Sureties, the said Treasurer for the time being is hereby required, from time to time, to enter into a similar Recognizance with another good and sufficient Surety in the place and stead of the Surety so dying or becoming in insolvent circumstances, so that there may always exist a Recognizance with Two or more good and sufficient Sureties as aforesaid. Treasurer to attend LXIV. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer shall attend Stabmis to die.x.com at his Office each and every Day (Sundays and other legal Holi days excepted) from the lour of Nine o'clock in the Forenoon until Four o'Olock in the Afternoon. · Salary of £20 each. Two Constables or LXV. For the purpose of assisting the Treasurer in carrying armoires to assist out the provisions of this Act, Be it Enacted, That the Officer the Treasurer at a Administering the Government shall have power and authority to appoint any One or Two Constables of the Island, or any One or Two other persons to attend at the Treasury to perform under and subject to the directions of the Treasurer all duties which are required to be performed by Virtue of this Act; and it shall be lawful for the Officer Administering the Government to pay to every such Constable or other person so employed a sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds per annum in Quarterly payments, and every person employed under and by Virtue of the Authority herein, shall have and be entitled to all the protection and privilege of Treasury Officers. LXVI. And be it enacted, That as to the interpretation of Terms used in this Act and for the purposes of this Act, the Term Master shall mean the person having or taking the charge or command of any Ship, Vessel, Boat, or Canoe ; whenever in this Act any Term importing the Singular Number occurs, the Plural Number shall be deemed included and intended, or where any Terms importing the Plural Number the Singular Number shall be deemed included, and where any Term shall be used which signifies the Male Gender the Female Gender shall be considered and taken to be included; and that where one matter or subject may be treated of, two or more subjects may be considered included : Provided that it shall be necessary to put such a construction in order to render the sense more clear, or to give more full and complete effect to any of the provisions of this Act, and there be nothing inconsistent or repugnant to the subject matter in the context or otherwise. Interpretation of terms used in this Act. in this Act and the Vamine howninhofa Monies mentioned LXVII. And be it enacted, That all Duties, Penalties, or e Monies hereinbefore or in the Schedule to this Act annexed, declared to be Ster- mertivned, are hereby declared to be Sterling Money of Great ling Money. Britain, Short title of Act. LXVIII. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in any ocher ácts or in legal instruments, is shall be sufficient to use the expressions " The Tariff Act." MONTSERRAT. LXIX. And be it enacted, That this Act shall, from and Duration Clauso. after the Date thereof, be and continue in force for and during the space of Five Years, and for such further time as may be necessary for collecting, imposing, and receiving such of the Duties, Taxes, and Penalties, as shall be due and recoverable under it. Dated at Montserrat this Fifteenth Day of May One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Eight, and in the Twenty First EDWARD B. DYETT, Speaker. By Command, EDWIN D. BAYNES, of the Council. JAS. MEADE, SCHEDULE X. REFERRED TO IN THE - FOREGOING ACT, TABLE OF IMPORT DUTIES. £ S. D. Asses per Head.... .0 5 0 Ale, Beer, Perry, Cider and Porter per dozen) 0. 0 Quart Bottles........ of 200 Pounds..... Bread or Biscuit per Barrel. ... 0 2 6 Butter per Pound... 0 0 Candles Tallow per Pound.... 0 0 Candles other than Tallow per Pound. Cheese per 100 Pounds.. 0 8 4 Cigars 1.2 per cent ad valorem Duty. Cattle Liorned per Head... 05 0 Fish, Dried or Cured per 100 Pounds............... ... 0 1 0 00000 cer005 20 ... ... 0 £ S. D Fish, Pickled per Barrel of 200 lbs. ............. whether Pickled or Dried per 100% 0 4 2 Pounds. Horses, Mares and Geldings per Ilead........... 1 0 0 Lard, per 100 Pounds., ............ 0 4 2 Mules per Head... . ... 0 10 0 Meal and other Flour not W of 196 Pounds. , Oil Cake or Linseed per Hundred Weight. ... 0 0 6 Peas, Beans, Barley, Calarances....... ...0 0 6 Oats, Indian Corn, and all other Grain or > Pulse per Bushel. 0 "} 0 0 4 Rice per 100 Pounds. Sheep and Swine per Head. Soap per Pound. ... ... 0 0 0 Spirits Namely :-Brandy, per Imperial Gal- ) lon-Gin and all other Spirits not Sweetened per Imperial Gallon. Spirits Sweetened and all Cordials and Li-/ queurs per Imperial Gallon. 0 2 0 Sugar Refined per Pound. 0 0 1 Teas of all description per Pound. 0 0 4 Tobacco Leaf unmanufactured per Pound. 0 0 2 Tobacco manufactured per 100lbs. 1 0 0 Wines, whether Bottled or not on every £100 value. 10 0 0 Wood, Namely Hoops per 1200 Hoops. 0 8 0 Wood, Namely Staves per 1,000 Staves. 0 100 Wood, Namely Shooks per 1,000 Staves. 0 12 0 Wood, Hard,' per 1,000 Superficial Feet. 1 0 0 Articles not enumerated and not comprised in the Clause of Exemption on every { 6 0 0 £100 of the Value, MONTSERRAT.. An Act for facilitating the Administration of [Dated 15th May, 1858. EDWARD E. RUSHWORTI. (L. S.) LL T H EREAS it would greatly contribute to the diminishing VV of expense, and delay in suits in the Court of chancery, if the process pleadings and course of proceeding therein were in some respects altered, but this cannot be conveniently done otherwise than by rules or orders of the Judge of the said Court, from time to time, to be made, and doubts may arise as to the power of the said Judge to make such alterations as may be expedient witi out the authority of an Act of the Legislature of this Colony: Be it therefore enacted by the Officer Administering the Government of Montserrat, and the Council and Assembly of the same, and it is hereby enacted as follows : make alterations in I. It shall be lawful for the Vice Chancellor from time to Vice Chancellor to time to make such alterations as may seem expedient in the forms and mode of form of Writs and Commissions, and the mode of sealing, issu- proceeding. ing, executing, and returning the same, and also in the form of, and mode of filing bills, answers, depositions, affidavits, and other proceedings, and in the form and mode of obtaining discovery by answer in writing or otherwise, and in the form and mode of pleading, and in the form and mode of taking, or obtaining evidence, and generally in the form and mode of proceeding to obtain relief, and in the general practice of the Court with relation to each, and also in the form and mode of proceeding before the Master, and in the form and mode of drawing up, entering and enrolling orders and decrees, and of making and delivering copies of pleading, and other proceedings, and to make such regulations as to the allowance, taxation, and payment of Costs, and for altering, superintending, controuling, and regulating the business of the several offices of the Court, and otherwise for carrying into effect the said alterations as to him may seem meet. II. All such rules, orders and regulations to be made under Rules when con firmed by Chancelthis Act, shall before the same, shall take effect, be confirmed by lor to take effect as the Chancellor of this Island, and when so confirmed, shall for all general purposes be deemed and taken to be general rules, and orders of the Court of Chancery of Montserrat. Dated at Montserrat this Fifteenth Day of May One Thousand Light llundred and Fifty-eight, and in the Twenty-first Year of Her Majesty's Reign. |