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two hundred and twenty-two Pounds Two Shillings and Fourpence shall be payable at the same Time for Pensions to the Judges out of the Sum mentioned in the said Schedule (A.), and that not more than Five thousand five hundred and fiftyfive Pounds Eleven Shillings and One Penny shall be payable at the same Time for Pensions out of the Sum mentioned in Schedule (B.); and that a List of all such Pensions, and of the Persons to whom the same shall have been granted, shall be laid in every Year before the Legislature.

And be it enacted, That during the Time for which the said several Sums mentioned in the said Schedules are severally payable the same shall be accepted and taken by Her Majesty by way of Civil List, instead of all territorial and other Revenues now at the Disposal of the Crown arising in this Province; and that Three Fifths of the net Produce of the said territorial and other Revenues now at the Disposal of the Crown within this Province shall be paid over to the Account of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund; and also that during the Life of Her Majesty, and for Five Years after the Demise of Her Majesty, the remaining Two Fifths of the net Produce of the said territorial and other Revenues now at the Disposal of the Crown within this Province shall also be paid over in like Manner to the Account of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund.

And be it enacted, That the Consolidation of the Duties and Revenues of this Province shall not be taken to affect the Payment out of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund of any Sum or Sums heretofore charged upon the Rates and Duties now raised, levied, and collected, or to be raised, levied, and collected, to and for the Use of either of the former Provinces of Upper or Lower Canada, or of this Province, for such Time as shall have been appointed by the several Acts of the Legislature of the Province by which such Charges were severally authorized.

And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the Legislative Assembly to originate or pass any Vote, Resolution, or Bill for the Appropriation of any Part of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund, or of any other Tax or Impost, to any Purpose which shall not have been first recommended by a Message of the Governor to the said Legislative Assembly during the Session in which such Vote, Resolution, or Bill shall be passed.

Provided always, and be it enacted, That the foregoing Provisions of this Act shall have no Force or Effect until the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Sections of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled "An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada," and the Schedules referred to in the said Sections, shall have been repealed.

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CAP. LXXII.

An Act for the further Amendment of the Laws relating to Turnpike Roads in South Wales.

[22d July 1847.]

W HEREAS it is expedient to amend an Act passed in the Session held in the Seventh and Eighth Years of

'the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to conso- 7&8 Vict. c. 91. lidate and amend the Laws relating to Turnpike Trusts in South Wales: And whereas by the said Act Provision is made for 'the assessing, levying, and collecting of a Rate for the Purposes of the said Act, to be termed a County Road Rate, and also for the levying and collecting of Tolls, and the Distances within which it shall be lawful to collect the same, and for other Purposes: And whereas Difficulty has been 'found in carrying these and other Provisions of the said Act into execution: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That So much of so much of the said recited Act as requires the High Constables 7&8 Vict. c. 91. as requires High

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of any Hundred or Division to perform any Part or Duty in the levying or collecting of any County Road Rates, or to act in anywise therein, shall be and is hereby repealed, and the Provisions of an Act passed in the same last-mentioned Session 7&8 Vict. c. 33. of Parliament, intituled An Act for facilitating the Collection of

tion of County Road Rates repealed, and

deemed to

apply.

County Road

Rate to be col

lected by the same Officers

or Parties as the County Rate.

Clerks of the
Peace to send
Copies of War-

rants of Justices

to Clerks of

Boards of Guar

dians in certain Cases.

Clerks of

Boards of Guar

dians to ascertain the Pro

portion which

the County Road Rate forms of the

Poor Rate As

sessment, and -.

to give Notice

thereof to Over

seers.

County Rates, and for relieving High Constables from Attendance at Quarter Sessions in certain Cases, and from certain other Duties, shall be deemed to apply to such County Road Rates in like Manner as to any County Rates.

II. And be it enacted, That whenever the Justices of the Peace in any of the Counties in South Wales to which the said first-recited Act applies shall, in conformity with the Provisions and for the Purposes of the said Act, order a County Road Rate to be assessed and collected with and as Part of the County Rate for any of the said Counties respectively, they shall cause the same to be collected by the same Officers or Parties as shall for the Time being collect the County Rate; and in every Precept or Warrant to be issued for the Collection of the said County Rate and County Road Rate jointly, the Amount assessed upon each Parish, Township, or other Place in respect of each of such Rates shall be set forth separately.

