feet to the south-east of the first, and the other two hundred feet to the north-west of the division line between the first and second concessions, and others if ordered by the said municipalities.

The sluice-ways shall be of such dimensions and made in such manner as may be ordered by the councils of the said municipalities. In the event of the said councils being unable to agree, the sluice-ways shall be made as follows:

They shall be fifteen feet long and the width of the road, of a depth equal to that of the ditches along the road, with abutments on each side, three feet wide by fifteen feet in length and a foot higher than the road, and resting on foundations secured from the attacks of frost; their abutments shall be built of good dry masonry, of good, large stones, with a covering at least three feet thick, supported by six good girders of white oak, nineteen feet long and ten inches by eight, laid on their narrowest face. This covering shall be at least fourteen feet wide and be made of good hemlock deals, quite sound and of first quality. Railings shall be placed on each side of good wood and of suitable dimensions.

6. Fences of cedar posts and No. 8 wire shall be placed Fencing. along both sides of the road in the following manner, that is to say; inside the ditches bordering the same on every part of the road which is less than twenty-six feet wide, and outside the ditches bordering the same, throughout the remainder of the said road.

be observed

7. The construction of the bridge shall be ordered and Formalities to decided upon, in the manner and with the formalities before consindicated in the municipal code, by the municipality of tructing bridge. the parish of St. George de Clarenceville, which shall have the right to exact and levy one half of the cost thereof, as well as one half of the costs of the proceedings, from the municipality of St. George de Henriville.

8. Either of the said municipalities may, when it deems Bridge how it necessary, order the repairing of the bridge at the repaired. common cost of both; the municipality which shall order such repairs shall be entitled to exact and levy one half Levying of of the cost and expenses thereof from the other municipality.

half cost.

tion of road by

9. That portion of the road extending from its south- Certain poreastern extremity, that is to say, from the parish line whom to be to eight perches from the bridge, as well as the fences maintained. and ditches on each side of the same, shall be made, repaired and kept in order, as a front road, by the owners of lands crossed by the said road.

The same.

Certain por

tion of road to

10. The opening and repairing and maintenance of that portion of the road, eight perches in length on the southeast side of the said bridge, and the fences on each side, and the ditches on both sides of the same, if necessary, shall be made by the owner of lot number four in the first concession on the north-east side of the Rivière du Sud, and now the property of Samuel J. Adams.

11. The opening, repairing and maintenance of that be at charges portion of the road, from the bridge to the divisionof municipa- line between the first and second concessions, including lity of St. George de the making, repairing and maintenance of the fences on Clarenceville. the north-east side of the said section, and of the ditch on the north-east side of the said section, if necessary, as well as the making and maintenance of the two sluice-ways hereinabove firstly and secondly designated, shall be done by the municipality of the parish of St. George de Clarenceville, and shall be entirely under the control of that municipality, as if such portion of the road were situate within the limits of the said municipality.

Fence by whom repaired.

Certain por

tion of road to

As to the fence on the south-west side of the same section and ditch on the same side, if necessary, they shall be made, repaired and maintained by the owners of lots, numbers five and six of the said first concession, intersected by the said road and now the property of David Adams, (first.)

12. The opening, repairing and maintenance of that be at charges portion of the road, extending from the division line of municipa- between the first and second concessions to the public lity of St. George de highway in the Mosher range, as well as the construction and maintenance of the sluice-way hereinabove thirdly designated, as well as the construction and maintenance of the fence and ditch of the said section, shall be at the expense of the municipality of St. George de Henriville.

Henriville.

Compensation to J. K. Elliot,

paid.

The compensation to be paid, if any be claimed by John by whom to be Knox Elliot, for the land to be taken from his property for a portion of the road shall be paid one-half by each municipality; such compensation shall be settled by experts, in accordance with the provisions of the municipal code.

Levying of amounts in municipa

13. The works and payments to be made by each municipality, shall be made, apportioned and levied aclities for work. cording to the by-laws in force, when such works are performed, respecting the performance of municipal work in each of the said municipalities.

temporarily

Road may be 14. When the water in the Rivière du Sud shall rise, closed in cer- to such an extent as to render traffic on the road dangerous, either of the municipalities may order it to be temporarily

tain cases.

closed until the water has fallen, and so soon as this shall have been ordered, both of the municipalities shall cease to be liable for damages caused by accidents to persons passing along the road while it is declared closed.

pletion of

15. All the work above-prescribed shall be commenced Commenceon or before the first of October, eighteen hundred and ment and comeighty one and concluded on or before the first of June work. eighteen hundred and eighty two.

aet how borne..

16. The costs and disbursements incurred in obtaining Costs of this the passing of the present act, shall be borne in common by the two municipalities aforesaid.

17. The present act shall come into force on the day of Act in force. its sanction.

CAP. LXXXVI.

An Act to authorise the sale of certain properties substituted under the will of the late George Burns Symes.

[Assented to 30th June, 1881.]

