agreement, all the undertaking of the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company, and the control and management thereof, and all the lands, goods, chattels, and other present and future property and effects, rights, and expectancies of that Company, and all the duties, obligations, and liabilities of that Company in respect of the same, shall respectively by virtue of these Acts be thereupon transferred to and absolutely vested in, and belong to and be imposed on the Transferree Company exclusively accordingly, and the Transferree Company shall accordingly have the sole right to and management and disposal of the transferree property, and be vested with all the rights, powers, and privileges, benefits, profits, and advantages, and subject to all the duties, obligations, and liabilities now held and exercised by, or belonging or to belong to, or attaching on the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company. 6. That except as is by this Act otherwise provided, all the powers and duties now conferred and imposed by the several Acts of Assembly relating to the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company, or the Directors thereof, shall from and after such transfer, be enjoyed, executed, and fulfilled by the Transferree Company and their Directors; and the faith of this Province now pledged to the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company, shall stand pledged accordingly to the Transferree Company, as representing the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company. 7. That it is the true intent and meaning of this Act that the Transferree Company shall under the several Acts relating to the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company, have all such power and privileges, rights and expectancies, and be subject to all such duties and liabilities with respect to the making of the Rail Road and its stations, and other works and conveniences, and the taking of such lands as may from time to time be requisite or proper for that purpose, and the working, managing, and controlling of the undertaking, and the protection of land owners and others, as if the Transferree Company instead of the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company had been originally authorized to make the Rail Road; but that, except as by this Act expressly provided, the several provisions of those Acts relating to the internal affairs of the Saint Andrews and Quebec Railroad Company shall be subject, and without prejudice, to any Act relating to the Transferree Company, so far as relates to the internal affairs of the Transferree Company. 8. Before any transfer authorized by this Act and under its authority shall be made, the assent of the Governor in Council shall be had; and notwithstanding such assent, the right, interest, and control of the Governor in Council in the said Company, under the authority of any Act relative to the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company, shall not be impaired or affected in any way, but such right, interest, and control shall be continued and retained. 9. That the Act incorporating the Saint Andrews and Quebec Rail Road Company, and the several Acts in addition to and in amendment of such Acts, irrespectively so far as the provisions thereof respectively are repugnant to or inconsistent with any of the provisions or purposes of this Act, are hereby repealed, but in all other respects those Acts respectively, so far as the same respectively are now unrepealed and in force, shall, subject and without prejudice to the provisions and purposes of this Act, be and remain in force; provided always, that this Act, and every thing therein, shall be subject, and without prejudice, to all the estates, rights, powers, privileges and expectancies of the Class A Company. 10. This Act shall not come into operation or be in force until Her Majesty's Royal approbation be thereunto had and declared. [This Act was specially confirmed, ratified, and finally enacted, by an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the twenty first day of August 1856, and published and declared in this Province the first day of October 1856.] INDEX TO THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. PASSED IN JULY 1856, AND MARCH AND JULY 1857. APPROPRIATION of the Public Revenue, For Roads and Bridges, and other Public Works, 69. ASSEMBLY, House of Act relating to the Election of Members, 10. BEARS, Act to encourage the destruction of, 3. BOARD OF HEALTH. See Title Saint John. BUOYS and BEACONS, Act amending Revised Statutes, Chapter 19, as to Ports in Gloucester, 18. CARLETON PARISH, in Kent County, as to Ports in Restigouche, 73. Division Line altered, 16. CENTRAL Fire Insurance Company, Act to continue Act of Incorporation and Acts in amendment, 59. Act of Incorporation, 33. CHURCH Lands, Act to incorporate the Chatham Gas Light Company, 33. First Universalist Church at Mill Town, 58. New Brunswick Steam Navigation Company, 55. Saint Stephen Academy, 41. Act to amend the Lacoote Lake River Driving Company Act, 63. Moncton Rural Cemetery Company Act, 5. Victoria College Act, 61. Act to continue the Central Fire Insurance Company Acts, 59. Nashwaak Boom Company Acts, 60. Act to revive, &c. the New Brunswick Mining Company Act, 60. Act to wind up the Seamen's Friend Society affairs, 25. Act in addition to the Saint John Suspension Bridge Company Act, 65. COURTS, Circuit, in Charlotte, Act to alter time of holding, 12. Costs in Revenue Cases and Practice in Court of Exchequer, 12. Act for amending the practice in, 12. FIRST UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY, Mill Town, Act of Incorporation, 58. FREDERICTON, Act relating to the Lower Flat of County Court House, 20. Act relating to Election of Members of House of Assembly, 10. GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Act further to amend Laws relating to Buoys and Beacons in, 18. GRAND MANAN, Act to repeal 12 V. c. 27, as to Highways on, 14. Act for the relief of, as to solemnizing Marriage, 75. HAMPTON, Act to authorize the sale of certain Church Lands in, 23. HIGHWAYS, Act to repeal 12 V. c. 27, as to Grand Manan, 14. Act to regulate Road Tax of non-residents on Islands in River St. John, Act of Incorporation, 31. INFECTIOUS DIstempers, Act to continue 13 V. c. 18, as to Gloucester and Northumberland, 18. Act to amend Incorporation Act, 63. LEGISLATURE, Act to provide for certain expenses of the, (Indemnification Act,) 73. Act to erect, from part of Pennfield, 15. LEPROSY, Act to continue 13 V. c. 18, to prevent the spread of in Gloucester, &c. 18. LIQUORS, Act to repeal 18 V. c. 36, preventing the importation, &c. of intoxicating, l. LOCAL ACTS, Church Lands. See Title Church Lands. Fredericton. See Title York County. Gloucester Buoys and Beacons, 18. Leprosy, 18. Grand Manan Highways, 14. Parishes erected or altered. See Title Parishes. Portland Streets, 19. Road Tax for Island Property in River Saint John, 73. LOCAL ACTS-Continued. Saint John, Board of Health, 19. Fire Department Assessment, 74. Saint Stephen Burial Ground, 24. MADUXNIKIK Boom Company, Act to continue Act of Incorporation and in amendment, 53. Act to repeal the laws relating to the granting of, 14. Act of Incorporation, 42. MONCTON Rural Cemetery Company, Act to amend Act of Incorporation, 5. NASHWAAK Boom Company, Act to continue 18 V. c. 63, relating to, 60. NEW BRUNSWICK Mining Company, Act to revive, continue, and amend Act of Incorporation, 60. NEW BRUNSWICK Steam Navigation Company, Act of Incorporation, 55. NORTHFIELD Parish, Act to erect from part of Sheffield, 16. NORTHUMBERLAND, Act to continue 13 V. c. 18, to prevent the spread of a Disorder in Glou- NORTHUMBERLAND Straits Fishing Company, Act further to amend Act of Incorporation, 63. PARISH SCHOOLS, Act to revive and continue certain Acts relating to, 74. PALMERSTON Parish, Division line altered, 16. PARISHES, LePreau erected from part of Pennfield, 14. Palmerston and Carleton, in Kent County, division line altered, 16. Northfield erected from part of Sheffield, 16. PENNFIELD, Act to erect Parish of LePreau from part of, 15. PORTLAND, Act to make certain Streets in, public Highways, 19. PRIVATE ACTS. See Title Guilford, Rev. H. P. PROHIBITORY Liquor Law, Act to repeal Act to prevent the importation, &c. of intoxicating Liquors, 1. Act to authorize the sale of Glebe Land in, 22. RAILWAYS, Act relating to, (amends 19 V. c. 15,) 11. Act to alter and amend 19 V. c. 15, 12. |