on a certain certificate. Preamble. Registration of articles. Term of 10, 11 V. c. 21. Term reduced in certain cases. 22 V. c, 8. Recital. Course of classical study, defined. such Law Student has bona fide served and continued his Clerkship in conformity with the provisions of the said Act to incorporate the Bar of Lower Canada, and that his articles were registered at least six months before the time of his application to be admitted to practice. CAP. LXVI. An Act to amend the Laws respecting the Notarial W [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] HEREAS it is expedient to amend the laws respecting the Notarial Profession, so as to render certain provisions thereof more precise and explicit, and for other purposes: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The articles and transfers of articles of Notarial Students executed before Notaries, the registration of which has not been effected in conformity to law, may be registered within a period of one year, to be computed from the day of the passing of this Act. 2. Except in the cases provided for by the Act of 1856, nineteenth and twentieth Victoria, chapter fifty-six, the term of clerkship to be served by any candidate for admission to the profession of Notary, is fixed by law at five consecutive years, or at four years, if the candidate shall have gone through the regular and complete course of study prescribed by the fourteenth section of the Act of 1847, tenth and eleventh Victoria, chapter twenty-one. 3. The term of clerkship is lessened by one year and reduced to four years or three years, as the case may be, if the candidate has gone through the course of legal studies prescribed by the Act of 1858, twenty-second Victoria, chapter eight. 4. And whereas doubts have arisen respecting the interpretation of the seventeenth Section of the Act of 1847, tenth-and eleventh Victoria, chapter twenty-one, and of the fourteenth Section of the Act of 1850, thirteenth and fourteenth Victoria, chapter thirty-nine, the last mentioned section of the Act of 1850 is repealed and the following substituted :- The regular course of classical study referred to in the seventeenth Section of the Act of 1847, above cited, shall include the branches of education taught during five years in the seminaries or colleges referred to in the fourteenth Section of the said Act of 1847; and the said branches of education must have been regularly studied and followed by the candidate candidate during five years, either in some one of the incorporated colleges, seminaries or universities of Lower Canada, or in any other public establishment for education, recognized as affording an equivalent education, or in any other manner approved by the Board of Notaries, before which the candidate shall present himself. 5. In addition to the examination required by law, any Additional Board of Notaries may, from time to time, by by-laws homolo- examinations. gated by the Superior Court at any sitting thereof, and on the petition of such Board of Notaries, subject the candidates for admission to practise the Notarial Profession to one or more examinations on the study and practice of law, during their term of service; But such additional examinations shall not be extended to Notarial Students, who, at the time of their examination for admission to the Notarial Profession, shall be entitled to avail themselves of the above cited Act of 1853, twentysecond Victoria, chapter eight. Certain per practise. 6. Notwithstanding any thing in the Act of 1852, sixteenth Victoria, chapter three, Aldric Laporte, gentleman, now residing sons may be at L'Assomption, in the District of Joliette, and Pierre Zephyrin admitted to de Lottinville, gentleman, of the Parish of St. Antoine de la Baie du Febvre, in the District of Richelieu, Notarial students, may be admitted to the practice of the Notarial Profession, upon their proving to the satisfaction of the Board of Notaries on what conunder whose jurisdiction they are, when they present themselves ditions. for examination, that they have been under articles, and have studied as Notarial Students for a period equivalent to five or four years of clerkship, regard being had to the course of classical studies, which they may have followed. 7. Each Board of Notaries may, by By-law of the Board, Day of annual change and fix, from time to time, the day and hour for the meeting may holding of the General Annual Meeting of the Notaries belonging be changed. thereto, ordered by the eighth section of the Act of 1853, sixteenth Victoria, chapter two hundred and fifteen; and in the event of any Board of Notaries making such change, the next general election of the Members of such Board shall take place on the day so fixed the nearest to the expiration of the term, for which the then Members of such Board are elected, and such then Members shall remain in office until their successors are appointed; and every such By-law shall be published in Publication of two consecutive issues of the Canada Gazette, before it shall By-law. have the force of law. 8. And whereas since the first day of March, one thousand Recital. eight hundred and fifty-eight, the Board of Notaries for the District of Kamouraska have proceeded to transact business, with less than the number of members required for a quorum; and whereas since that period Notaries and Students have been by them admitted to practise and to study the profession Proceedings of of a Notary; the proceedings of the said Board of Notaries for Kamouraska the District of Kamouraska are hereby declared to be as legal Board de- and valid as if the said Board had proceeded with a quorum of its members, and the Notaries and Students admitted by the said Board, under the circumstances above mentioned, to the practice and study of the profession of Notary, shall be held to be legally so admitted. clared valid. Recital. 9. And whereas the Notaries within the jurisdiction of the said Kamouraska Board of Notaries, have not proceeded to the election of members to compose the same as by law provided, Appointment the Governor in Council is hereby authorized to appoint new members in the room of those whose term of office has expired; and in future the members of all Boards of Notaries shall remain in office until others shall have been elected in their room, in conformity with the law in that behalf. of new mem bers. Every Board of Notaries to have the pow ers given by sect. 3 of 13, 14 V. c. 39. Public Act. Preamble. Who shall side at such meetings. 10. Every Board of Notaries, established in virtue of the Act of 1853, sixteenth Victoria, chapter two hundred and fifteen, or under any other subsequent Act, shall have the powers granted to the Board of Notaries of Three Rivers by the sixth paragraph of the third section of the Act of 1850, thirteenth and fourteenth Victoria, chapter thirty-nine, as regards the alteration of the quorum for the purposes therein mentioned. 11. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act, and shall apply to Lower Canada only. CAP. LXVII. An Act to regulate the Presidency at Fabrique Meetings in the Catholic Parishes of Lower Canada. W [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] HEREAS doubts have arisen as to the person who ought by law to preside at general parish or fabrique meetings for the election of church-wardens and other purposes for which parish and fabrique meetings in the Catholic parishes of Lower Canada are by law required, and it is expedient to remove these doubts, by establishing one uniform mode in which such meetings shall hereafter be presided over in all the Catholic parishes: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Hereafter every general fabrique and parish meeting for hereafter pre- the election of church-wardens and other purposes for which the law requires general meetings of the parishioners and members of fabriques in the Catholic parishes of Lower Canada, shall be presided over by the Curé of the parish, or the priest administering the same; and every proceeding at such meeting shall be be entered in the register of proceedings of such parish in the usual manner and form, notwithstanding any usage or custom to the contrary which may have been introduced into any parishes. 2. Every such parish meeting shall be summoned in the Calling meetmanner usual in the parish. ings. 3. The only persons who shall be entitled to vote at such Voters. parish meetings shall be the resident parishioners, being householders. tain cases. 4. Whenever two persons present qualified to vote demand Recording that the votes shall be recorded on any question before such votes in cerparish meeting, it shall be the duty of the chairman to cause to be recorded the votes of the resident parishioners qualified to vote and present at the time of such demand, and who shall be desirous of voting. 5. This Act shall not affect fabrique and parish meetings Act not to afwhich may have been held and presided over contrary to the fect meetings provisions thereof, and any proceedings which may have been heretofore or shall be instituted in consequence of such meetings, shall be decided as though this Act had not been passed. An Act for the protection of the Quebec Water Works. W [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] held. HEREAS the Mayor, Councillors and Citizens of the Preamble. City of Quebec have, by petition, prayed for more ample powers for the protection of the Water Works of the said city, and whereas it is expedient to grant them the said powers: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: examine the Water 1. It shall be lawful for the Corporation of the Mayor, Coun- Corporation cillors and Citizens of the City of Quebec to appoint one or may empower more Inspectors, who shall have the right to enter, at all Inspectors to reasonable hours, every house or building provided with water buildings supfrom the Water Works of the said city, and examine all cocks, plied with service pipes, conduits, cisterns or reservoirs placed in the water from said houses or buildings or their appurtenances, the said Works. entries and visits to be made in accordance with any By-law which the said Corporation may make and pass for the protection of the said Water Works, the present Act authorizing the said Corporation to pass such By-law, and conferring moreover on the said Corporation, as to such By-law, the same powers which the said Corporation possesses for the passing of other By-laws and providing for their execution. 2. This Act is a Public Act. 21. CAP. CAP. LXIX. Preamble. Foot-toll at Exemptions lished. An Act to amend the Act eighteenth Victoria, chapter one hundred and sixty, respecting the Quebec Turnpike Roads. H [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: 1. The Quebec Turnpike Road Trustees shall exact one half penny from every foot passenger crossing the Dorchester Bridge. 2. All exemptions from Tolls authorized by any Act or from toll abo- Ordinance are abolished, and all horses, animals or vehicles whatsoever, shall on every occasion be subject to the Tolls fixed by the third section of the Act eighteenth Victoria, chapter one hundred and sixty; but every horse, animal, or vehicle, forming part of any funeral procession, shall be exempt from Toll. Exception. Commutation forbidden. New roads not 3. Hereafter the Quebec Turnpike Road Trustees shall not have the power of commuting the tolls at the gates and bridges on the Quebec Turnpike Roads, any former law to the contrary notwithstanding. 4. The North Shore and South Shore Trustees shall not hereto be opened. after open any new Roads. Winter tolls 5. The Trustees may, with the consent of the Governor in may be dimi- Council, diminish, during the winter, the tolls payable on the Quebec Turnpike Roads. nished. CAP. LXX. Preamble. An Act to restrict interments in a certain Burial [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] HEREAS the Mayor, Councillors and citizens of the city of Quebec, have, by their petition, represented that the Burial Ground situate at the south-west angle of St. John and St. Augustin streets, in St. John's Suburb of the said city, and in the midst of a dense population, has become a serious nuisance, inasmuch as the numerous interments, one upon another, have raised, in a large portion of the said Burial Ground, the surface thereof above the level of the adjoining locality, which is thereby exposed, as well as the wells therein, to |