enure in favor behalf of Her said Majesty or for the Public Service; and all Other provienactments, directions and provisions in the said in part recited sions of the Act of the seventh year of the Reign of Her Majesty con- said Act to tained, shall, with respect to all lands and other real property, of the said which by this Act or at any time after the passing of this Secretary. Act shall be vested in such said Principal Secretary of State, continue in full force, and may or shall at all times hereafter be by the said Principal Secretary of State for the time being acted on and take effect, and shall enure or take effect in favor of and may be enforced by such said Principal Secretary of State and his Successors, on behalf of Her Majesty and for the Public Service. دو in deeds relat V. In every Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease or other How the said Assurance of any lands or other real property, with, unto or by Secretary may the said Principal Secretary of State for the time being, and in he described every other Deed or Instrument relating to any lands, heredita- ing to such ments, estates or property, or in any wise to the Public Service, property and to which the said Principal Secretary of State for the time ghts, &c. being shall be or shall be intended to be a party, it shall be sufficient to call or describe him by the style or title of "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department,' without naming him; and every such Contract, Conveyance, How such Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed or Instruinent may be deeds, &c., executed by such Principal Secretary of State, or by any other may be exeof Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for the time being, by signing his name thereto, and if the Instrument so executed be in the form of a Deed by setting or affixing a Seal thereto and delivering the same as his Deed; and whenever any Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, Assurance, Deed or Instrument shall be executed by any other Principal Secretary of State, the Principal Secretary of State so executing the same, shall, for that time and on that occasion and for the purposes thereof, be deemed to be Principal Secretary of State for the War Department. cuted. VI. Immediately on and from the passing of this Act, all Lands, &c., and every the lands and other real property in this Province in Schedule 7, vested in Her comprised in the second Schedule to this Act annexed, being a Majesty for portion of the messuages, lands, tenements, estates and here- the public uses ditaments comprised within the provisions and meaning of the the Province. said in part recited Act of the seventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, which, prior to the passing of this Act, were by the said recited Act or otherwise, vested in the said Prineipal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, and their Successors in the said Office, and which have been used or occupied for the service of the Ordnance Department, or for Military defence, by whatever mode of Conveyance the same shall have been so purchased or taken either in fee or for any life or lives, or for any term or terms of years, or any other or lesser interest, and all erections and buildings which now are or which shall or may hereafter be erected and built thereon, together 14 with To be subject to the provi sions of 16 V. c. 159. And to those of any lease, Act 7 V. c. 11, with the rights, members, easements and appurtenances to the same respectively belonging, shall, by virtue of this Act, be and be come and remain and continue absolutely vested in Her Majesty the Queen, for the benefit, use and purposes of this Province, according to the respective nature and quality of the said lands and other real property, and shall be subject to the provisions of the Act passed by the Legislature of this Province, in the sixteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, An Act to amend the Law for the Sale and Settlement of the Public Lands, and any further provisions which the Legislature of this Province may from time to time enact in respect thereof, and shall be held, used, conveyed and dealt with accordingly; but subject nevertheless to all Sales, Agreements, Lease or Leases, Agreement or Agreements for Lease, already entered into, withor by the Principal Officers of Ordnance, or any person or persons authorized or empowered by the said Principal Officers to exercise the powers and authorities of the said in part recited Act of the seventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, of or in respect of any such lands and other real property. VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing not to apply to herein contained shall be taken to affect the rights of any parties lands, &c., claiming any of the lands, buildings or other property referred the Province. to in the next preceding section and in the said second schedule; transferred to Recital. Classes A, and that all actions now pending against the said Principal Officers in relation thereto may be proceeded with to final judgment in the name of the said Principal Officers, and as if the appointment of the said Principal Officers had not been revoked by Her Majesty and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty's Attorney General to appear in any such case on behalf of the Crown, and the Crown and all other persons whatsoever shall be bound by the final judgment of the Court in which such suit may have been commenced. : VIII. And whereas in the last Session of the Provincial Parliament an Act was passed, intituled, An Act relating to the Ordnance Lands and Naval and Military Reserves in this Province, and for other purposes, wherein it is among other things provided, that the Lands and Reserves therein mentioned and referred to, shall, if transferred to the Provincial Government, be divided into three classes denominated A, B and C, respec tively Be it therefore enacted, That for and notwithstanding to consist of any thing in the said Act contained, all the lands, buildings and other property included in the first schedule to this Act annexed shall be deemed to be included in class A of the said Act; and that class B of the said Act shall be deemed to consist of such buildings or portions of the lands or other property in second schedule to this Act, as may from time to time be placed in class B by authority of the Governor in Council; and the remainder of the lands, buildings and other property enumerated in the second schedule to this Act shall form class C under the said recited Act; and the two classes B and C shall be dealt dealt with as is provided with regard to them respectively, in the said recited Act. IX. With respect to all lands and other real property com- Recited Act prised in the second Schedule to this Act annexed, which by this repealed. Act shall be vested in Her Majesty the Queen for the benefit, use and purposes of this Province, the said recited Act of the seventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, and every clause, matter and thing therein contained, shall, from and immediately after the passing of this Act, be repealed, and the same is and are hereby repealed accordingly. THE FIRST SCHEDULE REFERRED to in this Act, being the Schedule of Military Lands in Canada, to be vested in one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State. QUEBEC...... MONTREAL.. KINGSTON. NIAGARA....... SOREL....... 14* The Citadel of Quebec, Fortifications, Glacies, Barracks, Lands with the appurtenances thereunto in any manner belonging, and the Barracks called the Jesuit Barracks, and the several Public Offices occupied for the various Military purposes, and all other Military properties at that station. The Barracks, Public Offices Lands heretofore held or purchased by the Ordnance for the erection of Barracks or for the defence of the Province, together with the Island of Saint Helens in the River Saint Lawrence, as heretofore held by the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, for various Military purposes, with the exception of a parcel of land at Longueuil which has been purchased for the purpose of a tête de pont, which is to be retained until an adequate quantity of land is substituted by the Province in lieu thereof, in the vicinity of the projected Bridge across the Saint Lawrence; and also with the exception of the Old Barracks at Montreal, which are to be retained until Barracks shall have been constructed for the accommodation of one thousand men, on a site to be approved by the Military Authorities. THE SECOND SCHEDULE REFERRED to in this Act, being the Schedule of Military Properties in Canada proposed to be transferred to the Provincial Government. HEREAS Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in this Preamble. Province, who are now required to possess a property qualification, suffer inconvenience in consequence of being obliged to renew the oath of qualification on the occasion of the issuing of a new Commission of the Peace for the Territorial Divisions of this Province for which such Justices may have qualified themselves to act: For remedy thereof, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: I. For and notwithstanding any thing contained in the Act Notwithstandsixth Victoria, chapter three, and intituled, An Act for the qua- ing 6 V. c. 3, lification of Justices of the Peace, it shall not be necessary in New Oath of qualification the case of any Commission of the Peace to be issued after the not to be re passing |