act, certificates and instruments whatever, whether originals, exemplifications or copies, which, under this act or any act of this legislature, or under any order in council founded on or recognized by such act, require to have any stamp attached thereto or impressed thereon. And of " officers 5. The words officer subject to this act” refer to and subject to this include every officer having any charge as to matters subject to governor in council. 29 & 30 V., c. 28. 6. The said chapter twenty-eight, of the session held in the amended. twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of her majesty's reign, is hereby amended by the substitution of the following sections for the third and fourth sections thereof, respectively, that is to say: Certificates of "3. No certificate of the registration of any deed, instruregistration or search ineffec- ment or document, or of any search, on which deed, instrument, tual unless document or search, a duty payable by stamps is then imposed stamped. by any order in council, made under this act, shall be received in any court as evidence, or be of any effect whatever, until the proper stamp for the payment of such duty is attached to such certificate, whether written on such deed, instrument or Proviso. document, or given separately; saving always the power vested in the proper court or judge by the eighteenth section of the said act of the session held in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of her majesty's reign, to allow stamps to be affixed on application of any party, on conditions to be imposed by such court or judge, under the provisions of the said section.” Registrar to. “4. Each registrar in Lower Canada shall keep a book in which he shall enter briefly day by day, and as they occur, a note of every search made in his office, on and after the day on which a duty shall become payable as aforesaid, stating the name of the person demanding or making such search, and the fee paid for each, and whether or not he has granted a certificate of such search; and opposite to every note of a search whereof he shall not have given a certificate, he shall affix a stamp for the duty payable for such search, if such duty be Return of then payable by stamps; and each registrar shall hereafter ed state in the return which he is bound to make yearly under chapter one hundred and eleven of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada the amount of the fees which he shall have received in each year, for searches made in his office, as well as of the amount of the duties received by him under the authority of this act.” Lieut. gov. in 7. The lieutenant-governor may, from time to time, by council may order certain order in council, provide, that on and after such day as may searches. amount receiv under this act. be therein named, and'after at least one month's notice thereof, payments to be given in the Quebec Official Gazette, any money payments uments made by stamps. therein designated, which under any act, order in council or other authority, are due or payable to, or through any public department or officer by reason of any matter subject to the control of this legislature, shall or may be collected or paid in by means of stamps,—and that on and after the same day, all letters-patent, commissions, licenses, certificates and instruments whatever, whether originals, exemplifications or copies, for or by reason of which such money payments are inade, or which are in any wise connected therewith or relative thereto, shall require to have stamps attached to or impressed upon them. 8. On and after the day so fixed, such notice having been such payments duly given, the inoney payments so indicated shall or may be shall then be made by stamps. so collected or paid in by means of stamps, as by such order is provided ;—and all letters-patent, commissions, licenses, certificates and instruments whatever, whether originals, exemplifications or copies, for or by reason of which such money payments are made, or which are in any wise connected therewith or relative thereto, shall require to have such stamps attached to or impressed upon them, as by such order is provided. 9. Any such order may at any time thereafter be amended New order may or repealed by like order in council, notified in like manner be made. and for the like term. 10. No instrument requiring to be stamped shall be issued, Instruments of received, acted on or recognized by any officer subject to this no effect unless stamped. act, or by any court, judge or person whatever,—or avail in evidence or otherwise for any purpose whatever,-until all and every the stamps requiring to be attached thereto or impressed thereon, have been duly so attached or impressed. 11. Every officer subject to this act, on issue or receipt of Stamps to be any such instrument having any stamp or stamps attached cancelled thereto or impressed thereon, shall forthwith cancel every such stamp by writing or impressing thereon in ink, his name and the date of such cancelment, so as effectually to prevent it being used again. 12. Every officer subject to this act shall be deemed to be officers deemed as such a revenue officer, within the meaning of and subject to be revenue to the treasury department act. 13. All needed supplies of stamps shall be procured from Supplies of time to time by the treasurer ; stamps. 2. The assistant-treasurer shall have direct charge of such Issuing of supplies, -and shall make issue therefrom, only upon certified stamps. requisitions reaching him through the auditor; 3. Exact detailed accounts of all stamps procured and issued, Account of shall be kept, both by the assistant-treasurer and by the stamps issued. auditor,-in such form and under such regulations for assurance of the responsibility attaching to each of them as to all matters therewith connected, as the lieutenant-governor by order in council, or (subject to all such orders) the treasurer may make from time to time. Socs. 6, 22, & 23 14. The sixth, twenty-second and twenty-third sections of of 200&28d.., c. the said act firstly herein mentioned, are hereby repealed in respect of all matters subject to the control of this legislature. Designation : 15. This act and the said two acts of the said late province “ The stamps t." of Canada as hereby amended, shall be read together as one act,—and may be cited as “ The stamps regulation act;” and all the provisions thereof, so read together, shall extend and apply to all stamps, and fees as hereby defined, and to all instruments requiring to be stamped, and to all officers subject to this act. regulation act CAP. III. Pawnbrokers. An act respecting certain Duties on Licenses. [Assented to 24th February, 1868.] TTER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of I the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows : Further duties 1. Over and above all sums of money whatever now on licenses, exigible thereon by way of duty or otherwise, there shall be paid by every person who takes out a license of any of the descriptions hereinafter named, the further duties following, that is to say : 1. For every pawnbroker's license, issued under chapter sixty-one of the consolidated statutes of Canada, the further duty of fifteen dollars ; Auctioneors. 