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 same 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, c. 6. 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

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 byteenth 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, c. 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.

Acts of Canada.

7 V. c. 10.

9 V. c. 30.

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 January, 1857, fifty-seven, and thence until the end of the then next ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

12 V. c. 18.

13 & 14 V. c. 20.

Continued for

certain purposes to 1st

&c.

Act of Lower
Canada.

6 W. 4, c. 19.

Continued.

Continued.

Proviso: to ocase when

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 se veral Judicial Districts of Lower Canada, so much of the said

Act

Act as relates to the Fees to be granted to persons acting as Tariffs are Clerks to Country Magistrates, shall cease to have any force made underin the said Districts respectively, if or so soon as a Tariff of Fees shall have been promulgated in such District, under the provisions of an Act passed in the Session of the Legislature held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to facilitate the performance of 14 & 15 V. the duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions, with respect to c. 96. persons charged with indictable offences.

vent the effect

sent Session.

IV. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall Proviso: this prevent the effect of any Act passed or to be passed during the Act not to pre present Session, repealing, amending, rendering permanent, or of any other continuing to any further period than that herein appointed, any Act of the preof the Acts or Ordinances hereinbefore mentioned and continued, nor shall continue any provision or part of any of the Acts or Ordinances in this Act mentioned, which may have been repealed by any Act passed during the present Session or in any previous Session.

V. The period limited by the Act of the Parliament of this Period limited Province, passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, byand intituled, An Act to amend the Acts passed to remedy cer- 12 V. c. 97. tain defects in the Registration of Tilles in the County of Hastings, as that within which it shall be lawful for the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the County of Hastings to receive and index any memorial, under the authority of the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to remedy certain defects in the Regis- 9 V. c. 12, 'ration of Titles in the County of Hastings, in Upper Canada, and— or of 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 alter and amend an Act, intituled,An Act 10 & 11 V. o remedy certain defects in the Registration of Titles in the c. 38. County of Hastings, in Upper Canada,' or to endorse any extended. Deed, Conveyance, Will or Probate, to which such memorial elates, shall be and is hereby extended to the said first day of anuary, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and hence until the end of the then next ensuing Session of the rovincial Parliament.

Preamble.

ated out of Consolidated

Revenue Fund.

CAP. LXXXVI.

An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government for the year 1856, and for certain other expenses connected with the public service, and also for raising a Loan on the credit of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN

W

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS by Messages from His Excellency Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor General of British North Ame rica, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over this Province of Canada, and the Estimates accompanying the same, laid before both Houses of the Provincial Parlia ment, it appears that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the Civil Government of this Province and of the Public Service thereof, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, that,

I. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this £716,774 9s. 3d., appropri- Province, there shall be and may be paid and applied a sum not exceeding in the whole the sum of seven hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-four pounds, nine shillings and three pence, currency, for defraying the several charges and expenses of the Civil Government and Public Service of this Province for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and other purposes set forth in the Schedule to this Act.

Loan of

be raised.

II. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to £250,000 may authorize the raising by way of loan, on the credit of the Con solidated Revenue Fund of this Province, of a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, currency, to be placed to the credit of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund, towards making good the sums appropriated out of the said Fund by this Act, for certain contingencies of the Publie Service connected with the Public Works.

Debentures

III. For the purpose of raising such sum as aforesaid, it shall may be issued be lawful for the Governor in Council to authorize the issuing of Debentures, to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum last aforesaid, in such form, for such separate sums, a

to the said

amount.

such

such rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and to make the principal and interest thereon payable at such periods and at such places, as to him shall seem most expedient, the said principal and interest being hereby made chargeable upon the said Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province.

IV. Accounts in detail of all moneys received and paid Accounting under this Act, and of the Debentures issued and the interest clause. thereon, and of the redemption of the whole or any part of such Debentures, and of all expenses attending the collection and payment of the sums of money collected, received or paid under the authority of this Act, shall be laid before both Houses of the Legislature of this Province at each Session thereof.

V. The due application of the moneys raised and ex- Accounting pended under the authority of this Act, shall be accounted for clause. to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in such manner and form as Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors shall be pleased to direct.