and bold the said line. Any Telegraph II. Any Telegraph Company already or hereafter to be inmay purchase corporated under any general or special Act of the Province, may purchase from the said William Weller, his executors, administrators and assigns, and he and they may sell and convey, the Telegraph Line and all other property in the next preceding section of this Act mentioned; and thereupon, such Company shall have, enjoy and exercise, with respect thereto, all the powers, rights and privileges, conferred upon such Company in regard to other property of a similar nature by the said Electric Telegraph Companies' Incorporation Act of 1852, or by its special charter. Public Act. Preamble. III. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. W CAP. LXXXIV. An Act to authorize Henry Augustus Fitzgerald McLeod, to practise as a Provincial Land Surveyor. [Assented to 19th June, 1856.] HEREAS Henry Augustus Fitzgerald McLeod, of the City of London, in the County of Middlesex, in this Province, Civil Engineer, hath by his petition to the Legislature represented, that he served for three years, from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, under articles to John C. Innes, of the City of Kingston, Civil Engineer, for the purpose of learning and practising that profession, and that during the said three years he was constantly employed on Surveys for Railways and works in the field connected with the practice both of a Civil Engineer and of a Surveyor; that the said John C. Innes was not a Provincial Land Surveyor, and that the Petitioner wishing to practise as such, did on the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, become articled to Charles L. Davies, of the said City of London, a Provincial Land Surveyor, and hath since that time been steadily and constantly employed in the practice of that profession under him; And the said McLeod hath further represented, that although during the time he was serving with the said John C. Innes, he was in fact learning and practising the science and art as well of a Surveyor as of Civil Engineer, and hath again practised surveying during one year under the said C. L. Davies, making in all four years, he finds that by the Act relating to Land Surveyors and the admission of persons as such, he cannot be admitted to practise until he has served three years with the said C. L. Davies or some other Land Surveyor, while Surveyors from Lower Canada may be admitted after six months of such service, and those from any other part of Her Majesty's Dominions after one year of such service in Upper Canada,—and hath prayed that under these circumstances, an Act may be passed authorizing his admission as a Land Surveyor for Upper Canada; And whereas it is proper and right to grant his petition, as being in accordance with the spirit and intent of the said Surveyors' Act: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: and if found certain condi 1. It shall be lawful for the Board of Examiners for Upper Henry A. F. Canada, established under the Act passed in the twelfth year McLeod, may of Her Majesty's Reign, chaptered thirty-five, as amended by the be examined, Act passed in the session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth qualified, may years of Her Majesty's Reign, chaptered four, to examine the be admitted as said Henry A. F. McLeod at any meeting of the said Board a Surveyor on after the passing of this Act, in the same manner and upon the tions. same notice and application as if he had served three years with the said C. L. Davies, and if they shall be satisfied by such examination, that he is qualified as by the said Act required, and if he shall produce the proper certificates of character, and comply with all the other requirements of the said Act, and if he shall satisfy the said Board that he hath so served with the said John C. Innes, the said Board may grant him a certificate in the usual form authorizing him to practise as a Land Surveyor in Upper Canada. II. This Act shall be deemed to be a Public Act. CAP. LXXX V An Act to continue for a limited time the several Acts and Ordinances therein mentioned, and for other purposes. W [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] Public Act. HEREAS it is expedient further to continue the Acts Preamble. and Ordinances hereinafter mentioned, which would otherwise expire at the end of the present Session: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the Act of Canada, Session held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's 4 & 5 V. c. 36. Reign, and intituled, An Act to regulate the Fisheries in the District of Gaspé; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the seventh year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An 7 V. c. 36. Act to prevent obstructions in Rivers or Rivulets in Upper as amended Canada, as amended and explained by the Act of the said Par-byliament, passed in the Session held in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend, 10 & 11 V. explain and continue an Act passed in the seventh year of the c. 20. Reign of Her Majesty, intituled, An Act to prevent obstructions in Rivers or Rivulets in Upper Canada,' and by the Act of the and bysaid Parliament, passed in the Session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act 14 & 15 V. c. 123. 8 V. c. 6. as amended and extended by 14 & 15 V. c. 76. 8 V. c. 27. 8 V. c. 48, except sec. 44. 9 V. c. 38. Act to explain and amend the Acts for preventing obstructions in Rivers and Rivulets in Upper Canada, and both the said last mentioned Acts; the Act of the said Parliament passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the Peace and the prevention of Riots and violent outrages at and near Public Works, while in the progress of construction, as amended and extended by the Act passed in the Session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to continue an Act passed in the eighth year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled, 'An Act for the better preservation of the Peace and the prevention of Riots and violent outrages at and near Public Works, while in progress of construction, and to extend the operation thereof to certain works undertaken by Incorporated Companies, and the said last mentioned Act; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend the Act and Ordinance therein mentioned, relative to the Registration of Titles to, and Incumbrances upon, Real Property in Lower Canada; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the same year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors in Upper Canada, and for other purposes therein mentioned, except the forty-fourth Section of the said Act; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to empower Commissioners for enquiring into matters connected with the public business, to take evidence on oath; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the Session held in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to enlarge the powers of the Trinity House of Montreal, in certain cases where the Public Health of the City may be endangered; the Act of the said Parliament passed in the eleventh year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to provide for the Inspection of Butter in Quebec and Montreal; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for the better Management of the Provincial Penitentiary; the Act passed in the same Session, and intituled, An Act to provide a more summary and less expensive process for Proprietors of Real Property in Lower Canada to acquire possession thereof, when illegally detained from them in certain cases, as amended by the Acts passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend the Act fourteenth and fifteenth Victoria, chapter ninety-two, relating to the illegal detention of Real Property in Lower Canada, and the "said last mentioned Act; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act relating to the fisheries on the Labrador and North Shore Acts of Lower of the Gulf of St. Lawrence; the Act of the Parliament of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the second year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act for better regulating the Common of the Seigneurie of Laprairie de la Madeleine; the Act of the said 10 & 11 V. c. 1. 