Chapter 14

It is now time to end our story. We are proud to be able to bring you, the reader, this look at yesterday.

If this story brings you enjoyment; then we have done our job. If this story makes you smile; then we have done all that we wanted. For your further enjoyment, we include some of the early acts which helped Richibucto become what it is today.

KENT.

13th VICTORIA - CHAPTER 11.
An act to provide for more effectually repairing the Streets and Bridges in a part of the Parish of Richibucto.

Section.
1. Money rate for statue labour, in what part of Parish.
2. Moneys, how to be levied. &c.

passed 11th April 1850.

Be it enacted, & c.- 1. All person liable to perform labor on the streets and highways in that part of the Parish of Richibucto, in the County of Kent, which is included within the following limits, to-wit: - Commencing on the south side of the Richibucto River, at the Creek called Child's Creek, and extending to the Creek below George Bell's, commonly called Bell's Creek, and back to the Galloway road; and on the north side of the said river, the district commencing at Mooney's Creek, and extending to the upper line of David Wark, Esquire, including all the lands fronting on the Richibucto River within the limits described, shall in future, in lieu of such labor, annually pay the sum of ONE SHILLING and THREE PENCE for each and every day's labor such persons are respectively liable to perform.

2. The moneys required to be paid in virtue of this act, shall be levied and collected in the same manner as any Parish or County rates are levied and collected by virtue of any law now in force or which may hereafter be in force for that purpose in this Province; and when collected, such moneys shall be paid over to the Commissioners of highways for the said Parish, to be by then expended on the streets and bridges within the above described limits, in the same manner as any moneys by them received in lieu of labor have been hitherto by law expended.