of U C. 41

Geo. 3.

cap. 5.

The said Acts

publication of certain Acts of the Provincial Parliament; and the third section of the
Sect. 3 of Act Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Upper Canada, passed in the forty-
fourth year of the Reign last aforesaid, and intituled, An Act to promulgate the
Provincial Statutes, and also to repeal so much of an Act passed in the forty-first
year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as relates to Printing the Journals, and so
much of any other Act or Law in force in this Province, as may relate to the cus-
tody or distribution of the Printed Acts of the Legislature, or to the Administra
tive Bodies, Officers, or persons who are to receive copies thereof at the expense
of the Province, shall be, and the said Acts or provisions of Law are hereby re-
pealed: Provided always, that the repeal thereof shall not revive any Act or pro-
vision thereby repealed.

and parts of
Acts repealed.

Proviso.

Certified co-
pics of Acts.

The Queen's
Printer shall

distribute the
Laws printed
by him in the
most economi-
cal manner.

To whom
such Laws

II. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Legislative
Council to furnish Her Majesty's Printer with a certified copy of each and every
Act of the Provincial Parliament, so soon as the same shall have received the
Royal assent, or if the Bill shall have been reserved, so soon as the Royal assent
thereto shall have been proclaimed in this Province.

III. And be it enacted, That Her Majesty's Printer, from time to time hereaf-
ter, shall, immediately after the close of each Session of the Provincial Parliament,
or so soon after as may be practicable, deliver or transmit by Post, or otherwise,
in the most economical mode, the proper number of printed copies of the Acts of
the Legislature of the said Province in the English language or French language,
or both languages, to be printed by him at the public expense, to the parties here-
inafter mentioned, that is to say: To the Members of the two Houses of the Le-
shall be distri- gislature respectively, such numbers of copies each, as may from time to time be
directed by any joint Resolution of the said Houses, or in default of such Resolu-
tion, in such numbers as shall be directed by any Order of the Governor in Coun-
cil,—to such Public Departments, Administrative Bodies and Officers, throughout
the Province, as may be specified in any Order to be for that purpose made from
time to time by the Governor in Council: Provided, nevertheless, in case any Bill
Bills sanction or Bills shall receive the Royal assent during and before the termination of any

buted.

Proviso, as to

ed before the

close of any
session.

Secretary to
furnish the

Queen's Prin-

ter with pro-
per lists and

Session of the Provincial Parliament, Her Majesty's Printer shall, on intimation
to that effect from the Secretary of the Province, cause distribution to be made of
such number of copies thereof, to the same parties, and in like manner as is here-
inbefore provided, in regard to the Act or Acts of any Session of the Provincial
Parliament; any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IV. And be it enacted, That the Secretary of the said Province shall, within
fifteen days after the close of each Session of the Provincial Parliament, transmit
to Her Majesty's Printer a list of all the Public Departments, Administrative Bodies

and

and Officers to whom such copies are to be transmitted as aforesaid, and shall also, from time to time, as occasion may require, furnish him with copies of all Orders in Council made, under the provisions of this Act.

V. And be it enacted, That if after the distribution of the said Printed Acts as aforesaid, any copies shall remain in the hands of Her Majesty's Printer, it shall be lawful for him to deliver any number thereof to any person or persons to whom he may be authorized to deliver the same by order of the Governor, on notice thereof by the Secretary of the Province, or to the Members of the Legislative Council or of the Legislative Assembly, on the order of the Speaker of the said Houses respectively.

VI. And be it enacted, That Her Majesty's Printer shall, before the opening of each Session of the Provincial Parliament, make a Report in Triplicate to the Governor of the said Province, (to be by him laid before each of the other Branches of the Legislature within fifteen days after the opening of such Session,) shewing the number of copies of the Acts of each Session which have been printed and distributed by him since the then last Session and the Departments, Administrative Bodies, Officers, and persons to whom the same have been distributed, the number of copies delivered to each, and under what authority, and the numbers of copies of the Acts of each Session then remaining in his hands, and containing also a detailed account of the expenses by him actually incurred in carrying this Act into effect, to the end that provision may be made for defraying the same, after such account shall have been duly audited and allowed.

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

1

An Act to make provision for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government of this Province, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

[29th March, 1845.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

WHEREAS its

1845, recited.

THEREAS it appears by Message from His Excellency the Right Honor- Preamble. able Charles Theophilus, Baron Metcalfe, of Fernhill, in the County of Message of Berks, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, one of Her 14th March, Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, and Governor General of this Province, bearing date the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fortyfive, that the sum hereinafter mentioned will be required to defray certain expenses of the Civil Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, for which no provision is 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 conscnt of the Legislative Council and of the Legis'ative 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 Revenue Fund of this Province, there shall and may be paid and applied a sum not exceeding two hundred and thirty two thousand nine hundred and twenty-five pounds, fourteen shillings and eight pence currency, to defray certain expenses of the Civil Government of this Province not otherwise provided for by law, for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. 57 *

II.

A Certain sum to defray certain expenses Government for 1815.

appropriated

of the ivil

Accounting clause.

Detailed accounts to be

laid before the

Legislative
Assembly.

II. And be it enacted, That the due application of the monies hereby appropri ated 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.

III. And be it enacted, That a detailed account of the monies expended under 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.

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