be in force for the term of ten years and no longer.

9th GEORGE 4th-CHAPTER 7.

An Act to authorize the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, to open a Street from the Wharf on the south side of the Market Slip to the Wharf owned by Charles I. Peters, Esquire.

Section.

1. Ward Street, how opened.

2. Houses, &c., erected thereon, of what height.

Section.

3. His Majesty's rights not to be affected.

Passed 5th April 1828.

WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the fifty eighth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act further to provide for the security of the City of Saint John against the ravages of Fire, it is enacted that no street, lane, or alley should thereafter be laid out and established as a public street and highway within the said City unless the same should be of the width of fifty feet at least: And whereas a large number of the most respectable inhabitants of the said City have petitioned the General Assembly that authority may be granted to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, to lay out a street from