offices of parsonages in this island ought to be kept up at the expence of the Rector. After some tedious litigation between the Rector of St. Clement and his parishioners, the question was finally determined by an Order in Council about the end of the last century, in favour of the Clergy. [Durell.] Partners. In private partnerships, each partner is bound and limited towards others by deed, but their responsibility to the public cannot be limited by any agreement whatever, for each is responsible for the debts contracted by the firm even to the whole extent of his fortune; nor can any one partner transfer his share to another, or introduce a new member into the partnership, without the consent of the firm, but each may upon proper notice withdraw from the firm, and demand payment from them of his common stock; in which case a dissolution of partnership follows, which must be brought home to the knowledge of the public,otherwise their liability continues. Partners, by Joint Stock.-There are several Joint Stock Banking and other companies established in the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.-Some of the Banking Companies in Jersey comprise upwards of one hundred shareholders; none of those companies have ever been incorporated, either by Charter, or by Act of Parliament, or by Act of the States; hence, all are subject to the operations of the law as regards private partnerships, which will ultimately cause very serious inconveniencies to the parties. We understand that the shares of many of the original proprietors have been transferred, without any legal dissolution of partnership, and without notice being given to the public, which may at no distant period give rise to much contention. Passengers.- Regulations for conveyance of by ships, see 5 and 6 W. 4, c. 53. Passengers and their Baggage conveyed by Boatmen and Porters. The following is a translation of the Act of the States on this subject. It is a provisional law, and consequently has not been sent up for the Royal assent :-At the States of the Island of Jersey, on the 28th day of Feb. 1839. Numerous complaints having been made that persons following the profession of Boatmen for conveying passengers, coming to or going away from the Island, have not the knowledge necessary to avoid the dangers which surround the Port of St. Helier's; that others have committed impositions on the passengers who went by them; that obstructions have been offered to passengers landing at St. Heliers, by porters crowding the stairs and other landing places; that many of the said porters have seized upon and carried away the effects of passengers without their consent, and have exacted afterwards an exorbitant remuneration; and that, in some instances, goods, thus carried away, have never been recovered by the owners; that the boats are often obstructed by the waiters of Hotels and Taverns, to the great annoyance of passengers. The States, with the view of correcting such glaring abuses, have established the following regulations : ARTICLE 1.-No boatman shall convey passengers, until he shall have been examined by the Harbour Master of St. Helier, under the penalty of five shillings sterling for each default. ART. 2.-The Harbour Master of St. Helier's shall keep a register of Boatmen duly qualified, in the following form: Days. No. Name of the Boatman. Domicile. Name and size of Boat. Number of passengers the boat is licensed to carry. 18 (Signed) 66 ART. 3.-The said Harbour Master shall deliver to each Boatman, qualified and registered, a license in the following terms: No. "The proprietor of the boat No. is permitted to convey passengers. St. Helier's the day of Harbour Master." ART. 4.-Every boatman employed to convey passengers shall wear a plate on his right arm, and shall have figures indicating the price of passage and the number of passengers he is authorized to convey painted on the stern inside, and the number of his boat painted on each side of the bow outside, according to the direction of the Harbour Master, under a penalty of ten shillings Sterling, for each default. ART. 5.-Every boat's crew conveying passengers, shall receive from each passenger (his ordinary baggage included) from the 1st of November to the 1st of April a sum not exceeding. From the Quay to a vessel in the harbour.. do. to the 1st buoy, outside of the har bour...... Ditto do. or from the slip near the rocher fendu, to the small roads.... 40. 6d. 1s. Od. ........1s. 6d. Ditto do. beyond the hermitage or in the main roads From the 1st of April to the 1st of November, from each passenger, (including his ordinary luggage,) a sum not exceeding From the Quay to a vessel in the harbour... do. to the 1st buoy outside of the har 3d. Ditto bour....... Ditto do. or from the Slip near rocher fendu to the small roads... 64. Ditto roads... 1s. Od. The same sums shall be paid from these several places to the Harbour of St. Helier's, or to the Slip, near rocher fendu. A boatman shall, when required so to do, convey any person or persons, wishing to cross from one Quay to another, and may only exact one penny from each; should there be but one person he shall receive two pence. do. beyond the hermitage, or in the main ART. 6.-No boatman shall embark more passengers than the number enumerated in his license, under a penalty of ten shillings sterling for each default. ART. 7.-Any boatman to whom one or more passengers may be willing to pay for the number of passengers for which his boat is licensed, shall embark them, and convey them immediately, under a penalty often shillings sterling. ART. 8.-Any boatman exacting from one or more passen. gers a higher fare than is enumerated in the present regulation, shall be liable to a fine of five shillings sterling. ARг. 9.-All boatmen are responsible for the defaults of those who are employed by them. ART. 10.-Upon the application of any boatman to be examined pursuant to Art., 1 the Harbour Master will proceed with as little delay as possible. ART. 11.-All Waiters or Servants of any Hotel or Tavern are forbidden to go on board vessels coming in, for the pur. pose of recommending their Master's house or of taking care of the effects of passengers, under a penalty of ten shillings for each default. ART. 12.