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of husbandry, has been given and practically applied in the cultivation and management of a portion of land in connection with such school, and that the sum of not less than twenty five pounds has been subscribed and paid towards the support thereof, the Governor in Council may issue his Warrant in favour of the Teacher for a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds.

9. This Chapter shall continue and be in force until the first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.

CHAPTER 39..

OF GRANTING LANDS UNDER SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES.

Section 1.-When and what lands may be granted in Restigouche, &c., and to whom.

1. The Governor in Council, when satisfied that any person has, before the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, bona fide occupied or improved lands which have by an Act of the Imperial Parliament become part and portion of this Province, and are situate in the Counties of Restigouche or Victoria, may grant the same to such occupiers or improvers, their heirs or assigns, on such conditions as the Governor may deem fair, without any sale by auction.

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34. Other offences by, how punished.
35. Offences by other persons, how punished.
36. Receivers, how punished.

37. Retaining, &c. letters punishment.
38. Persons connected with the office steal-
ing, &c., punishment.

39. Soliciting a person to commit an offence,
crime, &c.

40. Offences, how dealt with.

41. Offences punishable with imprisonment,
where.

42. Limitation of actions. Venue, costs, &c.
43. Extortion, how punished.
44. Explanation of terms.

45. Money for the department, how drawn.
Schedule.

1. The exclusive right of establishing Posts, receiving, conveying and delivering letters, and the power of the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury by the Act of the Imperial Parliament to establish rates of postage within the Province, are hereby vested in the Governor and Council, by the name of "The Post Office Department."

2. The Governor in Council may establish, alter, or discontinue any posts, post communications, Post or Way Offices, appoint the Postmaster General, officers, and servants connected therewith, (who shall respectively be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties according to Schedule A) to be called the Post Office Department, and make regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Chapter, to be published in the Royal Gazette; but they shall not impose a higher penalty than one hundred pounds for any breach thereof.

3. The Postmaster General and other officers shall respectively execute a Bond to the Queen in such sum as shall be ordered by the Governor in Council, and receive, subject at all times to the revision of the Legislature, the following annual salaries, in full of all fees and perquisites whatever, payable quarterly :

The Postmaster General,

The first Clerk in the General Post Office,
The second and third Clerks in the General

Post Office, each,

The Postmasters of the respective Post Offices

in the following places, that is to say :

£400 0 0

120 0 0

110 0 0

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4. The Governor in Council may allow such remuneration to Way Office Keepers, by way of postage or otherwise, as they may think proper, and such officers shall be liable to the same penalties as other officers of the department.

5. The Postmaster General, with the sanction of the Governor in Council, may, upon the application of any person, extend the accommodation of the post to any place, and agree with him for that purpose, the applicant indemnifying the revenue wholly or in part against the expenses beyond the postage.

6. Every Order in Council shall be published in the Royal Gazette, and laid before the Legislature within fourteen days after the meeting thereof.

7. No postage shall be charged on letters carried through the Province and not delivered therein.

8. Letters delivered or posted in the Province shall be charged at the uniform rate of three pence currency postage for each letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, with an additional three pence for each additional half ounce; but the

Governor in Council may fix a higher rate for letters from countries with which Her Majesty may have no postal convention, and may make such orders as are necessary for causing the relative scale of weights and charges herein enumerated to correspond as far as may be with the relative scale of weights and charges now or hereafter to be established in the United Kingdom; and they shall have the power to carry into effect any postal arrangements with the United States for this Province, separately or in conjunction with all or any of Her Majesty's North American Colonies.

9. A party posting a letter in this Province addressed to any person therein, or in any of Her Majesty's North American Colonies, or in the United Kingdom, may prepay the postage.

10. All moneys received for packet postage to and from the United Kingdom shall be carried to a separate Account by the Postmaster General, and be transmitted annually by the Governor to the Postmaster General in England. All other moneys received by the Postmaster General shall be paid by him to the Treasurer at the end of every quarter.

11. The Governor in Council may cause Stamps, with their value printed thereon, to be sold and used as postage.

12. Persons receiving letters addressed to them shall be liable to the postage thereon.

13. Newspapers circulated in the Province, transmitted therefrom, or coming into the same by post, and when from the United Kingdom, being stamped, shall be free of postage.

14. Printed Books, Magazines, Reviews, or Pamphlets, whether British, Colonial, or Foreign, may be sent through the Post from this Colony to the United Kingdom, or from the United Kingdom to this Colony, the postage in all cases being prepaid, at the following rates :

For a single volume, not exceeding half a pound in weight, six pence sterling;

Exceeding half a pound and not exceeding one pound, one shilling sterling;

Exceeding one pound and not exceeding two pounds, two

shillings sterling;

Exceeding two pounds and not exceeding three pounds, three shillings sterling;

And so on, increasing one shilling sterling for every additional pound or fraction of a pound; this charge to be the same whether the delivery be at a Post Town on the frontier or sea coast of the Province, or at a Post Office in the interior thereof.

15. The Governor in Council may from time to time make such orders as shall be necessary for carrying the provisions of this Chapter into effect, and such other orders as may be requisite for the transmission through the post of printed Books, Magazines, Reviews, and Pamphlets, to and from other British Colonies and the United States, or other foreign country, in conformity, as far as may be, with the foregoing charges and scale of weights; and by order duly made and published in the Royal Gazette may carry out any arrangement from time to time made for facilitating the transmission of books and pamphlets, or reducing the rates of postage on letters between Great Britain and the Colonies, which may be sanctioned by Her Majesty's Postmaster General, or by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and may regulate the transmission by post from one part of the Colony to the other of all such books or pamphlets, on such terms and in such manner as to the Governor in Council may seem meet. Every such Order in Council, when published by authority in the Royal Gazette, shall have the same effect as if contained in this Chapter.

16. No printed books, periodical publications, or pamphlets exceeding sixteen ounces in weight each, shall be transmitted by post within this Province; all under that weight may be at the rate of two pence per ounce up to six ounces, and three pence for each additional ounce up to sixteen ounces, but the Governor in Council may modify such rates.

17. All pamphlets or tracts not exceeding two ounces in weight, and all Parliamentary and Government papers, Imperial or Provincial, shall be transmitted by post free of postage.

18. No book, pamphlet, or printed paper permitted by this Chapter to be sent by post, shall be transmitted thereby with a cover unless open at the sides or ends; and no words or marks except the name and address of the sender and the person to whom sent, shall be written on the paper or cover or other paper enclosed; any officer of the department may examine

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