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Municipality of the (Township, Parish, &c.,) according to the last Assessment-Roll as finally revised.

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Sect. lxxiv par. 11.

STATEMENT OF LANDS TO BE SOLD FOR TAXES, AND NOTICE OF
SALE.

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I do hereby give Public Notice, that the lands hereinafter mentioned will be sold by Public Auction, at the (here insert name of place), on Monday, the February next, at for the assessments and charges due to the Municipalities hereinafter mentioned upon the several lots hereinafter described, unless the same be paid with costs at least two days before the above day.

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This Debenture witnesseth, that the Municipality of the Sect. xv. (name of Municipality), under the authority of a By-Law passed par. 9. by the Council of the said Municipality in conformity to the provisions of "The Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act, 1855," intituled, a By-Law, &c., (insert title of By-Law,) have received from (name) of (domicile, profession, or occupation,) the sum of (insert sum at full length), as a loan, to bear interest from the date hereof at the rate of per centum per annum, payable half yearly on the

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day of which sum of (insert sum at full length) the said Municipality, as a Municipal Corporation, hereby binds and obliges itself to pay on the

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or to the bearer hereof, and to pay the interest thereon half yearly, as aforesaid, according to the coupons or interest warrants hereto attached.

In testimony whereof I,

Mayor of the said Municipality, being hereunto duly authorized, have signed these presents, and have hereunto affixed the Common Seal of the said Municipality, at in the County of

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in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and

Countersigned by

(Secretary-Treasurer.)

day of

(Signature of Mayor.)

[Seal.]

CAP. CI.

An Act to abolish the publication in Courts of Justice in
Lower Canada of Acts containing substitutions, and to
provide for their Registration in the Registry Offices.
[Assented to 30th May, 1855.]

WHEREAS the reading and publication of Acts of Dona- Preamble. tion, Wills and other Acts containing substitutions, in the Courts of Civil Jurisdiction in Lower Canada, is a useless formality, and it is expedient to substitute the registration of the said Acts in the Registry Offices, in the stead of their insinuation in the Registers of the Courts: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of

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Reading, publication, in sinuation and of such Acts

transcription

abolished.

in the proper

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the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows :

I. From and after the passing of this Act, such reading and publication, in the said Courts of Civil Jurisdiction in Lower Canada, of Acts containing substitutions, is, and shall be abolished, and the insinuation or transcription thereof in the Registers of the Courts is and shall be also abolished; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. The registration of the said Acts in the Registry Offices for Registration the locality within the limits of which the immoveables substiRegistry Of tuted shall be situate, and in case of substitution created by Act fice substitut of Donation à cause de mort, if the domicile of the testator be ed for reading, situate within the limits of a Registration Division, other than that in which the property substituted is situate, the additional registration in the Registry Office for the locality within the limits of which, the domicile of the said Testator was or shall be situate, shall be equivalent for all purposes of law to the insinuation or transcription in the Registers of the Courts accompanied by reading and publication in open Court. The delays for registration shall be the same as those established by law for the transcription and the publication in Court, and no legal provision having reference to substitutions not specially repealed, shall be affected by this Act, the sole object of which is to substitute the formality of registration in the Registry Offices for transcription and publication in the Courts of Acts containing substitutions.

Within what period such registration must be effected.

Extent of Act.

III. This Act shall apply to Lower Canada only.

CAP. CII.

Preamble.

An Act to abolish the right of Retrait Lignager.
[Assented to 30th May, 1855.]

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WHEREAS it is expedient to abolish the right of Retrait Lignager now existing in Lower Canada, and also all rights of action resulting therefrom or contingent thereupon: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government

of

of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

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I. The right of Retrait Lignager and all rights of action Retrait Ligna resulting there from or contingent thereupon, are abolished, and ger and all its the seventh title of the Custom of Paris and the thirty-one shed. articles composing the same, are and shall remain annulled and repealed; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. Proceedings arising out of the right of Retrait Lignager Pending pronow pending before Courts of Justice shall not however be ceedings conaffected by this Act.

tinued as to costs only.

