An Act to require Slides of certain dimensions to be erected upon the several Mill Dams in the River Moira and its tributaries, in the District of Victoria. [23rd May, 1846.] Owners or occupants of River Moira, Dams on the to construct aprons to the THEREAS it is expedient to make more effectual provision for facilitating the Preamble. passing of Lumber in the River Moira and its tributaries, on which Dams are erected, in the District of Victoria: 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, That the owner or occupier of any dam erected, or which may hereafter be erected on the said river and its tributaries, in the District of Victoria, in Upper Canada, shall, on or before the first day of March next after the passing of this Act, construct a good and sufficient apron to such dam, at least thirtytwo feet wide (if the dam be of greater width, and if not then of the same width as the dam) and at least eight feet in length for every foot rise of such dam, and the dam at the place at which the said apron shall be so constructed, shall be at least two feet lower than the top of the said dam (unless it occupy the whole width thereof as aforesaid) and the said apron shall be built in the main channel of the stream with the highest part thereof one foot below the said fall, under a penalty of two shillings and six pence, currency, for each day during which the requirements of this Act shall remain uncomplied with; and such penalty shall be recoverable before any two Justices of the Peace for the District in which the offence shall be committed, on the oath of two credible witnesses, and if not paid may be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of such Justices, or either of them, and one moiety of such penalty shall belong to Her Majesty for the public uses of the Province, and the other moiety to the prosecutor. MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS, same of a certain form and March, 1847. size, before 1st Penalty for neglect, and levied and ap propriated. how recovered, DROLT ANNO NO NO VICTORIE REGINE. CAP. LIII. An Act to repeal two certain Ordinances therein mentioned, relating to Winter Roads in that part of the Province heretofore Lower Canada, in so far as regards the District of Quebec, the District of Gaspé, and that part of the District of Three-Rivers which is or was in the Municipal District of Portneuf. W [9th June, 1846.] L. C. 4 Vict. c. 25. HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Ordinances of the Legislature of the Preamble. late Province of Lower Canada, relating to Winter Roads, so as to exempt the District of Quebec, the District of Gaspé, and that part of the District of Three-Rivers which is or was in the Municipal District of Portneuf: 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 Canadu, and for the Government af Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, so much of the Ordinance of the Legislature of the late Province of Lower Canada, Ordinance 3& passed in the Session held in the third and fourth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to provide for the improvement during the winter se son of the Queen's Highways in this Province, and for other purposes; or of the Ordinance of the said Legislature, passed in the fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Laws relating to Winter Roads, as enacts that no cariole, sleigh, berline, or other winter Carriage, other than the sleighs or sleds, in the aforesaid Ordinances described, shall be used on any of the Queen's Highways or Public Roads, within that part of this Province heretofore Lower Canada, shall be, and so much of the said Ordinances is hereby suspended until the first day of May, which will be in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and from thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer, in so far as regards the District of Quebec, the District of Gaspé, and that part of the District of ThreeRivers which is or was in the Municipal District of Portneuf, but shall remain in force in all other places in that part of this Province which formerly constituted the Province of Lower Canada. MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWArt Derbishire & George Desbarats, L. C. Ordinance 4 Vict. c. 33. Part of the said Ordinances pendled in so far as regards Lower Cana further sus certain parts of da. |