For every recognizance to appear before the Police Magistrate or to take trial, .. For every recognizance to keep the peace, or to be And every folio over one hundred words, For every copy of summons or subpœna, For examining each witness, - For copy of proceedings furnished to any party re- 11th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 13. An Act more effectually to provide for the support of a Nightly Watch and Day Police in that part of the City of Saint John lying on the eastern side of the Harbour of Saint John, and for lighting the same, as also for other purposes. Section. 1. Watchmen, &c. by whom appointed. 3. Assessments for, how and by whom 4. Construction of words. 5. When mortgagor deemed owner. 8. Public notice, when given after receiving warrant. 9. Rates on non-residents, how collected; 10. How sued. 11. Exemptions from taxation. 12. What Corporations liable to taxation, and how. Section. WHEREAS the establishment of a Nightly Watch and Day Police, the lighting of the Streets, and the appointment of Scavengers in and for that part of the City of Saint John lying on the eastern side of the Harbour, are of very great importance, and necessary for the preserving of the peace and good order in the said City ; Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. Repealed in part by 12 V. c. 68, s. 12.-And shall also appoint such number of scavengers as they shall judge necessary and proper to be employed on the eastern side of the harbour, in the said City, and to direct them in their duties in maintaining cleanliness and good order in the streets of the said City, and what wages shall be given to such scavengers; and the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, in Common Council convened, shall and may make all such other orders and regulations for the ordering of the said watchmen, policemen, and scavengers, as the nature of each particular service may require. 2. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City, in Common Council convened, shall and may, and they are hereby authorized to make agreements, employ lamplighters, and adopt such other measures as may be necessary for the lighting of that part of the said City on the eastern side of the harbour, and for the raising and levying the money for paying the said watchmen, and policemen, and scavengers, and for lighting that part of the said City as aforesaid, and other charges incident thereto. 3. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, in Common Council convened, may and they are hereby authorized and empowered once in every year between the first day of April and the first day of May in every year, to determine and direct what sum of money shall be raised and levied in that part of the City lying on the eastern side of the harbour, and the inhabitants thereof, for the purposes of this Act, and to direct, by warrant under their common seal, the Assessors hereinafter named, to make a rate and assessment in the manner hereinafter provided of such sums; and the said sums of money shall be assessed, levied, and raised by an equal rate upon the poll of all male inhabitants of the said part of the said City lying on the eastern side of the harbour, of the age of twenty one years and upwards, not being paupers, and by a rate in just and equal proportion upon the real property situate within the said part of the said City lying on the eastern side of the harbour, and upon the personal property and incomes of the inhabitants thereof, according to the best knowledge and discretion of the Assessors hereinafter named, and subject to the provisions and regulations hereinafter mentioned, and that one fourth part of the whole of such rate, for any one year, shall be assessed, levied, and raised by a poll rate. 4. In the interpretation of this Act, the terms "real estate" and "real property" shall be construed to include land and any buildings and other things erected on or affixed to land; and the terms "personal estate" and "personal property" shall be construed to include all goods, chattels, moneys, and effects, and all debts due from solvent debtors, whether on account, contract, promissory note, bond, or mortgage, and all public stocks or securities, and all stocks or shares in joint stock Banking or Insurance Corporations or Companies. 5. In cases of mortgaged real estate the mortgagor shall for the purposes of assessment be deemed to be the owner until the mortgagee shall have taken possession, after which the mortgagee shall be deemed to be the owner. 6. It shall be the duty of the Common Clerk of the said City to make out such warrants as aforesaid, and within fourteen days after the order of assessment to transmit such warrants to the Assessors appointed under this Act, under the penalty of ten pounds for every neglect; and it shall be the duty of the Assessors without delay after receiving their warrants of assessment as herein directed, to meet at an appointed time and place to be agreed upon, and they, or the major part of them, shall make out a list, with columns therein; the first or left hand column to contain the names of such persons as are ratable within the eastern part of the City, both resident and non-resident; the second to contain the amount of poll tax to be paid by each inhabitant liable to pay a poll tax under this Act; the third column to contain the amount of real property within the eastern part of the City owned by each inhabitant; the fourth column to contain the amount of the personal property of each inhabitant; the fifth column to contain the value of the real estate of non-residents; the sixth column to contain the annual income of such male. inhabitants of the eastern part of the City as may derive income from any place, profession, or employment within this Province, not being from real or personal property; the seventh column to contain twenty per cent. of the before mentioned value of real and personal estates; the eighth column to contain the said sums so reduced to twenty per cent., and the said sums of annual income; and when any inhabitant has both annual income and twenty per centum of the value of property set opposite his name in the said sixth and seventh columns, such sums shall be added together and set in the eighth column; and the amount so to be raised and assessed, after deducting the whole amount of poll tax therefrom, shall be apportioned among the several persons so named, in exact proportion to the sums in the eighth column set opposite to their respective names; the ninth and last column shall contain the several sums so apportioned, with the addition of the poll tax of each person liable to pay poll tax, and shall be denominated "Total Assessment;" the same to be in the form following, that is to say : 'Assessment of that part of the City of Saint John lying on 'the eastern side of the Harbour in the City and County of 'Saint John, in pursuance of a Warrant of the Common 'Council of the said City, to levy the sum of for the sup 'port of Watch, Lamps, Police, and Scavengers.-Dated the And the said Assessors shall within sixty days deliver to the Collector of rates within the said City, lists made out in form aforesaid, and containing the names of all persons rated within the eastern part of the said City to which the said Collector may have been appointed, such list being signed by the said respective Assessors, and having endorsed thereon a precept under their hands, in the form following, that is to say :— 'To A. B., Collector of Rates within the City of Saint John, ' or to any other Collector of Rates in the City of Saint John. 'You are hereby required forthwith to collect from the 'several persons named in the annexed assessment, the sums 'set against their names respectively, under the last column thereof, intituled "Total Assessment," amounting in the 'whole to the sum of and to pay the same when collected 'into the hands of the Chamberlain or Treasurer of the said day of 'City. Given under our hands the in the 'year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and And further it shall be the duty of the said Assessors to make out a duplicate of all and every of their respective assessments, and to transmit the same, together with the warrant of assessment, within ten days after the assessment is completed, to the Common Clerk of the said City, to be filed of record; and if any Assessor shall neglect or omit to perform the duty herein required of him, he shall be liable to the penalty of ten pounds. 7. If any person liable to be assessed as an inhabitant of the eastern part of the said City, shall at any time before the Assessors shall have completed their assessment, furnish such Assessors with an account in writing of his real property, situate within the eastern part of the said City, and of his personal property and income, and shall specify in such account the value of such real property, and the amount of his income, and the amount of his personal property, according to the specification of personal property in the fourth Section of this Act, after deducting therefrom the just debts which he may owe to other persons, and shall have made oath before a Justice of the Peace that such account is just and true, and that the value and amount of such real and personal property and income, respectively, do not exceed the sum specified in such account, it shall be the duty of the Assessors to value such real and personal property and income at the sums respectively specified in such account, and no more; and in like manner, if any person liable to be assessed as a non-resident owner of property lying in the said part of the said City on the castern side of the harbour, shall furnish the Assessors with a like account of any real property, or the agent of such person so liable to be assessed as a non-resident owner shall furnish the Assessors with a like account of such real property, and shall have made oath that the value thereof does not exceed the sum specified in the account, it shall be the duty of the Assessors to value such real property at the sum specified in such account, and no more. 8. And in order that there may be sufficient opportunity for persons liable to assessment under this Act to furnish the Assessors with statements of their property and income, if they shall think fit ;—The Assessors forthwith, after receiving any |