ry. sation to the present Chief Justice of this Island, for the re- £500 to present Chief Justice, duction in the amount of salary from what was formerly paid as compensato him by the imperial Government, there shall, immediately tion for reducafter this Act shall go into operation, be paid unto the said tion of his salaChief Justice, out of the moneys which shall be in the Treasury of this Island, the sum of five hundred pounds, of lawful current money of this Island: the same to be paid by warrant, under the hand and seal of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, drawn upon the Treasurer of this Island, in favor of such officer. VIII. And be it enacted, That after this Act shall come into operation, the proceeds of all the casual and territorial revenues, quit rents, crown land funds, crown lands and permanent revenues, which, at the time of its coming into operation shall have theretofore accrued or be in hand, or which shall thereafter accrue, or be received and colketed, shall become payable and be paid into the treasury of this Island, to be thence paid or applied for such public uses and purposes as the public revenue of this Island is now paid and applied, or shall be made applicable to, under or by virtue of any Act of the General Assembly now or hereafter to be in force. IX. And for the more plainly and distinctly declaring the several casual and territorial revenues of the Crown, and the moneys and funds and other rights, which are by the General Assembly understood and desired to be now severally and respectively surrendered to, and placed at their disposal, for the use of this Island, under and by virtue of this Act: Be it enacted, that all rents, sums of money, returns, profits and emoluments, arising, reserved, due, owing, or in any manner whatsoever, which, at the time when this Act shall come into operation, shall have theretofore accrued, and shall be in hand, or shall be thereafter to be received from, for, or in respect of any lease, demise, sale, license, grant, transfer, or occupation of any of the Crown lands, mines, minerals, reservations, or royalties of Her Majesty, within this Island, of whatsoever nature or description, and also all and singular the fees and payments, at the office of the Colonial Secretary of this Island, received or payable for, or in respect of all or any writings, licenses, instruments, scals, certificates, commissions, or patents, there made or issued, and on which fees were heretofore payable and established for the Lieutenant Governor or Secretary of this Island, or into his office; and lastly, all fines, penalties and forfeitures, by or under any laws or Acts of this Island, imposed and applicable to, or for the use of Her Majesty, shall be, and the said several rents, sums of money, returns, profits and emoluments, fees and payments, fines, penalties and forfeitures, respectively, above mentioned, and all proceeds thereof, or therefrom, respectively, then collected and in hand, are Proceeds of ca- torial revenues, Casual and territorial revesurrendered to this land, deforth. nues, &c., to be fined and set Repeals 32d & 36th sections of the Act 25 G. 3, c. 4; hereby declared to be the casual and territorial revenues of the Crown, which, from and after the time of this Act coming into operation, be and become surrendered and transferred to this Island, and become and be payable into the treasury thereof, as hereinbefore mentioned. X. And be it enacted, That the thirty-second and thirtysixth sections of the Act passed in the twenty-fifth year of th reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intitula "An Act to amend, render more effectual, and to reduce into one Act, the several laws made by the General Assembly of this Island, relative to the duties of impost on wines, ruza, brandy and other distilled spirituous liquors, and for allowing a drawback on all wines, rum, brandy, and other distilli spirituous liquors exported from this Island;" and also tl and also the 2d second section of an Act passed in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of the same King, intituled "An Act for raising a duty on wine, rum, and other distilled spirituous liquors, and for imposing a duty on porter, ale, and strong beer," and which declare and regulate the mode in which the moneys arising by virtue of the several duties imposed by the sali recited Acts, shall respectively be applied, laid out and a.counted for, be, and the same are hereby severally repealed. section of Act 35 G. 3, c. 10. under Acts re ding section to be paid into XI. And be it enacted, That after this Act shall come it Moneys arising operation, the moneys arising under the said Acts, in the s la cited in prece- preceding section recited, shall thereafter become payable, a be paid into the treasury of this Island, and be placed at t disposal of the General Assembly thereof, and shall and my be applied and paid to and for such public uses and purposes. as in and by any Act of the General Assembly, in force hereafter to be passed, shall be ordered and directed. treasury of this Island, &c. Right of Her Majesty to all lands, mines, &c., to be as Island, &c. XII. And be it enacted, That so soon as this Act sha come into operation, all the right and title of Her Majes whether in reversion or otherwise, or reserved of, in and signed to this all and singular the lands, mines of gold, silver, iron, cal iron stone, lime stone, slate stone, slate, rock, tin, coge lead, and all other mines, minerals and ores, within th Island, of which the title is now in Her Majesty, shall be, ar the said several enumerated premises are hereby respectivel assigned, transferred and surrendered to the disposal of ti General Assembly of this Island, and shall and may be maaged, leased, disposed of, made available, paid and applied 1. such and the like manner, and to, and by such officers and persons, and to and for such public uses and purposes, as 2 and by any Act of the General Assembly, for the time being. shall be ordered and directed. * The word "lands" in this section is to be omitted in the reading and ecustre tion thereof, by the 15th Vic., c. 7. fect, General Assembly to XIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful, when When transfer and so soon as such transfer, surrender and assignment shall shall take eftake effect as aforesaid, and come into operation, for the General Assembly of this Island, by any Act to be passed for that provide for repurpose, to provide for the managing, collecting and receiving ceiving said reof the said revenues, and other matters hereby surrendered and transferred, and to appoint proper officers for the said revenues. venues, &c. &c., are to be collected. XIV. And be it enacted, That for the more easy collection How revenues, and enforcing payment of any such revenue, due or to become due as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the officers or persons charged with the collection or management of the revenue in the name of Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, but to the use of this Island, to have and take all such lawful ways and means, by information, suit, or proceeding at law, or in equity, as by or on behalf of Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, might or could be adopted for or in respect of the said revenues, or any the lands, moneys, or royalties chargeable therewith, if the surrender, transfer and assignment aforesaid, had never been made to or for the use of this Island. nial Secretary, deeds, and plans, &c. keeper of XV. And whereas it would be for the public advantage, Separates and would greatly facilitate and ensure the proper discharge offices of Coloof the duties of the said several offices hereinbefore provided Registrar of for, if the same were more generally divided than at present: Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, the offices of Colonial Secretary, of Registrar of deeds, and keeper of plans, and of Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils, shall be separate and distinct offices, nor shall they, or any two of them, be held together as heretofore they have sometimes been, by one and the same individual, save and except the offices of clerk of the Legislative and Executive Councils.