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duty, or upon any person acting in aid of such constable or officer, such 

 costs to be certified by the registrar of the said court, shall be a charge on 

 the funds of the ward in which the offence shall have been committed, 

 and shall be charged by and allowed to the colonial treasurer in his 

 accounts with the warden of such ward. 



XXI. Expenses of maintaining persons admitted into hospitals or poor- 

 houses to be borne by the ward in which such persons last resided. And be 

 it enacted, That where any person shall be admitted into any hospital or 

 poorhouse supported from the public funds of the colony, the expense of 

 the maintenance, medical care and treatment, of such person, at the rate of 

 Is. sterling for every day during which such person shall be an inmate of 

 such hospital or poorhouse, shall be a charge on the funds of the ward in 

 which such person shall have been resident immediately previous to his being 

 admitted into such hospital ; and the house surgeon or other officer in charge 

 of such hospital, shall once in every month certify to the colonial treasurer 

 the name of such person so admitted into such hospital, and the number of days 

 during which he shall have been an inmate of such hospital ; and the amount 

 of such expenses being allowed by the warden of the ward, shall be charged 

 by the Colonial Treasurer against such ward ; and in case any question shall 

 arise as to the particular ward by which such expenses shall be borne, such 

 question shall be decided by the Governor. 



XXII. Moneys arising from licences to sell rum to be funds of the ward 

 in which the shop is situate. 



XXIII. A rate to be raised on all lands, Sfc., in each ward. 



XXIV. Values at which land shall be rated. And be it enacted, That 

 such rate shall be made on all houses and lands for the year 1853, according 

 to the assessment and valuation which under the provisions of the said 

 Ordinance of the 4th day of September aforesaid, was to be made on or before 

 the 13th day of September of this present year, and afterwards on all houses, 

 mines, and quarries, upon an estimate of the rent at which the same might 

 reasonably be expected to let from year to year, and upon all lands, upon the 

 value of the same, estimated as follows, that is to say, land in cultivation, 

 whatever may be the nature of the cultivation, and pasture lands 10 

 sterling the acre, and uncultivated lands at 10s. sterling the acre, and so in 

 proportion for every quantity of land, more or less than an acre : provided 

 always, that for the purpose of such assessment no fractional part of an acre 

 shall be valued and assessed as less than an acre. 



XXY. Rate on houses, fyc., not to exceed 7% per cent., and on land not to 

 exceed Qd. in the pound. Provided always, and be it enacted, That such rate 

 shall not exceed for any one year a percentage of 1\ per centum of the rent or 

 annual value of houses, mines, and quarries, nor the sum of 6d. in the 

 pound of the value of lands to be taken and estimated as hereinbefore 

 directed. 



XXVL Interpretation of the word "house." Provided always, and be 

 it enacted, That for the purpose of this Ordinance the word "house" shall 

 be construed to extend to and include any dwelling-house, warehouse, stable, 

 counting-house, store, shop, workshop, or any building or yard, whether open 

 or inclosed, used or occupied, for the purpose of any trade or business, or for 

 the storage of any produce or lumber or other merchandise, but in the 

 valuation of any house, any building appurtenant to and occupied with 

 such house, shall be included in the valuation of the rental of such house. 



XXVII. Exception of certain houses. 



XXVIII. On plantations, the dwelling-houses, shops, and rented houses 

 only to be rated. Provided always, and be it enacted, That, as regards all 

 lands cultivated or in pasture, the rate hereby imposed on houses shall be 