CAP. CIII.

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An Act to amend the Seigniorial Act of 1854.

[Assented to 30th May, 1855.]

18 V. c. 3.

HEREAS it is expedient to amend The Seigniorial Act Preamble. of 1854, so as to facilitate the operation thereof: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

I. Notwithstanding any thing in the twenty-eighth and Rente constitwenty-ninth Sections or in any other part of the said Act tuée in Seiguiories in contained, any constituted rent (rente constituée) established by respect of virtue thereof in any Seigniory, in relation to which an oppo- which opposi sition shall have been filed under any of the provisions of the tions are filed said Act, may, at any time be redeemed by payment to the deemed, and Receiver General of the capital thereof with interest computed how. up to the date of such redemption :

2. And the Receiver General shall dispose of all such moneys as follows:

may be re

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If they accrue in a Seigniory in relation to which opposition If the oppos has been made on the ground that such Seigniory is entailed tio be founded (substituée) or held by a curator, tutor or other person holding on a substitu in trust for others, and not as absolute proprietor (jure proprietario,) the Receiver General shall, on the day in each year on which the rente would have become due if it had not been redeemed, and so long as such entail (substitution) or tenancy in trust (fideicommis) shall subsist, pay to the person entitled

Proviso:

Court may on petition order

to the revenue of the Seigniory, interest upon the capital of all such rentes at the rate of six per centum per annum, and he shall pay the capital thereof at the expiration of the substi tution, or tenancy in trust, to such person as shall be designated by the Judgment of the Court before which such opposition shall have been made: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said Court, on petition of such curator, tutor or other person holding in trust for others, at any time before the expirathe money to be laid out in tion of the substitution or tenancy in trust, to order that such the purchase capital, or any portion thereof, shall be by such curator, tutor or of real estate other person, laid out and invested in real or immoveable proto be held on the same con- perty to be designated in the order, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the Receiver General to pay the sum mentioned in which the mo- such order to the person or party therein designated as the ney itself was subject. vendor of such real or immoveable property or as otherwise entitled to receive the price thereof, and thereafter such real or immoveable property shall be subject to all such and the same trusts (fideicommis) or entails (substitutions) as the Seigniory in respect to which the same was so ordered to be acquired as aforesaid.

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And if upon And if they accrue in a Seigniory in relation to which such hypothecary opposition has been made by reason of hypothecary claims claims. thereon, and not upon the ground of the same being entailed or held in trust as aforesaid, the Receiver General shall deal with such moneys in the same manner as with money accruing to the Seignior out of the Special Fund appropriated by the said Act in aid of the Censitaires.

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No Lettres de

hereafter is.

sued in Seigniories to which the said

3. And in every Seigniory the Seignior whereof shall have the right to receive the capital of the rentes constituées to be established under the said Act, such rentes may be redeemed without the consent of the Seignior by payment of the capital thereof to the Seignior or to his Agent either on the day on which such rente shall annually become due or on any one of the seven days immediately following; and whenever the capital of any such rente shall have been duly tendered to any such Seignior, or to his Agent, on any one of the said days, and the same, or a receipt therefor, shall have been refused, such rente shall become redeemable at any time thereafter.

II. And whereas the objects for which Seigniors under the Terrier to be existing law are permitted to obtain Lettres de Terrier for the purpose of forming a new Terrar (Papier Terrier) or land-roll will be secured in a manner less onerous to the censitaire by the Act applies. provisions of the said Seigniorial Act of 1854, in so far as such objects are reconcilable with the intention of the Legislature in passing the said Act: therefore the right of Seigniors in Lower Canada to obtain such Lettres de Terrier in or for any Seigniory to which the said Seigniorial Act of 1854 as amended by this Act extends, is hereby abolished, and the Act of the Legislature of Lower Canada, passed in the forty-eighth

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