Ten per cent

on every share

within six months after

the subscrip

tion.

Shares already paid up.

Ten per eent must be paid

CAP. XVI.

An Act to amend the Quebec Railway Act, 1869.

HE

[Assented to 23th January, 1874.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in "The Quebec Railway Act, 1869," there shall be paid, on every share hereafter subscribed in any iron or wooden railWay company, incorporated by act of the legislature of this province, an amount of at least ten per cent, and that within six months after the subscription for each such share.

2. Within six months after the coming into force of this act, an amount of at least ten per cent shall be paid up, on every share already subscribed since the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in any iron or wooden railway company, incorporated by act of the legislature of this province, upon which, at the time of the coming into force of this act, a like amount of ten per cent shall not have been yet paid up.

3. No owner or holder of shares in any iron or wooden before voting. railway company, already incorporated since the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or which shall hereafter be incorporated, by act of the legislature of this province, shall in any case vote, by reason of any of his shares, unless he has paid upon such share, an amount of at least ten per cent.

Municipal subscriptions exempted.

4. This Act shall not apply to subscriptions of stock in railway companies, by municipalities.

CAP. XVII.

Part of St.

Maurice Terri

An Act to annex a certain portion of the territory of the St. Maurice to the District of Three Rivers, for judicial purposes only.

HER

[Assented to 28th January, 1874.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1. All that part of the townships of Lejeune and Meki

tory added to nac, which is not comprised in the district of Three Rivers,

district fr

and all that tract of territory situate in the county of Port- Three Rivers neuf, to the north of an imaginary line, being the prolon- judicial purgation in a straight line of the south-east line of the said poses. township of Mekinac to the point where this prolonged line would intersect the river Batiscan, and thence along the said river Batiscan to the point where the north-east line of the county of Portneuf, if prolonged, would intersect the said river, are hereby annexed to the district of Three Rivers, for judicial purposes only.

CAP. XVIII.

An Act to confirm the Survey of the Division Line between the Townships of Grantham and Upton.

WH

[Assented to 28th January, 1874.]

HEREAS the townships of Grantham and Upton have Preamble. been established by letters-patent, the first on the fourteenth and the latter on the twenty-first day of May, of the year eighteen hundred, according to the limits fixed after survey which was effectively made by deputy-surveyor James Rankin, in the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, under the authority of commissions issued by the government for the time being;

And whereas in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, certain lands situated in that part of the said township of Grantham contiguous to the township of Upton, were conceded by the government according to the said survey of deputy-surveyor James Rankin;

And whereas the lands situated on both sides of the line dividing the said townships of Grantham and Upton, drawn and established according to the original survey aforesaid, having remained in a wild state, the said line had become lost, or there was reason to suppose that no trace of it remained, and that thereupon, Emmanuel Couillard Desprès, provincial surveyor, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, received instructions, through an order of his excellency the governor of Lower Canada for the time being, to verify the said original survey ;

And whereas by reason of a grave error committed by the said Emmanuel Couillard Desprès in mistaking his point of departure, his operations, in so far as respects the said division line, as reported by him to the surveyor general in the year 1827, were never approved or homologated by the government;

And whereas all the lands on that part of the township of Upton along the said division line, have been conceded to

the predecessors of the actual possessors, according to the plan of the said Emmanuel Couillard Desprès, rectified and corrected by himself in his own plan, but not on the land itself, to render it conformable to the plan drawn by the said James Rankin of his survey of the said township of Upton;

And whereas the doubtful state of the said division line having given rise to various law-suits, questions of jurisdiction and other difficulties, the governor in council, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, ordered the verification of the said line;

And whereas on the thirtieth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five, W. W. O'Dwyer, provincial land surveyor, entrusted with the said verification, reported that he had found a line which he asserted was that drawn by the said James Rankin;

And whereas the said pretended line, crooked throughout its whole length, has been ascertained to be incorrect, being in fact nothing else than a line drawn through the woods, to guide the first settlers from Acton to the river St. Francis;

And whereas the said report was therefore disapproved by the government for the time being;

And whereas on the report of the honorable George Etienne Cartier, then attorney-general for Lower Canada, the governor in council, on or about the third day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, ordered that the said line should be drawn on the land, in such manner as to give, as far as circumstances and the nature of the case admitted, two hundred acres for each lot in the township of Grantham, with the usual reserve for public roads;

And whereas in accordance with the instructions of the department of crown lands, given in conformity to the said order in council lastly referred to, the said W. W. O'Dwyer made his report, (procès verbal), respecting the survey and bornage of the said division line, bearing date the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and fiftyseven, in complete conformity with the said order in council lastly mentioned, and with the original plan of the original survey of the above-named James Rankin, and now filed in the archives of the department of the commissioner of crown lands of the province of Quebec ;

