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by the Authority of the same, That those Parts of the said Sections 23, 24, Act which in the Copies thereof printed by the Queen's Printer and 25, and are printed as separate Clauses, and severally numbered XXIII., dule (A.) of XXIV., and XXV., and also so much of the Schedule annexed recited Act to the said Act marked (A.) as relates to Certificates of School repealed. Attendance, shall be repealed from and after the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fortyseven; provided, that all Certificates given before the said First Day of August shall be as valid as if this Act had not been passed, and all Offences committed before the said First Day of August against any of the Enactments hereby repealed shall be dealt with and punished as if this Act had not been passed.

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II. And be it enacted, That the Master of any School which Schoolmaster to shall be attended by Children employed in a Print Work shall keep a Register keep a Register of their Names and Attendance, and if the Attendance. Inspector of the District shall disapprove of the Form of Register adopted by the Schoolmaster it shall be kept in such other Form as the Inspector may direct.

Print Works to

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III. And be it enacted, That after the said First Day of Occupiers of August the Occupier of every Print Work shall, before employ- obtain Certifi ing any Child therein, obtain from a Schoolmaster a Certificate, cate from according to one of the Forms and according to the Directions Schoolmaster given in the Schedule marked (A.) to this Act annexed, that of Child's Atsuch Child had attended School for at least Thirty Days and School. not less than One hundred and fifty Hours during the Half-year immediately preceding the First Day of the Employment of such Child, or if it shall have left the said Print Works and shall be again employed therein, the said School Attendance shall have been during the Half Year immediately preceding the First Day of such Re-employment, and such School Attendance shall be after the Hour of Eight of the Clock in the Morning, and before the Hour of Six of the Clock in the Evening; but no Attendance of less than Two and a Half Hours on any one Day shall be reckoned as any Part of the said One hundred and fifty Hours, nor shall any Attendance on any one Day for more than Five Hours be reckoned for more than Five Hours; and a like Certificate shall be obtained at the Beginning of each Period of Six Calendar Months during which the Employment of such Child shall be continued in that Print Work; and such Occupier shall keep every such Certificate so long as such Child shall continue in his Employment for Twelve Calendar Months after the Date thereof, and shall produce the same to any Inspector or Sub-Inspector when required during such Period.

IV. And be it enacted, That from and after the said First Certificate to Day of August the Forms of Certificates of School Attendance be given accordof Children employed in Print Works shall be in one of the ing to Schedule. Forms given in the Schedule marked (A.) annexed to this Act. V. And be it enacted, That this Act and the said Act as amended by this Act shall be construed together and as one Act. VI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

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Acts to be construed together.

Act may be amended, &c.

During the several Weeks ending the Day, Month, and Year stated in the First Column.

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II.-FORM OF SCHOOL CERTIFICATE which may be used when Two or more Children employed in the same Print Work attend the same School.

I HEREBY certify, That the Children whose Names are under-written, employed in the Print Work of

at

of

in the Parish of

and County attended for the Number of Hours and at

the Time specified in the Columns opposite to their respective Names, at the School

Parish of

kept by me at

and County of

During the Week ending on Saturday the

in the

Day

Child's Name. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday Thursday. Friday. Saturday.

Sur-
Christian From To From To From To From To From To From To
name. Name.

Total No. of Hours during this Week.

This

Signed
Day of

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Schoolmaster.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS APPLICABLE TO BOTH FORMS.

In the Columns headed with the Days of the Week, the Hours of Attendance shall be stated; as thus, from Nine to Twelve, or, from Two to Five, or any other Time, as the Case may be; and the Schoolmaster shall, in his own Handwriting, fill up the Date when the Week ends during any Part of which the Child shall have attended his School.

The Hours of School Attendance, or the Word "absent," shall be stated in the Column for each Day, in the Handwriting of the Schoolmaster; and no Certificate shall be valid, unless the Schoolmaster shall in his own Handwriting subscribe to it his Christian and Surname in full, affixing the Date when he signs the same.

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An Act to authorize Her Majesty to assent to a certain Bill of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the adam Province of Canada, for granting a Civil List to Her Majesty; and to repeal certain Parts of an Act for re-uniting the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada.

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[22d July 1847.]

WHEREAS the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the Authority of the Act of Parliament passed in the Session holden in the Third and 3&4 Vict. c. 35. Fourth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government a of Canad, did, in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, pass a Bill, intituled An Act for granting a Civil List to Her Majesty, of which Bill a Copy is contained in the Schedule to this present Act annexed; And whereas the said Bill was presented for Her Majesty's Assent to the then Governor of the said Province of Canada; and the said Governor did thereupon declare that he reserved the said Bill for the Signification of Her Majesty's Pleasure thereon: And whereas it is by the final Provision of the said reserved Bill provided that the foregoing Provisions thereof ⚫ shall have Fo по Force or Effect until such Parts as are therein mentioned of the said recited Act of Parliament shall have been repealed: And whereas it is not competent to HerMajesty to assent to the said reserved Bill without the express Authority of Parliament for that Purpose, inasmuch as the said Bill is in certain Respects repugnant to the said recited Act of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient, that Her Majesty should be authorized to assent to the said reserved Bill, and that so much and such Parts as aforesaid of the said recited Act should thereupon be repealed: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, to assent to the said reserved Bill, any thing in the said recited Act of Par liament or any Law, Statute, or Usage to the contrary in any wise reserved Bill. notwithstanding.

Her Majesty empowered,

with the Advice

of Her Council,

to assent to the

If Her Majesty shall assent to the said reserved Bill, certain

Provisions in the recited Act

repealed.

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II. And be it enacted, That if Her Majesty, with the Advice I of Her Privy Council, shall assent as aforesaid to the said reserved Bill, those Parts of the first-recited Act, which in the Copies thereof printed by the Queen's Printer are printed as separate Clauses, and severally numbered L., LI., LII., LIII, LIV., LV., LVI., LVII., and also the Schedules annexed to the said first-recited Act, being the Parts thereof mentioned or

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referred to in the said final Provision of the said reserved Bill, shall be repealed upon and from the Day on which the said reserved Bill (being first so assented to by Her Majesty in Council) shall take effect in the said Province.

III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

SCHEDULE.

AN ACT for granting a CIVIL LIST to HER MAJESTY.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

WHEREAS Your Majesty has been most graciously pleased to declare to Your faithful Canadian Commons, in Provincial Parliament assembled, Your Majesty's gracious Desire to owe to the spontaneous Liberality of Your Canadian People such Grant, by way of Civil List, as shall be sufficient to give Stability and Security to the great Civil Institutions of the Province, and to provide for the adequate Remuneration of ⚫able and efficient Officers in the executive, judicial, and other • Departments of Your Majesty's public provincial Service, the granting of which Civil List constitutionally belongs only to Your Majesty's faithful Canadian People in their Provincial • Parliament.'

We, therefore, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, desirous that a certain competent Revenue for the Purpose may be settled upon Your Majesty (to whom may God grant a long and happy Reign) as a Testimony of our unfeigned Affection to Your sacred Person and Government, have accordingly freely resolved to grant unto Your Majesty a certain Revenue, payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province; we do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council, and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the Authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled "An Act "to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada;" and it is hereby enacted, by the Authority of the same, That all Duties and Revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Upper Canada or Lower Canada had before the passing of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, intituled "An Act to re-unite the Provinces "of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of "Canada," or over which the Legislature of this Province has or may have Power of Appropriation, shall form One Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be appropriated for the Public Service [No. 38. Price 2d.]

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