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Passed 21st April, 1869.
BE it enacted by the
Lieutenant Governor, Legislative
Council, and Assembly, as follows :-
1. That all that part of the Parishes of Lepreaux
and Penn-
field, in the County of Charlotte, which lies to the north-
ward of a line to run due west from the most southern angle
of the County of Queen's, until it strikes the eastern line of
the Parish of Saint George in the said County, shall be and
the same is hereby erected into a separate Town or Parish,
to be known by the name of 'The Parish of Clarendon.'
2. That the said Town or Parish shall have the same
privi-
leges, and be subject to the same laws and regulations as
extend to or govern the other Parishes in the said County
of Charlotte.
3. This Act shall not interfere with or prevent the
re-
covery of any assessment which may have been previously
ordered, or with any fines, penalties or money which may
have accrued or become due, or with the discharge of the
duties of any officer who may have been appointed for the
year then running, but every such officer shall discharge his
duty until the end of the year, in the same manner as if this
Act had not been passed ; and nothing in this Act contained
shall be construed to relieve either section of the said Par-
ishes from their respective liabilities.
4. That the Polling place for the said Parish hereby
erected for the Election of Members to serve in the General
Assembly, by virtue of an Act made and passed in the
eighteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, inti-
tuled An Act to regulate the Election of Members to
serve in the
General Assembly, or any Acts in amendment
thereof, shall
be at or near the residence of John McCutchin ; provided
that in case it may become necessary to hold an Election for
the County of Charlotte before the Revisors of the Parishes of
Lepreaux, and Pennfield, and Clarendon, or either of them,
shall have made out and transferred to the Clerk of the
Peace the list of electors for each of the Polling districts
above mentioned, the Sheriff may use the list made out for
the previous year, and the electors shall vote at the places
heretofore accustomed before the passing of this Act.
5. An Act made and passed in the thirty first year
of the
Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to
establish
an additional Polling place in the County of Charlotte,
be and
the same is hereby repealed. |