Superinten IV. The said Superintendent General of Indian affairs shall dent of Indian keep an account of all sums deposited in his hands, and shall pay the interest thereon annually to the Indians, their legal representatives or assigns according to the proportion to which they are entitled in respect of such property. affairs to keep account of moneys deposited. Provision in case any Indian has sold the rent attach ed to land. Act not to affect other claims to the lands. Public Act. V. In any case in which one or more of the aforesaid Indians shall, prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, have sold the rent attached to such land, the party who shall have banâ fide and for a valuable consideration purchased the same, shall be entitled to be reimbursed the sum which he may have paid to such Indian or Indians as and for the purchase money of such rent, or the sum so paid shall be deducted from the capital which he shall have to pay for the redemption of the said rent. VI. Nothing in this Act contained shall have the effect of determining in any manner the merits of conflicting titles of parties having claims to the said Indian lands in Durham, or of rendering valid contract made by any parties with any others than the Patentee or Patentees or his or their heirs or representatives. VII. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. SCHEDULE A. I hereby certify that in the now in pos range session of Done in duplicate, at Quebec, this one thousand eight hundred and A. B., day of Chief Superintendent of САР. CAP. CLXVIII. An Act to alter the limits of the Arthabaska Circuit, and for other purposes. W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] HEREAS in consideration of the great distance between the Township of Chester and the place where the Court sits in the Richmond Circuit, and the proximity of the said Township of Chester to the Arthabaska Circuit, it would be expedient to separate the said Township from the said Richmond Circuit, and include it in the Arthabaska Circuit and in the District of Three-Rivers; And whereas the place of sitting of the Arthabaska Circuit is not situated in the centre of the said Circuit in a locality convenient to the majority of the inhabitants of the said Circuit, and a great number of them have petitioned the Legislature to change the said place of sitting: 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: Preamble. Rivers and I. From and after the first day of August, one thousand Chestor aneight hundred and fifty-five, the Township of Chester, in the nexed to DisCounty of Arthabaska, shall be separated from the District of trict of ThreeSt. Francis and from the Richmond Circuit, in the County of Arthabaska Sherbrooke, and shall be annexed to the District of Three- Circuit. Rivers, and to the Arthabaska Circuit, for all judicial purposes whatsoever, as though it had always formed part thereof. Pending cases II. All causes pending in the said Circuit Court for the Richmond Circuit, arising out of or relating to the Township saved. of Chester, at the period of such separation, shall be continued in the said Richmond Circuit. III. From and after the First day of August, one thousand Place of siteight hundred and fifty-five, the Circuit Court for the Artha- ting for Arbaska Circuit shall sit at the Village of St. Christophe d'Artha- thabaska Cir baska in the said Circuit. IV. This Act shall be a Public Act. cuit. Public Act. 44 * САР. CAP. CLXIX. Preamble. Assessment and School confirmed. 9 V. c 27. An Act to legalize a certain Assessment and School Rate in the School Municipality of St. David, in the County of Yamaska. [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] HEREAS the School Commissioners for the School Mu W nicipality of the Parish of St. David, in the County of Yamaska, have been subjected to great difliculties in completing the assessment of the real property therein, in order to the fixing and laying of the School Rate for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to be paid by the rate-payers in the said Municipality, and the said Commissioners were unable to fix and lay the said Rate within the time prescribed by law, the said Assessment being thereby rendered null; And whereas the said rate, in consequence, cannot be enforced, and it is expedient to legalize the said assessment and to empower the said Commissioners to enforce payment of the said Rate : 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: 1. The Assessment made and the School Rate fixed, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, by the then Rate of 1853, School Commissioners for the School Municipality of the Parish of St. David, in the County of Yamaska, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as though the said Assessment and Rate had been made and fixed within the time prescribed by the thirty-ninth section of the Lower Canada School Act; and the School Commissioners shall have full power and authority to enforce pay ment of the said Rate as though the same had been made and fixed within the time prescribed as aforesaid. Preamble. CAP. CLXX. An Act to remedy defects in the registration of certain [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] WHEREAS a great number of Deeds deposited for regis tration in the Registry Office for Division