Act as relates to the Fees to be granted to persons acting as Tariffs are Clerks to Country Magistrates, shall cease to have any force made underin the said Districts respectively, if or so soon as a Tariff of Fees shall have been promulgated in such District, under the provisions of an Act passed in the Session of the Legislature held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to facilitate the performance of 14 & 15 V. the duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions, with respect to c. 96. persons charged with indictable offences. vent the effect sent Session. IV. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall Proviso: this prevent the effect of any Act passed or to be passed during the Act not to prepresent Session, repealing, amending, rendering permanent, or of any other continuing to any further period than that herein appointed, any Act of the preof the Acts or Ordinances hereinbefore mentioned and continued, nor shall continue any provision or part of any of the Acts or Ordinances in this Act mentioned, which may have been repealed by any Act passed during the present Session or in any previous Session. V. The period limited by the Act of the Parliament of this Period limited Province, passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, byand intituled, An Act to amend the Acts passed to remedy cer- 12 V. c. 97. tain defects in the Registration of Titles in the County of Hastings, as that within which it shall be lawful for the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the County of Hastings to receive and index any memorial, under the authority of the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to remedy certain defects in the Regis- 9 V. c. 12, tration of Titles in the County of Hastings, in Upper Canada, andor of the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the Session held in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled, An Act 10 & 11 V. to remedy certain defects in the Registration of Titles in the c. 38. County of Hastings, in Upper Canada,' or to endorse any extended. Deed, Conveyance, Will or Probate, to which such memorial relates, shall be and is hereby extended to the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and thence until the end of the then next ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament. Preamble. ated out of Revenue CAP. LXXXVI. เ An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government for the year 1856, and for certain other expenses connected with the public service, and also for raising a Loan on the credit of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN W [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] HEREAS by Messages from His Excellency Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over this Province of Canada, and the Estimates accompanying the same, laid before both Houses of the Provincial Parliament, it appears that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the Civil Government of this Province and of the Public Service thereof, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it 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 Assembly of Canada, that, I. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this £716,774 9s. 3d., appropri- Province, there shall be and may be paid and applied a sum not exceeding in the whole the sum of seven hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-four pounds, nine shillings and three pence, currency, for defraying the several charges and expenses of the Civil Government and Public Service of this Province for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and other purposes set forth in the Schedule to this Act. Loan of be raised. II. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to £250,000 may authorize the raising by way of loan, on the credit of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, of a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, currency, to be placed to the credit of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund, towards making good the sums appropriated out of the said Fund by this Act, for certain contingencies of the Public Service connected with the Public Works. Debentures III. For the purpose of raising such sum as aforesaid, it shall may be issued be lawful for the Governor in Council to authorize the issuing of Debentures, to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum last aforesaid, in such form, for such separate sums, at to the said amount. such such rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and to make the principal and interest thereon payable at such periods and at such places, as to him shall seem most expedient, the said principal and interest being hereby made chargeable upon the said Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province. IV. Accounts in detail of all moneys received and paid Accounting under this Act, and of the Debentures issued and the interest clause. thereon, and of the redemption of the whole or any part of such Debentures, and of all expenses attending the collection and payment of the sums of money collected, received or paid under the authority of this Act, shall be laid before both Houses of the Legislature of this Province at each Session thereof. V. The due application of the moneys raised and ex- Accounting pended under the authority of this Act, shall be accounted for clause. to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in such manner and form as Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors shall be pleased to direct. 21* SCHEDULE. SCHEDULE. SUMS GRANTED TO HER MAJESTY BY THIS ACT, AND THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THEY ARE GRANTED 300 0 0 66 Salary of the Provincial Aide-de-Camp, for the year 1856... of six Clerks in the Offices of the Adjutant General of Militia Department.... of a Messenger in do of two Inspecting Field Officers of Volunteer Militia, of two Store-keepers of Armouries, at £75 each, for the do of 18 Assistant Adjutants General, at £30 per annum do Maintenance of 16 Troops of Cavalry, each 10 days Drill, for the year ended do do of six Field Batteries of Artillery each 20 days of Five Companies of Foot Artillery for the year ended do do do do 66 40 Companies of Riflemen, 70 men each, for the year ended Contingent Expenses for Postages, Stationery, Printing, Repairs of Accoutrements, Transport of Arms, Travelling Expenses of Inspecting Field Officers, and all other! Incidental Expenses attending the Active Force, for do.j Required for purchase of Arms, Accoutrements and Ammunition, for the Militia of Canada... Legislative Council. 1357 10 0! 400 0 0 50 0 0 540 0 0 3118 0 0 3561 0 0 705 0 0 3820 0 0 1200 0 0 10000 0 0 25145 5 0 66 of three Messengers for the Session, at £45 each. Contingent Expenses.. Indemnity to the Members for their attendance, at 20s. per diem, including travelling at 6d. per Mile, for the dis- 60 0 0 135 0 0 7650 0 0 66 of the Sergeant-at-Arms. ... Contingent Expenses (exclusive of Indemnity to Members). 62000 0 0 Various Public Departments. Contingent Expenses of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 100 0 0 166 13 0 Salary of Additional Clerk in the Eastern Branch, Provincial 125 0 0 66 66 to the Clerks in Provincial Secretary's Office.. 333 7 5! 465 17 0 to the Clerks in Receiver General's Office.. 390 0 0 66 656 5 0 ་ 270 0 0 to the Clerks in Inspector General's Office. Salary of two Extra Clerks in Receiver General's Office.. 66 the House Keeper and Messenger. Inspector General's Office... Salary of one other Messenger in the Provincial Registrar's "of the Clerk attached to the Inspector General's De- 517 17 1 76 0 0 39 16 8 75 0 0 200 0 0 Montreal, at 10s. "of the Clerk arranging the Public Archives, &c. at per diem.. 183 0 0 Additional Salary to the Permanent Clerk of the Crown Law Department... 140 0 0 Salary of a Clerk in the Customs Branch, Inspector General's Department... 200 0 0 "of two Check Clerks in do at £250 each.... 500 0 0 "of Secretary to the Bureau of Registration and Statistics. 64450 0 0 Contingencies.... Additional Salary to the Auditor of Public Accounts... uary to 31st December, 1856, at £300 per annum... 286 5 3 250 1 3 SCHEDULE-Continued. |