28 Vic. c. 11. An Act to Amend the Act of Assembly, regulating the Sale of Spirituous Liquors in the Island of New Providence. (Assented to March 28th, 1865.) 28 Vic. c. 11. HEREAS it is expedient to limit the hours during which PREAMBLE. the sale of Spirituous Liquors may be carried on in shops of any kind, and for that purpose to extend the hours fixed by the existing law, for the closing of licensed shops; May it, &c.: licensed shop I. From and after the commencement of this Act, the time for Hour for sale selling, or otherwise disposing of spirituous liquors in a licensed of Liquors exshop, shall be extended to eight o'clock in the evening of every tended. week-day, after which hour it shall not be lawful to sell, or other- No article to wise dispose of any article whatever, in any such licensed shop, be sold in a nor to keep the same open, or to allow any person other than the owner or occupiers, or his or her servants, to remain and be therein, under the like penalty as is in and by the fifth section of the Act to which this Act is an amendment imposed, for violations of the restrictions thereby laid on licensed vendors of spirituous liquors. after eight o'clock, p. m. 30 Vic. c. 6. An Act to continue Two Acts of Assembly regulating the Sale of Spirituous Liquors on the Out-islands of this Government. (Assented to 2nd April, 1867.) W HEREAS the several Acts of the General Assembly of PREamble. these Islands, hereinafter particularly mentioned and spe cified, will expire with the present Session, and whereas it is expedient that the same should be further continued in force; May it, &c.: That the following Acts of the General Assembly of these Islands, that is to say: The 3 Vic. c. 20, regulating the sale of Spirituous Liquors on Continues for the Out-islands of this Government, And, The 8 Vic. c. 27, to amend the same Act, shall be and the same are hereby respectively continued in force for ten years from after the passing of this Act, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Assembly. ten years certain Acts of Assembly. PART VII. CLASS I.-Receiver - GeNERAL AND TREASURER'S Depart MENT. II.-EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE. III.-ASSESSED AND OTHER TAXES. IV. ACTS COMMUTING THE FEES OF CERTAIN PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES, AND REGULATING THE COLLEC TION OF OTHER FEES IN AID OF THE REVENUE. V.-PILOTAGE AND QUARANTINE. VIII.-BAHAMA VESSELS AND SEAMEN. IX.-HOY ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE AND POWDER MAGA PREAMBLE. 13th section of The repeal of said sections to CLASSES I. II. & III. RECEIVER-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT ; EXPORT 25 Vic. c. 1. An Act to Repeal in part An Act of Assembly of WE HEREAS the tax imposed by the thirteenth section of the Act of Assembly, 2 Vic. c. 6, on the sale within the Colony, of vessels not registered as belonging thereto, has been found to operate prejudicially on the trade of the Colony; May it, &c.: I. That the said recited section shall be and the same is hereby repealed. II. That the repeal aforesaid, of the tax aforesaid, shall have reference back to the first day of May last past, and all sums of money levied in respect of the said tax between the said first day 25 Vic. c. 1. of May, and the day of the passing of this Act, shall be returned to the persons who may have respectively paid the same; and all have reference bonds or other securities which may have been given to secure back to 1st the payment of any amount of such tax not actually paid, shall be May, 1861. cancelled. 25 Vic. c. 8. An Act to Amend the Act 17 Vic. c. 3, for amending and consolidating the Laws regulating the Trade of the Bahama Islands. (Assented to 7th March, 1862.) WH HEREAS it is expedient that a power should be vested in PREAMBLE. the Governor, in Council, to prohibit, if occasion should at any time require, the exportation from the Colony of arms, ammunition, and other like articles, similar in principle to the power by the 150th section of the Customs Consolidation Act of 1853, vested in her Majesty, in Council; May it, &c.: That it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, Governor with acting by and with the advice and consent of her Majesty's Exe- consent of Executive Council, in the event of impending or existing hostilities cutive Council authorized to between Great Britain and any other power, by proclamation or prohibit expororder in Council, to prohibit the exportation from the Colony of tation of Arms, the following goods, that is to say: Arms, ammunition, and gun- &c., in the powder, military and naval stores, and any articles which may be event of imjudged capable of being converted into, or made useful in increas- pending or ing the quantity of military or naval stores and provisions, or any lities. sort of victual which may be used as food by man; and if any goods so prohibited shall be exported from the Colony, or be water-borne to be so exported, they shall be forfeited. existing hosti 27 Vic. c. 8. An Act to Amend the Act consolidating the Laws regulating the Trade of the Bahama Islands. (Assented to 25th April, 1864.) W HEREAS in and by the 41st section of the Act 17 Vic. PREAMBLE. c. 3, it is, amongst other things, enacted that all goods warehoused under the said Act shall be duly cleared for exportation, or for home consumption, within two years from the day of the first entry for the warehousing thereof; and whereas it is expedient to extend such time; May it, &c.: four years. I. That the time for clearing goods, warehoused under the said Goods may be Act, shall be and the same is hereby extended to four years from warehoused for the date of first entry for the warehouse, and that this shall apply as well to goods warehoused prior to the passing of this Act as to goods hereafter to be warehoused, with the like power as is by the section given to the Receiver-General or other chief officer of the Revenue Department, in his discretion to grant further time be 27 Vic. c. 8. yond the said period of four years, as is in and by the said section provided for, in respect to the period thereby limited. Vessels obtaining a British Register must pay one shil ling a ton, unless built in the Bahamas or previously registered there. One-half per cent. to be paid on all goods entered for Warehousing. The duties Government of Five years duration. 