of His Excellency Lieutenant Governor Thomas Carleton, (who is now in England), and the Governor and Trustees of the College of New Brunswick, of the other part, for the purchase of the Mansion House commonly called and known by the name of the Government House, with the out houses and the lands adjacent thereto, bounded northeasterly on the River Saint John, southeasterly by the road at the upper end of the Town plat of Fredericton, in the County of York, southwesterly by the highway leading from Fredericton aforesaid into the country, and northwesterly by a line extending from the said highway to the said river, parallel to the said road, and being at the distance of forty three chains, of four poles each, and fifty links, measured along the said highway from the road aforesaid, and containing about fifty acres, now in the occupation of His Honor Major General George Stracey Smyth, the President and Commander in Chief of the Province, as a residence for, and the accommodation of the Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being of this Province: And whereas it appears that although the equitable title to the said premises is in the said Lieutenant Governor Carleton, subject to an agreed rent of six pounds one shilling and eight pence per annum, upon a part of the said lands, payable to the said College, yet the legal title thereto rests in the said Governor and Trustees of the said College, which legal title they the said Governor and Trustees have consented and agreed to part with and convey upon such terms, with regard to the said rent, as the General Assembly may deem proper: And whereas it appears that the said Agent of the said Lieutenant Governor Carleton has consented and agreed to accept of the sum of three thousand five hundred pounds of lawful money of this Province for the same premises, and upon the payment thereof to release and convey all the right and title of the said Lieutenant Governor Carleton and his heirs to the same premises, in such way and manner as may or can be done by law And whereas it is considered just and equitable to grant and pay to the said Governor and Trustees of the said College the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds of like lawful money, to redeem the said rent; for the perfecting of which said negotiation and agreement, and for carrying the same into full force and effect,

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The said Governor and Trustees of the College of New Brunswick are hereby authorized and empowered to grant and convey all the right, title, and interest which they have of, in, and to the same premises, to the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and freed and discharged from the said annual rent.

2. Immediately upon the due execution of a grant and conveyance by the said Governor and Trustees of the said College of New Brunswick, of the said premises, and also of a release and conveyance of the same by the said Agent of the said Lieutenant Governor Carleton, for and in the name of the said Lieutenant Governor Carleton, to the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the purpose aforesaid, there shall be paid out of the Province Treasury, by Warrant from the Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being, who is hereby authorized to issue the same with the advice of His Majesty's Council, the said sum of three thousand five hundred pounds, to the said Lieutenant Governor Carleton or his said Agent; and also in like manner to the said Governor and Trustees of the College of New Brunswick the said sum of one hundred and fifty pounds.

3. The said deeds and conveyances, when duly executed and entered in the office of the Register of the Records of this Province, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be good and effectual in the law, to all intents and purposes to transfer to and vest in the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the purpose aforesaid, full and absolute property and seisin of and in the same premises; saving nevertheless the right and title of any other person or persons, or body corporate and politic, except the said Lieutenant Governor Carleton and his heirs, and the said Governor and Trustees of the College of New Brunswick.

4. The said premises shall be from and after the transfer and conveyance thereof as aforesaid, deemed and considered to be holden by His said Majesty, and His Heirs and Successors, for the use and benefit of this Province, and for the sole purpose of a residence for, and the accommodation of the Governor or Commander in Chief of the Province for the time being, and the same or any part thereof, shall not in any way, or by any means whatever, be alienated or granted, or

disposed of to any person or persons whomsoever, or for any other purpose whatsoever, without an Act of the General Assembly of this Province authorizing the same.

5. Repealed by 3 V. c. 78.

6. This Act shall be deemed and taken to be a public Act, any thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

3rd GEORGE 4th-CHAPTER 25.

An Act to provide for the erection of an Alms House and Work House within the County of York, and for making rules and regulations for the management of the same.

Section.

1. Building for Alms House, how erected and paid for.

2. Commissioners, by whom appointed, and powers of.

3. Coinmissiouers, what rules, &c. may make, and what punishments inflict.

Section.

4. Commissioners, to whom to account, and
what estimate for poor to make.

5. Commissioners may agree with Overseers
of other Parishes as to poor.
6. Profits of work in Alms House, how
applied.

Passed 21st March 1822.

