Council may to animals. so filed, and shall grant costs to or against any such opposant or the Council of the said City, as to law and justice may appertain, and the said plan shall, if approved and confirmed, be attested by one of the Justices of the said Superior Court. LXXVII. The Council of the said City of Quebec is hereby make By-laws authorized and empowered to pass a By-law or By-laws, to for the prevention of cruelty punish, either by fine or imprisonment, or both, any person or persons who shall ill-use or cruelly treat or over-drive any animal within the limits of the said City; Provided always, that such fine shall not exceed five pounds currency, nor such imprisonment, thirty days in the Common Gaol of the District. Corporation may take more ground than actually re quired in cer tain cases. Licenses for taverns to be granted by Council. Parties erect ing buildings to leave a sufficient portion of street free. Parties swear ing falsely in taking an oath in virtue of this Act, guilty of perjury. Interpretation clause. LXXVIII. In all cases where, for the purpose of opening any new street, square, market-place, or other public highway or place, or for continuing, enlarging or otherwise improving those streets, squares, market-places, or other public highways or places now made, or as a site for any public building to be erected by the said Council, the said Council shall deem it advantageous to purchase and acquire, to take and enter upon, more than the ground actually required for any of the said purposes, it shall be lawful for the said Council so as aforesaid to purchase and acquire an extent over and above what may be required for the above purposes, provided nevertheless such extent do not exceed one hundred feet in depth, by whatever length may exist. LXXIX. From and after the passing of this Act, all licenses to keep taverns, hotels or houses of public entertainment within the said City, shall be granted by the Council only; and the person obtaining such license shall pay to the Council a fee to be established by a By-law for the same. LXXX. All persons occupying a part of any public street or lane while erecting any building, shall leave unoccupied and free from all embarrassments a sufficient portion of the said street to allow persons freely to pass with their horses and carriages, under such a penalty as may be imposed by the said Council. LXXXI. If any person shall knowingly swear falsely in taking an oath in virtue of this Act, such person shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and suffer the pains and penalties provided by law in cases of wilful and corrupt perjury. LXXXII. The words "Governor of this Province," wherever they occur in this Act, shall be understood as meaning the Governor, or any person authorized to execute the commission of Governor within this Province for the time being; and the word "Councillor," and the word "Councillors," wherever they occur in this Act, shall be understood as meaning any any member or members of the said Council of the City of Quebec, unless by the context it shall appear clearly that the words "Councillor" or "Councillors" respectively are intended to apply exclusively to a member or members of the said Council, who is not or are not the Mayor of the said City; and the words "the said Corporation" or "the said Corporation of the City of Quebec," wherever they occur in this Act, shall be understood as meaning the said Corporation of "the Mayor, Councillors and Citizens of the City of Quebec" unless the context necessarily requires a different meaning to be given to those words; and the words "Lower Canada," wherever they occur in this Act, are to be understood as meaning and comprehending that part of the Province of Canada which formerly constituted the Province of Lower Canada; and any word or words implying the singular number or the masculine gender only, shall be understood to include several matters of the same kind as well as one matter and several persons, males and females, as well as one person, and bodies corporate as well as individuals, unless it be otherwise especially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction. LXXXIII. This Act shall be a Public Act, and shall be Public Aot. judicially noticed as such by all Judges, Justices of the Peace, and others whom it may concern, without being especially pleaded or proved. CAP. CLX. An Act to increase the Tolls leviable on the Turnpike Roads in the neighbourhood of the City of Quebec, and for other purposes. W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] WHEREAS it is expedient to grant further powers to the Preamble the authority of the Ordinance of the Legislature of Lower Ca nada, passed in the fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to provide for the Improvement of cer- Ordinance L. tain Roads in the neighbourhood of and leading to the City of C. 4 V. c-17Quebec, and to raise a Fund for that purpose, and further to amend the said Ordinance: 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: Powers of Trustees extended on I. The authority and powers of the said Trustees shall extend to the Bridge over the river Etchemin, upon the road leading south side of to St. Nicholas, on the South shore of the River St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence. known as the Etchemin Bridge, as fully as to any road mentioned in the said Ordinance, and all the rights and privileges belonging to Her Majesty with respect to, in and over the said Bridge, shall belong to the said Trustees who may exact tolls as by the following Schedule prescribed. Trustees may over the River II. It shall be lawful for the said Trustees to construct a build a Bridge Bridge over the river Chaudière in such