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An Act to appropriate the sums therein mentioned to defray certain expenses of the Civil Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and certain other expenses not otherwise provided for.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

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HEREAS by Messages from His Excellency the Right Honorable James, Preamble. Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Governor General of British North America, His Excellenand Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over this Province of Canada, bear- of 1st and 12th ing date respectively the first day of July and the twelfth day of July in this present July, 1847, reyear one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and the Estimates accompanying it appears that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain Expenses of the Civil Government of the Province for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, and for certain other public purposes for which no provision is now made by Law: May it therefore please 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 from and out of any unappropriated monies forming part of the Consolidated £140,919 9s. Revenue Fund of this Province, there shall and may be paid and applied a sum not ted for defrayexceeding one hundred and forty thousand nine hundred and nineteen pounds nine ing certain exshillings, for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government of this Province for Civil Governthe year ending on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ment, &c., for forty-seven, not otherwise provided for by law, and for certain other public purposes and services specified in the Estimates accompanying the Messages above mentioned, and a further sum not exceeding sixty thousand pounds for certain public works mentioned in the said messages and estimates, the said sum to be raised by debentures to be issued under the authority of the Governor in Council on the credit of the consolidated Revenue Fund aforesaid.

II. And be it enacted, That from and out of the revenues and interests arising from the real or funded property forming part of the Estates of the late Order of Jesuits, there shall be paid for and during the present year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, the several sums mentioned in figures in the Schedule annexed to this Act, for the Educational purposes therein set forth.

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penses of the

1817.

And £60,000 for certain

Public Works.

Certain sums to be paid out Estates' mo

of the Jesuits'

nies in 1847.

Accounting clause.

Accounts to be

III. And be it enacted, That the due application of the monies hereby appropriated shall be accounted for to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being, in such manner and form as Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors shall direct.

IV. And be it enacted, That a detailed account of the monies expended under the laid before the authority of this Act shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly of this Province, during the first fifteen days of the Session of the Provincial Parliament next after such expenditure.

Provincial
Parliament.

SCHEDULE.-EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

For the Salary and Allowance for House Rent, heretofore paid to the
Master of the Grammar School at Montreal, to be allowed to the
Directors of the High School at Montreal, in consideration of their
educating twenty free scholars of the poorer classes...
The same at Quebec...

Less, amount of Pension paid to Rev. R. R. Burrage,
formerly Master of that School..

Aid towards the support of the National School at Quebec.
The same at Montreal.

Aid-To the Society of Education at Quebec..

To the Education Society at Three-Rivers..

To the British and Canadian School at Quebec..

To the same at Montreal.

To the St. Andrew's School at Quebec..

To the Montreal Recollet School....

To the St. Jacques School at Montreal....

£282 4 6

To the Montreal American Presbyterian Free School...

Amount Currency.

£282 4 6

111 2 2

171 2 4

111 2 3

111 2 3

280 0 0

125 0 0

200 0 0

200 0 0

-100 0 0

100 0 0

250 0 0

100 0 0

300 0 0

300 0 0

300 0 0

175 0 0

100 0 0

100 0 0

100 0 0

To the Shefford Academy.

100 0 0

To the Sherbrooke Academy

111 2 2

...

To the Rev. Andrew Balfour's School at Waterloo, and the Bed

ford Academy..

100 0 0

To the Master of the School under the Royal Institution at Three-
Rivers.

45 0 0

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To the College of L'Assomption..
To the Academy at Berthier...
To the Academy at Charlestown.
To the Stanstead Seminary..

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To the British North American School Society at Sherbrooke..
To the High School in Durham Village, Missisquoi..

To the Infant School at Quebec...

To the Female School at Indian Lorette, near Quebec.

For an Indian School at Caughnawaga.

For the same at St. Regis..

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MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWArt Derbishire & George Desbarats,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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An Act to amend an Act for granting relief to the sufferers by the Fires at Quebec.

