Penalty for not baving license. Exemption. (6.) Any person who shall keep any vehicle or taxable animal without having obtained a license to keep such vehicle or animal, as required by this section, shall be liable to a penalty of one pound in respect of each vehicle or taxable animal kept. (7.) The officers of the British army or navy on full pay, the colonial Government in respect of vehicles or taxable animals belonging to such Government and all traders in respect of vehicles or taxable animals imported for purposes of sale shall be exempt from the operation of this section. (8.) All offences and penalties under this Recovery of pen- section may be prosecuted and recovered in alties under this section. a summary manner before a police magistrate on the complaint of the parochial treasurer of the parish, and all penalties shall be paid one third to the complainant, one third to the person on whose information the offender was convicted, and the residue to the parochial treasurer of the said parish for the uses of the highways of such parish. (9.) The parochial treasurers of the Publication annu- several parishes shall publish in the Official ally of list of licens- Gazette in the month of July in each year, ed persons. the names and addresses of all persons to whom licenses to keep any vehicle or taxable animal shall have been issued; and shall at the end of each following month publish the names and addresses of persons to whom such licenses have been issued during the last preceding month; and a copy of such Gazette containing the names of such persons shall be kept at each police station, and at each parochial treasurer's office, in such place as shall be accessible to any person desiring to inspect the same, and the parochial treasurers of the several parishes are hereby authorised to obtain from the public printers on the order of the clerk of the House of Assembly as many copies of such lists as they may desire for distribution among the police and sworn constables of their respective parishes, and pay for the same out of the highway funds. Examination be section. (10.) The parochial treasurer of any parish if he has reason to believe that any fore a magistrate of person is keeping a vehicle or taxable ani- persons cuspected mal without a license may prefer a complaint of infringing this to that effect before a police magistrate, who shall summon such person and examine him on oath or affirmation touching the matter in issue, which oath or affirmation such person shall make, and if such person shall on examination make a false statement wilfully, he shall be liable to be prosecuted for perjury. Parochial treasu. 7. Section forty-eight of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the following section rers' commission for shall be substituted therefor, that is to say, collecting highway 48. The parochial treasurers shall be al- rates. lowed as Auditor-General 8. Section fifty one of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting the word to prosecute offend"Chairman" for the word "Commissioners" ers under section occurring after the words "countersigned 51 of principal Act. by the " and by adding at the end of the section the following words, that is to say, Returns to House 66 66 "to be recovered in a summary manner "before a police magistrate on the complaint of the Auditor-General, who is hereby required after due warning to make such complaint." 66 9. Section fifty-two of the principal Act of Assembly twice is hereby repealed and the following section shall be substituted therefor, that is to say, a.year. Auditors. Repeal. Alteration in sche 52. (1.) The parochial treasurers of the respective parishes and of the city of Bridgetown shall on the first day of May and the first day of November in each year make a return to the General Assembly, audited and certified to the thirty first day of March and the thirtieth day of September respectively, of all sums of money received and expended in their respective parishes under the provisions of this Act showing in such return the amount received as tax on rents, the number of acres of land, the number of horses, mules, asses, and wheels, and the extent of road repaired, and in default thereof shall incur a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. (2.) The commissioners of highways of the several parishes are hereby authorised and required to appoint and pay an auditor to audit the highway accounts of their res pective parishes. 10. Section sixty-three of the principal Act, and the Act of the 31st December, 1891, entitled "An Act to suspend the coming into "operation of The Highways Act, 1891," are hereby respectively repealed, and "The Highways Act, 1891," shall come into operation on the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and ninety two. 11. Schedule A of the principal Act is dule of principal hereby repealed and the following schedule Act. is hereby licensed to keep the vehicles with the number of wheels and the taxable animals specified below until the thirty first day of May next. [Here specify vehicles, and number of wheels attached to each, and taxable animals. TICKET. Parish of.. No. of License... Description of vehicle and number of wheels. Date of issue..... 12. This Act and the principal Act, shall Act how to be be read as one Act, and the commissioners dealt with in new for the revision of the laws shall, in prepar- edition of the laws. ing and printing the new edition make the several alterations, additions, amendments and omissions required by this Act in and to the principal Act, and shall renumber the sections of such Act as far as may be necessary; and when such alterations, additions, amendments and omissions have been made the commissioners shall omit this Act from such new edition of the laws. Compensation to 1892. CAP. II. (Assented to 17th June, 1892.) PARBADOS. An Act to compensate certain licensed distillers of rum for loss occasioned by the recent increase of the duty on rum. E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this island, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. Every licensed distiller, who in pursube given distillers ance of a contract existing on the date of in respect of sub- the passing of the Act to provide for the sisting contracts for sale of rum made lors caused to the revenue by the agreebefore 5th January, ment with the United States Government under the McKinley Tariff Act, that is to say, on the fifth day of January one thou sand eight hundred and ninety two, and not subsequently cancelled, waived or abandoned by the contracting parties, shall have delivered, or shall after the passing of this Act, deliver any rum, and shall not have received or have been promised by the purchaser any advance in price in consequence of the increase of duty imposed by the said Act of the fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety two, shall, subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be entitled to receive from the public treasury, on the warrant of the Governor-in-Executive Committee a refund of four pence on each gallon of proof rum so delivered or to be delivered. Claims to be sent in within one 2. Every such distiller, who desires to avail himself of the provisions of this Act month after passing shall within one month after the passing of this Act, file in the Colonial Secretary's of Act. |