manner, within such Chaudière. period of time, and at such place as it shall be found convenient notwithstanding the restriction mentioned in the ninth clause of the Act passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign Chapter two hundred and thirty-five. They may III. The said Trustees of the Quebec Turnpike Roads shall raise the tolls have power to exact tolls upon the said Tuinpike Roads and the Bridges under their control, not exceeding ihose in the following Schedule and as therein specified, in lieu of the Tolls now leviable by the said Trustees: to a certain extent. SCHEDULE. For every four wheel carriage or vehicle drawn by one horse or other beast..... For each additional horse or other beast.... passenger. For each carriage or omnibus conveying over six- For every gig, caleche, cab or two-wheeled omni- For each additional horse or beast.... For every spring cart, cart or other two-wheel For each additional horse or beast.... 0 0 2 For every horse, mare, gelding, ass, mule or cow, and head of other neat cattle.... For every score of sheep, lambs, hogs or swine.. 0 0 10 The tolls leviable in crossing Dorchester Bridge, Carouge tain Bridges. Bridge, Chaudière Bridge, Valcartier Bridge, and Etchemin Bridge, shall be fifty per cent. higher upon each of the above Tolls on cer vehicles, vehicles, animals or things, than the tolls which may now be The said Tolls to be paid, one half in passing, and the other How payable. half in repassing, except for foot passengers, as above stated. IV. The said Trustees shall have power to change the Trustees may site of any toll-gate by law established or to be established change sites of upon the said Turnpike roads, whenever they shall consider Tol-gates and establish new it advantageous so to do, and shall have power also to erect ores on certain any additional toll-gates at any intermediate places, and there conditions. levy tolls but such tolls shall forin part and portion of those leviable by law, and the whole of the tolls leviable upon any one of the said roads, when divided, shall not exceed the amount fixed by law for such road; and such intermediate toll-gates shall be subject to the provisions of the ordinance touching the said roads and of the statutes amending the same: And Revenue may the revenues to arise from any of the roads under the control be farmed out. of the said Trustees now or to be hereafter opened, may be farmed out so soon as the said Trustees may see fit after erecting the toll-gates. &c. V. The farming and leasing out of the revenues of the said Period of such roads and bridges shall be computed from the first day of June farming out, in every year, and the commutations mentioned in the third section of an Act passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to amend a certain Ordinance therein 8 V. c. 55. mentioned relative to the Turnpike Roads near Quebec, shall be calculated for a period of one year from that day, for every year hereafter, without any deduction for any time elapsed in the said year previous to the commutation being effected. bentures. VI. It shall be lawful for the said Trustees to raise money Trustees may upon the deposit of their Debentures in any of the Banks of raise money on this Province, and to pledge the same to the said Banks to deposit of Desecure to them the amount of any sums of money which they may lend to the said Trustees for the purposes of the said Turnpike Trust; and it shall be lawful for the said Banks to loan money upon such deposit of Debentures as aforesaid. VII. The said Trustees shall have the power to require from May require the several Toll-keepers, accounts under oath of all receipts Toll-ke pers from tolls by them collected, which oath shall be taken before oath. a Justice of the Peace. to account on enactments. VIII. So much of the Ordinance of Lower Canada cited in the Repeal of inPreamble, or of the several Acts of this Province amending the consistent same, as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, is hereby repealed. CAP. Preamble. Salaries of the said Officers raised not withstanding 12 V. c. 114. Preamble. CAP. CLXI. An Act to increase the Salaries of Superintendents of Pilots and of the Bailiff of the Trinity House of Quebec. W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] HEREAS it is expedient to augment the salaries of the Superintendents of Pilots and Bailiff of the Trinity House at Quebec: 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. For and notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in the third section of the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to consolidate the laws relative to the powers and duties of the Trinity House of Quebec and for other purposes, or in any other part of the said Act or in any other Act, the salaries of each of the Superintendents of Pilots shall be two hundred and fifty pounds per annum, and that of the Bailiff of the Trinity House of Quebec, shall be one hundred and fifty pounds per annum, to be paid in the same manner and out of the same fund as provided in the said Act with regard to the salaries there in mentioned; and any provision to the contrary in the said Act or in any other is hereby repealed. CAP. CLXII. An Act to amend the provisions of the several Acts for the incorporation of the City of Montreal. W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] HEREAS it is expedient to repeal in part, and to amend the provisions of the Acts incorporating the City of Montreal, and to vest certain further powers in the Corporation thereby constituted, and to remove certain doubts which have arisen as to the true intent and meaning of certain clauses in the said Acts: 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: |