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ROYAL GAZETTE. V 21

of taverns, boarding houses, hotels, saloons, shops and other places of entertainment, and prescribing the amount of duty to be paid for such licenses.

The different Acts of the Legislature of this Island, regulating the sale by license of Spirituous Liquors, are, so far as the said City of Charlottetown is affected by them, hereby repealed, from the time when such by-lay or by-laws shall have been passed, assented to and published.

The City Council may pass a by-law for levying a duty on all goods, wares and merchandize, the property of non—residents within the City, sold at public auction, and for compelling licensed Auc- tioneers to give a just and true account of all such goods, wares and merchandize so sold by them, and the value thereof, and for punishing Auctioneers making faISe returns, anything in section thirty-six (36), of the act of incorporation, notwithstanding.

The ungranted shore of the River Hillsborough in front of Charlottetown proper, exempted from the provisions of the act passed in the twentydifth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act to grant the shores of this Island,” shall be vested in and remain for ever in the possession of the City of Charlottetown, and the City Council thereof shall have power to construct 'Wharfs and erect bui‘dings on any parts thereof, to the edge of the channel of the Hillsborough River, and to grant leases of such part or parts thereof, as may seem to the said City Council advisable, and for the best in- terests of the City. Provided always that no such leases shall be for a longer term of endurance than twenty-one years, or three lives, and provided also, that upon every such lease the rent shall be secured and payable to the said city of Charlottetown yearly and every year during the continuance of the said term,and no fine or sum in gross shall under any pretence be taken for the same, beyond such yearly rent so reserved as aforesaid, otherwise the said lease shall be utterly null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

The City Council may by a by-law for that purpose duly passed and assented to, require every person not being a native of this Island, or who shall not have resided therein for three years previous to the passing of such by-law, before commencing any trade, commerce or gainful occupation, in the City of Charlottetown, to take out a license therefor, under the common seal of the said city, and compel the person taking out such license to pay, if a British subject, a sum not exceeding pounds, and if an alien, a sum not exceeding pounds, and may prescribe the penalty for the infraction of such by-law, not exceeding pounds, and in default of payment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding

months.

The City Council may pass a by-law for empower- ing the Police Court to take cognizance of com- plaints relative to the non-performance of contracts or bargains for the sale and delivery of meal, pro- duce or other articles made in open market, and to enable the said Police Court to try the same in a summary manner, and to pronounce judgment and award damages and costs for the non-performance of such contracts and bargains where the amount in question does not exceed the sum of shillings, and issue immediate execution unless security be

given either to pay the sum awarded within a given time, to be settled by the Court, or to prosecute an appeal within six days ; and if the sum awarded be not paid by the time limited, or the appeal be duly made within six days, to issue execution as well against the defendant as the bail, for the amount of thejudgment, with costs.

It having been found that the Act made and pas- sed in the twenty-second year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to extend the criminal jurisdiction of the Police Court, in the City of Charlottetown,” has been attended with beneficial effect in the repression of crime, and in the saving of expense in the prosecution of offences of that na— ture, by indictment in the Supreme Court, as re-

spects the time and pay of Jurors, the service of

subpoenas, and the attendance and pay of Witnesses, it is considered expedient to further extend the said criminal jurisdiction at the said Court, therefore the provisions of the said Act are hereby extended to the trial and punishment of persons accused of lar- cenies or the receiving of stolen goods where the value of the goods taken or received shall not ex- ceed the sum of pounds, and to punish by fine not exceeding pounds, or by imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for a period not exceeding

months. The said Court may also take cogni- zance of the silence of receiving or obtaining goods or money under false pretences, where the goods or money received or obtained shall not exceed pounds, the fine, on conviction, not to exceed pounds, or the imprisonment with or without hard labor, provided always that the accused parties shall elect to be tried in the said Police Court.

In cases of debt or trover within, the jurisdiction of the Mayor’s Court in the City of Charlottetown, for the recovery of Small Debts, where the debt has been contracted, and is payable within the City, and the Defendant shall reside within the County of Queen’s County, process may issue against the said Defendant, and the summons or execution may be served or levied by the City Marshal or by a Deputy duly authorized by him in that part of the County where the Defendant may reside ; and in like manner where the Plaintiff may reside out of the limits of the said City, but the Defendant is a citi- zen resident within the said City, the suit may be brought, and the debt or damages recovered in the said Mayor’s Court, anything in the Seventh Section of the Act made and passed in the Nineteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act relating to the boundaries of the City of Char- lottetown, and the jurisdiction of the Mayor’s and Police Courts of the said City, and for other purposes therein mentioned” to the contrary notwithstan- ding.

The Recorder shall be a Justice of the Peace for the City of Charlottetown, and it shall be his duty to attend in the Police Court from the hour of Ele- ven in the forenoon to the hour of Two in the after- noon of each and every day in the week, except Sunday, and together with the Mayor or one Coun- cillor, hear and determine the cases cognizable by the said Police Court, anything in the Forty-seventh Section of the said Act to Incorporate the Town of Charlottetown, to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Salary of the said Recorder from the passing of this, shall be .6 pounds, payable monthly.