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CAP. VIII.

An Act to authorize the appointment of Coroners in Prince and King's Counties.

WHEREAS from the increase of population in this Island,

it is deemed necessary that a Coroner be appointed for each of the Counties of King's and Prince Counties respectively: Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, or the Administrator of the Government for the time being, to appoint a Coroner in and for each of the Counties of King's and Prince Counties respectively, and which Coroners when so appointed, shall reside within their respective Counties, and shall be entitled to all and singular the fees, perquisites and emoluments of right belonging to the said office of Cor

oner.

Her Majesty or
Lt. Governor
Coroners for
King's & Prince

may appoint

Counties.

the whole

II. And be it enacted, That there shall be paid to Daniel Compensation Hodgson, Esquire, the officer now holding the office of Cor- to Coroner for oner for the whole Island, the sum of thirty pounds, as a com- Island. pensation in full for the loss of the emoluments of his office by the appointment of Coroners for Prince and King's Counties.

for King's and

III. And be it enacted, That when and so soon as Coroners When Coroners shall be appointed for the Counties of Prince County and King's are appointed County respectively, as aforesaid, the authority and jurisdic- Prince Counties tion of the officer holding the office of Coroner of this Island authority of shall be confined to the County of Queen's County-any law, other officer to usage, custom or patent of office to the contrary notwith

standing.

cease.

IV. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein, ton- Suspending tained shall have any force or effect until Her Majesty's clause. pleasure therein shall be known.

*This Act received the Royal allowance on the 21st August, 1841, and [the notification thereof was published in the Royal Gazette newspaper of this Island on the 21st September of the same year.

CAP. IX.

An Act to prohibit the interment of human bodies within the
limits of the town of Georgetown, and to establish burial
grounds in the common thereof.

This Act remains in force, but has been printed in the volume of private
and local Acts, pursuant to Act 24 Vic. c. 3.

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САР. Х.

An Act to amend an Act of the seventh year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act, intituled 'An Act for the limitation of actions, and for avoiding lawsuits, so far as the same relate to actions concerning real estate, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.""

HEREAS doubts have been entertained as to the effect of a certain Act of the General Assembly of this Island, made in the seventh year of the reign of the late King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act, intituled 'An Act for the limitation of actions, and for avoiding lawsuits, so far as the same relate to actions concerning real estate, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof,' so far as the same relates to mortgages, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed: Be it declared and enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for any person entitled to or claiming under any mortgage of land, being land within the definition contained in the first section of the said Act, to make an entry, or bring an action at law or suit in equity to recover such land at any time within twenty years next after the last payment of any part of the principal money or interest secured by such mortgage, although more than twenty years may have elapsed since the time at which the right to make such entry, or bring such action at law, or suit in equity, shall have first accrued, any thing in the said Act notwithstanding.

Expired.

CAP. XI.

An Act to further continue and to amend the Act for regulating the measurement of ton timber, boards, and all other kinds of lumber, and declaring what shall be deemed merchantable, and for appointing officers to survey the same.

c. 6.

CAP. XII.

2 Vic. (1st ses.) An Act further to continue for one year, the Act for granting a bounty on vessels engaged in the fisheries of this Island.

Expired.

CAP. XIII.

See note to 5

An Act to continue an Act for the more effectual punishment Expired. of offenders, by enabling the Supreme Court to add hard w. 4, (1st ses.) labor to the sentence of imprisonment.

c. 2.

CAP. XIV.

An Act for appropriating certain moneys therein mentioned, for the service of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

Executed.

ANNO QUINTO

VICTORIE REGINE.

1842

Sir HENRY V. HUNTLEY,

At the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Island of PRINCE EDWARD, begun and holden at CHARLOTTETOWN, the Twenty-second day of January, Anno Domini, 1839, in the second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, Lt. Governor. by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith: And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the twenty-fifth day of January, 1842, and in the fifth year of Her said Majesty's Reign; being the fifth session of the fifteenth General Assembly convened in the said Island.

R. HODGSON,
President of
Council.

W. COOPER,
Speaker.

CAP. I.

An Act to confirm and render valid certain proceedings of the
Executive Government of this Island.

WHEREAS by Her Majesty's Royal Commission, in the absence of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other officer specially appointed to administer the Government of this Island, the Government thereof vests in the senior Military Office for the time being, within the said Island: and whereas

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