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     IV. The Volunteer Militia 
     
     allowance and privileges under this Act, shall 
     
     consist of Nine Companies, to be indicated by 
     
     the Commander-inChief ; each company not to 
     
     exceed fifty non-commissioned officers and pri- 
     
     vates, with a due proportion of commissioned 
     
     officers in addition thereto. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. The Volunteer Militia entitled to receive 
     
     allowance,under the last preceding section, shall 
     
     be provided with arms and accoutrements, to- 
     
     gether with an allowance of one pound per 
     
     annum, each man, for clothing, and no more, 
     
     for any other purpose, and also, with a suffi- 
     
     ciency of ammunition, not exceeding fifty 
     
     rounds of Ball and Fifty rounds of Blank Car- 
     
     tridge per annum, and, in addition to other 
     
     exemptions by law secured to them, they shall 
     
     be exempted from the performance of statute 
     
     labor, or paying commutation money therefor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. Nothing in this Act contained shall 
     
     prevent the formation of other Volunteer Com- 
     
     panies, but such companies shall not receive or 
     
    
   
   
    
     claim any allowance under this or any other 
     
     Act of this Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. Companies of Volunteer Militia may 
     
     make bye-laws for their internal government, 
     
     in time of peace, and may impose fines for the 
     
     breach of any bye-law, but said bye-laws shall 
     
     be of one uniform code for all the companies, 
     
     and must be approved of by the Commander-in- 
     
     Chief before being of any force or effect. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. The twenty-fifth, thirty-fourth, thirty- 
     
     seventh and forty-third sections of the said re- 
     
     cited Act shall be and the same are hereby 
     
     repealed. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act to amend the Act of the 'l‘hirty-first 
     
     Victoria, Chapter. Sixteen, intituled “ An 
     
     Act for shortening the language of Sheriffs’ 
     
     IDeedsf’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Passed Apiil 10, 1869.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     E it enacted by the Administrator of the 
     
     Government, Council and Assembly, that 
     
    

    
     when any person who has held the office of 
     
     Sheriff in this Island is deceased, or shall here- 
     
     after die, then the Deputy, or acting Deputy, 
     
     of the deceased Sheriff, shall have power, and he 
     
     is hereby empowered, to do all acts, and things, 
     
     and deeds which the deceased Sheriff, it alive, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     entitled to execute, and, amongst other matters, to com- 
     
    
   
   
    
     plete sales of land and other property, and 
     
     other proceedings under executions, which may 
     
     originally have been placed in the hands of the 
     
     deceased Sheriff, and to execute any deed or 
     
     deeds, or conveyances of land sold thereunder, 
     
     for and in the name of the deceased Sheriff, in 
     
     like manner as if his principal was or had been 
     
     alive and executed or performed the same, or 
     
     held the office of Sheriff. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act to add to and amend the Act relating 
     
     to Patents for useful Inventions. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     E it Gnacted by the Administrz’itor of the 
     
     Government, Council and Assembly, as 
     
     follows:—-—- 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. Any person or persons who shall, under 
     
     the provisions of the Act of the Seventh Wil- 
     
     liam the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-one, intituled 
     
     “ An Act for granting Patents for useful 
     
     Inventions,” apply to the Lieutenant Governor, 
     
     or other Administrator of the Government of 
     
     this Island, for the time being, for Letters l’a- 
     
     tent, for any new or useful Art, Machine, 
     
     Manufacture, or Composition of Matter, or for 
     
     any new or useful Improvement on any Art, Ma- 
     
     chine, Manufacture, or Composition of Matter, 
     
     not before known or used, shall be entitled to 
     
     all the advantages, rights and privileges, to 
     
     which any resident applicant, or applicants for 
     
     Patents, under the provisions of the said recited 
     
     Act, are entitled, whether such person or per« 
     
     sons so applying for such Patents, shall or shall. 
     
     not be resident in this Island ; provided always, 
     
     that the Colony, Island, or Country, whether 
     
     foreign or British, to or in which such appli- 
     
     cant or applicants may belong or reside, do at 
     
     the same time, accord the same advantages or 
     
     privileges to the inhabitants of this Island, and 
     
     do not in like cases in any manner discriminate 
     
     between the inhabitants of this Island and the 
     
     inhabitants, residents, or subjects ofsuch Colony, 
     
     Island or Country. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. Before any Letters Patent shall be grant- 
     
     ed under this or the said recited Act, the per- 
     
     son or persons applying for such Letters Patent, 
     
     shall pay into the office of the Colonial Secre- 
     
     tary of this Island, for the time being, a fee or 
     
     sum of five pounds for such Letters Patent, to 
     
    
   
   
    
     would be authorized or have power to do andibe by the said Colonial Secretary, paid into the