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 O 'JR LORD, ONE

THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE.

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

ANNO DOMINI, 1885.

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO OCTAVO

VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

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.

: [Assented to 9th May, 1885.]

Most GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

V HEREAS 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 Gorernment 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 ;

1. From and out of the consolidated revenue fund of $121,367.98 for this Province there shall and may be taken a sum, not the year end

ing 30th June, exceeding in the whole, one hundred and twenty-one 1835, out of thousand, three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ninety- Consolidated

Revenue Fund, 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 2. From and out of the consolidated revenue fund of this

dine 30th Province a sum, not exceeding in the whole, two millions June, 1886, out and eighty-three thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine of Consoli dated Revenue dollars and two cents, may be taken for defraying, Fund. 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.

Payments to 3. Every payment or application of moneys, appropribe considered

ated by this Act, shall be held to be made provisionally, as made subject to settle- and subject to all adjustment in account hereafter, in rement of ac

spect of the Dominion and of the Province of Ontario, and counts with the Dominion of special funds, which this Act may in any manner affect. and Ontario. Accounts to be 4. Accounts, in detail, of all moneys expended under rendered to the Legislature. the authority of this Act, shall be laid before both houses

of the Legislature of the Province, at the next session thereof.

Moneys ex• 5. The application of all sums, expended under the au-
pended ac.
Counted for to thority of this Act, shall also be accounted for to Her Maj-
Her Majesty. esty.

Coming into

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

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.