survey set aside. Public Act be and the same is hereby set aside, and lot number twentyfour, in each of the concessions of the said township of Winchester, shall extend to and adjoin the allowance for road on the eastern boundary of the township, and the surplus of land in each concession shall be divided in the manner provided in the fortieth section of the Act last before cited. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CLVI. Preamble. Allowances firmed accord ing to original survey. An Act to confirm and establish a certain portion of the original Survey of the Township of Niagara. [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] WHEREAS the Municipal Council of the Township of Niagara, in the County of Lincoln, have by their Peti tion represented, that in the original Survey of the said Township, made by Augustus Jones, Esquire, Deputy Provincial Surveyor, the said Surveyor commenced at the East and West line at the Township of Niagara, and ran along the River to the Township of Stamford, leaving an allowance for Road between every second Lot, and that many of the said Roads are now opened and used in accordance with the original Survey, but that notwithstanding the said Survey, it happened at the time the Letters Patent from the Crown for the land in the said Township were issued, that the Lots were numbered from the said Township of Stamford to the East and West line of the said Township of Niagara, the effect of which would be to establish the road allowance between other Lots than those between which they were established by the original Survey; And whereas the said Municipal Council have prayed that the said allowances as originally surveyed from the said East and West Line, to the Queenston and Grimsby Macadamized Road, lying between Lots Numbers Three and Four in the First Conces sion of the said Township of Niagara, may be confirmed, and it is expedient to grant the same: 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 assem; bled 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, as follows: I. The said allowances for roads as laid out and established for Roads con by the said original Survey, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be the true and unalterable allowances for roads between the said East and West Line and the said Queenston and Grimsby Macadamized Road in the said Township of Niagara; any thing in any Letters Patent to the contrary notwithstanding. ances of Roads, accord II. It shall be the duty of the said Municipal Council for the Stone boundasaid Township of Niagara, within six months from and after ries to be the passing of this Act, to cause permanent stone monuments placed at the angles of the to be planted, under the direction of a Deputy Provincial Sur- lots adjoining veyor, at the several angles of the several alternate Lots the said allowbetween the said East and West Line and the said Queenston and Grimsby Macadamized Road, at the points of intersection ing to the of the said Lots with the road allowances of the said Township original sur so established as aforesaid, as nearly as may be in the exact vey, position intended by the said original Survey; and it shall be lawful for the said Municipal Council to impose and levy a rate upon the inhabitants of the said Township interested in the confirmation of the said Survey, or upon such of them and their property as the said Council may deem just and right, to defray the expenses of establishing the said Survey and of planting the said monuments; and a map and report of the Surveyor who Costs and deshall be employed by the said Municipal Council for the pur- posit of plan. pose aforesaid, shall be lodged by him as a public record in the Office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and a copy thereof shall also be deposited in the Registry Office of the said County of Lincoln. Letters Patent the land shall III. From and after the time when the said Survey so to be Allowances made under the direction of the said Municipal Council shall have for Roads been approved of and accepted by them, the allowances for roads mentioned in as reserved and established by the original Letters Patent from to be closed the Crown, shall be and remain for ever thereafter closed up, up; in whom and whenever the same shall adjoin the Lands of any person the land. or persons from whom any Land may be taken under the provisions of this Act for the purpose of opening and establishing the Road allowances according to the original Survey, the same or so much thereof as shall be equal in quantity to the Land so taken, shall immediately vest in and become the property of such person or persons, his or her heirs and assigns, and shall be accepted and received by him, her or them in lieu of and as full and ample compensation therefor. equivalent in IV. When any person or persons whose Land shall be so Parties whose taken as aforesaid, shall not receive an equivalent in Land land will be under the provisions of the next foregoing section of this Act, it taken for shall and may be lawful for the Municipal Council of the said Roads under Township, out of any funds in their hands belonging to the who shall not said Township, to remunerate such person or persons for the receive an Land and buildings which shall be so taken for the purposes land, to be aforesaid; and in the event of the parties not being satisfied paid in money with the amount proposed to be paid by the said Municipal by the MuniCouncil, it shall be the duty of the said Council to select an such compen cipality; how Arbitrator and the owner of the land shall select another, and sation shall be the Judge of the County Court of the County of Lincoln shall determined and paid. name a third Arbitrator, and the three Arbitrators so chosen shall proceed to determine the value of the Land, first giving to each of the parties interested, eight days' notice of the time and place Public Act. Preamble. Inspector and dent of Police place of meeting; and the said Arbitrators shall have power to summon witnesses, and to swear them, and having heard them on oath, the said Arbitrators, or any two of them, shall make their award in writing under their hands, and they shall determine and adjudge by whom the costs attending such award shall be paid, and such award is hereby declared to be final and conclusive between the said parties. V. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CLVII.. An Act to authorize Investigations in cases of Accident by Fire in Quebec and Montreal. [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] WHEREAS it is highly desirable that the cause or origin of every Fire, by which any house or other building, in either of the cities of Quebec or Montreal, is either wholly or in part consumed, should be ascertained, in order to the adoption of such measures as may be required for the purpose of diminishing the frequency of such Fires: 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, as follows: I. That it shall be the duty of the Inspectors and Superintendents of the Police for the cities of Quebec and Montreal to inquire into respectively, whenever any Fire shall occur, whereby any house the origin of or other building, in such cities respectively, shall be wholly every fire. or in part consumed, to institute an inquiry into the cause or Power to exa origin of such Fire; and for that purpose they are hereby aumine on oath. thorized and required to summon and bring before them all persons whom they may deem capable of giving information or evidence touching or concerning such Fires, and to examine such persons under oath, and to reduce their examinations to writing and return the same to the Clerk of the Peace for the District within which the same may be taken respectively. To inquire whether fire was accidental or otherwise. II. Such Inspectors and Superintendents of the Police shall inquire into the cause or origin of the Fire, and whether the same was kindled by design or was the result of accident or of negligence, and shall act accordingly. Power to com- III. If any person, summoned to appear before an Inspector pel the attend- and Superintendent of the Police, in virtue of this Act, shall neglect neglect or refuse to appear at the time and place specified in ance of witthe Summons, or if any person, appearing in obedience to any nesses. such Summons, shall refuse to be examined or to answer any question that may be put to him in the course of his examination, it shall be lawful for such Inspector and Superintendent of Police to enforce the attendance of such person, or to compel such person to answer, as the case may require, by the same means as are used by him for such purposes in other cases. CAP. CLVIII. An Act to alter and extend the limits of the Quebec W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] HEREAS it would be much more convenient to the inha- Preamble. bitants of the Parishes of St. Michel, St. Vallier and St. Raphael in the County of Bellechasse, that they should be detached from the St. Thomas Circuit and included in the Quebec Circuit: 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, as follows: of St. Michel, be detached 1. Upon, from and after the first day of July one thousand on and after eight hundred and fifty-five, the said Parishes of St. Michel, St. 1st July, 1855, Vallier and St. Raphael, in the County of Bellechasse, shall the Parishes cease to form part of the St. Thomas Circuit, and shall be st Vallier and attached to and make part of the Quebec Circuit, and so much St. Raphael to of the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, from the St. and intituled, An Act to amend the laws relative to the Courts Thomas and of original civil jurisdiction in Lower Canada, as includes the added to the said Parishes in the St. Thomas Circuit, shall be repealed: cuit. Provided always, that all suits and proceedings commenced in Proviso. the St. Thomas Circuit before the day last aforesaid, may be continued to final judgment and all proceedings in such actions after judgment may be had in the St. Thomas Circuit, as if this Act had not been passed. Quebec Cir CAP. Preamble. 4 V. c. 31. 8 V. c. 60. CAP. CLIX. An Act to amend and consolidate the provisions contained in the Ordinances to incorporate the City and Town of Quebec, and to vest more ample powers in the Corporation of the said City and Town. [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] WHEREAS it has become expedient and necessary to amend and consolidate the provisions contained in a certain Ordinance of the Legislature of the Province of Lower / Canada, made and passed in the Session held in the third and 3 & 4 V. c. 35. fourth years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Ordinance to incorporate the City and Town of Quebec; and in a certain other Ordinance of the Legislature of the said Province, made and passed in the fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance to incorporate the City and Town of Quebec; and also in a certain Act of the Legislature of this Province, made and passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to amend the Ordinances incorporating the City of Quebec; and also in a certain Act of the Legislature of this Province, made and passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act further to amend the Ordinances incorporating the City of Quebec, and for other purposes, and to vest more ample powers in the Corporation of the said City and Town: 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, as follows : 9 V. c. 22. Inhabitants of I. The inhabitants of the said City and Town of Quebec, and Quebec to re- their successors, inhabitants of the same, incorporated under main incorpo- the said Ordinance here in first mentioned, shall continue to be rated. Corporate name and powers. and shall be, as provided in and by the said Ordinance herein first mentioned, a body corporate in fact and in name, by and under the name, style and title of The Mayor, Councillors and Citizens of the City of Quebec, and as such shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to break, renew, change and alter the same at pleasure, and shall be capable of suing and being sued, and of impleading and being impleaded in all Courts of Law and Equity, and other places, in all manner of actions, causes and matters whatsoever, and of accepting, taking, purchasing and holding goods and chattels, lands and tenements, real and personal, moveable and immoveable estate, and of granting, selling, alienating, assigning, demising and conveying the same, and of entering into and becoming |