Number One of the County of Huntingdon during the lifetime of the late William F. Hawley, Esquire, Registrar for that Division of the County County, were not legally registered in consequence of the illness of the said Registrar; And whereas it is expedient, for the interest of the parties concerned to provide a remedy for the absence of or defect in such registration: 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, 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: ed before the effect. I. That all the Deeds, to wit, the Deeds of sale and of Donation Registration of entre vifs, the Contracts of Marriage, Wills, Obligations, Deben- Deeds deposit tures of the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railway Company, death of Mr. Discharges of hypothecs, and generally all the documents deposit- Hawley may ed in the said office for registration between the nineteenth of be completed with full legal August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, and the thirty-first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, the registration whereof is defective or has never been effected, either from the fact that the said Deeds or Documents have not yet been transcribed in the Registers of the said office, or that having been so transcribed the registration thereof has not been attested by the signature of the late Registrar William F. Hawley or of his Deputy, or by reason of any other imperfections, shall be registered or the registration of the said Deeds and Documents shall be completed by the present Registrar or his Deputy; and the said Registration shall have the same effect as though it had been made by the said William F. Hawley, at-the period of the, deposit of the said Discharges, Deeds and Documents, respectively, such period being established by the entry made on the back of each document respectively. CAP. CLXXI. An Act to divide the Township of Norwich into two separate Municipalities. W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] THEREAS the Reeve and Municipal Council of the Preamble. Township of Norwich, in the County of Oxford, have by their Petition set forth, that the public convenience would be promoted by a division of that Township into two separate Municipalities, and have prayed that it may be divided in the manner hereinafter mentioned: 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, intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, North Nor January, 1855, out of the present Town Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: Townships of I. Upon and after the first day of January next after the passwich and South ing of this Act, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth Norwich cons- concessions of the said Township of Norwich, and so much of tituted from 1st the Gore thereof as adjoins the said concessions, shall for all Municipal and Electoral purposes, form a separate Township to be called North Norwich; and the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth concessions of the said Township of Norwich, together with so much of the said Gore as adjoins the said concessions, shall for the like purposes form a separate Township to be called South Norwich; the front line of the seventh concession and its prolongation across the said Gore, shall form the boundary line between the said Townships. ship. Returning election. II. For the purposes of the Municipal Elections next after the Officers at first passing of this Act, the Township Clerk of Norwich, shall act as Returning Officer for North Norwich, and the Municipal Council of Norwich shall appoint a fit and proper person to act as Returning Officer for South Norwich; and the person so to be appointed by the said Municipal Council shall procure attested copies of so much of the Collector's Roll of Norwich, as shall relate to the inhabitants and assessed property of South Places of elec- Norwich; and the next Municipal Election for North Norwich, shall be held at Norwichville, and that for South Norwich at Otterville. tion. Provisions of ply. III. All the provisions of the Upper Canada Municipal CorU. C. Munici- porations Acts, relating to the separation of Townships therepal Acts to ap- tofore united for Municipal purposes, shall, after the division of the said Township of Norwich as aforesaid, apply to the Townships into which it is hereby divided as if they had before such division been Townships united for Municipal purposes; North Norwich being deemed the Senior and South Norwich the JuProviso as to nior Township; Provided always, that as regards the debts of existing debts. the present Township of Norwich now existing or to be created before the division thereof under this Act, the two Townships into which it is hereby divided shall be jointly and severally liable, saving always the recourse of the one Township against the other for its share of such debts. Public Act. Preamble. An Act to confirm a survey of the line between the sixth and seventh Concessions of the Township of Hamilton. [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] WHEREAS in the survey of the Township of Hamilton, in the County of Northumberland, performed in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, by Provincial Land Surveyor, John K. Roche, in conformity with the provisions of the |