Applicant to

submit to an examination, if required.

sion to the Bar of this Island, by Barristers,

&c., of the British Provinces.

when such Certificate was granted, and that he has conducted himself with credit and reputation since he was called to the Bar, or admitted to Practice in the Court to which he belongs, and that he is a Person of good moral character; and if he shall be otherwise qualified for such Admission, under the provisions of the said recited Act, and, if required by the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of this Island so to do, shall submit himself to, and pass a satisfactory Examination touching his fitness and capacity, as aforesaid.

II. When and so often as any Person, being Terms of admis- an Attorney and Barrister of any other British Province or Colony, and who shall be otherwise qualified for such Admission under the Provisions of the said recited Act, shall apply to be admitted as an Attorney and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Judicature of this Island, it shall be lawful for such Court to admit such Person, and to call him to the Bar of this Island, without requiring that the Person so making Application shall have previously entered and continued for one year as a Student in the Office of one of the Attorneys of the said Court, having the Rank of a Barrister, as in the said recited Act mentioned, or shall have resided in this Island for a period of Twelve Months previous to making Application as aforesaid, provided it shall appear to the said Court, and be clearly proved, that Attorneys and Barristers of the Supreme Court of Judicature of this Island are, at the time when any such Application shall be made, entitled to equal Privileges and freedom of Admission to the Bar of the Courts of Law, Equity and Judicature in the Country to the Bar of which the Attorney, Solicitor and Barrister, seeking Admission, belongs, as are by this and the said recited Act extended to such

produced.

Person so making application as aforesaid; and provided also, that such Person so applying for Certificate to be Admission shall, at the same time thereof, produce a Certificate from one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Country to the Bar of which he belongs of his being on the Rolls of such Court, and of his being in actual Practice at the time when such Certificate was granted -which Certificate shall bear date within Six Months previous to such Application, so to be made as aforesaid; and such Applicant shall also produce a Certificate of such Court, or of a Judge of the same, of his having conducted himself with credit and reputation since his Admission, and also of his being a Person of good moral Character; and such Applicant shall also be subject to an Examination or otherwise, touching his Qualifications, at the discretion of the said Supreme Court of this Island.

Applicant to examination.

submit to an

CAP. XXIII.

An ACT to provide a Summary Remedy for Females, in certain Cases of Seduction.

B

[April 3, 1852.]

E it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor,
Council and Assembly, as follows:

I. In all Actions hereafter to be brought for Seduction of Females, where the Damages sought to be recovered shall not exceed One hundred Pounds, the Action shall and may be brought, if the Plaintiff so elect, by and in the name of the Woman seduced, whether a minor or otherwise, who, notwithstanding she shall be the Plaintiff in the Cause, shall be admitted as

Actions for Damages, how

brought.

Plaintiff to be admitted as an evidence.

deemed defective by reason of its containing

no allegation of pecuniary loss.

an Evidence therein, to and for all such purposes as she might or could have been before the passing of this Act, in case the Action had been brought per quod servituim amisit, by her Parent, Guardian or Master.

II. No Declaration or other Pleading, on the Declaration not part of the Plaintiff, in any such Action, shall be deemed defective or insufficient in Law by reason of containing no Allegation of pecuniary Loss or Damage, necessarily sustained by her Pregnancy and Delivery; nor shall any such Plaintiff become Nonsuit by reason of not adducing Evidence of any such pecuniary Loss or Damage Provided always, that the Evidence of the said Plaintiff so to be admitted in such Cause shall not be deemed or construed to give to her a Right in Law to any certain Amount of Damages whatsoever; but the finding of Damages and the Amount thereof shall be wholly, as heretofore, in the discretion of the Jury, impanelled to Try the Cause, who may, in their discretion, refuse to find any Damages whatsoever, in case they may deem the Plaintiff not to merit the same.

Discretionary powers of Jury.

be held to Bail.

III. The Defendant, in any such Action, may Defendant may be held to Bail in any Sum not exceeding One hundred Pounds, allowed by any Justice of the Supreme Court in a Trial to be granted for that purpose, upon an Affidavit of the Facts being first duly Sworn and laid before such Justice.

Amends or Compensation may be paid into Court.

IV. The Defendant shall and may, in all such Cases, be at liberty to pay into Court any Sum of Money as Amends or Compensation in full for the Injury sustained by the Plaintiff, and to prove, in the ordinary manner and subject to the ordinary Rules of Court, a Tender and Refusal of such Sum, before Action brought.

Judge may appoint a Trustee, of Verdict, &c.,

to whom amount

shall be paid.

V. In case a Verdict shall be found for the Plaintiff, the Judge who shall have tried the Cause, if in his Discretion he may deem the same conducive to the Interest of the Plaintiff, name a Trustee on her behalf, to whom the Amount of the Verdict and Costs shall be paid, and whose Receipt for the same shall be as effectual a Discharge to the Defendant as the Plaintiff's otherwise would be, and who shall Power of Trushave the disposal of the said Amount of Verdict, in such manner and in such Instalments, as in the discretion of such Trustee shall be most prudent for the Interest of the said Plaintiff.

tee.

Act.

VI. This Act shall be and continue in force Continuance of for the Term of Five Years from the passing thereof, and from thence to the end of the then next Session of the General Assembly, and no longer.

CAP. XXIV.

An ACT to regulate the Sale of Arsenic and other Poisons therein mentioned.

WH

[April 3, 1852.]

HEREAS the unrestricted Sale of Arsenic and other Poisons facilitates the commission of Crime and the occurrence of Accidents: Be it therefore enacted, by the Licutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

I. Every Person who shall Sell any Arsenic, Strychnine or Prussic Acid, shall forthwith, and before the delivery thereof to the Purchaser, enter, or cause to be entered, in a fair and regular manner, in a Book or Books to be kept by such Person for that purpose, in the Form set forth in the Schedule to this Act, or to the

Restrictions as to Sale of Arsenic, &c.

Provisions for colouring Arsenic.

like effect, a statement of such Sale, with the quantity of Arsenic, Strychnine or Prussic Acid so sold, and the purpose for which the same is required or stated to be required, and the day of the Month and Year of the Sale, and the Name, Place of Abode, and Condition or Occupation of the Purchaser-into all which circumstances the Person selling such Arsenic, Strychnine or Prussic Acid, is hereby required and authorized to inquire of the Purchaser before delivering the same to him; and such Entries shall, in every case, be signed by the Person making the same, and shall also be signed by the Purchaser, unless such Purchaser professes to be unable to write, (in which case, the Person making the Entries hereby required shall add to the Particulars to be entered in relation to such Sale, the words "cannot write"); and where a Witness is hereby required to the Sale, shall also be signed by such Witness, together with his Place of Abode.

II. No Person shall Sell Arsenic, Strychnine or Prussic Acid, to any Person who is unknown to the Person selling the same, unless the Sale be made in the presence of a Witness who is known to the Person selling the same, and to whom the Purchaser is known, and who signs his name, together with his Place of Abode, to such Entries before the Delivery of the Arsenic or other Poisons herein before named to the Purchaser, and no Person shall sell Arsenic or any of the other Poisons herein before named to any Person other than a Person of full age.

III. No Person shall Sell any Arsenic unless the same be, before the Sale thereof, mixed with Soot or Indigo, in the proportion of One Ounce of Soot, or Half an Ounce of Indigo, at the least.