LES STATUTS PROVINCIAUX DU BAS-CANADA. Anno Regni GEORGII III. REGIS MAGNE BRITANNIÆ, FRANCIÆ ET HIBERNIE, QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO. SON EXCELLENCE ROBERT SHORE MILNES, Ec. LIEUTENANT GOUVERNEUR. Etant la PREMIERE Seffion du TROISIEME Parlement Provincial du BAS-CANADA. 114 Preamble. THE PROVINCIAL STATUTES O F LOWER-CANADA. Anno Regni GEORGII III, Quadragefimo Primo. HIS EXCELLENCY ROBERT SHORE MILNES, ESQ. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. AT the Provincial Parliament, begun and holden at Quebec, the Eight day of Ja nuary, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and one, in the Forty-first year "of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, "of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Being the First Seffion of the Third Provincial Parliament of Lower-Canada. CA P. XV. An Act to declare the Decisory Oath or Serment Décifoire, admiffible in Commercial as well as other Civil Matters in this Province, 8th. April 1801. Prefented for His Majefly's Affent and referved, "for the fignification of His Majefty's Pleasure thereon." 7th. April, 1802. Affented to by His Majesty in his Privy Council. 12th. Auguft 1802. The Royal Affent fignified by Proclamation of His Excél lency the Lieutenant Governor, WHEREAS by the Rules of English Evidence followed in Commercial Matters, in the Courts of Civil Jurifdiction in this Province, it is doubtful if in the said Commercial Matters, the Decilory Oath, or Serment Décifoire can be granted and admitted, when required by either of the Parties, in order to fet afide and remove all doubts and |