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     and in order, as much as possible, to warn per- 
     
     sons so travelling that there is a hole or open 
     
     ing at or near such bushes. 
     
    

    
     11. Any person or persons making holes or 
     
     openings in the ice on any bay, river, creek or 
     
     inlet in this Island, without marking the same 
     
     as in the last preceding section provided and 
     
     directed, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceed- 
     
     ing two pounds, nor less than ten shillings and 
     
     costs of prosecution, to be recovered, on the oath 
     
     of one credible witness, before any Justice of 
     
     the Peace for the County where the offender or 
     
     offenders may reside, which said fine, ifnot paid 
     
     within six days after the same shall have been 
     
     adjudged to be paid by such Justice, be levied 
     
     on the goods and chattels of the person or persons 
     
     offending, and in de aultof such goods and chat- 
     
     tels, or goods and chattels sufficient to pay the 
     
     fine and costs adjudged as aforesaid, such Jus- 
     
     tice of the Peace shall commit the said offender 
     
     or offenders to Jail, by warrant, in the usual 
     
     form, under his hand and seal, far such period 
     
     as such Justice shall ordain, not exceeding one 
     
     calendar month. 
     
    

    
     III. One half such fine or penalty shall, if 
     
     recovered, be paid into the Treasury of this 
     
     Island, for the use of Her Majesty’s Govern- 
     
     ment, and the other half to the person prose- 
     
     cuting the offender. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act to amend and explain the Act passed in the 
     
     second year of His Majesty King William the Fourth 
     
     relating to the celebration of marriages, so far as the 
     
     same relates to the Bible Christian Church. 
     
    

    
     [Passed 24th April, 1868.] 
     
     E it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, 
     
     Council and Assembly, that eyery Clergy- 
     
     man oryminister of the sect of Christians known 
     
     as Bible Christians, or the. Bible Christian 
     
    

    
     Church, upon producing to the Lieutenant Go- 
     
    

    
     vernor or other Commander-in-Chief for the 
     
    

    
     time being, satisfactory proof of his appoint- 
     
     ment, ordination or constitution, and that he is 
     
     actually employed by the said denomination or 
     
     sect, and receiving a certificate to that effect 
     
     under the hand and seal of the Lieutenant Go- 
     
     vernor or Commander-in-Ghief for the time 
     
     being, shall hereafter have power and authority 
     
     to solemnize marriage either by license from the 
     
     Lieutenant Governor, or after publication of 
     
     banns in his church, chapel or other place of 
     
     public worship, on three successive Sundays 
     
     during divine service. Provided always, that 
     
     nothing herein contained shall extend, or be 
     
     construed to extend, to prevent any Clergyman 
     
     or Minister regularly ordained, or a ppointod ac- 
     
    
   
   
    
     lcording to the rules and regulations of the said 
     
     Bible Christian Church, and having Spiritual 
     
     charge of a congregation within this Island, from 
     
     solomnizing marriage according to the forms of 
     
     the said Bible Christians, 0r Bible Christian 
     
     Church, without having obtained such Certifi- 
     
     cate as is hereinbefore mentioned. 
     
    

    
     II. All marriageswhich have been heretofore ' 
     
     solemnized within this Island, by any Clergyman 
     
     or Minister of the said Bible Christian Church, 
     
     or the said sect of Bible Christians, either by 
     
     virtue of license from any Lieutenant Governor 
     
     or Commander-in-Chicf of this Island, or by 
     
     publication of banns, or otherwise, where the 
     
     parties so married have cohabitcd together, 
     
     shall be, and the same are hereby declared to 
     
     be legal and valid, and the issue of all such 
     
     marriages are hereby made legitimate to all in- 
     
     tents and purposes whatsoever, providing the 
     
     parties so married shall not have been within 
     
     the degrees of kindred prohibited by the Im- 
     
     perial statute passed in the thirty‘sccond year 
     
     of King Henry the Eighth, intituled “ An Act 
     
     concerning precontracts and touching degrees 
     
     of consanguinity.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     An Act for the Incorporation ofSocietir-s for the 
     
     sale and distribution of Seed Grain on credit. 
     
     [Passed April 24th. 1868.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ IIEREAS certain persons in this Island 
     
     have formed themselves into clubs or 
     
     societies for the sale and distribution of seed 
     
     grain on credit, to persons not having the means . 
     
     of procuring the same at seed time, and it is 
     
     necessary that such clubs or societies as are 
     
     now formed, or may hereafter be formed for 
     
     the said purposes, beincorporated from time to 
     
     time, as such clubs may be formed : Be it there- 
     
     fore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, 
     
     Council and Assembly, as follows :— 
     
    

    
     I. Societies or clubs, for the sale of seed 
     
     grain, on credit, as aforesaid, may be formed by 
     
     any number of persons, not less than nine in 
     
     number. 
     
    

    
     II. The persons forming,or having formed any 
     
     such society, shall make and severally sign a 
     
     certificate or minute, which shall contain the 
     
     name of the society, the names of the members 
     
     thereof, and their respective residences, the 
     
     quantity of grain each party has respectively 
     
     contributed, or intends to contribute, and that 
     
     the society is formed for the purpose mention- 
     
     ed in this Act. And the said certificate or 
     
     minute shall be registered in the office of the 
     
     Prothonotary, or Deputy Prothonotary of the