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(AND AN ACT PASSED IN THE FOURTH SESSION, THIRTEENTH PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT,

TO WHICH THE ROYAL ASSENT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PROMULGATED.)

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By Authority.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE POULETT THOMSON,

GOVERNOR-GENERAL:

TORONTO:

ROBERT STANTON, PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

1840.

AN ACT,

PASSED IN THE FOURTH SESSION, THIRTEENTH PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.

ANNO DOMINI 1839:

SIR GEORGE ARTHUR, K. C. H. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:

THE ROYAL ASSENT TO WHICH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PROMULGATED.

CHAP. LXXII.

AN ACT to afford further facilities to negotiate Debentures for the completion of certain Works.

[Royal Assent promulgated by Proclamation, 30th January, 1840.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to finish certain of the Public Works now Preamble.
in progress in this Province: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, entitled, "An Act to repeal certain parts of an
Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled, '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 Govern-
ment of the said Province," and by the authority of the same, That it
shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty's Receiver General, by and with
the consent of the Lieutenant Governor of this Province, in Council, to
sell and dispose of the Public Debentures of this Province, now authorised
by law to be issued, to the best advantage, in order to realize the several
sums hereby appropriated during the present year, viz.: for finishing the
Saint Lawrence Canal, the sum of Fifty Thousand Pounds; for building
a Ship Lock at Dunnville, and providing materials for the Welland Canal,
the sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds; for the Grand River Navigation,
the sum of Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Pounds; for the Johnstown
District Roads, the sum of Five Hundred Pounds; for the Queenston and

The sale of certain public

Debentures authorised

on the best terms, to

realize money for parti

cular works;

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