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30 Vic. c. 19. vessels bringing coal for the use of the steam-ships of the said company, or merchandize for transhipment on board any such steam-ship, shall be exempted from all tonnage dues.

Legal hours

cargo and payment of Revenue Offi

cers for extra hours.

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.)

I. That the master of every vessel arriving or being at the for discharging Port of Nassau, or the consignee of such vessel, shall have the or shipping 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 of 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 tide waiter 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.

Fees at

Register of
Records.

PART VII.

CLASS IV.

ACTS COMMUTING THE FEES OF CERTAIN PUBLIC
OFFICERS, AND ESTABLISHING AND REGULAT-
ING THE COLLECTION OF OTHER FEES IN AID
OF THE REVENUE.

25 Vic. c. 15. An Act to provide for the Appointment of a Registrar of Records, and for other Purposes.

XVIII. That the following fees shall be payable to the said Registrar of Records, that is to say:

For recording any deed or other instrument or paper, by virtue

of this Act, exceeding eight folios, four pence per folio, of 25 Vic. c. 15, seventy-two words.

For recording any deed or other instrument or paper, of and

under eight folios, two shillings and sixpence.

For recording any common plat, or diagram, one shilling.

For recording every irregular plat or diagram, three shillings. For every certified copy of a record, per folio of seventy-two words, four pence.

On every marriage licence, twenty shillings.

On letters testamentary and administrative, at the rate of twenty shillings per centum, on the value of the estate of the deceased in the Bahamas, when of the value of or exceeding one hundred pounds, and under that value, fifteen shillings per centum.

For every letter of guardianship issued by the Chancellor, one

pound.

All which fees for recording shall be paid to the Registrar Application of before the deed, or other paper in respect of the recording of Fees. which they are receivable is entered of record, and all fees received by the Registrar shall be paid by him monthly over to the Receiver-General and Treasurer to be applied in aid of the General Revenue of the Colony.

PART VII.

CLASS V.

PILOTAGE AND QUARANTINE.

26 Vic. c. 4. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Quaran

tine. (Assented to May 26th, 1863.)

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HEREAS it is expedient for the more efficient enforce- Preamble. ment and working of the laws relating to Quarantine, that such laws should be amended, in the particulars after mentioned; May it, &c.:

Governor, acting with the advice of Exeauthorized to cutive Council, order vessels

I. That it shall be lawful for the Governor, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council, whenever it shall be deemed necessary so to do, for the purpose of securing the health of the inhabitants of the Colony, or any part thereof, to order all vessels arriving at any port or place within the Government, or any particular vessel or vessels so arriving, or which may be then in to perform or near any port or place, as aforesaid, to perform Quarantine Quarantine. in such place for such time and in such manner, as the Governor, acting with such advice as aforesaid, may from time to time order and direct.

II. Whereas vessels bound for the port of Nassau, from ports and places without the limits of the Government of the Colony, frequently are brought to anchor in some one or other of the

Health Officer's duty to visit vessels in

the roadstead,

and duty of Pilot to report

arrival of such vessels.

26 Vic. c. 4. roadsteads or anchorages in the vicinity of the island of New Providence, and lie there for lengthened periods, without entering the harbour of Nassau, and doubts have arisen, whether it is the duty of the health officer to visit such vessels, unless specially required to do so, under the 7th section of the 19 Vic. c. 7; for remedy whereof, be it enacted that whenever a vessel, as aforesaid, shall be brought to anchor in either of the roadsteads or anchorages in the vicinity of the Island of New Providence, without first entering the harbour of Nassau, it shall be the duty of the pilot having charge of the vessel, immediately on landing from such vessel, to notify her arrival to the health officer, who shall thereupon proceed on board of such vessel, as soon as practicable, and make the examinations required by the said Act of the 19th year of her Majesty's reign, and any pilot who shall neglect the duty hereby imposed on him shall be subject to the same and the like forfeiture as is imposed on pilots for neglect of duty by the 6th section of the said Act.

Liability of

vessels in Har

bour to be inspected by

Health Officer. Vessels in Quarantine to be visited daily by Health Officer, &c. Governor

empowered to appoint tempo

rarily, in certain cases, a Medical Practitioner to perform duty of Health Officer.

Fees of Health

III. That all vessels lying in the harbour of Nassau, or in any of the adjacent roadsteads or anchorages, shall, at all times, be subject to the visitation and inspection of the health officer.

IV. That it shall, except as hereinafter excepted, be the duty of the health officer, whenever any vessel is placed in Quarantine, or any person or persons sent to a Quarantine station, to visit every such vessel or station daily, and to make daily reports to the Colonial Secretary, for the information of the Governor.

V. Provided always, that whenever the health officer shall make it appear to the Governor, that from the number of persons placed in Quarantine, or from other causes of emergency he is unable efficiently to perform the duty required of him by the preceding section, or whenever it shall otherwise so appear to the Governor, it shall be lawful for the Governor, temporarily, to employ some other duly qualified medical practitioner to perform such duty, or such portion of it, as cannot be performed by the health officer, and to pay such medical practitioner, for any services rendered by him, in addition to the fees established by this Act, such sum or sums of money out of the Public Treasury as may be thought by the Governor and Council to be fair and reasonable.

VI. That the health officer, or other medical practitioner, as Officer or other the case may be, shall be entitled to the following fees for services Medical Prac- performed under the 4th section of this Act, that is to say: For every visit to the Quarantine Station, ten shillings.

titioner.

Duty of Health
Officer to visit

persons in
Quarantine in
certain cases.

