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CAP. XIX.

An ACT to erect two new Parishes in the County of Gloucester.

Passed 25th March, 1831.

Preamble.

 
WHEREAS the Parish of Saumarez, in the County of Gloucester, is so extensive and populous as to render the performance of the duties of the Parish Officers inconvenient and burthensome;

Parish of Saumarez divided into three parishes.

 
I.   Be it therefore enacted by the President, Council, and Assembly, That the said Parish of Saumarez shall be and the same is hereby divided into three Parishes; which Parishes shall be and hereby are named and bounded in the manner hereinafter mentioned and described; any law to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding:
Parish of New Bandon erected.

 

 

 
The northwesterly part of the said Parish of Saumarez to be called, known and distinguished by the name of the Parish of New Bandon, and to be abutted and bounded as follows:   Westerly by the eastern boundary line of the Parish of Bathurst; northerly and easterly by the Bay de Chaleur, until it comes to the mouth of the south branch of Carraquet river; thence to run westerly, by the several courses of the said south branch of Carraquet river, until it comes to the second forks:   thence to run southwest, until it strikes the said eastern line of the said Parish of Bathurst; thence northerly, along the said line to its termination at the said Bay de Chaleur, and including the Islands in front.
Parish of Carraquet erected.

 

 

 
The next Parish to be called, known and distinguished by the name of the Parish of Carraquet, and to be abutted and bounded as follows:   Northerly by the said Parish of New Bandon, and by the sea coast; easterly and southeasterly, by the Gulph of Saint Lawrence until it comes to the eastern angle of lot number one granted to William Ferguson; thence by a line to run, by the magnet, north thirty-six degrees west, three hundred chains; thence by a line running to the second forks of the Carraquet river aforesaid, including all the islands situated in front.
Boundaries of the Parish of Saumarez.

 
The next Parish to be called, known and distinguished by the name of the Parish of Saumarez, and to be abutted and bounded as follows:   Northerly by the said Parish of Carraquet and New Bandon; easterly by the sea coast; southerly by the County of Northumberland; and westerly by the Parish of Bathurst, and to include the islands situate in front.

Parish officers to be annually appointed.

 

 
II.   And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Peace for the said County shall and they are hereby empowered, at their first General Sessions of the Peace held annually, to appoint Town or Parish Oficers for the said new Parishes of New Bandon and Carraquet, in like manner as for other Towns or Parishes in the said County; and, until the next January Sessions, the officers lately appointed for the Town or Parish of Saumarez, shall continue to perform the duties of their respective offices, in and throughout the said Parishes, as if this Act had not been made.

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C. 19. Anno I. Wm. IV.   A. D. 1831.


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