-The Harbour Master, or his deputy, in the absence of the Constable or Centeniers, is invested with the police of the harbour of St. Helier, and will as much as possible be present at the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers. He is further empowered to call to his assistance the persons present, in order that the refractory and disorderly may be seized and brought before the Royal Court. ART. 13.-Any person employed as a porter, on the quays and neighbourhood of the Harbour of St. Helier, for carrying luggage and other effects belonging to passengers, must obtain a license, signed by the Constable of St. Helier, and carry on his left arm a brass plate, upon which shall be engraved the number of his license, under a penalty of ten shillings sterling for each default. The said license, shall contain the number, the name and the dwelling of the porter licensed, and shall not be granted without a certificate of two respectable inhabitants, stating that the petitioner is a trustworthy and a fit per No. , son for exercising the office of Porter. The license shall be framed as follows:-" The bearer, is permitted to follow the profession of Porter in the parish of St. Helier. "Delivered at St. Helier, the Constable of the parish of St. Helier will keep a register of all the licenses he may have granted. 18 "The ART. 14.-All porters are forbidden to station themselves in the neighbourhood of the Port of St. Helier elsewhere than under the shed erected for this purpose on the North Pier, under pain of being fined two shillings and six pence sterling for each default. All carters are also forbidden to station with their carts in the neighbourhood of the Weigh Bridge, or of the Pump situated at the entrance of the Port, under a penalty of two shillings and six pence sterling. They may station themselves in a line along the footpath of the new Cattle Market, (Marché des Etrangers); and if any carter leave his cart out of the line, he will be liable to a fine of two shillings and six pence. ART. 15.-On the arrival of a boat at the steps in the harbour, or other landing-place, no porter shall be allowed to go down to the said boat until all the passengers shall have landed and be upon the quay, under a penalty of two shillings and six pence sterling, for each default. ART. 16.-Every porter is forbidden to take hold of the trunks or effects of any passenger, unless with the express permission of the owner, under a penalty of ten shillings sterling. ART. 17.-The servants of, or persons employed by, passengers, may carry the effects of their respective masters, but must also wait until all the passengers are upon the quay, before they go down to the boat to bring the said effects,under a penalty of two shillings and six pence sterling. ART. 18.-The porters may demand the following prices for carrying trunks, and other effects, viz.-9d. from any landing-place to the Hotels and Taverns in the neighbourhood of the Royal Square, and not farther North than the said Royal Square, nor farther East than the south of HalkettPlace, nor farther West than the entrance of Pitt-Street; one shilling from any landing-place to the entrance of RosevilleStreet, James-street, Hemery-place, Ann-steet to the angle of Charles-Street, Minden-Place, Upper New-Street, DevonshirePlace, Cannon-Street, and Gloucester-Street; one shilling and three pence from any landing place as far as the extremity of the parish, on the Grouville Road; as far as the angle northeast of Simon Place, St. Saviour's Road; as far as Val-Plai sant towards the North, and as far as the entrance of the St. John's Road and Castle Bridge Brewery towards the West; one shilling and six pence from any landing-place as far as the high road of communication from Rouge Bouillon by Du Val Street, towards the North; and as far as the junction of the high road leading to Rouge Bouillon, to that of St. John, half way up the hill called Mont-Martin. It is however understood, that the effects of each passenger thus conveyed at the above rates, shall not weigh more than 80 pounds. ART. 19.-In the event of a refusal to pay the fine which a boatman or a porter may have incurred, his license shall be taken from him for such time as the Harbour Master, as regards the boatmen, and the Constable of St. Helier, as regards por ters, shall judge necessary. If any person in default is not a boatman or porter, and refuse to pay the fine he has incurred, he shall be seized by the Police, or Harbour Master, brought before the Court, and be condemned to an imprisonment not exceeding eight days. ART. 20.-The fines and penalties decreed by the present regulation, shall be levied in a summary manner by the Constable or Centeniers of the parish of St. Helier, or by the Harbour Master; and shall be applicable, one third to the Queen, and the rest to the benefit of the Piers and Harbours. The above Regulations to be printed, posted up and published. FRS. GODFRAY, Greffier. Passports for France, are granted by the Constable of St. Helier, without any expence further than the charge for the printed form, which is 2d. each. They are also granted by the Vice Consul, subject to a fee. Patents, renewal of, on the demise of the Crown.- By the 1, W. 4. c. 4, which recites the inconveniences that arose from the patents of public officers in the Colonies becoming void on the demise of the late King,it is enacted that all powers vested in governors of Colonies, &c., appointed by Geo. 4, shall continue until new patents shall be issued by his present majesty and made known in such colony. By sect. 2, it is declared, "that no patent, commission, warrant or authority for the exercise of any office or employment, civil, or military within any of his Majesty's plantations or possessions abroad, determinable at the pleasure of his Majesty, or of any of his heirs and successors, shall by reason of a future demise of the Crown, be vacated or become void, until the expiration of 18 calendar months next after any such demise of the Crown as aforesaid." |