INDIANS. 31. Number of Male Indians, including Children. 32. Number of Female Indians, including Children. COLORED PERSONS. 33. Number of Colored Males, including Children. 34. Number of Colored Females, including Children. ASSESSMENTS. 35. Amount of Assessment for County Rates. VALUE OF PROPERTY. 39. Assessed Value of Real Estate. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES. 42. Number of Births the preceding year. NUMBERS ENGAGED IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS. 45. Number of Clergymen or Ministers. 46. Number of Doctors. 47. Number of Farmers. 48. Number of Mechanics. 49. Number of Merchants and Traders. 50. Number of Persons engaged in Fisheries. 51. Number of Seamen registered. 52. Number of Persons employed at Sea. 53. Number of Persons engaged in Lumbering. PLACES OF WORSHIP. 54. Number of Churches and Places of Worship of each Denomination. SCHOOLS AND PUPILS. 55. Number of Schools in District. 56. Number of Children attending School. NUMBERS OF VARIOUS RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. 57. Number of Church of England. 58. Number of Catholics. 59. Number of Kirk of Scotland. 60. Number of Free Church. 61. Number of Presbyterian Church of Nova-Scotia.. 62. Number of Baptists. 63. Number of Methodists. 64. Number of Congregationalists. 65. Number of Universalists. 66. Number of Lutherans, Sandimanians, Quakers, and other Denominations. IMPROVED IMPROVED LAND. 67. Number of Acres of Dyke Land and average value. 68. Number of Acres other Improved Land. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. 69. Number of Tons of Hay cut. 74. Number of Bushels of Buckwheat raised. 79. Number of Bushels of Turnips raised. 80. Number of Bushels of other Root Crops raised. 81. Number of Neat Cattle. 82. Number of Milch Cows. 83. Number of Horses. 84. Number of Sheep. AGRICULTURAL STOCK. 85. Number of Swine. FISHERIES. 86. Number of Vessels engaged in Fisheries, and men on board. 87. Amount of Tonnage engaged in Fisheries. 88. Number of Boats engaged in Fisheries, and men on board. 89. Number of Nets and Seines. 90. Quantity of Dry Fish cured. 91. Quantity of Salmon caught and cured. 92. Quantity of Shad caught and cured. 93. Quantity of Smoked Herrings cured. 94. Quantities and value of other Fish cured. 95. Quantity and value of Fish Oil. MILLS AND FACTORIES. 96. Number and value of Saw Mills, and number of hands employed. 97. Number and value of Grist Mills, and number of hands employed. 98. Number and value of Tanneries, and number of hands employed. 99. Number and value of Foundries, and number of hands employed. 100. Number and value of Weaving and Carding Establishments, and number of hands employed. 101. Number and value of Breweries and Distilleries, and number of hands employed. 102. Number and value of Hand Looms. 103. Number and value of Factories other than the above, and number of hands em ployed. 104. Number of Steam Mills or Factories. ARTICLES MANUFACTURED. 105. Number of Yards of Fulled Cloth manufactured last year.. 106. Number of Yards of Cloth not Fulled. 107. Number of Yards of Flannel. 108. Value of Boots and Shoes manufactured. 110. Value of Candles manufactured. 111. Value of Soap manufactured. 112. Value of Agricultural Implements manufactured. 113. Value of Chairs and Cabinet Ware manufactured. 114. Value of Carriages manufactured. 115. Value of Wooden Ware other than the above manufactured. 116. Value of Iron Castings manufactured. 117. Quantity of Coals raised. 118. Quantity of Iron smelted and value. 119. Number of Gallons of Malt Liquor manufactured. 120. Number of Gallons of Distilled Liquors manufactured. 121. Casks of Lime burnt, and value. 122. Quantity of Bricks manufactured, and value. 123. Number and value of Grindstones quarried. 124. Tons and value of Gypsum quarried. 125. Quantity of Maple Sugar manufactured. 126. Quantity of Butter manufactured. 128. Number of Vessels built and Tonnage. The Halifax and Dartmouth Mutual Insurance Company Incorporated. CAP. IX. An Act to Incorporate the Halifax and Dartmouth (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. John Tempest, Richard M'Learn, Henry Y. Mott, John Burton, George A. Blanchard, and all such other persons as shall become Members of the Corporation hereby established, their Successors and Assigns, are hereby erected into a Company, and declared to be a Body Corporate, by the name of "The Halifax and Dartmouth Mutual Insurance Company," and by that name shall have Succession, and a Common Seal, and may sue and be sued, and shall have power to make Insurances against loss or damage by Fire on Houses, Buildings, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, and from time to time to choose from among themselves, and appoint such Officers and Agents as the business of the Company may require, to fix their compensation, and to define their duties and obligations, and to make Bye-Laws and Ordinances, not contrary to the Laws of the Province, for the issuing of Policies of Insurance, the payment of Premiums and Assessments, the management of the Property, the transfer of the Stock, the regulation of the Affairs, and the good rule and government of the Corporation. II. All persons in whose names Property shall be Insured in the Company, shall become Members. thereby become Members during the period that they may remain insured and no longer. III. The First Meeting of the Company shall be held in the City of Halifax, and may be called by any Three of the persons named in this Act, by giving notice in one Persons insuring First Meeting of the of of the Newspapers printed in the City, at least one week previous to the Meeting, and all persons declaring at such Meeting their intention to insure with, and become Members of the Company, shall be deemed Members thereof for the purposes of its organi zation. of Policies, &c. IV. No Policies of Insurance shall be issued by the Company until the sum of Two Restrictions on issue Thousand Pounds has been paid in by the Parties applying for Insurance; and every Policy shall of itself create a lien on the interest of the person insured, in any Building thereby