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LAWS

OF

THE BAHAMAS.

PART I.

CLASS I.-ACTS EXTENDING THE COMMON LAW AND CERTAIN PARTS OF THE STATUTE LAW OF ENGLAND TO THE BAHAMA ISLANDS.

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II.-ACTS RELATING TO THE CALLING OF Assemblies,
QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS AND MEMBERS OF
ASSEMBLY, AND OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED
WITH THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE.
III.-ACTS REMOVING CIVIL DISABILITIES FROM CERTAIN
CLASSES OF PERSONS.

IV. ALIENS, NATURALIZATION OF.

V.-CORPORATE JURISDICTION AND INCORPORATED AND

MERCANTILE SOCIETIES AND COMPANIES.

VI.—LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.

VII.-FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

VIII.-WILLS AND ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS.

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IX.-OATHS.

CLASS I.

ACTS EXTENDING THE COMMON LAW AND CERTAIN PARTS OF THE STATUTE LAW OF ENGLAND TO THE BAHAMA ISLANDS.

Since the compilation of the Statutes in 1862 the following alterations have been made in this Class, viz :

I. So much respectively of the Colonial Statutes 40 Geo. 3, c. 2; 4 Vic. c. 30; and 23 Vic. c. 23, as declared in force in the Colony.

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II. So much also of the Colonial Statute 17 Vic. c. 24, as declared in force in the Colony, the Imperial Statute 15 & 16 Vic. c. 86, has, with the exception of certain enumerated Sections, been repealed by the Act 30 Vic. c. 13. See Act, Part II. Class IV.

III. The following Act of Parliament has been declared in force by the 29 Vic. c. 6: “28 & 29 Vic. c. 86-An Act to amend the Law of Partnership."

PREAMBLE.

Repeals 8 Vic. c. 29 in part,

and constitutes with the Berry

Andros Island

Islands an election district.

Constitutes

PART I.

CLASS II.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

29 Vic. c. 1. An Act for the Division of the Election District of
Andros Island and Grand Bahama, and for granting
Representation to the qualified Inhabitants of the Bimini
Islands.
(Assented to 27th March, 1866.)

WE

HEREAS, by the Act of Assembly, eight Victoria, chapter twenty-nine, the Islands of Andros Island, Grand Bahama, and the Berry Islands constitute one Election district; and whereas the inhabitants of the Bimini Islands have equitable claims to be incorporated into some Election district of the Colony, and those Islands are situated nearer to Grand Bahama than to any other Election district, but the Andros Island district, to which Grand Bahama belongs, would be rendered inconveniently large if the Bimini Islands were incorporated therein, and it is therefore desirable to divide such district into two parts, consisting of Andros Island and the Berry Islands for one part, and Grand Bahama, with the Bimini Islands attached, for the other part, with such number of polling places as may be deemed necessary, and be hereafter appointed under the powers of the Act above quoted, and that the inhabitants of each division of such district be represented by one Member; May it, &c.

I. That so much of the 19th section of the Act of Assembly 8 Vic. c. 29, as incorporates Andros Island, Grand Bahama and the Berry Islands into one Election district, be, and the same is hereby repealed; that henceforth Andros Island, with the Berry Islands and Cays situate within five leagues from Andros Island, shall constitute a distinct Election district, with the privilege, on behalf of the inhabitants who may be duly registered as qualified Electors under the Act of Assembly aforesaid, to send one Member to the General Assembly of these Islands, at any future Election which may be held within such district, in virtue of any Writ of Election duly issued under the Great Seal of the Colony.

II. That henceforth the Island of Grand Bahama, with the Grand Bahama Islands and Cays situate within five leagues thereof, together with and the Bimini the Bimini Islands aforesaid, shall constitute a distinct Election Election dis- district, with the privilege on behalf of the inhabitants, who may be duly registered as qualified Electors under the Act of Assembly

Islands an

trict.

aforesaid, to send one Member to the General Assembly of these 29 Vic. c. 1. Islands at any future Election which may be held within such district, in virtue of any Writ of Election duly issued under the Great Seal of the Colony.

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voters to be

the respective

districts.

