The County of Colchester, One Hundred Pounds for an Academy. District comprising the residue of the County of Digby, Sixty-six Pounds Thir- District of Barrington, Fifty Pounds for one or two Grammar Schools. District of Saint Mary's, in the County of Guysborough, Thirty-three Pounds Six District of Guysborough, Sixty-six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Four Pence for County of Sydney, One Hundred Pounds for Grammar Schools. County of Cape Breton, One Hundred Pounds for three Grammar Schools. District of Do. Southern District of Inverness, comprising the remainder of the County, Sixty- £66 13s 4d Southern six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Four Pence for two Grammar Schools. SCHEDULE B. Referred to in the Tenth Section of the foregoing Act. The City of Halifax, Seven Hundred Pounds. Eastern District of the County of Halifax, Three Hundred and Eighty-nine Western District of the County of Halifax, Three Hundred and Eighty-nime County of Lunenburg, Six Hundred and Fifty-two Pounds. County of Annapolis, Six Hundred and Forty-nine Pounds. Kings County, Six Hundred Pounds. County of Pictou, One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-two Pounds. District comprising the residue of the County of Cumberland, Four Hundred and District of Stirling in the County of Colchester, One Hundred and Forty-two District comprising the residue of the County of Colchester, Four Hundred and £652 Lunenburg. £390 Queen's Cy. £649 Annapolis. £600 King's Cy. £1122 Pictou. £108 District of Parrsborough. £432 Cumberland. £142 District of Stirling. £479 Colchester. The £232 Rawdon and Douglas. £387 Hants. £171 Clare. £342 Digby. £294 Dsstrict of Yarmouth. £215 Argyle. £195 District of Barrington. £195 District of Shelburne. £120 St. Mary's, Guysborough. £302 Guysborough. £600 Sydney. £259 North District £518 South District of Inverness. Proprietors of Pres House at Middle Stewiacke may appoint a Committee to sell Meeting House. The District of Rawdon and Douglas, in the County of Hants, Two Hundred and District comprising the residue of the County of Hants, Three Hundred and District of Clare, in the County of Digby, One Hundred and Seventy-one Pounds. District of Yarmouth in the County of Yarmouth, Two Hundred and Ninety-four District of Argyle in the County of Yarmouth, Two Hundred and Fifteen Pounds. District of Shelburne, One Hundred and Ninety-five Pounds. District of Saint Mary's, in the County of Guysborough, One Hundred and District comprising the remainder of the County of Guysborough, Three Hundred County of Sydney, Six Hundred Pounds. County of Cape Breton, Eight Hundred and Fifty-five Pounds. County of Richmond, Four Hundred and Thirty-three Pounds. Northern District of Inverness, as described in Schedule A, Two Hundred and Southern District of the County of Inverness, Five Hundred and Eighteen Pounds. CAP. XL. An Act to authorise the Congregation of the Presbyterian Meeting House at Middle Stewiacke to Sell the same. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: I. A majority of the Proprietors of the Presbyterian Meeting House at Middle byterian Meeting Stewiacke, in the County of Colchester, present at any Meeting held after Public Notice thereof, given in Three of the most public places within the Settlement, at least Ten Days previously, may appoint a Committee of Three of their number to make Sale of the Meeting House, and the Committee shall sell the same, conformably to the Instructions given at the Meeting, and cause the removal thereof, and shall apply the Proceeds as directed by the Meeting: no Meeting to be valid for the purposes of this Act unless a majority of the whole of the Proprietors of the Meeting House shall be present. CAP. XLI. Titles confirmed. An Act to confirm Titles to Land in Cape Breton. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. All persons who may have gone into possession of any Lands and Tenements in the Island of Cape Breton under a Crown Lease, or under a Title derived from a Lessee of the Crown holding under such Crown Lease, shall respectively have, hold, and and enjoy all such Lands and Tenements in Fee Simple, or in case of such derivative title, then they shall hold such a title in any such Lands or Tenements as may have been conveyed or passed, or intended to have been conveyed or passed under and by virtue thereof: Provided always that in any such derivative title the original Lessee Proviso. shall have fully assigned, conveyed, or demised his whole interest or title in such Lands; and provided also that where any Grants under the Great Seal of the Province shall have passed, of Lands previously contained in a Crown Lease to a different party than the Lessee, or any one claiming under him, the Grantee, or any one claiming under him, being in actual possession, shall be held to have the superior title, if such Grants shall have passed Ten Years, or upwards, before the passing of this Act; And provided also, that nothing herein contained shall extend to the General Mining Association, or other Lessees of any Mines. or Minerals in the Island of Cape Breton. CAP. XLII. An Act to authorise the Sale of the Land on which the Port Hood Academy now stands, and the Purchase of a new Site therefor. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. The Trustees of the Academy in Port Hood, in the County of Inverness, or those of them in whom the Title in the Lot of Land on which such Academy stands may he vested, may make sale and dispose of the said Lot of Land at Public Auction, and purchase another Site for such Academy; and the same shall be removed to such other site before or at a convenient time after the sale of the Lot on which it now stands as may be deemed expedient, and the sum accruing from the Sale shall be appropriated to the finishing of the Academy after paying for the new site. CAP. XLIII. An Act to Incorporate the Carpenters' Society of Halifax. