LES STATUTS PROVINCIAUX DU BAS-CANADA. Anno Regni GEORGII TERTII, DEI GRATIA, BRITANNIARUM REGIS. Quinquagesimo Nono.. SA GRACE LE DUC DE RICHMOND, LENNOX & AUBIGNY, C. J. 9th GOUVERNEUR EN CHEF. 3.0 Etant la TROISIEME Session du NEUVIEME Parlement Provincial du BAS-CANADA. 250 Preamble. THE DUKE OF RICHMOND, LENNOX & AUBIGNY, K. G. "A} GOVERNOR IN CHIEF. T the Provincial Parliament, begun and holden at Quebec, the fifteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thoufand eight hundred and feventeen, in the Fifty"feventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the "Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great- Britain and Ireland KING, "Defender of the Faith," &c, and from thence continued by feveral Prorogations to "the twenty-fecond day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; "Being the third Seffion of the Ninth Provincial Parliament of Lower-Canada." CAP. I. AN ACT to amend an A&t paffed in the Forty-eighth Year of His Ma jefty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for better regulating the Weight and "Rates at which certain Coins fhall pass current in this Province, for preventing the falfifying, counterfeiting and impairing of the fame, and "for repealing the Act and Ordinance therein-mentioned." (24th April, 1819.) WHEREAS it is expedient and neceffary to provide that the Gold and Silver Coins of France, coined fince the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety |