During the several Weeks ending the Day, Month, and Year stated in the First Column.

Week ending Saturday. Monday.

Tuesday.

Wednesday.

Thursday.

Friday. Saturday.

Total No. Signature
of Hours

Date

during this Week.

of Schoolmaster.

of signing.

Day. Month. Year. From To

From To From To From To From To From To

II.-FORM of SCHOOL CERTIFICATE which may be used when Two or more Children employed in the same Print Work attend the same School.

I HEREBY certify, That the Children whose Names are under-written, employed in the Print Work of

at

of

in the Parish of

the Time specified in Names, at the School Parish of

and County attended for the Number of Hours and at the Columns opposite to their respective kept by me at

and County of

During the Week ending on Saturday the

in the

Day

GENERAL DIRECTIONS APPLICABLE TO BOTH FORMS.

In the Columns headed with the Days of the Week, the Hours of Attendance shall be stated; as thus, from Nine to Twelve, or, from Two to Five, or any other Time, as the Case may be; and the Schoolmaster shall, in his own Handwriting, fill up the Date when the Week ends during any Part of which the Child shall have attended his School.

The Hours of School Attendance, or the Word "absent," shall be stated in the Column for each Day, in the Handwriting of the Schoolmaster; and no Certificate shall be valid, unless the Schoolmaster shall in his own Handwriting subscribe to it his Christian and Surname in full, affixing the Date when he signs the same.

САР.

CAP. LXXI.

An Act to authorize Her Majesty to assent to a certain Bill of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Canada, for granting a Civil List to Her Majesty; and to repeal certain Parts of an Act for re-uniting the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada.

[22d July 1847.]

WHEREAS the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the Authority of the Act ' of Parliament passed in the Session holden in the Third and 3&4 Vict. c. 35. Fourth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to ' re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for

Her Majesty empowered,

with the Advice

of Her Council,

to assent to the

reserved Bill.

If Her Majesty shall assent to the said reserved Bill, certain

Provisions in the recited Act

repealed.

the Government a of Canad, did, in the Year One thousand

eight hundred and forty-six, pass a Bill, intituled An Act for granting a Civil List to Her Majesty, of which Bill a Copy is 'contained in the Schedule to this present Act annexed: And ' whereas the said Bill was presented for Her Majesty's Assent to the then Governor of the said Province of Canada; and the said Governor did thereupon declare that he reserved the ' said Bill for the Signification of Her Majesty's Pleasure thereon: And whereas it is by the final Provision of the said reserved Bill provided that the foregoing Provisions thereof 'shall have no Force or Effect until such Parts as are therein ' mentioned of the said recited Act of Parliament shall have 'been repealed: And whereas it is not competent to Her Majesty to assent to the said reserved Bill without the express Authority of Parliament for that Purpose, inasmuch as the said Bill is in certain Respects repugnant to the said recited Act of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that Her 'Majesty should be authorized to assent to the said reserved Bill, and that so much and such Parts as aforesaid of the said ' recited Act should thereupon be repealed:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, to assent to the said reserved Bill, any thing in the said recited Act of Parliament or any Law, Statute, or Usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

II. And be it enacted, That if Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council, shall assent as aforesaid to the said reserved Bill, those Parts of the first-recited Act which in the Copies thereof printed by the Queen's Printer are printed as separate Clauses, and severally numbered L., LI., LII., LIII., LİV., LV., LVI., LVII., and also the Schedules annexed to the said first-recited Act, being the Parts thereof mentioned or

referred

referred to in the said final Provision of the said reserved Bill, shall be repealed upon and from the Day on which the said reserved Bill (being first so assented to by Her Majesty in Council) shall take effect in the said Province.

III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

SCHEDULE.

AN ACT for granting a CIVIL LIST to HER MAJESTY.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

WHEREAS Your Majesty has been most graciously pleased to declare to Your faithful Canadian Commons, in Provincial • Parliament assembled, Your Majesty's gracious Desire to owe to the spontaneous Liberality of Your Canadian People such Grant, by way of Civil List, as shall be sufficient to give Stability and Security to the great Civil Institutions of the Province, and to provide for the adequate Remuneration of able and efficient Officers in the executive, judicial, and other Departments of Your Majesty's public provincial Service, the granting of which Civil List constitutionally belongs only to Your Majesty's faithful Canadian People in their Provincial Parliament."

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We, therefore, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, desirous that a certain competent Revenue for the Purpose may be settled upon Your Majesty (to whom may God grant a long and happy Reign) as a Testimony of our unfeigned Affection to Your sacred Person and Government, have accordingly freely resolved to grant unto Your Majesty a certain Revenue, payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province; we do therefore most humbly beseech 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 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 all Duties and Revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Upper Canada or Lower Canada had before the passing of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, intituled "An Act to re-unite the Provinces "of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of "Canada," or over which the Legislature of this Province has or may have Power of Appropriation, shall form One Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be appropriated for the Public Service [No. 38. Price 2d.]

Pp

of

of this Province in the Manner and subject to the Charges herein-after mentioned.

And be it enacted, That the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province shall be permanently charged with all the Costs, Charges, and Expences incident to the Collection, Management, and Receipt thereof, such Costs, Charges, and Expences being subject, nevertheless, to be reviewed and audited in such Manner as shall be directed by any Act of the Legislature.

And be it enacted, That there shall be payable in every Year to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, a Sum not exceeding Thirty-four thousand six hundred and thirty-eight Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Four-pence Currency, for defraying the Expence of the several Services and Purposes named in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed; and during the Life of Her Majesty, and for Five Years after the Demise of Her Majesty, there shall be payable in every Year to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, out of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund, a further Sum not exceeding Thirty-nine thousand two hundred and forty-five Pounds Sixteen Shillings Currency, for defraying the Expence of the several Services and Purposes named in the Schedule marked (B.) to this Act annexed; the said Sums of Thirty-four thousand six hundred and thirty-eight Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Four-pence and Thirty-nine thousand two hundred and forty-five Pounds Sixteen Shillings to be issued by the Receiver General in discharge of such Warrant or Warrants as shall be from Time to Time directed to him under the Hand and Seal of the Governor; and the said Receiver General shall account to Her Majesty for the same, through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in such Manner and Form as Her Majesty shall be graciously pleased to direct.

And be it enacted, That the Sums set down in the First Column opposite to each Office or Department in the said Schedules (A.) and (B.) shall be payable for each, while the present Incumbents shall respectively remain in Office; and as often as any such present Incumbent shall cease to hold such Office the Sums respectively mentioned in the First Column shall cease to be payable, and the Sums mentioned in the Second Column shall, as each Case arises, be payable instead, as in the said Schedules mentioned.

And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor to abolish any of the Offices named in the Schedule (B.), or to vary the Sums thereby appropriated to such Purposes connected with the Administration of the Government of this Province as to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, shall seem fit; and that Accounts in detail of the Expenditure of the several Sums expended under the Authority of this Act shall be laid before both Houses of the Legislature within Thirty Days from the Beginning of the Session next after such Expenditure shall be made: Provided always, that not more than Two thousand

two