Carleton, the accounts in detail for the past year, submitted to them from time to time by the Commissioners of the Almshouse and Workhouse a foresaid, within one month after the said accounts have been examined and audited by the said Board of Supervision, with the Report of any audit or examination of such accounts made under the authority of such Board of Supervision; and the expense (if any) of such publication shall be paid by the said Commissioners, and shall constitute an item in the account of expenditures attending the management of the said Almshouse and Workhouse.

46. The said Board of Supervision shall have power and they are hereby authorized, on or before the tenth day of January in each year, to appoint a Collector or Collectors of the rates or assessments to be made under and by virtue of the authority hereof, which said Collector shall, with respect to any assessment hereunder, have all the powers of a Collector of Rates within the said Town and Parish, and shall be subject to the orders and directions of said Board,and may be removed by them, and shall be in all things liable to the same penalties and forfeitures for the refusal to act, as Town and Parish Officers are subject to by any laws of this Province, in addition to any other penalties to which they are made liable hereby.

47. The said Collector, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall give bond to the Queen, with two sureties, and in such penal sum as the said Board of Supervision may direct, and with such condition as the said Chairman of said. Board of Supervision may prescribe.

48. Every Collector appointed hereunder shall, on the first Monday in every month, pay over to the said Commissioners all moneys received by him during the previous month, with a list of persons from whom he received the same; and shall, in four months after the receipt of the precept, file with the Chairman of the said Board of Supervision a true account of every sum of money so by him received, with vouchers for the sums paid,and a correct list of defaulters verified on oath, and the list given him by the Assessor; and shall from time to time obey such orders and directions as may be given him by said Board of Supervision; and for the neglect of any of the duties by this Section enjoined, or for disobedience of the orders and directions of said Board of Supervision, such Col

lector or Collectors shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding eighty dollars for each and every such neglect of duty or disobedience.

49. The Constables for the Parish and Town of Woodstock respectively shall execute any Execution issued by virtue hereof, and any such Constable neglecting or refusing to execute such execution, or neglecting to pay over and furnish an account under oath of any moneys he may collect under the same, and of the parties from whom such moneys have been collected, to such person or persons as may be directed by the said Board of Supervision, shall for every such neglect or refusal be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty dollars, and may for such neglect or refusal be removed from the office of Constable by such Board of Supervision, and shall be liable to an action of assumpsit in any Court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the said Commissioners, in which said action the money received by such Constable shall be recovered with interest and costs, and the proof of the receipt by said Constable of an execution against any party or parties for the levying of any rates or assessments, shall be prima facie evidence of the receipt of the money directed by such execution to be levied.

50. Every Justice of the Peace to whom may have been delivered, or shall at any time hereafter be delivered for collection, any list or lists of amounts due by defaulters in the payment of any assessment ordered and made by authority hereof, shall, when required by the said Board of Supervision, or by any person or persons appointed by them, within ten days after having been so required, make a return in writing under his hand to the Board of Supervision of his doings thereon; which return shall exhibit the names of all the original defaulters, with the sum due by each, the names of the defaulters from whom moneys have been collected, with the several and respective amounts, and the names of the persons who remain in default at the time of making such return; which return shall be in detail, signed by such Justice, and shall be accompanied by all necessary vouchers, and for every neglect or refusal to make such return, the Justice shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars.

51. If any money shall be paid to any Justice of the Peace, upon execution or otherwise, in satisfaction or payment of

any assessment or rate made by virtue of the authority and provisions hereof, and he shall have neglected or refused, after demand, to pay over the same to such person or persons as the Board of Supervision shall appoint or direct to receive the same, such Justice shall be subject to the same penalty, and liable to be proceeded against in the manner provided by Section eighty eight, Chapter 100, relating to 'Rates and Taxes,' or the Commissioners of the Almshouse and Workhouse, or their successors, may in their names maintain an action of assumpsit against said Justice in any Court of competent jurisdiction, in the form of money had and received, for the recovery of the same, with treble costs and interest.

52. Any member of the said Board of Supervision shall, for refusing to act or for neglect of duty, be subject to the penalty of eight dollars.

