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     XVI. The Board of Works may purchase in 
     
     fee simple or lease, any Land or hereditament 
     
     required for quarrying stone or gravel, or for 
     
     any other the purposes of this Act. 
     
    
     XVII. Any Superintendents or Surveyors 
     
     to be appointed under this Act, shall have the 
     
     same powers and authority in all respects, with 
     
     respect to Opening ditches or drains, from the 
     
     side of any highway in this Island, through 
     
     any land adjacent thereto; and the same re- 
     
     medies against any person or persons refusing 
     
     to allow the same to be opened, as the Road 
     
     Commissioner of any district now has under the 
     
     forty-third section of the Act of the twenty- 
     
     ﬁfth Victoria, Chapter two, or any other part 
     
     or provision of the said Act ; and the order of 
     
     any Justice or Justices of the Peace made in 
     
     like cases, under the provisions of the said 
     
     Act, shall have the same force and effect as if 
     
     made by any Justice or Justices acting under 
     
     the said recited section, or any other section 
     
     of the said Act, with respect to any cause, 
     
     matter or thing, by such Justice or Justices 
     
     ordered, made or adjudicated upon, or other- 
     
     wise, under the said Act. Provided always, 
     
     that it shall and may be lawful for such Super- 
     
     intendents or Surveyors, if he or they shall 
     
     deem ﬁt and necessary to award a suitable com- 
     
     pensation to the person or persons through 
     
     whose land such ditch or drain may be opened 
     
     up as aforesaid, such compensation to be sub- 
     
     ject to the approbation of the Board of Works, 
     
     and of the Lieutenant Governor or other Ad— 
     
     ministrator of the Government in Council. 
     
    
     XVIII. The Board of Works may, if they 
     
     should deem it necessary and expedient, enter 
     
     into and make, with any person or persons 
     
     Whomsoever, such contracts, agreements or ar- 
     
     rangements, as they may consider necessary 
     
     and requisite, for the improvement of the public 
     
     highways in winter, with respect to preventing 
     
     the forming of cradle hills, levelling the same, 
     
     marking out the course of roads on the Ice by 
     
     bushes or other visible marks, or any other 
     
     similar improvements whatsoever. 
     
    
     XIX. The acceptance of the position of a 
     
     member of the Board of Works, shall not vacate 
     
     the seat of-any present or future member of the 
     
     Legislature. 
     
    
     An Act to provide for the payment of the 
     
     Salaries of future Lieutenant, Governors of 
     
    
     thls Igland. [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
     E it enacted by the Administrator of the 
     
    
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     after and so soon as the present Lieutenant 
     
     Governor of this Island, George Dundas, Es- 
     
     quire, shall relinquish or be recalled from the 
     
     Government of this Island, there shall be paid to 
     
     all future Lieutenant Governors of this Island 
     
     the sum of One thousand four hundred pounds 
     
     sterling money of Great Britain, as the annual 
     
     salary of such future Lieutenant Governors of 
     
     this Island and their successors in ofﬁce, and 
     
     the said salary shall be payable quarterly out of 
     
     the public Treasury of this Island by warrant 
     
     drawn on the Treasurer of this Island in the 
     
     usual manner. 
     
    
     II. In case of the absence from the Island of 
     
     the Lieutenant Governor, on leave from the 
     
     Imperial Government, the Administrator of the 
     
     Government, in his absence, shall receive one- 
     
     half of the said salary, and the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor the other half, proportionally accord- 
     
     ing to time ; and in case of a vacancy in the 
     
     ofﬁce of Lieutenant Governor, the Administrator 
     
     of the Government shall receive the whole of 
     
     the said salary, also preportionally according to 
     
     the time he may discharge the duties of the 
     
     said oﬂice of Administrator. 
     
    
     III. Nothing in this Act contained shall 
     
     have any force or effect until Her Majesty’s 
     
     assent thereto shall be given and notiﬁed in the 
     
     Royal Gazette Newspaper, of this Island. 
     
    
     An Act to continue the Act regulating the 
     
     Publishing of Notices and Advertisements 
     
    
     relating to the Public Service. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
    
     HEREAS the Act of the Fifteenth Vic- 
     
    
     toria, chapter thirty-one,intitu1ed “An 
     
     Act to regulate the publishing of Notices and 
     
     Advertisements relating to the Public Service,” 
     
     will shortly expire and it is deemed eXpedient 
     
     to continue the same : 
     
    
     I. Be it therefore enacted by the Adminis- 
     
     trator of the Government, Council and Assem- 
     
     bly that the said hereinbefore recited Act of 
     
     the ﬁfteenth Victoria, chapter thirty-one, shall 
     
     be and the same is hereby continued in force 
     
     for the period of 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. ' 
     
    
     An Act to amend the Act for preventing 
     
     frauds by Secret Bills of Sale of personal 
     
    
     Chattels. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
     HEREAS the present mode of marking 
     
    
     Government, Council and Assembly that, 
     
    
     Bills of Sale satisﬁed, is attended with