27 Vic. c. 17. An Act for raising an additional Revenue for the Support of the Government of the Bahama Islands. (Assented to 25th April, 1864.) II. That there shall be imposed and paid into the Public Treasury of these Islands a duty of one shilling per ton, in addition to any other duty for each and every ton, of the registered tonnage of each and every vessel for which a British register shall be obtained at the Port of Nassau: Provided, that vessels built in these Islands, or previously registered at the Port of Nassau, shall be exempt from this duty. III. That there shall be levied and paid upon importation of all other articles entered for warehousing an ad valorem duty of one-half per cent.: Provided that in the event of any such articles being subsequently taken out of the warehouse for consumption in the Colony, such duty shall be remitted, but no drawback of any portion thereof shall be allowed on exportation. IV. That the duties aforesaid shall be collected and received by the proper officers of the Revenue Department, and their collection shall be enforced under the provisions of the laws now in force regulating the trade of the Bahama Islands and the department of Receiver-General and Treasurer of such duties, one-half part of the annual revenue derived from and collected under the provisions of this Act shall be applied to and devoted towards the work of dredging the harbour, as contemplated by the Act 22 Vic. c. 25, and the other half thereof shall be applied in aid of the support of the Government of the Colony, as provided for by any Act of the General Assembly of the Bahama Islands and not otherwise. V. That this Act shall commence and take effect from the passing and continue in force for a period of five years, and from thence to the end of the next session of Assembly. Salaries- Chief Clerk 27 Vic. c. 27. An Act further to amend the Laws regulating the Office of Receiver-General and Treasurer, and for other Purposes. (Assented to 21st May, 1864.) IV. And, whereas the salaries now by law attached to the several offices hereinafter mentioned are inadequate to the increased duties of these offices, be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act there shall be allowed and paid out of the Public Treasury of these Islands in monthly payments by warrant in the usual manner to the respective holders of the said offices the following annual salaries to wit: To the Receiver- 27 Vic. c. 27. General and Treasurer 6501.; to the Chief Clerk 350l.; to the Book-keeper, 2007.; and to the Landing Waiter and Searcher Landing Wai2501., which salaries shall be in lieu of all other annual salaries ter and attached to the said offices under or by virtue of any other Act or Searcher £250. Acts of Assembly, and in lieu of any temporary augmentation of such salaries under the provisions of any Act of the present session of Assembly. the Revenue VI. That there shall be allowed and paid out of the Public Allowance for Treasury of these Islands the sum of sixty pounds to provide a Boat and and fit up a suitable boat for the Revenue service, and a further Boatmen for sum of twenty pounds per annum for repairs to such boat and for service. renewing fittings thereto, and the further sum of seventy-two pounds as salaries for two boatmen, which boatmen shall be annually furnished each with two suits of uniform clothing, to be provided at the public expense. VII. That there shall be allowed and paid out of the Public Authorizes Treasury of these Islands the sum of seventy-five pounds to prothe appointvide a fit and proper person as wharfinger and messenger to the ment of a Receiver-General and Treasurer's Department, who shall be ap- and Messenpointed by the Governor. Wharfinger ger. IX. That so much of any Act of Assembly heretofore passed Repeals part as provides for the payment of salaries to the offices in the fourth of a certain section of this act mentioned, shall be and the same is hereby Act of Assemrepealed. bly. 28 Vic. c. 8. An Act to continue for a further term the Acts of the 17th year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapters 2 and 3, to consolidate the Duties on Imports, the Tonnage Duty and other Imposts, and the Laws regulating the Trade of the Bahama Islands. (Assented to 24th February, 1865.) the Acts of the her PREAMBLE. reign, chapters 2 and 3, with the various enactments hereinafter mentioned, which have been passed in amendment thereof, will expire at the close of any session of Assembly commencing after the twelfth day of April, in the present year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and it is expedient further to continue the said Acts, as altered and amended by the enactments aforesaid; May it, &c.: tinued in force for two years. The said Acts of the 17th year of Her Majesty's reign, Certain enactchapters 2 and 3, except as the same have been altered and ments conamended by the enactments hereinafter specified, that is to say, the 20 Vic. c. 25, the 1st and 3rd sections of the 22 Vic. c. 23, the 25 Vic. c. 8, the 26 Vic. c. 3, and the 27 Vic. c. 8, shall, together with the said above-recited enactments, continue and be in force from the day on which any such session of Assembly, as aforesaid, shall terminate, for and during the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Assembly. |