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An Act to enable John Counter to obtain a Patent for making Stoves of a new pattern, and on a new principle.

| 10th August, 1850. ]

HEREAS John Counter, of the City of Kingston, has by his petition to the Preamble. Legislature, represented that he is proprietor of the Iron Works and Foundry at Kingston, called the Ontario Foundry, and carries on business at such Foundry to a large extent; that he has invested upwards of one thousand pounds in the manufacture of stoves of a new pattern and on a new principle, discovered and invented in this Province by one Charles Tripp, a citizen of the United States of America, employed by the said John Counter as his foreman in the said Foundry, and that the said Charles Tripp has assigned to him the said John Counter all his interest in the said discovery or invention, and is willing and desirous that he should obtain a patent for the same: 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, That for and notwithstanding any thing to the contrary contained in the Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the Twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled: An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws of Patents for Inventions in this Province, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor General, if he shall see fit, to grant a patent to the said John Counter for the said discovery or invention, in the same manner and to the same effect as the same might have been granted to him under the said last mentioned Act, if he had been the discoverer and inventor of the said new pattern and new principle.

II. And be it declared and enacted, That this Act is a Public Act.

TORONTO: Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DEsbarats,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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Governor may grant Patent to John Counter, for a Stove invented by Charles 1. c. 24.

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Public Act.

THIRD SESSION, THIRD PARLIAMENT.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS EXTENDING TO THE WHOLE PROVINCE. I. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums required for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government for the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and one thousand eight hundred and fifty,

II. An Act for raising on the credit of the funds therein mentioned, certain sums required for the Public Service,

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III. An Act to facilitate Reciprocal Free Trade between this Province and other British North
American Provinces,

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IV. An Act to encourage Emigrants from Europe to the United States to use the St. Law

rence route,

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V. An Act to amend the Act imposing Duties of Customs,

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VI. An Act to impose a duty on Foreign re-prints of British Copyright Works,

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VII. An Act to amend the Laws relative to Hawkers and Pedlers,

VIII. An Act to amend the Currency Act of this Province,

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IX. An Act to alter the rate at which certain Silver Coins shall be a Legal Tender,
X. An Act to continue for a limited time the several Acts and Ordinances therein mentioned,

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XI. An Act to continue for a limited time therein mentioned the Act for the better defence of the Province, and to regulate the Militia thereof,

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XII. An Act to revive and continue for a limited time the Act making provision for a Geological
Survey of this Province,

XIII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Public Works of this Province,

XIV. An Act to extend the Acts for the formation of Companies for constructing Roads and other Works, to Companies formed for the purpose of acquiring Public Works of like nature,

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XV. An Act to make better provision with regard to the repairing of Roads within the limits of incorporated Cities and Towns, and of Roads and Bridges which having been under the control of the Commissioners of Public Works may hereafter be released from such control, 1165

XVI. An Act to limit the time for redeeming Land Scrip,

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XVII. An Act to provide for the transfer of the management of the Inland Posts to the Provincial Government, and for the regulation of said Department,

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XVIII. An Act for making one uniform provision respecting certain Official and other Oaths to be taken in this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned,

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XIX. An Act to facilitate the admission of evidence of foreign Judgments, and certain official
and other documents,

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XX. An Act to afford relief to Bankrupts in certain cases,

XXI. An Act to establish freedom of Banking in this Province, and for other purposes relative
to Banks and Banking,

XXII. An Act to confer certain rights upon the Chartered Banks of this Province, and to de-

clare the rights already possessed by them in certain cases,

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LI. An Act to confirm and give effect to certain Rules and Regulations made by the Judges of
Her Majesty's Court of Error and Appeal for Upper Canada, and for other purposes relating
to the powers of the Judges of the Courts of Law and Equity in that part of the Province,
and the practice and decisions of certain of those Courts,

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