30 Vic. c. 12. increase or diminution of the trade in such market; Be it enacted, that it shall be the duty of the clerk of the said market to keep a plain, legible, and detailed cash account book, in which shall be entered all monies received by him under the authority of this Act, showing from whom and for what such moneys are received, a fair copy of which account he shall furnish to the Receiver-General and Treasurer weekly, on the payment into the Public Treasury of such moneys, and that it shall also be the duty of the said clerk to lay the said cash book before the House of Assembly at the commencement of every session.

Market Clerk to purchase

standard scales and weights.

Fee for using a public mea

sure.

Duty of Market Clerk to inspect scales

and weights used in Market.

The Market Clerk only empowered to collect money.

One stall to
be retained
for inhabitants

of Out-islands
under order in
Council.

Limitation of

time for bringing actions.

Magisterial

authority

XVIII. That it shall be lawful for the said clerk, with the sanction of the Board, to purchase, from time to time, measures, scales, and weights, to be kept for use in the said market, which measures, scales, and weights shall be paid for out of the said market fund, and shall be kept by the said clerk, who is hereby required to keep the same in every respect complete and in good order, under a penalty not exceeding 21. for every default.

XIX. That it shall be lawful for the said clerk to ask, demand, recover and receive, from the sellers of all grain, the sum of one shilling per day for the use of every bushel or half-bushel measure belonging to the public, the use of which may be required by any

seller. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent any person from measuring grain with any standard measure of his or their own.

XX. That it shall also be the duty of the clerk of the market, from time to time, to inspect and try all scales, weights, and measures used by butchers and other persons dealing in the said market; and if any such scales, weights, or measures shall, in the opinion of the said clerk, be false or defective, it shall be his further duty to lay an information against the offending party before a Justice of the Peace, in order that the offender may be dealt with according to law.

XXI. That the said clerk shall not, except in case of illness or other incapacity, depute any person or persons to collect any moneys for wharfage, slaughterage, stallage or crawlage, or any other fees or rents; and he shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for any neglect of duty required of him by this Act.

XXII. That one stall and one block shall annually be retained for the use of inhabitants of the Out-islands who may bring their cattle to the said market, and who shall be entitled to slaughter and sell such of their cattle in the said market, and to use the stall and block so retained, as aforesaid, upon the payment of such dues as may be established therefor by any Rule or Order to be made by the Governor in Council under this Act.

XXIII. That if any action or suit shall be brought or commenced against any person or persons for anything done in pursuance of this Act, or in relation to the matters therein contained, such action or suit shall be brought in six months next after the cause of action shall have arisen, and not afterwards; and the defendant in every such action or suit shall and may plead the general issue and give this Act and the special matter in evidence.

XXIV. That all fines and penalties imposed by this Act shall be recovered before any one of her Majesty's Justices of the

Peace, who is and are hereby authorized and empowered to 30 Vic. c. 12. commit to the common gaol or house of correction, in default of payment, for any period not exceeding thirty days, as the con- fines and pevicting Justice shall adjudge, by warrant under his hand and nalties. seal, any offender or offenders against this Act, unless such fine or fines shall be sooner paid; one half of which fine or fines shall be paid to the informer or informers, and the other half to the Board aforesaid, to be by them applied to the use of the said market.

XXV. That the Act 13 Vic. c. 8, shall be, and the same is Continues 13 hereby continued in force for and during the continuance of this Act.

Vic. c. 8. XXVI. That the Act 27 Vic. c. 28, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

Repeals 27

Vic. c. 28.

XXVII. That this Act shall commence and take effect on the Duration passing thereof, and shall continue in force for five years, and clause. from thence to the end of the then next session of Assembly.

PART VI.
CLASS IV.

LUMBER MEASURERS AND ADMEASUREMENT.

30 Vic. c. 11. An Act to regulate the Appointment of Lumber Measurers and the Admeasurement of Lumber. (Assented to 2nd April, 1867.)