* relates to salary XVI. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing, Repeals so of this Act, so much of an Act passed in the third year of much of Act Her present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to establish 3 Vic., c. 27, as the salary payable by this Island to the Colonial Secretary and of Colonial Registrar and Clerk of the Executive Council," as relates to, Secretary, &c.; and fixes and establishes the amount of annual salary, to be paid ecutive Council; and also, so much of an Act made and passed to the Colonial Secretary and Registrar and Clerk of the Exin the eleventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intitu- also, so much led "An Act to authorize the appointment of a Master of the of Act 11 Vic., Rolls to the Court of Chancery, and an assistant Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in this Island," as relates to, and fixes the amount of annual salary to be paid to the said So much of this section as separates the office of Clerk of the Executive Council from that of Colonial Secretary is repealed by 23 Vic., c. 39. c. 6, as relates Master of Master of the Rolls in the Court of Chancery, and assistant Judge of the Supreme Court in this Island, be, and the same are hereby respectively repealed. Acts may be altered, &c., in same session in which they are passed. Acts to be di CAP. IV. An Act for shortening the language used in Acts of the DE it declared and enacted by the Lieutenant Governor. B'Council and Aschbly, and by the authority of the same, That every Act to be passed after the commencement of this Act, may be altered, amended, or repealed, in the same session of the General Assembly, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. II. Be it enacted, That all Acts shall be divided into secvided into sec- tions, if there be more enactments than one; which sections shall be deemed to be substantive enactments, without any introductory words. tions. Sufficient to reign, statute or session, chapter or section, &c. III. Be it enacted, That in any Act, when any former Act cite year of the is referred to, it shall be sufficient to cite the year of the reign; and where there are more statutes or sessions than one in th same year, the statute or the session, (as the case may require.) and where there are more chapters or sections than one, the chapter or section, or chapter and section, (as the case may require,) without reciting the title of such Act, or the provision of such section so referred to; and the reference in all cases shall be made according to the copies of statutes, printed under and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of this Island, passed in the eleventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to provide for reprinting the laws of this Island," or under and by virtue of any At of the General Assembly of this Island, hereafter to be passed, or by the Queen's printer: provided, that where it is only i tended to amend or repeal any portion only of such section, it shall be necessary still, either to recite such portion, or to set forth the matter or thing intended to be amended or repealed. Proviso. words. IV. Be it enacted, That in all Acts, words importing the Construction of masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include fnial and the singular to include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the contrary, as to gender or number, is express ly provided; and the word "month" to mean calendar mont unless words be added showing lunar month to be intended; and "county" shall be held to mean also county of a town.c of a city, unless such extended meaning is expressly exclud by words; and the word "land," shall include messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses and buildings of any tenure, unless where there are words to exclude houses and buildings, or to restrict the meaning to tenements of some particular tenure; and the words "oath," "swear," and "affidavit" shall include affirmation, declaration, affirming and declaring, in the case of persons by law allowed to declare or affirm, instead of swearing. ved. V. Be it enacted, That where any Act repealing in whole Certain Acts or in part any former Act, is itself repealed, such last repeal not to be revishall not revive the Act or provisions before repealed, unless words be added, reviving such Acts or provisions. VI. Be it enacted, That wherever any Act shall be made, repealing in whole or in part any former Act, and substituting some provision or provisions instead of the provision or provisions repealed, such provisions so repealed shall remain in force until the substituted provision or provisions shall come into operation, by force of the last made Act. VII. And be it enacted, That every Act made after the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed and taken to be a public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, unless the contrary be expressly provided and declared by such Act. Repealed portions of Acts to until substituted portions ration. remain in force come into ope All Acts deemed public acts, trary be expres unless the con sed. VIII. Provided always, nevertheless, That nothing herein Suspending contained shall have any force or effect, until Her Majesty's clause. pleasure therein shall be known. This Act received the royal assent on the 23d day of October, 1851, and notification thereof was published in the Royal Gazette newspaper of this Island, on the 5th January, 1852. W CAP. V. An Act for constituting Boards of Health. HEREAS the Statutes now in force for constituting Continued by 24 Vic. c. 23. health when sary. to make provision for the same: Be it therefore enacted, by Lt. Governor. the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That the &c. to constiLieutenant Governor, or Administrator of the Government for tute boards of the time being, in this Island, by and with the advice of Her deemed necesMajesty's Council, shall have full power and authority, at all times, when he may deem it necessary, of public alarm, from dread of the approach of any infectious or pestilential distemper, or of the actual appearance or prevalence of any of the said diseases within this Island, to make, constitute and establish such and so many boards of health for the several Counties in this Island, or for particular districts in the said Coun |