HEREAS by the will of the late George Burns Preamble
Symes, in his lifetime of the City of Quebec, Esquire,

merchant, passed before Macpherson and his colleague,
Notaries Public, on the twenty fourth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty eight, he did give, devise
and bequeath unto Dame Marie Anne Claire Symes, his
daughter, now wife of Napoleon Hugues Charles Marie
Ghislain Maret, Marquis de Bassano, (after making sundry
particular legacies,) all the rest, residue and remainder of
his estate, during her natural life only, if, after her de-
cease she left a child or children lawfully begotten, but in
full property to herself, if no child or children, of her law-
fully begotten, should live to attain the age of twenty-
one years or should die (without leaving lawful issue) before
her and in her life-time;

And whereas among the immoveable properties thus held by her, as Institute, are to be found the following, that is to say:

1. A lot of land, with two cut-stone houses and other dependencies thereon erected, known as the south-west. two thirds of lot number eighty-eight of the official plan or cadastre for St. Antoine Ward, of the City of Montreal;

2. A lot of land, with a house on Mount Carmel Street, designated as number two thousand five hundred and

sixty-eight on the official plan or cadastre of St. Lewis Ward, of the city of Quebec;

3. A lot of land with a house on Fabrique Street, designated as number two thousand eight hundred and thirteen on the official plan or cadastre of St. Lewis Ward, of the city of Quebec ;

4. The constituted rents, representing the cens el rentes of the Barony and Seigniory of Portneuf, having a frontage of one league and a half on the river Saint-Lawrence, by a a depth running in a northeasterly direction from the said river, of three leagues, together with the following properties situated therein:

a. A lot of land in the parish of Portneuf, containing one hundred and twenty one arpents and twenty-six perches, composed of cadastral lots numbers 6, 248, 259, and 256 B, with the water-powers, buildings and machinery of the paper-mill, as fully described by the inventory made by A. O. Mayrand, notary public and Moïse Brière, in the month of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five;

b. A lot of land in the Parish of Portneuf, composed of cadastral lots numbers 223 and 14 A, containing in all one hundred and fifty five arpents and ninety-three perches, with the ruins of the old paper-mill and other buildings ;

c. A lot of land in the parish of Portneuf, being part of cadastral lot number 14 A, measuring two arpents in front by twenty-four in depth, with barns and old store-house;

d. A lot of land in the village of Portneuf, being cadas tral lot number 61, containing three arpents and forty-six perches in superficies, with the grist-mill, saw-mill, machinery and outbuildings;

e. A lot of land in the village of Portneuf, being lot number 33 of the cadastral plan, containing five arpents and sixty-three perches in superficies, with the nail-factory, carding-mill and machinery and other buildings ;

f. The wharf at Portneuf, (being a lot of land on the bank of the river Saint-Lawrence, at the mouth of the river Portneuf), with all the water-privileges thereunto belonging, being lot number 98 of the cadastral plan of the village of Portneuf, containing an area of two arpents and sixty-eight perches, with the buildings thereon;

g. The rights in and upon one-half of an arpent of land on the east side of the wharf, and a certain portion of land on the west side thereof;

h. The unconceded wood-lands, in the parish of Portneuf, known as cadastral lots number 230, 334, half of 383, 462, 464, half of 468, 463, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498 and 508, containing, in all, one thousand one hundred and twelve arpents and sixty-one perches in superficies, more or less;

And whereas the matrimonial domicile of the Institute and her husband is not in the Dominion of Canada, but in Europe, and that there are now living children, issue of their marriage, all minors;

And whereas it has been represented, by the petition of the said Institute and her husband, that the above described immovables are deteriorating in value, becoming dilapidated and going to decay, and that they are expensive and unproductive, more especially on account of the distance therefrom of the domicile of the Institute, and that it has become necessary, as well in her interest as in that of the substitutes, her children, that the same should be sold to the best advantage and the price thereof invested according to law;

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition;

Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

authorized to

1. The Institute may, authorised by her husband, with Mme Bassano, the permission of a Judge of the Superior Court, to be sell certain obtained, founded upon the report of a sworn Expert or lands, &c. Experts, as to the respective values of the immoveable properties, submitted to a family council, and upon the advice thereof, assisted by the Curator duly appointed to the substitution, sell by deed, to which the said Curator shall be a party, any one or all of the immoveable properties, from time to time, either separately or together, at private sale or by public auction, or partly by one mode and partly by the other; and, in the case of each property, either for one sum in cash or for a constituted annual rent; or partly for cash and partly by several instalments, bearing interest at the legal or at any other rate which may be lawfully stipulated. The balance remaining unpaid shall be, in all cases, secured with the vendor's privilege upon the property sold to such person or persons, Company or Corporation, and for such price and upon such terms and conditions as she, authorised as aforesaid, and the Curator, may deem just and reasonable; provided that, in every case, such price be not less than that at which such property shall have been estimated and valued by an Expert, as aforesaid.

2. Such deed of sale shall be valid and effectual, in Effect of deed conveying the title to such real estate, to all intents and of sale.