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soughfares of the City, and each and every per-

Dn ofbndi gainst tllisf/lauae shall, for every elence, for sit and pay ft sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings.

Sec. 32. It shall be the duty of the Collector of lmpost for this City to furnish the City Coun- cil quarterly with a written return of the quan- tity of gunpowder imported by every person into the City, and no person residing t erein shall keep, or permit to be kept, in any dwelling

house, store. sho , stable or out-house, any P

greater quantity t an twenty-ﬁve pounds weight ofgunpowder at no one time, nor shall any

uantity of gunpow er be so had or kept, unless the same be contained in a covered copper, lead, tin, or ewter canister, or, if in a covered wooden keg or vessel, such keg or vessel shall be secured in a leatliern bag, and all persons found oﬁ'ending_hersin, shall incur a_ penalty of Three Pounds for each offence, provided alway, that no person shall incur such penalty, for having gunpowder in his or her keeping con- trary to the intent and meaning of this Act, unless there shall be in the City or in its sub- nr rhity of gunpowder, to which the public can

ave access.

Sec. 33. No stovepipe shall be passed through any roof, outside wall, or window of any dwelling house, out house, or other building within the City, but shall be carried into brick fines, of at least four inches thick; and every

flue beginning on any floor shall be based and‘

erected on a stone, at least four inches thick, and projecting at least six inches in every di- rection, beyonl the bottom of such fine; and no stovepipe within any dwelling-house, out- house or other building in the City shall be passed through or near any rtition of wood, or of wood and lime, or t rou h a wooden ﬁocr. unless there shall have been eft ﬁve inch- es clear between the pi and the partition or ﬁoor, which pipe shal be surrounded with stone or brick (well plaistered with lime) or with a sheet of tin, lead. copper or sheet iron, to be nailed or fastened to every such partition or ﬂoor; and all stoves shall be set up in such manner, as that in all cases there shall be at least, eighteen inches in every direction except the bottom fromany wainscot, laths or wooden partition, through or alongside of which, the same may be placed, or if at aless distance, then the wall or partition shall be well and securely protected by a sheet of bright tin or lead to the satisfaction of the engineers, and any person or persons offending in the premises shall incur a penalty of ten shillings, for each and every offence. Sec. 34. All stoves now in use, or that may \ hereafter be used in any car nter’s, cocper’s, ‘ hnner’s,cabinet maker's,bloc maker’s.joiners,

whselwright's,or other work shops, or any

warehouse or manufnctory whatsoever, before the same are used. shall have a covering on the floor immediately under such stove or stoves properly laid of brick, stone, or metal, extend- ing at least eighteen inches beyond the stove on ever side ; and any person offending in this ‘ rtieu ar, shall be subject to the penalty here- in last before mentioned. ‘

Sec. 35. In the event of its appearing to any of the engineers that any chimney, line or oven, in any building in their res ective wards is_improperly built or unsafe an unfit

for use, it shall be the duty of such engineer ‘f

to report the some to the City council, who, 1 they deem it expedient, shall condemn siiid chimney, fine or even, order that the same shall not be further used as such, and give no- tice thereof to the owner, or person occupying said building ; and in case any of the persons aforesaid shall afterward use the same witli- out its having been repaired or renewed to the satisfaction of the fire department, he or they shall be liable to a penalty of not more than live pounds for each offence.

Sec. 36. On the discovery of the breaking out ofa ﬁre, the different church and ﬁre bells shall be rang, and all the inhabitants of the city shall be bound to render assistance to the en ineers, who are hereby jointly and seve- ra y empowered to require such assistance for the purpose ofsecurina or removing any property that may be necessary or practicable to save, for extinguishing or prventing the further spreading of such fire, and to suppress all tu- mult and disorder; an person or persons who ahall wantonly or wi fully make any false alarm ofﬁre, and be thereof convicted on oath before the Mayor's or police court shall forfeit

and pay a sum not exceeding Ten ounds.

Sec. 37. The board of engineers shall meet from time to time as may be required, but said board shall have regular annual meetings in the month of March, for the purpose of’ prepar- ing a report of the year's proceedings and ma- king an estimate of such sums as they may consider necessary for procuring a further sup ly of ﬁre-en ' es, water carts. caslis, line etc bags, ﬁre- lie or other implements, ortobe istributed as premiums, or for any other purpose whatsoever the said board ma

consider it necessary to apply the same, whic estimate and report she I be sent to the Cit council and if approved of b them they sha cause the same to be provide and handed over to the said board of‘ engineers.

