in the present year, and of a like sum in each and every succeeding year, besides the charges of assessing and collecting, for the purpose of discharging the principal and interest of the loans contracted by virtue of this Act, until the same shall be paid off; the said several sums to be assessed, levied, collected, and paid in such proportions and in the same manner as any other County rates for public charges, and when collected shall be paid into the hands of the Chamberlain for the purposes of this Act.

6. The moneys so assessed shall from time to time be applied, after discharging the half yearly interest due on the several principal sums mentioned in such debentures, in payment of the said debentures in due order according to the numbers, beginning with the number one; and the Chamberlain shall, when and so often as he may be directed by the Common Council, give one calendar month's public notice by advertisement in one of the Newspapers of the City, for calling in such and so many of the debentures as the Common Council are prepared to pay off, specifying the number in such advertisement, and the same, by and under such orders aforesaid, shall pay off accordingly; and from and after the expiration of such notice, the interest on such debentures shall cease.

YORK.

45th GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 8.

An Act to regulate the Winter Roads in the Counties of York and Sunbury.

4. The said Commissioners or the major part of them, shall and they are hereby required to agree and determine the distance upon the said river which is to be worked by their respective Towns or Parishes, and the Surveyors of Highways shall proceed to break the said winter roads agreeably to law. 5. Repealed by 52 G. 3, c. 18.

6. If any person shall wilfully cut, or take down, or destroy any of the bushes so to be erected, shall forfeit and pay the sum of thirty shillings upon conviction before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, upon the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, to be levied by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods, rendering the overplus (if any) after deducting the costs and charges, to the offender, to and for the use of the informer, and for want of such effects to levy on, the said offender or offenders shall be imprisoned for a time not less than six nor exceeding ten days.

7. Every inhabitant in the said Counties keeping a team, or any carriage whatever drawn by one or more horses, ox or oxen, shall be obliged, on being duly summoned, to send his team or carriage with a competent driver, to work in such manner as the said Surveyors shall direct; and on such person or persons neglecting or refusing to send his team or carriage and a good driver, or not performing such reasonable work as the said Surveyors shall direct, the owner of such team or carriage shall forfeit the sum of ten shillings; and every Commissioner or Surveyor who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duty enjoined and required by this Act, shall forfeit and pay for every such refusal or neglect the sum of three pounds;

the fines aforesaid to be recovered on complaint, with costs of suit, before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and the forfeiture applied for repairing the highways, under the direction of the Commissioners, or the major part of them, of the Towns or Parishes where the said forfeiture shall accrue; provided always, that such person or persons keeping a pleasure sleigh or sleighs only, shall not be obliged by this Act to perform any other labour on the said winter roads, except to break the same when duly summoned so to do.

8. No person or persons summoned as aforesaid, shall be obliged to go further from their respective homes than three miles, or to work on the said winter roads more than four days in any one winter.

9. Whenever the Surveyors of Highways on the Rivers Nashwaak and Penniack, in the Parish of Saint Mary's and County of York, shall during the winter season deem the labour of men necessary, it shall and may be lawful for such Surveyors forthwith to summon such and so many of the inhabitants, with their shovels or such other proper implements as the said Surveyors or Surveyor shall direct, not exceeding four times in any one year, nor a greater distance than three miles from their own houses, and in case of refusal or neglect shall forfeit and pay for each and every offence the sum of three shillings, to be recovered with costs of suit in manner described in the seventh Section of this Act.

10. All sleds made use of for the purpose of transporting wood, hay, or other heavy materials to or from or in the settlements on the Rivers Nashwaak and l'enniack aforesaid, and drawn by one horse or one ox, shall not be less or more than three feet eight inches from outside to outside of the runners thereof; and if any person or persons whatever shall make use of any single horse or ox sled as aforesaid of less dimensions, and be thereof convicted by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, or on view of such Justice, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings, the same to be recovered and applied in manner directed in the seventh Section of this Act; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to any sled a man may use upon his own farm only, or to any pleasure sleigh whatever.

11. All persons travelling to the settlements on the Rivers Nashwaak or Penniack above the great Rapids so called, with sleds or sleighs drawn by one horse or one ox, shall at all times be obliged to travel on the highways as now laid out, on the westerly side of the said River Nashwaak, leading from the Moncton Ferry to the said settlements, under the penalty of ten shillings, to be recovered as aforesaid, all which forfeitures shall be paid to the person or persons prosecuting the same to conviction.

52nd GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 18.

An Act in amendment of an Act made and passed in the forty fifth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to regulate the Winter Roads in the Counties of York and Sunbury.

Section.

1. What Sections of what Act repealed.
2. Commissioners' duty as to winter roads.

Section.

What side travel

3. Roads, how laid out.
lers to take; penalty, recovery and
application.

4. Former Act, how in force.

Passed 7th March 1812.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Sections of an Act made and His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to regulate the Winter Roads in the Counties of York and Sunbury, be and the same are hereby repealed.

first, second, third, and fifth passed in the forty fifth year of

2. From and after the passing of this Act, the Commissioners of Highways, or either of them, for the time being, in the Parishes of Fredericton, Kingsclear, and Saint Mary's, in the County of York, and the Commissioners of Highways, or either of them, for the time being, in the several Towns and Parishes in the County of Sunbury, where the major part of such Commissioners shall think it necessary, shall yearly and every year order the Surveyors of Highways in their several districts, so soon as the ice shall be sufficiently strong to bear a team or teams, and immediately after the first fall of snow, to summon the inhabitants of the said Parishes to labour on the said winter roads by marking the same in lines as straight as may be, with one row of evergreen bushes, erected at distances not exceeding four rods from each other, and the said roads shall be marked on the River Saint John,

excepting from the usual landing place below the Town of Fredericton to the usual landing place above the said Town, where the road shall be marked upon the land through the front street of the Town plat.

3. The said Commissioners, or either of them, are hereby required to lay out the said winter roads on each side of, and within six feet from the said one row of bushes erected as aforesaid, and all persons travelling with their horses, cattle, sleds, and carriages of every denomination on the said roads, within the aforesaid limits, shall leave the said one row of bushes always on the left hand, under the penalty of ten shillings for each and every offence committed contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act, to be recovered upon conviction before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, upon the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, and levied by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods, rendering the overplus (if any) after deducting the costs and charges, to the offender, to and for the use of the informer; and for want of such effects whereon to levy, the offender or offenders shall be imprisoned for a time not exceeding four days.

4. The said herein before recited Act, and every clause, matter, and thing therein contained, except wherein the same is hereby altered and repealed, shall be and continue in full force, any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

56th GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 7.

An Act to provide for the purchase of a place for the residence and accommodation of the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province.

WHEREAS a negotiation has been entered into and concluded upon, by and between William Botsford, James Fraser, and John Allen, Esquires, a Committee of the House of Assembly, of the one part, and Colonel Harris William Hailes, the Agent