deemed to have been duly appointed undea this Act; and

(3.) Any enactment or document referring to any Act or enactment hereby repealed shall be construed to refer to this Act or to the corresponding enactment in this Act. (4.) This repeal shall not affect

(a) The past operation of any enactment hereby repealed nor any thing duly done or suffered under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under any enactment hereby repealed;

or

(c) any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactments hereby repealed; or

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid and any such investigation legal proceeding and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed; or (e) any Act in which the enactments hereby repealed have been applied, incorporated or referred to.

(5.) This repeal shall not revive any enactment, right, office, privilege, matter or thing not in force or existing at the passing of this Act.

Short title.

CAP. XIII.

(Assented to 3rd October, 1892.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to authorise the vestry of the parish of Saint Philip to raise a loan to enable them to purchase a residence for the dispenser of the almshouse of the said parish.

W

HEREAS the vestry of the parish of Saint Philip in this island, have by their humble petition to the Legislature of the island, prayed that they may be authorised to raise a loan not exceeding the sum of one hundred and sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence to enable them to purchase a residence for the dispenser of the almshouse of the said parish; And Whereas it is deemed expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island, and by the authority of the same, as follows;

1. This Act may be cited as "The Saint Philip's Parish (Barbados) Loan Act, 1892."

2. It shall be lawful for the vestry of the Vestry of St. Philip empowered to bor- said parish of Saint Philip and they are row on the security hereby authorised from time to time as they of the rates a sum may require the same to borrow from any not exceeding

£166 13 4 to purchase a residence for the parochial dispenser.

person, or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate willing to lend them the same, a sum or sums of money not exceeding the sum of one hundred and sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence to be applied by them in the purchase of a residence for the dispenser of the almshouse of

the said parish; and the sum or sums so borrowed with interest thereon, at a rate not exceeding six pounds per centum per annum shall be a first charge on the rates of the said parish until paid.

Fee simple to vest

3. The premises to be purchased as aforesaid shall be conveyed to and vested in the in vestry. vestry for the time being of the said parish and shall pass to their successors in office from time to time as vestrymen of the said parish, without any conveyance being necessary.

Rates to be laid for repayment of

4. For the purpose of repaying any sum or sums which may be borrowed as aforesaid (not exceeding together the sum loan. mentioned) the said vestry are hereby authorised and required to lay a rate in the said parish in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety three and the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety four sufficient to pay in every of those years an equal half part of the sum or sums which may be so borrowed, with the interest annually becoming due in those years on the principal sum and the unpaid balances thereof for the time being; and such rates are to be laid in the usual manner and are to be subject to confirmation or amendment in the usual manner.

lender.

. 5. When any sums or sum shall be borCertificate of rowed as aforesaid, the chairman, church- amount borrowed warden and senior member of the said vestry in to be given to the vestry assembled shall give to the persons, bodies politic or corporate from whom any sums or sum may be borrowed, certificates, shewing the sums or sum borrowed, and the names of the persons or person with their proper additions, bodies politic or corporate from whom the money shall be borrowed

repayment.

with the rate of interest thereon and appointing the times and the place of payment of principal and interest and such imes and place of payment are to be at the Time and place of parochial treasurer's office in the said parish in the month of August in the said two years in which the rates to pay the said loan and the interest thereon are to be laid as aforesaid, and such certificates are not to Limit to number exceed altogether eight in number and shall of certificates. be numbered and dated, and no certificate shall be issued for less than the sum of twenty pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence. Each certificate shall be made in the words or to the effect in schedule "A" to this Act.

Form.

Memorial of each certificate to be kept by the parochial treasurer.

Transfer of certificates.

6. An entry or memorial of every such certificate containing the number and date thereof and the names of the persons with their proper additions, bodies politic or corporate to whom the same shall have been made and of the sums or sum borrowed together with the rate of interest to be paid thereon and the month in each year and the years in which the sums mentioned in the several certificates are appointed to be paid shall within fourteen days after the date thereof be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose by the parochial treasurer of the said parish, which book may be perused at all convenient hours of the day by any person, bodies politic or corporate interested in any certificate upon payment of a fee of sixpence to the said parochial treasurer.

7. All persons, bodies politic or corporate to whom any such certificate shall have been made as aforesaid, or who shall have become entitled to the money due thereon