Sec 38. Each engine company shall elect

a Magazine for the reception and seen-

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a touching interest to housekeepers :-

from among themselves, three persons who

together with the Captain, first-pipeman and

clerk shall keep the a paratus committed to their charge in good or er, and ready for ser- vice at all times, and the said ﬁre members shall each, receive annually from the city funds the sum of Twenty ﬁve shillings, and the rem- aining part of the company, shall each, re- ceivc a remission of city dues, not exceeding ten Shillings, Provided that each member shall reduce a certiﬁcate signed by the captain, or in his absence the ﬁrst-lieutenant, that the said member has not been absent f'rom more than three regular meetings in the year.

See. 39. The regular days for training for each compan shall be once in each month, from the ﬁrst of May to the first of November and once in the ﬁrst weeks of April and Novem- ber, and any member who shall refuse or ne- glect to attend on the said days of training without a sufﬁcient excuse to be allowed by the captain or commanding ollicer of his or their company, or shall be guilty of disobedience of the orders of said ollieers, he or they shall for

three shillings, and any member of sncli coin- pany who shall neglect to attend for three suc- cessive days of training. without sullioiont ex- cuse arising from sickness or other unavoida- ble cause, shall be liable to be discharged from such company by order ofthe said company, or the major part thereof and not be allowed any compensation whatsoever.

Sec. 40. No person hereby appointed a member of the ﬁre department, shall be at li- berty to resi n or withdraw from any company thereof (un ess with permission of the coin- manding oﬁicer of the same) until such person shall have served at least one year in the com- pany and shall have given to such commanding oﬁicer at least three months’ previous notice in writing of his intention to resign.

Sec. 41. If any persons or persons shal have in their possession, an ' ratus belonging to the ﬁre epairtment, or any ﬁre buckets belonging to private persons, or public buildings, and shall neglect to return the same for twenty four hours after any ﬁre, or shall be found using the same, except at the time ofa ﬁre, he, she, or they, shall be subject to a penalty of Five shillings.

Sec. 42. Any member of the fire department is hereby authorised to call to his assistance in conveying to any ﬁre any of the apparatus belonging to tilt: ﬁre department, any person

this act, and every person so liable who shall refuse his aid and assistance, when so called u on, shall forfeit and pay, for every such 0 ence any sum not exceeding ﬁve shillings.

Sec. 43. The Cit Council shall duly pro- vide such houses andy preiiiiscs, as shall be re- quired by \ keeping of the engines and other apparatus belonging to the department, in such parts 0 the city as shall be deemed suitable.

Sec. 44. The recovery of all ﬁnes and costs, not herein-before rcvided for, shall ‘be before

any member of the ﬁre department, or other credible witness, such fines and penalties, to be for the use of the City, and in case of non payment, the offenders to be committed to Jail, for a space of time not in any case exceeding sixty days. Boirr. lll"l‘Clll.\'SON, Mayor. WILLIAI B. WILLNER, City Clerk.

EXPENSIVI: ARTICLE ——'l'o make one of the finest Cashmere shawls requires the work ofa family for ii hfctiinc. They sell, in Cashmere itself, for five thousand dollars.

A Youno HuanANn.—On making a call the other day, at the house of the A- merican missionnry in Jerusalem. I saw a little boy, in the Turkish costume, sitting on a sofa. My ﬁrrt thought was, “ what an enormous turban that boy lies on,” and my second, “ how very small lie is!" Judge of my surprise, when I found he was a husband ; he being little more then ten years old,and his wife not quite nine ! Truly this is beginning life young. —And this reminds me, that a friend of ours saw an Armenian lady in Alexandria, who’ though but tweritysia: years of age, was a grandmother! This goes quite be- yond early marriages in the U. States.—

An exchange says, that the following has

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every such oﬁence forfeit and pay the sum of

articles or appar- f

not exempted therefrom by the provisions of

the,Mayor's or Po ice Court, on the Oath of

EA.SZARD’8 GAZETTE.

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Saturday, December 16, 1855.

IIVT ROLL AND TINANTS. C0!fPINS.\‘l'l0N BILLS.

