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, a Governor may grant Patent to John Counter, for a Stove invented by Charles 1. c. 24. Tripp. 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, PAGES, 1149 1150 III. An Act to facilitate Reciprocal Free Trade between this Province and other British North 1151 IV. An Act to encourage Emigrants from Europe to the United States to use the St. Law rence route, 16. V. An Act to amend the Act imposing Duties of Customs, 1152 VI. An Act to impose a duty on Foreign re-prints of British Copyright Works, 1153 VII. An Act to amend the Laws relative to Hawkers and Pedlers, VIII. An Act to amend the Currency Act of this Province, 1154 Ib. IX. An Act to alter the rate at which certain Silver Coins shall be a Legal Tender, 1155 Ib. 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, 1158 XII. An Act to revive and continue for a limited time the Act making provision for a Geological 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, ть. 1159 1162 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, 1166 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, 16. 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, 1178 XIX. An Act to facilitate the admission of evidence of foreign Judgments, and certain official - 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 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, XXIII. An Act to amend and explain the Acts therein mentioned relative to Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange, and to limit the sum to be allowed for the expenses of noting and protesting Bills and Notes, in certain cases, under the Act to regulate the damages on XXIV, An Act to amend an Act to secure the right of property in British Plantation Vessels navigating the inland waters of this Province, and not registered under the Act of the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed in the third and fourth years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, An Act for the Registering of British Vessels, and to facilitate transfers of the same, and to prevent the fraudulent assignment of any property in such Vessels, XXV. An Act to extend certain Provincial Acts to Foreign Merchant Vessels, when within XXVI. 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An Act to amend and consolidate the Act providing for the organization of the PAGES. XL. An Act to repeal two certain Acts therein mentioned relating to Agriculture, and to provide for the remedy of abuses prejudicial to Agriculture, XLI. An Act to remove doubts as to the right of parties to recover the value of Work done on XLIII. An Act to amend and continue the Ordinance for the Inspection of Fish and Oil, XLIV. An Act to continue and amend the Ordinance concerning the erection of Parishes, and the construction and repairing of Churches, Parsonage Houses, and Church-yards, XLV. An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Lower Canada Agricultural Society, XLVI. An Act to allow the Members of County Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada, to be XLVII. An Act to relieve Ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, from the obligation to obtain Special Licenses in order to keep Registers of Baptisms, Marriages PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS RELATING TO UPPER CANADA. XLVIII. An Act for the better establishment and maintenance of Common Schools in Upper Ib. XLIX. An Act to remove certain doubts respecting the intention of the Act of the last Session of the Parliament of this Province for amending the Charter of the University of Toronto, and to provide for the institution and endowments of Regius and other Professorships, Lectureships, Fellowships, Scholarships, Exhibitions, Prizes and other Rewards in the said University, and for other purposes connected with the said University, and with the College and Royal Grammar School of Upper Canada College, forming an appendage thereof, 1275 L. An Act for the more effectual Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery in Upper LI. An Act to confirm and give effect to certain Rules and Regulations made by the Judges of 1280 |