For every visit to a vessel placed in Quarantine, at the Quarantine Station, ten shillings.

For every visit to a vessel elsewhere placed in Quarantine,

ten shillings.

All which fees shall be paid to the said health officer, or other medical practitioner, out of the Public Treasury of these Islands, and shall be in lieu of charges for boat hire, or other means of conveyance, to and from such station or vessel.

VII. That whenever any person placed in Quarantine shall require medical attendance, and no other medical practitioner shall be employed to attend on such person, as authorized by the 22nd section 19 Vic. c. 7, that then and in any such case, it shall be the duty of the health officer, or other medical practitioner appointed

vessel.

to act in the place of the said health officer, as aforesaid, to act as 26 Vic. c. 4. the medical attendant of such person; and such health officer, or other medical practitioner appointed as aforesaid, shall be entitled Fees to be a to charge and receive, for any services so rendered by him, a fee charge on the of ten shillings per day, for every day on which he shall actually attend such person; all which fees, if the person in respect of whom they are chargeable is an officer or seaman belonging to any merchant vessel placed in Quarantine, or then being in any port or place within the Colony, shall be a charge on such vessel, and shall be recoverable from the owner, master or consignee of such vessel, or by attachment of the vessel; but in all other cases, the charge shall be a personal one, and may be recovered accordingly, except the party be an unemployed seaman, or otherwise in such a position, as to render it probable that he is unable to pay the same, when the same shall be paid out of the Public Treasury, by warrant in the usual manner.

in Quarantine.

VIII. That proper nurses shall be provided at the public ex- Nurses to be pense, to attend on sick persons placed in Quarantine, and all medi- provided to cines, and other necessary articles to be furnished for the use of attend on sick such persons, shall be provided at the public expense, in such persons placed manner as shall be authorized by the Governor, and shall be paid for out of the Public Treasury, by warrant, in the usual manner, and there shall be charged in respect of such payments, a fee of eight shillings per diem, against every person who may be attended on and furnished as aforesaid; the amount of such fees to be payable and recoverable to and in the name of the Quarantine officer, for the use of the Colony, in the same and the like manner as is hereinbefore provided for, in the cases of fees payable to the health officer or other medical attendants: Provided, however, Proviso. that all medicines required for unemployed or indigent seamen shall be supplied by the Public Dispensary in the same manner as medicines are now supplied to the poor.

26 Vic. c. 10. An Act to amend the Pilotage Laws of the Colony. (Assented to 26th May, 1863.)

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HEREAS the pilotage laws of the Colony require amend- PREAMBLE. ment in various particulars; May it, &c.:

I. That the appointment of pilots for the several Islands and Pilots, how Districts of the Colony, shall hereafter be made by commission appointed. under the hand and seal at arms of the Governor, to be held during pleasure, and all existing appointments shall be deemed and taken to be appointments under this Act.

of Commis

II. That the pilots for the New Providence District shall be Pilots apappointed on the recommendation of the Commissioners, and the pointed on recertificate of the harbour master, that the party recommended, commendation has been examined by him and found to be in all respects qualified sioners, &c. to act as a pilot; and the pilots for the Out-island districts shall be appointed on the recommendation and certificate of qualification of the Commissioners of the district for which they are to be respectively appointed.

26 Vic. c. 10.

III. That the pilots for the district of New Providence shall be under the superintendence of the harbour master, and subject, in the discharge of their respective duties, to his orders. And it shall be the duty of the harbour master, as far as practicable, to under superin- enforce on the part of the pilots, the discharge of their several

Pilots, New
Providence,

tendence of

Harbour
Master.
Unlawful for

Pilots to enter

into agreements with

each other to share fees.

duties.

IV. That, whenever practicable, there shall be four pilots commissioned for the New Providence district, and it shall not be lawful for either of such pilots to enter into any agreement with the other, or others, to share in any fees earned by the other, or others, or into any other agreement relating in any way to the mode in which they shall discharge their duties as pilots; and the entering into any such agreement shall constitute an act of misconduct, rendering the parties thereto liable to dismissal or suspension from office in the discretion of the Governor.

Governor em- V. That it shall be lawful for the Governor, on its being shown powered to to his satisfaction, that a pilot has misconducted himself in any dismiss or susway in his office, to cancel his commission, or to suspend him for pend, Pilots. a limited period; and if a pilot whose commission has been so cancelled, or who has been so suspended from office, shall, after notice thereof given to him, act as a pilot, he shall be liable to the same and the like penalty as is now by law imposed on pilots acting after the revocation of their licences.

PREAMBLE.

Additional fee
of £2 on
Pilotage of
Steamers.

27 Vic. c. 26. An Act to amend the Pilotage Act, 1851. (Assented to 21st May, 1864.)

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HEREAS the fees payable under the Pilotage Act, 1851, for pilotage services rendered to steamers are the same as for similar services rendered to sailing-vessels, and it is desirable that larger pilotage fees should be payable in respect of steamers; May it, &c.:

I. That from and after the passing of this Act, the master, owner, or consignee of any steamer, shall, in addition to any fee which may be payable under the 17th section of the before-mentioned Act, be liable to pay to the pilot to whom such fee is payable an additional fee of two pounds, which said additional fee shall be printed with the rates of pilotage fees, and posted, as is required by the 18th section of the said Act.

PREAMBLE.

28 Vic. c. 36. An Act for providing for the more efficient Performance of the Duties of Harbour Master for the Port of Nassau. (Assented to 3rd May, 1865.)

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HEREAS the salary attached by law to the office of Harbour Master is too small for the various duties devolving

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