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river, shall in future, in lieu of such labour, annually pay the sum of [the words here omitted are repealed by 14 V. c. 8, s. 1,] for each and every day's labour such persons are respectively liable to perform.

2. The moneys required to be paid in virtue of this Act shall be assessed, levied, and collected in the same manner as any Parish or County rates are assessed, levied, and collected by virtue of any law now in force, or which may hereafter be in force for that purpose in this Province; and when collected, such moneys shall be paid over to the Commissioners of Highways for the said Parish, to be by them expended on the streets and bridges within the above described limits, in the same manner as any moneys by them received in lieu of labour have been hitherto by law expended.

4th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 11.

An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte to assess the Parish of Saint Stephen, in the said County, for the erection of a Wharf on the Public Landing at Salt Water in said Parish.

Section.

1. Assessment for erecting Wharf at Saint Stephen.

Section.

2. How assessed, &c.

Passed 19th March 1841.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte, or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden in and for the said County, be and they are hereby authorized and empowerd to make a rate and assessment on the Parish of Saint Stephen, in the said County of Charlotte, for a sum not exceeding four hundred pounds, for defraying the expense of building, erecting, and finishing a wharf at the public landing at Salt Water in the said Parish, for the use of the same, and to make such regulations not inconsistent with the grant of the said public landing, or any previous Act of Assembly relating to the same, for the said wharf, as to them may seem meet; provided always, that no greater sum than one hundred pounds shall be assessed by virtue of this Act in any one year.

2. The said sum, not exceeding four hundred pounds, so to be assessed as aforesaid, shall be assessed, collected, and paid

agreeably to any Acts in force for assessing, collecting, and levying of County or Parish rates.

5th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 2.

An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte to make regulations for the Market Wharf in the Parish of Saint Stephen.

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1. Market Wharf at Saint Stephen, Justices 2. Justices to appoint Wharfinger, &c. how to regulate, &c.

Passed 29th March 1842.

WHEREAS a certain piece of land, beach, and flats, situate in the Parish of Saint Stephen, has been granted to the Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte, in trust for a public landing in and for said Parish: And whereas by an Act of Assembly made and passed in the fifth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to authorize and empower the Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte to lease a part of the Public Landing at Salt Water, in the Parish of Saint Stephen, the Justices aforesaid are authorized to erect thereon wharves, stores, and other buildings as they may think beneficial to the said Parish of Saint Stephen: And whereas a Market Wharf has been built on said public landing ;

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte, at their General Sessions, shall and may and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make such orders and regulations for the due ordering of vessels lying at the said Market Wharf in Saint Stephen, or coming to or removing from the same, and for the lading or unlading of goods and merchandize at the said Market Wharf, and for the preventing nuisances, encumbrances, and obstructions, for the depositing and leaving of goods and merchandize, or otherwise howsoever, on the said Market Wharf, and generally for the safe keeping and well ordering of the said Market Wharf in all respects, or in respect of any extension of the said Market Wharf which may be hereafter made, and from time to time to repeal, alter, and amend such orders and regulations, and to substitute others in their place, as to the said Justices or the major part of them at such General Sessions may seem fit and

reasonable, and to enforce such orders and regulations by pecuniary fines and penalties, so as always that such fines and penalties shall not in any case exceed the sum of forty shillings, which shall be sued for and recovered on the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses before any Justice of the Peace for the said County, and be levied by warrant of distress and sale of any goods and merchandize that by conviction of such Justice may appear to be an encumbrance or nuisance on the said wharf contrary to the said regulations, or otherwise by warrant of distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, rendering the overplus, if any, after deducting the charges of prosecution and sale, to the owner or owners of such goods, or the offender or offenders, as the case may be; such fines and penalties to be paid one moiety to the Wharfinger of the said wharf, to be appointed as hereinafter directed, and the remainder to the Overseers of the poor of the said Parish of Saint Stephen for the use of the poor of the said Parish.

2. The said Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte shall and may at the time of making the annual appointment of Town and Parish officers, have power and authority to appoint a fit person to be a Wharfinger of the said Market Wharf, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty, and shall be in every respect subject to the same rules and regulations, penalties and forfeitures, as any other Town or Parish officers are or shall be subject to, by virtue of any laws now in force or hereafter to be enacted for the appointment and regulation of Town and Parish officers in the several Counties of this Province, and it shall be the duty of the said Wharfinger to carry into force and effect the orders and regulations of the said Justices so to be made as aforesaid, respecting the said Market Wharf which hereafter may be made, and the said Wharfinger shall receive and collect all wharfage, dockage, and other dues and emoluments arising from the said wharf, and pay over the same to the order of the Magistrates of Saint Stephen, after deducting such reasonable compensation as the Justices aforesaid at their General Sessions shall direct, to be applied towards the liquidation of any taxes required to be raised in the said Parish of Saint Stephen, or towards the extension and improvement of the said wharf, and in his own name to collect, sue for, and recover all fines

and penalties incurred under the said regulations, and also the wharfage, dockage, dues, and emoluments arising from the said public Market Wharf, and to account from time to time to the said Justices at their General Sessions, as they at such General Sessions shall from time to time order and direct.

11th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 42.

An Act to provide for the more effectually repairing the Streets and Bridges in the Town Plat of Saint Andrews.

Section.

1. Statute labour in Saint Andrews, what rate for.

Section.

2. Moneys for, how assessed, &c.
3. Limitation.

Passed 30th March 1848.

WHEREAS the rate now payable by persons liable to perform Statute Labour within the Town Plat of Saint Andrews is unnecessarily high for the requirements thereof;—

Be it enacted, &c.-1. All persons liable to perform statute labour on the Streets and Bridges within the Town plat of Saint Andrews, in the County of Charlotte, shall in future pay the sum of one shilling and three pence for each and every day's labour such persons are respectively liable to perform.

2. The moneys required to be paid by virtue of this Act shall be assessed, levied, and collected in the same manner as any Parish or County rates are assessed, levied, and collected by virtue of any law now in force or hereafter to be in force for that purpose in this Province; and such moneys, when collected, shall be paid over to a Commissioner of Highways to be appointed for that purpose in the same manner and by the same authority as Commissioners of Highways are now appointed, to be by him expended on the streets and bridges within the above described limits, in the same manner as any moneys received in lieu of statute labour have been hitherto expended.

3. This Act shall continue and be in force until the first day of April which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.-[Continued by 18 V. c. 42.]

12th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 27.

An Act to provide for the more effectually repairing the Roads and Bridges in the Parishes of Campo Bello and Grand Manan.

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WHEREAS from the scattered state of the population of the Parishes of Campo Bello and Grand Manan, the present Highway Act cannot properly be carried into effect;—

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. All persons liable to perform statute labour on the roads and bridges in the Parishes of Campo Bello and Grand Manan, in the County of Charlotte, shall in future pay the sum of one shilling and three pence for each and every day's work such persons are respectively liable to perform.

2. The moneys required to be paid by virtue of this Act shall be assessed, levied, and collected in the same manner as any Parish or County rates are assessed, levied, and collected by virtue of any law now in force or hereafter to be in force for that purpose in the Province; and such moneys, when collected, shall be paid over to the Commissioners of Highways for the respective Parishes, to be expended for the districts in which they are collected.

3. There shall be annually appointed at the April Sessions of the Peace, three Commissioners for each Parish for that purpose, in the same manner and by the same authority as Commissioners of Highways are now appointed; which said moneys shall be by them expended by public contract, or by sale at auction, on the roads and bridges within the said Parishes.

4. This Act shall continue and be in force until the first day of April which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.-[Continued by 18 V. c. 43.]

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