III. And be it enacted, That in any Case in which the Justices of any such County shall not issue their Precept to the Guardians of any Union for the Payment of the County Rate to the Treasurer of the County, in conformity with the Statute in that Behalf, then and in such Case the Clerk of the Peace of such County shall, so soon as the Warrants for the Collection of the County Rate and of the County Road Rate shall have been issued, send a Copy of every such Warrant which shall relate to any Parish or other Place comprised in such Union to the Clerk to the Guardians of such Union.

IV. And be it enacted, That the Clerk to the Board of Guardians of every Union either wholly or in part contained within the several Counties to which such first-recited Act applies, upon the Receipt of the Precept of the Justices or of the Copy of the Warrant, as the Case may be, shall (so soon as the Sum stated therein shall have been paid in pursuance of the Precept or Warrant) compare the Amount of the County Road Rate assessed upon each Parish or other Place within his Union with the Amount of the last Assessment which shall have been allowed by the Justices for the Purpose of being levied in such Parish or Place for the Relief of the Poor out of which the said Sum shall have been paid, and shall ascertain the proportionate Amount in the Pound which such County Road Rate bears in reference to the whole Amount of the said Assessment, and shall forthwith transmit to the Overseers of such Parish or Place, or to the Assistant Overseers or Collectors, if any there be, a Statement of such proportionate Amount; and every such Clerk shall receive for his Trouble therein such Compensation, out of the Monies to be raised by such County Road Rate, as the Justices at their General Quarter Sessions assembled shall deem fit.

to Rate-payers

V. And be it enacted, That the Overseers, Assistant Over- Overseers to seers, or Collectors shall, upon Receipt of such Statement as of the Propor publish Notice aforesaid, give and publish Notice, in like Manner as parochial tion so ascerNotices are usually given and published in such Parish or Place, tained, and to of the proportionate Amount in the Pound of the County Road give Certificates Rate so stated by the said Clerk to the Guardians; and the said of Amount of Overseers, Assistant Overseers, or Collectors who shall be enti- Road Rate paid tled to receive or shall have received the last Rate upon which by them. the Proportion shall have been ascertained as aforesaid shall, upon Request of any Party who shall have paid any Rate contained in such Assessment, compute and certify in Writing the Sum which such Party has contributed to the County Road Rate out of the Sum so paid, according to the Proportion declared by the said Clerk as aforesaid; and such Certificate shall be signed by such Overseer, Assistant Overseer, or Collector; and the Sum therein stated to have been contributed to the County Road Rate shall, if correctly computed, be the Sum which the Occupier shall be empowered to deduct from the next Payment of his Rent, according to the Provisions of the said first-recited Act; and any Overseer, Assistant Overseer, or Collector who shall refuse to give any such Certificate as aforesaid, upon Demand of the Person entitled to receive the same, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings, upon Conviction before the Justices of the County in which the Parish shall be situated, to be recovered and applied as Penalties under the Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty for the Amendment of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor.

for Rate Books,

VI. And be it enacted, That the said Clerk to the Guardians Clerk to the shall be empowered to call upon the Overseers, or other Persons Guardians emhaving the Custody thereof, for the Rate or Rate Books, which powered to call he shall require for the Purpose aforesaid, as and when he shall &c. so require them, giving reasonable Notice for the same; and every Person having the Custody thereof who shall wilfully neglect or refuse to allow him to have or inspect the same for such Purpose shall be liable to forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, upon Conviction before the Justices of the County in which the Parish shall be situated, to be recovered and applied as Penalties under the Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty for, the Amendment of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor.

Part of a Union,

VII. And be it enacted, That in the Case of any Parish or Where a Parish Place not forming Part of any Union under the Laws relating does not form to the Relief of the Poor, all the Acts, Matters, and Things Overseers to hereby directed to be done and performed by the Clerk to the act in like Board of Guardians shall, so far as the same are practicable, be Minner as done and performed in like Manner by the Overseers or other Clerks to GuarPersons empowered by Law to levy the County Rates, Police Rates, or other Rates in such Parish or Place for the Time being.

dians.

VIII. And whereas before the passing of this Act certain Rate already • Rates have been made, and certain Sums of Money have been valid, but to be made declared • ordered collected ac

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