CAP. XXV.
An ACT to establish and regulate a Ferry and public landing at Indian Town in the County of Saint John.
Passed 9th March, 1832.
Justices of the City and County of Saint John may make regulations for the landing at Indian Town, &c.
Penalties.
Recovery.
Application.
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BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That the Justices of the General Sessions of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make regulations for the public landing at Indian Town in the Parish of Portland, and to establish a Ferry from that place to the opposite shore near to Lovet's Point, and to fix the rates and fares to be taken at such Ferry, and to make and ordain rules and regulations for keeping the landings upon each shore clear from rafts and other obstructions of every nature and kind whatsoever, and to fix the penalties for the breach of such rules and regulations, not exceeding five pounds for any one offence, to be recovered on the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses before any one of the Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Saint John, and levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels; one half of which penalties so recovered to be paid to the party complaining, and the other half to the Overseers of the poor for the said Parish of Portland, for the use of the poor thereof.
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C. 25. Anno II. Wm. IV. A. D. 1832.