nominate and appoint from time to time, two or more of the Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, either one of whom may, during the temporary absence or illness of the Police Magistrate, sit as Police Magistrate at the Police office, and execute the duties of the said Police Magistrate; and for every day such Justice shall so execute the duties of the said Police Magistrate, he shall receive such sum as may be determined upon by the Commissioners of Police for the said Parish for the time being, not exceeding fifteen shillings per day, to be paid out of the Portland Police Fund, on certificate from the Police Magistrate of the time during which he may have so performed the duties of Police Magistrate.

3. So much of the fifty second Section of the hereinbefore recited Act as defines the Portland Police District, be and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof, the Portland Police District shall extend and be construed to extend to the whole of the said Parish of Portland.

14th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 10.

An Act relating to the levying and collecting Rates in the City and County of Saint John.

Be it enacted, &c.-All the powers and authorities given to the Police Magistrate of the Parish of Portland by the forty seventh Section of an Act made and passed in the eleventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for establishing and maintaining a Police Force in the Parish of Portland, in the City and County of Saint John, to collect fines due from defaulters to statute labour, shall be and are hereby extended to the collection and enforcing payment of all other rates, taxes, and assessments made and ordered and recoverable in the said Parish; and all fees and costs attending such collection shall be paid over and applied in the manner pointed out in and by the said Section of the said Act; and no fees or costs shall be recovered by any other Magistrate than the said

Police Magistrate, for enforcing any such rates, taxes, or assess

ments.

2. It shall not be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, other than the Police Magistrate of Portland, or any other Magistrate duly sitting at the Portland Police Office, to take and receive any fees or costs, of any nature or kind, for or upon any acknowledgment, proceedings, trial, judgment, or conviction of any nature or kind, had before him as a Justice of the Peace within the said Parish of Portland; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to fees and costs to be taken by any Justice of the Peace under the provisions of an Act intituled An Act to regulate proceedings before Justices of the Peace in Civil Suits; and any Justice of the Peace who shall take any costs or fees contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of extortion, and may be indicted and prosecuted for the same before any Court of competent jurisdiction.

3. Notwithstanding any thing contained in the eleventh and twelfth Sections of an Act made and passed in the eleventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled 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, the real and personal property and estates of all joint stock Banking and Insurance Companies shall be liable to taxation for the purpose of the said last recited Act, in the mode pointed out in and by the second Section of an Act made and passed in the thirteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the local government of Counties, Towns, and Parishes in this Province.

4. The stock of any branch or agency of any joint stock Banking Company or Corporation, may be assessed to the extent of the amount of stock owned in this Province, under the provisions of the said last recited Act, notwithstanding the principal place of carrying on the business of the said Corporation may not be within this Province, and notwithstanding such stock may be a part of the capital stock of any Corporation whose principal place of business may not be within this Province.

14th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 11.

An Act relating to the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John.

Section 1.-What Mills exempted from a certain Act.

Passed 30th April 1851.

WHEREAS by the operation of an Act intituled An Act in addition to and in amendment of the Act relating to the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John, and An Act for more effectually securing the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John, in the City and County of Saint John, it is rendered urlawful to put, place, or throw into the Harbour of the City of Saint John, any slabs, edgings, rinds, bark, chips, or sawdust: And whereas it appearing from the situation of the "Carleton Tide Mills," that they cannot be worked without the sawdust falling into the tide, and that the operation of the said Acts would be ruinous to the Lessee of the said Mills;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.—1. From and after the passing of this Act the "Carleton Tide Mills" shall be exempt from the operation of the Act intituled An Act in addition to and in amendment of the Act relating to the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John, and An Act for more effectually securing the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John, in the City and County of Saint John, so far as the same relate to sawdust.

14th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 14.

An Act relating to the appointment of the Gaoler of the
Gaol of the City and County of Saint John.

Section 1.-Appointment of Gaoler of City Saint John, in whom vested.
Passed 30th April 1851.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether under the provisions of the Charter of the City of Saint John, the appointment of the Gaoler of the Gaol of the said City and County is vested in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City, or in the Sheriff of the said City and County;

Be it therefore declared and enacted, &c.-1. Notwithstanding any thing in the said Charter contained, the appointment of the Gaoler of the Gaol now erected in the said City, and

used as the Gaol of the said City and County of Saint John, is and shall be vested in the Sheriff of the said City and County of Saint John.

15th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 10.

An Act in further amendment of an Act intituled An Act for the better extinguishing of Fires which may happen in the City of Saint John.

Section.

1. Alarm bells, &c., when Common Council may erect, and regulations, when made.

Section.

2. Assessment for same.

Passed 18th February 1852.

Be it enacted, &c.—1. It shall be lawful for the Common Council of the City of Saint John to erect and set up in convenient places, on the east side of the harbour, such and so many alarm bells, gongs, and other suitable instruments for raising alarms of fire in the City, as they may think expedient, with proper and convenient bellfries, machinery, and appurtenances, and for this purpose to use and occupy, if they shall think necessary, any part of King's and Queen's Squares, and by any bye laws, orders, or resolutions of Common Council to direct, regulate, and provide for the due and proper use, management, and employment of the same.

2. For the purpose of defraying the expense thereof, the Common Council are authorized, in ordering any assessment during the present year for the support of the fire department, to add thereto a sum not exceeding four hundred pounds, to be applied for the purposes of this Act and for no other use or purpose whatsoever, the same to be assessed on the eastern side of the harbour.

15th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 11.

An Act to provide for the erecting and making certain Wharves and improvements in the Harbour of Saint John.

WHEREAS the want of Piers, Slips, and Wharves, for the accommodation of sea-going Steamers resorting to the Harbour of Saint John, is severely felt, and is highly injurious to the trade of the City of Saint John ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.—1. It shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, notwithstanding any thing contained in an Act made and passed in the ninth year of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act relating to the Public Debt of the City of Saint John, and notwithstanding any thing contained in an Act passed in the third year of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to limit the extent and regulate the building of Wharves on the eastern side of the Harbour of Saint John, to contract and agree with able and sufficient workmen for the laying out, erecting, and finishing, on the lots and parcels of land, beach, and flats hereinafter described, at or near Reed's Point in the City and Harbour of Saint John, such slips, piers, wharves, and jetties as may seem to them most suitable and proper for the accommodation and safety of steamers and other vessels resorting to the Harbour of Saint John, for such sums of money not exceeding seven thousand five hundred pounds, and upon such a plan and of such construction as may be best adapted to the said object.

2. All that certain lot, piece, or parcel of land, beach, and flats situate and being at Reed's Point in the City of Saint John, and bounded and described as follows, that is to sayCommencing at a point on the prolongation westwardly of the southern line of Main Street, at the distance of eighty feet eastward of where the same is intersected by the prolongation of the eastern line of Prince William Street, thence southwardly at right angles to Main Street one hundred feet, thence westwardly parallel with the line of Main Street four hundred and eighty feet, thence northwardly one hundred feet to the prolongation of the said south line of Main Street, thence eastwardly to the place of beginning; and also all that other piece or parcel of land, beach, and flats situate as aforesaid,