We were not surprised at hearing, that these Bills were disallowed, and we must confess, that we are not a little astonished at the rather intcmpernte article in the Etaminer on the sub- ject. When a suspending clause is tucked to a Bill, it must be presumed to be for the urpose wliich is expressed in it, namely : tiat the Queen may or may not assent to it, and that it shall not be law until that assent has been sig- niﬁed. Theso Bills are ol'a very peculiar natur_e, so very much so, that we question whether in the whole compass ofColonial Legislation, any consiiuilar Acts could be found passed by any Parliament or Assembly under British rule. They come under the head of what is termed " class legislation." We do not wish to pro- scribe class legislation in the whole, but we say, that it should be as seldom as ossible resorted to, and when resorted to, sliou d carry upon the face of its en-.ictincnts, the absolute necessity fund propriety of passing them. It is the prin- cipal cliaraictcristic ofa free country, that life, ‘liberty and property are held sacred. and in ‘no lcouiitry ii the title to land held in such reve- ‘rence and respect as in England. Now, the Acts in question were passed, according to Mr. ‘Colcs, for the purpose of liarrassing the Pro- -‘prietors, and forcing them to sell their lands to "the local guvcrninz-.-it, under the provisions of _thc Land l’ill'Cllfl.S-3 llill; his words are those,- ' “ Believing that l-Ischcai: was inipracticable, I lhave introduced and carried other ineasnrcs for 3‘ the beneﬁt of the people at the urporiseofl/ie Pro- =prielur:.” And iig.iin,—“[ am satisfied, that . this House line it in its piwer to mitigate the .' hardships on the tcniintry arising from the ori- '- inal grin:s.—tl:at remedy is by taxing the { ands cl’ the Proprietors, under that system the ‘Proprietors will be glad to come in and nﬂcr .3 their lands to thc tioveriuncnt under the Land 3 ’.irchasc Bill." No subsequently, in the same -Speech, alludes to the Acts in question as tend- 'ing to effect the saine llll'p0.\8. This was plain. .' open dealing enough, )ut,whcthcr it were oli- E tie is another thing. Mr. Colcs should lave known, that these expressions, so at variance » with the preainble of the ltcnt Roll Bill, would . have been taken advantage off) the Proprietors "in their opposition to its receiving the Roya assent. 'l‘ho Title of the Bill states, that the lpurport ofit is to defray the expenses of any v armed force which in-.1 be requisite on account ,of the withdrawal of the troops, and for the {further encouragement of Education; what fconnection there is between these two objects, 5_ is not very apparent. The Bill, however is for

the ﬁre department for the Nib ii. general purpose, and tliejnsticc and policy of

"singling out proprietors of rented Township . Lands over 500 acres, for the iurpose of taxing their Rent Rolls should have liecn inado appa- rent. Lct us see what the preamble statcs, it says, " That whereas, the Proprietors of'l‘own ship Lands in this island have leased ii. large portion thereof to tenants from whom they derive large rents, and covenants, are gciiorally contained in the leases of such lands, that the tenants or occupiers thereof shall pay iill taxes imposed or to be imposed on the lands so leased to them, whereby the Proprietors evade the payments of said taxes. and the principal part thereof are paid -by tho tciiaiitry, and whereas, such lands have greatly increased in value from the industry ofthe tenants, and from the prosperity and progressive state ol' the Co- lony.” ’l‘lie first part of this preainhle is intend- ed to show, that the proprictory intcrcst is adverse to the prosperity of the tenantry, and the second part coiitradicts the inference, for it avers, that the Colony is in a prosperous and progressive state. Where would be the injury if the lands of the l’rcprietors increased in va- lue. provided the tenants are thriving and pros- porous? But is it true, that the value of the fownship lands have increased in value’ What was the Vorrcll Estate purchased for, first by Pope and others, and secondly qy the Island 'Governinontl What is the latter to give lllr. Warburton for Lot 11? It was well known

that this Bill would be contested by those; I against whose interests it inilitiitcs,niid thcrc- I

;forc, the utmost euro should have been taken gthiit it «lid not contain a single nsscrtion, that ,- was capable ol'sii<-n-.~‘.-rliil rcl'u!;ilion. l'.i;t \\ lint ;is ii iniliiaiy force waiitcd for in this Island-— 1 for deli-ncc against invasion? 'l‘lie sum to be realized would not have been anything like suf- ficipnt to have c uipped and maintained an ade- quate forcc. V as it meant to aid the Civil power in the execution of the law? We should

ope, that the day is passed when such interfe- rence would bc necessary. We have noticed but a few of the anomalies in this Bill, we have foreborne to mention the injustice of taxing the

rose rental,without any enquir as to whether it were paid or still in nrrear. Vhy a Proprie- tor who owns 600 acres,porhapsa widow, or an orphan. or it may be a lunatic, should pay,

