(iv) for appointing the places at which gunpowder may be landed in this island. (v) for fixing the amount and time and mode of payment of fees to be paid for the storage of gunpowder in a public magazine. (vi.) for determining the nature and extent of the information to be furnished the Government by any person making, manufacturing or keeping in or importing into this Island of any gunpowder 24. All such rules and regulations and Rules to be pub- revocations, alterations, and amendments of lished 3 times in Official Gazette. regulations shall on being published three times in the Official Gazette be as valid and effectual as if inserted in this act. section. Penalties. 25. Every person violating any of the proGeneral penalty visions of this Act or any rule or regulation thereunder for the violation of which no penalty is expressly provided, shall on conviction thereof, be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 26. All penalties incurred under any rule Recovery and disposition of penalties. or regulation, or under this Act, shall be recoverable in a summary manner before any police magistrate on the prosecution of the keeper of the public magazine, or any officer of the land or harbour police, and all money penalties shall be payable into the public treasury for the use of the colony. SESSION OF 1889'90. Fees. 27. All fees collected under this Act, Fees to be paid to shall be paid into the treasury for the use of and expenses paid the public, and all expenses required to be from the public undertaken for the due carrying out of the treasury. provisions of this Act shall be paid in the usual manner from the treasury. Police aid 28. The Inspector General of police shall Inspector General on application in writing from the keeper shall afford police of the public magazine, place at the keep. aid where required. er's disposal the services of one or more police officers for the purpose of keeping order during the landing, delivery, issue, or shipment of gunpowder, and of enforcing the due observance of this Act and of all rules and regulations made under it. Exemption from duty. Gunpowder &c., 29. Gunpowder, gun cotton, dynamite, nitro glycerine, and all other explosive exempted from duty matter whatsoever may be imported without payment of duty, and shall be included among those articles exempt from duty and mentioned in Table "B" to "The Customs Tariff Act, 1889." Repeal. Repeal and Sav. 30. The Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act annexed are hereby repealed; ings. drovided that this repeal shall not affect : 1. The past operation of the enactments hereby repealed or anything done or suffered under the enactments hereby repealed; or 2. any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under the enactments hereby repeal ed; or 27th August 1880. An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating and shipment of the same. The whole Act. 20th August 1887. An Act to amend "The Merchants' Gunpowder 6th March 1888... An Act to amend The Merchants' Gunpowder Act, 1880.' LAWS OF BARBADOS. hereby repealed; or 3. any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against the enactments on as if this Act had not passed. ceeding and remedy may be carried and any such investigation, legal proforfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid 4. any investigation, legal proceeding or privilege, obligation, liability, penalty remedy in respect of any such right, SESSION OF 1889'90. CAP LV. (Assented to 28th October, 1890.) BARBADOS. An Act to authorise the Vestry of the parish of St. Lucy in this Island to raise a loan for the purpose of repairing the Curate's house of St. Clement's Chapel in the said parish. WH HEREAS the Vestry of the parish of St. Lucy in this Island have by their petition to the Legislature of this Island, prayed that they may be authorised to raise a loan of four hundred and fifty pounds for the purpose of repairing the Curate's house of St. Clement's Chapel in 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, aud Assembly of this Island, and by the authority of the same as follows::- 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The St. Lucy's parish (Barbados) Loan Act, 1890." Short title. Vestry of St. Lucy empowered to bor 2. It shall be lawful for the Vestry of the said parish of St. Lucy and they are hereby row on the security authorised from time to time as they may of the rates a sum require the same, to borrow from any person not exceeding £450 or persons, body or bodies politic or corpo- Curate's house of for repairing the rate, willing to lend them the same, a sum or St. Clement's Chap sums of money not exceeding four hundred el. and fifty pounds, to be applied by them in repairing the Curate's house of St. Clement's Chapel in 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 the first charge Position to be held by such loan. Rates to be laid for repayment of loan. Certificate of amount borrowed to der. LAWS OF BARBADOS on the rates of the said parish until paid. 3. For the purpose of repaying any sum or sums which may be borrowed as aforesaid (not exceeding together the sum of four hundred and fifty pounds) 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 one, and each of the five then next following years, sufficient to pay an equal one sixth part of the sum or sums which may be borrowed with the interest annually becoming due in those years, on the principal sum and the unpaid balances thereof; and such rates are to be laid in the usual manner and are to be subject to confirmation or amendment in the usual manner. 4. When any sum or sums shall be borbe given to the len- rowed as aforesaid, the Chairman, Churchwarden, and Senior member of the said Vestry in Vestry assembled, shall give to the persons bodies politic or corporate from whom any sum or sums may be borrowed certificates showing the amount borrowed, and the names of the persons with their proper additions, bodies politic or corporate from whom borrowed with the rate of interest thereon, and appointing the times and the place of payment of principal and interest; which times and place of payment are to be as follows, namely; at the Parochial Treasurer's Office in the said parish in the month of October in the six several years in which the rates to pay the said loan and the interest thereon are to be laid as aforesaid. Such Certificates shall not altogether exceed nine and shall be numbered and dated, and no certificate shall be issued for less than the sum of fifty pounds Time and place of repayment of loan. 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