The Act 23d Vic. cap. 6, continued as amended for 5 years. II. The said recited Act of the twenty-third Victoria, chapter six, as amended by this Act, shall be, and the same is hereby continued for the space of five years from the passing hereof, and from thence to the end of the then next session of the General Assembly, and no longer. CAP. XVIII. An Act to carry into effect certain unexecuted agreements made by the late John Hodges Winsloe, Esquire, deceased, for the sale and leasing of certain parts of his Estate in this Colony. [Passed May 11, 1866.] This Act has been printed in the second volume of Private and Local Acts. CAP. XIX. Preamble. of £110,000 to An Act in addition to and in further amendment of the Land WE [Passed May 11, 1866.] HEREAS it is deemed advisable to give the Lieutenant Governor in Council power further to increase the amount of money authorized to be loaned for the purchase of lands in and by the twelfth section of the Act passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter eighteen: Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly: I. That in addition to the sum or loan of thirty thousand Authorizes an pounds mentioned in the said twelfth section of the above additional sum recited Act, as well as in addition to the sum of ten thousand be loaned un- pounds directed to be loaned by the Act of the twenty-third der the provi- year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter twenty-five, sions of the Act it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor in Council, to 16th Vic. cap. authorize and direct the treasurer of this Island to borrow 18. and receive from any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic, the further sum of one hundred and ten thousand pounds of lawful money of this Island for the like purposes, and under and subject to the same rules, conditions and en actments as are prescribed in the said first herein before recited Act of the sixteenth Victoria, chapter eighteen, and of all Acts in amendment thereof. est. II. In any purchases of lands under the authority of the Rate of intersaid first herein before recited Act, and of all Acts in amendment thereof, the debentures which may be issued for raising the purchase money for the same, may for one half of the said purchase money, bear interest at the rate of six pounds, per centum, per annum, and for the other balf at the rate of five pounds, per centum, per annum, as provided by the thirteenth section of the said first herein before recited Act. may be issued in sums not ex III. The debentures to be issued in future under the au- Debentures thority of the said first recited Act, and of all Acts in amendment thereof, may be for any sum not exceeding three thousand pounds, and not less than fifty pounds, anything in the nineteenth section of the said recited Act of the sixteenth Victoria, chapter eighteen, to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. XX. An Act to prevent the running at large of Swine within the town and Royalty of Princetown. [Passed May 11, 1866.] This Act has been printed in the second volume of Private and Local Acts. CAP. XX I. An Act relating to the office of Solicitor General of this [Passed May 11, 1866.] E it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and BE I. From and after the passing of of this Act, there shall be allowed and paid unto the Solicitor General of this Island, for the time being, as and for the salary of that office, the sum of two hundred pounds, of lawful current money of this Salary of Soli citor General to be £200 per annum. Repeals 2d sec. 3. Island, per annum, instead of one hundred pounds as prescribed in and by the second section of the Act made and passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter three, the same to be in lieu of all fees of office, charges, allowances and emoluments, paid or payable by the government of this Island to the Solicitor General, on account of Crown prosecutions, or for opinions, or for any other miscellaneous services performed by him for the government in his official capacity, and such salary shall be paid quarterly, as and in manner provided by the fourth section of the said recited Act. II. The second section of the said recited Act of the six of 16 Vic. cap. teenth Victoria, chapter three, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. САР. ХХІІ. Repealed by An Act further to amend the Act for the establishment of a * Passed May 11, 1866.] **This Act and all other Acts at the time in force regulating the Bank of Savings have been repealed and consolidated by the Act 31 Victoria, chapter 24. CAP. XXIII. An Act to exempt property belonging to her Majesty, or to the Government of this Island, from duties or assessments. [Passed May 11, 1866.] BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. From and after the passing of this Act, all lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, belonging to her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or to the government of this Island, shall be exempt from all rates, duties, imposts and assessments whatsoever, whether the same be imposed on such real and personal estate, as aforesaid, by any Statute of this Island, or by any by-law of any corporate body, or otherwise, howsoever. 1 to show pro II. When any goods or chattels shall have been taken pos- Affidavit session of, or distrained for nonpayment of rates, duties, im- where required posts or assessments, by any officer belonging to the customs, perty belongs impost or excise office, or by any collector, bailiff or other to Crown, &c, officer in the employ of the Government, or belonging to any corporation duly empowered to levy rates or assessments, the same shall be delivered up to the person entitled to receive them, upon his making affidavit that the same are really and bona fide the property of Her Majesty, her heirs or succesors, or the property of the Government of this Island. CAP. XXIV. An Act to incorporate the Souris Bank. [Passed May 11, 1866.] ***This Act not having been acted upon within one year after the passing thereof, is deemed to have expired, and therefore has not been reprinted. An Act to incorporate the Ministers and Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Cascumpec. [Passed May 11, 1866.) This Act has been printed in the second volume of Private and Local Acts. !...Mo ilia b CAP. XXVII. An Act to amend the Act relating to the Presbyterian Church at Valleyfield. Acts. [Passed May 11, 1866.] This Act has been printed in the second volume of Private and Local N CAP. XXVIIIb to ou 392006 An Act to amend the Acts incorporating the Minister and Elders of St. John's Church in the district of Belfast... -Acts. This Act has been printed in the second volume of Private and Local CAP. XXIX. Amended by 30 Vic. cap. 17. Preamble. An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the conveyance and transfer of real and personal Property vested in mortgages and trustees. [Passed May 11, 1866.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the laws relating to the conveyance and transfer of real and personal estate vested in mortgages and trustees. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. Whereas it is expedient to define the meaning in which certain words are hereinafter used, it is declared that the several words hereinafter named are herein used and applied in the manner following respectively, that is to say: The word "lands" shall extend to and include manors, messuages, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, of every certain words tenure or description, whatever may be the estate or interest therein. Defines the meaning of "stock." Word " II. The word "stock" shall mean any fund, annuity or security, transferable in books kept by any company or society established, or to be established, or transferable by deed alone, or by deed accompanied by other formalities, and any shares or interest therein. III. The word "seized" shall be applicable to any vested Word "seized." estate for life, or of a greater description, and shall extend to estates at law and in equity, in possession or in futurity in any lands. olitte Word "possessed." IV. The word "possessed" shall be applicable to any vested estate less than a life estate at law or in equity in possession or in expectancy in any lands. |