STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1179 



II. And ~be it further enacted that the expenses of supporting, 

 maintaining, and keeping up the several Light Houses noAV erected 

 or hereafter to be erected under the ^authority of the Legislature in 

 the Colony, and also th$ salaries, and remuneration to the Light 

 House Keepers and their Assistants, (if required) shall be borne and 

 defrayed out of the Public Treasury of the Colony, by warrant under 

 the hand and seal of the Governor or person administering the Gov- 

 ernment for the time being. 



III. And be it further enacted that it shall and may be lawful for 

 the Governor or person administering the Government for the time 

 being, by and with the advice of Hef Majesty's Council, to appoint 

 five persons to be Commissioners, of whom three shall be a quorum, 

 for the purpose of superintending, directing and regulating the man- 

 agement of the affairs of the* said several Light Houses; which said 

 Commissioners are hereby constituted a Board of Audit and Control 

 for the administration of all matters touching and concerning the 

 conducting and maintenance of all Light Houses belonging to this 

 Colony ; and that all purchases for and on account of the said Light 

 Houses, shall be upon a Public Notice or Advertisement for Tenders 

 for the same, and the lowest of such Tenders for an article of suitable 

 quality, shall on all occasions be preferred, and all accounts and 

 vouchers relating to any expense incurred on account of such Light 

 Houses shall from time to time be furnished to the Treasurer of the 

 Colony, before the respective sums of money shall be drawn from the 



Treasury; and in case of the death, absence, or resignation of 

 698 any such Commissioner or Commissioners, it shall and may be 



lawful for the Governor or person administering the Govern- 

 ment for the time being, by and with the advice aforesaid, to nomi- 

 nate and appoint a Commissioner or Commissioners in his or their 

 fetead. 



IV. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for 

 the said Commissioners, or any three of them, to appoint Light House 

 Keepers, and Assistants (if required), for the several Light Houses 

 hereinbefore mentioned, or which may hereafter be erected, and that 

 the salaries of and remuneration to such persons so to be appointed, 

 and the incidental expenses of supporting, maintaining, and keeping 

 up the said Light Houses, shall be subject to the control and approval 

 of the Legislature. 



V. And be it further enacted, that for the purposes of this Act, 

 there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, to Her Majesty, Her 

 Heirs and Successors, upon every Merchant Ship or Vessel, entering 

 any Port within the Colony, from Cape Ray to Cape John (other 

 than Coasting, Sealing and Fishing Vessels), a duty or rate of three 

 pence sterling per ton, for every ton register measurement of each 

 respective Vessels as aforesaid ; Provided, that such duty shall not be 

 levied upon any such Ship or Vessel more than twice in each year; 

 And that there shall in like manner be raised, levied, collected and 

 paid upon every registered decked Vessel employed in the Sealing, 

 Fishing, or Coasting trade of the Colony, or the Labrador, and enter- 

 ing any of the Ports aforesaid, the rate or duty of Twenty Shillings 

 sterling for each and every such vessel, from Ninety tons burthen 

 and upwards; and a like rate or duty of Fifteen Shillings sterling 

 for each and every such vessel exceeding Sixty tons burthen and 



