OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, BEING THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE FIRST PARLIAMENT, BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT QUEBEC, ON THE 3rd DAY OF NOVEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY. MON DROIT CANADIAN LAW LIBRARY THE HONORABLE SIR NARCISSE FORTUNAT BELLEAU, KNIGHT, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. QUEBEC : PRINTED BY CHARLES FRANÇOIS LANGLOIS, PRINTER TO HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE QUEEN. ANNO DOMINI, 1870; ANNO TRICESIMO-QUARTO, VICTORIE REGINÆ. CAP. I. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government for the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes connected with the Public Service. Assented to 24th December, 1870. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: WHEREAS, it appears by messages from the Honorable Preamble. Sir Narcisse Fortunat BELLEAU, knight, lieutenant governor of this province of Quebec, and the estimates accompanying the same, that the sum hereinafter mentioned is or may be required to defray certain expenses of the government of this province, not otherwise provided for, for the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes connected with the public service: 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 Legislature of Quebec, that: 1. From and out of the consolidated revenue fund of $1,868,431.54 this province, there shall, and may be paid and applied, a applied to cer tain purposes sum not exceeding in the whole one million, eight hun- mentioned in dred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-schedule one dollars and fifty-four cents, for defraying the several |