sors, in case the said C. D. shall fail in performing the Condition hereunto annexed.

THE CONDITION of this Recognizance is,―That if the said C. D. shall duly appear before the House of Assembly at such time or times as shall be fixed by the said House for taking into consideration the Petition signed by the said C. D. complaining of an Undue Election or Return of a Member to represent the County, City, Borough, or Riding, [as the case may be,] in the House of Assembly of this Province, or complaining that no return has been made for the said Couuty, City, Borough, or Riding, within the time limited by law, or that the return made for the said County, City, or Borough, Riding, is not a Return of a Member, or Members according to the requisition of the writ, and shall appear before any Select Committee which shall be appointed by the House of Assembly for the trial of the same; and shall renew his said petition in every subsequent Session of this present Parliament, until a Select Committee shall have been appointed by the said House for the trial of the same, or until the same shall have been withdrawn by the permission of the said House, then this Recognizance to be void, otherwise to be of full force and effect.

Conditions

CHAP.

PREAMBLE.

CHA P. V.

AN ACT to Divide the County of Carleton, in the Bathurst District,

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

WHEREAS the great extent of the County of Carleton, and the rapid increase of its population, render a Division thereof necessary and expedient:

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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.— 9th clause 38th Geo: That from and after the passing of this Act, the ninth clause of an Act passed in the the thirty-eighth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act for the Better Division of the Province," a so so much of the tenth clause of the said recited Act as declares that the County of Carleton shall form a part of the District of Johnstown; and also the third clause of an Act passed in the second year of His Present Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Repeal part of an Act passed in the thirty-eighth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Better Division of this Province, and to make further Provision for the Division of the

And so much of the

10th clause as declares the County of Calle

ton a part of the Dis

trict of Johnstown.

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same into Counties and Districts,"" be, and the same are hereby Repealed.

11. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Townships of Bathurst, Drummond, Beckwith, Dalhousie, Lanark, Ramsay, Darling, Levant, North Sherbroke, South Sherbroke, together with all the unsurveyed lands within the limits of the District of Bathurst, with such of the Islands in the Ottawa River as are wholly, or in greater part, opposite to the said Townships, and unsurveyed land, shall constitute and form the County of Lanark.

Repealed.

County of Lanark,

Representation of caid Counties not to

III. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That County of Carleton, the Townships of Nepeau, Goulbourne, Huntley, March, Pakenham, Fitzroy, and Torbolton, together with such of the Islands in the Ottawa River as are wholly, or in greater part, opposite thereto, do constitute and form the County of Carleton.-Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to give the said Counties of Lanark and Carleton a greater increase of representation in the House of Assembly of this Province than by law the present County of Carleton be increased by this would be entitled to at the next General Election, but that the said Counties of Lanark and Carleton, formed by this Act, shall be each represented by one Member, any thing in an Act passed in the sixtieth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, “An Act to Provide for Increasing the Representation of the Commons of this Geo. III. c. 2. Province in the House of Assembly," to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Act,

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СНАР.

PREAMBLE

CHAP. VI.

AN ACT to Repeal an Ordinance of the late Province of Quebeo, made in the Twenty-Eighth Year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, “An Ordinance for Promoting the Inland Navigation.*

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

WHEREAS doubts are entertained whether an Ordinance of the late Province of Quebec, entitled, "An Ordinance for Promoting the Inland Navigation," passed in the twenty-eighth year of the Reign of His Late Majesty, Chap. II. is in force in this Province, and the same is no longer applicable to the circumstances thereofs

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, con, stituted 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 Ordinance of Quebes the said Ordinance of the late Province of Quebec, and every part thereof, be, and the same is hereby Repealed.

28th Geo. III. c. 3.

Repealed.

No proceedings to be had for any thing heretofore done confrary thereto.

II. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no proceedings shall be hereafter had, or continued, under the authority of the said Ordinance, for, or on account of, any matter or thing at any time heretofore done, or omitted, contrary to the provisions thereof.

CHAP. VII.

AN ACT to Repeal part of the Second Clause of an Act passed in the Thirty-Third Year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Provide for the Nomination and Appointment of Parish and Town Officers, within this Province," and to make more Effectual Provision for obtaining an Accurate Census of the Popu lation of this Province.

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that an Accurate Census of the Po- PREAMBLE. pulation of this Province should, from time to time, be obtained, and deposited in the Office of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government of this Province:—AND WHEREAS, the Laws now in force for that purpose are found not to answer the end, and it is, therefore, expedient to repeal the same, and to make other provision by law for obtaining such Census :—

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 Late 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