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[Ord. 12 anno 1866.]

No. XVIII-XIX.

be therein alleged that the party has been convicted and has failed to pay the penalty imposed, and provided there be a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.

13. This Ordinance and "the Road Ordinance of 1856" shall This Ordinance be read together as one Ordinance.

and No. 30 1856 to be read together.

14. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Commencethe Publication thereof.

ment of Ordi nance.

No. XIX,

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE No. 5, OF THE [Ord.16 anno

YEAR 1864.

Enacted 3rd October 1866, published the 6th following, came into operation on publication.

ROBERT MILLER MUNDY, Lieutenant-Governor.]

1866.]

WHEREAS it is desirable to amend in certain respects Ordi- Preamble.

nance No. 5 of the year 1864: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:

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1. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 5 of the year 1864 shall be, Section 3 of and the same is hereby repealed; and instead of the section 3 in Ordinance No. 5 of 1864, the said Ordinance, the following shall be the section 3, that is to repealed. say:-3. "On all occasions of alarm of Fire in Georgetown, the "entire control of the measures to be taken shall be vested in the New section 3. "Superintendent of Fire Engines, the Mayor of Georgetown, the "Town Superintendent of Georgetown, and the Managing Engineer "of the Georgetown Water Works, in succession, as follows, that is "to say-in the first named, if he shall be present; if the first "name shall be absent, in the second named; if the first and second named shall be absent, in the third named; and if the first, "second, and third named shall be absent, in the fourth named." VOL. IV. 2. The

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[Ord. 16 anno 1866.]

No. XIX.-XX.

2. The first proviso in the 11th section of the Ordinance, and First proviso which proviso is as follows:-" Provided always that a deduction of Ordinance No. "one-sixth, or such other deduction as may from time to time be

in section 11 of

5 of 1864, repealed.

Commence. ment of Ordi

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"fixed by the Governor and Court of Policy by resolution, shall "be made from the Town Tax leviable upon property owned by non-commissioned Officers or Privates serving in the Georgetown Militia, or by their wives or from the share of such tax payable "by any such non-commissioned Officer or Private, or by his wife," shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

3. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on the publication thereof.

nance.

XX.

[Ord.17 anno AN ORDINANCE FOR CONSOLIDATING VARIOUS LOANS RAISED 1866.]

AND TO BE RAISED BY AND ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR
AND TOWN COUNCIL OF GEORGETOWN, FOR PROVIDING A
GUARANTEE BY THE COLONY OF THE PAYMENT OF THE
PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST OF THE TOWN TANK AND WATER
WORKS LOANS BONDS, FOR INCREASING THE PRESENT
LOAN FROM THE COLONY TO THE MAYOR AND TOWN
COUNCIL OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS BY AN
ADDITIONAL LOAN OF SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND SEVEN
HUNDRED DOLLARS, AND FOR PROVIDING FOR THE PAY-
MENT OF THE LAST MENTIONED LOAN.

Enacted 10th October, 1866, published the 17th fol-
lowing, came into operation on publication.

[ROBERT MILLER MUNDY, Lieutenant-Governor.]

WHEREAS the Mayor and Town Council of the City of

Preamble. Georgetown, on the Sixteenth day of April of the year One

Thousand

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Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-six, addressed to His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Court of Policy of British Guiana, a petition having for its objects the passing of an Ordinance for Consolidating various Loans raised and to be raised by and on behalf of the Mayor and Town Council, the procuring of the guarantee by the Colony of the payment of the Town Tank and Water Works Loans Bonds, the increasing of the present Loan from the Colony to the Mayor and Town Council of One Hundred Thousand Dollars by an additional Loan of Seventy-eight Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars to be expended in certain public improve ments in said city, and the renewing of portions of the two last mentioned Loans to be expended in certain other public improvements in said City, and laid over therewith three statements mentioned therein, and the said petition and said three statements were duly laid before and considered by the said Honorable the Court of Policy, combined with the Financial Representatives of the Inhabitants of the said Colony, at their Annual Assembly, held on the fifteenth day of May of the same year, and it was thereupon resolved by the said Combined Court, as follows:

Combined

1. That this Court approves of the scheme submitted for con- Resolutions of solidating and extending the Loans of the Mayor and Town Court recited. Council of Georgetown.

2. That His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Court of Policy be requested to pass an Ordinance authorising the consolidation and extension of the said Loans, the same not to exceed at any one time Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, and the Interest not to exceed six per centum per annum.

