Passed 3rd May 1853.

WHEREAS a new Court House is required in the County of York: And whereas it is expedient to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the said County to raise by loan a sum not exceeding three thousand pounds to be applied to the erection of such Court House ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. It shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace for the said County, at any General or Special Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County, to raise by loan a sum of money not exceeding three thousand pounds, for the purpose of erecting a new Court House for the use of the said County, to be paid off and discharged in the manner hereinafter mentioned, the same to be taken on loans of not less than fifty pounds, and Debentures in the following form, or to that effect, shall be prepared and delivered to the person or persons from whom such loan may be obtained, viz:

Number

County of York, 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 County of York, the sum of pounds currency, which sum is payable to him, (or her, as the case may be) together with lawful interest, pursuant to an Act of Assembly made and passed in the sixteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to authorize and empower the Justices of the Peace of the County of York to raise by loan a sufficient sum of money to enable them to erect a new Court House in the said County of York.-Dated the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty

C. D. Clerk.

By order of the Sessions.

A. B. Justice of Common Pleas. Which said debentures shall be signed by one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and of the Peace for the said County, and countersigned by the Clerk, and shall be respectively numbered according to the time at which the same may be made and issued, and a memorandum thereof shall be submitted by the Clerk at the next General Sessions, and the same to be entered on the Minutes of the said Court.

2. The moneys so authorized to be borrowed by the said Justices, shall from time to time be paid to and received by the Treasurer of the said County, and shall be paid out by him from time to time when required, by order of the General or Special Sessions, in such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act; and the said County Treasurer shall at every General Sessions of the Peace for the said County, render a just and true account, and on oath if required, of the sums of money received and paid by him on this account, separate and distinct from his other accounts.

3. The holders of such debentures shall be entitled to receive interest for the same annually, not exceeding six per cent., to be paid by the Treasurer of the County out of the assessments hereinafter mentioned, upon the orders of the said General Sessions, to be made in manner hereinafter mentioned.

4. It shall and may be lawful for the said Justices of the Peace for the said County, and they are hereby authorized and required, to make a rate and assessment, not exceeding the sum of five hundred pounds in the present year, and a rate and assessment of a like sum in each and every succeeding year, besides the charge for assessing and collecting, for paying off and discharging the loans contracted for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned by virtue of this Act, until the same shall be paid off; the said several sums to be assessed, levied, and collected in such proportions, and in the same manner as any other County rates for public charges can or may be assessed, levied, and collected, under and by virtue of any Act or Acts of the Assembly made or to be made for assessing, levying, and collecting County rates for public charges as aforesaid, and when collected shall be paid into the hands of the said County Treasurer for the purposes of this Act.

5. The moneys to be assessed as aforesaid, shall from time to time be applied, after discharging the yearly interest due on the several principal sums mentioned in the said debentures, in due order, according to the number, beginning with number one, and said County Treasurer shall, when so often as he may be directed by the said General Sessions of the Peace, give one month's public notice by advertisement in one of the Newspapers published in the City of Fredericton, for calling in such and so many of the debentures as the said Justices are

prepared to pay off, specifying the numbers in such advertisement, and the same by and under such orders as aforesaid shall pay off accordingly, and from and after the expiration of such notice, the interest on such debentures shall cease.

6. The said County Treasurer shall be entitled to the sum of one pound five shillings per centum for his services on receiving and paying all the moneys ordered to be assessed by and under the provisions of this Act, and no more.

17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 45.

An Act to provide for the establishment and management of a Boom or Booms in the County of York.

Section.

1. General Sessions, when may licence Booms.

2. Boomage, how to be recovered.

3. Manager of Boom, who to appoint.

Section.

4. General Sessions may make regulations respecting Booms and Boomage.

5. Not to interfere with any existing Corporation.

Passed 1st May 1854.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The General Sessions of the Peace in and for the County of York may, upon application from a majority of the persons interested in the timber and other lumber coming to market through any creek or small stream within the said County, grant a licence to one or more persons to erect a boom across such creek or stream, at or near its mouth, for the purpose of securing timber, logs, and other lumber, not however to interfere with the navigation thereof; and in all cases where necessary, the said boom to be so constructed as to admit the passage of rafts and boats at all suitable or reasonable times; provided however, that no such licence shall authorize or empower any person to enter in and upon the lands or tenements of any person whomsoever without the consent of the owners or lessees thereof first obtained in writing.

2. The tolls or boomage shall be recovered from the owner of the timber, masts, spars, and other lumber, by action of assumpsit, in the name of the proprietor of the boom, or of the boom master, or the boom master shall have a lien on the said timber, masts, spars, and other lumber therefor, and may retain the same or as much thereof belonging to any owner as will pay the boomage in respect to the lumber of such owner; and after ten days notice to such owner or his agent, served personally or left at his dwelling house, or if he be absent from the

Province, inserted in some Newspaper published in Fredericton, and also posted up on some public place near the boom, may sell at public auction as much of the said lumber as will pay the boomage and expenses of sale, returning the overplus (if any) to the owner.

3. The proprietor of a boom may employ any one of the boom masters appointed for the Parish in which such boom is situated, to manage such boom.

4. The General Sessions of the Peace for that purpose holden in and for the said County of York, may establish the rates of tolls, and make the necessary rules for the guidance of the boom master, and for the management of the boom, and collecting together, securing, and rafting the timber, masts, spars, and other lumber.

5. This Act shall not authorize the Sessions or any person whatsoever to interfere with the privilege of any person or Corporation empowered to establish any boom, or with the privilege of such Boom Corporation.

CHARLOTTE.

58th GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 18.

An Act to empower and authorize the Justices of the Peace of the County of Charlotte to lease a certain piece of Common Land in the Parish of Saint Andrews, and to invest the proceeds towards the support of the Poor of the said Parish.

Section 1.-What land Justices may lease, and proceeds how to appropriate.

Passed 11th March 1818.

WHEREAS a certain piece of land situated in the Parish of Saint Andrews, in the County of Charlotte, was granted by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this Province to the Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte, in trust for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Town of Saint Andrews, which said piece of land contains ten hundred and fifty two acres, and is bounded and described as follows, to wit:- -Beginning at the northeasterly bank or shore of the River Saint Croix, at the southwesterly corner or bounds of lot number thirty eight in the third tract or division of the grant to the Penobscot Association, thence running along the southeasterly line of the same lot northeasterly, until it meets the westerly line of a public road laid off parallel to the westerly or rear line of the lots in the second tract or division of the grant aforesaid, and four poles distant therefrom, thence along the westerly line of the said road, parallel to the rear line of the said lots in the second division of the said grant, southeasterly, until it meets the northeasterly line of a Reserve made by the Surveyor General of Woods, thence along the said line of the said reserve, northwesterly, until an extent of twenty chains of four poles cach is completed, thence along the northwesterly line of the said reserve twenty two chains parallel to the northwesterly line of the Town plat of Saint Andrews, thence along the northerly line of the said reserve north seventy four degrees west, until it meets the northeasterly bank of the River Saint Croix, thence along the said bank, up stream, to the bounds first mentioned: And whereas, from the extent of the said tract or parcel of land, a large portion of the same lies in a wilderness state, and is altogether unproductive to the inhabi