and assess the number of days work to be performed by each person, and shall add to the list the amount which the number of days would come to in money from each person, at and after the rate of two shillings and six pence per day, which amount each and every such person shall be required to pay instead of performing labour on the highways; which list shall be handed to the Collector of taxes in and for the said Parish, who shall proceed forthwith to collect the sum assessed upon each of the inhabitants as aforesaid, and when collected, shall pay the same into one of the Banks in the City of Saint John to be named by the Justices of the Peace in the Parish of Portland, to the credit of the Justices of the Peace for the said Parish, as a Road fund, and shall be drawn by check, signed by not less than three of the said Justices, upon the application in writing of the Commissioner, setting forth that the sum applied for is required to pay for work done and performed on the highways; and if any person shall refuse to pay the sum added to the list aforesaid to be paid in money, the same shall be recovered by action of debt, in the name of the Commissioner, before the Police Magistrate for the said Parish, and when recovered shall, together with the costs, be paid by him into the Bank to credit of the Justices of Portland, on account of the Road fund.

3. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Highways in the said Parish of Portland to make a record of all the Streets in the said Parish which are of the full width of fifty feet, and upon which any of the inhabitants actually reside, and hand such record to the Clerk of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, in order that all Her Majesty's subjects in the said Parish may have the benefit of the work done to improve the roads and streets in the said Parish.

4. All the provisions of the Act made and passed in the thirteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act relating to Highways, except so far as the same are altered by this Act, are declared to be in full force so far as the same are applicable to the Parish of Portland.

17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 39.

An Act relating to the Public Debt of the City of Saint

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John are hereby authorized, notwithstanding any law to the contrary now in force, to issue new bonds or debentures to any holder or assignee of any bond, note, or evidence of debt which was secured by, mentioned, or contained in a certain trust deed bearing date the twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two, upon such terms in regard to the rate of interest, date of payment, or otherwise, as may be agreed upon between the Corporation and the holders of such bonds, notes, or evidence of debt, such rate of interest not to exceed six per

cent.

2. Such new bonds shall be held and taken in all Courts of Law or Equity as secured and charged upon the estate, real and personal, of the said Corporation, to the same extent in every respect as the said bonds, notes, or securities for which they may be taken in substitution.

3. Any new bonds issued under the provisions of this Act shall express and declare, by a memorandum to be made upon the face thereof, the date, amount, and name of the obligee or person in the bond or security, in substitution of which such new bond or debenture may be issued.

4. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Corporation of the said City to increase the present debt of the said City, or to issue any bonds or securities for money in any manner or for any other purpose than is herein contained.

5. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, are hereby authorized to negotiate such loan of money as may be necessary to pay off that part of the debt of the City of Saint John, and interest, payable by and secured on the lands of the western side of the harbour, on such terms as may from time to time be agreed on by the said Common

Council, any law to the contrary at present existing notwithstanding.

6. Any old bonds delivered up under this Act shall be lodged with the Chamberlain, and shall be destroyed by him on an order of the Common Council to be entered in the Minutes for that purpose, such order shewing the dates, amounts, obligees, and holders of such bonds, to be destroyed, and the dates, amounts, and obligees of the new bonds given in substitution thereof under this Act.

17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 40.

An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John to levy an assessment for the erection of a Dead House for the said City and County.

1. Dead House, by whose authority to be 2. Assessment, and payment therefor. erected.

Passed 1st May 1854.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John are hereby authorized to contract and agree for the erection of a Dead House for the use of the City and County of Saint John, on the vacant space of ground to the westward of the gaol of the City and County, in the said City, or on any other suitable site in the vicinity of the said gaol.

2. For the purpose of paying for the erection of the said building, the Justices of the Peace of the said City and County, at any General Sessions of the Peace to be hereafter holden, or at any Special Sessions of the Peace to be for that purpose convened, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make such rate and assessment of any sum not exceeding five hundred pounds, as they in their discretion may think necessary; the same to be assessed, levied, collected, and paid agreeably to, and under and by virtue of any Acts of the General Assembly of this Province in force for assessing, levying, and collecting County rates.

17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 62.

An Act in addition to an Act intituled An Act to provide for the erection and making of certain Wharves and improvements in the Harbour of Saint John.

Section.

1. Powers of Corporation to increase Wharves.

2. Corporation authorized to borrow moneys.

3. Debentures, how negotiable.

Section.

4. Moneys, how to be paid, and duty of Chamberlain.

5. Common Council to assess east side of harbour.

6. Moneys, how applied.

Passed 1st May 1854.

WHEREAS under the authority of an Act made and passed in the fifteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to provide for the erection and making of certain Wharves and improvements in the Harbour of Saint John, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John are proceeding with the erection of piers, wharves, and slips, at or near Reed's Point, for the accommodation of sea-going Steamers: And whereas the increase of trade and shipping at the Port of Saint John demands an increase of wharf accommodation, and it is expedient to authorize the Common Council of the City to raise a further sum of money in addition to the sum authorized by the said Act, for the purpose of completing the present works and enlarging and extending the same;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. It shall be lawful for the said Corporation to contract for the erection, at or near Reed's Point, of such additional wharves, piers, and slips, and on such plan and mode of construction as they may deem expedient, for such sums of money as may be necessary, not exceeding in the whole the sum of three thousand pounds in addition to the sum now authorized by the said Act.

2. The said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty are authorized to borrow such sum as may be required for the purposes of this Act, not exceeding in the whole the sum of three thousand pounds, in loans of not less than one hundred pounds each, and Debentures for the same shall be issued in the following form, or to that effect, and shall be delivered to the respective persons from whom the loans shall be obtained,

viz :

CITY OF SAINT JOHN.

Second Series, Number

This certifies that

hath lent to the Mayor, Aldermen,

or

order,

per cent.

and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, the sum of pounds currency, which sum is payable to together with interest at and after the rate of per annum, pursuant to an Act of Assembly made and passed in the seventeenth year of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act in addition to an Act in tituled An Act to provide for the erection and making of certain Wharves and improvements in the Harbour of Saint John.'-Dated the day of

[L. S.]

A. D. 185.

By order of the Common Council.

J. O. Mayor.

G. W. Common Clerk.

Which same debentures shall be sealed with the common seal of the said Corporation, and signed by the Mayor and Common Clerk, and shall be consecutively numbered as a second series according to the times at which the same shall be issued, and a record of the same shall be entered by the Clerk in the Minutes of the Common Council.

3. The said debentures shall be negotiable in the same manner as promissory notes, and the respective holders thereof shall be entitled to receive interest upon the same semi-annually, at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum, to be paid by the Chamberlain of the City out of the funds hereinafter provided.

4. All moneys loaned to the Corporation under this Act shall be paid by the lenders thereof to the Chamberlain, and shall be paid out by him to the Contractors or workmen who shall build the wharves and other erections now being made or to be made under this Act, on orders to be passed by the Common Council; and the Chamberlain shall render annually, and oftner if required, a true account of all moneys received and paid by him on this account, separate from his other

accounts.

5. The Common Council are hereby authorized and required to make a rate or assessment on the east side of the harbour of the said City, of a sum not exceeding seven hundred pounds