Control of es confiscated CAP. X. An Act respecting escheats and property confiscated to the [Assented to 9th May, 1885.] HER MAJESTY by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. Property that has devolved or shall devolve upon cheated and the Crown by escheat and property confiscated for any property to be cause whatever, except for crime, are under the control of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. under Com missioner of Crown Lands. Property may be sold, &c. 2. Such property may be sold, ceded, and transferred by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council upon such conditions as he may impose. 3. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may also dispose of the whole or part of such property gratuitously, with or with out conditions, in favor of any person whatever, with the view either of transferring it to some person having claims to exercise or equitable rights against the person who had been proprietor, or to carry out the intentions or wishes of such person, or to reward those who discovered or made known the existence of such property. 4. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may also disof, gratuitously or by onerous title, in the manner pose regulated by sections 1 and 2 of this act, all interest in, rights over or pretentions to the said property; and the transferee may in his own name apply to the courts to be placed in possession and adopt all proceedings which the Crown might adopt. 5. This act shall not apply to confiscated or escheated property with respect to which there exist special statutes. 6. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. CAP. XI. An Act respecting the expenses of the commission intrusted with an investigation concerning the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway. WHEREAS [Assented to 9th May, 1885.] HEREAS a Royal commission has been appointed to Preamble. make an investigation concerning the Quebec Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway, and it is expedient to provide by statute for the expenses of such investigation; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: and secretary 1. The commissioner appointed to make an investiga- Commissioner tion into the administrative details of the construction, may receive working and sale of the Quebec, Montreal and Occidental indemnity. Railway, as well as into the final settlement of the accounts and other matters connected with the said railway, and which followed the sale and delivery thereof, as well as the secretary of the said commissioner, may receive for such investigation such indemnity as the Lieutenant-Governor in council may be pleased to fix; provided always that Proviso. the indemnity allowed to the commissioner does not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, and that allowed to the secretary of the commissioner, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum. if If the commissioner be one of the judges of the Superior Indemnity to Court for the Province of Quebec, he may receive such in- commisbe paid even demnity notwithstanding any provision to the contrary sioner be judge in chapter 78 of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower of the S. C. Canada other expenses 2. The travelling expenses of the commission, the cost Travelling and of summoning and the taxation of the witnesses, including to be paid. the taxed costs of a stenographer and other incidental expenses, which the commissioner may deem necessary, shall be paid by the provincial treasurer upon the certificate of the commissioner of railways. 3. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanc- Coming into tion. force. CAP. XII. Preamble. Fish and game clubs may be formed. Aim of such clubs. Power to re voke in certain cases. Power of clubs to adopt bylaws, &c. Coming into force of such by-laws, &c. 31 V., c. 24. An Act to facilitate the formation of " Fish and game protection clubs" in the Province. [Assented to 9th May, 1885.] HEREAS it is desirable that local organizations formed and to be formed to secure the enforcement of laws relating to the preservation of fish and game, should have such legal recognition as will enable them to appear in court as prosecutors of infractions of the said laws, and also to rent or purchase rooms or buildings which may serve as offices, head quarters or club houses for such organizations, with the necessary appurtenances; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. The Lieutenant-Governor in council may, on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and subject to the payment of such fee as may be determined on, grant a corporate existence to any number of persons, not less than five, who petition therefor, constituting such persons, and all others who may afterwards become members of the club thereby created, a body corporate and politic, for the purpose of enabling them to acquire and hold such property, real and personal, as may be necessary and requisite to accomplish the objects and purposes of their incorporation. 2. The aim and end of all such clubs shall be to aid in the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of fish and game in the Province. Whenever the Lieutenant-Governor in council is satisfied, upon satisfactory evidence, and upon report that any club created under this act is engaged in any other pursuit than the foregoing, the powers conferred in virtue of the preceding section shall be revoked. 3. The members of any such club may adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations for the management of their affairs as they see fit. As soon as such by-laws, rules and regulations have received the approval of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, they shall have full force and effect. Application of 4. In so far as applicable, the provisions of law respecting joint stock companies shall govern clubs formed and organized under this act. 5. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanc- Coming into tion. force.. CAP. XIII. An Act to amend the laws respecting the holding of the [Assented to 9th May, 1885.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent 1. The first two paragraphs of subsection b of section 2 47 V., c. 8, s. of the act 47 Victoria, chapter 8, are replaced by the fol-256, amended.. lowing: certain dis "In the districts of Montreal, Three Rivers and St. Term days in Francis, every juridical day is reputed to be a term day tricts. for all purposes whatever." 2. The last paragraph of the said subsection b of the Id., further said section 2 is amended by striking out the words " In amended. the district of Montreal only" in the first line thereof, and replacing them by the following "except in the district of Montreal." CAP. XIV. An Act to amend the act 47 Victoria, chapter 8, respecting the holding of the Superior and Circuit Courts, and the Code of Civil Procedure. [Assented to 9th May, 1885.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent 1. Section 11 of the act 47 Victoria, chapter 8, is amended 47 V., c. 8, s.. by adding after the words "article 1099" in the last line, 11, amended. the following words" except in the districts of Beauce, Rimouski and Terrebonne." 2. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanc- Coming into tion. force. 32 V., c. 23, s. 16, § 1, as amended by CAP. XV. An Act to amend the act respecting District magistrates in [Assented to 9th May, 1885.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent 1. Subsection 1 of section 16 of the act 32 Victoria, chapter 23, as amended by the first section of the act 35 35 V., c. 8, s. 1 Victoria, chapter 9, is amended by adding thereto the following words: further amended. Proviso as to Coming into force. And in the county of Gaspé, including the Magdalen Islands, and also in the county of Saguenay for that part of it extending to the east as far as the Jeremy Islands, ninety-nine dollars. 2. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. CAP. XVI. Preamble. Additional may be bor An Act to amend the act respecting the building of the WE [Assented to 9th May, 1885.] HEREAS it is necessary to build the Court House of Quebec of incombustible materials throughout to preserve it from all danger from fire, and to adopt the suggestions of the Bar of Quebec, as to the changes to be made in the interior divisions, and for that purpose it is urgent that an act be passed to authorize the loan of a sum in addition to that authorized by the act 45 Victoria, chapter 26, intituled An act respecting the building of the Court House of Quebec"; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. With a view of meeting the additional expense occasum of $50,000 sioned in the construction of the Court House of Quebec rowed to build by the changes made in the interior divisions and by the Quebec Court substitution of iron for wood in the materials used, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, in addition to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars which the House. H |