throughout the Province, it is enacted, that His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief for the time. being, by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's Council, be authorized and empowered to appoint during pleasure, and to remove as he shall see fit, three or more fit and proper persons in the severa! Counties in this Province, the Counties of York and Charlotte, and City and County of Saint John excepted, to be Trustees and Directors of the Grammar Schools in each of the said Counties, except as aforesaid, and for which they shall be respectively appointed: And whereas also in and by the thirteenth Section of the said Act it is further enacted, that the sum of one hundred pounds annually shall be included in the estimate of the ordinary expenses of the Province for each of the following Counties, that is to say, the Counties of Northumberland, Sunbury, Westmorland, Gloucester, Kent, and Queen's and King's Counties, which said sum of one hundred pounds shall be granted annually for the payment of the Masters thereof respectively, the same to be drawn on the certificate of the Trustees and Directors in favour of the person or persons entitled thereto And whereas it is expedient to extend the provisions of the said Sections to the new County of Victoria ;—

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The said two Sections of the aforesaid Act shall hereafter be construed to extend to the said County of Victoria, in like manner as if the same had been particularly mentioned therein, any thing in the said Sections to the contrary notwithstanding; subject nevertheless to all the provisions and limitations which the other Counties in this Province are liable by virtue of that Act.

13th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 62.

An Act to incorporate "The New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province," and to regulate and provide for the same.

Passed 26th April 1850.

WHEREAS James Robb, Robert Chestnut, Robert D. James, Robert Jardine, James Brown, Calvin L. Hatheway, William Foshay, Allen C. Evanson, the Honorable William Crane, William M'Leod, Francis Ferguson, Dugald Stewart, Charles Perley, Thomas Gilbert, James S. Beek, John A. Beckwith, Joseph Gaynor, Thomas R. Barker, William H. Odell, Frederick W. Hathewey, William Watts, Senior, the Honorable Lemuel A. Wilmot, David S. Kerr, George Todd, Constantine Connelly, John T. Smith, James Taylor, James A. Maclauchlan, Henry Fisher, and numerous other inhabitants of the Province, have lately formed themselves into a Society, called "The New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province," which Society is intended to improve the condition of the above important branches by all practical and effective means that may be available for the purpose: And whereas it is deemed advisable to obtain an act of Incorporation for the more efficient working of the said Society ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. That James Robb, Robert Chestnut, Robert D. James, Robert Jardine, James Brown, Calvin L. Hatheway, William Foshay, Allen C. Evanson, the Honorable William Crane, William M'Leod, Francis Ferguson, Dugald Stewart, Charles Perley, Thomas Gilbert, James S. Beek, John A. Beckwith, Joseph Gaynor, Thomas R. Barker, William H. Odell, Frederick W. Hatheway, William Watts, Senior, the Honorable Lemuel A. Wilmot, David S. Kerr, George Todd, Constantine Connelly, John T. Smith, James Taylor, James A. Maclauchlan, Henry Fisher, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby erected into a Body Corporate, under the name of "The New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province," and shall have and enjoy all the powers made incident to Corporations by the fifth Section of an Act of the General Assembly of the Province made and passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to prescribe certain general regulations in respect to Corporations; provided always, that the first meeting of the said Society, under and by virtue of this Act, shall on due notice thereof be held on the

first Wednesday in July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty; and provided also, that the persons who are now office bearers of the Society shall continue to act for the periods for which they have been appointed, or until others be chosen in their place agreeably to the laws and regulations of the said Society.

2. Repealed by 14th Vic. cap. 8. See post. page 217.

3. If the said Society shall receive the said allowance or any part thereof from the Public Treasury, it shall offer annually by way of premiums, or shall apply otherwise at its discretion, for the encouragement of the objects of the said Society, a sum not less than the amount actually received out of the Public Treasury, and it shall also transmit to the Office of the Provincial Secretary, on or before the first Thursday in January annually, a statement of its proceedings in relation to the expenditure of such moneys, specifying the nature of the encouragement proposed or given by the said Society, and the objects for which its premiums have been offered and paid, and to whom they were awarded and given, and shall accompany the same with such general observations concerning the state of Agriculture, Home Manufactures, and Commerce throughout the Province, as may be deemed important and useful.

4. If the said Society shall neglect in any year to comply with the foregoing provisions, it shall forfeit its claims to the Legislative bounty for the year next succeeding.

5. The said Society may by its officers define and fix bounds of sufficient extent for holding of an annual show and fair, or other exhibition for carrying out the objects of the said Society, in such place as the said officers may select and appoint, with convenient passage ways to and about the same, on the days for holding the said show and fair, or other exhibition as aforesaid, within which bounds no person shall be permitted to enter or pass, unless in conformity with the regulations of the said Society.

6. If any person shall, contrary to the regulations of the said Society, and after notice thereof, enter or pass within the bounds so fixed, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten shillings, to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace who shall have jurisdiction thereof; and all fines so recovered shall

be paid over by the said Justice of the Peace to the Treasurer of the said Society, towards the funds of the said Society.

7. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall authorize the said Society to occupy or include within the bounds which it may fix for the purpose aforesaid, the land of any person without his consent, or to occupy any public street or highway in such a manner as to obstruct the public use thereof.

8. This Act shall continue and be in force until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.

14th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 8.

An Act to alter and amend an Act intituled An Act to incorporate the New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province, and to regulate and provide for the same.

WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to make the Grant allowed by the above mentioned Act to the New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province, to the extent of two hundred pounds, on similar terms as to County Agricultural Societies, and to alter the time for transmitting the proceedings of the said Society to the Provincial Secretary from the first Thursday in January to the second Wednesday in April following ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. That the second Section of the above mentioned Act be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. Whenever the said Society shall make it appear by Certificate under the hand of the Treasurer of such Society, that a sum not less than twenty five pounds has been actually subscribed and paid to the said Treasurer by the members of such Society, and the President of the said Society shall make application, enclosing the said Certificate to the Lieutenant

Governor or Administrator of the Government for the time being, for aid in supporting the said Society, it shall and may be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor or Administrator of the Government for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, to issue his Warrant to the Treasurer of the Province in favour of the Treasurer of the said Society, for treble the amount that shall have been so subscribed and paid as aforesaid; provided always, that the annual sum to be granted to the said Society shall not excced the sum of two hundred pounds currency.

3. The time appointed by the third Section of the above mentioned Act for transmitting to the Office of the Provincial Secretary a statement of the proceedings of the said Society, in relation to the expenditure of the moneys therein specified, be and the same is hereby altered from the first Thursday in January to the second Wednesday in April following, in each year.

4. This Act shall continue and be in force until the expiration of the Act to which this is an amendment and no longer.

15th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 8.

An Act to continue an Act to incorporate the New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province, and to regulate and provide for the same; also an Act to alter and amend the said Act.

Section 1.-Continuance of Acts.

Passed 18th February 1852.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. An Act made and passed in the thirteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to incorporate the New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province, and to regulate and provide for the same; also, an Act made and passed in the fourteenth year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled 'An Act to incorporate the New Brunswick Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce throughout the Province, and to