insured, and in the Land under the same, for securing the payment of all losses or assessments to which such person would be liable under the Sixth Section of this Act: Provided the extent of such liability, and the intention of the Coporation to Proviso. rely upon such lien shall be set forth in the Policy; and that upon the expiration of the Policy, or upon the alienation of the Estate to a bona fide Purchaser, the lien shall cease as to all losses which shall thereafter happen, unless the Policy shall continue in force by consent of the purchaser. V. The ordinary Capital of the Company shall consist of the sums paid in for In- Capital of Company. surance, but payment of losses shall be further secured as provided in the next Sec tion. bers. VI. In case the paid in Capital of the Company shall be found insufficient to meet Liability of Memlosses, each Member shall be liable to contribute his proportionate share of the deficiency, so as not to exceed twice the amount of premium paid by him on Property then insured-which sum, if not paid when ascertained and required by the Directors, shall be levied by Warrant of Distress upon his Goods and Chattels, to be issued by, and in the name of, the President of the Company. VII. Nothing in this Act contained shall authorise the Company to engage in any Not to authorize Banking operation, or in lending Money by way of discount, or in effecting Marine Insurances or Insurances upon Lives. Banking operations, &c. VIII. This Act shall expire unless the Company go into operation within three To expire unless years from the passing hereof. acted on in three years. CAP. X. An Act to facilitate Legal Proceedings against Companies doing business by Agents in this Province. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: Business in this Province by Agents, to be sued by the name by which they are associated. I. Companies or Bodies Corporate associated or incorporated out of Nova-Scotia, Companies doing doing Business by an Agent within this Province, may be Sued for any cause of Action which may hereafter arise, in whole or in part therein, before the Courts of the Province, by the name whereby they are associated or incorporated, by the name whereby they may be designated by the Agent, and Service on the Agent of Process to appear, shall give the Court jurisdiction over the Case, and Proceedings shall be had as when Process to appear has been served on a Defendant personally; and any person so served may, during the first Term thereafter come into Court and shew that he is not an Agent, and upon Proof thereof he shall have Judgment against the Plaintiff, with Costs of Suit. II. The Court may, in its discretion, on sufficient cause shewn, allow time for the Time to Agent to Agent to communicate with his Constituent. communicate. Agent to respond to Agent to be examined on Oath. Plaintiff may Attach for Oath previous to Judgment. Act not to affect lien III. If Judgment shall pass for the Plaintiff, the Agent, whether the same Agent who was served with Process or any other, shall be bound to respond the same out of the Assets, Estate, and Effects of the Company, or Body Corporate therein, or which at any time afterwards may come into his hands or under his control, deducting his Costs and fair and legal Commission thereon, to be disclosed by the Agent on Oath, if thereto required. IV. After Judgment the Agent may be examined on Oath before the Court, or a Judge at Chambers, concerning the Estate, Assets, and Effects of the Company, or Corporate Body in his hands or under his control at the time of Judgment or at any time afterwards, and the Plaintiff and his Proof may be heard in explanation or contradiction, and such Order shall be therein made as to justice may appertain, which shall be enforced by Attachment, Scire facias, or Action of Debt, or on the Case against the Agent personally. V. If the Plaintiff shall desire Security previous to Judgment, he may, at the commencement of the Suit, or during its progress, make Oath to the Cause of Action, and proceed by Attachment against the Estate and Effects of the Company or Corporate Body, and by Summons to disclose against the Agents and Debtors of the Company or Corporate Body, or by either process, and by One or in Separate and Several Writs, and the Estate and Effects attached, and also the Credits and Effects in the hands or under the control of the Agents or Debtors at the time of Service, or at any time afterwards, shall be available to respond the Judgment to the amount of the Sum sworn to, and Costs, as in cases under the Absconding Debtor's Acts; but the Plaintiff may, nevertheless, proceed against the Agent after Judgment as before directed. VI. Nothing in this Act contained shall prevent the Judgment from binding the of Judgment, &c. Property of the Company or Body Corporate, or from being levied and enforced by Execution or otherwise, in such manner as may be conformable to Law in other cases. VII. Nothing in this Act shall abridge or affect the operation of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, "An Act concerning Suits against Foreign Bodies, Politic or Corporate, and to repeal the Acts now in force." This Act not to affect IV. Laws, &c. of Cape to 1820 declared to have been in force during such period. CAP. XI. An Act for Settling Titles to Land in the Island of (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. All the Laws, Statutes, Ordinances, Customs, and Usages, which prevailed in Breton, from 1784 the Island of Cape Breton, between the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-four, and the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty, from the date when a Legislature was granted to the Island of Cape Breton, distinct from the Legislature of Nova Scotia, to the date of the annexation of the Island of Cape Breton to Nova-Scotia, are hereby declared to have been in full force and effect during such period, and all decisions thereunder and in conformity therewith, are declared legal, and shall be maintained for the Government of the Descent, Distribution, and Conveyance of Real and Personal Estate. CAP. |