No. LVI.

Revenues, Rates and Taxes of the said Board, and recover from the sale or realization thereof every such amount.

[Ord.11 anno 1869.]

ral to statement

10. In every proceeding by parate or summary execution under Signature of this Ordinance, the signature of the Colonial Receiver General for Receiver Genethe time being, subscribed to any document containing a statement of amount of the amount claimed, shall, without proof of such signature, or facie evidence. claimed prima of any matter or thing, be held by all Courts sufficient prima facie proof of the amount claimed being due.

II. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on 0,dinance to the publication thereof.

Ordinance No. 11 of 1869.

SEC. 2.-" It shall be lawful for the Governor, for and on behalf of the Colony, to cause Bonds to be issued in the form in the Schedule annexed hereto, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit, signed by the Government Secretary and Colonial Receiver General for the time being, each of which Bonds shall be payable to bearer for such sum as the Governor shall approve, and to an amount not exceeding in the whole Thirty Thousand Dolars; and bearing Interest payable half-yearly at the rate of Six per Centum per Anuum; and the amount of such Bonds shall be payable in thirty equal half-yearly instalments, falling due halfyearly from the fifth year after issue of the first Bond."

SECTION 3.-"All the Colenial Revenues not specially appropriated by any Ordinauce already in force, shall be held, and are hereby declared, to be pledged for the payment of the Interest and Principal to become due in respect of the said Bonds."

Bond No.

Interest Warrant No.

The Undersigned the Government Secretary, and the Colonial Receiver General of British Guiana, for and on behalf of the said Colony, will pay the bearer, on the day of 18, the sum of being One Half Year's Interest on their Bond No.

at

Dollars,

come into operation on publication.

No. LVII.

No. LVII.

[Ord. 12anno AN ORDINANCE FOR RAISING A LOAN FOR THE COMPLETION 1869.] OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN GEORGETOWN.

Preamble.

Enacted 24th July, 1869, published the 28th following, came into operation on publication.

[JOHN SCOTT, Governor.]

WHEREAS the Roman Catholic Bishop in this Colony, having

by Petition prayed for the Grant on certain eonditions of a Loan for the completion of the new Roman Catholic Cathedral in Georgetown, the said Petition was considered at the Annual Meeting of the Honorable the Court of Policy of British Guiana, with the Financial Representatives of the Inhabitants thereof, in Combined Court Assembled, and on the Twenty eighth day of May, in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-nine, it was resolved by the said Court as follows:

"1. That the Governor and Court of Policy be, and they are hereby authorised to cause Bonds to be issued to an "amount not exceeding Fifteen Thousand Dollars, charged upon the Colonial Revenues, and redeemable with interest "at Six per Cent in Seven years, from the date of issue.

"2. That the amount so to be raised may be advanced on Loan "to the Roman Catholic Bishop, for the purpose of "enabling him to complete the new Roman Catholic "Cathedral; it being conditioued that the amount of such "Loan shall be repaid in Seven Annual Instalments of "Two Thousand Dollars each for Six Years, and of Three "Thousand Dollars at the close of the Seventh Year; the "first instalment to fall due Two Years after the granting "of the Loan, with Interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable Half-yearly; and that for securing "such re-payment, the Colony shall have a preferent lien "on the amount secured by Ordinance No. 13 of 1868, for "the maintenance of the Roman Catholic Clergy in this "Colony."

Be

Ord. 12 anno 1869.]

No. LVII.

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

1. It shall be lawful for the Governor, for and on behalf of the Loan not exColony, to raise by Loan, on the security hereinafter provided, a housand Dolsum not exceeding Fifteen Thousand Dollars, and to lend and lars authorized advance the same when raised, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, to the Roman Catholic Bishop for the time being, who is hereby authorised and empowered to borrow and receive the same, for the purpose of enabling him to complete the new Roman Catholic Cathedral in Georgetown.

amount.

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, for and on behalf of the Bonds may be Colony, to cause Bonds to be issued in the Form in the Schedule issued for the annexed hereto, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit, signed by the Government Secretary and Colonial Receiver General for the time being, each of which Bonds shall be payable to bearer for such sum as the Governor shall approve, and to an amount not exceeeding in the whole Fifteen Thousand Dollars, and bearing Interest payable half-yearly at the rate of Six per Centum per Annum; and the amount of such Bonds shall be payable as follows, that is to say, by Six Annual Instalments of Two Thousand Dollars each, and the balance of Three Thousand Dollars at the close of the Year then next following; the first instalment to fall due Two Years next after the granting of the Loan.

Loan on Colo

3. All the Colonial Revenues not specially appropriated by any Security for Ordinance already in force, shall be held, and are hereby declared, nial Revenues. to be pledged for the payment of the Interest and Principal to become due in respect of the said Bonds.

4. In case any Bond issued under this Ordinance shall by acci- Defaced Bonds dent be defaced, the Governor may issue a new Bond to the bearer, may be replaced. and may cause the defaced Bond to be cancelled, and the new Bond shall bear the same number, date, and principal sum, and carry the same interest, and be subject to the same rules as the original Bond.

destroyed by

5. The Governor, on proof to his satisfaction that any Bond Bonds lost or issued under this Ordinance has by accident been lost or destroyed accident may

before

be replaced,

security being

given.

or if overdue, before the same shall have been paid off, may, if the number and paid off, on amount of such Bond shall be ascertained, and upon security being given to his satisfaction for indemnifying the Colonial Government for any loss to which it may at any time be subjected by reason thereof, issue a new Bond corresponding with the lost or destroyed Bond, or if any Bond, when so lost or destroyed shall be overdue, the Governor may, on being furnished with such security as aforesaid, cause the money due thereupon to be paid off and discharged.

Loan.

6. The moneys to be raised under this Ordinance shall be lent Application of and advanced by the Colonial Receiver General to the Roman Catholic Bishop or Vicar-General in his behalf for the time being in this Colony, for the purpose aforesaid, in such amounts respectively as the Governor shall from time to time be pleased to direct; and the whole amount of said loan shall be repaid to the Colonial Receiver General, for and on behalf of the Provision for Colony, with interest at the rate aforesaid, in manner following, repayment of that is to say, during the first year, commencing from the date of the first advance interest shall be paid half-yearly on the whole amount advanced; and at the end of the second year, and of each year thereafter, until the seventh year, the sum of Two Thousand Dollars shall be repaid, and at the end of the seventh year, coa mencing from such date of advance, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars shall be repaid; and after the end of the second year interest shall continue to be paid half-yearly, on the principal amount at each date of payment remaining due.

Loan,

on Grant to

7. The Colonial Receiver-General for and on behalf of the Preferent Lien Colony, shall have a preferent lien upon the amount secured by Ron an Catho. Ordinance No. 13, of the year 1868, for the support of the Roman Catholic Church in this Colony, for the payment of the amount of each instalment, with interest, as and when the same shall fall due.

lic Church.

8. Until the whole amount of the principal and interest of the Lien to conti. Loan hereby authorised shall be repaid to the Colonial Receiver General, the preferent lien hereby created in favour of the Colony shall continue in full force and effect,

nue until payment in

full with in. terest.

9. This

Ord. 12 anno 1869.]

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

come into operation en publication.

SCHEDULE.

Interest Warrant No.

The Undersigned, the Government Secretary and the Colonial Receiver General of British Guiana, for ad on behalf of the said Colony, will pay the bearer on the 18 at the sum of