Whereas

a passenger, of the vessel to become a public charge;

Now the condition of this obligation is, that if the obligors shall indemnify the Province, or any place, or charitable institution therein, from any expenses which shall be incurred on account of such passenger within three years from this date, then this obligation to be void or else in force.

any Parish or County, shall be supported by the Overseers of the Poor, or the Commissioners appointed as hereinafter mentioned, at the place where such seamen may be.

2. Such Overseers shall at least once in each year, render an account on oath of the expenses incurred by them in the support of such seamen to the General Sessions of the County in which the Overseers act, which account shall be audited by the Sessions, and when proved, shall be certified by the Clerk of the Peace, and transmitted by him to the Provincial Secretary, to be dealt with as other public accounts, and the amount due thereon shall be paid from the funds and in the manner hereinafter provided.

3. The master, owner, or consignee of every vessel that shall arrive at any port except Miramichi, Saint Andrews, and Bathurst, being of the burthen of sixty tons or upwards, shall pay to the Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer at the port of arrival the sum of one penny per ton for every ton at which such vessel shall be rated in the registry thereof; and at the

Ports of Miramichi and Saint Andrews, shall pay to the Deputy Treasurer of such ports respectively the sum of two pence per ton according to the register thereof; every vessel over twenty five tons burden arriving at the port of Bathurst shall pay at the rate of two pence per ton; which duty shall be paid at the time of entry, at the office of the Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer, before breaking bulk or discharging any ballast, but coasters shall pay such duty only once in each year on their first entry into any port, and other vessels shall pay the duty six times only in each year.

4. The master, owner, or consignee of any such vessel may deduct from the wages of every master, seaman, or other articled person, for the management and navigation of such vessel, one shilling per month to cover the amount of the tonnage duty hereby imposed.

5. Separate accounts shall be kept by the Treasurer and Deputy Treasurers of the moneys received and disbursed by them by virtue of this Chapter, who shall render them with their other public accounts.

6. The Governor in Council may appoint three or more fit persons to be Commissioners for sick and disabled seamen at the Ports of Saint John, Saint Andrews, Miramichi, Bathurst, Caraquet, Shippagan, Dalhousie, Richibucto, and Buctouche, respectively.

7. Such Commissioners shall have the exclusive management of all marine hospitals and pest houses for the use of sick and disabled seamen within their respective appointments, and may renew leases of lands on which any hospitals or pest houses may be erected, and make all necessary contracts for repairing and maintaining the same, and for the cure, care, attendance, and support of the patients therein; and may also make such regulations as they may deem advisable for the government of the same, for regulating the visiting of seamen ill of any infectious diseases, and for their removal to any pest house or other building.

8. Until proper buildings shall be erected at the several ports, the Commissioners shall hire and make use of any building which may be convenient for the purposes aforesaid, and shall have the same power with respect to sick and disabled seamen at their respective ports as the Overseers of the Poor have with respect to the ordinary poor of the Parish.

9. Upon refusal to pay the duties by this Chapter imposed, and the same being proved on oath before any Justice where such vessel shall arrive, he shall levy the duties by warrant of distress and sale of the boats, tackle, apparel, and furniture of such vessel, directed to any Sheriff or constable, rendering the overplus, if any, after deducting the costs and charges of distress and sale, to the master of any such vessel.

10. If there be any overplus of such duty at any one port in any one year, after the expenditure of so much thereof as may be necessary for the relief of sick and disabled seamen at such port, the Governor in Council, on being satisfied of the deficiency, may order the payment of such overplus, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Overseers of the Poor or Commissioners at such other port where the deficiency may be, to provide for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.

11. All penalties imposed by or under the authority of any of the provisions of this Chapter shall, when levied, be paid over for the purposes aforesaid to the Overseers of the Poor, or Commissioners, within whose jurisdiction the offence shall be committed.

