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XVI. The Board of Works may purchase in fee simple or lease, any Land or hereditament required for quarrying stone or gravel, or for any other the purposes of this Act.

XVII. Any Superintendents or Surveyors to be appointed under this Act, shall have the same powers and authority in all respects, with respect to Opening ditches or drains, from the side of any highway in this Island, through any land adjacent thereto; and the same re- medies against any person or persons refusing to allow the same to be opened, as the Road Commissioner of any district now has under the forty-third section of the Act of the twenty- fifth Victoria, Chapter two, or any other part or provision of the said Act ; and the order of any Justice or Justices of the Peace made in like cases, under the provisions of the said Act, shall have the same force and effect as if made by any Justice or Justices acting under the said recited section, or any other section of the said Act, with respect to any cause, matter or thing, by such Justice or Justices ordered, made or adjudicated upon, or other- wise, under the said Act. Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for such Super- intendents or Surveyors, if he or they shall deem fit and necessary to award a suitable com- pensation to the person or persons through whose land such ditch or drain may be opened up as aforesaid, such compensation to be sub- ject to the approbation of the Board of Works, and of the Lieutenant Governor or other Ad— ministrator of the Government in Council.

XVIII. The Board of Works may, if they should deem it necessary and expedient, enter into and make, with any person or persons Whomsoever, such contracts, agreements or ar- rangements, as they may consider necessary and requisite, for the improvement of the public highways in winter, with respect to preventing the forming of cradle hills, levelling the same, marking out the course of roads on the Ice by bushes or other visible marks, or any other similar improvements whatsoever.

XIX. The acceptance of the position of a member of the Board of Works, shall not vacate the seat of-any present or future member of the Legislature.

An Act to provide for the payment of the Salaries of future Lieutenant, Governors of

thls Igland. [Passed April 19, 1869.] E it enacted by the Administrator of the

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after and so soon as the present Lieutenant Governor of this Island, George Dundas, Es- quire, shall relinquish or be recalled from the Government of this Island, there shall be paid to all future Lieutenant Governors of this Island the sum of One thousand four hundred pounds sterling money of Great Britain, as the annual salary of such future Lieutenant Governors of this Island and their successors in office, and the said salary shall be payable quarterly out of the public Treasury of this Island by warrant drawn on the Treasurer of this Island in the usual manner.

II. In case of the absence from the Island of the Lieutenant Governor, on leave from the Imperial Government, the Administrator of the Government, in his absence, shall receive one- half of the said salary, and the Lieutenant Governor the other half, proportionally accord- ing to time ; and in case of a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor, the Administrator of the Government shall receive the whole of the said salary, also preportionally according to the time he may discharge the duties of the said oflice of Administrator.

III. Nothing in this Act contained shall have any force or effect until Her Majesty’s assent thereto shall be given and notified in the Royal Gazette Newspaper, of this Island.

An Act to continue the Act regulating the Publishing of Notices and Advertisements

relating to the Public Service. [Passed April 19, 1869.]

HEREAS the Act of the Fifteenth Vic-

toria, chapter thirty-one,intitu1ed “An Act to regulate the publishing of Notices and Advertisements relating to the Public Service,” will shortly expire and it is deemed eXpedient to continue the same :

I. Be it therefore enacted by the Adminis- trator of the Government, Council and Assem- bly that the said hereinbefore recited Act of the fifteenth Victoria, chapter thirty-one, shall be and the same is hereby continued in force for the period of ten years from the passing hereof, and from thence to the end of the then next Session of the General Assembly of this Island and no longer. '

An Act to amend the Act for preventing frauds by Secret Bills of Sale of personal

Chattels. [Passed April 19, 1869.] HEREAS the present mode of marking

Government, Council and Assembly that,

Bills of Sale satisfied, is attended with