WHEREAS by the modes generally pursued to provide for the support of the poor in this Province, many persons who might under proper regulations contribute to their own maintenance, have nevertheless become chargeable to, and are entirely maintained by the inhabitants of the Parishes in which such persons reside, to the very great burthen of such inhabitants: And whereas the establishment of suitable Alms Houses and Work Houses in proper situations within this Province, would not only enable many poor persons who are now chargeable to the Parishes in which they reside, to contribute materially to their own support, but would also afford the means of checking the disorderly behaviour of divers persons, who by drunkenness and idleness disqualify themselves from earning a proper support ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The Justices of the Peace for the County of York in their General Sessions be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to agree for the erecting and finishing of a proper building for an Alms House and Work House in the Town or Parish of Fredericton, and to fix upon a certain sum of money for defraying the expense thereof, which sum of money shall be raised by an assessment upon the inhabitants of the Parishes of Fredericton, Saint Mary's, Kingsclear, Prince William, and Queensbury, in the

said County, in the manner prescribed by the laws now in force for assessing, collecting, and levying County rates, or by any other law which may be passed during the present Session of the General Assembly, provided that such assessment shall not exceed the sum of seven hundred pounds.

2. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province, by warrant under his hand and seal, to be issued with the advice of His Majesty's Council, from time to time to appoint so many fit persons, not exceeding seven nor less than five, and of whom two shall be Justices of the Peace for the said County, as he shall think fit, to be Commissioners for superintending and managing the said building so to be erected for the purposes aforesaid; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners from time to time to provide such materials and things as they shall judge necessary, for the setting to work and employing such poor persons, of what age or sex soever they be, who may apply for relief and shall be capable to work, and shall have power and authority at their discretion to compel such idle or poor people begging or seeking relief, as do not betake themselves to some lawful employment, or who do or shall hereafter seek and receive alms of any of the said Parishes herein before mentioned within the said County, or who may stand in need of relief from any of the said Parishes, to dwell, inhabit, and to work in the said Work House, and to do all such work as they shall think them able and fit for, and shall have the same powers to bind out poor children apprentices, as are by the laws of this Province given to the overseers of the poor in the several Towns or Parishes.

3. The said Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid, shall have power to make such rules, orders, and regulations for the good government and management of the said Alms House and Work House as they shall find necessary, (such rules and regulations to be approved of by the Justices in their General Sessions), and to inflict such correction and punishment by solitary confinement or otherwise from time to time, as to them shall seem reasonable, on any person or persons within the said Alms House or Work House who shall be so set to work and shall not conform to such rules, orders, and regulations to be made as aforesaid, or shall misbehave in the same.

4. The said Commissioners shall at the first General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County, annually lay before the Justices in their said Sessions, an account, to be audited by the said Justices, of the expenses incurred by them for the support and maintenance of the poor of the said Alms House and Work House for the past year, together with an estimate of what sum or sums of money will be needful for the maintenance or employment of the poor of the said House for the current year, in which estimate shall be stated the proportion that each Town or Parish within the said County ought to pay, according to the number of poor persons that such Town or Parish shall have in the said Alms House, or committed to the care of the said Commissioners, to the intent that no other levy or assessment may be made for any other maintenance or allowance to or for any such poor, which sum or sums of money shall be assessed, levied, and raised in such manner and form as by the laws of this Province is or shall be appointed and directed, and when raised and received, shall be paid to the said Commissioners for the use aforesaid, and for no other.

5. The Commissioners to be appointed in pursuance of this Act shall have full power and authority to contract and agree with the overseers of the poor of any Parish in the said County, or of any adjoining County of this Province, for the maintenance of any poor persons belonging to such Parishes respectively, which contract and agreement such overseers are hereby authorized and empowered to make; provided always, that such overseers shall first pay or secure to be paid to the said Commissioners, such sum or sums of money as shall be so agreed for, and shall also report to the said Commissioners the names, character, and condition of all such poor persons within the said Towns or Parishes respectively, in whose behalf such application shall be made.

6. The profits of any work or labour to be performed under the direction of the said Commissioners shall be duly accounted for by them, and shall be applied towards the support and maintenance of the persons inhabiting within the said Alms House and Work House.