PROVINCIAL STATUTES

OF

CANADA,

ENACTED by Her Most Excellent Majesty, Our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of GoD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, &c., by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the said Province, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of An Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Third and Fourth years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper "and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada."

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OF

CANADA.

ANNO REGNI DECIMO ET UNDECIMO

VICTORIÆ,

DEI GRATIÂ BRITANNIARUM REGINÆ.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONORABLE

JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, K. T.

GOVERNOR GENERAL.

BEING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SECOND PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.

RESERVED ACTS

To which the ROYAL ASSENT was subsequently promulgated by His Excellency JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, K. T. &c. &c. &c. Governor General.

ANNO DECIMO ET UNDECIMO

VICTORIA REGINÆ.

CAP. CXIII.

An Act to incorporate the District Bank of Quebec.

Reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure 28th July, 1847.

The Royal Assent given by Her Majesty in Council on the 22d November, 1847; and Proclamation made thereof by His Excellency JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, in the Canada Gazette of the 8th January, 1848.

WH

HEREAS the incorporation of a Bank in the District of Quebec would con- Preamble. tribute to the prosperity of the agriculture and commerce of the Province; and whereas divers persons, by their petition in this behalf, have represented that an Association has been formed for establishing a Bank in the City of Quebec, in which they have become Subscribers and Stockholders, the Capital Stock of which shall be limited to three hundred thousand pounds, to be divided into twelve thousand shares of twenty-five pounds each, of which said Capital Stock there has been subscribed and taken up the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, and have prayed that, for the purposes of the said Association and the carrying on of the business of the said Bank, they may be incorporated; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition 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 Honorable Réné Edouard Caron, the Honorable Louis Massue, Christian Wurtele, Peter Langlois, Junr., John Bonner, George O'Kill Stuart, Vital Tétu, Charles F. Pratt, A. Laurie, R. May, James Douglass, John Musson, John McLeod, Henry S. Scott, William S. Henderson, Joseph Morrin, C. Montizambert, John Campbell, J. Čhabot, John Campbell, Thomas W. Lloyd, E. Chinic, Geo. H. Simard, J. A. Pirrie, T. Blanchet, James A. Sewell, C. Fremont, James G. Baird, P. Gingras, Thomas H. Oliver, T. H. Dunn, W. Henry, François DeFoy, Narcisse C. Faucher, Julien Chouinard, F. J. Parant, J. B. Hardy, A. Joseph, William Sewell, Joseph Carrier and William Ramsay, all of the said City of Quebec, and such other persons as now are or hereafter shall be Shareholders or Subscribers of the Capital Stock of the said Association, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, shall be and they are hereby constituted a Body Corporate and Politic, in fact and in name, by and under the name, style and title of The District Bank of Quebec, and as such shall, during the con- Corporate. tinuance of this Act, have succession and a Common Seal, with power to break, renew, Name. change and alter the same at pleasure; and shall be capable of suing and being sued, Corporate