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The said Councillors may authorize

a lan to be

raised by the

Treasurer of the Bu lding Com nittee.

Amount to be borrowed.

No more than legal interest to be paid.

Interest and

capital how to be paid.

No Treasurer to receive any per centage on

monies coming into his hands

under this Act.

The said new
District to

have the same
rights and pri-

vileges as other Districts: and

courts to be

in such other

Districts.

Council of the said intended District at their first quarterly meeting to be holden therein, after the same shall have been declared a separate District.

X. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Councillors for the Townships in the said County of Kent, so assembled as aforesaid, and they are hereby empowered by an order of such meeting, to authorize and direct the Treasurer so to be appointed as aforesaid, to raise by loan, from such person or persons, bodies corporate or politic, as may be willing to lend the same on the credit of the rates and assessments to be raised, levied and collected in the said intended District, a sum not exceeding Three thousand pounds, to be applied in defraying the expense of building the said

Court House and Gaol.

XI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the money so borrowed under the authority of this Act shall not be at a higher rate of interest than six per centum per annum; and the Treasurer for the said intended District for the time being, shall annually, until the loan so raised, with the interest accruing thereon, shall be paid and discharged, apply towards the payment of the same a sum not less than one hundred pounds, together with the lawful interest upon the whole sum which may from time to time remain due, from and out of the rates and assessments so coming into his hands, for the use of the said intended District.

XII. And be it enacted, That no Treasurer hereafter to be appointed, either by the said meeting, or by the Councillors of the said intended District, shall be entitled or authorized to receive any poundage or per centage upon any sum or sums of money which shall or may be loaned under the authority of this Act, or which may come into his hands, or for paying out any sum or sums of money, in discharging and liquidating such loan with the interest thereon as aforesaid.

XIII. And be it enacted, That Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Deli very, of Assize and Nisi Prius, Courts of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, District Court, Surrogate Court, Division Courts, and every other Court and Jurisdiction, with all District Offices and Municipal rights whatsoever, held or to be held, possessed and enjoyed, in and by the other Districts in that part of this Province called Upper held therein as Canada, at the time of such Proclamation as aforesaid, shall from thenceforth, with the like powers and authority, be held and enjoyed in and by the said District of Kent constituted by such Proclamation; and that all and every jurisdiction, regulations, rule, privilege, exemption, matter or thing which shall or may have been enacted, provided and declared, by any Act or Acts of the Parliament of this Province, or of the late Province of Upper Canada, made or to be made, touching or concerning the said other Districts, and which shall be in force and operation at the time of such Proclamation as aforesaid, shall be and are hereby from thenceforth extended to the said District of Kent, unless otherwise provided for by this Act or any other Act or Acts of the Parliament of this Province.

Acts relating

to Gaols, and Court Houses

in other Dis

XIV. And be it enacted, That all and every the provisions, rules, regulations, matters and things contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament of this Province, or of the late Province of Upper Canada, for the regulation of or relating to Gaols and Court tricts shall ap Houses, which shall be in force and operation in that part of the Province aforesaid, at the time of declaring such new District as aforesaid, shall be and are hereby from thenceforth

ply in like

manner to

new District. Courts shall be

thenceforth extended to the Gaol and Court House in the said District of Kent; and those in the that the aforesaid Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, Assize and Nisi Prius, General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Surrogate Court, and every held in the other of the aforesaid Courts required to be held at a place certain, shall be commenced, same. and from time to time holden at the aforesaid Court House, or such other Court House as shall hereafter be erected for that purpose in the said District of Kent, by virtue of any Act or Acts of the Parliament of this Province.

XV. And be it enacted, That from and after the declaring of the said County of Kent to be a separate District as aforesaid, the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and sittings of the District Court of such District, shall be respectively commenced and held at the place hereinbefore appointed for that purpose, and the said Quarter Sessions shall commence on the first Tuesday in the months of January, April and July, and on the third Tuesday in the month of November, in each and every year; and that the Terms of such District Court shall respectively commence on the Monday of the week next but three preceding the week in which the Court of General Quarter Sessions and Sittings of the said District Court are hereby appointed to be held, and such Terms shall respectively end on the following Saturday.

Terms of the

District Courts

and Quarter Sessions fixed.

What Justices of Peace &c. erection of the

shall, after the

new District, have jurisdic

tion therein.

