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six. months shall be given for the payment thereof, and no longer time than: six months shall inany 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 centum 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 re- quired to be taken by the Collectors of Impost,

in addition to the recognizances directed to be

entered into as security for the payment of duties of Impost and Excise, shall, as well as the defeazance thereon to be endorsed, be in the form in the schedule’to this Act annexed, marked (B), or in such other form as the Lieutenant Governor, 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 for any of Her Majesty’s Queen’s Counsel in this Island, when called upon so to do, in the ab- sence, or in the event of the incapacity from ill-

ness of the Attorney er Solicitor General, or-

when either of those offices shall be vacant, to sign all necessary declarations, pleas, bail pieces, and other papers required to be signed in order to enter up judgment in Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature, on any Warrant of attorney heretofore taken by Impost and Excise, in addition to the recogni- zance by law directed to be taken as security

for the payment of duties of Impost and Excise, '

notwithstanding that such warrant of attorney shall be directed to the Attorney General and Solicitor General only; also, to issue execution on the same, to take all necessary steps to perfect execution, and to acknowledge satis- faction under any such circumstances as afore- said when payment has been recovered or reteived. ’

XXVII. All Warrants of Attorney which have heretofore been taken by Collectors of

Collectors of I

.Impest and Excise, in addition to the recogni- zance by law' directed. to be taken as security .for payment of duties of 1211 post and Eneise, 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 good and valid, and to be sufficient to enable and authorise judgment to be entered up thereon in Her Majesty’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“ recovery 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 here- inbefore 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 seventyoseeond sections of the hereinbefore recited Act of the nineteenth Victoria, chapter one, and in and by any of the sections of this Act, 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 of Her Majesty’s Government ; to be recovered in the Supreme Court of Judicature, in Her Majesty’s name, in an action of debt, on the oath of a credible witness.

, XXX. All Collectors of Impost, now, or hereafter to be appointed, shall, on rendering a' just and true account of,and paying into the Treasury of this Island all moneys received by them, under and by virtue of the provisions of tthis Act, and on their AcCo'un'ts being certified as correct by the Auditors of public accounts, :be paid by Warrant drawn by the Lieutenant Governor in Council on the Treasury of this Island, an amount equal to five pounds per can-”

turn on all moneys received and paid over by