41st GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 9. An Act for preserving the Bank of the River Saint John in front of the Parish of Lincoln, in the County of Sunbury. WHEREAS the pasturing of neat cattle, horses, sheep, goats, or swine in the Spring and during the Summer season, on the slope of the bank of the River Saint John, along the intervale lands in the Parish of Lincoln, both prevents the growth and occasions the destruction of bushes, which contribute greatly to bind the soil and preserve it from being washed away during the freshes ; Be it enacted, &c.-1. From and after the passing of this Act, every person who pastures intervale land in the said Parish or any part thereof fronting on the said river, shall keep up a fence along the front of the land so pastured of the legal height, or at least sufficient to confine his neat cattle, horses, sheep, goats, or swine within the same; and if he do neglect to keep up such fence as aforesaid, his neat cattle, horses, sheep, goats, or swine, shall be liable, when found trespassing on the slope of the said bank, to be impounded and dealt by according to the provisions of an Act made and passed this present Session, intituled An Act to repeal all the Acts now in force relating to Trespasses, and for making new regulations to prevent the same. 2. And whereas horses and cattle frequently go from Fredericton and other places, down on a long and narrow tongue of low intervale land extending to and terminating at the mouth of the River Oromocto, and from thence spread along the bank of the aforesaid River Saint John, throughout the extent of the said Parish ;-The Commissioners of Highways in the said Parish shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be empowered and they are hereby directed to erect one strong swing-gate across the public road on the upland adjoining to the said tongue of intervale, either on the lot now belonging to Thomas Knox, Esquire, or on that now belonging to and occupied by Lemuel Wilmot, Esquire, as to them in their discretion shall seem most convenient, and to keep the same in repair; the expense of which erection and repairs they are hereby authorized to pay by ordering an assessment to be made for the said purposes on the owners or occupiers of the said lands as above described, by the Parish assessors. 3. No person or persons between the first day of May and the first day of September, shall block up and fasten, or prop open the said gate and so leave the same, under the penalty of ten shillings; or wantonly or maliciously take down or destroy the said gate, under the penalty of three pounds; to be recovered upon conviction before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County, upon the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, and to be levied by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods, under the hand and seal of such Justice, rendering the overplus, if any, after deducting the cost and charges of the distress and sale, to the offender; which penalty and forfeiture shall be applied to the erection, maintaining, and keeping of the said gate in repair, and shall be paid into the hands of the Commissioners of Highways for the said Parish for the said purpose; and such offender or offenders shall be further liable to an action of trespass for any damages sustained thereby. 4. This Act shall continue and remain in force for five years, and no longer. 45th GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 13. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Highways in the Parishes of Maugerville, Sheffield, and Waterborough, to lay out Highways, and to appropriate part of the Statute Labour for securing the Bank of the River in front of those Parishes. 1. Commissioners may alter Highways, 2. When inhabitants to be summoned, &c. when. Passed 5th March 1805. WHEREAS great damage frequently happens to the bank of the River Saint John in front of the Parishes of Maugerville, Sheffield, and Waterborough, and to the Highways laid out thereon ; Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The Commissioners of the Highways for the time being in such Parishes shall and they are hereby empowered to alter the said Highways in the Parishes aforesaid that have been or hereafter may be washed away, or otherwise damaged by the freshes, as may appear to them convenient and necessary. 2. The Surveyors of Highways in the Parishes aforesaid shall, after the first day of April in every year, when required by the said Commissioners so to do, summon every male inhabitant in their districts, with their teams and such implements as may be necessary, who are liable to work on the highways, giving them at least six days notice, to labour thereon by planting the said bank with willows or alders, or otherwise bushing the same, as the said Commissioners may deem most effectual for the preservation thereof, and such labour so done shall be allowed by the said Commissioners in part of the labour which the said inhabitants by law are liable to perform, under the penalty of five shillings, and for every neglect of teams turning out with a competent driver, ten shillings for each and every offence or neglect, to be recovered on complaint of any one of the said Commissioners to any one of His Majesty's Justices, to be levied by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, rendering the overplus (if any) to the owner or owners, to be laid out under the direction of the said Commissioners in the districts where the same shall be recovered. 56th GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 12. An Act to continue and make perpetual two Acts of the General Assembly that are near expiring. Section 1.-What Acts made perpetual. Passed 7th March 1816. Be it enacted, &c.—1. An Act made and passed in the forty first year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for preserving the Bank of the River Saint John in front of the Parish of Lincoln, in the County of Sunbury, and an Act made and passed in the thirty fourth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for preserving the Bank of the River Saint John in front of the Parishes of Maugerville, Sheffield, and Waterborough, be and the same Acts are hereby continued and made perpetual. 5th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 27. An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the County of Sunbury to make rules and regulations for protecting the public use of the Draw in the Bridge over the River Oromocto. Section 1.-Justices, when may make rules relating to Draw in Bridge. WHEREAS it is necessary that provisions should be made to prevent the Oromocto River being obstructed in such manner as to prevent the free use of and passage to and through the Draw made in the Bridge erected over the said river near the mouth thereof, and to protect the said draw from injury ; Be it enacted, &c.-1. It shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Sunbury in General Sessions assembled, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make rules and regulations to prevent the passage to and from and through the draw made in the bridge lately built over the River Oromocto near to the mouth of the said river, from being obstructed by means of vessels, timber, logs, rafts, or lumber, or rubbish of any description being deposited, placed, or allowed to remain in any place in the said river, either above or below the said bridge, and also to prevent damage or injury to be done to the said draw in the said bridge, and impose fines and penalties upon all or any persons who infringe such rules and regulations, not exceeding two pounds, to be recovered before any two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the said County, upon the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, and levied by warrant of distress and sale upon the offender's goods and chattels, and when collected, to be paid into the hands of the Supervisor of the Nerepis Road for the use of the Province. CARLETON. 9th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 40. An Act to provide for the repair of the Streets and Highways in part of the Parish of Woodstock. WHEREAS the increase of population in Woodstock renders an improvement in the mode of providing for the repair of the Streets and Highways necessary;— Be it therefore enacted, &c.—1. From and after the passing of this Act, the Justices of the General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Carleton, at the January Sessions of the Peace for the said County to be holden for said County in each and every year hereafter, or at any special Sessions to be holden after the passing of this Act for said County, shall fix and determine the sum to be assessed for the repairing, improving, and maintaining the streets, highways, and bridges the then ensuing year, upon all that part of the Parish of Woodstock, commencing on the northerly side of Lane's Creek, (so called) in said Parish, thence running southerly along the River Saint John to the lower side of Upham's Creek, (so called) and extending westerly or back from said River one mile; and which sum so fixed and determined shall not exceed the sum of two hundred pounds nor be less than the sum of sixty pounds, and shall be levied and assessed by an equal rate of five shillings upon the poll of all the male inhabitants within. that part of the said Parish of the age of twenty one years and upwards, not being paupers or exempts as hereinafter mentioned, and by a rate in just and equal proportions upon the |