any infringement of this Act, forthwith to notify the owner or owners thereof, or persons letting the same, and to cause proceedings to be had under this Act against the offender or offenders. 3. Every owner or owners of such premises, landlord, or person letting the same, without having a privy or privies attached to the said building, with other means of keeping the same clean as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor. 4. It shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, in Common Council convened, from time to time to make such bye laws and ordinances for the suppression of the nuisances aforesaid, in connection with the good order and cleanliness of the streets of the said City, and for the purpose of compelling the owners or persons interested in any vacant land situate on the sides of any of the public streets, lanes, wharves, highways, or bridges of the said City, to erect fences thereon to prevent injury to the inhabitants in passing or repassing, as they may think necessary, and may impose, levy, and receive such reasonable fines for any breach of any of the provisions of such laws and ordinances, or enforce the payment of such reasonable expenses for erecting and keeping up such fences, in case of neglect or refusal by such person or persons to erect and keep up the same, as the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty may think fit. 5. This Act shall not come into operation until the first day of June next. 7th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 37. An Act for more effectually securing the Navigation of the River and Harbour of Saint John, in the City and County of Saint John. Section 1.-Slabs, &c. throwing into river, &c. Penalty, &c. Passed 13th April 1844. WHEREAS a number of Mills have been erected for the manufacture of Lumber along the banks of the River, and around the Harbour of Saint John, in the City and County of Saint John, and great quantities of slabs and edgings are there cut and thrown into the said River and Harbour, thereby filling up the channel, injuring the anchorage, and obstructing the navigation thereof; Be it therefore enacted, &c.—1. From and after the passing of this Act, any person or persons who may be the owner or owners of any mill or mills already erected, or that may be erected on or near any part of the banks or shores of the River or Harbour of Saint John, or of any bay, cove, creek, or stream falling into the said River or Harbour of Saint John, within the City and County of Saint John, for the manufacture of lumber of any description, or any person or persons who may be engaged in manufacturing lumber in any such mill or mills, who shall throw, or cause, suffer, or permit to be thrown, by any person or persons who may in any way be employed by them, any slabs, edgings, rinds, bark, or chips made or cut at any such mill or mills, or shall suffer or permit the same, or any part thereof, to fall, roll, or float into any part of the said River or Harbour of Saint John, within the said City and County of Saint John, or into any bay, cove, creek, or stream falling into the said river or harbour, within the said City and County, every such owner of such mill or mills, or other person or persons manufacturing lumber at any such mill or mills, or any person or persons whether interested in the manufacture of such lumber or otherwise, offending against the provisions of this Act, shall forfeit and pay a fine for every such offence, of a sum not exceeding twenty pounds, nor less than one pound, to be recovered, with costs of suit, before any two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, at the suit of the Treasurer of the said County for the time being, on the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, and to be levied by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels; and if no goods or chattels can be found whereon to levy the same, then the offender or offenders to be committed by the warrant of the Justices to the common gaol of the said City and County, there to remain for any time not exceeding fifty days, unless the amount of such fine and costs shall be sooner paid; and such fine, when recovered, shall be paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the said County, for the public uses thereof; provided always, that no conviction under this Act shall be had or recorded against any mill owner or manufacturer aforesaid for a breach of this Act by any other person or persons who may have become bona fide purchasers of any of the articles aforesaid, or may have obtained the same for their own use, or for consumption, unless the said mill owner or manufacturer may have been privy or consenting thereto, for the purpose of getting clear of the cuttings and rubbish aforesaid. 9th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 29. An Act relating to the Public Debt of the Corporation of the City of Saint John. 1. Interest of public debt, how deficiency 3. Further debt not to be contracted till made up. when. 2. Carleton not affected. Passed 11th April 1846. WHEREAS the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, by their petition, accompanied and confirmed by sundry detailed Accounts and Schedules, have satisfactorily shewn that during a long period of years ending in the month of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five, they have incurred a debt in improving the streets, bridges, and ferries, in laying down common sewers, and in erecting public buildings, within the said City, for the convenience, health, and accommodation of the community, amounting in the whole to the sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty six pounds, and that the rents, annual profits, and produce of such parts of the Corporate property as are at present productive, will, unless from some unforeseen circumstances, yield and pay an annual interest of five per centum beyond their ordinary expenses, and that there is a large portion of land not yet leased, or producing any income to the Corporation; and further, that the income of the Corporation from ordinary revenues will increase in proportion to the increase of population, whereby in a very few years the Corporation will be enabled to pay off the interest, and gradually reduce the principal of the debt so incurred, and thereby not only save the property of the Corporation for the benefit of future generations, but prevent extensive taxation for future improvements in the City, and in the mean time that it is of importance to inspire confidence among the creditors by securing to them the sum of five per centum annual interest on their claims, which it is believed (if it can be effected) they will readily accept of, as full interest for the money loaned, or if they should not, that other persons could be found willing to vest their money at that rate of interest: And whereas such confidence would be obtained by authorizing the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John to levy an annual assessment on the said City for any deficiency which might arise in the net annual income of the said Corporation to pay the said interest of five per centum: And whereas it is just and reasonable that such deficiency of interest (if any there shall be) should be made up by those who have received and are now enjoying the benefit of the outlay which occasioned the said public debt, and that the said creditors should be made secure in the payment of the said interest;— Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. It shall and may be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, in Common Council convened, and they are hereby required in each and every year, between the first day of April and the first day of June, to order an assessment of such sum of money on the said City as shall amount to and make up the deficiency (if any) which may exist between the net annual income of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, and such sum of money not exceeding five per centum per annum interest in the whole on the said debt of one hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty six pounds, or any part thereof, so due by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, or on such sum of money as may be borrowed by them to pay off the said debt or any part thereof, not to exceed in the whole such interest of five per centum on the said sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty six pounds; and every such assessment shall be assessed, levied, and raised agreeably to the several Acts now in force or hereafter to be in force for the assessing, levying, and collecting of County or Town or Parish rates, charges, or expenses; and when collected, the same shall be paid into the hands of the Chamberlain of the said City for the use of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, to be by them applied to the sole purpose of paying off such deficiency of such interest; provided that no assessment shall be made, under and by virtue of the authority given for the purposes aforesaid, of a greater sum in any one year than one thousand pounds currency, nor until the whole annual income from whatever source derived, (save and except the moneys coming into the hands of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, arising from Acts of Assembly now in force, authorizing assessments for special purposes, together with the indispensable annual charges for salaries and contingencies,) shall be first applied towards the payment of such interest on the said debt. 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to affect any of the existing legal or equitable rights and privileges of the freemen and inhabitants of Carleton, on the western side of the said City, which they now possess or are entitled to enjoy under and by virtue of the Charter of the said City. 3. It shall not be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John to contract or become bound for any further debt or debts, or borrow any further sum or sums of money while the said debt of one hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty six pounds, or any part thereof, remains unpaid, or the loan of money which may be obtained by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, for the purpose of paying the same or any part thereof, shall remain unsatisfied; and any contract, obligation, or other instruments whatever, whereby any new debt may be incurred by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, shall be and is hereby declared to be utterly null and void, except for the purposes contemplated by this Act. 9th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 30. An Act relating to County and Parish Officers in the City and County of Saint John. 1. County, &c. officers, when to give se- 2. Accounts when and how rendered. Discurity, &c. obedience how punished. Passed 11th April 1846. Be it enacted, &c.-1. All officers appointed, or who may be hereafter appointed for the City and County of Saint John, |