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An Act to continue and amend certain Acts therein

mentioned, relating to Summersxde- ’ [Passed April 24, 1868.]

HEREAS the Act of the twenty-first Victoria, chapter seven, intituled “ An Act relating to accidents by fire in Summerside, and the removal of nuisances from the streets thereof,” and the Act of the twenty—first Vie- toria, chapter ten, intituled “ An Act to pre- vent the running at large of Swine in Summer- side and vicinity,” will shortly expire, and it is expedient to continue the same, and also to amend the first hereinbefore recited Act, as hereinafter mentioned. Be it therefore enact- ed ,by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly as follows :

LI. The said recited Act of the twenty-first Victoria, chapter seven (except as the same is hereby amended), and the said recited Act of the twenty-first Victoria, chapter ten, shall be, and the same are hereby severally Continued for

ten years from the passing hereof, and from~ thence to the end of the then next session of the General Assembly of this Island, and no longer. ' ;

II. The assessors appointed under the said first herein recited Act Vshallihave power to as- sess the inhabitants, owners and occupiers of property in Summerside in a sum not exceed- ing the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds in any one year.

III. The tenant or occupier of every house, shop, office, or store, in Summerside, of the yearly value of five pounds, and upwards, shall be provided with and keep one leathern bucket, capable 9f containing not less than two gallons, with it-hepwner’s name painted thereon, which bucket shall be kept hung up in the passage, hall, or entryot such house, shop, office or store, under the penalty of five shillings for every time the said bucket shall not be found hung up in its proper place, when such house, shop, office or store shall be visited by the _firewardens in the said first recited Act named, and the said ten-

ant or occupier, within three months after the '

passing of this Act, shall provide a ladder or ladders, corresPondingto the height of his house, sufficient to enable water to be carried to any part of the same in the event 'of fire.

IV. All chimneys and flues in any house, shop, store or office. in Summerside, shall be built and constructed in every respect to the

satisfaction of the firewardens now or hereafter, to be appointed under the said first herein re-i cited Act, and such firewardens may, if thcyl see fit, order any chimney or fine in the said plaeel

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to be altered or reconstructed in such manner as they may, deem proper;. and if any person shall be ordered by the said firewardens to cause any such chimney or fine to be reconstructed or altered, and shall neglect to obey such order for a period of forty-eight hours from the time such order shall be made, such person so ofi'end. ing _shall be subject to a fine or penalty of five shillings for each and every day he shall refuse to comply with sueh order ; which said fine or penalty and any other fine or penalty imposed by this Act, shall be recovered in the way and manner directed by the said first recited Act for the recovery of fines and penalties therein mentioned. '

V. The wardens new appointed,_or hereafter to be appointed under the said first herein re- cited Act, shall and may at any time, and from time to time, after the passing of this Act, have full power and authority to make and pass such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the more effectually carrying out the provisions and intentions pf thisor the said first recited Act : provided that no such by-lawor by-laws shall have any force, or effect until approved of by the Lieutenant Governor in Council and recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose by the col- lector in the said first recited Act mentioned,

which said book shall be at all times, Within: ‘

reasonable hours, open to the inspection of any person liable to pay rates in Summerside under the said first therein recited Act

VI The fifth and fourteenth sections of the said first herein recited Act shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

VII. This Act shall remain and continue in force during the continuance of the said first herein recited Act, and no longer. ‘

COUNCIL OFFICE, . 6th August, 1868. IS Excellency the Lieutenant Governor in Council

has been pleased to appoint the following gentle men J notices of the Peace for Prince County, viz :-——

Jolm Hunter Duvar of Township No. 5, Esquire. I Mr. John MacDonald Archibald of Township N0. 14. Aug. 13. CHARLES DESBRISAY, C. E. C.

NOTICE.

TO TENANTS UPON TOWNSIHP No. 18

‘HE 'TENAN'I‘S upon that portion cl Township No. 18, formerly owned by the late Mrs. Mary Stewart. of Charlottetown, deceased. and since by the under— signed, in conjunction with her deceased sisters. Mary and Ellen Sthart, are hereby notified that. the fee simple of the lands respectively held by them, being now exclusively vested in her, she ALONE is legally authorized to receive the rents accuring therefrom.

MARGARET STE‘VART. Charlottetown, June 30, 1868. ‘