Statutes of the Province of Quebec

he may be admitted to practice as an attorney and advocate without the usual period of probation as a student at law; and whereas the members of the bar of this province, in general meeting assembled in the city of Montreal, have by resolution consented that the prayer of the said George Gregory Smith be granted him, and that an act of Parliament should pass and be to him allowed for that purpose, and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

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1. It shall be lawful for the bar of the province of Que-Montreal see. bec, section of Montreal, and the examiners thereof, at any after examinatime after the passing of this act, to admit the said George tions and noGregory Smith, as an attorney and advocate, and to prac-admit George tice law as such, as soon as he has passed the usual exami-Gregory Smith. nation, after giving notice of one month of his intention to be so examined, any law, usage or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.

CAP. LII.

An Act to authorize the Provincial Board of Notaries to admit, after examination, William Fahey, to practise as a Notary.

WHE

[Assented to 23rd December, 1871.]

WHEREAS William Fahey, of the city of Montreal, in Preamble. this province, law student, has, by petition, represented that he was duly bound by indentures unto Mtre. Joseph Garon, notary, on the twenty-fifth September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, that he was admitted to study the notarial profession by the board of notaries of the district of Kamouraska, on the fifth November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, that such indentures were duly registered in the office of the board of notaries of Kamouraska, on the seventh January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, as it appears by the certificate of the secretary of said board, affixed to the copy of said indentures fyled with his said petition; that he has studied the said notarial profession regularly and without interruption from the twenty-fifth September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, to the sixth November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, under the said Joseph Garon at Rimouski, and from the sixth November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, to the third March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, under Henry

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notaries after examination may admit William Fahey.

C. Austin, notary, at Quebec, to whom a transfer of indentures of the said William Fahey was duly made on the fifth November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, before John Doyle, notary, at Quebec, which said transfer was registered on the sixth December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, as it appears by the certificate of the secretary affixed to the copy of the said transfer, and by the certificates of the said Garon and Austin fyled with his petition, and that although the said William Fahey has been under the necessity of interrupting his regular studies of the notarial profession, he, nevertheless, has continued them, from time to time; and whereas by the said petition, he hath prayed that the provincial board of notaries of Quebec, upon due and satisfactory examination, be authorized to admit him to practise as a notary; and considering the short space of time which has elapsed since the interruption of his clerkship; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1. The provincial board of notaries, upon due proof to their satisfaction, after he shall have undergone the examination required from candidates for admission to the said profession, that the said William Fahey has completed his term of study as prescribed by law, and has a sufficient knowledge of law and of the practice of the notarial profession, may admit the said William Fahey to practise as a notary, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

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1. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money
required for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Gov-
ernment for the financial year ending on the thirtieth day
of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
and for other purposes connected with the Public Service.
2. An Act to amend the Quebec License Act............
3. An Act respecting Marriage Licenses.....

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4. An Act to fix the time at which the Statutes of this Province shall come into force......

5. An Act respecting Judicial and other Deposits................... 15 6. An Act respecting the amendment of certain articles of the Code of Civil Procedure, the appointment of an additional Judge of the Superior Court at Montreal, and the administration of justice in other respects..............

7. An Act to limit the application of Articles 298 and 299 of the Civil Code, and of the Fifth Title of the third part of the Code of Civil Procedure.......

8. An Act to amend certain articles of the Municipal Code of the Province of Quebec.......

9. An Act further to amend the law respecting District Magistrates in this Province......

10. An Act to amend the Act of this Province, thirty-second Victoria, Chapter twenty-two, respecting Jurors and Juries... 32 11. An Act to continue for a limited time the several Acts therein mentioned..........

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12. An Act further to amend the law respecting Education in this Province.................

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13. An Act to empower the Managers of Industrial and Reformatory Schools, and of certain Charitable Institutions, to apprentice or place out children under their charge..

14. An Act to provide for the Sale of certain Properties in the City of Montreal, and for the construction of buildings for the Jacques-Cartier and Laval Normal Schools................