Council of the District may assume certain debts contracted by the Building Com mittee for the 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, intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted The District by the authority of the same, that all debts legally contracted by the said Building Committee for the purpose of raising money to enable them to complete the said Gaol and Court House according to the plan so approved as aforesaid, and not exceeding in the whole the sum of one thousand pounds, currency, over and above the sum of seven thousand five hundred pounds mentioned in the Act herein first above cited, shall be and are hereby declared to be debts which may be lawfully assumed by the District Council of the said District of Johnstown, and paid out of the funds of the District, and being so assumed shall be deemed to form part of the third charge upon the funds, mentioned in the fifty-ninth section of the Act of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, passed in the Session held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act Act of Cana- to provide for the better internal Government of that part of this Province which formerly constituted the Province of Upper Canada, by the establishment of Local or Municipal Authorities therein: Provided always, that the due application of all the Monies borrowed and expended by the said Building Committee, shall be accounted for in the same manner as if the borrowing and expenditure thereof had been authorized by the Act herein first above cited. new Gaol and Court House. da 4 & 5 V. c. 10. Proviso. Preamble. CAP. XLII. An Act for better defining and establishing the Eastern boundary line of the third Concession of the Township of Cornwall, in the Eastern District. WHE [9th December, 1843.] HEREAS doubts have arisen as to the correctness of the original Survey of the Township of Cornwall, or parts thereof, owing to the effect of extraordinary local attraction on the compass, or great carelessness of the Surveyor, or both, at the Eastern or governing boundary line of this Township in the third Concession, by which a very great turn or bend is made in the line, inclining it very much to the East; And whereas a straight line, joining the front and rear angles of this Concession at the Eastern boundary, bears almost two degrees more easterly than the side lines of the other Concessions of this Township, as is shewn by a Survey recently made by order of the Boundary Line Commissioners, who have established stone monuments at the angles of the different Concessions of the Township, and most of the inhabitants of the said third Concession having settled in the rear thereof, where all their clearings and improvements now exist; And whereas it would be ruinous to the said inhabitants of the third Concession, should the side lines in the said third Concession, be run according to the course of its eastern or governing boundary (namely two degrees more easterly) than the course of the lines formerly laid down, and it would cause the utmost loss, inconvenience and confusion by moving the roads and throwing the barns, orchards, houses and fences of each person upon his neighbour; And whereas it appears that most of the Surveyors who have run lines in the said third Concession of Cornwall, have run them according to the line ran by the Surveyor, Jeremiah M'Carthy, at the Eastern Boundary; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and 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 the line run by Jeremiah M'Carthy, dividing the third Concession of Cornwall from the St. Regis Indian Reservation, is and shall be the Eastern and governing line of the said third Concession of the Township of Cornwall, and all side lines in the said Concession shall be governed thereby; any law, usage or custom to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. The line run by Jeremiah McCarthy to be the governing line of the cession of Cornwall. said third Con CAP. XLIII. W An Act to Naturalize Cyprian Morgan and others. [9th December, 1843.] HEREAS Cyprian Morgan, of the Township of Yonge, in the District of Johnstown, Farmer; the Reverend Abijah Blanchard, of the Township of Pelham, in the District of Niagara, Presbyterian Minister; John F. A. S. Fayette, of the Town of Brantford, in the District of Gore, Presbyterian Minister; Albert G. Alexander, of the Township of Hamilton, in the District of Newcastle, Schoolmaster; Alexis Chandler, of the Township of Caledonia, in the District of Ottawa, Yeoman; Jacques Adrian Pierre Barbier, of the Town of Kingston, in the Midland District, Gentleman, and Euphrasie Barbier, his wife, have, by their respective Petitions in that behalf, represented their desire to establish their abode KK Preamble. Cyprian Morgan, Abigah F.A. S. Fayette, Albert G. Blanchard, J. Alexander, in this Province, and for the removal of the disabilities under which they labor, as aliens, and have prayed that they may be, respectively, naturalized as subjects of Her Most Gracious Majesty; And whereas it seems meet that the prayer of the said Petitioners be granted; 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, 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 the said Cyprian Morgan, Abijah Blanchard, John F. A. S. Fayette, Albert G. Alexander, Alexis Chandler, Jacques Adrian Pierre Barbier, and Euphrasie Barbier, his wife, shall be deemed, adjudged and taken to be, and so far as respects their capacity, respectively, at any time heretofore, to take, hold, possess, enjoy, claim, recover, convey, devise, impart or transmit any Real Estate in this Province, or any right, title, privileges or appurtenances thereto belonging, or any interest therein, and in all other respects ralized, and the whatsoever to have been, respectively, natural born subjects of Her Majesty, and rights of natu- of Her Royal Predecessors, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever, jects conferred as if they had been, respectively, born within this Province: Provided always, that each of the persons aforesaid, in order to be entitled to the benefit of this Act, shall take and subscribe the oath hereinafter inserted, or being of the persons allowed to affirm, have made the affirmation hereafter mentioned, before some person duly authorized to administer the oath contained in an Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the Session held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to secure to and confer upon certain Inhabitants of this Province, the civil and political rights of natural born British