W

HEREAS it is expedient that the appointment of inspectors, Preamble. measurers, or cullers of lumber should be regulated, and

their fees fixed and established by law; May it, &c.:

make a declaration.

I. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall not be Lumber Mealawful for any person to act as an inspector, measurer, or culler of surers to be lumber within these Islands without a licence for that purpose licensed, and from the Governor, granted under this or any some previous Act of Assembly; and before any person so licensed shall enter upon the execution of his duty as an inspector, measurer, or culler of lumber, as aforesaid, he shall make a solemn declaration before some magistrate, to do justice between the seller and buyer of any lumber which he may be called on to measure or inspect; and every such inspector, measurer, or culler of lumber, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to ask and demand from the seller or sellers of any such lumber, or the person who shall employ him, at and after the following rates, to wit: For any quantity under one thousand Fees for meafeet, four pence halfpenny per one hundred feet; from one thou- suring lumber. sand feet to five thousand feet and upwards, two shillings per. thousand feet, inch measure, for all lumber measured by him on shore; and the sum of four pence halfpenny per hundred feet for all lumber measured on board any vessel; and half as much more for marking the same, if thereunto required by the purchaser; and any inspector, measurer, or culler of lumber, as aforesaid, who

30 Vic. c. 11. shall neglect or refuse, when thereunto required, to measure or mark any lumber, as aforesaid, shall, for every neglect or refusal, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Lumber Measurers to be

II. That before any person shall be licensed as aforesaid, he must, if resident upon the Island of New Providence, obtain a recommended. certificate of recommendation from two Justices of the Peace; and if a resident upon any of the Out-islands of this Government, from any two Justices of the Peace, or from any one Justice and three freeholders, resident on such island, setting forth that he is a fit and proper person to be licensed to act as an inspector, measurer, or culler of lumber, as aforesaid.

Deductions to be made by Lumber Measurers from contents of logs.

Penalty for measuring without a licence.

III. That from and after the passing of this Act, all measurers of lumber, duly appointed by licence as such, in pursuance of this or of any other Act of Assembly, shall make the following deductions from the contents of all logs of timber which shall square six inches and upwards by them to be measured, that is to say: that after making due and proper allowance for all rents and slabs, and reducing the log in all respects to the square, that from the solid square contents of the same a deduction shall be made of oneeighth of such solid square contents for the cut of the saw, whether the logs are sold by superficial or solid measurement, and the remainder, after such deduction is made, shall be deemed and taken as the contents of the same; and any lumber measurer not making such deduction as aforesaid, shall forfeit the sum of five pounds for the first offence, to be recovered by and to the sole use of any such person who may sue for the same under the provisions of the before-mentioned Acts of Assembly of the twenty-third year of her Majesty's reign; and for a second offence of a like nature, shall forfeit the like sum of five pounds, to be sued for and applied as aforesaid, and shall also be ever after incapable of serving as lumber measurer within these Islands.

IV. That if any person shall presume to admeasure any timber, logs of timber, scantling, planks, boards, or lumber of any kind to be shipped from the port of Nassau, or imported into the said port for sale, such person not having made the declaration and being licensed as a lumber measurer according to law; all persons so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered with costs of suit, by action of debt or otherwise, in any Court of competent jurisdiction, by and to the sole use of any person who may sue for the same.

PART VI.

CLASS V.

WHARFAGE AND STORAGE.

26 Vic. c. 13. An Act to continue and amend an Act entitled "An Act for regulating the Rates of Wharfage, Storage, and Scalage, and for other Purposes." (Assented to 26th May, 1863.)

W

HEREAS the Act passed in the twentieth year of her PREamble.
Majesty's reign, c. 22, is about to expire; May it, &c.:

years.

I. That the said Act shall be, and the same is hereby con- 20 Vic. c. 22, tinued in force for the further period of ten years, and from continued in thence to the end of the then next session of Assembly: Provided force for ten that the rate by the 7th clause of the said Act imposed shall, Proviso. from and after the passing of this Act, be reduced to one and a half per centum on the value of the goods in the said clause mentioned and referred to.

