ASSESSMENT. SECRETARY-TREASURER'S NOTICE FOR THE PAYMENT OF (No. 2.)

COSTS.

CAP. CII.

An Act to regulate the amount of security to be given by the Registrars of Lower Canada.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed by the Legislature of the Preamble.

Province of Canada, in the eighteenth year of Her

Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to establish a Registry 18 V. c. 99. Office in and for each Electoral County in Lower Canada, the responsibility attached to Registrars has been greatly diminished by the reduction of the limits within which their duties are confined; And whereas the several penal sums required by An Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to 14 & 15 V. the registration of Deeds in Lower Canada, passed in the c. 93. session of the said Legislature held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, to be inserted in any recognizance entered into by any Registrar, were fixed for Counties of greater extent than those to which the first above mentioned Act refers, and it is therefore just to reduce the amount of the same: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

c. 93.

I. Notwithstanding any thing contained in the second section Amount of seof the said Act to explain and amend the laws relating to curity to be the registration of Deeds in Lower Canada, the penal sum reduced, notgiven hereafter in any recognizance to be entered into by any Registrar here- withstanding after for any County for Registration purposes, under the first 14 & 15 V. above mentioned Act, shall be one thousand pounds; Provided Proviso: always, that the foregoing provisions of this Act shall in no Exceptions as wise affect or alter the amount of security given or to be given to certain Reby the Registrars of the Registration divisions of Quebec, Mont- gistration direal, Three-Rivers, and Sherbrooke, which shall continue to be the amount established for them respectively before the passing of this Act.

visions.

to £1,000.

II. No Registrar appointed since the passing of the said first Amount of mentioned Act, nor his sureties shall be liable henceforth, under existing serecognizance entered into and now in force, for any greater curity reduced amount than the said penal sum of one thousand pounds which would require to be inserted in a recognizance entered into by such Registrar after the passing of this Act; but the penal sum in any such recognizance heretofore entered into, and now in force as aforesaid, is hereby reduced to the amount by this Act fixed and prescribed.

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САР.

Preamble.

Act of L. C., 2 V. c. 26.

Meeting for settling the manner of

Trustees, where the Trust Deed

CAP. CIII.

An Act to amend an Ordinance of Lower Canada for the Relief of certain Religious Societies.

W

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS by an Ordinance of the Legislature of Lower Canada, passed in the second year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter twenty-six, Congregations or Societies of Christians, of any denomination whatsoever, in Lower Canada, are enabled to hold ground, for the purposes and under the limitations therein specified, by the instrumentality of a Trustee or Trustees, to whom and to whose successors, (to be appointed in the manner set forth in the Deed of Grant, Concession or Conveyance) the lands necessary for such purposes may be conveyed; And whereas lands have been conveyed to Trustees on behalf of such Congregations or Societies in Lower Canada under the said Ordinance without the manner of appointing successors to such Trustees being set forth in the Deeds of Grant, Concession or Conveyance of such lands, as required by the said Ordinance, and it is expedient to provide a remedy for such omission: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. It shall be lawful for any Congregation or Society of Christians of any denomination, on whose behalf lands in continuing the Lower Canada are now held under the said Ordinance by a succession of Trustee or Trustees without the manner of appointing successors being set forth in the Deed of Grant, Concession or Conveyance of such lands, at any time within one year after the does not pro passing of this Act to assemble in a public meeting, duly convened by notice in writing signed by at least five members of such Congregation or Society, and affixed to the door of their Church or place of Worship, and at such meeting, by the votes of a majority of the adult male members of such Congregation or Society, then and there present, to determine and declare in what manner the successors to such Trustee or Trustees shall be appointed.

vide for the same.