2. For every auctioneer's license, issued under chapter five of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the further duty of five dollars ; Salo of spirits in 3. For every license to keep an inn, tavern, or other house or place of public entertainment, and for retailing whiskey or any spiritous liquors, wine, ale, beer, porter, cider or other vinous or fermented liquors, issued under chapter six of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the further duty of five dollars; vines 4. For every license to keep an inn, tavern or other house &o,, in taverns. or place of public entertainment, and for retailing wine, ale, beer, porter, cider or other vinons or fermented liquors, but not brandy, rum, whiskey or other spirituous liqnors, issued under chapter six of the consolidated statutes for Lower Cana da, the further duty of two dollars and fifty cents; Sale of spirits by 5. For every license to vend or retail in any store or shop, traders. brandy, rum, whiskey, or other spirituous liquors, and wine, ale, beer, porter, cider or other vinous or fermented liquors, in a quantity not less than three half-pints at any one time, issued under chapter six of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the further duty of three dollars ; taverns. Sale of wines, 6. For every license to retail on board any steamboat or Sale of spirits on board vessels. other vessel, brandy, rum, whiskey, or other spirituous liquors, wine, ale, beer, porter, cider, or other vinous or fermented liquors, issued under chapter six of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the further duty of five dollars; 7. For every license to retail on board any steamboat or Sale of wine, &c., on board vessels. other vessel, wine, ale, beer, porter, cider or other vinous or fermented liquors, but not brandy, rum, whiskey, or other spirituous liquors, issued under chapter six of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the further duty of two dollars and fifty cents; 8. For every hawker's and pedler's license, issued under Pedlers. chapter seven of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the further duty of two dollars ; 9. For every billiard table licensed under chapter eight of Billiard tables. the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the further duty of twelve dollars and fifty cents. 2. The said further duties shall be paid over to the trea- Payment and application of surer for the public uses of the province only; and any such duties. proportion or amount thereof as the lieutenant-governor in council may from time to time allow or order, may be applied, under direction of the treasurer, for defraying expenses incident to the enforcement of the said acts, and to any prosecutions for breaches thereof. CAP. IV. Il on a mem An act respecting the office of Speaker of the Legislative [Assented to 24th February, 1868.] TTER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of 11 the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. Whenever the speaker of the legislative assembly, from Speaker in cer itain cases may illness or other cause, finds it necessary to leave the chair cam during any part of the sittings of the said house, on any day, ber to take his he may call upon any member thereof to take the chair and to place. act as speaker during the remainder of such day, unless the speaker himself resumes the chair before the close of the sittings for that day; and the member so called upon shall take the chair and act as speaker accordingly; and every act passed, and every order made and thing done by the said legislative assembly, while such member is acting as speaker, as aforesaid, shall be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes, as if done while the speaker himself was presiding in the chair. CAP. V. An act respecting the Indemnity to Members of the Legislature, and the Salary of the Speaker of the [Assented to 24th February, 1868.] LTER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of II the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows : Six dollars a 1. In this session of the legislature there shall be allowed day, or $450, to each member to to each member of the legislative council and of the legis lative assembly attending thereat, six dollars for each day's attendance, if the session do not extend beyond thirty-days; and if the session extends beyond thirty days, then there shall be payable to each member of the legislative council and of the legislative assembly attending thereat, a sessional allow ance of four hundred and fifty dollars, and no more. Reduction. 2. A reduction of five dollars per day shall be made from the said sessional allowance, for every day on which the member does not attend a sitting of the house of which he is a member, or some committee thereof, provided the house sits on such day; but each day during the session, on which there has been no sitting of such house or on which the member was prevented by sickness from attending any such sitting as aforesaid, but on which in either case) he was at the place where the session was held, shall be reckoned as a day of attendance at the session. Payment from 3. The said compensation may be paid from time to time time to time to extent of four as the member becomes entitled to it, to the extent of four dollars for each day's attendance as aforesaid; but the remain. der shall be retained by the clerk of the proper house until the close of the session, when the final payment shall be made. Case of member 4. If any person is from any cause a member of either being present for part only of 10 house for a part only of the session, then, provided he is a member for upwards of thirty days during such session, he shall be entitled to the sessional allowance last mentioned, subject to the deduction aforesaid for non-attendance as a member, and also to a deduction of six dollars for each day of the session before or after he was a member, but if he is a member for only thirty days or less, then he shall be entitled only to six dollars for each day's attendance thereat, whatever be the length thereof. Mileage. 5. There shall be also allowed to each member of the legislative council and legislative assembly ten cents for each mile of distance between the place of residence of such member and the place at which the session is held, reckoning such distance going and coming according to the nearest mail route, which distance shall be decided and certified by the speaker of the legislative council or the legislative assembly, as the case may be. dollars. session, |