CAP. IX. 12 Vic. c. 16. An Act to amend an Act made and passed in the twentieth Repealed by year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to prevent trespasses by unruly Cattle and Sheep, and for preventing the running of Hogs at large through the town of Charlottetown. CAP X. 19 Vic. o. 1. An Act for raising a duty on Wine, Rum, and other distilled Repealed by CAP. XI. An Act for granting the sum of Four hundred pounds for Executed. supporting His Majesty's Government in this Island. CAP. XII. An Act for ascertaining the standard of Weights and Mea- Repealed by sures in this Island. 3 W. 4, c. 19. ANNO TRICESIMO SEXTO GEORGII III. REGIS. At the General Assembly of His Majesty's Island of SAINT JOHN, begun and holden at CHARLOTTETOWN, the twentysecond day of March, Anno Domini, 1790, in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith: And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the second day of February, 1796, and in the thirty-sixth year of His said Majesty's reign; being the fifth session of the sixth General Assembly convened in the said Island. 1796 E. FANNING Lt. Governor.. P. STEWART, J. STEWA Speaker. CAP. I. Amended by Expired. An Act for the preservation of Sheep throughout the Island. 39 G. 3, c.. CAP. II. Repealed by 12 Vic. c. 16. An Act to prevent the robbing of Gardens and Orchards, Potato and Turnip fields, and the throwing down of fences; and for amending an Act made and passed in the twentieth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for preventing trespasses by unruly Horses, Cattle and Sheep, and for preventing the running of Hogs at large through the town of Charlottetown." Repealed by 14 Vic. o. 18. CAP. III. An Act to render valid conveyances of Real Estates of married women, by them made, or to be made, during their coverture. 2 G. 3, c. 2. CA P. IV. An Act to explain and amend an Act made and passed in the twentieth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to enable the Proprietors to divide their Lands held in common, and for ascertaining the mode of carrying such division into execution.*" W THEREAS by the provisions of the above recited Act, no person holding less than one fourth part of a Lot or Township is entitled to apply for a division of the Lot or Township in which his land lies: and whereas, since the date of the said Act, many persons have made purchases of smaller parts of undivided Lots, and are without any legal remedy to procure possession thereof, to the great hindrance of the settlement of the Island, and the manifest injury of such proprietors: To remedy which in time coming-Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, Upon applica- and by the authority of the same it is hereby enacted and tion of persons declared, That from and after the passing hereof, as often as owning Lands in undivided any person holding not less than one thousand acres in a Township, nor less than five hundred acres in a half Township, being desirous to have his or their share or right set off and divided, such person or persons may, and they are hereby empowered, to apply to the Governor in Council, praying & division of such Township or half Township, as the case may be; and the Governor and Council is hereby authorized and required to grant the necessary orders to the Surveyor General Townships, &c., Council to direct Surveyor General to pro Governor and ceed to final division. See 7 W. 4, c. 10, s. 2. for dividing the said undivided Township or half Township, and shall proceed to the final division thereof, agreeable to the mode prescribed by the before in part recited Act. Such division II. And be it further enacted, That the Surveyor General shall, as far as the same depends on him, be bound to com- to be completed plete the said division within forty days from the date of the in forty days. Governor's order to him for that purpose, on pain of forfeiting to the proprietor petitioning for such division the sum of ten Penalty on neglect. pounds to be recovered in the Supreme Court, by bill, plaint or information. CAP. V. An Act to prevent disorderly persons from taking and riding or using the horses of others, without their leave or permission. WHEREAS an unjustifiable practice has lately taken place Persons riding horses of others without their permission, to forfeit 20s. or suffer 14 days' or using the of riding and using horses without the consent or knowledge of the owners thereof: for remedy whereof -Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, and by the authority of the same it is hereby enacted, That from and after the tenth day of March in the present year, all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall ride or use any horse or horses belonging to any other person or persons, without their consent first had and imprisonment. obtained, shall on conviction thereof before any one Justice of the Peace, forfeit to the party injured the sum of twenty shillings, or suffer fourteen days' imprisonment-the said penalty very. to be over and above what may be adjudged to be the hire of Mode of recosuch horse, during such time as the owner or owners shall be deprived the use thereof, or any damages the injured party may prove to have been sustained thereby. CAP VI. An Act for repealing two several Acts hereinafter mentioned Executed. -that is to say, an Act made and passed in the twenty first year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for the 21 G. 3, o. 16. preservation of highways;" also an Act made and passed in the twenty-fifth year of His present Majesty's reign, intitu- 25 G. 3, o. 7. led, "An Act to explain and amend an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled 'An Act for the preservation of highways."" L |