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No. 1.

Ord. No.7, 1860.

II. That this Ordinance shall be and continue in force from and after the proclamation of the same, for and during the term of five years, and from thence to the end of the then next Session of the Legislative Council, and no longer.

No. 1. Ord. No. 13, 1855.

PREAMBLE.

President and Council to appoint Commissioners.

Estimates to be submitted monthly.

Who deemed visitors.

Destitute

children may

CLASS IV.

POOR-HOUSE AND HOSPITAL.

No. 1.-ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1855.

(Passed 31st

An Ordinance to provide for the Supervision and Regulation of the
Poor-house and Hospital at Grand Turk.
Oct., 1855. Confirmed 20th March, 1856.)

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HEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made for the regulation of the Poor-house and Hospital establishment of these islands; May it, &c.,

I. That the control and supervision of the poor of these islands in receipt of relief from the colony shall be vested in a Board of Commissioners, to be appointed annually, and to consist of three persons appointed by the President and Council, which Board shall have and are hereby invested with the power to frame rules and regulations for the government of the said establishment, and from time to time to alter or amend the same; which rules and regulations, when submitted to and confirmed by the President in Council, shall be and become in full force and virtue, and be published for the information and guidance of all concerned.

II. That once in every month the said commissioners shall lay before the President an estimate of the probable amount required for the support of the said Poor-house and Hospital for the ensuing month.

III. That the members of the Legislative Council and the Justices of the Peace shall be entitled to visit the said establishment at all times; and the clergy of the several denominations of Christians within these islands shall have power to perform Divine Service within the said establishment at convenient periods, as well as to impart religious instruction to any of the inmates thereof, and to bury the dead of their several followers dying within the

same.

IV. That it shall be lawful for the Police Magistrate at the request of the said commissioners to put out to service all children be apprenticed. left destitute, or whose parent or parents may be supported at the public expense; or to apprentice under indenture any such children to any person or persons residing in the colony, and carrying on therein any useful trade or calling, for such period of time as they may deem fit and proper, until the children so put out to service or apprenticed shall have attained, in the case of girls, eighteen years of age, and in that of boys, twenty-one years.

CLASS V.

EDUCATION.

No. 1.-ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1853.

An Ordinance to appoint an Inspector and Head Master over the
Public School, also Masters and Teachers for the same, and
for other purposes therein mentioned. (Passed 29th Oct., 1853.
Confirmed 6th April, 1854.)

WH

No. 1. Ord. No. 4,

1853.

HEREAS it is necessary, in order to insure the proper and PREAMBLE. efficient management of the public schools within these

islands, that a Board of Education should be established, with powers

of inspection and control over the same; May it, &c.,

cation.

I. That it shall be lawful for the President or Officer administer- The President ing the Government of these islands to nominate and appoint not to appoint a less than six, and not more than eight persons, two being members Board of Eduof the Legislative Council, and four being the officiating Ministers of the Church of England at Grand Turk and Salt Cay, and the Ministers of the Methodist and Baptist denominations resident at Grand Turk, who shall, together with the Officer administering the Government as Chairman, constitute a Board of Education for the purpose of this Ordinance; and that four or more of the said Board, together with such Officer, shall be a quorum to transact business.

II. And be it further ordained, that the said board shall and When said may meet (at any place named by the President) on the first Board to meet. Thursday in each calendar month, and further, as often during any and every month in the year as may be necessary for the despatch of business, due notice of every such last-mentioned meeting being previously given by the Secretary to each and every member of the Board.

make By-rules for the manage

ment of Schools.

III. That it shall be lawful for the said Board to make such Said Board to by-rules and regulations for the control and management of all schools under their jurisdiction as they may deem fit; and such by-rules and regulations, when approved of by the President, shall be held to be in full force, and shall be acted upon accordingly, and shall be held as binding upon all parties concerned as any clause of this Ordinance: Provided, however, that such by-rules and regulations shall not be repugnant to the provisions of this Ordinance, and may be amended, altered, or repealed as often as may be deemed fit and necessary by the said Board.

