7th WILLIAM 4th-CHAPTER 21.

An Act in amendment of an Act intituled An Act to prevent Nuisances within the City of Saint John, and Parish of Portland in the County of Saint John.

Section.

1. Repeal of Section.

Section.

2. City of Saint John and Portland, what nuisances prevented in.

Passed 1st March 1837.

WHEREAS the Act now in force to prevent nuisances within the City of Saint John, and Parish of Portland in the County of Saint John, has been found ineffectual for that purpose ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The first Section of the Act passed in the third year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to prevent nuisances within the City of Saint John and Parish of Portland, be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. From and after the passing of this Act, if any hog or hogs, swine, horse or horses, ox or oxen, cow or cows, sheep, goat or goats, dog or dogs, shall be found going at large within the City of Saint John, on any of the roads, highways, streets, squares, or alleys thereof, or within the populous parts of the Parish of Portland lying to the westward of the Mill Bridge, including the road to Indian Town and the Short Ferry, or on the public road leading from the said City through the great marsh in the vicinity thereof, the owner or owners thereof shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings for each and every hog or animal as aforesaid so found going at large, one half to the overseers of the poor for the said City, in case the offence shall happen there, or to the overseers of the poor for the Parish of Portland, in case the offence shall happen there, and one half to the informer, to be recovered with costs of prosecution upon conviction before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City and County of Saint John, and to be levied on the goods and chattels of the owner of such hog or hogs, or other animal or animals as aforesaid; and in case the owner or owners of such hog or hogs, or other animal or animals as aforesaid, shall not be known, then it shall be the duty of any hogreeve or hogreeves of the said City or Parish to impound such hog or hogs, or other animals as shall be found so going at large; and it shall be the duty of the pound keeper

or pound keepers of the said City and Parish respectively, upon any hog or hogs, or other animals as aforesaid, being so impounded, to advertise the same in three public places in the said City and Parish respectively, and in case the owner or owners of such hog or hogs, or other animal or animals, shall not, within six days after such advertisement being put up as aforesaid, pay the said fine for each animal so impounded, together with the accustomed fees and charges for keeping the same, it shall and may be lawful for the said pound keeper to sell such hog or hogs, or other animal or animals as aforesaid, at publie auction, and apply the money arising therefrom towards payment of the said fine and charges, and all other expenses, and to pay the overplus (if any) to the owner or owners thereof, whenever such owner or owners shall appear and demand the same; and in case such owner or owners shall not appear and demand the same within six months after such hog or hogs, or other animal or animals shall have been so impounded, then the said overplus shall be paid to the said overseers of the poor, for the use of the poor of the said City or Parish, according to the place where the offence shall be committed.

8th WILLIAM 4th-CHAPTER 14.

An Act in further amendment of the Law relating to Nuisances in the Parish of Portland, in the County of Saint John.

Section 1.-Provisions of Act, to what extended.

Passed 22nd July 1837.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The provisions of the second Section of an Act made and passed in the last Session of the General Assembly, intituled An Act in amendment of an Act intituled "An Act to prevent nuisances within the City of Saint John, and Parish of Portland in the County of Saint John," shall extend and be construed to extend to that part of the said Parish of Portland which lies to the westward of the Marsh Creek so called, and between that Creek and the Mill Bridge, any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

1st VICTORIA-CHAPTER 17.

An Act to provide for the erection of an Alms House and Work House, and to establish a Public Infirmary in and for the City and County of Saint John.

WHEREAS the mode pursued in the County of York of providing for the support of the Poor has been found by experience to be less expensive than the general system pursued throughout the Province, and to be productive of industrious, sober, and moral habits among that class of people;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, in their General Sessions, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase a tract of land and agree for the erecting and finishing of a proper building for an Alms House and Work House thereon, in the vicinity of the City of Saint John, and to fix upon a certain sum of money for defraying the expense thereof; which sum of money shall be raised [the words here omitted are repealed by 4 V. c. 21,] upon the inhabitants of the City of Saint John, and the Parishes of Portland, Saint Martins, and Lancaster, in the said County, in the manner prescribed by the law now in force for assessing, collecting, and levying County rates, or by any other law passed or to be passed for that purpose; provided that such assessment shall not exceed the sum of three thousand pounds.

2. It shall and may be lawful for the said Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province, by warrant under his hand and seal, to be issued with the advice of Her Majesty's Executive Council, from time to time to appoint so many fit persons, not exceeding seven nor less than five, of whom two shall be Justices of the Peace for the said City and 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 the said land so to be purchased; and that 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 the said Commissioners or any two or more of them 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 the said City and of any of the said Parishes hereinbefore mentioned within the said County, or who may stand in need of relief from the said City or of any of the said Parishes, to dwell, inhabit, and to work in the said Alms House and 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 and 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 and 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 City and County of Saint John 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 and employment of the poor of the said House for the current year, in which estimate shall be stated the proportion that each City, Town, or Parish within the said County ought to pay, 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, after being audited and allowed by the said Justices, 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 uses aforesaid, and no other.

5. 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.

6. When the said Alms House and Work House shall be in a fit state to receive the poor who shall then be in the Alms House in the City of Saint John, and all the inmates of the said Alms House, except the sick and diseased, shall be removed to the said Alms House and Work House so to be erected, the said Alms House in the said City shall be used as and for a Public Infirmary.-[Remainder of Section repealed by 10 V. c. 57, s. 1.]

1st VICTORIA-CHAPTER 26.

An Act to continue the Act relative to the Streets and Squares in the City of Saint John.

Section 1.-Act 9 G. 4, c. 4, continued.

Passed 9th March 1838.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. An Act made and passed in the ninth year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act relative to the Streets and Squares in the City of Saint John, be and the same is hereby continued and declared to be in full force until the first day of April which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight.

3rd VICTORIA-CHAPTER 1.

An Act for the more effectual prevention of Fires in the City of Saint John.

Section.

Section.

1. Buildings, when and how constructed.

2. Restrictions as to what and where.