paid and how. of the amount of the Debentures redeemed by him, and the interest paid thereon respectively, and also of the amount of the said Debentures outstanding and unredeemed at the periods aforesaid, and of the expenses attending the issuing the same, to be laid before the Legislature of this Province. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the interest Interest when to be growing due upon the said Debentures shall and may be payable in halfyearly periods to be computed from the date thereof, and shall and may be paid on demand by the Receiver General of this Province, for the time being, who shall take care to have the same Indorsed on each Debenture at the time of payment thereof, expressing the period up to which the said interest shall have been paid, and shall take receipts for the same from the persons respectively, and that the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province, shall after the Thirtieth day of June and Thirty-first day of December in each year, issue warrants to the Receiver General for the payment of the amount of Interest that shall have been advanced according to the Receipts to be by him taken as aforesaid. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the ReceivRemuneration to the er General of this Province, and the Person or Persons necessarily emReceiver General and ployed under him in the execution of this Act, shall severally have and those employed under receive such Rewards and Allowances, as the Governor, Lieutenant .bim. celled. Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province, and the Executive Council thereof shall adjudge to be reasonable and direct to be allowed them for their respective services in the execution of this Act, and that the same shall be paid in discharge of such Warrant or Warrants as the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government of this Province, shall from time to time issue for that purpose. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That separate How Debentures shall Warrants shall be made to the Receiver General by the Governor, Lieube redeemed and can- tenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province, for the time being, for the payment of each Debenture as the same may become due, and be presented in favor of the lawful holder thereof, and that such Debentures as shall from time to time be discharged and paid off shall be cancelled and made void by the said Receiver General. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at any time after the said Debentures, or any of them, shall respectively become due according to the terms thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Govevrnor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province, if he thinks proper so to do, to direct a Notice to be inserted in the Upper Canada Gazette, requiring all holders of said Debentures to present the same for payment according to this Act, and if after the insertion of the said notice for Three Months, any Debenture then payable shall remain out more than Six Months, from the first publication of such notiee, all Interest on such Debentures after the expiration of the said Six Months, shall cease and be no further payable in re- Debentures to be callspect of the time which may elapse between the expiration of the said Six Months and their presentment for payment. ed in, pointed for superin- . IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Honorable William Allan, William Thompson, and Grant Powell, Esquires, be Commissioners for the purpose of receiving Plans and Estimates, and of Commissioners apContracting for and Superintending the Erection of the said Buildings, tending the erection to which said Commissioners the sums required to be expended for the of the said Buildings; purposes of this Act shall be paid in discharge of such Warrant or Warrants as shall be issued for that purpose by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province, and that the sums so applied shall be accounted for to His Majesty, through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall be graciously plea. sed to direct, and that an account of such expenditure shall, from time to time, be laid before the Legislature of this Province; Provided, always nevertheless, that if any of the said Commissioners shall die, or shall decline to act as Commissioner under this Act, it shall be in the power of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province to appoint a Commissioner or Commissioners in plied. the room of any one or more of such Commissioners as shall die or refuse to act as aforesaid. Vacancies, how sup CHAP. XXIX. AN ACT to Grant a Sum of Money to His Majesty to enable His Majesty to Compensate the Services of certain Persons therein mentioned. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, [Passed 30th January, 1826.] WHEREAS it is expedient to Grant to Your Majesty a Sum of Money Preamble. 120 CHAP. XXX.-7th YEAR GEORGE IV. A. D. 1826.-SECOND SESSION. Majesty, that it may be enacted. And be it enacted, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada, Constituted and Assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled, "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province;"" and by the authority of the same, That from and out of the Rates and Duties raised, levied and collected, or hereafter to be raised, levied and collected, to and for pensate the Arbitrator the public uses of this Province, and in the hands of the Receiver Geneand Secretary sent to ral, unappropriated, there be granted to Your Majesty, Your Heirs and just the distribution of Successors, the Sum of Six Hundred Pounds, to enable Your Majesty to compensate the said Arbitrator and Secretary for their services. Lower Canada to ad duties. How paid and accounted for. II And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said sum of Six Hundred Pounds shall be paid by the Receiver General of this Province, in discharge