IV. That the private secretary to the President, or clerk in the office of the Officer administering the Government for the time being, shall be ex-officio honorary secretary and treasurer to the said Board.

V. That it shall be lawful for the President, and he is hereby required to apply to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, as often as may be required, for some fit and proper person to hold the office of Inspector and Head Master of the public schools: Provided always, that as such appointments of Head Masters for the colonies for education purposes have sometimes disappointed the wishes of their employers when they have arrived and entered upon their employments, it shall be required that such Head

The Private
Secretary to the

President to be
ex-officio Secre-
tary to the Board.
The President
to apply for a
person to be
Inspector and
from the Insti-
tution of the
British and
Foreign School
Society.

Head Master

No. 1.

Ord. No. 4, 1853.

Duty of Head
Master.

The President to appoint Teachers,

and establish Schools where required.

What books may be used.

Weekly contributions.

Parents or Guardians liable for the payment of contributions.

Grant of £450 payable from the Public

Treasury in
aid of schools.
Salary of

Inspector and
Head Master.

Master shall be properly qualified in the organization and discipline of elementary schools upon the most approved plan of popular education; and that such Head Master shall produce testimonials of religious character, and of a proper period of secular training at the Normal Training Institution of the British and Foreign School Society in London, as being a suitable and qualified person thoroughly trained in the management and discipline of children.

VI. That it shall be the duty of the said Head Master to attend daily, whenever the scholars shall meet for tuition, one or more of the public schools at these islands, for the purpose of supervising the management of the same, or at other times of inspecting such schools in such manner as shall be required or approved of by the Board: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the President, in the event of the death, resignation, or incapacity of such Inspector as aforesaid, to'appoint, provisionally, some fit person to act as Inspector and Head Master of the public schools until the pleasure of the Secretary of State for the Colonies shall have been made known. VII. That it shall be lawful for the President, and he is hereby required to appoint teachers and masters, properly trained by the said Head Master, to the schools hereafter to be established, and on the recommendation or with the consent of the Board, to dismiss such persons when there shall be a necessity for so doing.

VIII. That it shall be lawful for the President or officer administering the Government for the time being to establish one or more school or schools within the several districts of these islands where it may appear requisite to the said President or officer administering the Government to establish such schools.

IX. That the daily reading-lessons shall be taken from the Holy Bible, and from such religious and secular works as the said Board may direct, and that no catechism or sectarian work shall be admitted or used in the aforesaid schools.

X. That the weekly contributions of the scholars admitted into the aforesaid schools shall be compulsory, except in such cases as may be specially recommended by the Inspector and sanctioned by the said Board, and that such contributions shall not at any time exceed the sum of sixpence per week for each and every child admitted as aforesaid, and when collected, shall form part of the funds at the disposition of the said Board, in such way and manner as the said Board shall direct.

XI. That the parents or guardians of such children as are admitted into the said schools shall be, and they are hereby declared liable for the payment of such contributions due to the Board on account of the admission of any child into any of the said schools; and it shall be lawful for any one or more of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and he and they are hereby required to aid and assist in the collection of such contributions, on proper accounts being rendered to him, or any one or more of them, in the same manner as is usual in the recovery of all sums under Five pounds within these islands.

XII. That a sum not exceeding Four hundred and fifty pounds, to be accounted for in the usual manner, shall be drawn annually from the Public Treasury by warrants signed by the President, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance: Provided always, that the salary of the aforesaid Inspector and Head Master shall not be less than One hundred and eighty

pounds, and not more than Two hundred pounds per annum, to be disbursed and paid to him in the usual manner in equal monthly payments.

No. 1.

Ord. No. 4,

1853.

Board of
Education not

XIII. That nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be construed to authorize the Board of Education, established by virtue of this Ordinance, to interfere with any schools which are not sup- to interfere ported by the public funds of these islands. with Schools not supported from Public Funds. XIV. That it shall be lawful for the President, and he is hereby Whenever a required to nominate as a member of the Board of Education any minister of the recognized minister of the Church of Scotland, so soon as such a minister shall be appointed to officiate at any of the islands within the Presidency; and for which purpose it shall be required of the President to keep one seat vacant in aforesaid Board until a minister of the Church of Scotland can be nominated a member of the said Board as herein provided.

