OF THE

PROVINCE OF QUEBEC,

PASSED IN THE

FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA;

AND IN THE

FOURTH SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT,

BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT QUEBEC, ON THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH, AND CLOSED BY PRORO-
GATION ON THE NINTH DAY OF MAY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, one

THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE.

HIS HONORBY

THE HONORABLE LOUIS FRANÇOIS RODRIGUE MASSON,

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

QUEBEC:

PRINTED BY CHARLES-FRANÇOIS LANGLOIS,
PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

ANNO DOMINI, 1885.

L 9653

AUG 9 1934

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO OCTAVO

VICTORIÆ REGINE.

CAP. I

An Act granting to Her Majesty the moneys required for the expenses of the Government for the financial years ending on the 30th June, 1885, and on the 30th June, 1886, and for other purposes connected with the public service.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

[Assented to 9th May, 1885.]

WHEREAS it appears, by messages from His Honor, Preamble.

the Honorable LOUIS FRANÇOIS RODRIGUE MASSON, one of Your Majesty's Privy Councillors for Canada, Lieutenant-Governor of this Province, and the estimates accompanying the same, that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the Government of the Province, not otherwise provided for, for the financial years ending on the 30th June, 1885, and on the 30th June, 1886, and for other purposes connected with the public service; May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, that ;

ing 30th June,

Revenue Fund,

1. From and out of the consolidated revenue fund of $121,367.98 for this Province there shall and inay be taken a sum, not the year endexceeding in the whole one hundred and twenty-one 1885, out of thousand, three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ninety- Consolidated eight cents for defraying, during the present financial year, the charges and expenses of the Government and public service of the Province, for the financial year ending on the 30th June, 1885, as set forth in Schedule A, annexed to this Act.

$2,083,139.02

for the year

ending 30th

of Consoli

dated Revenue

2. From and out of the consolidated revenue fund of this Province a sum, not exceeding in the whole, two millions June, 1886, out and eighty-three thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and two cents, may be taken for defraying, during the financial year, ending on the 30th June, 1886, the charges and expenses of the Government and public service of the Province, as set forth in Schedule B, annexed to this Act.

Fund.

Payments to

as made sub

3. Every payment or application of moneys, appropribe considered ated by this Act, shall be held to be made provisionally, ject to settle- and subject to all adjustment in account hereafter, in respect of the Dominion and of the Province of Ontario, and the Dominion of special funds, which this Act may in any manner affect.

ment of ac

counts with

and Ontario.

Legislature.

Accounts to be 4. Accounts, in detail, of all moneys expended under rendered to the the authority of this Act, shall be laid before both houses of the Legislature of the Province, at the next session thereof.

Moneys ex

pended ac

5. The application of all sums, expended under the aucounted for to thority of this Act, shall also be accounted for to Her MajHer Majesty. esty.

Coming into

force.

6. This Act shall come into force on the day of the sanction thereof.

1

SCHEDULE A.

Sums granted to Her Majesty, by this Act, for the fiscal year ending on the 30th June, 1885, with indication of the purposes for which they are granted.