insurance under this Chapter, which shall be granted by the Legislature.

7. All moneys received for any such insurance shall be forthwith paid into the Provincial Treasury, to the credit of the Province.

CHAPTER 34.

OF THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST ON TREASURY WARRANTS. Section.

Section.

1. Warrants to bear interest, when and how.

2. Duty of Treasurer as to publishing, &c. 3. Limitation.

1. When for want of funds in the Treasury the payment of any Warrant demanded cannot be made, the Treasurer shall endorse on such Warrant a memorandum in the form in the Schedule, which Warrant shall thereupon bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually on the first day of June and of December in each year, until ten days after notice published in the Royal Gazette (unless sooner paid) that payment thereof will be made by the Treasurer on demand.

2. The Treasurer shall, once a month at least, publish in the Royal Gazette a list of the Warrants he may be prepared to pay, and thereafter shall pay the same on demand, with all interest due thereon, up to the period of such demand, not exceeding the tenth day after the publication of such list.

3. This Chapter shall continue in force until the twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.

Section 1.-Quit rents extinguished, when and how.

1. The annual sum of twelve hundred pounds currency having been granted to the Queen in commutation and in full dis

charge of all Quit Rents, and the same having since been ceded to the Province, the right to recover any quit rents accruing before the twenty sixth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, is therefore extinguished.

Section.

CHAPTER 36.

OF DESERTION FROM HER MAJESTY'S FORCES.

Section.

1. Reward, amount, to whom, and when 3. Reward, how and by whom, and when paid. paid. Extent.

2. Duties of keepers of gaols.

1. Any person apprehending a deserter from Her Majesty's Forces, and delivering him up to any officer commanding any military post in this Province, shall for each deserter so apprehended and delivered up, receive a reward of five pounds, on producing a certificate thereof, specifying the name of such deserter, and to what Regiment he may belong, signed by such commanding officer and one Justice before whom such deserter shall be brought.

2. The keeper of the gaol shall receive such deserter in his custody without any fee or reward, whether conveyed by warrant from a Justice, or under military escort by order of the Commandant of any Garrison within the Province.

3. The Governor in Council may order the payment of the reward by Warrant on the Provincial Treasury, but the amount so paid shall not in any one year exceed the sum of one hundred pounds.

1. The annual sum of ten pounds shall be paid, on application as hereinafter specified, to every Soldier of the Revolutionary War, and to every Widow of any such Soldier who

resided within this Province on the twenty third day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, and who shall be in indigent circumstances, if such Widow shall have been married to such Soldier prior to the time aforesaid, and shall be a Widow at the time of making her application.

2. Any such Soldier applying for such relief shall make affidavit as follows:

'I A. B. resident of

in the County of

, aged

years, do swear that I served in the Revolutionary War
Regiment, (or as the fact may be) that

' in America in the
'I was attached to a Company commanded by
'was lawfully discharged from the service at

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that I

, in the year

and that I did reside in this Province on the twenty 'third day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, 'that I am not in the receipt of any pension from Her Majesty, ' and I am in indigent circumstances, having no sufficient pro'perty to maintain myself, and that I have not in any manner 'disposed of any property to secure my maintenance.'

3. Any Widow of any such Soldier applying for such relief shall make affidavit as follows:

'America, that he was attached to the Regiment, (as 'the fact may be) that he died (or was killed) at

in the

' year that I did reside in this Province on the twenty third day of March one thousand eight hurdred and thirty 'nine, and that I am now and have been for the last twelve 'months a Widow and in indigent circumstances, having no 'sufficient property for my maintenance, and that I have not ' in any manner disposed of any property to secure my main'tenance.'

4. The affidavits shall be sworn before a Justice living near to the place where the applicant resides, who at the time of administering the oaths aforesaid, shall examine the party and if satisfied that the claim is just, according to the provisions of this Chapter, shall endorse upon or attach to such affidavit a certificate thereof, and also that he has examined the deponent, and that he believes the matters stated in such affidavit are true.

5. The affidavit and certificate shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Peace of the County in which the same shall be made, on or before the first day of the Sessions next ensuing the date thereof, at which time the Clerk shall exhibit the same to the Justices in Session, who shall settle all claims for relief made under the provisions of this Chapter, and shall certify in a general Schedule all claims allowed, and transmit the same to the Provincial Secretary.

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6. The Governor in Council may draw by Warrant on the Provincial Treasury the amount of such Schedule in favour of the Clerk of the Peace of the County, who shall pay the same to the respective claimants.

7. No claim for Bounty under this Chapter shall be certified by any Sessions, unless the same was made prior to the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

1. When the President of any Agricultural Society shall make application to the Governor for aid, the Treasurer thereof shall forward to the Provincial Secretary a list of the subscribers to such Society, a copy of the bye laws relating to the disposal of its funds raised by subscription or received from the Province for its use, and his account for the preceding year duly audited by the audit committee and certified by the President, and he shall make oath that he verily believes that the amount set opposite to such subscribers' names have been paid bona fide by them, and that the same is or will be applied in accordance with the bye laws, whereupon the Governor in Council may issue his Warrant in favour of the Treasurer of the Society for treble the amount so subscribed and paid, but the annual sum to be drawn for each County shall not exceed one hundred and fifty pounds.

2. If there be several Agricultural Societies in any County,

each Society shall be entitled to receive in like proportion to the amount subscribed, paid, and certified as aforesaid; but the whole sum granted to the District Societies of any County together shall not exceed the sum of two hundred pounds in each year.

3. Each Agricultural Society shall elect such officers, and make such bye laws for their guidance, as they shall deem best for promoting the interests of agriculture according to the meaning of this Chapter.

4. Every Agricultural Society receiving such public allowance shall annually offer by way of premiums, or apply otherwise as they deem best for the encouragement or improvement of agriculture or manufactures, a sum not less than such allowance; and they shall annually transmit to the Provincial Secretary, on or before the first day of January, a statement of the expenditure thereof, specifying the nature of the encouragement or improvement aforesaid, the object for which the premiums have been offered, and to whom allowed, with such general observations in relation to agriculture and manufactures as they may deem important.

5. Any Agricultural Society neglecting to comply with any of the provisions of the preceding Sections, shall forfeit the bounty for the next succeeding year.

6. The officers of such societies may fix sufficient bounds for the erection of the cattle pens and yards, and for convenient passage ways on the days of exhibition, and also for ploughing matches; within which bounds no person shall be permitted to enter or pass but in conformity with the regulations of the society; any person offending after due notice shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten shillings, to be paid to the Treasurer of the County for the use thereof.

7. Nothing in this Chapter shall authorize any such Society to occupy or include within such bounds, the lands of any person without his consent, or occupy any public street or highway, so as to obstruct the use thereof.

8. When it shall be certified to the satisfaction of the Governor that an Agricultural School has been established and in operation in any County for the period of one year, with an average attendance of not less than twenty scholars, that proper instruction in agricultural chemistry, and in the branches