XV. That in the event of the death or absence of one or more members of the Board, or in the event of any member or members refusing to act, or voluntarily absenting himself or themselves from several successive meetings of the said Board, it shall be in the power of the President for the time being to nominate and appoint one or more laymen to act in the stead of any such member or members as aforesaid: Provided always, that such nomination shall only be valid and in full force (and no longer) until the provisions contained in the first and fourteenth clauses of this Ordinance can be complied with by the re-appointment of such a member or members of the Legislative Council, or of such minister or ministers as may be required to constitute the Board as provided for in the aforesaid clauses.

XVI. That it shall be lawful for the President to draw by warrant, in the usual manner, from the Public Treasury of these islands, a sum not exceeding Seventy pounds, to be remitted to England in such a manner as shall be decided upon by the Secretary of State, to be paid to the said Master as a passage allowance from England to these islands: Provided always, that should the aforesaid Head Master resign or be dismissed for misconduct before three years after the date of his arrival at these islands, it shall be required of the said Head Master to refund and pay into the Public Treasury the whole or a portion of the said allowance, as shall be decided upon by the President in Council; and that to provide more effectually for the observance of this proviso, it shall be required of the said Master, before he leaves England, to enter into a good and sufficient bond, to be renewed on arrival at these islands, that he shall refund in the manner and for the reasons aforesaid, the whole or a portion of his passage allowance as shall be required of the said Head Master by the President in Council.

XVII. That the Members of Council and Justices of the Peace for these islands shall have authority to visit, at any time, all schools established under this Ordinance.

Church of
Scotland shall

be appointed at
these Islands, to
be a Member of
the Board.

The death
or absence of
Members of

the Board of
Education of

provided for.

Passage allowance for InHead Master provided for.

spector and

Members of

Council and

Justices of the Peace to be visitors of Schools.

XIX. That nothing herein contained shall be of any force or effect until Her Majesty shall have assented hereto, or the sanction of the Governor-General of Jamaica to the immediate operation of the same shall have been obtained, nor until such assent or sanction as aforesaid shall have been signified by Proclamation, nor until a day to be in such Proclamation fixed for the commencement thereof.

When the operation of

this Ordinance to take effect.

PART VII.

CLASS I.-PUBLIC MARKET.

CLASS II.-WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

CLASS III.-WHARFAGE AND STORAGE.

No. 1.

Act 10 Vic. c. 6.

PREAMBLE.

Mode of es

tablishment of Market.

Regulation.

Market to be under control

of the Gover

nor.

CLASS I.

PUBLIC MARKET.

No. 1.-10 Vic. ch. 6. An Act for the Establishment and Regulation of a Public Market at Grand Cay, Turks Islands. (26th Feb., 1847.)

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HEREAS a public market is about to be established at Grand Cay, Turks Islands, and it is expedient that certain provision should be made by law, in aid of and for the proper regulation of such Market; May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by His Excellency George Benvenuto Mathew, Esquire, Governor and Commanderin-chief in and over the Bahama Islands, the Legislative Council and Assembly of the said Islands, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority of the same; That when and so soon as a fit and proper market has been erected at Grand Cay, Turks Islands, aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Crown Commissioner to grant a certificate thereof under his hand and seal, and to cause such certificate to be recorded in the office of the Deputy Secretary at Grand Cay aforesaid; and from and immediately after such certificate shall be so granted and recorded, the said market shall be deemed and held to be established, and the said market shall from thenceforth be the only market within Grand Cay aforesaid for selling and exposing for sale butchers' meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit; and if any person shall, after such market is established as aforesaid, sell or offer for sale any butchers' meat, fish, vegetables, or fruit, within Grand Cay, aforesaid, in any place other than such market, every such person shall, on being convicted thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Ten shillings, and not less than One shilling.

II. And be it enacted, That the said market shall be under the superintendence and control of the Crown Commissioner for the time being, at the said Turks Islands, who is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to make rules and regulations for the government of the said market, and to fix and establish rates of stallage, wharfage, and slaughterage.

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