SCHEDULE-Continued. SERVICE. A sum not exceeding Currency. Currency. Education-Lower Canada-Continued. Aid to the Conversion de St. Paul Superior School, £50 ; and St. Liguori Model School, £37 10% St. Césaire Female Academy, £30; and St. Aimé St. Benoit Youville Institution, £50; and Ste. Laprairie and St. Cyprien Academies, £50 each.. Trois Pistoles Model School, and Kakouna Sisters' Somerset Village Model School, and Leeds Aca- 100 0 0 75 0 0 Ste. Marie de la Beauce Superior Female Academy and St. Croix do, under Sisters, £50 each.... Male and Female Aoademies, St. Timothée, £37 100 0 0 1500 이 150 0 0 75 0 0 Out of which from Jesuits' Estates Fund and Lower Canada share of Common School Fund........... 16040 0 2 4561 2 2 25000 0 0 Additional aid to Common School Fund, Upper and Lower Canada....... Sutton High School..... 66 the Female Academy at Longueuil. Aid to the Roman Catholic College at Bytown.. the Episcopal Methodist College at Belleville, for "the Cassville Select School.. Additional aid to Mr. Bonin's St. Andrews, and Lachute! แ Academies, £25 each... Female Academy, St. Marie Beauce.. Aid to the Model School at St. Claire, County of Dorchester.. 66 Long Pointe Academy. Aid to the Steanstead Seminary, Female Department. Female Academy at St. Gervais..... Additional aid to Academy at Knowlton, Township of 66 Brome.... Mascouche Academy. Further to Educational Institutions, Upper Canada. Aid to Grammar School, in the New County of Halton.... Further Miscellaneous Items Excess of Expenditure of the River Police at Quebec in 1854, over the proceeds of Tonnage Duty appropriated to such Expense. The same probably for 1855.. £ s. d. 100 0 0 75 0 0 .£528 14 10 Half the Expense of the River Police at Montreal, for the The same for 1855. 900 0 0 1239 11 3 3038 7 10 To the Trinity House of Quebec to cover expenses for a Build-j ing for a Depot of Provisions on the Isle of Anticosti, with the view to the relief of Shipwrecked persons, and residence for the keeper.. To make good the Contingent Expenses of the Pureau of Agriculture in 1854, including Printing, over and above appropriation.. Loan to Inhabitants in certain parts of Lower Canada to enable them to procure Seed. Remuneration to Joseph H. Terrill, for performance of Duties as High Constable, at Sherbrooke, including arrears of £125... 500 0 0 500 0 0 5000 0 250 0 0 £ s. d. 1000 0 0 100 0 0 SCHEDULE-Continued. SCHEDULE-Continued. SERVICE. Further Miscellaneous Items-Continued. Excess of Expense of past year for distributing the Sta tutes £150 0 0 66 for present year, over the sum included 150 0 0 300 0 0 As a reward for the heroic conduct of Mrs. Margaret Becker, through whose humane exertions the lives of the crew of the Schooner" Conductor," driven ashore at Long Point in Lake Erie, was saved. Pension to G. B. Faribault, Esquire, as late Assistant Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, from 9th May, to 31st December, 1855, at the rate of £400 per annum. St. Lawrence Canals.. Junction Canal... St. Ann's Lock. Chambly Canal. Public Works. 500 이 14700 0 0 1500 0 0j 500 0 0 Dredging Channel at the Narrows Bridge. Burlington Bay Canal.... Port Hope Harbour, to secure a Harbour of Refuge for ship ping free of charge.. St. Maurice Works... 4500 0 0 Custom House Hamilton, purchase of Land and Construction. 7000 0 Of Surveys and Contingent Expenses. Rents, Repairs and Maintenance of Public Buildings. Purchase of Property at the Gatineau, for lumbering opera 10917 2 & 258 4 10 SCHEDULE-Continued SCHEDULE-Continued. SERVICE. A sum not exceeding Currency. Currency. Public Works-Continued. Extending Pier at Rivière Ouelle, including Timber... Custom House at Regis..... Towards Dredging a Channel through the Flats of Lake St. Total Currency... Total out of Consolidated Revenue Fund, Currency... Preamble. Message recited. CAP. XCI. An Act relating to the Ordnance Lands and Naval and Military Reserves in this Province, and for other purposes. [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] WHEREAS it appears by the Message of His Excellency the Governor General to both Houses of the Provincial Parliament, and the Despatch from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, accompanying the same, that Her Majesty's Imperial Government is willing to surrender to the Province all the Ordnance Lands therein, whether acquired by purchase or otherwise, and all the Naval and Military Reserves therein, with the exception of such portions thereof at Kingston, Montreal and Quebec, as are essential to the Military defence of the Colony by Her Majesty's Troops, on an understanding that the Provincial Government shall make ample provision for the maintenance of peace and order within the limits of the Province; And whereas it will be for the honor and advantage of the Province that the said offer be accepted, and Her Majesty's faithful Canadian subjects, well knowing that the strength of the Empire would, in case of need, be put forth in order to defend any part of it from aggression, are willing to take upon themselves the maintenance of peace and order within the Country: 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 Canadà, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: with the Im I. Whenever Her Majesty's Imperial Government shall be The Governer ready to transfer to the Provincial Government the aforesaid in Council Lands and Property now vested in the Principal Officers of may agree Her Majesty's Ordnance, or in the Commissioners for executing perial Govern the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of ment for the Great Britain and Ireland, the Governor of this Province may the said lands. on behalf thereof by Order in Council accept such transfer on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon. transfer of II. The Lands and Reserves aforesaid shall for the purposes Lands to be of this Act be divided into three classes, that is to say one divided into class to be denominated A, which shall include the portions of three classesthe lands at Kingston, Montreal and Quebec, to be retained for occupation by Her Majesty's Troops; another class to be denominated B, which shall be retained for the defence of the Province; and a third class to be denominated C, which may be sold, leased or otherwise used as to the Governor in Council may from time to time seem meet. to be retained III. Such portions of the lands included in class B, as it shall As to lands be deemed necessary by the Governor in Council and the Officer which ought commanding Her Majesty's Regular Forces in the Province to for the defence occupy for the defence of the Province in time of peace, shall of the Probe so occupied by such force as shall be from time to time vince. selected for that service by the Governor in Council, and shall be kept in proper order and repair at the expense of the Province; and any portion of the lands so retained for the defence of the Province which it shall not be deemed necessary to occupy as aforesaid may be leased or otherwise used in such manner as the Governor in Council may think most for the advantage of the Province. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, that the several Governor in Lands and Reserves aforesaid shall be divided into the said three Council and classes A B and C, in such manner as may be agreed upon cers to agree Principal Off between the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance and on the divithe Governor General in Council. sion. ing from such V. The moneys arising from the lease or use of any of the Application of lands or property included in class B as aforesaid, or from the moneys arissale, lease or use of any of the lands or property included in lands. class C as aforesaid respectively, or otherwise derived therefrom, shall be paid over to the Receiver General, and shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province: but Separate acseparate accounts shall be kept thereof, and in any account or counts to be statement of the expenses incurred for purposes relative to the kept of them, Provincial Militia or Police, the said moneys shall be taken into account and credited in deduction of the said expenses. &c. CAP. |