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WESTMORLAND.

16th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 41.

An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the County of Westmorland to assess the inhabitants of the Parishes of Moncton and Salisbury for the erection. of a Lock-up House for the said Parishes.

Section.

1. Lock-up House, for what Parishes, and how erected, &c.

Section.

2. What persons committed to lock-up house. 3. Assessment for, how apportioned. Passed 3rd May 1853.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Justices of the Peace for the County of Westmorland, or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to contract and agree with able and sufficient workmen for building and finishing a lock-up house or house of correction at the Bend, in the Parish of Moncton, in the said County, and to agree for such sum or sums of money as to them may seem meet, in order to carry this object into effect; and the said Justices, or the major part of them at the General Sessions as aforesaid, are hereby authorized and empowered to make rate and assessment upon the inhabitants of the said Parishes of Moncton and Salisbury, for a sum not to exceed one hundred and fifty pounds, for defraying the expense of the erection and finishing of said lock-up house or house of correction, and from time to time to make such rules and regulations for the management of the same as to them may seem meet.

2. It shall be lawful for the High Sheriff of the said County, and other officer having legal custody of any person or persons who shall or may be arrested in the said Parishes of Moncton and Salisbury, in all cases in which the said Sheriff and other officer as aforesaid could legally lodge the said person or persons in the common gaol of the said County, to commit the said person or persons to the said lock-up house or house of correction, until the said person or persons can be removed to the said County gaol; provided always, that no person under civil arrest shall be detained in such lock-up house or house of correction for any space of time exceeding twenty days.

3. The said sum of one hundred and fifty pounds so to be assessed and apportioned between the said Parishes, shall be levied, collected, and paid agreeably to any Acts in force for the assessing, collecting, and levying of County rates.

KENT.

13th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 11.

An Act to provide for more effectually repairing the Streets and Bridges in a part of the Parish of Richibucto.

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1. Money rate for statute labour, in what 2. Moneys, how to be levied, &c. part of Parish.

Passed 11th April 1850.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. All persons liable to perform labour on the streets and highways in that part of the Parish of Richibucto, in the County of Kent, which is included within the following limits, to-wit :-Commencing on the south side of Richibucto River, at the Creek called Child's Creek, and extending to the Creek below George Bell's, commonly called Bell's Creek, and back to the Galloway road; and on the north side of said river, the district commencing at Mooney's Creek, and extending to the upper line of David Wark, Esquire, including all the lands fronting on the Richibucto River within the limits described, shall in future, in lieu of such labour, annually 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 in virtue of this Act, shall be levied and collected in the same manner as any Parish or County rates are 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.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

5th GEORGE 4th-CHAPTER 23.

An Act to provide for the better support of the Poor in certain Parishes in the County of Northumberland.

Section.

1. Building for Alms House, how to be erected and paid for.

2. Commissioners or same, how appointed, and their duties.

3. Regulations, &c. by whom to be made. 4. Commissioners, how to account.

Section.

5. Commissioners may agree with Overseers of other Parishes, same County. 6. Profits of work, how applied.

7. Until Alms House erected, what building may be hired.

Passed 11th March 1824.

WHEREAS by the mode generally pursued to provide for the support of the poor in this Province, many persons who might, under proper regulations, contribute to their own maintenance, have nevertheless become chargeable to, and are entirely maintained by, the inhabitants of the Parishes in which such persons reside, to the great burthen of such inhabitants: And whereas the establishment of suitable Alms Houses and Work Houses, in proper situations, within this Province, would not only enable many poor persons who are now chargeable to the Parishes in which they reside, to contribute materially to their own support, but would also afford the means of checking the disorderly behaviour of divers persons, who by drunkenness and idleness disqualify themselves from earning a proper support ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The Justices of the Peace for the County of Northumberland, in their General Sessions, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to agree for the erecting and finishing a proper building for an Alms House and Work House in the Town or Parish of Newcastle, and to fix upon a certain sum of money for defraying the expense thereof, which sum of money shall be raised by an assessment upon the inhabitants of Newcastle, Chatham, Northesk, Ludlow, Alnwick, and Glenelg, in the said County, in the manner prescribed by any law in force for assessing, collecting, and levying County rates, provided that such assessment shall not exceed the sum of seven hundred pounds.

2. It shall and may be lawful for the President or Commander in Chief of the Province, by Warrant under his hand and seal, to be issued by and with the advice of His Majesty's

Council, from time to time to appoint so many fit persons, not exceeding seven, nor less than five, (not more than two of whom shall be Justices of the Peace for the said County,) to be Commissioners for superintending and managing the said buildings so to be erected for the purposes aforesaid; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners from time to time to provide such materials and things as they shall judge necessary for the setting to work and employing such poor persons, of what age or sex soever they be, who may apply for relief and shall be able to work, and shall have power and authority, at their discretion, to compel such idle or poor people begging or seeking relief, as do not betake themselves to some lawful employment, or who do or shall hereafter seek or receive alms of any of the said Parishes hereinbefore mentioned, within the said County, or who may stand in need of relief from any of the said Parishes, to dwell, inhabit, and to work in the said Work House, and to do all such work as they shall think them able and fit for, and shall have the same powers to bind out poor children apprentices, as are by the laws of this Province given to the Overseers of the poor in the several Towns or Parishes in this Province.

3. The said Commissioners so to be appointed as aforesaid, shall have power to make such rules, orders, and regulations for the good government and management of the said Alms House and Work House, as they shall find necessary, (such rules and regulations to be approved of by the said Justices in their General Sessions,) and to inflict such correction and punishment, by solitary confinement or otherwise, from time to time, as to them shall seem reasonable, on any person or persons within the said Alms House or Work House who shall be set to work and shall not conform to such rules, orders, and regulations to be made as aforesaid, or shall misbehave in the

same.

4. The said Commissioners shall at the first General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County annually lay before the Justices in their said Sessions an account, to be audited by the said Justices, of the expenses incurred by them for the support and maintenance of the poor of the said Alms House and Work House for the past year, together with an estimate of what sum or sums of money will be needful for the

maintenance or employment of the poor of the said house for the current year; in which estimate shall be stated the proportion that each Town or Parish within the said County ought to pay, according to the number of poor persons that such Town or Parish shall have in the said Alms House, or committed to the care of the said Commissioners, to the intent that no other levy or assessment may be made for any other maintenance or allowance to or for any such poor; which sum or sums of money shall be assessed, levied, and raised in such manner and form as by the laws of this Province is or shall be appointed and directed, and when raised and received, shall be paid to the said Commissioners for the use aforesaid, and for no other.

5. The Commissioners to be appointed in pursuance of this Act, shall have full power and authority to contract and agree with the Overseers of the poor of any Parish in the said County, or of any adjoining County of this Province, for the maintenance of any poor persons belonging to such Parishes respectively, which contract and agreement such Overseers are hereby authorized and empowered to make; provided always, that such Overseers shall first pay or secure to be paid to the said Commissioners, such sum or sums of money as shall be so agreed for, and shall also report to the said Commissioners the names, character, and condition of all such poor persons within the said Towns or Parishes respectively, in whose behalf such application shall be made.

6. The profits of any work or labour to be performed under the direction of the said Commissioners, shall be duly accounted for by them, and applied towards the support and maintenance of the persons inhabiting within the said Alms House and Work House.

7. Until such time as a proper building shall be erected and prepared within the said Parish of Newcastle, for the purposes by this Act contemplated, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners to be appointed as hereinbefore mentioned, to hire and make use of any other house within the said Parish, which they shall think fit and convenient for an Alms House and Work House, in manner and form as by this Act is prescribed.

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