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. The following persons residing in or near the City of Halifax, viz: James Dech- Incorporated. man, William Cutlip, William Lovett, Matthew Lownds, James Thompson, Thomas Clouston, Andrew Williams, Robert Richardson, John L. Barry, Henry Dugwell, Patrick Sullivan, Thomas H. Peters, George Butler, Peter Thorogood, Daniel Smith, John Twaddle, and such other persons as are or may become Members of the Carpenters' Society of Halifax, are hereby Incorporated by the name of "The Carpenters' Society of Halifax," and by that name shall have perpetual Succession and à Common Seal, and may sue and be sued, and may take, purchase and hold, Real and Personal Estate, and may make Bye Laws for the Regulation of the Society; but the Corporation shall not hold Real Estate beyond the value of Five Thousand Pounds in all.. 17 Real Estate vested in Corporation. Rules of Corporatn. Special Committee. Sale &c. of Real II. The Real Estate now in possession of the Society, by virtue of a Deed from Samuel George William Archibald, and Elizabeth Archibald, to James Dechman and others, as Trustees for the Society, bearing date on or about the Nineteenth day of July, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-one, and known as the Carpenter's Hall, shall be vested in the Corporation; but this Clause shall not affect the Rights of Her Majesty, or of any Body Politic or Corporate, or of Private Individuals. III. The Rules now in force in the Society being the same which were printed in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-three, under the title of "Rules and Regulations of the Brother Carpenters' Society of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, revised and reprinted by J. Munro, 1833," shall continue to be the Rules of the Corporation, until the same shall be repealed or amended in manner thereby directed.. IV. There shall be a Special Committee of the Society, consisting of Five Members, and the same James Dechman, William Lovett, William Cutlip, Matthew Lownds, and James Thomson, shall be such Special Committee for the present year, two of the Members going out of the Office yearly; and in future the appointment of the Special Committee shall be in accordance with such Rules or Bye-Laws as the Society may adopt; and the same James Dechman, William Lovett and William Cutlip, shall each remain on the Committee during their lives, except in case of voluntary resignation; and the Special Committee shall have the charge of the Real and Personal Property of the Society subject to the Bye Laws; and the Chairman of the Special Committee by them annually elected, shall have the care and keeping of the Common Seal, and of the Title Deeds and Documents; and the Special Committee shall be subject to the direction of the Society at its Quarterly Meetings, and shall render an account or report of its Proceedings at the Annual Meetings. V. It shall not be lawful to Mortgage, Sell, or Lease the Real Estate of the Society, Estate restricted. for any term beyond Five Years, unless upon a Vote of Two-thirds of the Members present at a Regular Quarterly Meeting, and after notice has been specially given of the Mortgage, Sale, or Lease, proposed by a Written Resolution, clearly expressing the Terms thereof, moved and seconded at a previous Quarterly Meeting. Affixing Common Lease of Carpenter's Government of the VI. Whenever it shall be requisite to affix the Common Seal of the Society to any Deed of Conveyance of Real Estate, the Signatures of any two or more of the Special Committee, and also of the President and Secretary of the Society shall be affixed to the Deed. VII. The Special Committee, or the major part of them, shall have power to let the Carpenter's Hall, or any part thereof, for any term not exceeding Five Years, reserving and excepting such use of the same as the Society may require for its Meetings. VIII. The Government of the Society, and the general disposal of its Funds, Rents, and other Property, shall be vested in the Members thereof, at their Quarterly and other Meetings, and in their President and other Officers chosen and acting under the Rules and Bye Laws. Storage. CAP. XLIV. An Act relating to the Powder Magazine at Halifax. BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: CAP. CAP. XLV. An Act to authorise certain Expenditures upon Roads in the County of Cape Breton. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: W CAP. XLVI. An Act to Naturalize Joseph Skallish. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) HEREAS Joseph Skallish, a native of Sicily, came to this Province about Preamble. Thirty-seven years ago, since which time he has resided in Halifax, and been chiefly employed as a Messenger under the Government, and intending to reside here permanently, is desirous of being Naturalized, and has given satisfactory assurance that he is willing to assume all the duties and responsibilities which may attach to him in the character of a good and faithful subject of our Lady the Queen. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: 1. The said Joseph Skallish, so soon as he shall take and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and Her Successors, in manner prescribed in the Act passed in the Eleventh year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act relating to the Naturalization of Aliens within this Province," shall, within the limits of this Province, become a Naturalized Subject of Her Majesty, entitled to all the rights of such subjects, as fully as the same can be conferred, under or by virtue of the Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Naturalization of Aliens." An Act to authorise a Loan for the use of the Pro vince. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. The Governor may cause a Cash Account to be opened at any one or more of the Joseph Skallish naturalized on taking Oaths. Cash Account may be opened with Banks. |