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LXIX. And be it enacted, That the words " Lower Canada" whenever they occur Interpretation in this Act, shall mean all that part of this Province which formerly constituted the Lower CanaProvince of Lower Canada; the word "Town" shall include any Borough in Lower da. Canada; and words importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, shall Town. include more persons, matters or things than one of the same kind, as well as one per- ber son, matter or thing, and females as well as males, unless it be otherwise expressly provided, or there be something in the subject or context inconsistent with or repugnant to such construction; and generally all words and expressions herein used shall General Rule. receive such fair and liberal interpretation as will best ensure the attainment of the objects for which this Act is passed, according to the true spirit, intent and meaning thereof.

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LXX. And be it enacted, That no Councillor or Assessor shall be elected or ap- Property qu pointed or enabled to act under the provisions of this Act, unless he shall be a quali- Councillors fied voter resident in the Municipality for which the election shall be, and holding real and Assessors. property therein to the value of one hundred and fifty pounds, currency, over and above every charge or incumbrance thereon if such Councillor or Assessor be for a Municipality formed of a County or division of a County, and one hundred pounds for a Village or Town Councillor; and that all buildings used by the Civil Provincial Go- Certain provernment, or for Military purposes, for any Religious, Charitable or Educational pur-ed from pose, and all burial grounds shall be exempt from rates and assessments under this Act. sessment.

perty exempt.

Limitation of time for suing for penalties and forfeitures

under this Act.

By whom, before whom and on what proof such suits shall be brought.

LXXI. And be it enacted, That the penalties and forfeitures appointed by this Act, or to be established under the provisions thereof, shall be sued for by and in the name of the Corporation by the Secretary-Treasurer thereof, within one month from and after the offence for which they shall have been incurred shall have ceased, and not afterwards, and shall be prosecuted by the Secretary-Treasurer of the several Municipalities established under this Act, before any one Justice of the Peace, residing in or nearest to such Municipality where the offence shall have occurred, who shall hear and determine the suit in a summary manner, and upon the oath of one credible witness other than the Inspector or any of the Councillors of the said Municipality; and shall cause such penalty or forfeiture to be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the offender, and the whole of such penalty or forfeiture shall go and be applied to the Appropriation general purposes and uses of the said Municipality; Provided that such Justice of the Peace be not connected or of kin within the degrees prohibited by law either to the Secretary-Treasurer or to the opposite party.

LXXII. And be it enacted, That all and every the real property and estate belonging to or possessed by such Municipal Districts and Parish or Township Municipalities as shall cease to exist after this Act shall come into force, shall by the effect of this Act be vested in and belong to and be possessed by the Municipalities established by this. Act, and within the local extent whereof such Municipal Districts, Parish or Township Municipalities are respectively situate, and the rents and profits of such property, or the proceeds thereof if disposed of, shall be specially applied to the purposes of such Municipal Districts, Parishes and Townships; and that all orders, rules and regulations lawfully made in and directed to be carried into effect in any Parish or Township Municipality, shall continue and be enforced and executed within the limits thereof by the Municipalities established by this Act until revoked, repealed or amended by competent authority under this Act.

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NUMBER ONE. -OATH OF A PROPRIETOR.

You swear (or affirm) that your name is, that your addition, (profession or trade) is that you are an inhabitant householder resident in the Municipality of (or as the case may be) that you have been so resident during the year next preceding the election, that you are seized and possessed to your own use of a land (or tenement,) held in free and common soccage (franc aleu, fief or à titre de cens, as the case may be,) in the said Municipality, (or as the case may be) adjoining on the one side to the property of and on the other side to the property of and that such land (or tenement) so possessed by you is of the clear annual value of forty shillings currency, over and above all rents and charges payable out of or affecting the same; that you have paid all rates and local taxes due by you before this election; that you are of the full age of twenty-one years, and that you have not already voted at this election: So help you God.

NUMBER TWO.-OATH OF TENANT OR LESSEE.

You swear (or affirm) that your name is

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(or as the case may be) that you have been there resident during the year next preceding this election; that you hold, as tenant or lessee, a land or tenement yielding you (or for which you pay) a yearly income (or rent) of five pounds currency, in money or produce, which said land or tenement is bounded on the one side by the property

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you have paid all rates and local taxes due by you before this election; that you are of the full age of twenty-one years, and that you have not already voted at this election: So help you God.

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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An Act to continue for a limited time the several Acts and Ordinances

therein mentioned.

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HEREAS it is

[ 28th July, 1847.]

expedient to continue for a limited time the several Acts and Preamble.

