26 27 An Act to regulate the Anchorage of Vessels in the Harbor of Halifax, 47 48 28 An Act to enable Members of the House of Assembly to Vacate their Seats 48 29 An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Masonic Hall in Halifax, 30 An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Lunenburg, 49 51 31 An Act to regulate the Fees to be taken in the Court of Marriage and 32 An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Township of Maxwelton to build a Lock-up-House, 33 An Act to enable Suitors in the Supreme Court to obtain the Testimony of the Judges thereof, 34 An Act to provide for the Custody of certain Documents relating to the Township of Chester, 35 An Act to Incorporate a Temperance Hall Company at Maitland, 36 An Act relating to the Pictou Academy, 37 An Act to provide for the removal of Obstructions from the Liverpool River, 39 An Act for the Encouragement of Education, 38 An Act to Incorporate the Halifax Association in aid of the Colonial Church Society, 40 An Act to authorize the Congregation of the Presbyterian Meeting House at Middle Stewiacke to sell the same, 41 An Act to confirm Titles to Land in Cape Breton, 42 An Act to authorize the Sale of the Land on which the Port Hood Aca demy now stands, and the purchase of a new Site therefor, 43 An Act to Incorporate the Carpenters' Society of Halifax, 44 An Act relating to the Powder Magazine at Halifax, 45 An Act to authorize certain expenditures upon Roads in the County of Cape Breton, 46 An Act to Naturalize Joseph Skallish, 47 An Act to authorize a Loan for the use of the Province, 48 An Act to enable Thomas Robson to obtain Letters Patent for the Invention of a Fog Bell, 49 An Act to Incorporate a Temperance Hall Company at Sydney, Cape Breton, 50 An Act for the Incorporation of a Company to build a Line of Electric Telegraph from Truro to Pictou, 51 An Act for regulating the Trade between the British North American Possessions, 52 An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of Saint Andrew's Free Church at Sydney, Cape Breton, 53 An Act concerning Town Property in Dartmouth, 54 An Act for the management of Colonial Customs and Excise, 79 80 55 An Act further concerning the Act for the Regulation of Juries, 80 57 An Act to provide for a Lock-up-House in Clare, 58 An Act for establishing Free Trade in certain Articles between the United States and the British North American Provinces, 82 59 An Act concerning Insurance Offices, 82 60 An Act to repeal so much of the Act relating to Commissioners of Streets as extends the same to Antigonishe, 83 888 61 An Act to authorize the appointment of Trustees for the Public Burial 84 62 An Act to amend the Act to Incorporate the Nova Scotia Horticultural 84 18 ACTS WITH SUSPENDING CLAUSES. An Act concerning Registrars of Deeds, ACTS CONTINUING AND AMENDING FORMER ACTS. 39 2 An Act further to continue and amend certain Acts relating to the Colonial Revenue, 14 3 An Act to continue and amend the Act for granting Duties of Impost for the support of Her Majesty's Government within this Province, 14 ACTS ONLY CONTINUING FORMER ACTS. 56 An Act further to continue certain Acts relating to the Sale of Spirituous Liquors generally, and Sales by Auction in Halifax, 34 AT the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Province of Nova-Scotia, begun and holden at Halifax, on THURSDAY, the Seventeenth day of JANUARY, 1850, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, &c. &c. &c., being the Third Session of the Nineteenth General Assembly convened in the said Province.* In the time of Sir JOHN HARVEY, Lieutenant-Governor; Michael Tobin, President of the Legislative Council; William Young, Speaker of the Assembly; Joseph Howe, Provincial Secretary; and Joseph Whidden, Clerk of Assembly. CAP. I. An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the service of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty, and for other purposes. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) May it please Your Excellency; We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the House of Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, towards appropriating the Supplies granted to Her Majesty, and for supplying the exigencies of Her Majesty's Government, do humbly beseech that it may be enacted, and Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: Out of the Monies which now are, or from time to time shall be or remain in the Public Treasury of this Province, there shall be paid the sum of Two Hundred Pounds to the Speaker of the House of Assembly, in full for his Salary as Speaker, for the present year. And a further sum of Two Hundred Pounds to the Clerk of the House of Assembly, for his services for the same year. And a further sum of Twenty-five Pounds to the Chaplain of the House of Assembly, for his services during the present Session. And a further sum of One Hundred Pounds to the Clerk Assistant of the House of Assembly, for his services for the same Session. And a further sum of Fifty Pounds to the Sergeant at Arms to the House of Assembly for his services for the same Session. And a further sum of Thirty Pounds to the Assistant Sergeant at Arms to the House of Assembly, for his services for the same Session. And a further sum of Forty Pounds to the Messenger of the Governor, and the Executive and Legislative Councils for the present year. And 2001. Speaker of Assembly. 