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with all costs incurred, shall be levied on the goods and chattels of 

 the owner or owners or of the master of the respective vessel on 

 account of which the said Light Duty or Dues shall be payable. 



VIII. And be it further enacted, that the Treasurer of the Colony 

 shall be and he is hereby authorised and empowered to grant and 

 issue to the respective persons who shall lend and advance money for 

 the purposes of this Act, one or more Debenture or Debentures, in the 

 form and to the effect hereinafter set forth, which Debentures shall 

 be issued for sums of not less than fifty pounds respectively, and 

 shall express therein the rate of Interest agreed to be paid, and the 

 day of the Month and year in which they shall respectively be issued, 

 and shall be numbered in succession from one upwards, and shall be 

 signed by the Treasurer for the time being, and countersigned by the 

 Colonial Secretary, and shall be assignable and transferable by en- 

 dorsement of the parties to whom the Debentures shall respectively 

 be issued. 



IX. And ~be it further enacted, that the Interest on the said De- 

 bentures shall be payable half yearly, on the last days of June and 

 December in each year, at the office of the said Treasurer; and the 

 said Treasurer shall not be required to commence the payment of the 

 instalments hereinbefore mentioned until after two years from the 

 date of the said Debentures respectively. 



(Form of Debenture.) 

 No. 



By virtue of an Act of Parliament of Newfoundland, passed in the fifth year 

 of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth entituled "An Act for the 

 Establishment of a Light House, on Harbor-Grace Island," I, the Treasurer of 

 the Island of Newfoundland, do hereby certify and declare, that under the 

 power and authority in and by the said Act vested in me, I have borrowed and 

 received by way of loan from the sum of Pounds Sterling, 



bearing Interest from the date hereof at the rate of per centum per 



annum, which Interest is payable half yearly, on the last days of June and 

 December in every year; and I do declare that the said sum of money has been 

 paid and received by me towards defraying the expense of erecting and con- 

 structing a Light House on Harbor-Grace Island as provided by the said Act; 

 and I do further certify that the said principal money and Interest will be paid 

 and payable to the said or his assigns or indorsee, on the production 



of this Debenture at my Office at St. John's at the time and in the proportions 

 provided in the said Act. 



Given under my Hand and Seal, at St. John's, Newfoundland, the 

 day of in the year of Our Lord 183 . 



Treasurer. 



Colonial Secretary. 



697 No. 107. 1838, October 25: Newfoundland Statute, 2 Viet., 



Cap. 7. 



An Act to preserve the Harbors and Roadsteads of Newfoundland and its De- 

 pendencies from Nuisances and Obstructions. 



[Passed 25th October, 1838.] 



Whereas it is necessary to make provision for the prevention of 

 Nuisances and Obstructions in the Harbors and Roadsteads of New- 

 foundland and its Dependencies : 



Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Council, and Assembly 

 of Newfoundland, that no Ballast, Stones, or any thing else hurtful 



