An Act to amend an error in the Act of the present Session, imposing duties of Customs. [ 28th July, 1847. ] WH THEREAS an error hath crept into the Act passed during the present Session, and intituled, An Act for repealing and consolidating the present duties of Customs in this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned, so that the article of Wheat would be subjected to an al valorem duty of seven and a half per cent., instead of a specific duty of three shillings per quarter to which it was intended that it should be subjected; And whereas it is provided by the said Act that it may be varied, altered or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of the Provincial Parliament: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the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 said Act, Wheat imported into this Province, or taken out of warehouse, after the said Act shall come into force and effect, shall be subject to a specific duty of three shillings currency per quarter, as if it had been made subject to such duty in and by the Schedule to the said Act, intituled, " Table of duties of Customs inwards," and shall not be subject to the ad valorem duty of seven and a half per cent., as an article unenumerated in the said Schedule. MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE Desbarats, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. An Act to authorize the issuing of Debentures to pay the balance due to [ 28th July, 1847. ] WHE Preamble. Certain Acts cited. 72. 3, V. c. 76. Amount of awards under the said Acts. HEREAS by an Act passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the payment of claims arising out of the Rebellion and Invasion in Upper Canada, and to appropriate the duties on Tavern Licenses to local purposes, it was among other things provided, that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council to issue debentures, not amounting in the whole to more than forty thousand pounds currency, to the Claimants, to whom sums should be awarded under the provisions of a certain Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, passed in the third year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to ascertain and provide for the payment of all Act of U. C. just claims arising from the late Rebellion and Invasions of this Province, as extended by the Act of the Legislature of this Province, passed in the Session held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend and enlarge 4 & 5 V. c. 39. an Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Upper Canada, intituled, An Act to ascertain and provide for the payment of all just claims arising from the late Rebellion and Invasions of this Province, and for the sums awarded to them respectively: And whereas, the sums awarded under the provisions of the said Acts, amount in the whole to the sum of forty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-three pounds three shillings and nine pence. And whereas debentures have been issued under the said first recited Act, to the extent of forty thousand pounds currency, and the proceeds thereof have been distributed rateably among the said Claimants: And whereas, a further sum of three thousand six hundred and thirteen pounds eight shillings and nine pence is required to settle the said claims in full, and to pay a certain per centage to the Treasurer of each District in Upper Canada, for the services he shall be required to perform under the provisions of this Act: 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 it shall and may be lawful for the Governor in Council to issue debentures, amounting in the whole to three thousand six hundred and thirteen pounds eight shillings and nine pence, currency, to raise a like sum to pay to the said Claimants, £3613. 8. 9d. paying the balance of the to be raised for said awards. Provisions of 8 V. c 72, ex tended to Debentures to be issued under this Act. Treasurers to pay the sums to claimants a per centage. Claimants, the balance due on the respective sums which have been so awarded to them under the authority of the said last recited Acts, and the percentage aforesaid. II. And be it enacted, That all the provisions of the said first herein recited Act, passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the payment of Claims, arising out of the Rebellion and Invasion in Upper Canada, and to appropriate the duties on Tavern Licenses to local purposes, which relate to the Debentures issued, or to be issued under the said Act, for the purposes therein mentioned, shall be, and are hereby extended to the Debentures to be issued under the authority of this Act. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Treasurers of Districts in Upper Canada, so soon as they shall be furnished with the means of so doing, to pay the several balances which may be due to claimants as herein before mentioned in their respective Districts, and to take acquittances for the same; for which said services the said Treasurers shall be entitled to receive five per cent. upon the amount they shall respectively disburse. MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DEsbarats, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. |