firewood, to be selected by him out of any larger number he may have,―(if the seizure be in satisfaction of a debt contracted for any cow, sheep, hog, stove, or firewood, it will be seizable, and must be left out of the list of articles exempt from seizure,) the aforesaid sum and costs, together with

any

for the costs of this execution, returning to the said C. D. the overplus, if there be, after having satisfied the aforesaid sums; and you are further commanded to make return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon before this Court,

FORM OF A WARRANT OF SIMPLE SAISIE EN MAIN TIERCE.

Province of Canada,

District of

In the Commissioner's Court for the Parish (or, as the case may be,) of

To any Bailiff of the said District of

At the instance of A. B. of

Greeting :

(A. B.'s residence

and profession, trade or calling,) you are hereby commanded for assuring the payment of the sum of

of

pounds due him by C. D., C. D.'s residence and profession, trade or calling,) under Judgment of this Court, (state briefly the subject and date of the judgment,)

to

to seize and attach in the hands of E. F., of (E. F's residence and profession, trade or calling,) all sums and things generally whatsoever, which he owes or shall owe on any account whatsoever, or shall have in his hands belonging to the said C. D., strictly prohibiting him from parting with the same, on pain of paying the same twice, and of being personally liable for the sum so due to the said A. B. as aforesaid.

in the said

And you are further commanded to summon the said C. D. and E. F. pear before this Court, at the Parish, (or as the case may be) of

house of

next, (or instant,) at

on the o'clock in the

day of

noon, the said C. D. to show cause why this attachment (saisie arrêt) should not be declared good and valid, and the said E. F. to make his declaration under this warrant; notifying them that otherwise order may be made in the matter by default; and have you then and there this warrant, with your doings thereon.

Given under my Hand and Seal, this

{L.S.}

SCHEDULE No. 5.

day of

184

G. H., Commissioner.

FORM OF A WARRANT OF SAISIE GAGERIE.

Province of Canada,

District of

}

In the Commissioner's Court for the Township (or as the case may be) of

To any Bailiff in the said District of

At the instance of A. B. of

Greeting:

you are hereby commanded to

distrain, by Saisie Gagerie, all the goods and chattels belonging to C. D.,

of

of

(C. D.'s residence, and profession, trade or calling,) and being in the house by him occupied, (or the produce and effects in the barns and other buildings occupied by the said C. D.) for the surety and payment of the due by the said C. D. to the said A. B. for the rent of the said premises, held by him of the said A. B.

sum of

And

you are further commanded to summon the said C. D. to appear before this Court, at the

ship (or as the case may be) of

noon, on the

house of

in the said Town

instant, (or next,) to answer the demand of the said A. B., and to show cause why the said Saisie Gagerie should not be declared good and valid; notifying the said C. D. that if he fail so to appear, either in person or by his Attorney, judgment may be given against him by default;—and have you then and there this warrant with your doings thereon.

In the Commissioner's Court for the Township (or as the case may be) of

To any Bailiff in the said District of

Greeting:---

(A. B.'s residence and pro

At the instance of A. B., of fession, trade or calling,) you are hereby commanded to seize a certain cart painted red, (or as the case may be) to be further described and pointed out to you by

the

the said A. B., and which he claims as being his property, unjustly detained
from him by C. D., of
(C. D.'s residence and profes
sion, trade or calling,) and safely to keep the said cart, so as to have the same
forthcoming to abide the judgment to be given in the case.

And you are further commanded to summon the said C. D. to appear before this Court, at the in the said Township (or as the

case may be) of
the

day of

house of
at

instant, (or next,) to answer the demand

of the said A. B., and to show cause why the said seizure should not be declared good and valid, and the said cart to be the property of the said A. B.; notifying the said C. D. that if he fail so to appear, either in person or by his Attorney, judgment may be given against him by default; and have you then and there this warrant, with your doings thereon.

An Act to alter the Terms of the General Sessions of the Peace, in and for the District of Saint Francis.

WE

[9th December, 1843.]

HEREAS, by the Provincial Statute of Lower Canada, passed in the third year of the Reign of His late Majesty, King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to erect certain Townships therein mentioned, into an Inferior District, to be called the Inferior District of Saint Francis, and to establish Courts of Judicature therein, and since continued, amended and made permanent by other Legislative enactments, it is among other things provided that there shall be held at Sherbrooke, in and for the said Inferior District of Saint Francis (now the District of Saint Francis) twice in every year, a General Session of the Peace, the terms whereof shall be from the first to the seventh day (both days included and Sundays excepted) of each of the months of February and October: And whereas it is expedient to alter the periods of holding the said General Sessions of the Peace in and for the said District; Be it therefore enacted, by

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 so much of the Provincial Statute of the late Province of Lower Canada, first above cited, as enacts that the Terms of the said Inferior District, now the District of Saint Francis, shall be from the first to the seventh day, both days included and Sundays excepted, of the months of February and October in every year, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed, from and after the twenty-first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

II. And be it enacted, that from and after the day last aforesaid, the said Terms of the said General Sessions of the Peace, in and for the said District of Saint Francis, shall be from the first to the seventh day of March, and from the twenty-fourth to the thirtieth day of September in each year, both days inclusive, and Sundays and Holidays excepted.

CAP. XXI.

An Act to alter and amend certain provisions of the Ordinance of the
Governor and Council of Lower Canada, of the second year of Her
Majesty's reign, intituled, An Ordinance for establishing an efficient
system of Police in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal.

WH

[9th December, 1843.]

Ordinance of c. 2, cited.

L. C. 2 V. (1)

HEREAS it is just and necessary to alter and amend certain parts of an Preamble. Ordinance of the Governor and Special Council for the affairs of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the second year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, An Ordinance for establishing an effective system of Police in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal; 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 from and after the passing of

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