ROYAL GAZETTE. 809

MWFfWVYWSWQEEEWmCE EEK ISLAND with all the powers, privileges, and authorities a... ,' WMNWW of High Sheriffs, in each of their respective ' 3 Counties. III. Any person nominated and appointed under this or any other Act, to the office of

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the - , . . . office of Sharia; and to repeal a certain Act Sh'ertiff‘, attei height dztys’ notiitethf such his and parts of an Act therein mentioned. pom. men ’ re “8mg 0 M309" 6 same, 5 3 ° be liable to a penalty of twenty pounds.

. [Passed April 19,1869.] t . .

BE it enacted by the Administrator of the ,IV' Any member Of the LegISIature’ 1f ap‘ Government, Council and Assembly, as pOinted, may refuse to accept the office of Sheriff without being liable to any penalty;

follows :— I. The second, third, and seventh Sections PI'OVided that smell member 0f the LegiSIature shall, within eight days after receiving notice

of the Act of the eighteenth Victoria, Chapter . . . . . seven, intituled H An Act to consolidate and of his appomtment, Signify to the Lieutenant Governor, or other the Administrator of the

amend the laws now in force, relating to the . . . office of Sheriff, in this Islandtn and the Act Government, for the time being, his refusal to serve in the. said office of Sheriff.

of the twent -third Victoria, Cha ter fort -one, intituled u Kn Act to amend an get mad); and . V. Upon each and every such refusal,another passed in the eighteenth year of' the reign of hSt 9f Pf'oper and fit Persons to Serve the Office Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled 0f Shem?) as aforesal‘h Shall be made by the “An Act to consolidate and amem1the laws Justice or Justices, as above mentioned, and now in force, relating to the Office of Sher-the, in the same shall be by him or them delivered, as this Island," be and the same are hereby re_ aforesaid, to the Lieutenant Governor, or other the Administrator of the Government, as afore~

spectively repealed. . . . II. From and after the passing of thiS Act, said, who is hereby empowered to prick one the Chief Justice and Assistant Justice, and if nommatefl Person tllereout, WhO, uponrefusal, after havmg received notice, as aforesaid, shall

a third Justice be hereafter appointed, the _ . . Chief Justice and Assistant Justices of the Su— be llable ‘30 “19 Sald flee, and 80 t0 sontlnue by meme Court of thiS Island, or in the event of new returns and apporntments, until a .person the absence or incapacity of the Chief Justice, Shall be nommated and appomted Who W111 con

sent to receive, and actually serve the office of

or in the event of his being at the time, Ad- , , . ministrator of the Government of the Island, Eberiff, respectively, for each of the said Coun- ies.

the Assistant Justice, or if‘ there be more than . . . . one Assistant J usticc, the Assistant Justices of VI- EVOI‘Y Sherlff Shall “31113111 111 Office 1mm another be appointed and serve in his stead.

the said Court, shall, once in every year, that is . . VII. If the Sheriff of any County (110 whilst

to say, on the third Monday in April, annual- _ , . . ly, nominate, in writing, three fit and prop-er in office, another Sheriff shall immediately be appointed in his stead for the remainder of the

persons, in each County, in this Island, to be t , . made Sheriff's of the several Counties thereof, year, in the manner as hereinbef‘ore directed, who shall give the same security, and be liable

a copy of which nomination being signed by the t . . Justice or Justices so nominating as aforesaid, t0 the same Penaltles and PTOWSWDS as Other Sheriffs appointed under this Act; but the

shall immediately thereupon be presented by t _ the said Justice or Justices so signing the same Deputy of the deceased Sheriff shall continue in office, and the sureties of the Sheriff so dy-

as aforesaid, to the Lieutenant Governor, or. t . other the Administrator of the Government, for mg, shall. be liable for such Deputy until such the time being, who is hereby empowered im- new “PPOIntment be made.

mediately to prick one Sheriff out of the said VIII. Every Sheriff shall, before taking the number, for each of the several Counties of this usual oaths of office, deposit in the Colonial Island, to serve as Sheriffs for the ensuing Secretary’s office, a bond for the due discharge year, each residing within the County for which of the duties of office, to be made to Her he shall be appointed Sheriff, and who, upon Majesty Herself, in one thousand pounds, with giving security by Bond, as hereinafter men- two sureties, each in five hundred pounds, each tioncd, and taking the usual oaths of office, of which sureties shall justify on oath for their shall receive their commissions, and be invested respective amounts, before one of the Judges