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Fort Havoc (Wallace Hale)

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CAP. XXVI.

An ACT to provide for the safe keeping of County Records.

Passed 22d March, 1834.

Preamble.

WHEREAS the safe keeping of the registry of deeds and wills, and the records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the several Counties in this Province, is an object of great public importance;

Justices may assess the several Counties not exceeding £300 for buildings with safes for the County records.

I. Be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That the Justices of the Peace in the several Counties of this Province, at any General Session of the Peace hereafter to be holden in their respective Counties, whenever they in their discretion may consider it expedient, are hereby authorized and empowered to make a rate and assessment of any sum, not exceeding the sum of three hundred pounds, as they may think necessary for the erecting suitable buildings, with safes, of stone or brick, near the Court Houses of their respective Counties, for the use and safe keeping of the records of deeds and wills, and also of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in said Counties; such sum to be assessed, levied, collected and paid in such proportion and in the same manner as any other County rates can or may be assessed, levied, collected and paid by virtue of any Act now or hereafter in force for assessing, collecting and levying County rates.

Justices may make contracts for the buildings.

II. And be it enacted, That the said Justices at any General Session of the Peace hereafter to be holden, or at any Special Session for that purpose convened and holden be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to contract and agree with any person or persons for the erection of such buildings as and for the purposes aforesaid, or to appoint contractors for that purpose, and to apply the proceeds of such assessment in furtherance and performance of such agreement or contract on their part.

Offices of Register of Wills and Deeds, and Clerk of the Peace, to be kept in said buildings.

III. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said buildings are erected and completed, the several offices of Register of wills and deeds and Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace shall be kept therein.

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C. 26. Anno IV. Wm. IV. A. D. 1834.

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Preamble.		WHEREAS the safe keeping of the registry of deeds and wills, and the records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the several Counties in this Province, is an object of great public importance;
Justices may assess the several Counties not exceeding £300 for buildings with safes for the County records.		I. Be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That the Justices of the Peace in the several Counties of this Province, at any General Session of the Peace hereafter to be holden in their respective Counties, whenever they in their discretion may consider it expedient, are hereby authorized and empowered to make a rate and assessment of any sum, not exceeding the sum of three hundred pounds, as they may think necessary for the erecting suitable buildings, with safes, of stone or brick, near the Court Houses of their respective Counties, for the use and safe keeping of the records of deeds and wills, and also of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in said Counties; such sum to be assessed, levied, collected and paid in such proportion and in the same manner as any other County rates can or may be assessed, levied, collected and paid by virtue of any Act now or hereafter in force for assessing, collecting and levying County rates.
Justices may make contracts for the buildings.		II. And be it enacted, That the said Justices at any General Session of the Peace hereafter to be holden, or at any Special Session for that purpose convened and holden be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to contract and agree with any person or persons for the erection of such buildings as and for the purposes aforesaid, or to appoint contractors for that purpose, and to apply the proceeds of such assessment in furtherance and performance of such agreement or contract on their part.
Offices of Register of Wills and Deeds, and Clerk of the Peace, to be kept in said buildings.		III. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said buildings are erected and completed, the several offices of Register of wills and deeds and Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace shall be kept therein.