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condemnation and sale of any such spirituous liquors, which shall have been seized in con- sequence of the non-payment of the duties payable thereon, be entitled to receiVe the half of the fine which shall be imposed on any such distiller, or one-half of the proceeds of any spirituous liquors which may be condemned and sold as aforesaid.

XXIV. From and after the passing of this Act, instead of the credit mentioned in the seventy-eighth section of the said recited Act of the nineteenth Victoria, Chapter one, to be given for duties on goods, wares and merchan- dize to the importer thereof, as therein men- tioned, the following terms of credit for duties shall be given, that is to say: If the said duties shall exceed the sum of ten pounds and not amount to more than thirty pounds, a credit of three months shall be given therefor, and if the said duties shall exceed thirty pounds, a credit of six months shall be given for the payment thereof ; and no longer time than six months shall, in any case, be given, and all bonds and recognizances hereafter to be entered into for securing the payment of duties on goods, wares and merchandize of any kind whatsoever, shall bear interest on the amount thereof at the rate of six pounds per eentum per annum, and such interest shall be computed and paid and payable from the day of the date of such bond or re— cognizance until the payment thereof ; provided always, that nothing in this or any other Act contained shall be held or construed to entitle or give any person or persons any right or claim to a longer term of credit, for the amount of any bond or recognizance than the time therein mentioned for the payment thereof.

XXV. The warrant of attorney by law required to be taken by the Collector of Im- post, in addition to the recognizance directed to be entered into as security for the payment of duties of Impost and Excise, shall, as well as the defeasance thereon to be endorsed,be in form of the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (B,) or in such other form as the Lieutenant Governor, or the present or other Administrator of the Government for the time being, in Council, may from time to time, direct.

XXVI. It shall be competent and lawful

G A Z'E‘TrT‘E. or when either of those offices shallbe vacant, to sign all necessary declarations, pleas, bail pieces and other papers required. to be signed, in order to enter up udgment in Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature, on any warrant of attorney heretofore taken by Collectors of Impost and Excise, in addition to the recog- nizance by law directed to be taken as a secu- rity for the payment of duties of Impost and Excise, notwithstanding that such warrant of attorney shall be directed to the Attorney and Solicitor General only; also to issue exe- cution on the same, to take all necessary steps to perfect execution, and to acknowledge satis faction under any such circumsiances as afore- said, when payment has been recovered or received.

XXVI. All warrants of attorney which have heretofore been taken by Collectors of Impost and Excise. in addition to the recognizance by law directed to be taken as security for pay- ment of the duties of Impost and Excise, shall, notwithstanding that the same shall not, in all cases, be found to have been strictly taken in accordance with the directions contained in the statutes in force respecting the same, or the taking or form of such warrants of attorney be held and deemed to be be good and valid, and to be sufficient to enable and authorize judg- ment to be entered up thereon in Her M a- jesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature, as of the term of the said Supreme Court in Queen’s County, next preceding the date of entering up judgment or otherwise, as the case may be, and execution to be issued thereon for the re— covery of the amount purporting to be secured thereby and by the recognizance taken at the same time therewith.

XXVIII. The tenth, twenty-fourth, forty. fourth, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, sixty—first, sixty- second, sixty-seventh, sixty-eighth, seventy-fifth and eighty-first sections of the said hereinbefore ~ recited Act of the nineteenth Victoria, Chapter ~ one, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

XXIX. Any Collector of Impost and Excise who shall neglect or omit to administer any of the oaths prescribed in and by the twenty-fifth, thirty-seventh, forty—ninth, seventieth and seven- ty-second sections of the hereinbefore recited Act of the nineteenth Victoria, Chapter one, and in and by any of the sections of this Act,

for any of Her Majesty’s Queen’s Counsel in this Island, when called upon so to do, in the absence or in the event of the incapacity from illness of the Attorney or Solicitor General,“

shall, for each. and every such neglect or omission, forfeit and pay into the Treasury of this Island the sum of fifty pounds, for the use