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     penditure of the public monies thereon, and to 
     
     make an order to that effect, which, when noti- 
     
     fied to the Commissioner of the District, shall 
     
     relieve him from any further or future authority 
     
     or responsibility in respect of, or relation to 
     
     any such part, piece or pieces of Highway, 
     
     Bridge, Wharf, or Public Works referred to in 
     
     any such order, until such order shall be re- 
     
     scinded by the Board, in which case the super- 
     
     vision of such part, piece or pieces of Highway, 
     
     Bridge, Wharf, or Public Work in question, 
     
     shall be resumed by the Commissioner of the 
     
     District as before. 
     
    
   
   
    
     X. When any such order shall be made, as 
     
     in the last preceding section mentioned, the 
     
     occupiers of the farms fronting on the piece or 
     
     pieces of Highway in quest-ion, shall be liable 
     
     to perform their Statute Labor, under the di- 
     
     rection of, or pay commutation money therefor, 
     
     to the Board of Works, or their Superintendent, 
     
     Surveyor, or other person appointed by the 
     
     Board for that purpose, who shall have the like 
     
     powers with regard to enforcing performance 
     
     of such Statute Labor, or recovering penalties 
     
     for the non-performance thereof, or recovering 
     
     the commutation money therefor, as is now 
     
     possessed by the various Commissioners of High- 
     
     ways or Overseers. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     XI. The law with respect to the performance 
     
     of Statute Labor, generally, now in force, shall 
     
     not be affected by this Act, except that it shall 
     
     be lawful for the Board of Works, with respect 
     
     to any person or persons liable to perform 
     
     Statute Labor, on any piece of Highway taken 
     
     under the exclusive management of the Board, 
     
     from time to time, to alter and vary the period 
     
     or periods of the year by law now ordained 
     
     for the performance thereof; and such altera- 
     
     tion shall be notified to the parties liable to 
     
     perform Statute Labor as aforesaid. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XII. All grants or sums of money exceeding 
     
     fifty pounds, appropriated by the Legislature, 
     
     to be expended on any particular Bridge, 
     
     Wharf or Highway in this Island, whether in 
     
     Road Scales or otherwise, shall be laid out and 
     
     applied‘by the County Superintendent or Sur- 
     
     veyor, acting under the orders of the Board of 
     
     Works, and receiving instructions from the 
     
     Board, and any lesser sums by the Commis- 
     
     sioner for the district under the like order. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIII. Each Superintendent or Surveyor of 
     
     Public Works to be appointed under this Act, 
     
     shall be subject to the orders and directions of 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the Board of Works, be charged within his 
     
     county with the general supervision and control 
     
     of all repairs, alterations and improvements to 
     
     all public buildings, and with the carrying on 
     
     any public works and erecting any public build- 
     
     ings, and with the repairs, alterations and 
     
     improvements to be made to, or in the 
     
     same ; and it shall - further be his duty, 
     
     generally, to oversee and manage such al- 
     
     terations and repairs in such public Roads, 
     
     Bridges and Wharves, as may be com- 
     
     mitted to his charge by the Board of Works, to 
     
     assist and supply the Board with all plans, 
     
     estimates and specifications which the Board 
     
     may require of him of buildings or other public 
     
     works, and such repairs or alterations required 
     
     therein, to inspect and superintend such build- 
     
     ings or alterations or repairs, in or to the same, 
     
     as he may be required to do by the Board, and 
     
     to grant, when required, such certificates re- 
     
     specting the manner in which any building or 
     
     public works, or alterations or repairs thereto, 
     
     or therein, or on, or respecting the Public 
     
     Highways which may have been constructed or 
     
     effected, as the circumstances of the case may 
     
     require, and shall have the general care and 
     
     charge of all such materials, tools, machines, 
     
     implements, and other things as may be pro- 
     
     vided for, or belong to any such buildings, al- 
     
     terations or repairs. 
     
    

    
     XIV. The sub-inspection or superintendence 
     
     of any Buildings, Highways, or other Public 
     
     \Vorks in the course of construction, repair or 
     
     alteration, shall, as much as possible, be avoid- 
     
     ed; but, nevertheless, if the Board of Works 
     
     shall in any case find it absolutely necessary, 
     
     temporarily to employ a local Inspector in con- 
     
     nection with the same, it shall be lawful for 
     
     them to appoint such Inspector, and allow him 
     
     such remuneration as they shall deem proper, 
     
     provided such remuneration shall be subject to 
     
     the approval of the Administrator of the Gov- 
     
     ernment, for the time being, in Council, and 
     
     may be altered or reduced by him in Council. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XV. The account of all expenditures made, 
     
     and expenses incurred by the Board under this 
     
     Act, shall be kept by the Secretary ; and the 
     
     amount of money required to liquidate the same, 
     
     shall be paid on being submitted to the Ad- 
     
     ministrator of the Government in Council, from 
     
     time to time, by Warrant or Warrants - drawn 
     
     on the Treasurer of this Island, in the usual 
     
     manner ; and all such accounts shall be annu- 
     
     ally laid before the Legislature, being first 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     audited with the other Public Accounts.