veyed from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to this Province; "Mail" shall include every horse or other conveyance, and also a person employed in conveying or delivering post letters, and also every vessel which is included in the term packet boat; and "Mail Bag" shall mean a mail of letters, or a box, parcel, or any other envelope in which post letters are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain post letters.

45. All moneys payable for or in respect of the Post Office Department, shall be drawn by Warrant of the Governor in Council upon the Treasurer, as the same may be required for the service of the Department.

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Form of affidavit to be sworn by every Officer of the Post Office. do solemnly and sincerely depose and swear, that I will not wittingly or willingly open or delay, or cause or suffer. to be opened or delayed, contrary to my duty, any letter, or any thing sent by the post, which shall come into my hands or custody by reason of my employment relating to the Post Office, except by consent of the person or persons to whom the same shall be directed, or except in such cases where the party or parties to whom such letter, or any thing sent by the post, shall be directed, or who is or are chargeable with the payment of the postage thereof, shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, and except such letters, or other thing sent by the Post, as shall be returned for want of true directions, or when the party or parties to whom the same shall be directed cannot be found; and that I will not in any way embezzle any such letter or any thing sent by the post as aforesaid; and I make this solemn oath conscientiously intending to fulfil and obey the same. Subscribed and sworn at A. D. 18

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1. The Auditor General may from time to time require any person entrusted with the expenditure of public money, to furnish detailed accounts on oath, accompanied with proper vouchers; and if the Auditor shall deem the evidence of any witnesses or the production of any books or papers necessary to substantiate any account, he may refuse to pass the same until such witnesses, books, or papers be produced to him, and if not produced within six months such account may be disallowed.

2. The Auditor General shall have the power of a Justice to cause any witness to be brought before him, and examine such witness on oath touching such public accounts; but no person shall be compelled by such proceedings to travel more than thirty miles from his usual place of abode, or to attend without tender of his reasonable expenses, which shall be charged to the party whose accounts are audited, unless the decision of the Auditor should be reversed upon certiorari.

3. The Auditor General shall examine, and allow or disallow accounts and items therein relating to public moneys, and may charge in every account examined by him any deficiency or loss incurred by the negligence or misconduct of the person accounting, and any other sum for which such person is accountable; and shall certify on the face of every account examined by him any money or property which may be due or coming from any person; and when such Auditor has so certified, he shall report the same to the Provincial Secretary. The person from whom any thing is so certified to be due or coming shall, within thirty days thereafter, pay or deliver the same to the Provincial or any Deputy Treasurer, and furnish

the Auditor General with the evidence thereof; and if any such money or property be not so duly paid or delivered, the Auditor or any person duly appointed by the Governor, may enforce the payment or delivery of the same; and all moneys so certified to be due by such Auditor, shall be recoverable as certified, with costs, from any person answerable therefor; and the examination of all evidence shall take place in the presence of the party whose accounts are under audit, or of his agent.

4. The Auditor if required by any person aggrieved by any allowance, disallowance, or surcharge made by him, shall state the reasons thereof in writing on the face of the account; and every such person, if he have first paid or delivered over to any duly authorized person any money or property admitted by his account to be in his hands, may at his own cost apply for a certiorari to remove into the Supreme Court such allowance, disallowance, or surcharge, on entering into a recognizance to prosecute the same without delay, and if the same be confirmed, shall pay to the Auditor, or to the Provincial Treasurer, within one month thereafter, full costs to be taxed. A notice of the intended application, containing a statement of the matter complained of, shall be given to the Auditor, who shall return to the writ, a copy under his hand of the entries on such account, and shall, if directed to do so by the Governor in Council, defend the allowance, disallowance, or surcharge so impeached. On the removal of the same, the said Court shall decide the particular matter of complaint set forth in such statement, and no other; and if it appear to the Court that the decision of the Auditor was erroneous, they shall make such order as may be just, and may also direct the payment of costs by the Auditor.

5. No proceeding for recovery of any such money or property shall take place unless the Auditor shall have first made a report in writing upon the case to the Governor, or receive from the Governor in Council directions to proceed for the recovery of such money or property.

6. If in any case it shall appear expedient that an examination should be made into the facts connected with the receipt or outlay of any public money, the Governor in Council may appoint the Chief Clerk of the Audit Office, or some other

person, to proceed to any part of the Province to take evidence as to the receipt or outlay of such public money; who shall be for that special purpose the deputy of the Auditor General, and shall have all the powers conferred on the Auditor General by this Chapter, and who shall report in writing all the evidence so taken to the Auditor General, and he shall thereupon deal with the accounts in such manner as such evidence may warrant; but every person so appointed shall, before he proceed to act, make oath before the Auditor General or a Justice, that he will faithfully and impartially report all evidence relating to the subject of his inquiry.

7. In all proceedings under this Chapter, it shall be sufficient to produce a copy of any report of the Auditor General, or of his deputy aforesaid, certified and signed by the said Auditor or such deputy, as well as of any minute, order, allowance, or direction of the said Governor in Council, certified and signed by the Provincial Secretary, or Clerk of the said Council; and such copies so certified shall be received as evidence in all Courts that the said reports, minutes, orders, allowances, or directions, were duly made and properly delivered to the party to whom they were addressed or whom they concerned.

8. All expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out this Chapter, so as to ensure a perfect audit, and all costs on certiorari which may be ordered to be paid by the Auditor, shall be defrayed from the Surplus Civil List Fund.

1. When at least fifty resident freeholders and householders, rate payers of any County, petition the Sheriff to call a public meeting at the Court House, to determine upon the propriety

of incorporating the County, he shall forthwith give three months notice of the day and hour of holding the same; such notice to contain a copy of the petition, with the signatures, which shall be published in a Newspaper printed in the County, if any, for eight consecutive weeks, and also by printed hand bills posted up in at least ten of the most public places in each Parish. 2. At such meeting the Sheriff shall preside; if not less than one hundred householders, being rate payers on property, be present, and two thirds of the persons present so qualified decide by vote that the County shall be incorporated, he shall certify the same under his hand to the Governor in Council; but if they decide in the negative he shall dissolve the meeting.

3. The Governor in Council on receiving such certificate, shall grant to such County a Charter of Incorporation under the Great Seal of the Province, constituting the rate payers on property therein a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Municipality of "[naming the County], and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and may sue and be sued, may hold real property within its limits not exceeding at any one time the yearly value of five hundred pounds, and may alienate the same, and enjoy all the powers and privileges necessary for the purposes of this Title.

4. In each County so incorporated there shall be a County Council, consisting of a Warden and Councillors, to be elected as provided by Chapter 43.

5. The Cities of Saint John and Fredericton shall be exempt from the operation of this Title; but the remaining Parishes in the Counties of York and Saint John may be incorporated by Charter, if the rate payers so decide.

1. When any County is incorporated, the collectors of rates for each Parish shall annually, at least ten days previous to the