Preamble. £20,000 may be raised by loan to be applied towards the improvement of Road and Bridges. Receiver General > issue Debentures. CHAP. LX. AN ACT granting to His Majesty a sum of Money for the Improvement of Roads and Bridges in the several Districts of this Province. [Passed 13th February 1833.] MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: WHEREAS it is desirable and necessary to afford aid towards repairing Roads and Bridges in the several Districts of this Province: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, And be it 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 passsed 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 it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province, to authorize and direct His Majesty's Receiver General of this Province to raise by Loan from any person or persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, who may be willing to advance the same upon the credit of the Government Bills or Debentures authorized to be issued under this Act, a sum of Money not exceeding Twenty Thousand Pounds, at a rate of Interest not exceeding Five per Centum per Annum, to be applied to the said Roads and Bridges. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Receiver General for the time being to cause any number of Debentures to be made out for any such sum or sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the said sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, as any person or persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, shall agree to advance on the credit of the said Debentures; which Debentures shall be prepared and made out in such manner and form as His Majesty's Receiver General shall think most safe and convenient, and that for each Loan or advance a Debenture shall issue, bearing date at the day on which the same shall be actually issued, conditioned for the payment of the said sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, or such part thereof as shall be actually received, and redeemable at a period not exceeding twenty years, and which Debenture or Debentures shall and may be signed by the said Receiver General of this Province for the time being. Debentures issued, III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Receiver General to Receiver General of this Province for the time being, shall before each make a Report of Session of the Parliament of this Province transmit to the Governor, to be laid before the Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Legislature. Province, a correct account of the numbers, amounts and dates of the different Debentures which he may have issued under the authority of this Act, of the amount of the Debentures redeemed by him and the interest paid thereon respectively, and also of the amount of the Debentures outstanding and unredeemed at the periods aforesaid, and of the expenses attending the issuing the same to be laid before the Legislature of this Province. Interest when and IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Interest growing due upon the said Debentures, shall and may be payable how to be paid. in half yearly periods to be computed from the date thereof, and shall and may be paid on demand by the Receiver General of this Province for the time being, whose duty it shall be to have the same endorsed on each Debenture at the time of payment thereof, expressing the period up to which the said Interest shall have been paid, and shall take receipts for the same from the Persons respectively, and that the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Province, shall after the first day of January and the first day of July in each year, issue Warrants to the Receiver General for the payment of the amount of Interest that shall have been advanced according to the receipts to be by him taken as aforesaid. for the payment of V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a separate Warrant shall be made to the Receiver General by the Governor, Warrants to be issued Lieutenant Governor, or Person Administering the Government of this Debentures. Province for the time being, for the payment of each Debenture 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. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any Punishment for Person or Persons shall Forge or Counterfeit any such Debenture as forging Debentures. A a Debentures charged upon the public revenues of the Province. Interest on Debentures when to cease. Appropriation of Eastern District, £1,900. aforesaid, which shall be issued under the authority of this Act and uncancelled, or any Stamp, Endorsement or Writing thereon or therein, or tender in payment any such Forged Debenture, or any Debenture with such Counterfeit Endorsement or Writing thereon, or shall demand to have any such Counterfeit Debenture, or any Debenture with such Counterfeit Endorsement or Writing thereupon or therein exchanged for ready Money by any Person or Persons who shall be obliged and required to exchange the same, or by any other person or persons whomsoever, knowing the Debenture so tendered in payment, or to be exchanged, or the Endorsement or Writing thereupon or therein to be Forged or Counterfeited with intent to defraud His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, or the Persons authorised to pay off the same or any of them, or any other Person or Persons, bodies Politic or Corporate, then every such Person or Persons so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged a Felon. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all such Debentures, with the Interest thereon, and all the charges incident. to or attending the same, shall be and are hereby charged and chargeable upon, and shall be repaid and borne by and out of the Monies that shall come into the hands of the Receiver General to and for the public uses of this Province, and at the disposal of the Legislature thereof. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at any time after the said Debentures, 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 Government of this Province, if he think proper so to do, to cause a notice to be inserted in the Upper Canada Gazette, requiring all holders of said Debentures to present the same for payment, according to this Act; and if after the insertion of the said notice for three months, any Debentures then payable shall remain out more than six months from the first publication of such notice, all interest on such Debentures shall, after the expiration of the said six months, 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. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds so granted as aforesaid, shall be apportioned to the several Districts of this Province as follows: To the Eastern District-the sum of Nineteen Hundred Pounds. To the Ottawa District-the sum of One Thousand Pounds. To the Newcastle District-the sum of Nineteen Hundred Pounds. Ottawa, £1,000. Bathurst, £1,900. Johnstown, £1,900. Newcastle, £1,900 Home, £1,900. London, £2,000. Western, £1,700. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Appropriation for the sum of One Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds hereby granted to the Eastern District Eastern District, be appropriated and expended as follows: In the County of Glengary.-On the post road from Dundas Street to the rear of Lochiel, the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds. On the road leading from lot number nineteen, in the fifth concession of Lochiel, to Rigaud, the sum of twenty-five pounds. On the road leading from lot number nineteen, in the fifth concession of Lochiel, towards the River La Grasse, the sum of twenty-five pounds. On the road leading from Dundas Street, East of the Indian Reservation, to the front of Charlottenburgh, the sum of seventy-five pounds. On the nine mile road leading from Martintown to Kenyon, the sum of sixty-eight pounds. On the nine mile road leading from Dundas Street to the South Branch, including the erection of a bridge across the River aux Raisins, the sum of fifty pounds. On the nine mile road leading from Archibald Cameron's, Dundas Street, to the rear of Kenyon, the sum of eighty pounds, six shillings and eight pence. On the nine mile road from John Ban McLennon's, to the rear of Kenyon, the sum of fifty pounds. On the road leading through the Indian Reservation North of the River aux Raisins, the sum of fifty pounds. On the nine mile road North of Dundas Street, between lots numbers twenty-four and twenty-five, to Kenyon, the sum of fifteen pounds. On the nine mile road from the South Branch, to Alexander McGruer's, the sum of fifteen pounds. On the nine mile road leading from Charles Westley's to Dundas Street, the sum of twenty-five pounds. On the nine mile road leading from Dundas Street, in Lancaster, to the third concession of Lochiel, the sum of twenty-five pounds; and that Hugh McGillis, John McGillivray, John Mc how distributed, and by whom to be expended. Lennan, Alexander Chisholm, Donald Catanach, Angus Catanach, and Angus McDonell, Alexander Fraser and Alexander McMartin, be Commissioners for expending the same. On In the County of Stormont, the sum of six hundred and thirty-three pounds, six shillings and eight pence, be expended as follows:-On the road between lots six and seven, in the second, third, and fourth concessions of Cornwall, the sum of forty pounds; and that John Cameron, John McDonell, of number ten in the fifth concession of Cornwall, and Alexander McDougall, be Commissioners for expending the same. the road now in use from Daniel Campbell's junior, in the Township of Cornwall, to the Indian Land, the sum of twenty pounds; and that John Cameron, John Gibson, and Duncan Ferguson, be Commissioners for expending the same. On the road between the second and third concessions of Cornwall, from lot thirteen to twenty-three, the sum of twentypounds; and that John Hartle, junior, Nathan Groves, and Joel Eastman, be Commissioners for expending the same. On the road from Cornwall to the rear of Roxborough, the sum of ninety-five pounds; and that Alexander McLean, Esquire, John McDonell, and Duncan McDonell, Esquire, be Commissioners for expending the same. On the road between lots numbers eighteen and nineteen, from the front of the third concession of Cornwall to Dundas Street, the sum of twenty pounds; and that Nadab Eastman, junior, John Milroy, and William McLaughlin, be Commissioners for expending the same. On the road from Henry Empey's to John Roy's, on the St. Lawrence, the sum of thirty-one pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence; and that Alexander McLean, Esquire, John Roys, and Henry Empey, be Commissioners for expending the same. To be applied in opening and establishing a road in the most fit and convenient place for the inhabitants in the West part of the Township of Roxborough, leading to the Saint Lawrence, the sum of thirty pounds; and that Alexander McLean, Esquire, James Roy McDonell, and Angus McDonell, (elder) be Commissioners for expending the same. On the road from the Indian Lands, between the first and second concessions of Cornwall, the sum of forty pounds; and that Guy C. Wood, Esquire, John Chesley, and Martin McMartin, be Commissioners for expending the same. On the road from the front near the Church in Osnabruck, to the rear of Finch, the sum of eighty pounds; and that John Chrysler, Esquire, Joseph Bockus, Esquire, and Michael Empey, be Commissioners for expending the same. From Charlesville to the fifth concession of Osnabruck, the sum of thirty pounds; and that John N. Ault, James Grant, and Philip W. Empey, be Commissioners for expending the same. On the road in that part of Osnabruck called Pleasant Valley, the sum of forty pounds; and that Jeremiah Vanduser, |