Preamble.
WHEREAS from the great extent of the present county of York, it is necessary and expedient that the same be divided into two Counties;
County of York divided and Carleton erected, as herein described.
I. Be it therefore enacted by the President, Council, and Assembly, That all that part of the said County which lies to the northward and westward of a line commencing at the Monument situate at the source of the Cheputneticook, and running by the true meridian a due east course till it strikes Eel River, thence following the several courses of the said Eel River to its junction with the river Saint John, thence crossing the said river Saint John, north forty five degrees east, till it strikes the division line between the County of Northumberland and the said County of York, be and the same is hereby erected into a County, separate and distinct from the said County of York, and shall be called and known by the name of the County of Carleton; and that the residue thereof which lies below the boundary line of the said County of Carleton, as is described in this Act, shall comprise the County of York.
Establishment of Courts of Justice, Justices and other officers in the new County.
II. And be it further enacted, That the like Courts of Justice shall be erected and established, and the like Justices and other Officers be constituted and appointed in the said new County as are now erected and established, constituted and appointed in the said County of York, and with the like powers and authorities.
Terms of the Court of Sessions and Common Pleas.
III. And be it further enacted, That the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace, and Inferior Courts of Common Pleas, shall be holden in the Shire Town of the said new County, twice in every year at the times following, (that is to say,) on the first Tuesdays in January and June, and continue until the business shall be finished, not exceeding five days, and that two additional terms of the said Inferior Courts of Common Pleas for the said County shall be holden as follows, (that is to say,) on the first Tuesdays in March and October, and continue until the business be finished, not exceeding five days; at which additional terms no Jury shall be summoned.
Woodstock to be the Shire Town.
Court House, Gaol, and public offices to be erected there.
IV. And be it further enacted, That the Town of Woodstock, in the said County of Carleton, shall be forever hereafter the Shire Town of the said County, and that a Court House and a Gaol shall be erected in the said Shire Town, in like manner, and by such and the like ways and means, as such buildings have been or may be erected in other Counties in the Province, and in such place within the said Shire Town, above the Madusnikik river, as the Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being shall direct; and that all the public offices in the said new County, shall be kept at the places so to be directed and determined upon by the Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being.
A registry of deeds, &c. established.
V. And be it further enacted, That in the said Shire Town shall be erected and established a registry of deeds, conveyances, wills, mortgages, memorials of judgment or recognizances, for the said County, to be managed and executed by a Register, to be constituted in like manner and under and subject in all respects to the like laws, rules and regulations as any other registry in any other County of the Province; and that all deeds, conveyances, wills, mortgages, memorials of judgment or recognizances, which may affect any lands, tenements or hereditaments in the said County, shall be entered and registered at full length in the said registry, provided the same deeds or other documents have not been before registered in the said County of York.
Powers of Parish Officers to be the same as in other Counties.
VI. And be it further enacted, That the several Parishes of the said County of York, in whole or in part comprised within the said new County, shall continue by their respective names to be the Parishes of the said new County until altered by the General Assembly; and that the Town or Parish officers to be hereafter annually appointed for the said new County, shall in all respects possess the same powers as the like officers in any other County: Provided always, that the powers and authorities of the present or any other officers appointed or to be appointed by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the said County of York, shall continue until after the first General Session of the Peace shall be holden in and for the said new County.
VII. [Obsolete.]
New County to send one Member to the General Assembly.
Freeholders registered in York to be entitled to votes in the new County.