1. In this Chapter "Company" means every person or body of persons corporate or unincorporate carrying on the business of an Express Company or Express Agents in the Colony, and shall include every company whose business embraces that of an Express Company.

2. Every company shall, on or before the 31st day of January in each year, furnish to the Minister of Finance and Customs, a statement of its affairs made up to the 31st day of December of the preceding year, and as nearly as possible according to the form of the Schedule hereto, and in default, shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for every day after said date during which such default continues.

SCHEDULE.

1. Number and amount of Money Orders issued during year.

2. Number and amount of Money Orders sent out of Colony during year.

3. Number and amount of Money Orders received from abroad during year (showing number and amount from each country.)

4. Number of packages expressed within Colony during year.

5. Number of packages sent out of Colony during year.

6. Number of packages received from abroad during year (showing number from each country.)

1. No person shall take, pick, sell or have in his possession, any partridge berries, between the first day of August and a date to be fixed by notice in the Royal Gazette by the Minister of Agriculture and Mines, which last mentioned date shall be between September 5th and September 15th in every year, and which notice, in addition to publication as aforesaid, shall be posted up in some conspicuous place in such settlements in the Colony as may be decided upon by the Minister.

2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make rules and regulations, and provide penalties for breaches of the same, regulating the inspection of partridge berries. Such rules and regulations, when published in the Royal Gazette, shall have the force and effect of law.

1. There shall be granted a premium upon all raw wool imported into this Colony and its Dependencies for the purpose of manufacturing wearing apparel, blankets, rugs, carpets or other like manufactures to be computed at the rate of five per cent. upon the original cost of such wool, at the place where the same shall be shipped for importation.

2. There shall be granted a premium upon all wood raised in this Colony and manufactured into wearing apparel, blankets, rugs, carpets or other like manufactures, in factories or buildings where more than ten persons are annually employed, to be computed at the rate of five per cent. upon the value of such wool. The value of such wool upon which the said bounty shall be paid shall be fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council.

3. All machinery imported into this Colony except such as can be manufactured in this Colony, for the manufacture of the aforesaid woollen goods, shall be exempted from the payment of duty.

4. The premium hereby granted shall be paid to the manufacturer upon the production of a satisfactory affidavit setting forth that the wool so imported has been used in the aforesaid manufactures.

5. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to enter into an agreement, on behalf of the Colony, for any number of years not exceeding ten, with any person or corporation prepared to engage in the manufacture of woollens in this country and to guarantee, on behalf of the Colony, that the premium referred to herein shall continue in force for a period of ten years, and that during the said period, the present duty payable on all woollens imported into this country shall not be reduced.

6. This Chapter shall continue and be in force for the period of ten years from the first day of July A. D. one thousand nine hundred and

ten.

SECTION

TITLE XXVIII.

OF RAILWAYS.

CHAPTER 206.

Of Railways and Railway Companies

1. Chapter to be of general application,

2. Meaning of term "Company."

3.-Notices before railways are opened for conveyance of passengers.

4.-Penalty.

5.-Examination of Government Engineer. 6.- Penalty.

7.-Copy of Engineer's report to be furnished Railway Company.

8.-Governor in Council to order inspection
at any time.

9.-Government may forbid running of trains
when considered dangerous.
10.-Engineer to report forthwith.
11.-Engineer to have power to enter upon and
examine railways.

12.-Rights and privileges of inspecting en-
gineers

13.-Powers of Governor in Council or inspect
ing Engineer to regulate trains, etc.
14. Railway Company to notify Government
of accidents.

15.-Government Engineer to make special
report of accident.

16.-Railway companies to

make arrangements for interchange of traffic, &c. 17. Liberty of railway companies as carriers. 19-Railway Company to make bye-laws, &c.

1. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to all railways which have been, or which may hereafter be constructed under the authority of any special act, passed by the Legislature of this Colony, and to all companies which have been, or may hereafter be formed or incorporated for their construction and working.

2. In this Chapter the term "Company" means a company incorporated either before or after the passing of this Chapter, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining or working a railway in this Colony, and includes any individual or individuals not incorporated who are owners or lessees of a railway in the Colony, or parties to an agreement for working a railway in the Colony.

3. No railway, or portion of any railway, shall be opened for the