Subjects, and that such oath or affirmation so taken and subscribed shall be entered in the Book of Registry kept by the person so authorized to administer such oath or affirmation, under the provisions of the Act hereinbefore mentioned. Alexis Chand- ral born sub on them. The oath to be taken. Act to be a Public Act. II. And be it enacted, that the persons hereinbefore mentioned, shall severally take and subscribe the following oath :-"I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance "to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of this "Province, as dependent thereon: So help me God." III. And be it enacted, that this Act shall be a public Act, and as such shall be judicially taken notice of by all Judges, Justices of the Peace, and all others whom it shall concern, without being specially pleaded. CAP. CAP. XLIV. An Act to authorize the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Montreal to purchase, acquire and hold the property now known as the Montreal Water Works. W [9th December, 1843.] HEREAS the Corporation of the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Montreal, incorporated by law, have, by their humble petition, addressed to the several branches of the Legislature, represented their having negotiated with " the Proprietors of the Montreal Water Works," incorporated by the Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the forty-first year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for the purchase of the said Water Works, including the whole of the property, moveable and immoveable, connected therewith, and have concluded an agreement with the said Proprietors for the purchase thereof, for the sum of Fifty Thousand Pounds, currency, payable in Debentures or Corporation Bonds, redeemable on or before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and bearing interest payable semi-annually at the rate of six per cent. per annum ; And whereas the said Corporation have not funds at their disposal, or which they are now empowered by law to raise, sufficient to effect the said purchase, unless they suspend all the public works and improvements now requisite in the said City; And whereas under the provisions of the Ordinance of the Governor and Special Council of the late Province of Lower Canada, incorporating the said Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens, it is enacted that it shall not be lawful for the Council of the said City of Montreal to borrow, on the credit of the said City at one time, any sum or sums of money exceeding the aggregate amount of the revenue of the said City for five years, and that no sum or sums of money shall be so borrowed, while the said City shall be in debt to such aggregate amount, unless the said Council shall be authorized in this behalf by an Act of the Legislature of this Province; And whereas the said intended purchase will be greatly profitable to the City and highly beneficial to its inhabitants by enabling them to obtain a plentiful supply of pure and wholesome water at greatly reduced rates from those at present exacted by the said " Proprietors of the Montreal Water Works;" And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said Corporation as aforesaid, for authority to complete the said intended purchase on the terms in their said petition and hereinafter specially set forth; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act Preamble. After such purchase, all the powers, privileges, rights, titles and interest to the Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 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 and may be lawful for the said Corporation of the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the said City of Montreal, on or after the first day of January next, provided due notice be given by the Council of the said City at least ten days prior to the now next annual election that the final purchase of the said Water Works will be a question to be decided by the City Council, one month subsequent to the said annual Election, if they shall then deem it expedient, to make and perfect the purchase from "the Proprietors of the Montreal Water Works" or their representatives, incorporated under an Act of the Parliament of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the forty-first year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act for supplying the City of Montreal, and the parts thereunto adjacent, with Water, of all such buildings, houses, sheds, engines, water houses, reservoirs, reservatories, water wheels, fire engines, machinery, working gears, cisterns, ponds, basins of water, main pipes, rider pipes, stand pipes, service pipes, conduct pipes, branches of iron, lead or other metal, plugs, cocks, chambers, cocks in common, stop cocks, stop backs, valves, fire plugs, air plugs, fire cocks, boxes, forcing mains, ferrils, feeders, campirs, drains, pumps, sluices and other works, devices or things; and generally all moveable or immoveable property connected with or belonging to the said Montreal Water Works, situated, lying, or being within the said City of Montreal or in the vicinity thereof, or requisite and necessary for the support and maintenance of the said Water Works, as also all lead, leaden and other pipes, brass cocks, fuel, tools and materials of every description, now possessed by the said "Proprietors of the Montreal Water Works," or appertaining to the establishment thereof, or that may have been ordered for the use of the said Water Works and not yet in their possession, together with all rights, privileges, powers and authority heretofore or now vested in or possessed by the said "Proprietors of the Montreal Water Works," under the Act aforesaid, at and for a sum, price or purchase money not exceeding Fifty Thousand Pounds, current money of this Province, to be payable in the manner hereinafter mentioned. II. And be it enacted, that from and after the completion of the intended purchase, sale, transfer and conveyance as aforesaid, by and to the Corporation first above mentioned, all the powers, privileges and authority given and conferred upon, or possessed or enjoyed by the said " Proprietors of the Montreal Water moveable and Works," and all the property and possession of the said Water Works, in and by immoveable virtue of the said Act of the Parliament of the late Province of Lower Canada, nected with incorporating the same, or in and by virtue of any other Act or Acts whatsoever Water Works, relating to the same, shall be transferred, conveyed, made over to and conferred property con the Montreal upon, |