1 V. c. 7. 14 & 15 V. c. 2. 14 & 15 V. c. 92. as amended by 16 V. c. 205. 16 V. c. 92. Canada. 2 G. 4, c. 8. Parliament, as amended Parliament, passed in the same year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to enable the inhabitants of the Seigneurie of 2 G. 4, c. 10. La Baie Saint Antoine, commonly called La Baie du Febvre, to provide for the better regulation of the Common in the said bySeigneurie, as amended and extended by the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the fourth year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to authorize the Chairman and Trustees of the 4 G. 4, c. 26. Common of the Seigniory of the Baie Saint Antoine, commonly called the Baie du Febvre, to terminate certain disputes relating to the limits of the said Common, and for other purposes appertaining to the same; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the ninth year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to 9 G. 4, c. 20. provide for the more effectual extinction of secret incumbrances on lands, than was heretofore in use in this Province; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the samne year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to prevent fraudulent Debtors 9 G. 4, c. 27. evading their Creditors in certain parts of this Province; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the same year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to facilitate the proceedings 9 G. 4, c. 28. against the Estates and Effects of Debtors in certain cases; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the same year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to alter and amend An Act 9 G. 4, c. 32. passed in the sixth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, 'An Act to authorize the inhabitants of the Fief Grosbois, in the County of Saint Maurice, to make regulations for the Common of the said Fief;' the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the same year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act for the 9 G. 4, c. 51. preservation of the Salmon Fisheries in the Counties of Cornwallis and Northumberland; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the first year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to encourage the 1 W. 4, destruction of Wolves; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the third year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act further to suspend certain parts of an Act or Ordinance therein 3 W. 4, c. 14. mentioned, and to consolidate and further to continue for a limited time the provisions of two other Acts therein mentioned, for more effectually ascertaining the damages on protested Bills of Exchange, and for determining disputes relating thereto, and for other purposes; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in c. 6. the sixth year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to pro- 6 W. 4, c. 35. vide for the Medical Treatment of sick Mariners, as amended as amended by the Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed in the eighth byyear of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for the 8 V. c. 12. relief of shipwrecked and destitute Mariners, in certain cases therein mentioned, and by the Act passed in the six- and by— teenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act 16 V. e. 166. to exempt certain Vessels from the duty imposed by the Act to provide for the Medical Treatment of sick Mariners, and both the said last mentioned Acts; the Act of the Parliament Acts of Upper of the late Province of Upper Canada, passed in the eleventh Canada. year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to authorize the Quarter 11 G. 4, e. 20. Sessions Sessions of the Home District to provide for the relief of Insane Destitute persons in that District; the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the third year of the Reign of His late Ma3 W. 4, c. 45. jesty King William the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to continue an Act passed in the eleventh year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled, 'An Act to authorize the Quarter Sessions of the Home District to provide for the relief of Insane destitute persons in that District,' and to extend the provisions of the same to the other Districts of this Province; and the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the sixth year of the same Reign, and 6 W. 4, c. 29. intituled, An Act to repeal an Act, passed in the forty-ninth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act to encourage the destroying of Wolves in this Province, and to make further provision for exterminating those destructive animals, shall be, and all and every of the said Acts and Ordinances are hereby continued to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and from thence until the end of the then next ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer. Continued to 1st January, 1857, &c. เ 6 II. The Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the seventh year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to repeal an Ordinance of Lower Canada, intituled, An Ordinance concerning Bankrupts, and the administration and distribution of their estates and effects,' and to make provision for the same object throughout the Province of Canada; and the Act amending the same, passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to continue and amend the Bankrupt Laws now in force in this Province, in so far only as the same are continued by and for the purposes mentioned in the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to make provision for the continuance and completion of Proceedings in Bankruptcy now pending, and the said last mentioned Act; and the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the Session held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years or Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to afford relief to Bankrupts in certain cases, shall respectively be and they are hereby continued, and shall remain in force until the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and thence until the end of the then next ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer. III. The Act of the Parliament of the late Province of Lower Canada aforesaid, passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to regulate the Fees of persons employed by Justices of the Peace in the Country Parishes, as Clerks or Bailiffs in certain cases, shall be and is hereby continued to the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and thence until the end of the then next ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer: Provided always, that in the several Judicial Districts of Lower Canada, so much of the said Act |