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that he should be admitted to practise at Law as an Attorney and Solicitor in this Province; And whereas it is reasonable under the circumstances of the case that the Courts of Law and Equity in this Province should be authorized, in their discretion, to admit the said Hewitt Bernard to practise as such Attorney and Solicitor: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

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I. It shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Queen's The said Bench and Common Pleas and the High Court of Chancery of Courts may, Upper Canada, in their discretion and upon sufficient proof cretion, admit being given that the said Hewitt Bernard has served under H. Bernard articles of Clerkship to a practising Attorney in this Province to practise for the space of three years, to admit the said Hewitt Bernard as an Attorney and Solicitor of those Courts respectively; any Law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. CXXXVIII.

An Act to authorize the Court of Chancery, and the
Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, in
Upper Canada, to admit William Lynn Smart, to
practise as an Attorney and Solicitor.

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[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

therein.

Public Act.

HEREAS by an Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, Preamble. passed in the second year of the reign of His Majesty

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King George the Fourth, intituled, An Act to repeal part of, Act of U. C., and amend an Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of His late 2 G. 4, c. 5. Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for the better regulating the practice of the law,' and to extend the provisions of the same, it is amongst other things enacted, that from and after the passing of the said Act, no person shall be admitted by the Court of King's Bench to practise as an Attorney, unless by an actual service under articles for five years with some practising Attorney; And whereas it appears by the Petition of William Lynn Smart, of the Town of Woodstock, County of Oxford, and Province of Canada, gentleman, and by certificates and documents produced in support thereof, that the Petitioner was duly articled for five years to John Edward Buller, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex, England, in the United Kingdom, a practising Attorney of Her Majesty's Courts of Queen's Bench, Exchequer and Common Pleas, also a Solicitor in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain called England; And whereas it also appears that the Petitioner having passed the usual examination and taken the oaths of allegiance for admission, was duly admitted, and now is an Attorney of Her Majesty's

Courts

The said

Courts may, cretion, admit W. L. Smart

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to practise therein.

Public Act.

Courts of Queen's Bench, Exchequer, Common Pleas and Bankruptcy, and also a Solicitor of the High Court of Chancery in England, and practised as such until May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, when the Petitioner left England for this Province; And whereas the said Petitioner is desirous of practising in the Courts of Law and Equity in this Province, and it is expedient to relieve him from the disability imposed by the said Act: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. It shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas in Upper Canada, in their discretion, to admit the said William Lynn Smart, without further servitude or oath of allegiance, to practise as an Attorney of the said Courts; And it shall also be lawful for the Court of Chancery in Upper Canada aforesaid, in its discretion, to admit the said William Lynn Smart, to practise as a Solicitor in the said Court of Chancery, without further servitude or oath of allegiance as aforesaid; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. CXXXIX.

Preamble.

Alfred Falkenberg to be

Proviso to
Allegiance

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An Act to naturalize Alfred Falkenberg.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.] HEREAS Alfred Falkenberg, late of Gottenburg, in the Kingdom of Sweden, and now of Quebec, in this Province, merchant, hath represented by his Petition, that he has been a resident in this Province during the last three years, and that he has determined to become a permanent resident in this Province, and has prayed that he may be naturalized as a subject of Her Most Gracious Majesty; And whereas it is expedient that his prayer should be granted: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. The said Alfred Falkenberg shall be deemed, adjudged and taken to be, and to have been ever since he has resided in deemed a Bri- this Province, a natural born British subject of Her Majesty and tish Subject. of Her Royal Predecessors, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever, as if he had been born in this Province; Provided always, that in order to entitle himself to the benefit of this Act, the said Alfred Falkenberg shall take and subscribe, within three months from the date of the passing of this Act, before the Clerk of the Peace of the District of Quebec, (who is hereby authorized and directed to administer the same,) the oath of Allegiance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and that such oath so taken and subscribed shall be kept by the said Clerk of the Peace among the records of his office.

within a certain time.

Public Act.

II. This Act shall be taken to be a Public Act.

OF THE

PROVINCE OF CANADA

PASSED IN THE

NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA

AND IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.

Begun and holden at Toronto on the Fifteenth of February, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Six.

RESERVED ACT.

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HIS EXCELLENCY

SIR EDMUND WALKER HEAD, BARONET,

GOVERNOR GENERAL.

TORONTO:

PRINTED BY STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

Anno Domini, 1856.

ANNO DECIMO-NONO ET VICESIMO

VICTORIÆ

REGINE.

CAP. CXL.

An Act to change the Constitution of the Legislative
Council by rendering the same Elective.

Reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure 16th May, 1856.
The Royal Assent given by Her Majesty in Council on the 24th June, 1856;
and Proclamation thereof made by His Excellency Sir EDMUND WALKER
HEAD, Governor General, in the Canada Gazette of the 14th July, 1856.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of the United Preamble.

Kingdom passed in the seventeenth and eighteenth Imperial Act, years of the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty, chaptered 17 & 18 V. one hundred and eighteen to empower the Legislature of c. 118. "Canada to alter the Constitution of the Legislative Council "for that Province, and for other purposes," it is enacted, That the Legislature of this Province may change the Constitution of the Legislative Council of the said Province, and make other provisions relative to the same subject and to other subjects therein mentioned: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

Council shall

I. The Legislative Council shall hereafter be composed of How the Lethe present Members thereof, and of forty-eight Members to be gislative elected, in the proportion and at the times and in the manner be constituted hereinafter provided; and to this end, the Province shall be hereafter. divided into forty-eight Electoral Divisions, twenty-four in Upper Canada and twenty-four in Lower Canada, in the manner set forth in Schedule A.

tinued.

II. The present Councillors shall continue to hold their seats Present Counas heretofore, subject to the conditions contained in the Impe- cillors conrial Act of the third and fourth Victoria, chapter thirty-five, "to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada and "for the Government of Canada."

Term of ser

III. The Elective Members shall be elected for eight years. vice of E. C.

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