And whereas the proprietors of the lands in that part of the township of Upton, which is contiguous to the said township of Grantham, have prayed, by petition, that the said survey lastly mentioned of the said W. W. O'Dwyer, be confirmed by legislative authority;

And whereas the public interest demands that all grave doubts be removed in relation to the said line, which divides not only two townships but two counties,-Bagot

and Drummond,-and two great judicial districts,-Three Rivers and St. Hyacinthe; and that it is just and advisable that the true division line between the said townships be for ever settled and proclaimed; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

O'Dwyer de

wost exterior

1. The line which has been surveyed and established by The line lastly the said W. W. O'Dwyer, as the same appears by the re- drawn by port above mentioned (procès-verbal) and on the accompany-clared to be ing plan, both bearing date the twentieth day of October, the true south1857, copies whereof are filed in the office of the clerk of the line of the legislative council of this province, as part of the archives, township of shall be, and is hereby declared to be the south-west exterior line of the said township of Grantham, according to the original survey thereof, and the true and invariable division line between the said township of Grantham and the said township of Upton.

Grantham.

2. The stones, posts and other boundaries placed by the Stones, &c., said W. W. O'Dwyer, or verified by him, as marking the placed or verified by course of the said division line, shall be and are hereby de- him shall clared to be the true and settled marks of the said division avail as marks line between the said townships.

registered in

3. A copy of the said report, (procès-verbal) and of the Copies of his plan accompanying the same, shall be deposited in the report to be office of the registrar for the county of Bagot, and another Bagot and copy in the office of the registrar for the county of Drum- Drummond.

mond.

not affected.

4. Nothing contained in this act shall be understood as Rights of fixing or being intended to fix the division line between individuals adjacent lands in such a manner as to affect in any way whatsoever the rights of individuals in relation to such lands, nor shall it in any manner prejudice the rights of individuals.

CAP. XIX.

An Act to remove all doubts respecting the limits of the Parish of Saint-Basile le Grand.

[Assented to 28th January, 1874.]

HEREAS by proclamation issued, under the great seal Preamble. of this province, the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the canonical decree of his lordship the Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal, dated

Declaratory

bishop

Limits fixed.

the twenty-third day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy, erecting the parish of Saint-Basile le Grand, in the diocese of Montreal, was civilly recognized and confirmed; and whereas the said parish is composed of two territories, one of which is called "Shirt-point," (Pointe de Chemise,) and the other "Jacob Seigniory," and that the limits of the said parish as so fixed, as well by the said decree of erection as by the said proclamation, are declared to be the same towards the south-west as those of Jacob Seigniory; whereas there exists a contestation touching the line which divides the said Jacob Seigniory with the adjoining barony of Longueuil, that it is uncertain if three of the lots in the range known as Rang des quarante, and owned by Jérémie Hébert, Pierre Huet dit Dulude and Moïse Grisé, form part of the said Jacob Seigniory, and also of the said parish of Saint-Basile le Grand, and that it is important to remove all doubts upon this subject;

Considering that by a declaratory decree, dated the sixth of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, His Lordship the Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal, explained the said decree of erection of the said parish, by declaring that the said three properties of Jérémie Hébert, Pierre Huet dit Dulude, and Moïse Grisé do not form part of the said parish of Saint-Basile, but continue to belong to the parish of SaintJoseph de Chambly; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1. The declaratory decree of his lordship the Roman Cadecree of the tholic Bishop of Montreal, dated the sixth of December, rendered valid. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, is by the present act recognized and confirmed civilly for all purposes whatsoever. The limits of the parish of Saint-Basile le Grand, in the diocese of Montreal, are declared by this act to be and always to have been, to the south-west, as follows: "From the river Richelieu running towards the north west as far as the road called "Chemin du rang des quarante," the limits of the said parish is the seigniorial line, dividing the said Jacob seigniory from the seigniory of Chambly, belonging to one Yule; at the said road du rang des quarante it shall form an angle by following the road du rang des quarante towards the east for a distance of about six arpents, and thence it shall form another angle, and runs again towards the north-west lengthwise with the land of the said Jérémie Hébert, which, in this place, forms the limits of the said parish, the three properties of the said Jérémie Hébert, Pierre Huet dil Dulude and Moïse Grisé shall thus be excluded from the said parish of Saint-Basile le Grand and continue to form part of the parish of SaintJoseph de Chambly."