PREAMBLE. CHAP. XIII. AN AUT to Prohibit Banks from Carrying on Business in this Prevince, that do not return their Notes in Specie within the same, PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.] WHEREAS it is inexpedient that any Banks should be permitted to carry on Business in this Province that do not return their Notes in Specie within the same: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King'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 Government of the said Province;'" and by the authority of the same,After 1st May 1824 That from and after the first day of May next, no Bank, Body Politic or Corporate, nor person or persons on behalf thereof, shall carry on the Business of Bankers, Goldsmiths, or Money-Brokers, which shall not redeem his or their Notes, Bills, and other Securities for Money, on demand, at his or their Office or Offices, CountingHouses, or Places of doing Business, within this Province, in the tained shall legalise current coin thereof.-Provided always That nothing herein-before contained shall be construed to legalize any Body or Bodies no Bank, body politic or corporate, or per sons on their behalf shali carry on business as Bankers, &c. which shall not redeem their notes at their Offices, in this Province in the Current Coin there. of. Nothing herein con any body which would have been illegal had this Act not passed. Corporate or Politic, or Body in the nature thereof, or any of their Acts, Matters, or Transactions of any kind or description whatsoever, which would have been illegal had this Act not been passed. 11. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be and continue in force for and during three years, and from thence to the end of the then next ensuing Session of Parliament, and no longer. Continuance of this Act. CHAP. XIV. AN ACT to Repeal an Act passed in the Forty-Fourth Year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Promulgate the Provincial Statutes, and also to Repeal so much of an Act passed in the Forty-First Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty as relates to Printing the Journals;" and to provide more adequate Remuneration for Printing Annually the Statutes of this Province. [PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.] WHEREAS the sum of Eighty Pounds, allowed for the Annual Printing of the Laws of this Province by a certain Act of the Parliament thereof, passed in the forty-fourth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, “An Act to Promulgate the Provincial Statutes, and also to Repeal so much of an Act passed in the fortyfirst year of the Reign of His Present Majesty as relates to Printing the Journals," is inadequate, from the increase in the annual PREAMBLE. number of Laws, and of the copies thereof required to be Printed since the passing of the said Act: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by the King'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 Late 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 after the passing of this Act, the fourth 4th clause 44th Geo. clause of the said Act, passed in the forty-fourth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. III. eh. 5th, repealed. Persons employed to print the Laws of this Session may make out an account against which shall be paid and accounted for in the same manner as the 11. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That person who shall be employed to Print the Laws of this Prothe Government, vince, passed in the present Session of Parliament, may make out an account against the Government of this Province for the same, Other accounts against which account shall be paid, and the monies accounted for in the same manner as other accounts against the Government for similar · services; and that after the present year, the expense of Printing annually the Statutes of this Province shall be provided for in the Government. The Printing of the Statutes hereafter provided for in the Con Lingent charges of Public Service, e manner as other contingent charges for the Public Service. CHAP. CHAP. XV. AN ACT to Continue for a limited time an Act passed in the Second Year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to make Provision for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of this Province, as amended by an Act passed in the Third Year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, 'An Act to Amend and Extend the Provisions of an Act passed in the Second Year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, ‘An Act to make Provision for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of this Province, (except so much thereof. as is thereby repealed,) and to grant a further sum of money for such Improvement.'" [PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.] MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WHEREAS an Act of the Parliament of this Province was passed in the second year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, “An Act to make Provision for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of this Province," which Act was amended by an Act passed in the third year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Amend and Extend the Provisions of an Act passed in the second year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, An Act to make Provision for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of this Province; "" AND WHere As it is expedient to continue for a limited time the said first-recited Act, as amended by the said second-recited Act, excepting as is herein-after provided for; and also to make further Provision for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of this Province PREAMBLE We, Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King'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 Government of the said Province;"" and by the authority of the same,2d Geo. IV. ch. 2d, That the said first-recited Act, as amended, excepting so much as amended by 3d Geo. IV. ch. 1, continued. £1000 in addition granted for the purpo oh. 2d. thereof as relates to the sum of Two Thousand Pounds thereby granted for the purposes thereof, be, and the same is hereby continued. II. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Ses of the 2d Geo. IV. there be granted to His Majesty the sum of One Thousand Pounds, to be appropriated, applied, paid, and accounted for, in such manner and form as is provided for in the said first-recited Act. Continuance of this Act. Commissioners may cau a survey of the Isthmus Presque Isle Harbour and Bay of and Estimates of the necessary. III. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall continue and be in force for two years, and no longer. IV. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That between the said Commissioners shall have power to cause a survey to be Quinty sum made by competent persons of the isthmus between the Presque Isle Harbour, in the Newcastle District, and the head of the Bay of Quinty, and estimates to be prepared of the sum necessary to connect the same by a Navigable Canal. |