Ordinances hereinafter mentioned: 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 the Act of the Legislature of the Province of Canada, passed in the seventh year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to repeal 7 Vict. c. 10, an Ordinance of Lower Canada, intituled, 'An Ordinance concerning Bankrupts and the as amended administration and distribution of their estates and effects, and to make provision for the by 9 Vict. c. same object throughout the Province of Canada,' as amended and extended by the Act passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to continue and amend the Bankrupt Laws now in force in this Province, and the said last mentioned Act shall remain in force until the first day of January which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

and extended

30, continued.

continued.

II. And be it enacted, That the Act of the said Legislature, passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the Peace & Vict. c. f, and the prevention of Riots and violent outrages at and near Public Works while in progress of construction, shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

III. And be it enacted, That the Act of the said Legislature, passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend the Act and Ordinance 8 Vict. o. 27, therein mentioned, relative to the Registration of Titles to and Incumbrances upon Real continued. Property in Lower Canada, shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

continued.

But this Act is

IV. And be it enacted, That the Act of the said Legislature, passed in the eighth

8 Vict c. 40, year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to repeal certain Ordinances therein mentioned, and to make better provision for the establishment of Local and Municipal Authorities in Lower-Canada, shall remain in force until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

repealed by c. 7 of this Session.

8 Vict. c. 48 continued.

L. C, 2 Geo. 4, c. 8. continued.

L. C 2 Geo. 4 c. 10, as extended by

V. And be it enacted, That the Act of the said Legislature passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors in Upper Canada, and for other purposes therein mentioned, shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

VI. And be it enacted, That the Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the second year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act for better regulating the Common of the Seigneurie of La Prairie de la Magdeleine, shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

VII. And be it enacted, That the Act of the said Legislature, passed in the year last aforesaid, intituled, An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Seigneurie of La Baie Saint Antoine, commonly called La Baic du Febvre, to provide the better regulation of the

4 Geo. 4 c. 26, Common in the said Seigneurie, as extended by the Act of the said Legislature passed

continued.

L C. 3 Will. 4. c. 14, continued.

in the fourth year of the same Reign, and intituled, An Act to authorize the Charman ana Trustees of the Common of the Seigniory of the Baie Saint Antoine, commonly called The Baie du Febvre, to terminate certain disputes relating to the limits of the said Common, and for other purposes appertaining to the same, and the said last mentioned Act shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

VIII. And be it enacted, That the Act of the said Legislature, passed in the third year of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and intituled, An Act further to suspend certain parts of an Act or Ordinance therein mentioned, and to consolidate and further to continue for a limited time the provisions of two other Acts therein mentioned, for more effectually ascertaining the damages on proicsted Bills of Exchange, and for determining disputes relating thereto, and for other purposes, shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

IX. And be it enacted, That the Ordinance of the said Legislature, passed in the third Session held in the second year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chaptr nine, commonly called the Road Act, shall remain in force (except in so far as it may he affected by any subsequent Actor Ordinance whether passed during the present or any other Session,) until the first day of January, which will be in the

Ordinance of L. C., 2 Vict. (3) c 7, continued.

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year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

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X. And be it enacted, That the Act of the said Legislature, passed in the Session last mentioned, and intituled, An Ordinance to suspend in part certain Acts therein men- Ordinance of tioned, and to establish and incorporate a Trinity House in the City of Montreal, shall remain in force as amended or altered in its effect by any subsequent Act or Ordi- tinued. nance, until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

LC, Vict. extended by 4 continued.

(3) c. 29, as

Vict. c 23,

XI. And be it enacted, That the Ordinance of the said Legislature, passed in the Session last mentioned, and intituled, An Ordinance concerning the erection of Parishes Ordinance of and the building of Churches, Parsonage Houses and Church Yards, as amended and extended by the Ordinance of the said Legislature, passed in the fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to extend the provisions of a certain Ordinance concerning the erection of Parishes for civil purposes to Parishes canonically erected before the passing of the said Ordinance, and the said last mentioned Ordinance shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

XII. And be it enacted, That the Ordinance of the said Legislature, passed in the third Session held in the second year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to provide for the Inspection of Fish and Oil, shall remain in force until the first day of January, which will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

Ordinance of (3) c. 65, continued.

L. C, 2 Vict.

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XIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed Proviso: this by any Act passed during the present Session, and nothing herein contained shall in any way be construed to prevent the full effect of any Act passed during the present Session, and amending, altering, repealing or continuing any Act or Ordinance hereinbefore mentioned.

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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and shall the effect of any other Act.

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