ment thereof, expressing the period up to which the said interest shall have been paid, and shall take receipts for the same from the parties respectively; and the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province, shall, after the thirtieth day of June, and the thirty-first day of December in each year, issue warrants to the Receiver General for the payment Warrants to be issued of the amount of interest that shall have been advanced according to the receipts to be by him taken, as aforesaid.

therefor.

Remuneration to

the Receiver General

XII. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Receiver General of this Province, and the persons necessarily and others. employed under him in the execution of this Act, shall severally have and receive such rewards and allowances as the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province, and the Executive Council thereof, shall adjudge to be reasonable, and shall 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.

Debentures when due to be paid and

XIII. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a separate warrant shall be made to the Receiver General by the caucelled. Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province for the time being, for the payment of each Debenture issued under the authority of this Act, as the same may become due, and be presented in favour 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.

XIV. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That

After debentures are at any

due the Governor, &c. may give notice to the

same.

time after the said Debentures, issued under the authority bolders to present the of this Act, or any of them, shall respectively become due, according to the terms thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Govern ment 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 the said Debentures to present the same for payment according to this Act; and if, after 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 notice, all interest on such Debentures, after the expiration of the said six months, shall cease, and be no further payable in respect of the time which may elapse between the expiration of the said six months and their presentment for payment.

If not presented

within 6 months after

notice, interest to

cease.

How to be paid and accounted for.

XV. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all monies required to be paid by the authority of this Act shall be paid by the Receiver General 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 by the Receiver General of this Province, 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.

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CHAP. XXV.

AN ACT for granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money in aid of the Funds for defraying the Expenses of the Administration of Justice, and Support of the Civil Government of this Province.

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

WHEREAS Your Majesty's faithful Commons have voluntarily PREAMBLE. and freely resolved to grant to Your Majesty a Supply to defray certain charges for the Administration of Justice and support of the Civil Government of this Province,-We Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper-Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted,― and

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis, lative 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 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 to and for the public uses of this Province, and in the Hands of the Receiver General unappropriated, there be granted £3720 granted to to His Majesty the sum of Three Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty Pounds Sterling; which said sum of Three Thousand, def aying the charges Seven Hundred and Twenty Pounds shall be applied in aid of the

His Majesty in aid of the funds already appropriated towards

of the Civil Govern. ment.

accounted for

Funds already appropriated by an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in the fourteenth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to establish a Fund towards further defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice and Support of the Civil Government within the Province of Quebec in North America," towards the following services for the year One Thousand,. Eight Hundred and Twenty-four, that is to say:—

For the Administration of Justice for the year one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-four, (including the expenses of a Second Circuit.)

The Government Office.

The Receiver General's Office.

The Surveyor General's Office.

Executive Council Office.

Secretary and Register's Office, (including the sum of Fifty

Pounds, to be added to the Salary of the Clerk in these Of fices.)

Inspector General's Office.

Government Printer.

Repairs, &c. of the Government House.

Casual and other Expenses.

How to be paid and and 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 through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's

Treasury, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and
Successors, shall be graciously pleased to direct.

Account of expen. diture to be laid before

II. Provided always, And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an account in detail of all monies paid under Parliament. the authority of this Act be transmitted to be laid before the Commons House of Assembly at the next ensuing Session of Parliament:-Aud Provided also, that so much of the said sum as may remain unexpended, shall be subject to the future disposition of Parliament..

CHAP. XXVI.

AN ACT to make good certain Monies advanced by His Majesty, pursuant to the Address of the House of Assembly at the last Session of Parliament, to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor,

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

WHEREAS, in pursuance of an Address of your Commons House of Assembly, during its last Session, to His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant Governor of your Province of Upper Canada, the sum of Two Thousand Three Hundred and Forty Pounds, Four Shillings and a Halfpenny has been issued and advanced by Your Majesty, through Your Lieutenant Governor, to the Clerks, and other Officers, of the Two Houses of Parliament, to enable them to pay the Contingent Expenses of the last. Session

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