25 Vic. c. 20. or body to discharge the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.

person under

60 years of age, unless under a

Medical certificate of in

or body. Person to

whom a super

V. Every person to whom a superannuation or compensation allowance shall have been granted before he shall have attained the age of sixty years shall, until he has attained that age, be liable to be called upon to fill in the Colony any public office or firmity of mind situation under the Crown for which his previous public services may render him eligible; and if he shall decline when called upon to do so, to take upon him such office or situation, or shall decline or neglect to execute the duties thereof satisfactorily, being in a competent state of health, he shall forfeit his right to the compenbe granted be- sation or superannuation allowance which had been granted to him; and upon his acceptance of any such office or situation, (provided the same be not of an inferior rank or position, of which the Governor and Executive Council as aforesaid shall be the judges, and the annual salary of which shall not be less in value than the office or offices previously held by him,) such compensation or annual allowance shall cease.

annuation allowance may

fore he has attained the

age of 60 years, liable, until he

has attained

that age, to be called upon to fill any other office for which he may be deemed eli

gible. Proviso.

Officers holding employment entitling them to super

annuation al

lowance, trans-
ferred from
this Colony to
employment
under the

Crown in any other part of her Majesty's dominions, on their ultimate

retirement from the Pub

lic Service, entitled to super

annuation allowance under this Act, subject to the condition annexed to the grant of superannuation allowances.

Orders made

under this Act to be laid before Legisla

ture.

Payment of superannuations.

VI. And whereas it will be for the advantage of the public service that officers holding employments entitling them to superannuation allowances under this Act should be eligible for public employment out of the Colony without forfeiting their claims to such allowances; Be it enacted, that every public officer who may be transferred from employment in this Colony to employment under the Crown in any other part of her Majesty's dominions, and who at the time of his being so transferred had completed such a period of service in this Colony as to entitle him to superannuation allowance under this Act, shall on his ultimate retirement from the public service be entitled to superannuation allowance under this Act, according to the period of his service as aforesaid in the Colony, subject nevertheless to the conditions hereinbefore annexed to be the grant of superannuation allow

ances.

VII. That for the purposes of this Act, every person, except as hereinafter excepted, who shall receive a salary out of the Public Treasury of the Colony, whatever the mode of appointment to the particular office may be, shall be deemed in respect of such salary to have served in the permanent civil service of the Colony: Provided, however, that the following public functionaries shall be excluded from the benefits of the provisions of this Act, (that is to say):

The Governor,

The Lieutenant-Governor,

The Lord Bishop.

VIII. All orders and minutes made by the Governor and Council under the provisions of this Act shall be laid before the House of Assembly and Legislative Council within fourteen days after the making thereof, if the General Assembly be in session, and if the General Assembly be not then sitting within fourteen days after the next meeting thereof.

IX. All superannuations, compensations, gratuities, and allowances to be granted under this Act, shall be paid to the persons entitled to receive the same, without any abatement or deduction whatever.

25 Vic. c. 25. An Act for granting a Pension to Samuel Knowles, a Stipendiary Constable serving for the District of New Portsmouth, Eleuthera. (Assented to 29th April, 1862.)

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26 Vic. c. 25.

HEREAS Samuel Knowles, a stipendiary constable of the PREAMble. third class, serving in the district of New Portsmouth, Eleuthera, has, by petition to the House of Assembly, shewn that he has served in the office aforesaid for a period of fifteen years, and that having been deprived of his sight, and being advanced in years, is unable to perform his duties any longer, and will necessarily be compelled from the above causes to resign his office, and has prayed to be allowed to retire on a pension; May it, &c.:

That from and after the resignation of the office aforesaid by £8 per annum the said Samuel Knowles, there shall be allowed and paid out pension to of the Public Treasury, in monthly payments to the said Samuel Knowles, for and during his lifetime, a pension at and after the rate of eight pounds, per annum.

Samuel Knowles, a Stipendiary Constable.

