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     EDWARD REILLY, QUEEN’S PRINTER. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, September 3._ 1868. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     An Act to consolidate and amend several Acts 
     
     therein mentioned relating to the Savings 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bank. 
     
     [Passed 24th April, 1868.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     I1 EREAS the Act of the twenty-seventh 
     
     Victoria, Chapter four, intituled “An 
     
     Act for the establishment of a Bank for savings 
     
     in Prince Edward Island,” the Act of the 
     
     twenty-eighth Victoria Chapter twenty-one, 
     
     intituled “ An Act to amend the Act for the 
     
     establishment of a Bank of savings in Prince 
     
     Edward Island,” and the Act of the twenty- 
     
     ninth Victoria, Chapter twenty-two, intituled 
     
     “ An Act further to amend the act for the es- 
     
     tablishment of a Bank of Savings in Prince 
     
     Edward Island ” require consolidation and 
     
     amendment: Be it therefore enacted by the 
     
     Lieutenant Governor Council and Assembly 
     
     as follows :— 
     
    

    
     ‘I. The said hereinbefore recited Acts shall 
     
     be, and the same are hereby severally and re- 
     
     spectively repealed. 
     
    

    
     II. From and after the passing of this Act, 
     
     the Savings Bank, in the said hereinbefore re- 
     
     cited Acts mentioned, and all the rules, orders 
     
     and regulations heretofore made for the 
     
     management thereof, by the Lieutenant Go- 
     
     vernor in Council, under and by virtue of said 
     
     hereiubefore recited Acts, or any of them, 
     
     shall be continued, and remain as now consti- 
     
     tuted and established, and the said Lieutenant 
     
     Governor, or other Administrator of the Go- 
     
     vernment in Council, shall have full power and 
     
     authority as heretofore, to make such rules, 
     
     orders and regulations for the management of 
     
     the said Savings Bank, not inconsistent with 
     
    
   
   
    
     Council, may appear necessary or expedient 
     
     in that behalf, with power from time to time 
     
     to revoke, alter, add to and amend any such 
     
     orders, rules and regulations now made or 
     
     hereafter to be made, as occasion may require. 
     
    

    
     III. All farmers, tradesmen, mechanics, 
     
     laborers, servants and other classes of Her 
     
     Majesty’s subjects in this Island, may deposit 
     
     their respective savings with the Treasurer or 
     
     Deputy Treasurer of this Island, which depo: 
     
     sits the said Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer is 
     
     hereby authorized and required to receive as 
     
     hereinafter mentioned. 
     
    

    
     IV. It shallbe the duty of the Treasurer or 
     
     Deputy Treasurer to attend at the usual place 
     
     where he keeps his office, or in some other 
     
     convenient apartment in the Colonial building 
     
     to be provided for that purpose, on each Tues- 
     
     day and Friday in every week, from ten o’clock 
     
     in the forenoon, to three o’clock in the after- 
     
     noon, for the purpose of receiving any such 
     
     deposits and making payments of sums to be 
     
     drawn out, provided that the said Treasurer or 
     
     Deputy Treasurer shall not be bound to pay 
     
     out any monies so deposited, unless he shall 
     
     have. received at least one week’s previous notice 
     
     of the depositor’s desire to draw out the same,and 
     
     provided that no less a sum than one shilling 
     
     and six-pence shall be received, nor less than 
     
     twenty shillings paid out at any one time from 
     
     or to any such depositor, except in cases where 
     
     the sum actually deposited shall be less than 
     
     twenty shillings. 
     
    

    
     V. \Vhen the whole amount depositedshall 
     
     be required to be paid out, interest thereon, 
     
     according to the regulations hereinafter made, 
     
     shall be calculated and allowed, up to the day 
     
     of payment. ' , 
     
    

    
     VI. The Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer 
     
     shall open a separate account with each de- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     this Act, as to the said Lieutenant Governor 
     
    
   
   
    
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     or other Administrator of the Government in 
     
    
   
   
    
     positor, and all deposits and payments shall be 
     
     regularly entered in a book in the office at the