As to the '1‘ ts‘ Co ' - hardly :..n..2,"}i.'.'.. the ,.".'l".a'.§‘l‘.5l‘.’.'.‘ai.'ili.’a'.I.!.?i‘.'l couldexpeet it to receive the Royal Assent.aiid q are heartily glad that it has been disallowed fog.- the sake _or the tenant himself, for if u:.'nm had gone into operation, every landlord 31,;

have been compelled in his own defence 3". kept distraining upon his tenant in a ’ u long as, there was a hoofu n the placgwiﬁg

have no wish to protect t e Proprietor ﬁg pa ing his fair quota toward the ex nsesofthg t.‘o ony, nor would we shield them R3)!!! an in. some tax, provided something of’ the same kind is made general. We know ofno better method of raisin a revenue than a land tax, but we would ma e no dilerence between the owner of 100 ‘"93 Md . e think this is not the way to increase the prosperity of the Island

Encourage immigrat-ion—-pass good and equgl laws—make property of every kind secure—ssa that the laws are properly executed, and you will do more to ensure the wealth and happiness of the people than class legislation of any kind will ever effect. We cannot see this matter in the same li ht that the Editor of the Eraminer places it. "he Proprietors were, in this case, personally interested ; the suspending clause was inserted, that they might have an op ortu- nity of being heard against the ﬁnal passing of the Bill. They have shown. in the opinion of the Secretary for the Colonies, good and sufli- cient cause for withholding the Royal Assent

We trust, that there is too much good sense ii; the tenantry, that they will not even think of making a systematic resistance to the payment of rents, and we also trust, that whoever may hold the reins of government, will see that it is their duty to uphold the execution of the laws by all lawfiil and legitimate means in their power. Resistance to the execution of the laws

who attempt it, and the country where the law ceases to be supreme. is in a state of the mo“ miserable degrndation,and can never rise to any height of opulence or reﬁnement.

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In the Eramiricr of the 12th Novembef ‘'9 are furnished with a list of Bankrupt Citiea where the corporations have neither money no: credit; and their workmen have to go a lieoain for their wages which is due to them andwthig iiiiprovidcnce of the authorities and lieggary of itplplwprkmen, is attributed to Know-Notliing.

And in the Bmmincr of the Editor has censured our City Council for their slow motion, viz: They have been in oliice four months, and have not ,3: 1,0,-ro,,,¢,1 money to make sewer: to drain ‘ mud and writer from off the broad airy streets of the City of Clnirlottetown! .' !

'l‘lic citizens may congratulate themselves upon their first clection of City Councilman who know souietliing hotter than to borrow money to make sewers before the streets are paved, and before scavengers have been cmplo - ed to scrape and sweep them; Sewers won d be an expense exceeding the means of the City for innny years, and if any thing was Mlowea to go into the sewers which ii. scraper, it broom, or ii shovcl could take away, they would “,0” likely. require to be opened and cleaned out, at ti great expense and inconvenience, before the first cost was paid for.

It may soon become necessary to linve cess- pools constructed in such a manner, that they could be emptied and their content; taken away in niglit-carts. In some Towns, the value of the manure will pay the clpcnao of sivccping the streets and collecting it.

l'lic lllCUl:pt),l'l‘tll0n Bill was not popular with the people in lown, their representatives had very little cnconrugeinent from their constitu- cnts to proceed with it. The Towns-people were afraid, and not willimit rmsori, of falling into the hands of Know-Notliings; men who would borrow nionry to commence unnecessary, but expensive works, exceeding the means of the City, _\vl.i--h would not be worth the cost, to the public either for use or ornnincnt.wlien they were completed. I sii poration Bill, but with a , to thatofthe Edito

the 26th November,

cinbcrs did ' ry to enable “Will in lL",{l.~l:lltl lit? the l)c()p]o of the '['¢)\\'n, and that ii.» .' i-ml incii iiinongst tliciii.-clvcs Ilwlw‘ M to lHi|l|i|‘,ZI! their affairs. And the misurc of the I'.'.ramincr is sufficient to satisfy lllt', that they have not fallen into the hands of the Know-Nothings. but have chosen practical inen, who will study to understand the true interests of their constituents, in order to piaintnin their interests, and give them satis-

action. W. C. Sailor‘s Hope, Dec. 3, 1855.

Q: Tux .J$'c'5ii'o}§:§i‘§i—ii.o Soiree in aid of Proyidence Chapel should have been £16 instead of.£l0, as announced in our last issue.

when an opulentowner of500 goes clcar,requires ex lanation. Should there not have been a

sharp incisions; And every thing proclaims theappgogch of /3111 Except provisions.

di crence between the resident Proprietor, who spends his income on the Island and pays his taxes, and he who absent, does not! i

Warrants fioni No, 8| I, of the date ofthe 20th of April. 1355. to No. 434. of the date of the an of

'.\lny,'I8ﬁl'i, (both inclusive), will be paid at the lhressnry on demand. together with the interest due i ereon.

is ever attended with rum and miseiy to those I