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189 made by the vestry of the abovementioned parish of Saint Andrew under the provisions of the abovementioned Act, for securing the sum of and interest thereon and the money and interest thereby secured and all my right and interest therein to his executors, administrators and assigns for value of him

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Amendments of Act of 19th August 1857.

CAP. XXXIII.

(Assented to 12th April, 1893.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to amend an Act entitled "An "Act for auhorising the making of "water works for the city of Bridge

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town, and for incorporating a jointwith limited liability

stock company,

"to carry the same into effect."

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E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this island, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

1. The Act of the 19th August 1857, entitled "An Act for authorising the making of "water works for the city of Bridgetown, "and for incorporating a joint-stock company "with limited liability to carry the same in"to effect" shall be amended as follows:

(1) The following subsection shall be added to section 21, that is to say,

The company shall supply, gratuitously, Company to supwater to the public buildings erected in ply the public buildings and Town Hall Trafalgar Square and the Town Hall, the with water grapublic paying the cost of taking the water tuitously. from the streets into the public buildings and Town Hall.

(2) The following section shall be inserted after section 27, that is to say,

Damage to the

while used for extiu

In the event of any injury happening to any portion of the company's works, while Company's works being used for the purpose of extinguishing guishing fire &c., to fire, or in the practice of any fire brigade, it be paid for out of the shall be lawful for the Governor-in Execu- treasury. tive Committee on the application of the company, to issue his warrant to the treasurer for the immediate payment to the company of such sum of money as may be required to repair the same: Provided always, that no such warrant shall be issued until after proof to the satisfaction of the Governor-in-Executive Committee

if it is caused by a

(a) That such injury arose from the neg- person in the public lect or mismanagement of some person in service. the public service, legally authorized to use the works, and neither wholly nor in part through any neglect, mismanagement or interference on the part of the company of their servants, or any defects in the works themselves;

(b.) that the amount claimed by the and the claim does company is not more than sufficient to make not exceed the actual damage done good the actual damage done.

(3.) The following section shall be insert

ed after section 29, that is to say,

for hire meters, pipes

When any landlord, or tenant, or occu- Company may let pant, with the permission of the landlord (to &c. be signified in writing,) shall desire to be

£5,000 substituted for £,4000 in sect 35

Company to lay

supplied with water by the company, the company may let for hire any meter, for ascertaining the quantity of water used, and any pipes or fittings for conveying and distributing the same, for such remuneration in money as shall be agreed upon between the company and the person to whom the saine may be let; and such remuneration shall be recoverable in the same manner as the rents or sums due to the company for water; and such meters, pipes, and fittings, shall not be subject to distress, or to the landlord's hypothec for rent of the premises where the same may be used; nor to be taken in execution under any process of a court of law or equity, or any fiat or sequestration in bankruptcy against the person in whose possession the same may be ; and the company shall be at liberty, whenever such payment or such supply of water shall be discontinued, to disconnect and remove the said meters, pipes, and fittings.

(4.) The words "four thousand pounds" wherever occurring in section 35 shall be omitted and the words "five thousand pounds" shall in each case be substituted.

(5.) The following sections shall be inserted after section 35, that is to say,

The company shall, sometime in the before the Governor. month of January in every year, lay before in Executive Commit- the Governor-in-Executive Committee an tee an account of the account of the amount expended by them working Expenses.

in the preceding year in working the said water works, including one per cent on the capital expended as a reserve funà, for the construction and renewal of the works; and the Governor-in-Executive Committee shall

certify to the vestry of the parish of St. Michael, within ten days after the receipt Proportion of guaranof such account, the sum required for the tee payable by the city to be certified. payment of that proportion of the guarantee to the company, to be paid by the in. habitants of the city.

It shall be lawful for the said vestry at Rate to be laid by the time of laying the parochial rates, to the vestry of St. Milay a rate for the payment of the amount so chael for payment of certified as aforesaid upon all owners of land the amount certified. houses or stores (whether such houses or stores be realty or personalty) in the City of Bridgetown, and upon all occupiers not being owners of land houses or stores (whether such houses or stores be realty or personalty) in the City of Bridgetown in respect of such ownership or occupancy, and on persons, inhabitants and others, carrying on trade in respect of their stock-in-trade and other visible personal property yielding profit within the said city, and on all commission merchants in respect of their stock. in-trade and other visible personal property yielding profit within the said city, held by the said Commission Merchants either for themselves or as agents for others; and within three months after the confirmation of such rate by the Governor-inExecutive Committee, it shall be the duty of the said vestry to pay the said sum so certified as aforesaid into the public treasury.

All the powers and authority now or Rate to be subject hereafter to be by law vested in the Go- to the same powers vernor-in-Executive Committee, and in the &c., as general parosaid vestry relative to the general parochial rates shall be applicable to the making and recovery of the rates under this Act.

chial rates.

Chief Justice may

summoned.

The profits of the water works to be divided among the company in any year shall not exceed the rate of ten pounds in the hundred by the year on the paid up capital in the undertaking, unless a larger dividend be at any time necessary to make up the deficiency of any previous dividend which shall have fallen short of the said yearly rate: provided that the word "profits" shall include the interest of six per cent guaranteed by the legislature on the capital expended by the company in the undertaking.

(6.) The words "special" occurring in section 81 shall be omitted.

(7.) The following section shall be inserted after section 96, that is to say,

When the said company or the party or set aside verdict and parties entitled to compensation shall feel direct a fresh jury aggrieved by the verdict of the jury it shall be lawful for such aggrieved party to apply by petition to the chief judge of the court of common pleas to set aside such verdict; and if it shall appear to the chief judge that the justice of the case requires that such verdict shall be set aside it shall be lawful for the said chief judge to order the same to be set aside accordingly, and to issue a warrant under his hand, and the seal of the said court, directed to the said provost marshal requiring him to summon a fresh jury for that purpose, and such chief judge shall have cognizance of the said case in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if the same were a cause pending in the said court of common pleas.

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(8.) The following sections shall be inserted after section 135, that is to say,