the Crown therefor (except Seigniorial dues) is now overdue and unpaid,- that you are a Subject of Her Majesty by birth, (for naturalization, as the case may be),-that you believe yourself to be of the full age of twenty-one years,--that you have not already voted at this Election, and that you have not received any thing nor has any thing been promised you, either directly or indirectly, to induce you to give your vote at this Election. So help you God. No. 4 Oath or affirmation of a person claiming the right of voting as the tenant or occupant of real property lying elsewhere than within some City or Town entitled to send a Member or Members to the Legislative Assembly, as bound for Municipal purposes. You swear (or, if he be one of the persons permilled by Law to affirm in civil cases, you solemnly affirm) that you have been for six months and more immediately preceding this day, and are actually and bona fide in possession for your own use and benefit as tenant (or occupant) of the Estate which you have just described, as giving you a right to vote at this Election,(if he vote as a tenant, say: that your present lease of the said Estate was made for a term not less than one year,) and that the said property has not been colorably or collusively leased or let to you or allowed to be occupied by you for the purpose of enabling you to vote, and that it is of the actual value of fifty pounds currency, or more, (or of the yearly value of five pounds currency, or more, as the case may be),-that no instalment of purchase money, rent or sum of money which you have undertaken to pay to the Crown therefor (except seigniorial dues) is now overdue and unpaid,—that you are a Subject of Her Majesty by birth, (or naturalization, as the case may be),—that you believe yourself to be of the full age of twenty-one years,—that you have not already voted at this Election, and that you have not received any thing nor has any thing been promised you, either directly or indirectly, to induce you to give your vote at this Election. So help you God. No. 5. Oath or affirmation of a person claiming the right of voting as being qualified as a proprietor or freeholder under the Elections Act of 1849. You swear (or, if he be one of the persons permitted by law to affirm in civil cases, you solemnly affirm) that no instalment of purchase money, or any rent or other sum of money which you have undertaken to pay to the Crown, for the property in respect of which you claim to be entitled to vote at this Election, (adding in Lower Canada the words "except seigniorial rents") is now overdue and unpaid. So help you God. CAP. CAP. LXXXVIII. An Act to alter the mode of drawing up the Provincial [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] W Preamble. New form I. Hereafter, the following words inserted in the Preamble of Statutes and indicating the authority by virtue of which they of enacting are passed: "Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most clause. "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-unile the Provinces of Upper and "Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is. hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:" shall be abolished and replaced by the words following, "Her Ma"jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative "Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts, as follows:" t II. After the insertion of these words which shall follow the Acts to be con setting forth of the considerations or reasons upon which the cise and clear law is grounded, and which shall with these considerations or reasons constitute the entire Preamble, the various clauses of the Statute shall follow in a concise and enunciative form. САР. CAP. LXXXIX. Preamble. Salaries of Judges raised notwithstanding 14 & 15 V. c. 173. Chancery. Law Courts. Circuit Judges. An Act to amend the Act amending the Act granting a Civil List to Her Majesty, by increasing the Salaries of certain Judicial Functionaries and other Officers therein mentioned, and to fix those of certain other Public Officers. WHEREAS [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] HEREAS it is expedient to increase the Salaries of certain Judicial and other Functionaries and Officers hereinafter mentioned, and to authorize the Governor in Council, in cases where be shall deem it right, to increase within certain limits the Salaries and allowances of the Subordinate Officers in the Public Service: Be it therefore 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, as follows: I. For and notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in the Act passed in the Session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to reduce the Salaries attached to certain Judicial Officers, in the cases therein mentioned, and to fix the Salaries of the Speakers of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly, or in the Act thereby amended, passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for granting a Ciril List to Her Majesty, or in the Post Office Act, or in any other Act or Law, the following Salaries shall and may be paid to the several Judicial and other Officers hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: To the Chancellor of Upper Canada, and to each of the Chief Justices of the several Superior Courts of Law in Upper and Lower Canada, twelve hundred and fifty pounds currency per annum ; To each of the Vice Chancellors and each of the Puisne Justices of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, in Upper Canada, and to each of the Puisne Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench and of the Superior Court in Lower Canada, one thousand pounds currency per annum ; To each of the Circuit Judges in Lower Canada, Six Hundred and Fifty Pounds per annum ; To To each of the following Officers, namely: The President of Certain High Committees of the Executive Council, the Attorney General for Functionaries. Lower Canada, the Attorney General for Upper Canada, the Receiver General of this Province, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, the Postmaster General, the Provincial Secretary, and the Inspector General of Public Accounts, Twelve Hundred and Fifty Pounds Currency, per annum ; To the Speaker of the Legislative Council, when he is also a Speaker Member of the Executive Council for this Province, Twelve Legislative Hundred and Fifty Pounds Currency, per annum; Council. To the Solicitor General for Lower Canada and to the Soli- Solicitor citor General for Upper Canada, each Seven Hundred and General. Fifty Pounds Currency, per annum. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be con- Proviso. raise Salaries of Public Officers, within II. For and notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in any Governor in of the Acts aforesaid or in any other Act or law, it shall be Council may lawful for the Governor in Council to make such increase as he shall see fit to the salaries of the subordinate officers in the public service, not exceeding in any case the following rates, certain limits. that is to say: On salaries not exceeding two hundred pounds per annum, twenty-five per cent; On salaries exceeding two hundred pounds but not exceeding three hundred pounds per annum, twenty per cent ; On salaries exceeding three hundred pounds but not exceeding four hundred pounds per annum, fifteen per cent; On salaries exceeding four hundred pounds per annum, a sum not greater than the maximum increase on salaries of four hundred pounds per annum. III. The increase of salary granted by or under the authority Increase to of this Act, shall take effect from the first day of January, one date from 1st thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. January, 1855. IV. Such sums as may be required, in addition to the sums Sums granted granted by the said Act for granting a Civil List to Her Ma- to Her Ma jesty, for the purpose of paying the salaries hereby assigned to jesty. the Chancellor of Upper Canada and to the Chief Justices, Vice-Chancellors, Accounting clause. Preamble. £532,168 193. ated out of Vice-Chancellors, Justices and Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity in Upper and Lower Canada, shall be and are hereby granted to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and shall be payable yearly out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province on Warrants of the Governor thereof. V. The due application of the moneys hereby appropriated, shall be accounted for to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being, in such manner and form as Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors shall direct, and accounted for to the two Houses of the Provincial Parliament at the then next session thereof. CAP. XC. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government for the year 1855, and certain other expenses connected with the public service. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN : [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] WHEREAS 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, bearing date respectively the twelfth day of March, the twenty-fifth day of April, the fourteenth day of May and the sixteenth day of May, of this present year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, 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-five: May it therefore please 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, as follows: I. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this 8d. appropri- Province, there shall be and may be paid and applied a sum Consolidated not exceeding in the whole the sum of five hundred and thirtytwo thousand one hundred and sixty-eight pounds, nineteen shillings and eight pence, for defraying the several charges and Revenue Fund. expenses |