Code of Civil Procedure, act respecting. 29-30 V., c. 25 The whole ex- Transfer of registers owing to change of jurisdiction, &c., from Circuit to Superior Courts, in certain places.. 48 V., c. 23 Transfer of registers owing to change of jurisdiction, &c., from Circuit to Provisions respecting cities. See acts enumerated on page..... Provisions respecting villages. Provisions respecting counties. Army and Navy exempt from taxes. Acquisition of Dorchester Bridge. (act 12 V., c. 115, amended) 13-14 V., c. 102 Exchange of Debentures, see Montreal Turnpike Acts.. 13-14 V., c. 103 Rates of toll (23 V., c. 69, amended), Bégin road.... APPENDIX.-Continued. Manure, &c., exempt from tolls. Ordinances extended to certain roads. Army and Navy exempt from tolls.. Acquisition of St. Michel road and opening of Sault- au-Récollet road. Ordinances amended as regards Victoria road. Ministers of religion exempt from tolls.. ORDINANCES AND ACTS RELATIVE TO MONTREAL AND CERTAIN IMPERIAL ENACTMENTS CONCERNING THE BOUNDARIES AND CONSTITUTION OF CANADA AND THE POLITICAL RIGHTS OF HER MAJESTY'S CANADIAN SUBJECTS. [Extracts which are printed at the beginning of the Statutes of Canada (1859), with notes of amendments thereto since the latter date.] IMPERIAL ACT, 14 GEO. 3, c. 83—1774. An act for making more effectual provision for the WE HEREAS His Majesty, by his royal proclamation bearing Preamble. date the seventh day of October, in the third year of His reign, thought fit to declare the provisions which have been made in respect to certain countries, territories and islands in America, ceded to His Majesty by the definitive treaty of peace concluded at Paris on the tenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three; and whereas by the arrangements made by the said royal proclamation, a very large extent of country, within which there were several colonies and settlements of the subjects of France, who claimed to remain therein under the faith of the said treaty, was left without any provision being made for the administration of Civil Government therein; and certain parts of the territory of Canada, where sedentary fisheries had been established and carried on by the subjects of France, inhabitants of the said Province of Canada, under grants and concessions from the Government thereof, were annexed to the Government of Newfoundland, and thereby subjected to regulations inconsistent with the nature of such fisheries; May it therefore please Your Most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same: 1. That all the territories, islands, and countries in North Certain terriAmerica, belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, bounded on tories belonging to Great the south by a line from the Bay of Chaleurs, along the high Britain, anlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the nexed to the River Saint Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, to a Quebec. point in forty-five degrees of northern latitude, on the eastern Province of Ꭺ Boundaries of any other colony not to be affected. Not to make void other rights form bank of the River Connecticut, keeping the same latitude directly west, through the Lake Champlain, until, in the same latitude, it meets the River Saint Lawrence; from thence up the eastern bank of the said river to the Lake Ontario; thence through the Lake Ontario, and the river commonly called Niagara; and thence along by the eastern and south-eastern bank of Lake Erie, following the said bank, until the same shall be intersected by the northern boundary, granted by the charter of the Province of Pennsylvania, in case the same shall be so intersected; and from thence along the said northern and western boundaries of the said Province, until the said western boundary strikes the Ohio; but in case the said bank of the said lake shall not be found to be so intersected, then following the said bank until it shall arrive at that point of the said bank which shall be nearest to the north-western angle of the said Province of Pennsylvania; and thence, by a right line, to the said northwestern angle of the said Province; and thence along the western boundary of the said Province, until it strikes the River Ohio; and along the bank of the said river, westward, to the banks of the Mississippi, and northward to the southern boundary of the territory granted to the merchants adventurers of England, trading to Hudson's Bay; and also all such territories, islands, and countries, which have, since the tenth of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, been made part of the Government of Newfoundland, be, and they are hereby, during His Majesty's pleasure, annexed to, and made part and parcel of the Province of Quebec, as created and established by the said royal proclamation of the seventh of October, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three. 2. Provided always, that nothing herein contained, relative to the boundary of the Province of Quebec, shall in any wise affect the boundaries of any other colony. 3. Nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to make void, or to vary or alter any right, erly granted. title, or possession, derived under any grant, conveyance, or otherwise howsoever, of or to any lands within the said Province, or the provinces thereto adjoining; but that the same shall remain and be in force, and have effect, as if this act had never been made. Former provisions for the Government of the Prov ince to be 4. And whereas the provisions, made by the said proclamation, in respect to the civil government of the said Province of Quebec, and the powers and authorities given to the Governor and other civil officers of the said Province, by the grants null and void, and commissions issued in consequence thereof, have been found, after 1st May, 1775. upon experience, to be inapplicable to the state and circumstances of the said Province, the inhabitants whereof amounted, at the conquest, to above sixty-five thousand persons professing the religion of the Church of Rome, and enjoying an established form of constitution and system of laws, by which their persons and property had been protected, governed and ordered, for a |