of such Warrant or Warrants as shall, for that purpose be issued by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government of this Province, and shall be accounted for to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the time being, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall be graciously pleased to direct. Preamble. CHAP. XXX. .AN ACT to grant a further Sum of Money for the Completion of the Monument to MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WHEREAS it has been represented by the surviving Commissioner appointed under an Act of the Parliament of this Province. passed in the Fifty Fifth Year of His late Majesty's Reign intituled, "an Act to provide for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of the late President, Major General Sir Isaac Brock," that a further sum of money is required to Complete the said Monument upon a scale which appears to the Commissioners worthy of the object: And whereas the Legislature of this Pro. vince are happy in testifying, on this occasion, to Your Majesty, the continued veneration with which they regard the Memory of the late Sir Isaac Bock: May it please Your Majesty that it may be en cted, And he it enacted, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled, "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the Fourteenth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province;" and by the authority of the same, That from and out of the Rates and Duties already raised, levied, and collected, to and for the use of this Province and in the hands of the Receiver General, and unappropriated, there be granted to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors the Sum of Six Hundred Pounds, which said Sum of Six Hundred Pounds shall be paid by the Receiver General of this Province, to the surviving Commissioner £600 granted to com appointed to carry into effect the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fif. plete the Monument to ty fifth Year of the Reign of the late King, intituled, "an Act to provide Major General Sir for the erection of a Monument to the Memory of the late President Major General Sir Isaac Brock," in Discharge of such Warrant or Warrants as shall be issued be the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province, and be accounted for through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the time being, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall be graciously pleased to direct. the memory of the late Isaac Brock, Commissioner and an II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said sum. of Six Hundred Pounds shall and may be applied by the said Commissi To be applied by the oner in discharge of such expenses as now are or hereafter may be inccur account rendered to red in erecting and completing the Monument to the Memory of the late the Legislature. Major General Sir Isaac Brock, and that an account of such expenditure shall be laid before the Legislature of this Province at its next session. CHAP. XXXI. AN ACT to grant a Sum of Money to His Majesty for the Purchase of certain Machinery now used in Deepening the Waters at Burlington Bay. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN. [Passed 30th January, 1826.] WHEREAS the Contractors for making the Canal at the outlet of Bur- and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province," " and by the authority of the same, That there be granted to Your Majesty, Your Heirs, and Sussessors, a sum not exceeding Two Thousand Pounds, which said sum of Two Thousand Pounds shall be applied by the A Sum not greater Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government plied in purchasing of this Province for the time being, or so much of the same as may be certain Machinery at required for that purpose, to the purchasing of the Dredging Machine aforesaid. than £2000 to be ap II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Appraisers to be ap- said Commissioners to nominate and appoint one Appraiser, and for the said Contractors to nominate and appoint one other Appraiser, and the two Appraisers so appointed, to elect a third. pointed ed and reported. III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the ApValue to be ascertain praisers appointed as herein before mentioned, shall with all convenient speed proceed to ascertain by the best means in their power, the actual value of the said Dredging Machine, and to report the same to the said Commissioners, under their hands and seals or the hands and seals of the majority of them. be paid by warrant, IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person AdAmount so reported to ministering the Government of this Province, on receiving a report from the said Commissioners, of the amount so found to be the value of the said Machine, to issue his Warrant on the Receiver General, for the said sum of Two Thousand Pounds, or so much thereof as amounts to the value of such Machine, to enable the said Commissioners to pay for the and accounted for,&c. Security to be given. same. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the money so granted shall be paid by the Receiver General out of any monies in his hands or hereafter to come into his hands, to and for the uses of this Province and unappropriated. and shall be accounted for to His Majesty, His Heirs, and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs, and Successors may be graciously pleased to direct. VI. And be it further enacted ay the authority aforesaid, That before any Warrant shall issue for the payment of the sum aforesaid, the Contractor or Contractors entitled to receive the same, shall enter into Bonds with Sureties to the satisfaction of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province, in double the amount of the appraised value of the said Machine, conditioned for the rendering up of the said Machine upon the completion of the said Canal, in as good order as at the time of the appraisement thereof. |