1813.) Twelve dollars p. annum J] A PROCLAMATION. BY His Excellency the Governor, and the Honorable Court of Policy and Criminal Justice of the Colony Berbice. To all to whom these presents may or shall come; Greeting! be it known: HEREaS we have taken under consideration, that altho’ the right of Summary Execution has been granted by us to the Vendue Master, for the time being, ofthe Colony Berbice, (for the recovery of Debts contracted at Public Sale), in order that the Sellers of Goods at Public Vendue, may meet with no delay from the Vendue Office at the expiration of Ihe credit stipulated by them. Yet that the object <>t this authority to the Vendue Master granted for the advantage of the Public, has been in many in instances stances instances frustrated; several of our Inhabitants who have sold goods at Public Sale, having sustained se serious rious serious inconvenience in their payments being procras procrastinated tinated procrastinated bv the Vendue Master, beyond the limita lion of the Credit engaged to be allowed by them. We have therefore thought it expedient to make further disposition on this head, by enacting and granting, as we do hereby Enact and Grant, from and after the day ofthe date of the Publication of these presents, io the Sellers of Goods, at Public Sale, within the Colony Berbice, the same Right of Summary Execution, for the recovery of the amount of the proceeds of such Sales at Vendue as has been heretofore granted b . us to the Vendue M ister, for the time bring, against all Purchasers of Goods at Public Vendue, with this reserve however : 'i’hat the enforcement of Payment by the Sellers, against the Vendue Master, shall only take place Six weeks after the expiration of the credit, stipulated at thedav of Sale, and under which the goods are sold, and after payment of the net proceeds ot the goods so sold shall have been legally demanded from the Vendue Master. And should after the expiration of the credit un under der under which goods are exposed by the Seller, as also after the further allowance of six weeks for collec collection, tion, collection, the 1 endue Master still remain in default f or orty ty orty eight hours after a legal demand for payment shall Eave been made ; the Seller in order to profit of this present enactment in their favor may proceed to pre present sent present a Petition to the Honorable Court of Civil Jus Justice, tice, Justice, or by their nun-sessions to His Excellency the Governor as President ot the said Court, in order Io effect a recovery of what is due him or them, bv Summary Execution; and on his Excellency the Governor, or the Hon. Court grantingthe Prayer of the Petition, the Petitioner may proceed io the en enforcement forcement enforcement of the fiat, thro’ the Deurwaaider, after due Summation and Renovation. And in order that no ignorance may be pretended, these presents shall be published, printed and posted up as customary. Thus enacted in our Assembly, held at the Court House, New Amsterdam, Berbice, this 15th day of April, 1813.—Present, Ilis Excellency R. Gordon, Governor General, President; and the Honorable Members L. C. Abbensets, J. McCamon, A. J. .Glasius, and G. Munro. And published on the 16th August following, Present, Ilis Honor James (Jbant, Act. Governor. J. GRANT, Act. Gov. By command of the Court. R. C. DOWNER, Sec. A PROCLAMATION. BY the Honorable Court of Policy and Cri~ minal Justice of the Colony Berbice and its Dependencies, fyc, &c, Sfc. Be it known: WHEREAS the Committee, appointed for the Gene General ral General Superintendance of the Public Works of this Town New Amsterdam, have addressed themselves unto us by memorial representing. That an ancient Ordinance of this Court, respecting the Strayiug on the Public Roads and Dams of Horses, Mules, Cattle Sheep, Goats, aud Hogs, is so little attended to, that BERBICE GAZETTE. SATURDAY, the 21 st of August. the same daily occurs to the great detriment and in injury jury injury of the Roads of the said Town ; praying that the Court would be pleased to provide therein. We have therefore thought proper, to order and direct, as we do by these presents : That Fourteen days after the day of the date of the Publication hereof, it shall be lawful for any person, to take up all Horses, Mules, Asses, Cattle, and Sheep, which at any time may be found stray straying ing straying on the Public Roads or Dams of the Town of New Amsterdam, and place them in custody of the Town Manager, and that such Horses, Mules. Asses, Cattle, and Sheep, shall be detained by the said Ma Manager, nager, Manager, until the owner or owners shall have paid, af after ter after the following rate, for their release, namely : For a Horse, Mule, Ass, Bull, Steer, Ox, Cow, Calf, or Heifer, each f 6.