The Provincial Statutes of Canada

1847,-10° & 11° VICTORIÆ,

THIRD SESSION, SECOND PARLIAMENT.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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I. An Act to enlarge the powers of the Trinity House of Montreal, in certain cases where
the public health of the City may be endangered,

1257

II. An Act to facilitate the issue of Debentures, and for other purposes therein mentioned, 1259

III. An Act relating to Justices of the Peace in the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint

Lawrence, and to dispense, as respects them, with the Property Qualification by law

required of Justices of the Peace in other parts of the Province,

1261

1263

IV. An Act for preventing malicious injuries to persons and property by fire or by ex-

plosive or destructive substances,

V. An Act for shortening the time of Prescription in certain cases, and for other purposes

therein mentioned, -

1267

VI. An Act for compensating the Families of Persons killed by Accident, and for other

purposes therein mentioned,

1271

VII. An Act to make better provision for the establishment of Municipal Authorities in

Lower Canada,

1273

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

mentioned,

IX. An Act to consolidate and amend the laws, and to repeal certain Acts relating to the

crime of Forgery,

1301

X. An Act for the better protection of Merchants and others who may hereafter receive

Assignments and enter into Contracts and Agreements in relation to Goods and

Merchandize entrusted to Agents,

XI. An Act to repeal a certain Act therein mentioned, and to make better provision for

the Limitation of Actions in Lower Canada,

1315

XII. An Act to amend the Laws relative to the appointment of Special Constables, and for

the better preservation of the Peace,

1319

XIII. An Act to regulate the Summoning of Jurors in Lower Canada,

XIV. An Act for taking the Census of this Province, and obtaining Statistical Infor-
mation therein,

1335

XV. An Act to amend the Law of Imprisonment for Debt, in Upper Canada,

XVI. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's
Reign, intituled, An Act to consolidate and amend the Registry Laws of that part of
this Province which was formerly Upper Canada,

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1345

XVII. An Act to exempt the property of the Crown from Local Rates and Taxes in
Lower Canada,

XVIII. An Act to extend the Provisions of the Marriage Act of Upper Canada to Mi-
nisters of all denominations of Christians,

XIX. An Act for amending the Common School Act of Upper Canada,
XX. An Act to amend, explain and continue an Act passed in the Seventh year of the
Reign of Her Majesty, intituled, An Act to prevent Obstructions in Rivers and Riru-
lets in Upper Canada,

134

1349

1353

XXI. An Act for the organization of the Notarial Profession in that part of this Province
called Lower Canada,

XXII. An Act to remove all doubts as to the validity of certain Instruments and Docu-
ments executed before Notaries in Lower Canada,

XXIII. An Act to regulate the duties between Master and Servant, and for other purposes

therein mentioned,

1309

XXIV. An Act to amend the Act, intituled, An Act to amend the Law constituting the

XXVI. An Act to incorporate the Members of the Medical Profession in Lower Canada,
and to regulate the Study and Practice of Physic and Surgery therein,

XXVII. An Act to amend the Act to authorize the Quebec Trinity House to License as

Pilots a certain class of persons therein mentioned,

1389

XXVIII. An Act to extend the Provincial Copy-right Act to persons resident in the

United Kingdom, on certain conditions,

1391

XXIX. An Act to amend the Law for the admission of Attornies and Calling of Barristers

XXX. An Act for the relief of certain Landholders in the District of Gaspé,

XXXI. An Act for repealing and consolidating the present Duties of Customs in this

XXXII. An Act to amend an error in the Act of the present Session, imposing duties of

XXXIII. An Act to authorize the issuing of Debentures to pay the balance due to

Claimants for losses during the Rebellion and Invasion in Upper Canada,

XXXIV. An Act to appropriate the sums therein mentioned to defray certain expenses of

the Civil Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and

certain other expenses not otherwise provided for,

XXXV. An Act to amend an Act for granting relief to the sufferers by the Fires at

able Joseph Rémi Vallières de St. Réal,

XXXVI. An Act to make provision for the subsistence of the Widow of the late Honor-

XXXVII. An Act to facilitate the partition of Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments in

certain cases in Lower Canada,

XXXVIII. An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled, An Act to remedy certain defects

in the Registration of Titles in the County of Hastings, in Upper Canada,

XXXIX. An Act to divide the Western District of the Province of Canada, and for other

purposes therein mentioned,

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 Three-Rivers 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,

XLI. An Act to establish Lock-up-Houses in the unincorporated Towns and Villages of

Canada West,

XLII. An Act to confer limited Corporate Powers on the Towns and Villages of Canada

West, not specially incorporated.

XLIII. An Act to define the limits of the Town of Bytown, to establish a Town Council

therein, and for other purposes,

XLIV. An Act to provide for an Assessment of Real and Personal Property in the Town of

Brockville, according to the annual value or rental thereof, and for other purposes,

XLVI. An Act to amend the tenth section of the Act to incorporate the Town of Kings-

XLVII. An Act to provide for an Assessment of Real and Personal Property in the Town

of Prescott, according to the annual value or rental thereof, and for other purposes,

XLVIII. An Act to repeal the Act of Incorporation of the Town of London, and to esta-

blish a Town Council therein, in lieu of a Board of Police, and for other purposes

therein mentioned,

XLIX. An Act to incorporate the Town of Brantford,

L. An Act to provide for the removal of the Registry Office in the County of Yamaska,

from Labaie to St. François du Lac,

LI. An Act to provide for the removal of the Registry Office of the County of Bellechasse,

from the place where it is now kept, to the Parish of St. Michel,

LII. An Act to divide the Township of Plantagenet in the Ottawa District, into two Town-

LIII. An Act to define and establish the Boundary between the Fourth Concession of Mon-

tague and North Elmsley,

LIV. An Act to declare the mode in which the side lines of the lots in the Township of

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Osgoode in the County of Carleton, shall be run,

LV. An Act to authorize the Courts of Assize and Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer and

General Jail Delivery, and the District and Quarter Sessions Courts, for the District of

Niagara, to be holden in the Court House in the Town of Niagara, built by the Presi-

dent and Board of Police of the said Town,

1571

LVI. An Act to amend a certain Act passed to provide for the improvement and enlarge-

ment of the Harbour of Montreal, and for other purposes,

LVII. An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Toronto Hospital,

LVIII. An Act to authorize the payment of School Money to the Teachers in the Bathurst
District, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, notwithstanding that
there was no Assessment for Schools in that District in the said year,

LIX. An Act to authorize the Commissioners for the Dundas and Waterloo Macadamized
Road to borrow Money to enable them to complete the said Road, and for other pur-