Statuts de la province du Canada

UPPER CANADA.

GROUP 7.

Western, St. Clair, Malahide and Tecumseth.

GROUP 8.

Saugeen, Brock, Gore and Thames.

GROUP 9.

Erie, Niagara, Burlington and Home.

GROUP 10.

Midland, York, King's and Queen's.

GROUP 11.

Newcastle, Trent, Quinté and Cataraque.

GROUP 12.

Bathurst, St. Lawrence, Rideau and Eastern.

TORONTO:-PRINTED BY S DERBISHIRE & G. DESBARATS, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

1856.-19 & 20 VICTORIE.

SECOND SESSION, FIFTH PARLIAMENT.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

I. An Act to provide for the holding of an additional Term of the
Appeal Side of the Court of Queen's Bench for Lower Canada,
in the present year,

II. An Act to authorize the commutation of claims on Ordnance
Lands, upon the transfer of such Lands to the Province,
III. An Act to amend the Act for establishing Freedom of Banking,
IV. An Act to change the tenure of the Indian Lands in the Township
of Durham,

V. An Act to repeal in part an Act to provide a remedy against the
City of Quebec in case of injury to property by riot,

VI. An Act to facilitate the disuniting of the Counties of Lincoln
and Welland, and for other purposes therein mentioned,
VII. An Act to explain and amend the Charter of the City Bank,
VIII. An Act to remedy a defect in the Act passed in the eighteenth
year of Her Majesty's Reign, to amend and extend the Acts
incorporating the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad Com-
pany,

IX. An Act to increase the Capital Stock of the Port Dalhousie
Harbour Company,

X. An Act to amend the Acts imposing Duties of Customs,
XI. An Act for the punishment of the Officers and Servants of
Railway Companies contravening the By-laws of such Com-
panies, to the danger of person and property,

XII. An Act to amend the Act to provide for the formation of
Incorporated Joint Stock Companies, for Manufacturing, Mining,
Mechanical or Chemical purposes,

XIII. An Act to make further provision for the Geological Survey of this Province,

XIV. An Act to amend the Common School Laws, and further to
promote Elementary Education in Lower Canada,
XV. An Act to provide in a more certain manner for order in En-
registration, and to facilitate Enregistrations and Searches in
the Registry Offices of Lower Canada,

XVI. An Act to amend the Provincial Act appropriating the moneys
arising from the Clergy Reserves,

XVII. An Act to incorporate the Town of Galt and to define the
limits thereof,
XVIII. An Act to incorporate the Town of Owen Sound, in the
County of Grey,

XIX. An Act to separate the County of Bruce from the County of
Huron,

XX. An Act to amend the Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act
of 1855, and to authorize the organization of a Municipal
Council in the Village of St. Jérôme,
XXI. An Act to incorporate the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway
Company with power to purchase from the Buffalo, Brantford
and Goderich Railway Company their line of Railway, and for
other purposes,

XXII. An Act to revive, continue and amend the Act incorporating

the Hamilton and Port Dover Railway Company,

XXIII. An Act to extend the line of the Port Dalhousie and Thorold

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Railway Company,

XXIV. An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the L'Assomp-

tion River and Railway Company,

XXV. An Act to incorporate certain persons under the name and

style of the "Canada North-West Railway Company,"

XXVI. An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Stratford and

Huron Railway Company,

XXVII. An Act to amend the Acts relating to "La Banque du

Peuple,"

XXVIII. An Act to explain and amend the Charter of the Brockville

Gas Light Company,

XXIX. An Act to amend the Act relating to Savings Banks,

XXX. An Act to enable the Hamilton Hotel Company to increase

their Capital Stock, and for other purposes therein mentioned,

XXXI. An Act to incorporate the "Ontario Hotel Company,"

XXXII. An Act to authorize Henry Wulf Trigge, Esquire, and

others, to construct a Toll-bridge on the north-east branch of the

River Nicolet, near the Church of the Parish of St. Monique, in

the county of Nicolet, and to incorporate the said Henry Wulf

Trigge, and others, under the name of the "St. Monique Bridge

Company,"