27 Vic. c. 30. An Act to provide a retiring Allowance to Christopher Mardenbrough, Esquire, Police Magistrate, of Harbour Island, on his Resignation of that Office. (Assented to 21st May, 1864.)

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HEREAS, under and by virtue of an Act of the 17th year PREAMBLE. of your Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act for the better Administration of Justice and the Preservation of the Peace in the District of Harbour Island, Eleuthera, and San Salvador," Christopher Mardenbrough, Esquire, was appointed Police Magistrate for the district of Harbour Island, whose circuit, by an Act passed in the 18th year of your Majesty's reign in amendment of the above-recited Act, was declared to include not only the various settlements and townships within the district of Harbour Island, but the Islands of Eleuthera and San Salvador, and such Magistrate is required by the said Act to make such circuit twice in every year; and shall also, when thereto required by the Governor, especially visit any place or places within his circuit aforesaid.

And whereas the said Christopher Mardenbrough is in an infirm state of health from a stroke of paralysis, and is unequal to the continued efficient performance of the large duties required by the above-mentioned Acts to be performed by the Police Magistrate for the district of Harbour Island; and it is desirable for the interest of the public service that he should retire; and whereas, under, and by virtue of an Act passed in the 26th year of your Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act for providing a more equitable Scale of Remuneration to certain Civil Servants of the

27 Vic. c. 30. Crown in the Colony," the said Christopher Mardenbrough became

A pension of £200 per annum granted

on the 1st day of April last, entitled to three quinquennial additions to his ordinary salary of 300l. per annum, which said additions will be saved to the public on his resignation; and under the circumstances of his affliction, as aforesaid, it is deemed expedient to fix the above allowance of the said Christopher Mardenbrough at a higher rate than he would be entitled to under the Act of the 25th year of your Majesty's reign, provided that he resigns his said appointment within thirty days after the passing of this Act; May it, &c.:

I. That upon the resignation of the said Christopher Mardenbrough of his aforesaid office of Police Magistrate, if made within to C. Marden- thirty days after the passing of this Act, there shall be paid to him, by warrant out of the Public Treasury, in the usual manner, a pension for life, at and after the rate of 2007. per annum, or for so long as he shall hold no other office of profit under the Crown, in lieu of any superannuation allowance under the said Act of the 25th year of your Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act for granting Superannuation Allowance to Persons having held Civil Offices in the Public Service of the Colony."

borough, Esq., Police Magistrate, Harbour Island, upon his resigning within thirty days after the passing of this

Act.

PREAMBLE.

27 Vic. c. 31. An Act to fix the retiring Allowance of the present Cashier of the Bahama Public Bank, and for other Purposes. (Assented to 21st May, 1864.)

THEREAS, in consequence of the arduous and responsible duties now and for many years performed by the present Cashier of the Bahama Public Bank, it is deemed expedient that he should be permitted to retire from the public service at the maximum superannuation allowance provided under the 1st section of the 25 Vic. c. 20, without having completed the service required to entitle him to such allowance under that section; May it, &c.: Five years from I. That, after a period of five years from the passing of this the passing of Act, the said William Henry Hall shall, if he shall then hold the this Act, W. office of cashier of the bank, be entitled to a superannuation H. Hall, Esq., allowance of forty fiftieths of the annual salary of the said office Cashier Public of cashier of the bank, notwithstanding that, at the expiration of such time, the said W. H. Hall, shall not have served for the period which under the provisions of the hereinbefore recited Act, would entitle him to receive such allowance.

Bank may retire on forty fiftieths of his salary.

29 Vic. c. 14. An Act to amend the Act for granting Superannuation Allowances to Persons having held Civil Offices in the Public Service of the Colony. (Assented to 11th May, 1866.)

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29 Vic. c. 14.