XVI. And be it enacted, That Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and other persons holding any commission or office, or bearing lawful authority, and who shall be residing within the said County of Kent, at the time the same shall be declared a separate District as aforesaid, shall continue to hold and enjoy and exercise the like commission, office, authority, power and jurisdiction within the said District of Kent, in the same manner that they previously held, enjoyed and exercised the same within the Western District: Provided, that the authority, power and jurisdiction, previously exercised by Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace and other persons bearing commission or office or lawful authority within, or residing within the said District of Kent, shall not in any wise be longer exercised or continued within the Western District, but the same within that District shall from thenceforth cease and determine: Provided that after the Provisodeclaring of such new District as aforesaid, Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and jurisdiction of others who thenceforth continue to hold commission or office or bear lawful authority in the new within the Western District shall cease to hold such commission or office, or to exercise such lawful authority within such new District to be declared as aforesaid; and that no jurisdiction, power or authority, of whatever nature or kind soever, to the said Western District at the time of the formation of such new District as aforesaid belonging or appertaining, shall longer extend or be construed to extend to such new District.

XVII. And be it enacted, That the ordinary assessments and rates levied within the said County of Kent for the then current year, at the time the said County shall be declared a separate District by virtue of this Act, and all future assessments and rates to be levied therein, shall be applied and expended for the like purposes within the said new District, as they at that time might be applied and expended for, under or by virtue of any Act or Acts of the Parliament of this Province, or of the late Province of Upper Canada, in the Western District, except in so far as the same may be varied by this Act, or by any other Act or Law.

XVIII. And whereas it is necessary to make provision for the establishment and support of Schools within the said County of Kent when the same shall be declared a

others to cease

District.

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Appropriation

for Common

separate District by virtue of this Act: Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the erection of the said County of Kent into a separate District by virtue of this Act, there shall be granted annually to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, from and out of the monies raised, levied and collected, or hereafter to be raised, levied and collected, to and for the uses of this Province, and unappropriated, a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds for the said intended District, which said sum of one thousand pounds shall be appropriated, applied and disposed of, in paying the salaries of the Teachers of the Public District Schools which may be hereafter erected in the said intended District.

XIX. And be it enacted, That one District School shall be opened and kept in the Town of Chatham, in the said District of Kent, at such place as the Trustees of the District Schools of the said District or a majority of them may appoint.

XX. And be it enacted, That the said District Schools shall be established in like manner, and under the same rules, regulations and restrictions in every particular, as are or shall be mentioned and provided in the several Acts of the Parliament of this Province, or of the late Province of Upper Canada, for the regulation of similar Schools in the other Districts of that part of the Province called Upper Canada.

XXI. And be it enacted, That from and after the erection of the said County of Kent into a separate District as aforesaid, such new District shall be entitled to a Schools in the proportionate allowance out of the Common School Fund, in the same manner and on the same terms and conditions as other Districts are so entitled.

new District.

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

ANNO DECIMO ET UNDECIMO

VICTORIA REGINE.

CAP. XL.

An Act to suspend for a time two certain Ordinances therein mentioned, relating to Winter Roads in that part of the Province of Canada heretofore Lower Canada, in so far as regards the District of Quebec, the District of Gaspé, and that part of the District of ThreeRivers which extends from the District of Quebec on the south of the River St. Lawrence, to the Parish of Nicolet, and on the north of the said River to the Town of Three-Rivers, exclusively.

WE

[ 28th July, 1847. ]

HEREAS it is expedient to suspend for a time the operation of the Ordinances Preamble. of the Legislature of the late Province of Lower Canada relating to Winter Roads within the District of Quebec, the District of Gaspé, and that part of the District of Three-Rivers which extends from the District of Quebec to the Parish of Nicolet on the south side of the River St. Lawrence, and to the Town of Three-Rivers exclusively, on the north side: 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 from and after the passing of this Act, so much of the Ordinance of the Legislature of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the Session held in the third and fourth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to provide for the improvement during the Winter season of the Queen's Highways in this Province, and for other purposes; and of the Ordinance of the said Legislature, passed in the fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Laws relating to Winter Roads, as enacts that no cariole, sleigh, berline, or other winter carriage, other than the sleighs or sleds in the aforesaid Ordinances described, shall be used on any of the Queen's Highways or public Roads within that part of this Province heretofore Lower Canada, shall be, and so much of the said Ordinance is hereby suspended for three years, and from thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer, in so far as regards the

District of

The District of Quebec, the Gaspé and District of Three-Rivers limited time from the opetain parts of

part of the

exempted for

a

ration of cer

the Ordinances 3 & 4 V.

c 25, and 4.

V. c. 33.

District of Quebec, the District of Gaspé, and that part of the District of Three-Rivers, on the south side of the River St. Lawrence, as far upwards as the Parish of Nicolet exclusively, and on the north side as far upwards as the Town of Three-Rivers exclusively, but shall remain in force in all other places in that part of this Province which formerly constituted the Province of Lower Canada.

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

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