1016 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



also made applicable to enforce the payment of the said tonnage 

 duties on all vessels which enter the Bay of Fundy, and come into 

 any port, harbour, creek or river, within this Province. 



IV. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be and continue 

 in force for three years from the publication thereof, and from thence 

 to the end of the next Session of General Assembly. 



No. 59. 1810, March 14: Statute of New Brunswick, 50 Geo. Ill, 



Cap. 5. 



An Act for the better security of the Navigation of certain Harbors in the 

 County of Northumberland. 



Passed the 14th of March, 1810. 



Whereas for the greater safety and conveniency of the navigation 

 of the bay and harbors of Miramichi, Buctouche, Richibucto and 

 Cocagne, it is necessary that beacons or buoys be erected in said bays 

 and harbors, and that provision be made for defraying such expenses 

 as may be incurred in erecting, repairing and replacing such beacons 

 or buoys. 



I. Be it therefore enacted by the President, Council and Assembly, 

 That it shall and may be lawful for such Commissioners as His honor 

 the President or Commander-in-Chief for the time being shall ap- 

 point, or the major part of them, to cause to be erected in said bays 

 and harbors, such a number of beacons and buoys as they or the 

 major part of them, shall think necessary for the safety and con- 

 veniency of the navigation of the same. 



II. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the said beacons or 

 buoys shall be erected, and the same certified to the satisfaction of 

 the Commissioners, or major part of them, to be appointed in man- 

 ner herein before mentioned, there be and hereby is granted unto His 

 Majesty, his heirs and successors, for defraying such expenses as may 

 be incurred in erecting, repairing, or replacing such beacons or buoys, 

 that is to say, on all vessels entering the bay and harbors of Mira- 

 michi, Buctouche, Richibucto and Cocagne, the tonnage duties herein 

 after mentioned, to wit, on all vessels, (coasting craft excepted), one 

 half-penny for each and every ton such vessels admeasure per regis- 

 ter, for each and every time such vessel/or vessels arrive in any of the 

 said harbors. 



III. And be it further enacted, That the tonnage duties herein im- 

 posed shall be collected by the Deputy Province Treasurer for the 

 County of Northumberland, or such person or persons as he may ap- 

 point for that purpose, and that the said Commissioners shall have 

 full power and authority to call upon the said Deputy Province 

 Treasurer and the persons to be appointed by him as aforesaid, for 

 such sum and sums of money as they shall from time to time respec- 

 tively have collected ; an account of which sum, so to be collected by 

 the persons to be appointed by the said Deputy Province Treasurer 

 as aforesaid, shall be by them respectively, when called upon MS 

 aforesaid, rendered upon oath to the said Commissioners, deducting 



In force in 1815. 