2001. Clerk of Assembly. 251. Chaplain of As sembly. 100. Clerk Assistant of Assembly. 50. Sergeant at Arms to Assembly. 301. Asst. Sergt. Arms. 401. Messenger of Governor. And a further sum of Thirty Pounds to John Fitzgerald, for his services as Messenger to the House of Assembly during the present Session. And a further sum of Sixty Pounds to the Clerk of the Board of Revenue, for his services for the present year. And a further sum of Two Hundred Pounds to the Guager and Weigher for the Collector of Impost and Excise for the District of Halifax, for his services for the present year, to include the marking of the Casks, if required by the Government. And a further sum of One Hundred Pounds to the Proof Officer at Halifax, for his services in that capacity for the present year, and in lieu of all contingent expences connected therewith. And a further sum to be paid on the Certificate of the Board of Revenue, at the rate of Seven Shillings and Six Pence per day, to such persons as shall be employed by the Collector of Impost and Excise for the District of Halifax as extra Waiters for the Port of Halifax during the present year, Five Shillings per day to such Extra Waiter when unemployed, and at the rate of Five Shillings per day to temporary Waiters. And a further sum of Sixty Pounds to the Keeper of the Assembly House and Council Chamber and Law Library for the present year. And a further sum of Four Hundred Pounds to the Commissioners of Sable Island, for the support of that Establishment for the present year. And a further sum of Twenty Pounds to Edmund Crowell, to enable him to keep his Establishment at Seal Island for the relief of Shipwrecked Passengers for the pre sent year. And a further sum of Twenty Pounds to the person in charge at Mud Island, to enable him to keep a suitable Boat and Man at that place to assist Shipwrecked Seamen. And a further sum of Fifty Pounds to such persons as will run a proper Packet between Guysborough and Arichat, touching occasionally at Fox Island and Canso, under the regulations of the General Sessions of the Peace for the Counties of Guysborough and Richmond, to be paid upon the Certificate of such Sessions that such Packet has been properly kept and run during the present year. Provided that the Judges of the Supreme Court shall be taken without charge, if required, from Guysborough to Arichat, and from Arichat to Guysborough, on their circuit to Cape Breton, and that the Packet shall also carry the Mail between Guysborough and Arichat, if required. And a further sum of Twenty Pounds to aid the Inhabitants of Douglas, at the Mouth of the River Shubenacadie, in supporting a suitable Boat or Scow to run between Londonderry and that place-the said Boat or Scow to be run under the regulations of the General Sessions for the County of Hants-to be paid upon certificate from three Justices of the Peace residing in Douglas, that such Boat has been running at least twice a week for Six Months, to their satisfaction, under the regulations aforesaid. And a further sum of Thirty Pounds to aid the Inhabitants of Cape Breton in supporting a suitable Boat or Scow to run between M'Millan's Point, in Cape Breton, and Auld's Cove, in the County of Sydney-the said Boat or Scow to be placed under the regulations of the General Sessions for the County of Inverness. And a further sum of Five Pounds to each of the two Ferrymen between M.Millan's Point, Cape Breton, and Auld's Cove, Sydney, in addition to the grant therefor, for the present year, to aid them in respect of their loss of Boats. And a further sum of Ten Pounds each to the two Licensed Ferrymen at the Mouth of the Shubenacadie, in the Counties of Colchester and Hants, for the transportation of Horses and Carriages across that River-the same to be paid on the certificate of the General or Special Sessions of cach County respectively, that such Ferry has been duly attended, and proper Boats procured and used. And a further sum of Ten Pounds each to John Pernette and Charles Pernette, for keeping up the Ferry over Lahave River. And |