III. That immediately after the official notification of Her Registrars of Majesty's assent to this Act, or of its having been left to its tion by Her Majesty in Council, shall have been promulgated in appointed for this Colony, and from time to time afterwards, and as is provided for with respect to other Election districts, it shall be lawful for the Governor of the Colony to appoint Registrars of Voters for the said respective districts herein before defined, to register the names of persons who may be qualified, at the time of such registration, to vote for a Representative in the General Assembly of these islands, agreeably to the Act of Assembly for regulating Elections and the qualification of Members of the General Assembly of these Islands, and such Registrars shall make the Election lists in the way prescribed by the Act of Assembly, 8 Vic. c. 29, or any other laws which may hereafter be in force regulating the registration of voters.

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IV. It shall also be lawful for the Governor, and he is hereby Courts of Rerequested, to appoint persons to hold Courts of Revision in such vision to be Election districts for the revision of any such Election lists as may therein. be prepared therein respectively, in pursuance of this Act and the last before quoted Act, and such Courts of Revision shall revise such lists, agreeably to the directions contained in the before mentioned Act and in the Act of 9 Vic. c. 11, or as may hereafter be provided for by law.

lists prepared

and revised to remain in force

for the year

commence

V. The first lists prepared and revised under this Act shall be First Election in force for the remainder of the current year, if prepared and revised therein, and also for the year 1867; and no intermediate or special registration of voters in the districts divided and defined by this Act shall take place, or be necessary for the said year 1867: 1867. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be of any Proviso as to force or effect until Her Majesty's assent has been obtained hereto and officially promulgated in the Colony, nor shall the coming into ment of Act. force of this Act render void, or in any way invalidate the election and return of any persons who may previously thereto have been elected and returned for the united district of Andros Island, Grand Bahama and the Berry Islands, and the first election for the newlyformed district of Grand Bahama and the Biminis shall only take place and be held upon the occasion of the first vacancy in the representation of the said united district, after the coming into force of this Act.

30 Vic. c. 4. An Act to amend the Act 29 Vic. c. 1, for the Division of the Election District of Andros Island, and for granting Representation to the qualified Inhabitants of the Bimini Islands. (Assented to 2nd April, 1867.)

W

HEREAS, the Act to which this Act is an amendment PREAMBLE. came into operation after the last general election of members to serve in the General Assembly of these Islands, and in the event of a vacancy occurring in the representation of the united district of Andros Island, Berry Islands, and Grand Bahama,

30 Vic. c. 4. during the continuance of the present General Assembly, doubts may arise as to how such election is to be conducted, for remedy whereof; May it, &c.:

Grand Bahama

nis to be a

new electoral

I. That if the seat of either of the present members for the and the Bimi- united district of Andros Island, the Berry Islands and Grand Bahama should become vacant during the continuance of the present General Assembly, that then and in such case the other member for the said district shall be and become member for the district of Andros Island and the Berry Islands, and a Writ shall issue for the election of a member to represent the newly-created district of Grand Bahama and the Biminis.

district in case of a vacancy.

Corrects a clerical error

II. Whereas a clerical error has occurred in the first section of the said Act by the insertion of the letters and figures 8 Vic. c. 9, in 29 Vic. c. 1. instead of 8 Vic. c. 29, be it enacted, that the said Act shall be construed as if the letters and figures 8 Vic. c. 29, had been there inserted instead of the letters and figures 8 Vic. c. 9, and in any future publication of the said Act, it shall be lawful to print the said section as hereby corrected.

PREAMBLE.

Salaries of officers of

House of Assembly.

Speaker's salary.

Assistant Mes-
senger's
salary.

Officers of

30 Vic. c. 10. An Act to amend the Laws regulating the Payment of Salaries to the Officers of the House of Assembly. (Assented to 2nd April, 1867.)

WHEREAS, by an Act passed in the 25th year of Her

Majesty's Reign, entitled "An Act for increasing the Salaries at present received by the several Officers of the House of Assembly, certain increased Salaries were granted to the then Officers of the House; and whereas, the present Speaker and the present Assistant Messenger are the only Officers of the existing House who held Office at the passing of the said Act, and doubts exist whether the increased salaries appropriated to the Office of Speaker and Assistant Messenger by the said Act are now payable, and it is expedient, therefore, to provide for the payment of the same; May it, &c.:

I. That there shall be allowed and paid out of the Public Treasury of these Islands, by warrant in the usual manner, the following annual Salaries to be received in lieu of all other Salaries attached to the Offices of Speaker and Assistant Messenger respectively, that is to say:

II. To the present Speaker of the House, while holding the Office of Speaker in this or in any future General Assembly, £200 per annum.

III. To the present Assistant Messenger, while holding the Office of Assistant Messenger in this, or in any other General Assembly, £37: 10s. per annum.

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

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