BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative
Council, and Assembly, as follows :-

    1. From and after the passing of this Act, all that part of
the Parish of Saint Andrews, in the County of Charlotte,
lying and being on the northerly side of the following de-
scribed line, to-wit -- Beginning on the shore of the River
Saint Croix at the northwesterly angle of the Western Com-
mons, so called, thence running along the northerly line of
the said Commons till it strikes the easterly line of the third
division of the Penobscot Association Grant, thence north-
erly along the said easterly line to the northeasterly corner
of lot number forty two in the said third division of the
Penobscot Association Grant, thence north twenty degrees
east till it strikes the first Chamcook Lake, thence easterly
along the southerly shore of the said Lake to the line of the
New Brunswick and Canada Railroad, thence northerly
along the said Railroad to the northerly line of lot number
twelve, granted to Amos White, thence easterly along that
line to the western line of the Parish of Saint Patrick, shall 
be and the same is hereby erected into a separate Town or
Parish, to be known as the Parish of Saint Croix.

    2. The said Town of Parish of Saint Croix shall have the
same privileges and be subject to the same laws and regula-
tions as extend to or govern the other Parishes of the said
County.

    3. This Act shall not interfere with or prevent the recov-
ery of any assessment heretofore made or ordered, or with
the discharge of the duties of any officer hitherto appointed
during the term of his office, and nothing in this Act con-
tained shall be construed to relieve either section of the said
Parish hereby divided from its respective existing liabilities,
or any resident or non-resident ratepayer, or other inhabi-
tant of either of said sections, or any other person, from any
fine, tax, assessment, duty or other liability heretofore legally
existing and incumbent on them, or to which he is in any
wise subject.

    4. The several Parish officers for the said Town or Parish
of Saint Croix shall be elected or appointed in the manner
provided for by Title viii, of the Revised Statutes, 'Of the
local government of Counties, Towns, and Parishes,' and
shall in all respects be subject to and come within the pro-
visions of the said recited Title.

    5. Any two Justices of the Peace for the said County shall
and may appoint a fit and proper person residing within the
limits of the said Town and Parish of Saint Croix as Clerk
in the election of Parish officers, agreeably to the provisions
of the said recited Title, for the first year after this Act
coming into operation.

    6. The Polling place for the said Parish of Saint Croix for
the Election of Members to serve in the General Assembly,
shall be and the same is hereby declared to be at or near the
Agricultural Hall at the Bay Side, in the said Parish of Saint
Croix ; and the Polling place for the Parish of Saint Andrews
shall be the same as now established by law ; and the place
for Parish meetings in the said Parish of Saint Croix shall be
at or near the said Agricultural Hall.

    7. If any Election of Members to serve in the General As-
sembly for the County of Charlotte shall be held before new
Revisors' Lists shall be made out for the said Parishes of Saint
Croix and Saint Andrews, the Sheriff shall from the present
list in the Parish of Saint Andrews select the electors who
reside in the Parish of Saint Croix hereby erected, and shall
furnish the presiding officer in the said Parish of Saint Croix
with a list of the said electors so resident in the said Parish,
and shall strike out from the said present list for the Parish
of Saint Andrews the names of the electors resident in the
Parish of Saint Croix, and shall furnish the presiding officer
for the Parish of Saint Andrews with a copy of such list,
with the said names removed therefrom, and such lists re-
spectively shall serve the same purpose and be used in the
same manner as the copy of the Register of Electors required
to be provided to the presiding officers by the twenty ninth
Section of an Act made and passed in the eighteenth year
of Her Majesty's reign, intituled An Act to regulate the Elec-
tion of Members to serve in the General Assembly.

    8. The Parish hereby created shall have no interest in nor
receive any benefit in or out of any property held by the
Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte in trust for
the Parish of Saint Andrews, as it existed before the passage
of this Act, and such property shall hereafter be held by the
said Justices of the Peace for the benefit of the Parish of
Saint Andrews as it will exist after the passage of this Act.

    9. The Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte
are hereby authorized at the April Sessions of the present
year to appoint for the said Parish for the present year the
several Parish officers named in Chapter fifty two, Title viii,
'Of the local government of Counties, Towns, and Parishes,'
and such other Parish officers as the Sessions have power to
appoint, when there has been a failure to elect such officers
under the several Acts relating thereto.