12. For the purposes of this Chapter the waters, creeks, and places following, shall be Ports, that is to say, those lying between Point Escuminac and the line dividing the Counties of Gloucester and Northumberland coastwise, shall be the Port of Miramichi; those in the County of Charlotte, the Port of Saint Andrews; those lying between the head of the tide on the River Restigouche and Belledune River, the Port of Dalhousie; those between Belledune River and Pokeshaw River, the Port of Bathurst; those between Pokeshaw River and Pocksuidie Point, the Port of Caraquet; those between Pocksuidie Point and the line dividing the Counties of Gloucester and Northumberland coastwise, the Port of Shippagan; those lying between the boundary line dividing the Counties of Northumberland and Kent coastwise, and Chockpish River, the Port of Richibucto; and those lying between Chockpish River and Cocagne Islands, the Port of Buctouche.

13. The lands conveyed to the Corporation of the City of Saint John, situate in Sidney Ward of the said City, whereon the Marine Hospital and its enclosures now stand, together with the said hospital, enclosures, and appurtenances, are hereby

declared to be vested in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, in trust, for the use of the said hospital inalienable, and shall forever remain and be appropriated solely for the use of such hospital for the Port of Saint John, and be under the exclusive control and management of the Commissioners for the said port.

14. Any surplus money raised in the Port of Richibucto for the support of such seamen may, with the authority of the Governor in Council, after the payment of any debts incurred for the support of such seamen at that port, be applied by the Commissioners to the purchase of land and the erection of a suitable building thereon for a marine hospital, and the same shall vest in them by the style of "The Commissioners of sick and disabled seamen at the Port of ," with all the

powers of suing and defending necessary for the protection of the same.

1. The proper officer of the Treasury Department at the port of his residence shall grant a drawback of all the export duty paid or secured to be paid under the Chapter relating to the export duty on timber, hacmatack, and other lumber, shipped from the County of Charlotte to any place in the West Indies, to any British possession in the Gulf of Mexico or South America, or to any French or Dutch possession in South America, and also a drawback of the duties paid or secured for the support of the light houses, buoys, and beacons, by any vessel on her return to the said County from any of the said places after having landed the same.

2. The proper officer of such port shall take a bond to the Queen in double the amount of the duties, with a sufficient surety for the payment of the same in one year from the date thereof, which on compliance with the provisions of this Chapter shall be by him cancelled.

3. The evidence of the exportation and landing of such lumber shall be the affidavit of the master as follows :— 'I, A. B. do swear that the following lumber, to wit,

is now actually on board the

'the master, bound for

'to be landed at

whereof I am

and that the same is intended , (as the case may be).'

And the owner or his agent shall, to the best of his belief, subscribe an affidavit of the ownership of such timber, or of the agency aforesaid, and of the truth of the master's affidavit; but before the drawback or remission of duties shall be obtained, the owner, shipper, or agent of the lumber, shall produce to the proper officer of the port of shipment, within one year from the exportation, a certificate under the hand of the principal officer of Customs or Revenue of the place to which the same was exported, or of two resident Merchants there, that the lumber has been actually landed, and at the same time shall subscribe the following affidavit :—

whereof

'I, A. B. do swear that the lumber exported by me (or by A. B. the owner, as the case may be,) in the vessel called 'the was master, a certificate of the landing of which is now by me exhibited and left with the proper officer, has to the best of my belief been actually ' landed at

3. May employ assistance, check distur
bances, &c. Penalty for disobeying 11.
them.

4. To take inventory and deliver property
to owner, &c. on payment of expenses, 12.
and arbitration, if disagreement, &c.

Mode of dealing with Commissioner
neglecting to comply with provisions
of last Section.
Proceeding with property found on
shores, &c. of City and County of

Saint John.

Justice to try question as to wrecked property by Port Wardens and two freeholders.

5. Penalty for intermeddling with property. 6. Commissioners to publish particulars of 13. If decided in favour of Commissioners

property. Penalty for neglect.

7. When Commissioners may sell property sufficient to pay duty, &c.

8. When perishable property may be dis- 14.

posed of.

Sheriff to deliver property to them on payment of expenses of trial, &c. Commissioners to be repaid.

If otherwise property to be returned by Sheriff to person from whom taken, and Commissioners liable for costs.

1. The Governor in Council may appoint in any County Commissioners of wrecked property, who before acting shall