—And for Sheep, each f I.— W inch said fine shall be Collected by the Manager, and be divided ; namely : —One half to (he person who Arrests the Horse, Mule, Ass, Cattle, Sheep, or Anniinals so Straying, and the other half to the Town Mai •ager, who will be further entitled to a charge of a guilder |>er day, for Food, should such Animal re remain main remain in his custixTy longer than 12 hours; And should the owner or owners of such Horse, Mule, Ass, Bull, Steer, Ox, Cow, Calf, Heifer, or Sheep, entirely omit to release the same from the custody ot the Manager, the same shall be sold at Public \ endue (after having been three times Advertised in the Ber Berbice bice Berbice News-paper), to defray the fine attendant their being taken in custody, Food and Advertisement, and the surplus be paid over to the owner on his appli application. cation. application. 'l’hat it shall further be lawful for any person with within in within the Town of New Amsterdam, Fourteen days after the Publication of these presents, to Kill (but not with fire arms), any Goat or Hog, found on his Premises, or on the Public Roads, or Dams, ofthe Town New Amsterdam ; And should any Damage be done to any Lots or parts of a Lot withing the said Town by Horses, Mules, Asses, or other description of Cattle, committing the said Damage, and the owner of such Horse, Mule, Ass, or Cattle, refuse to pay the ex expence pence expence of the Damage so committed, after the same shall have been fairly appraised, or to make good Mich Damage as has been incurred ; It Shall be law lawiuH’or iuH’or lawiuH’or tlie C'ominiltic to expose such Horse, Mule, Ass. or other Kind of Cattle, at Public Vendue after the same shall have been three times Notified in the Berbice Gazette, and from the proceed of the Sale, defray the expence of the reparation ofthe Damage committed: And should after the payment ofthe said c.xpence any overplus remain, such overplus shall bv paid to the Proprietor of the Horse, Mule, Ass, or Cattle, so sold. Ami in order that no ignorance may be pretended, these presents shall be Published, Printed, and posted up as customary. Thus enached in our Assembly, held at the Court House in New Amsterdam, Berbice, this 6th day ot July, 1813.—Present, Ilis Honor, James Grant, Esq. Acting Governor; and the Honorable Members L. C. Abbensets, J. McCamon, P. Fairbairn, A. J. Glasius, ami G. Munro ; demptis, S. Fra Fraser. ser. Fraser. And Published on the 161 h August following, in presence of His Honor J. Grant, Acting Governor. JAMES GRANT, Act. Gov. By command of the Court of Policy. R. C. DOWNER, Nec. A PROCLAMATION, B Y the Honorable Court of Policy and Cri Criminal minal Criminal Justice of the Colony Berbice and its Dependencies, fyc. fyc. Be it known: WHEREAS the Committee appointed for the Gene General ral General Superintendance of the Public Works of this Town of New Amsterdam, have addressed them themselves selves themselves unto us by Memorial, representing the neces necessity sity necessity of establishing a fund by Annual Contribution, from each and every Proprietor of Land, within the said Town, in proportion to the quantity of Land pos possessed sessed possessed by him, her, or them,’for the purpose of im improving proving improving the Public Dams, Roads, Bridges, and Drain- THE age, of the said Town, at present in a total state of Neglect and Decay, as also for the future preserva-* tion of the Town by maintaining and keeping up the said Dams, Roads, Bridges, and Drainage, in con constant stant constant order and repair, and further to defray both, the charge of future