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CHAP. XXXI.

AN ACT for the Relief of Hiram Spafford.

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

WHEREAS by a certain Act passed in the fifty-fourth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to declare certain persons therein described, Aliens, and to yest their estates in His Majesty," it was therein provided, that nothing in the said Act contained should be construed to prevent persons interested in the said lands from traversing any inquisition or office respecting the same, at any time within one year after the peace shall be established be-tween His Majesty and the United States of America, or within one year after the filing of such inquisition.-And Whereas Hiram Spafford of Brockville, in the District of Johnstown, has not been able to avail himself of such provision, whereby His Majesty has become seized in law of certain real estate claimed by the said Hiram Spafford, under and by virtue of an inquisition returned to His Majesty's Court of King's Bench; that is to say, Twenty Acres of Lot number Two, in the Tenth Concession of the Township of Lansdown; and also about Six Acres of a certain part of Lots num- bers One and Two in the Tenth Concession of the said Township:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper-Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, "An Act to Repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year

of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, 'An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further Provision for the Govern. ment of the said Province,'" and by the authority of the same :That it shall and may be lawful for the said Hiram Spafford, at any time within six months from the passing of this Act, to traverse all or any inquisition or office, whereby the real estate in the said lands has been vested in His Majesty, and the Commissioners aforesaid, as forfeited.---Provided_alreays, That before any traverse or traverses to the said inquisition, or any of them, shall be received or filed in the office of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, the said Hiram Spafford, or his heir, shall enter into a Bond to His Majesty in the penalty of Fifty Pounds, conditioned for the payment of all such costs as His Majesty may be put to in and about defending the said Traverse, in case judgment shall be given thereon for His Majesty, His Heirs, and Successors, or the said Hiram Spafford shall fail in prosecuting the same with effect.

Hiram Spafford alto traverse within six months any

ingin mereby

his real estate may he

affected, upon giving

security for costs,

CHAP. XXXII.

AN ACT to Authorise the Justices of the Peace of the Midland District to Loan a further Sum of Money for the purposes therein

mentioned.

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

WHEREAS it appears by the Petition of the Magistrates of the Midland District, that the sum of money they are authorised to borrow, by the provisions of an Act passed in the second

year

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of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Authorise His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Midland District, to obtain by Loan a Sum of Money for the purpose of Erecting a Gaol and Court-house in the Town of Kingston," is insufficient for the poses therein mentioned:

pur

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper-Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, “An Act to Repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, 'An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further Provision for the Government of the said Province,'" and by the authority of the same:-That the Magistrates of the said Midland District may, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, at their discretion, to borrow a addition, for building sum of money, not exceeding One Thousand Pounds, in addition to the sum of Three Thousand Pounds, which they are, by the aforesaid law, authorised and empowered to borrow.-Provided alhow appropriated and ways, That any sum or sums of money, so borrowed by the said Magistrates under the authority of this Act, shall be appropriated and applied in the same manner, and be redeemed by the like means as are pointed out and enacted by the Law herein-before mentioned.

Justices of the Mid

laud District authoriz.

ed to raise a loan not

exceeding £1000 in

a Gaol and Court House.

Money so raised,

applied.

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CHA P. XXXIII.

An Act to Alter, Amend, and Repeal part of an Act passed in the fourth year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Provide for the Erection of a Gaol and Court-house in and for the Home District."

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1821.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fourth year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to provide for the Erection of a Gaol and Court-house in and for the Home District," it is enacted in the Second Clause, that the same shall be under the like limitations and restrictions as are required by the Eighth and Ninth Clauses of an Act passed in the thirty-second year of the late King, entitled, "An Act for Building a Gaol and Court-house within every District within this Province, and for Altering the Names of the said Districts:" And Whereas it has been found impracticable to complete the building of the said Gaol and Court-house within the period limited by the last recited Act:—

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper-Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, " An Act to Repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further Provision for the Government

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2d clause 4th Geo. IV. ch. 24. as regards

III. ch. 8th, repealed.

of the said Province,'" and by the authority of the same :-That so much of the Second Clause of an Act passed in the fourth year the 9th clause 32 Geo. of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Provide for the Erection of a Gaol and Court-house in and for the Home District," as directs its operation to be under the limitation of the Ninth Clause of the said before-recited Act, passed in the thirty-second year of His Late Majesty's Reign, shall be, and the same is here-by repealed.

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CHAP. XXXIV..

AN ACT to enable the Presbyterian Congregation of York to pur chase one or more Parcels of Ground sufficient for the Erection of a Church and Burying-ground.

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

WHEREAS Jesse Ketchum, William Stevenson, Peter McPhail, Harvey Shepard, and John Ross, on behalf of themselves and others, members of the Presbyterian Congregation resident in the Town of York, have, by Petition, requested a Legislative authority to enable the Petitioners, as Trustees in this behalf, and the Trustees hereafter to be chosen annually by the said Congregation for the same purpose, to purchase one or more convenient parcel or parcels of ground in the said Town and Township of York, and to hold the same in perpetuity, for the erection of a Place of Worship, with other necessary Buildings, and a Burying-ground:

BE