HEREAS the Act 25 Vic. c. 20, for granting superannua- PREAMBLE. tion allowances to persons having held civil offices in the public service of the Colony requires amendment, in the particulars

hereinafter mentioned; May it, &c.:

of 24th Vic. c. 10, regarding

I. If any public officer shall at any time, after the passing of Amendment this Act, be absent from the Colony beyond the period sanctioned of 1st section by the 1st section of the Act 24 Vic. c. 10, whereby the salary allotted to the office held by him shall cease to become payable leave of abto him, any such period of absence without payment of salary sence. shall not be taken into account in computing the length of service of any such officer for the purposes of the Act, to which this Act

is an amendment.

to a Public

II. Whereas in and by the fourth section of the Act of As- Superannuasembly 25 Vic. c. 20, it is enacted, that it shall not be lawful to tion allowance grant any superannuation allowance under the provisions of that may be granted Act to any person who shall be under sixty years of age, unless Officer at 55 upon medical certificate, as therein provided for; and whereas, by years of age. the fifth section of the said Act, it is further enacted, that every person to whom a superannuation or compensation allowance shall have been granted before he shall have attained the age of sixty years shall, until he has attained that age, and in the event therein specified, be liable to be called upon to fill in the Colony any public office or situation under the Crown, for which his previous public services may render him eligible; and whereas, for obvious reasons, it is but fair and just to change and lessen the said age; Be it therefore enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act the retiring age already herein particularly specified to be sixty years, shall for the future be and continue to be fifty-five years, and the clauses of the said Act to which this is an amendment, containing the words "sixty years" shall be construed as if fifty-five years had been originally inserted therein.

30 Vic. c. 10. An Act to amend the Law regulating the Payment of Salaries to the Officers of the House of Assembly.

IV. Any officer of the House of Assembly who shall have Superannuaserved as an officer of the House for the period required by law tion of Officers in the case of other public officers shall, on retirement from such of the House his office, be entitled, if of the age required by law, to superannua- regulated. of Assembly tion at the rate fixed by the Act of Assembly 25 Vic. c. 20.

30 Vic. c. 15.

PREAMBLE.

Grants additional allow

ance to Mary Ann Taylor.

30 Vic. c. 15. An Act for granting an Increase of Superannuation Allowance to Mary Ann Taylor, late Teacher of the Public School at Clarence Town, Long Island. (Assented to 13th May, 1867.)

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HEREAS Mary Ann Taylor, of the Island of Long Island, one of the Bahama Islands, after having zealously and faithfully served as a Schoolmistress in the service of the Colony for a period of thirteen years, was obliged, by reason of her very advanced age, to resign her said office of schoolmistress; and whereas the allowance to which the said Mary Ann Taylor is entitled, under the Act 25 Vic. c. 20, is, owing to her great age and infirmity, insufficient to provide her with the necessaries of life; May it, &c.:

I. That from and after the passing of this Act there shall be allowed and paid to the said Mary Ann Taylor, in addition to the allowance now payable to her under the provisions of the abovementioned Act, a further allowance of twelve pounds per annum, payable in monthly instalments, by warrant in the usual manner.

PREAMBLE.

PART VIII.
CLASS VII.

PENSIONS TO WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF PUBLIC
OFFICERS.

29 Vic. c. 35. An Act to authorize the Payment of a Pension
to the Widow of the late Augustus William Smith, late
Clerk of the Parish and Vestry of Christ Church. (As-
sented to 11th May, 1866.)

THEREAS Augustus William Smith, late clerk of the parish and vestry of Christ Church, retired in the year 1862 on a pension, and thenceforth became and was a contributor to the fund known as the Public Officers' Widows' and Orphans' Fund, to the eighth day of April, 1864, when he ceased to pay his contributions, and at the time of his death, which took place on or about the 23rd day of December, 1864, he was in arrear in such his payments, for the period of eight months and upwards;

And whereas Ann Elizabeth Smith, the widow of the said Augustus William Smith, has, by petition to the Legislature, shewn that the omission to pay such his contributions was alone occasioned by the extreme illness of the said Augustus William Smith, and his consequent inability to attend to his affairs; May it, &c.: