neither of such sittings shall exceed fourteen days, for the purposes of the said in part recited Act: Provided always that in no case shall any Commissioner be allowed for more than thirty one days occupation in any one District. II. And be it enacted, that the powers vested in, and duties required of the said Commissioners, under the said Act, shall extend and be construed to extend, to inquire into all losses sustained by Her Majesty's subjects and other residents within that part of this Province, to which the said Act extends, from the first breaking out of the said Rebellion to the passing of the said Act, and the several claims and demands which have accrued to any such persons by such losses, in respect of any loss, destruction, or damage of property occasioned by violence on the part of persons in Her Majesty's service, or by violence on the part of persons acting or assuming to act on behalf of Her Majesty, in the suppression of the said Rebellion, or for the prevention of further disturbances, and all claims arising under or in respect of the occupation of any houses or other premises by Her Majesty's Naval or Military forces, either Imperial or Provincial. CA P. XL. An Act to amend an Act of the Legislature of Lower Canada, relative to the establishment of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. [27th August, 1841.] Preamble. Act of L. C. 4 Will. 4 cap. WHEREAS the inhabitants of the several Counties hereinafter mentioned have petitioned that a certain Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and intituled An Act to authorize the establishment of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies, may be amended in the manner hereinafter mentioned, and it is expedient that the prayer of their petition be granted; Be it therefore 33. enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for the Mutual Fire Insurance Company for the County of Montreal, if they shall deem it expedicnt, to admit as a member the Lake of the of the said Company, the owner of any property situate within the Counties of the Two Lake The Mutual Fire Insurance Company for the County of insure property Montreal may in any of the Counties of Moun tains, Terre Beauharnois or and that for the Counties of Sherbrooke and Stanstead may insure pro in the honne, Berthier, Lake of the Two Mountains, Terrebonne, Berthier, Richelieu, Verchères, St. Richelieu, Verchères, St.Hya Hyacinthe, Rouville, Beauharnois, and Huntingdon, or any of them, and it shall cinthe, Rouville be lawful for the Mutual Fire Insurance Company for the Counties of Sherbrooke and Stanstead, if they shall deem it expedient to admit as a member of the said Company, the owner of any property situate within either of the Counties of Shefford and Drummond, and to insure any property of such person so situate, as aforesaid, which might without this Act be so insured if situate within the County of Montreal, or within either of the said Counties of Sherbrooke or Stanstead; and that each person so admitted as a member of either of the said Companies shall have the same rights, and be subject to the same liabilities, as the other members of either of the said Companies, any thing in the said Act hereby amendAnd the pared, or in a certain other Act of the said Legislature, passed in the sixth year of His shall be mem- said late Majesty's Reign, and intituled An Act to continue for a limited time, and to amend a certain Act therein mentioned relative to the establishment of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. counties of Shefford and Drummond. ties so insured bers of the Companies. CAP. XLI. Preamble. Persons duly or Surgery in may practise in An Act to enable persons authorized to practise Physic or Surgery in W [18th September, 1841.] HEREAS it is expedient that persons authorized to practise Physic or Surgery in one portion of this Province, should be authorized to practise in the other portion thereof; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the authorized to Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled practise Physic by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the one portion of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled An Act to Re-unite the this Province Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada; and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that any person who is or shall be duly licensed or authorized to practise as a Physician, or as a Surgeon, or as both, either in that part of the Province called Upper Canada, or in that part of the Province called Lower Canada, under the Laws in force in the said portions of this Province, respectively, shall be and is hereby authorized to practise in any part of this Province, for the purpose or purposes for which he might without this Act have practised in one of the aforesaid portions of this Province; but subject to the Laws to which other Practitioners are or shall be subject in the portion of this Province in which he shall practise. any part there of. Subject to the Laws of the place in which they so prac tise. CAP. CAP. XLII. An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act therein mentioned, and to provide for taking a periodical Census of the Inhabitants of this Province, and for obtaining the other statistical informatian therein mentioned. [18th September, 1841.] WHEREAS it is expedient to make more effectual provision for taking a periodical Census and Enumeration of the Inhabitants of this Province, and for obtaining other statistical information hereinafter mentioned; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada; and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that so much of an Act of the Legislature of that part of this Province, formerly called Upper Canada, passed in the fifth year of the Reign of His late Majesty, King William the Fourth, and intituled An Act to reduce to one Act of Parliament the several Laws relative to the appointment and duties of Township Of ficers in this Province, except an Act passed in the fourth year of the Reign of William the Fourth, chapter twelve, intituled An Act to regulate Line Fences and Water Courses, and to repeal so much of an Act passed in the thirty third year of the Reign of His late Majesty, King George the Third, intituled An Act to provide for the nomination and appointment of Parish and Town Officers within this Province, as relates to the office of Fence Viewers, being discharged by Overseers of Highways and Roads, as is contained in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first Sections of the said Act, and so much of any Act or Law in force in this Province, or any part thereof as may be inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this Act, or may assign any of the duties hereinafter assigned to certain officers or persons, to any other Officers or persons, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. II. And be it enacted, that a Census of the Inhabitants of this Province, shall be taken and the other statistical information hereinafter mentioned, obtained in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty two, and in every fifth year thereafter. III. And be it enacted, that the Secretary of the Province, shall cause to be printed tery of the Pro vince to cause Act and of the the Warden of The Secre- printed uniform blank Returns in conformity with the Schedule hereunto annexed and the provisions hereinafter contained, together with copies of this Act in the copies of this English and French languages, and shall on or before the second Monday of Schedule to be January in the said year one thousand eight hundred and forty two, and on or betransmitted to fore the said day and month in every fifth year thereafter, transmit to the Warden cach Municipal of each Municipal District within the Province, three times as many of such blank District and the Returns and Abstracts, and Copies of this Act, as there shall be 'Townships and Chief Magis Parishes within such District wherein there shall be separate Assessors, and to the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of each City or Town Corporate within this Province, three times as many of the said Returns and Copies as there shall be Wards having separate Assessors in such City or Town Corporate. Mayor or trate of each City or Town Corporate the Province, in at certain times. The Wardens Mayors and Chief Magisbute such Returns and coAssessors, in trates to distri IV. And be it enacted, that it shall be the duty of each of the said Wardens and of the Mayor or Chief Magistrates of the said Cities and Towns Corporate, respectively, to distribute such blank Returns and Copies on or before the first day of February in each and every year in which a Census shall be taken, amongst the Assessors for the said Townships or Parishes in the said Municipal Districts, the Districts, or for the said Wards, respectively. pies among the Cities or Cor porate Towns. mand certain information within the loca lity for which they Act. Penalty on persons of law ful age, refu The Asses- V. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for such Assessors, and it shall be sors may de- their duty within their respective Townships, Parishes or Wards, to demand and receive at every dwelling house, or from the head of every family residing therein, or from any member of such family more than twenty one years of age, an enumeration of the persons composing such family, and of all and every the particular matters and things specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed; and any person being the head of a family or a member thereof above the age of twenty one years, who shall refuse to give to any Assessor the information so demanded by him, or shall wilfully give false information to such Assessor, concerning the same, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty shillings, currency, to be sued for and recovered with costs in any Court of competent civil jurisdiction, by the Clerk of the District Penalty how Council for the District within which such person is resident, for the benefit of the District Fund, or by the City or Town Clerk, for the benefit of the funds of the Corporation, as the case may be. sing such infor ination or giving it falsely. recovered and applied. The Asses sors shall cuter so obtained on VI. And be it enacted, that the said Assessors, respectively, shall enter in two the information of the printed forms of Returns received by them, the particulars of the enumeratwo of the Re- tion so made, and of the statistical information so obtained, in the manner and form turns aforesaid, specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and shall return to the Warden or the same to the Mayor, as the case may be, two of the printed forms aforesaid, filled up with the Warden, May- said enumeration and the statistical information so obtained, as aforesaid, and or, or Chief Magistrate. sworn to before one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the District, City or and transmit Town Town Corporate in which such Census shall be taken; and one of the said Re turns shall be transmitted to the Governor of this Province by the Warden, Mayor or Chief Magistrate, and the other shall be retained among the Public records of the District, City or Town Corporate. VII. And be it enacted, that certified copies of all such returns of Census, shall be laid before both Houses of the Provincial Parliament, at the next Session after the Census shall be taken. VIII. And be it enacted, that any Assessor who shall be convicted upon Indictment of having wilfully neglected to make any Return by this Act required, or of having made a negligently false Return, shall be liable to pay a fine to Her Majesty not exceeding twenty five pounds of lawful money of this Province, and shall be further liable to imprisonment in the Common Gaol or Prison of the District, City or Town Corporate in which the same Census ought to be taken, or in which the same shall be so falsely taken, for a space of time not exceeding three Calendar Months; and that any Assessor or Assessors, who shall wilfully make a false Return of such Census, upon oath, as aforesaid, shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to all the pains and penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury. IX. And be it enacted, that the Assessors, aforesaid, shall be respectively entitled to receive, for taking such Census, out of the Public Funds of each District, City or Town Corporate in which such Census shall be taken, a sum of money equal in amount to one fourth of the sum which such Assessor or Assessors shall be entitled to receive for making the Assessment for the same year in which the Census aforesaid, shall be taken. Interpretation words. X. And be it enacted, that the words "Parishes" and "Townships" whensoever they occur in this Act, shall, for the purposes thereof, be held to mean and of certain include reputed Parishes and Townships, and Unions of Parishes and Townships and of reputed Parishes and Townships, in and for which Assessors have been and may hereafter be chosen or appointed in the manner and for the purposes prescribed by Law. XI. And be it enacted, that whenever there shall be more than one Assessor in and for the same place, the Warden, Mayor or Chief Magistrate thereof, may assign to each of the Assessors, the Locality within which he shall obtain the information by this Act required, and each Assessor shall act accordingly as if he had been appointed for such locality, exclusively, and shall be paid such proportion of the allowance aforesaid, as the Warden, Mayor or Chief Magistrate may direct. SCHEDULE |