Record of the

II. A record of the proceedings of the meeting shall be made proceedings to out in writing and signed by the Chairman and Secretary be made, and how. thereof, and shall thereafter be deposited of record among the archives of the Congregation or Society, and a copy of such record, certified to be a true copy by such Chairman or Secretary, on oath before a Justice of the Peace, shall be deposited, by acte de dépôt, in the usual manner, in the office of a Public Notary, whose copies thereof shall thenceforth be prima facie evidence of the contents thereof.

III. Such determination shall in every such case have the Effect of the decision at same effect as a clause in the Deed of Grant, Concession or such meeting. Conveyance of the lands to which it relates setting forth the manner of appointing Successors to the Trustee or Trustees therein named would have, and no more.

CAP. CIV.

An Act to authorize the improvement of Water

courses.

W

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS the improvement of Water-courses would be Preamble. a source of great prosperity to the Country: Therefore,

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

turn water courses ad

I. Every proprietor of land is hereby authorized to improve Proprietors of any water-course bordering upon, running along or passing lands may across his property, and to turn the same to account by the construction of mills, manufactories, works and machinery of joining them, all description, and for this purpose to erect and construct in to account, &c. and about such water-course, all the works necessary for its efficient working, such as flood gates, canals, embankments, dams, dykes, and the like.

II. The proprietors or lessees of any such works shall be But shall be liable for all damages resulting therefrom to any person whom- liable for all soever, whether by the too great elevation of the flood gates or

otherwise.

damages..

to be ascer

III. Such damages shall be ascertained by Experts to be such damages appointed by the parties interested, in the ordinary manner; tained by and in default of one of the said parties to appoint such Experts, Experts in one of the Experts of the municipality, to be selected by the case of dispute. Warden, shall act. In case of difference of opinion, the two Experts appointed as aforesaid, shall choose a third. The Experts shall be sworn before a Justice of the Peace well and duly to perform their duty in the said capacity. In assessing Proviso: as to the damages and fixing the compensation to be paid, the Experts, estimates of such damages. if the case shall require it, may set off against the whole or any part of such damages, the increased value which the perty of the claimants may have acquired by reason of the erection of such works, mills, manufactories or machinery.

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ages are not

IV. In default of payment of the damages and indemnity so Demolition of awarded within six months from the date of the report of the works if damExperts, together with legal interest to be computed from the said duly paid. date, the party by whom the payment is due shall be bound to demolish the works which he shall have erected, or they shall be so demolished at his costs and charges, upon judgment to

that

Act limited to L. C.

that effect rendered, the whole without prejudice to the damages and interest already incurred.

V. This Act shall apply to Lower Canada only.

CAP. CV.

Preamble.

Township of Bellingham constituted out of part of Chatham.

County Coun

hain.

An Act to erect part of the Township of Chatham, in the County of Argenteuil, into a separate Municipality.

W

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS it is expedient to constitute a separate Township Municipality out of part of the present Township of Chatham, in the County of Argenteuil, inasmuch as such Division of the said Township will greatly promote the welfare and convenience of its inhabitants, and is required by the population and progress of the Township: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Upon, from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth Ranges of the said Township of Chatham shall constitute a separate Township and Municipality by the name of the Township of Bellingham, and the remainder of the said present Township shall constitute a separate Township and Municipality by the name of the Township of Chatham.

II. All and every the debts of the present Municipality shall cil to pass a By-law as to be divided between the respective Municipalities of the said debts of Chat. Townships by virtue of a By-law to be passed by the County Council to that effect, and so soon as the said debts shall have been divided as aforesaid, each of the said Municipalities shall be bound to the payment of the share of the said debts which shall have been so assigned to it as aforesaid, as though such share of the said debts had been incurred by such Municipality.

Vote of ma

jority of elec tors required for such divi

sion.

Public Act.

III. The division of the said Municipality of the Township of Chatham into two Municipalities, shall only take place after the same shall have been approved of by a vote of the majority of the municipal electors of the said Township of Chatham. The said vote to be taken on such day as shall be fixed by the Municipal Council of the said County, within three months from the passing of this Act.

IV. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

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