the Eleventh Year of Her present Majesty's Reign, Chapter Eleven, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act made and passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to make new Provisions for the support of Light Houses, Buoys and Beacons,' be and the same are hereby respectively repealed.

structing Offi

ject to a Penal

ty.

IX. If any Person shall, by force or violence, assault, resist, molest, oppose, hinder or obstruct Persons obany Controller of Navigation Laws, or Harbour cers, &c., subMaster, or other Person employed as aforesaid, in the exercise of his Office, or any of the Powers by this Act conferred upon him, or any person acting in his aid or assistance, such person shall forfeit and pay a Fine not exceeding Ten Pounds the same to be sued for and recovered in Her Majesty's Name, before any Two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County wherein the Offence was committed; and if not paid on Conviction, the Offender shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding Six Months.

How proceeded against.

Continuance of

X. This Act shall continue and be in force for the space of Three Years from the passing Act thereof, and from thence to the end of the then next Session of the General Assembly, and no longer.

Certificate of

Schedules to which this Act refers.

SCHEDULE (A).

FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF PAYMENT OF LIGHT OR ANCHORAGE

DUTY.

I, A. B., Controller of Navigation Laws (or Harbour Master, or otherwise, as the case may be), at the Port (or Har

Payment of Du- bour, or otherwise, as the case may be), of

ty.

of the burthen of

do herehath

by certify, that the sum of (total amount paid)
this day been paid to me as Light Duty (or Anchorage Duty,
as the case may be), for the Ship or Vessel called the
of
Tons being Six-
pence per Ton for each Ton, which said Ship or Vessel ad-
measures, according to her Register; and that she is by such
payment exempt from further payment for Light or Anchor-
age, under the Fifteenth Victoria, Chapter (here insert the
Number of this Act), in any Port or Harbour in this Island,
until the First day of January now next.
Dated the

day of

A. D., 18
A. B. [L. S.]

Affidavit on making Quarterly Return.

SCHEDULE (B).

FORM OF AFFIDAVIT TO BE TAKEN BY PERSON MAKING QUAR-
TERLY RETURN OF LIGHT OR ANCHORAGE DUTIES

RECEIVED BY HIM.

I, A. B., Collector of Impost, (or Harbor Master, or other Officer, as the case may be), for the Port or Harbor of do hereby make Oath and say, that the above Return contains a true Account of all Moneys received by me on account of Light (or Anchorage) Duties, during the period to which such Return relates.

CAP. XXVIII.

An ACT to consolidate and amend the Acts now in force regulating the Letting of Stalls in Charlottetown Market House, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

WH

[April 3, 1852.]

HEREAS the Market House in Charlottetown has been built at the Public expense, and the Salary of the Clerk thereof, appointed as hereinafter mentioned, is to be paid out of the Public Treasury of this Island, and it is therefore just and expedient that the Stalls in the said Market House should be Let, as heretofore, in order to contribute towards defraying the contingent Expenses thereof:

Clerk of Market to number the Stalls therein, and set the

tion, as often as may be neces

sary, &c.

I. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, That the said Clerk shall number the Stalls in the said Market House, and that the whole of the said Stalls in the said Market House shall, after the passing of this Act, from time to time, as often as shall become necessary by expiration or surrender of the terms heretofore or hereafter to be respectively granted in the said Stalls, be by him set up at Auction, upon first giving at least Fifteen Days' Notice in any Public Newspaper in Charlottetown, at the upset price of Four Upset price of Pounds per annum for each and every of the such Stalls. said Stalls, and thereupon Let to the highest Bidder above the said upset price, for any term of not less than Six Months nor more than Two Years, at the option of the Bidder; no Person or Persons to rent more than Two of the said Stalls at one and the same time.

No person to

rent more than

two of the said Stalls.

be reserved, payable quarterly.

II. The Rent to be reserved in all Lettings Rent of Stalls to of the said Stalls shall be payable Quarterly, on the several Quarter Days to be named by the said Market Clerk, and for the accommodation of such Persons as may not require to rent a Stall, the said Market Clerk shall cause Meat Hooks to be driven and kept in the outer Walls of the said Market House.

occupied as aforesaid, may be let by the day.

III. Any number of the said Stalls which Stalls not let or shall not be Let or Occupied under the Provisions aforesaid, shall be Let by the day to any Non-resident of Charlottetown, and to Residents, if no application by a Non-resident be made before Ten of the Clock in the morning on any Market Day, at and after the rate of One Shilling for each and every Market Day-to be paid to the said Market Clerk prior to the said Stall or Stalls being used; and the preference, when two applications for the same Stall shall be made, shall be given to the first Non-resident Applicant on such Market Day.

of Stalls to be

permitted, on pain of for

IV. No Sub-letting of the Stalls shall be No sub-letting permitted under any pretence whatsoever, on pain of the Forfeiture of the Use and Benefit of feiture; but not the Stall by the Party who shall Sub-let the same, as well as by the Party to whom the same shall be Sub-let: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent several Parties from taking a Stall together, as the Clerk shall see necessary.

to prevent several parties taking a Stall together.

Days, &c., on which Market House is to be kept open.

V. On Wednesday and Saturday in every Week throughout the Year, the said Market House shall be kept open from the hour of Ten o'clock in the Forenoon until Sun-set in the Afternoon in each day-any Law or Custom heretofore to the contrary notwithstanding.

VI. The said Clerk of the Market, should it Rent of Stalls, become necessary, may Sue for and Recover, in how recovered. his own Name, the Rent of any Stall or Stalls before any Court of Commissioners for the Recovery of Small Debts, and in like manner as Small Debts now are, or, for the time being, may hereafter be recoverable.

Appropriation

VII. The Moneys arising from the Rent of such Stall or Stalls as aforesaid, shall be paid of such Rent. into the Treasury of this Island, to and for the use of Her Majesty's Government.

VIII. It shall and may be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor, or other Administrator of the Government, by and with the Advice and Consent of Her Majesty's Council, from and after the passing of this Act, to appoint and nominate a fit and proper Person to be Clerk of Charlottetown Market House aforesaid; and from time to time, in case of the Death, Absence, Resignation, Dismissal, or any other removal of the said Clerk, to appoint another, duly qualified as aforesaid, in the place of such Clerk so removed by Death or otherwise.

IX. No Fresh Meat shall be exposed for Sale on any of the Tables, or in any way suspended from the Posts on the inner side of the Tables, within the said Market, whether the Stalls immediately opposite such Tables shall be Let as aforesaid or not, on pain of the said Meat being forfeited on view of the fact; and after the Owner or Owners shall refuse or neglect to remove the same, on request made by the said Market Clerk, who is hereby empowered and directed, immediately to Sell, or cause to be Sold, at the best Price that can be gotten for the same, all Fresh Meat so found exposed for Sale, contrary to this enactment, and pay the

Clerk of the
Market, how

appointed.