ACTS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, PASSED IN THE FORTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, AND IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE THIRD PARLIAMENT, Begun and holden at Ottawa, on the eighth day of February, and closed by Prorogation on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1877. HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONORABLE, SIR FREDERICK TEMPLE, EARL OF DUFFERIN GOVERNOR GENERAL. VOL. I. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. OTTAWA: PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN, LAW PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. ANNO DOMINI, 1877. 40 VICTORIA. CHAP. 1. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the public service, for the financial years ending respectively the 30th June, 1877, and the 30th June, 1878, and for other purposes relating to the public service. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, [Assented to 28th April, 1877.] WHEREAS it appears by messages from His Excellency Preamble. the Right Honorable Sir Frederick Temple, Earl of Dufferin, Governor General of the Dominion of Canada, and the estimates accompanying the same, that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the public service of the Dominion not otherwise provided for, for the financial years ending respectively the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventyseven, and the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes connected with the public service; May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada that: : 1. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Sum granted Canada, there shall and may be paid and applied a sum not for 1876-77. exceeding in the whole one million six hundred and twenty- $1,625,395.99. five thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-nine cents, towards defraying the several charges and expenses of the public service of the Dominion, from the first day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, to the thirtieth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, not otherwise provided for, and set forth in Schedule A. to this Act. and also for the other purposes in the said Schedule mentioned. Sum granted for 1877-78, 2. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, there shall and may be paid and applied a sum not $16,286,576 52 exceeding in the whole sixteen million two hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-two cents, towards defraying the several charges and expenses of the Dominion, from the first day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, to the thirtieth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, not otherwise provided for, and set forth in the Schedule B. to this Act, and for other purposes in the said Schedule mentioned. Account to be 3. A detailed account of the sums expended under the authority of this Act, shall be laid before the House of Commons of Canada during the first fifteen days of the then next session of Parliament. rendered. Recital as to amounts of authorized ing unbor 4. And whereas there remained on the thirty first day of December last unborrowed and negotiable of the loans loans remain- authorized by Parliament for the several works hereinafter mentioned, and for general purposes, the sums opposite to each respectively, viz: rowed. $ cts. 2,433,333 33 1,460,000 00 1,500,000 00 1,200,000 00 7,300,000 00 30th June, 1876............. Redeemed to 31st December.... 1,823,645 65 20,406,469 71 Issued.... .... 12,166,666 66 8,239,803 05 $22,133,136 38 Such sums under 35 V., c. c. 4. Therefore it is declared and enacted, that the Governor in may be raised Council may authorize the raising of the several sums above 6, and 38 V., mentioned, as they may be required for the purposes aforesaid, respectively, under the provisions of the Act passed in the thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled: “An Act respecting the Public Debt, and the raising of Loans authorized by Parliament," as amended by the Act passed in the thirty-eighth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to amend the Act respecting the Public Debt and the raising of Loans authorized by Parliament;" and the sums so raised shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, out of which like sums shall be applicable to the several purposes aforesaid, under the Acts and provisions thereunto relating respectively. SCHEDULE A. SCHEDULE A. SUMS granted to Her Majesty by this Act, for the Financial Year ending 30th June, 1877, and the purposes for which they are granted. Additional amount required for Seigniorial Tenure Commission 1,000 00 3,100 00 CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Department of Justice. For arrears of salary of Deputy Head, from 1st September, 1876, to 30th June, 1877 Increase of salary of Messenger, Supreme Court of Canada and Exchequer Court, from 19th January to 30th June, 1877, at $30 per! PENITENTIARIES. Kingston-Maintenance St Vincent de Paul: Adjustment of salaries, and pay of additional officers $1,807 29 9,487 17 Fencing, farming and garden implements..... Rent of old Prison, from 1st May, 1876, to 1st Feb ......... Carried forward......... SCHEDULE A. |