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3. That for the payment of the Interest and the Principal when due, the Court pledges all the Colonial Revenues not especially appropriated by any Ordinance already in force. It being understood that each portion of the renewal of the Loan shall be subject to the consideration of the Combined Court.

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[Ord. 17 anno 1866.]

of Loans raised

nances No. 7 of

No. XX.

Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the LieutenantGovernor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:

1. The sums already raised under Ordinances No. 7 of the year Consolidation 1859, No. 31 of the year 1862, No. 22 of the year 1864, and No. 2 under Ordi- of the year 1865, amounting together to one hundred and seventy1859, No. 31 of one thousand three hundred dollars, and the sum of seventy-eight 1862, No. 22 of thousand seven hundred dollars to be raised under this present Ordinance, as hereinafter provided, making in all the principal amount of two hundred and fifty-thousand dollars, shall be and are hereby declared to be consolidated under and by this Ordinance into one Loan.

1864, and No. 2 of 1865.

to be construed with other

2. This Ordinance shall be construed with, and shall form part This Ordinance of, the four above mentioned Ordinances, except in so far as any one of such four Ordinances is hereby repealed or amended; and it Short Name of may be cited for all purposes as "The Town Council Extended and "Consolidated Loans Ordinance, 1866."

Ordinances.

Ordinance.

No Bonds to be issued hereafter

under Ordi

3. From and after the taking effect of this Ordinance, the Mayor and Town Council shall cease to issue Bonds under said Ordinances No. 7 of the year 1859, No. 31 of the year 1862, and No. 22 of nances No. 7 of the year 1864, or under any one thereof: and sections one and 1859, No. 3 of three of the said first-mentioned Ordinance, four and five of the 1862, and No. 22 of 1864. said second-mentioned Ordinance, and one and two of the said last mentioned Ordinance, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except as to the Bonds heretofore issued under the provisions of said respective three Ordinances.

4. The Guarantee of the Colony of British Guiana shall be and Guarantee by is hereby declared to be given for the payment to the holders of all bouds heretofore issued under the said three last mentioned Ordinances respectively, of the interest and principal of such bonds at the times of their respectively falling due; and all the Colonial Revenues not already appropriated by any Ordinance now in force

colony of
Bonds issued
under Ordi-
nances No. 7 of
1859, No. 3 of
1862, and No.
22 of 1864.

shall

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shall be and are hereby declared to be held pledged in security for
such payment.
In default of such payment by the Mayor and
Town Council, payment shall be made to the said respective holders
by the Colonial Receiver-General, for and on behalf of the Colony;
and all such payments shall be charged to the account of the
Mayor and Town Council, and shall be recoverable from them in
manner hereinafter provided.

5. Upon the taking effect of this Ordinance, all the holders of Receiver Gene the bonds heretofore issued under said Ordinances No. 31 of the ral on applica tion to him, to year 1862, and No. 22 of the year 1864, may upon application to stamp Bonds the Colonial Receiver-General, have the Bonds held by them Ordinances respectively, stamped with the stamp of his office.

issued under

No. 31 of 1862 and No. 22 of 1864.

1862, and No.

nances, and

6 All Bonds heretofore issued under Ordinances No. 7 of the Bonds issued under Ordiyear 1859, No. 31 of the year 1862, and No. 22 of the year 1864, nances No. 7 of respectively, shall be good and valid, and the interest thereof shall 1859, No. 31 of be payable at the times at which it is made payable, and the prin- 22 of 1864, to be subject to cipal thereof shall be redeemable at the times at and in the manner provisions of in which such principal is provided to be redeemed, in and by said those Ordithree last mentioned Ordinances, respectively and such last also of this mentioned Bonds shall in all other respects be subject to the provisions of said respective three Ordinances hitherto affecting the same, except in so far as any of such provisions are hereby repealed or amended; and shall be subject also to the provisions of this Ordinance, so far as its provisions are applicable to such last mentioned Bonds,

Ordinance.

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Bonds issued nance No. 2,

under Ordi

7. Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall in any way affect the provisions of Ordinance No. 2 of the year 1865, in respect to either Bonds already issued, or yet to be issued, thereunder, or in of 1865 not to be affected by any other respect whatsoever. this Ordinance.

Receiver

8. The Colonial Receiver-General, for and on behalf of the General to colony, shall, as soon as practicable, raise by loan in manner and raise on loan form following, and on the security hereinafter mentioned, a sum exceeding not $78,700, and

a sum not

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