[28th July, 1847.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for enabling Her Majesty to direct the issue of Debentures to a limited amount, and for giving relief to the City of Quebec, by raising the rate of interest to be allowed on the Debentures to be issued under the said Act, to the legal rate of six per cent, and by authorizing the delivery of such Debentures directly to the parties to whom advances are to be made, and by limiting the time during which the powers of the Commissioners under the said Act shall continue: Be it therefore 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 for and notwithstanding anything in the Act cited in the Preamble to this Act, the Debentures to be issued under the authority thereof shall bear interest at the rate of six per centum per annum.

II. And be it enacted, That for and notwithstanding any thing in the said Act, the said Debentures shall be delivered by the Receiver General to the respective parties to whom any advance is to be made upon certificate of the Commissioners under the said Act, and shall be issued for such sums as are to be advanced to such parties respectively, and shall be received by such parties as the sums to be advanced to them, and as money; and the advances so made by Debentures, shall have to all intents and purposes the same effect as if made in money: Provided always, that the Receiver General may, in his discretion, divide the sum to be advanced to any party, into two or more Debentures at the request of such party.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the sums to be advanced by Debentures as aforesaid, shall be repaid in the manner and subject to the provisions in the said Act mentioned, with interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, instead of three per centum per annum as in the said Act provided.

Preamble.

9 V. c. 62

cited.

Rate of inter

est allowed
on Debentures

under the said

Act raised.

Debentures to parties instead of money.

be given to the

Proviso as to
Debenture.

amount of any

Sum advanced to be repaid at 4 per cent.

with interest

No application to be received

after 3 months and the pow

ers of the Commissioners to cease in 12 months, from

the passing of

this Act. Commission

ers to account

&c. as under s. 26, of 9 V. c. 62.

Provisions of

the said Act to apply to De.

bentures

&c. under

IV. And be it enacted, That for and notwithstanding anything in the said Act, no application for any advance under the said Act shall be received by the Commisioners appointed or to be appointed under the said Act, after the expiration of three calendar months from the passing of this Act; and that all the powers of the said Commissioners shall wholly cease and determine after the expiration of one year from the same time: and the said Commissioners shall with all convenient speed thereafter, render an account of their proceedings, in writing, and deliver up the papers, accounts and documents in their possession, as in and by the twenty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided.

V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all the provisions of the said Act not inconsistent with this Act, shall apply to the Debentures to be issued under this Act, the advances to be made to parties, and to the conditions and consequences thereof, as if the provisions hereby made had been part of the said Act, instead of the provisions for cept when in which they are substituted, and so much of the said Act as may be inconsistent with this Act shall be and is hereby repealed, but no other part of the said Act shall be construed to be hereby repealed or invalidated.

this Act, ex

consistent

with it.

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS,

Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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An Act to make provision for the subsistence of the Widow of the late
Honorable Joseph Rémi Vallières de St. Réal.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN:

[ 28th July, 1847.

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1847, reci.ed.

́E, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Canada, in Provin- Preamble. cial Parliament assembled, having taken into consideration the Message of His His Excellen cy's Message Excellency the Governor General, bearing date the sixth day of July, one thousand eight of 6th July, hundred and forty-seven, wherein His Excellency is pleased to state, that, taking into consideration the high Scholastic and Literary attainments of the late Honorable Joseph Rémi Vallières de St. Réal, in his lifetime Chief Justice of the District of Montreal, his encouragement of Science and the Arts, and his eminent position as a public man, independent of his judicial office, together with the destitution of his Widow and his aged Mother, and the recommendation in the said Message made, and having resolved to grant Your Majesty the sum of two hundred pounds currency, annually, to enable Your Majesty to provide for the subsistence of the Widow of the said late Honorable Joseph Rémi Vallières de St. Réal, during the term of her natural life,-do 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 for re-uniting 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 out of any unappropriated mo- £200 approprinies, forming part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, there shall be ated annually annually paid, by warrant, under the hand of the Governor or Person administering sion of a like the Government of this Province, the sum of two hundred pounds currency, to the amount to Widow of the said late Honorable Joseph Rémi Vallières de St. Réal, during the term of lières de St. her natural life, to afford her the means of subsistence; and that the due application of the same shall be accounted for to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, through clause." the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in such manner and form as Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors shall be pleased to direct.

MONTREAL:-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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Madame Val

Réal.

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