Forwards copies of the acts passed during 1869; encloses a report by the attorney...

Forwards copies of the acts passed during 1869; encloses a report by the attorney general (acts not included in volume).

Acts include: No. 1 'Revenue collection and appropriation act', No. 2 'To provide for running a horse boat on the Boaz Island Ferry', No. 3 'The vagrant act', No. 4 'To continue the interpleader acts', No. 5 'To provide for payment of medical witnesses in certain cases', No. 6 'To continue and amend the act to prevent the destruction of cedar trees', No. 7 'To continue to act for the quarterly auditing and payment of the claims of certain public creditors', No. 8 'To amend the act to encourage steam communication between Bermuda and New York', No. 9 'To continue the act for the regulation of an hospital for insane paupers, and certain other acts in addition to and amendment thereof', No. 10 'To use government funds to purchase glebe land in Pembroke under the 42nd section of the Bermuda defence act 1865', No. 11 'To continue the acts to provide for the registration of births, marriages, and deaths', No. 12 'The causeway act', No. 13 'To continue the St. Georges Harbour Master's act', No. 14 'To continue the act for the suppression of fires in Hamilton', No. 15 'To continue the act constituting a Marine Court of Inquiry', No. 16 'To continue certain acts relating to the assistant colonial secretary', No. 17 'The clerk of courts salaries act', No. 18 'Relating to the pay of jurors and constables and certain other charges of the courts of justice', No. 19 'To continue the act providing a salary for the clerk of the pilot commissioners'. No. 20 'To amend and continue the act to restrict the sale of poisons', No. 21 'Relating to the salaries of the officers of the gaols', No. 22 'To continue and amend the gaols regulation acts', No. 23 'The vaccination act', No. 24 'To provide for carrying out capital punishment within prisons', No. 25 'To continue the act to provide for the performance of certain duties of the Speaker during his temporary absence from the House of Assembly', No. 26 'The pilotage act', No. 27 'To provide for carrying out capital punishment within prisons', No. 28 'To make more effectual provision for the collection of parish assessments', No. 29 'To amend the law and practice in cases of escheat', No. 30 'For the better protection of constables in the execution of their duty', No. 31 'To amend the law relating to promissory oaths'.

Frederick Edward Chapman, Governor of Bermuda, No. 57, Folios 202-226