dealt with as is provided with regard to them respectively, in the said recited Act. IX. With respect to all lands and other real property com- Recited Act prised in the second Schedule to this Act annexed, which by this repealed. Act shall be vested in Her Majesty the Queen for the benefit, use and purposes of this Province, the said recited Act of the seventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, and every clause, matter and thing therein contained, shall, from and immediately after the passing of this Act, be repealed, and the same is and are hereby repealed accordingly. THE FIRST SCHEDULE REFERRED to in this Act, being the Schedule of Military Lands in Canada, to be vested in one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State. QUEBEC...... MONTREAL. KINGSTON.... The Citadel of Quebec, Fortifications, Glacies, Barracks, Lands with the appurtenances thereunto in any manner belonging, and the Barracks called the Jesuit Barracks, and the several Public Offices occupied for the various Military purposes, and all other Military properties at that station. The Barracks, Public Offices Lands heretofore held or purchased by the Ordnance for the erection of Barracks or for the defence of the Province, together with the Island of Saint Helens in the River Saint Lawrence, as heretofore held by the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, for various Military purposes, with the exception of a parcel of land at Longueuil which has been purchased for the purpose of a tête de pont, which is to be retained until an adequate quantity of land is substituted by the Province in lieu thereof, in the vicinity of the projected Bridge across the Saint Lawrence; and also with the exception of the Old Barracks at Montreal, which are to be retained until Barracks shall have been constructed for the accommodation of one thousand men, on a site to be approved by the Military Authorities. All the Military Works on the east and west of the Harbour and the lands connected with them not named in the Second Schedule. Fort Mississagua with its Glacies and other appurtenances. The Barracks, Government Cottage and land required for defence. THE THE SECOND SCHEDULE REFERRED to in this Act, being the Schedule of Military Properties in Canada proposed to be transferred to the Provincial Government. An Act to amend the Act for the qualification of [Assented to 19th June, 1856.] WHEREAS Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in this Preamble. Province, who are now required to possess a property qualification, suffer inconvenience in consequence of being obliged to renew the oath of qualification on the occasion of the issuing of a new Commission of the Peace for the Territorial Divisions of this Province for which such Justices may have qualified themselves to act: For remedy thereof, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: I. For and notwithstanding any thing contained in the Act Notwithstandsixth Victoria, chapter three, and intituled, An Act for the qua- ing 6 V. c. 3, lification of Justices of the Peace, it shall not be necessary in New Oath of qualification the case of any Commission of the Peace to be issued after the not to be re passing quired on new passing of this Act, for any such Justice named therein who may Commission if have theretofore qualified himself as provided by the third J. P. holds the section of the said Act, to take any oath of qualification before acting under such new Commission, unless such Justice shall, since he took such oath of qualification, have parted with the estate in right of which he may have qualified and deposited a certificate thereof in the office of the Clerk of the Peace. same property. Act to apply to past cases, except in case of judgment, suit, &c. Preamble. 16 V. c. 18. The said Act extended to new Counties under the Representation Acts in L. C. Each County to have one Society. II. Except in cases where a suit may have been commenced or judgment shall have been recovered, the provisions of this Act shall be taken to apply to the case of any Justice of the Peace named in any Commission heretofore issued, who may have once qualified himself under the said recited Act, and shall have continued to possess the same estate upon which he may have so qualified. CAP. XLVII. An Act to amend the Act to provide for the better W [Assented to 19th June, 1856.] HEREAS it was provided by the Act passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to provide for the better organization of Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada, that from and after a day therein mentioned, a County Agricultural Society should be organized in each of the then existing Counties of Lower Canada, upon the conditions and in the manner there in prescribed; And whereas by the Parliamentary Representation Act of 1853, and the Parliamentary Representation Amendment Act of 1855, Lower Canada has been divided into new and additional Counties or territorial divisions, and it is therefore necessary to extend the provisions of the first mentioned Act to such new Counties or territorial divsions: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: I. All and every the provisions of the said first mentioned Act are hereby extended to each of the new Counties mentioned and referred to in the said Parliamentary Representation Acts, in like manner and to the same effect as if they had existed as separate and distinct Counties at the time of the passing of the said first mentioned Act. II. It shall be lawful for each of the present electoral Counties to organize one Agricultural Society only, which shall bear the name of the County in which it may be established, excepting however the Counties of Gaspé, Bona entule, Bonaventure, Vaudreuil, Nicolet and Drummond, which may Exceptions. establish or continue to have two Agricultural Societies within their respective limits. III. The Societies at present existing in the Counties of Societies in Vaudreuil, Bonaventure, Gaspé and Nicolet, shall retain their certain Counpresent limits, and shall be continued under their present ties in L. C. organization; the County of Drummond shall be divided so as In County of to form two Societies, the operations of the second to extend Drummond. over the Townships of Kingsey, Simpson, Durham, and the first five lots of the four first ranges, and the two first lots of all the other ranges of the Township of Wickham. L. C. IV. And whereas it is necessary to make some provision for A limited sum the encouragement of Horticulture in Lower Canada; therefore, may be applied for enit shall be lawful for the Board of Agriculture in Lower couraging Canada, out of the amount to which the said Counties and Horticultural other electoral divisions claiming the same may be respectively ret entitled from the public funds, to place at the disposal of any Horticultural Society which may be formed in any County, or in any City or Town within the body or ordinary limits of such County, though not within its electoral limits, a sum equal to that which may be subscribed for that purpose by the inhabitants of such County, City or Town, and not exceeding thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, to be applied towards defraying the expenses incurred by such Horticultural Societies in promoting the main object of their institution. L. C not to V. And in order to equalize as nearly as may be, the amount Allowance to to be paid out of the public funds to the Agricultural Societies any County in of Upper and Lower Canada respectively, the sum to be paid exceed £200. to each County in Lower Canada, for the several Societies. established or to be established therein, shall not exceed two hundred pounds; and until some Legislative enactment shall Equivalent have been passed adapting the existing Agricultural Acts of allowance for Upper Canada, to the number of electoral divisions therein, a Upper Canada, sum equivalent to any excess which may be paid to Lower Canada over Upper Canada, under this Act, shall be. reserved for the several Agricultural Societies of Upper Canada, the said amount to be placed at the disposal of the Board of Agriculture for Upper Canada, and paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the said Board of Agriculture. ties in any VI. In any County in which two Societies shall at present Provision exist, or may hereafter be established, such Societies shall be where there equally entitled to receive the annual grant, not exceeding one are two Socie hundred pounds, in the same manner as County Societies; in County. case only one Society shall be in operation in any of the said Counties during any year, such Society shall not be deprived of the right of subscribing the sum requisite to entitle them to the whole grant allotted to the County in which such Society shall be established; in case any one of the Societies in any of |