such instrument shall be or have been executed before or after the passing of this Act, or before or after the day on which the said Ordinance came into force, and the release of dower to be so made shall have the same effect with regard to such married woman, her children, heirs, or legal representatives, or other persons whatsoever, and with regard to conventional as well as customary dower, as the release of dower made under the thirty-fifth section of the said Ordinance would have under the said section, or the thirty-seventh section, or any other part of the said Ordinance, or of this Act, with regard to the same parties and to the legal or customary dower.

Mode of facilitating the registration of titles fyled on Nov. last.

or before 1st

They shall be registered

within six

V. And be it enacted, That every Registrar shall provide himself with a sufficient number of books, and shall employ a sufficient number of writers, for the purpose of entering and transcribing therein all Deeds, Instruments and Documents, which shall have been entered in his office for registration on or before the first day of November last, following the orders of the numbers of the entries, so as to form regular volumes, in the order of the dates and numbers of such entries, and which books shall be authenticated by the proper officer,--all which shall be done by each Registrar, so as to complete the registration of the said Documents within six months from the passing of this Act; and in order to facilitate the months. procuring of certificates of the registration of any Deed or Document, it shall be Facility affordsufficient that in any such certificate granted within six months from the passing ing certificates of this Act, and relating to any Deed or Instrument registered on or before the first of registration. day of November last, mention be made of the day and hour of the entry for registration, and the number of the entry, without mentioning the book or page, and such certificate shall be taken and allowed as evidence of registry as if granted in the form prescribed by the said Ordinance.

VI. And be it enacted, That all entries made as aforesaid shall be as valid, and shall have the same effect in law, as if they had been made in books previously authenticated as required by the said Ordinance: Provided always, that nothing contained in the next preceding Section shall be construed to affect in any manner the mode of registering any deed, instrument, or document which shall have been presented for registration after the said first day of November last, save and except that any certificate of the entry for registration of any such deed, instrument or document, granted before the passing of this Act, or within six months thereafter, mentioning the day and hour of such entry, and the number thereof, without mentioning the book or page, shall be taken and allowed as evidence of the registry as if granted in the form prescribed by the said Ordinance.

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Nov. last.

VII.

Prior registration by others not to affect

VII. And be it enacted, That the registration of any title to or instrument creating any charge, incumbrance, or servitude upon any immoveable property, persons in open posterior to the title of any party who shall be in open and public possession of such property as proprietor, shall not affect the title or rights of such party, although the title of such party be not registered until after the registration of such posterior title or instrument.

possession of any property.

Duration of
Act.

VIII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall continue and be in force for and during the space of two years and to the end of the then next ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer.

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

An Act to detach the Island of Orleans from the County of Montmorency, for the purposes of Registration of Titles, and to establish a Registry Office in the said Island.

WH

[29th March, 1845.]

THEREAS from the geographical position of the Island of Orleans, now Preamble. included in the County of Montmorency, it is at times extremely difficult for the inhabitants of the said Ísland to have access to the Registry Office of the said County, and it is therefore expedient to establish a separate Registry Office for the said Island: 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, 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 all purposes of the Act passed in the fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend the Sic. Ordinance providing for the Registration of Titles to Real Property and incumbrances thereon in Lower Canada, and further to extend the time allowed by the said Ordinance for the Registration of certain claims, and of the Ordinance therein mentioned and amended, the said Island of Orieans shall, from and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, be detached from the said County of Montmorency, and shall, for the said purposes only, be deemed to be a separate and distinct county.

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II. And be it enacted, That from and after the said day, there shall be established in and for the said Island, at such place as the Governor, or person administering the

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For purposes 22, Island of Orleans deCounty of Montmorency.

tached from

A Registry kept in the said Island.

Office shall be

Certified copies of certain documents in the

Registry Office of Montmoren

for the County

cy, to be trans

mitted to that of the said Island.

Expense of such copies how to be defrayed.

Registrar's security.

the Government shall appoint, a Registry Office for the purposes of the Act and Ordinance aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province, to appoint a fit and proper person to be Registrar of and for the said Island, and from time to time to remove any such Registrar, and to appoint another in his stead.

III. And be it enacted, That so soon as may be after the said day, certified copies of all Memorials, Books, Records, Indexes, Documents and Papers, relating to or in any manner affecting lands, tenements, hereditaments, real or immoveable estates, in the said Island of Orleans, or any charges or incumbrances on the same, originally made, fyled or entered in the Registry Office of the said County of Montmorency, or of which, under the provisions of the said Act, certified copies shall have been or shall be transmitted to the Registrar of the said County, shall by such Registrar be transmitted to the Registry Office to be kept under this Act in the said Island of Orleans, there to remain as part of the records and muniments of the said office; and for such certified copies the Registrar furnishing the same shall receive from and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, a sum equal to four pence currency, per hundred words. contained in such certified copies; and the documents from which such copies shall be made shall remain in and form part of the records and muniments of the Registry Office of the County of Montmorency.

IV. And be it enacted, That the Registrar to be appointed for the said Island of Orleans, shall be required to give security for the due performance of the duties of his office in a sum not exceeding two thousand pounds, currency; any thing in the said Act or Ordinance, or in any other law, to the contrary notwithstanding.

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBİSHIRE and GEORGE Desbarats,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session relative to the duties on Stills, and to make further provision on the same subject.

W

[29th March, 1845.]

HEREAS the Act passed during the present Session and intituled, An Preamble. Act to amend the lairs now in force imposing a duty upon Distilleries in any Repeal of Act. part of the Province of Canada, was passed for a temporary purpose, and it is expedient to repeal the same, and also to provide for the duty to be paid on Stills

constructed upon the plan known as " Riley's Patent," by which, with a smaller Riley's Patent. capacity, a much larger quantity of Spirits can be distilled in the same time, than by Stills of the ordinary construction, with reference to which the Acts now in force were passed: 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 Kingdoin 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 the Act cited in the Preamble to this Act shall be and is hereby repealed; and except in cases for which other provision is made by this Act, the duties on Stills shall be levied and paid, and licen- Duties on ses for using the same shall be granted in the same manner, upon the same conditions and under the same provisions as before the passing of the said Act.

Stills.

Licenses in

II. Provided always and be it enacted, That all Licenses heretofore granted Existing under the authority of the Act hereby repealed, shall remain in force for the time force. for which they were so granted.