29 Vic. c. 38. An Act for granting a Sum of Money to the Board of Works for the District of Harbour Island, for the Purpose of Building a Wharf at Dunmore Town, and for regulating the Collection of Fees for the use of the same. (Assented to 11th May, 1866.)

W

HEREAS certain inhabitants of Dunmore Town, Harbour PREAMBLE. Island, have, by petition to the House of Assembly, set forth the necessity for a public wharf at that place, for the proper discharging and lading of the cargoes of their vessels engaged in trade with various foreign ports; and whereas it is but right and just that provision should be made by law for that purpose; May it, &c.:

I. That there shall be forthwith paid out of the Public Treasury Grants a sum of these Islands, by warrant in the usual manner, to the Board of of money for a Public Works for the District of Harbour Island, the sum of six Public Wharf. hundred pounds, to be accounted for, to enable them to build a wharf at Dunmow Town, Harbour Island, of stone, in blocks of suitable dimensions at the end and sides, and filled in with rubble stones and quarry sand, the said wharf to be twenty feet in width, extended out into the harbour to a depth of six feet water at low tide.

II. Provided for the mode of entering into contract for building the wharf.

III. That as soon as the wharf is completed, it shall be the Fees payable duty of the Collector of Revenue for the district of Harbour for landing or Island, to collect from all vessels discharging and lading their lading cargo cargoes at the said wharf the fees hereinafter mentioned, for each

at the wharf.

29 Vic. c. 38. and every day or part of a day they may so use the said wharf, that is to say:

For every vessel of less than the burthen of 30 tons £0 5 0

Illegal to land dutiable

articles at any other wharf.

1 5 0

IV. It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel arriving at the port of Dunmore Town with a cargo of dutiable merchandise, to discharge the cargo of such vessel at any place except at the said public wharf.

PREAMBLE.

Legal hours for discharging or shipping cargo and payment of Revenue Officers for extra hours.

Gives the right to select a wharf for

30 Vic. c. 20. An Act to regulate the Landing and Shipment of Cargoes at the Port of Nassau, and to fix the Rates of Wharfage to be paid in respect of Vessels using the Abutments at the said Port, and for other Purposes. (Assented to 13th May, 1867.)

WE

HEREAS it is expedient to established regulations relating to the landing and shipment of cargoes at the port of Nassau, and the payment of wharfage to the owners of the different abutments and wharves in the city of Nassau; May it, &c.:

I. That the master of every vessel arriving or being at the port of Nassau, or the consignee of such vessel, shall have the right to commence unlading from or shipping cargo on board of every such vessel at the hour of six in the morning of every day of the week, Sundays and public holidays excepted, and continue to land or ship cargo until five in the afternoon of every such day; and it shall be incumbent on every officer in the Revenue department, whose duties are connected with the discharging or shipment of cargoes, on being required, as provided for by the fourth section of the Act 29 Vic. c. 10, to render the services so required; and the master or consignee of every vessel which shall commence to load or land cargo before the hour of eight in the morning shall pay to the tidewaiter on board of such vessel extra remuneration for his services, at the rate of one shilling per hour; and no officer shall receive any extra remuneration or reward except his personal services are actually required and performed between the hours of six and eight in the morning as aforesaid.

II. That the master or consignee of any vessel arriving or being at the port of Nassau, who is desirous of lading or landing cargo, shall have the right of having his vessel placed at any abutment or wharves, the main abutment excepted, that he may select for landing cargo. either of the purposes aforesaid, subject to the regulations herein

shipping or

Harbour Master's duty to have vessels

properly

after contained.

III. That the master or consignee of any vessel, as aforesaid, who shall be desirous of having his vessel placed at any abutment or wharf as aforesaid, shall give notice of such his desire to the