8. The sixty-ninth section is amended by striking out Section 69, the word "general" in the last line but one. amended. testations men 9. Whenever contestations or disputes arise as referred Provisions reto in the sections eighty-one and eighty-two, the commis-lating to consioner shall have the right to summon witnesses for either tioned in sees. or both parties, to fine them in case of default to appear, 81 and 82. (the said fine recoverable before any justice of the peace, and payable to the agricultural society party in the said contestation,) to condemn the party in default to the payment of costs and to certify the amount thereof, which shall be recoverable by action before any competent court. The party petitioner, complaining or plaintiff, shall deposit together with the petition, plaint, or declaration with the secretary of the department of agriculture and public works, a sum of fifty dollars, which sum, if the action, plaint or proceeding be maintained, shall be repaid by the opposite party, and if the action, plaint or proceeding fail, then the said sum shall be employed in whole or in part in the payment and satisfaction of costs. In default of such deposit being made, the petition, plaint or declaration shall not be received. 10. The eighty-fourth section is amended by adding Section 84, thereto the words following "for cities and towns the amended. grant to each society shall not exceed four hundred dollars a year. amended. 11. The eighty-fifth section is amended by substituting Section 85, for the words "and so soon as the secretary-treasurer or any other officer of the said society shall have transmitted to the commissioner an affidavit," the words following " and so soon as the president and the secretary-treasurer or any other officer of the said society shall have transmitted to the commissioner an affidavit, in the form of schedule B, hereto annexed," and adding to the said section the foling words: "The said affidavit shall be transmitted not later than the fifteenth of September of every year, in default of which the grant for that year shall not be allowed, but it shall be the duty of the secretary of the council of agriculture, to notify each agricultural society, at least one month beforehand, by a registered letter addressed to the secretary-treasurer of such society, that the grant of such society for the year will not be allowed, if the affidavit required by the section has not been transmitted before the fifteenth of September, as herein before setforth." 12. The eighty-sixth section is amended by adding Section 88, thereto the following words "and if on the fifteenth day of September of any year, one only of the said societies has acted in conformity to the preceding section, it shall have the exclusive right to the entire grant in proportion to the sum subscribed by the members. amended. Section 149, amended. Toll-gates shall not be passed without payment. Toll-gates shall not be avoided. Penalty. Suits to be brought by Atty.-Genl. in the name of H. M. Schedule added to said act. 13. The one hundred and forty-ninth section is amended by adding the following paragraphs : 'No person shall pass through any turnpike gate at which tolls shall be payable, under and by virtue of such order in council, without having paid such toll." "No person, after having passed over a part of the road with a wagon, carriage, or other vehicle, or with animals, on which tolls are payable, shall leave such road to follow another road, and afterwards to re-enter the toll road beyond any of the gates, with a view to avoid payment of tolls." "All infractions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars, recoverable in the manner provided by section two hundred of this act." 14. All suits or contestations respecting the execution of colonization or other public works under the said act, or in relation to such works, shall be instituted and carried on by the attorney-general in the name of Her Majesty. 15. The following schedule is added to the said act : We, the undersigned president (or vice-president) and secretary-treasurer of the agricultural society (number one, two, or three as the case may be) of the county of declare on oath that (state the number of members of the said so members in the society) $ subscriptions disposable according to law. An Act to dispense with the use of parchment for Public [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] Hor the Legit, by an Quebec, declares and enacts as ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent follows: be upon parch 1. It has not been necessary, since the first day of July, Public docueighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and in future it shall ments need not not be necessary, that any commission, letters-patent, char- ment. ters of incorporation, royal proclamations, and proclamations under the seal of the lieutenant-governor, or other public documents of any nature or kind whatsoever, issued by the government of this province, should have been or should in future be written upon parchment; and all such commissions, letters-patent, charters of incorporation, royal proclamations, and proclamations under the seal of the lieutenant-governor, and all such public documents of any nature and kind whatsoever, may have been and in future may be written or printed upon paper, all laws and usages to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. VIII. An Act to continue for a limited time the several Acts therein mentioned. [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] it HEREAS it is expedient to continue, for a limited Preamble. time, the acts hereinafter mentioned, which would otherwise expire at the end of the present session; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 4, c. 8., 1. The act of the parliament of the late province of Acts of Lower Lower Canada, passed in the second year of the reign of Canada, 2 Geo. his late majesty King George the Fourth, intituled: "An act for better regulating the common of the seigneurie of Laprairie de la Magdeleine;" the act of the said parliament passed in the same year of the same reign, and intituled: "An act to enable the inhabitants of the Seigneurie of La 2 Geo. 4, c. 10, Baie St. Antoine, commonly called La Baie du Febvre, to provide for the better regulation of the common of the said seigneurie," as amended and extended by the act of the said parliament, passed in the fourth year of the same reign, and intituled: "An act to authorize the chairman 4 Geo. 4, c. 26, and trustees of the common of the seigneurie of the Bay St. Antoine, commonly called the Baie du Febvre, to terminate certain disputes relating to the limits of the said common and for other purposes appertaining to the same;" the act of the said parliament, passed in the ninth year of the same reign, and intituled: An act to alter and amend 9 Geo. 4. c. 32, an act passed in the sixth year of His Majesty's reign, and intituled: "An act to authorize the inhabitants of the fief Grosbois, in the county of St. Maurice, to make regulations 66 for the common of the said fief," and all and every of the continued un- said acts are hereby continued, and shall remain in force. until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred next after 1st and seventy-one, and from thence until the end of the then January, 1871. next ensuing session of the legislature, and no longer. the session Act of prov. of wise. 2. The act of the Parliament of the late province of Canada, passed in the session held in the twenty-eighth continued like- year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled: "An act respecting Police Magistrates," shall be and is hereby continued, and shall remain in force, for the purposes aforesaid, until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and from thence until the end of the then next ensuing session of the legislature of this province, and no longer. 3. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall acts of the pre- prevent the effect of any act passed during the present session, repealing, amending, rendering permanent, or continuing to any further period than that herein appointed, any of the acts hereinbefore mentioned and continued, nor shall continue any provision or part of any of the acts in this act mentioned, which may have been repealed by any act passed in any previous session or during the present session. Proviso as to sent session. When the terms of the Court of CAP IX. An Act to permit the terms of the Court of Queen's HD [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. The terms of the Court of Queen's Bench, whether sitting as a court of appeal and error or as a court of Queen's Bench criminal jurisdiction, shall be held in each of the cities of shall be held. Quebec and Montreal, at such times, and shall commence on such days, as shall be fixed by order of the lieutenantgovernor in council, notice whereof shall be given by proclamation. Secs. 19 and 81, cap. 77, C. S. of 32 Vic. c. 2. Sections nineteen and eighty-one of chapter seventyL. C., and s. 1 seven of the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, and section one cf the act of this province, thirty-second 19, repealed. Victoria, chapter nineteen, are hereby repealed; nevertheless, the said terms of the said court shall continue to be held in conformity with the said sections of the acts repealed, until the proclamation herein before mentioned shall have been issued. CAP. X. An Act to amend the law respecting the Constitution of the Superior Court. [Assented to 13th December, 1869.] HEREAS, in virtue of the act chapter seventy-eight of Preambls. the consolidated statutes for Lower Canada, the Superior Court for Lower Canada is now composed of eighteen judges, to wit.: one chief justice and seventeen puisne judges; and whereas, it is expedient to amend the said act, in so far as respects the number of the judges constituting the said court; Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: amonded. 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in section one of Sec. 1, of ch. chapter seventy-eight of the consolidated statutes for 78, C. S. L. C. Lower Canada, the Superior Court thereby constituted shall consist of nineteen judges, namely, one chief justice and eighteen puisne judges. same powers 2. The additional judge to be appointed to complete the Additional said number of nineteen, shall have the same powers and judge to hav jurisdiction, and be subject to the same provisions of law as and duties as any other judge of the said court acting under like cir- others. cumstances. amended. 3. The ninth section of the seventy-eighth chapter of the Sec. 9 of ch. said consolidated statutes is hereby amended by substi- 78, C. S. L. C. tuting the word "five" for the word "four," at the beginning of the said section. construed with 4. This act shall be construed as forming part of the This act to be act of this province, thirty-second Victoria, chapter twenty, 32 Vic., c. 20. and as intended to complete the provisions thereof. CAP. XI. An Act to amend the Act respecting District Magistrates in this Province. [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] H1 ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent c. 1. The sixth section of the act thirty-second Victoria, Sec. 6 of 32 chapter twenty-three, is hereby amended by striking out V., 23, all the words therein after the word "consist," and sub amended. |