XXXIII. An Act to change the name of George Byron Lyon, and of

his family, by adding the name of Fellowes, -

XXXIV. An Act to authorize the Court of Chancery, and the Courts

of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, in Upper Canada, to

admit Henry Spencer Papps to practise as a Solicitor and

Attorney,

XXXV. An Act to vest a certain allowance for Road in the Town-

ship of Hamilton, County of Northumberland, in John Wade

and Benjamin Seymour,

XXXVI. An Act to vest in Samuel Doolittle and Robert Johnson, a

certain allowance for Road in the Township of Haldimand,

XXXVII. An Act to vest in James Taunton, a certain allowance for

Road in the Township of Southwold, -

XXXVIII. An Act to vest in John Farley, the younger, a certain

allowance for Road in the Township of Darlington,

XXXIX. An Act to vest in Daniel Burritt a certain allowance for

Road in the Township of Marlborough,

XL. An Act to naturalize Hervey Killam,

XLI. An Act to provide for the execution of the Office of Speaker of

the Legislative Assembly, in certain cases,

XLII. An Act to impose an additional Excise Duty on Spirits,
XLIII. An Act to amend, repeal and consolidate the provisions of
certain Acts therein mentioned, and to simplify and expedite
the proceedings in the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common
Pleas in Upper Canada,

XLIV. An Act to amend the Militia Law,
XLV. An Act for transferring to one of Her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State the powers and estates and property therein
described, now vested in the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's
Ordnance, and for vesting other part of the Ordnance Estates
and Property therein described in Her Majesty the Queen, for
the benefit, use and purposes of this Province,

XLVI. An Act to amend the Act for the qualification of Justices of

the Peace,

XLVII. An Act to amend the Act to provide for the better organization

of Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada, and for other pur-

poses connected with Agriculture in Upper and Lower Canada, 214

XLVIII. An Act for enabling all the Chartered Banks in this

Province to enjoy a certain privilege therein mentioned,

XLIX. An Act for the suppression of Lotteries,

L. An Act to encourage Shipbuilding within this Province,

LI. An Act to amend the Act for incorporating Library Associations

and Mechanics' Institutes,

LII. An Act to extend the provisions of the Act to facilitate actions

against persons associated for Commercial purposes, and

against unincorporated Companies,

LIII. The Seigniorial Amendment Act of 1856,

LIV. An Act to make better provision for promotion of Superior

Education, and the establishment and support of Normal

Schools in Lower Canada and for other purposes,

LV. The Lower Canada Judicature Amendment Act of 1856,

LVI. An Act to facilitate the Examination of Candidates for admis-

sion to the Notarial Profession in Lower Canada,

LVII. An Act to amend the Act authorizing disinterments in certain

cases in Lower Canada,

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LVIII. An Act to amend the Act establishing Mutual Fire Insurance
Companies in Lower Canada,

LIX. An Act to provide more effectual means for securing the
payment of constituted rents and life rents,

LX. An Act to enable the Municipal Council of the Town of
Cornwall to appropriate the surplus of certain moneys raised
for making a Macadamized Road,

LXI. An Act to authorize the Municipal Council of the Town of
Chatham to dispose of the Land now set apart for a Cemetery
in the said Town,
LXII. An Act to vest a certain Road Allowance in the Township of
Stamford, in the Township Council,

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LXIII. An Act to incorporate the Town of Clifton,
LXIV. An Act for the construction of Water Works in the City of
Hamilton,

LXV. An Act to enable the Church-Wardens of St. George's Church,

in the Town of St. Catharines, to sell and convey four acres of
land originally purchased "as a site for a Parsonage," and for
other purposes,

LXVI. An Act to provide for the separation of the County of Peel

from the County of York,

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LXVII. An Act to authorize a Survey of the Broken Front Concession
of the Township of Darlington, and for other purposes,
LXVIII. An Act to incorporate the Town of Sarnia, in the County
of Lambton,

LXIX. An Act to render the Mayor of Quebec elective by the
Electors of Quebec,

LXX. An Act to authorize the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of
the City of Montreal to borrow a sum of fifty thousand pounds
for the purpose of completing the new Water Works in the City
of Montreal,

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