ANNO NONO VICTORIA REGINÆ. CAP. CXIV. An Act for granting a Civil List to Her Majesty. Reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure, 9th June, 1846. The Royal Assent given by Her Majesty in Council, on the 16th August, 1847; and Proclamation made MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: WHE HEREAS Your Majesty has been most graciously pleased to declare to Your Preamble. faithful Canadian Commons in Provincial Parliament assembled, Your Majesty's Gracious desire to owe to the spontaneous liberality of Your Canadian people, such Grant by way of Civil List as shall be sufficient to give stability and security to the Great Civil Institutions of the Province, and to provide for the adequate remuneration of able and efficient Officers in the Executive, Judicial and other Departments of Your Majesty's Public Provincial Service, the granting of which Civil List constitutionally belongs only to Your Majesty's faithful Canadian people in their Provincial Parliament: We, therefore, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Canada in Provincial Parliament assembled, desirous that a certain competent Revenue for the purpose, may be settled upon Your Majesty, (to whom may God grant a long and happy Reign) as a testimony of our unfeigned affection to Your Sacred Person and Government, have accordingly freely resolved to grant unto Your Majesty, a certain Revenue payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province; We do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it 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, That all duties and revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Upper Canada or Lower Canada had, before the passing of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, or over which the Legislature of this Province has, or may have power of appropriation, shall form one Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be appropriated for the Public Service of this Province, in the manner and subject to the charges hereinafter mentioned. Duties and Revenues der the con formerly un trol of the Legislature of Upper or of dar under the control of the Legislature of this Province, to form the Lower Cana Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, subject to certain charges. The said II. And be it enacted, That the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province shall be charged with permanently charged with all the costs, charges and expenses, incident to the collecthe expenses of tion, management and receipt thereof; such costs, charges and expenses being subject nevertheless to be reviewed and audited in such manner as shall be directed by any Act of the Legislature. the collection and manage ment thereof, the same being A sum not ed out of the the purposes mentioned in Schedule A. And a sum not exceeding £39,245. 165. III. And be it enacted, That there shall be payable in every year to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, a sum 4d., appropriat- not exceeding Thirty-four thousand, six hundred and thirty-eight pounds, fifteen shilsaid Fund for lings and four pence currency, for defraying the expense of the several services and purposes named in the Schedule A to this Act annexed; and during the life of Her Majesty, and for five years after the demise of Her Majesty, there shall be payable in every year to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, out of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund, a further sum not exceeding Thirty-nine thousand, two hundred and forty-five pounds, sixteen shillings currency, for defraying the expense of the several services and purposes named in the Schedule marked B to this Act annexed; the said sums of Thirty-four thousand, six hundred and thirty-eight pounds, fifteen shillings and four pence, and Thirty-nine thousand, two hundred and forty-five pounds, sixteen shillings, to be issued by the Receiver General in discharge of such Warrant or Warrants as shall be from time to time directed to him under the hand and seal of the Governor; and the said Receiver General shall account to Her Majesty for the same through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in such manner and form as Her Majesty shall be graciously pleased to direct. for the life of Her Majesty and for five years after, for the purposes mentioned in Schedule B. The said sums to be paid by the Receiver General on Warrants, and to be accounted for to Her Majesty. The sums in the first co lumn of the said Schedules, to be those payable while the offices are held by the present incumbents; after wards those in the second column. Offices named in Schedule B. may be abolish propriation of in mentioned may be varied. IV. And be it enacted, That the sums set down in the first column opposite to each Office or Department in the said Schedules A and B shall be payable for each, while the present Incumbents shall respectively remain in office, and as often as any such present Incumbent shall cease to hold such office, the sums respectively mentioned in the first column shall cease to be payable, and the sums mentioned in the second column shall, as each case arrives, be payable instead as in the said Schedules mentioned. V. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor to abolish any of the Offices named in the Schedule B, or to vary the sums thereby appropriated to such purposes connected with the administration of the Government of this Province, as to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors shall seem fit; and that accounts in detail of tion of the expenditure of the several sums expended under the authority of this Act, shall be the sums there laid before both Houses of the Legislature within thirty days from the beginning of the Session next after such expenditure shall be made: Provided always, that not more than Two thousand, two hundred and twenty-two pounds, two shillings and four pence, shall be payable at the same time for pensions to the Judges out of the sum mentioned in the said Schedule A, and that not more than Five thousand, five hundred and fiftyfive pounds, eleven shillings and one penny, shall be payable at the same time for pensions out of the sum mentioned in Schedule B, and that a List of all such pensions, and of the persons to whom the same shall have been granted, shall be laid in every year before the Legislature. Accounts to be laid before the Legisla ture. Proviso: Amount payable for pensions limited. Pension lists to be laid yearly before the Legisla ture. Surrender of VI. And be it enacted, That during the time for which the said several sums mentioned hereditary Re- in the said Schedules are severally payable, the same shall be accepted and taken by venues of the Her Majesty by way of Civil List instead of all Territorial and other Revenues now at the the sums in the disposal of the Crown arising in this Province; and that three-fifths of the net Crown, while produce of the said Territorial and other Revenues now at the disposal of the Crown the said Schewithin this Province, shall be paid over to the account of the said Consolidated Re- dules remain venue Fund; and also that during the life of Her Majesty, and for five years after the payable, demise of Her Majesty, the remaining two-fifths of the net produce of the said Territorial and other Revenues now at the disposal of the Crown within this Province, shall be also paid over in like manner to the account of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund. VII. And be it enacted, That the consolidation of the Duties and Revenues of this Province, shall not be taken to affect the payment out of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund of any sum or sums heretofore charged upon the rates and duties now raised, levied and collected, or to be raised, levied and collected, to and for the use of either of the former Provinces of Upper or Lower Canada, or of this Province, for such time as shall have been appointed by the several Acts of the Legislature of the Province by which such charges were severally authorized. VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the Legislative Assembly to originate or pass any Vote, Resolution or Bill for the appropriation of any part of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund, or of any other tax or impost, to any purpose which shall not have been first recommended by a Message of the Governor to the said Legislative Assembly during the Session in which such Vote, Resolution or Bill shall be passed. provisions of IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the foregoing provisions of this Act The foregoing shall have no force or effect until the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty- Pro fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh Sections of the Act of the Parliament of pended until the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled, An Act to re-unite the 51, 52, 53, 54, Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and the 55, 56 and 57 Schedules referred to in the said Sections, shall have been repealed. sections 50, of the Union Act, (3 and 4 V. c. 35,) and the Schedules therein referred to, shall have been repealed. SCHEDULE Governor General, to be in lieu of Fees, Seizures, and Forfeitures, £7,000 Sterling. 7777 15 6 Amount to be allowed in future as Vacancies occur by Removal of the present Incumbents. Currency. £ s. d. 7777 15 6 MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS, |