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with the said award: Now, therefore, be it enacted by the Queen's 

 most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Lords Spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Par- 

 liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 



I. New Brunswick shall be bounded as in the said award men- 

 tioned; and it shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's principal 



Secretaries of State to appoint such person or persons as he 

 573 may think fit to ascertain, define, and mark the boundary 



line between the said province of New Brunswick and the 

 said province of Canada, according to the intent of the said award. 



II. The net proceeds of the funds in the hands of the local Gov- 

 ernments of the said provinces of Canada and New Brunswick re- 

 spectively arisingxfrom the territory heretofore in dispute between 

 such provinces shall be applied according to the terms herein-before 

 mentioned of the said agreement concerning the same. 



No. 34. 1855, August 14-' Extract from British Statute, 18 and 19 



Viet., Cap. 91. 



An Act to facilitate the Erection and Maintenance of Colonial Lighthouses, and 

 otherwise to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 



[14th August, 1855.1 



Whereas it is expedient to make provision for facilitating the 

 erection and maintenance of lighthouses in the British Possessions 

 abroad, and otherwise to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854 : " 

 Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- 

 poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by 

 the authority of the same, as follows : 



I. This Act may be cited as " The Merchant Shipping Act Amend- 

 ment Act, 1855," and shall be taken to be part of the Merchant Ship- 

 ping Act, 1854, and shall be construed accordingly. 



II. In any case in which any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon has been 

 or is hereafter erected or placed on or near the coasts of any British 

 Possession, by or with the consent of the Legislative Authority of 

 such Possession, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, fix such 

 dues in respect thereof, to be paid by the owner or master of every 

 ship which passes the same or derives benefit therefrom, as Her 

 Majesty may deem reasonable, and may in like manner from time 

 to time increase, diminish, or repeal such dues, and from the time 

 specified in such order for the commencement of the dues thereby 

 fixed, increased, or diminished the same shall be leviable throughout 

 Her Majesty's dominions in manner herein-after mentioned. 



III. No such dues as aforesaid shall be levied in any Colony unless 

 and until the Legislative authority in such Colony has, either by 

 address to the Crown, or by an Act or Ordinance duly passed, signi- 

 fied its opinion that the same ought to be levied in such Colony. 



IV. The said dues shall in the United Kingdom be collected by the 

 same persons by whom, and by the same means, in the same manner, 

 and subject to the same conditions, so far as circumstances permit, by. 

 in, and subject to which the Light Dues leviable under the Merchant 



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