necessary improvements, as well as the expence of the establishment for the Town Management. And the said Committee having sub submitted mitted submitted unto us a Plan, on which, according to their opinion, this Contribution could be best carried into effect; and prayingthat the Honourable Court would be pleased to take the aforesaid proposal under con consideration, sideration, consideration, and, if approved of, to Sanction the same, or, to make such ameliorations as the Court should judge most expedient. We therefore, after having attentively examined the plan submitted by the said Committee, and hav having ing having maturely considered the proposal for an Assess Assessment, ment, Assessment, have thought proper and resolved fully to ap approve prove approve thereof.—Accordingly ordering and directing, as we do Order and Direct by these presents: That each and every Proprietor, or Proprietors, of a whole Lot or part of a Lot in the Firstand Second Empoklers, ofthe Town New Amsterdam, shall an annually nually annually Contribute, into the hands ofthe Committee, chosen by the Proprietors ofthe Town Lots, and ra ratified tified ratified and confirmed as a Committee by this Court, and by them generally constituted for the Manage Management ment Management of the Town, their Quota of contribution (con (conformable formable (conformable to the repartition list here inserted, which we have approved of and affixed for the next coming year) for the Lot or part of Lot which he, shq, or they possess, either by Contract of Purchase or Trans Transport, port, Transport, and conformable to his, her or their return made to the said Committee ; for improving and keeping up in constant Repair the Roads, Bridges, Drainage, and Koker, of the said Empoklers, and for other use useful ful useful and necessary purposes. . | IstEmp. [ 2d Emp. A whole Lot/ 400 f 300—2 1 A half Lot fronting the River...,, 300 ~220 —e— A quart do. d0....,-, 200 „ 176.. An eighth do. d 0....,, 175 5, 132„ A sixteenth do. d 0....,, 132 ~88 .' A smaller part do. d 0....,, 88 ~ 44 »' A haff Lot fronting the Cent. R.„ 200 , 176—/ A quart do. d 0....,, 176 „132 ' An eighth do. d 0....,, 132 „ 88- A sixteenth do. d 0....,, 88 ~44 A smaller part do. d 0....,, 44 ~ 22— A quart’Lot front’theßackd’..,, 132 ~ 88 An eighth do. d 0....,, 88 44 A sixteenth do. d 0....,, 44 „ 22- A smaller part do. d 0....,, 32 >} yj,- The inner parts between front and centre road :—whole breadth. .10st. p-ft. 8 st. p. ft. Idem half 5 ditto 4 ditto Idemquarter 2| ditto 2 ditto Idem between centre ami back rood whole breadth 8 ditto 6 ditto Idem half 4 ditto 3 ditto Idem quarter 2 ditto If ditto Cross paths considered included in the breadth. To the amount of the respective proportions, to be ad added ded added 10 pCt. for divided, and 5 pCt. for whole Lots, and to be charged in every Account. The said percentages being allowed to the Secretary of the Committee, iu con. sideration for his keeping the Books, Accounts, &c. and rendering Accounts in proper order. And it is hereby further ordered and directed • That the payment of this Contribution shall be made previous to the last day of November, next ensuing, and annually for the future, one half of the present quota of contribution, which quota after the account specifying the same, shall have been one month pre previously viously previously sent to the Proprietor or Representative of the Lots and parts of Lots shall also be paid previous to the latter end of the month of November, and that in the hands of two of the Members ofthe aforesaid Committee, who will attend for the purpose of re receiving ceiving receiving the said contributions at such time and place asshall hereafter be made known by Advertisement from the said Committee in the Gazette of this colo colony, ny, colony, and should payment not punctually be made at the afore specified period of the amount of Assess Assessment, ment, Assessment, the same shall be recoverable by andon behalf of the said Committee on the Land and further pro property perty property afthe defaulters, by Summary Execution, Audit is further ordered and directed, (hat earte (No. 464* [Payable in advance.