53. Any act herein required to be done by the Commissioners may be done by any two of them.

54. The Warrants of Assessment hereunder may be in form following:

To the Assessors of the Parish of Woodstock. You are commanded to levy and assess the sum of dollars in and upon the Parish and Town of Woodstock, and cause the same to be collected and paid according to law, for the support of the Poor, and the maintenance of the Almshouse, Workhouse, and Farm, of the Parish and Town of Woodstock, [or for such purposes as the Board of Supervision may direct, as the case may be ]

By the Board of Supervision.

A. B., Chairman.

55. The said Board of Supervision shall have power to pay the said Commissioners, or any or either of them, such sums of money as they may think fit, as compensation for their services, and may also provide for the payment of any contingent or necessary expenses connected with their duties. as such Board of Supervision, and add the same to any assessment to be made hereunder, and direct said Commissioners to pay the same to parties entitled thereto.

PART VII.

THE COUNTY OF YORK.

55 The Municipal Council for the County of York may, if they see fit, at their first annual meeting in each and every

year, appoint a Commissioner of the Almshouse for each of the following Parishes in the said County, namely, Saint Mary's, Kingsclear, Prince William, and Queensbury.

57. The City Council of the City of Fredericton shall also at the times and in the manner directed by any Law in force relating to the said City, appoint a Commissioner of the said Almshouse.

58. The said Commissioners, or such and so many of them as may from time to time be appointed, shall superintend and manage the Almshouse in the City of Fredericton, and it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioner, or for such and so many of them as may be so appointed from time to time, to provide such materials and things as they shall judge necessary for the setting to work and employing such poor persons, of whatever age or sex they may be, who may apply for relief and shall be capable of working.

59. Any Commissioner shall have power and authority at his discretion to compel such idle or poor people begging or seeking relief within the City or Parish for which such Commissioner is appointed, as do not betake themselves to some lawful employment, or who do or shall hereafter seek and receive alms of the City or Parish for which such Commissioner is appointed, or who maystand in need of relief from the above Parish for which he is appointed, to dwell, inhabit, and to work in the said Almshouse, and to do all such work as the Commissioners of the said Almshouse shall think them able and fit for, and such Commissioner shall have the same powers to bind out poor children apprentices, as are given to the Overseers of the Poor in the several Towns or Parishes.

60. The said Commissioners shall have power to make such rules, orders and regulations for the good government and management of the said Almshouse as they shall find necessary, (such rules and regulations to be approved of by the Municipal Council of the County of York and the City Council of Fredericton), and to inflict such correction and punishment, by solitary confinement or otherwise, from time to time as to them shall seem reasonable, on any person or persons within the said Almshouse who shall be so set to work and shall not conform to such rules, orders and regulations to be made as aforesaid, or shall misbehave in the same.

61. The Commissioner for the City of Fredericton shall at the times and in the manner directed by any bye law of the City Council of the said City for that purpose, lay before the said Council such statements as may be thereby prescribed.

62. The Commissioners for the said Parishes appointed by the Municipal Council, or such of them as may be so appointed, shall lay before the said Council at its first annual meeting in each and every year, an Account, to be audited in the usual way, of the expenses incurred by them for the support and maintenance of the poor placed in the said Almshouse for the past year from the said Parishes, together with an estimate of what sum or sums of money will be needful for the maintenance or employment of the poor of the said Parishes, and of the amount that should be paid by the said Parishes towards the salaries of the Almshouse keeper and such other officers as may be required about the said Almshouse, and the management thereof; in which estimate shall be stated the proportion that each such Parish ought to pay for the purposes aforesaid, according to the number of poor persons that each such Parish shall have in the said Alms. house; and the said Commissioners shall, in making such estimate and fixing such proportion, have a due regard to the proportion of the poor in the said Almshouse from the City of Fredericton, and to the general expenses of managing and superintending the said Almshouse; and the sums so stated shall be assessed, levied and collected upon each such Parish in the same way as other Parish rates are as sessed, levied and collected.

63. Any Commissioner appointed by the Municipal Council may agree with the Commissioner for the City of Fredericton upon a fixed price to be paid by the Parish, for which such Commissioner is appointed, to the City of Fredericton, for the care and maintenance in the said Almshouse, during the year, by the said City, of any poor persons belonging to the Parish for which such Commissioner is appointed; and in the case of any such agreement being made, the last preceding Section shall not apply to such Parish, but the Commissioner of the said Parish shall at the said first annual meeting of the said County Council, lay before it an account of the moneys due the said City from the said Parish under the agreement, and the same shall be assessed, levied and