A. B. is convicted before the undersigned, one of Her Majesty's passed on the day of intituled (reciting the title of the By-law) and I adjudge the day of for his A. D. as the case may be,) I order that the same be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said A. B.; and in default of sufficient distress, I adjudge the said A. B. to be imprisoned in the common Jail of the said District of for the space of days, unless the said several sums, and all costs and charges of conveying the said A. B. to such Jail shall be sooner paid. Given under my hand and seal, the day and year first above written, at [L. S.] in the said District. JM, J. P. CAP. XLVIII. An Act to amend the Act respecting Tavern Keepers and the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors, Chapter six of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada. [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Preamble. follows: tax on certifi 1. In addition to the powers vested in all Municipal Councils Local Municiby the Consolidated Municipal Act for Lower Canada, each pal Councils Municipal Council of a Parish, Township, or incorporated may impose a Village, shall have power to impose by By-Law, a tax not cates for Liexceeding eight dollars on each certificate required before conse. obtaining a license under the ninth section of chapter six of the Consolidated Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, such tax to be payable by the party applying for consideration of such certificate, before such Council shall take such certificate into consideration. Act to apply 2. This Act shall apply only to Lower Canada, and shall only to L. C. form part of the Act above cited, chapter six of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada. Preamble. Con. Stat. CAP. XLIX. An Act further to amend the Act chapter forty-four of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, respecting the partition of Township Lands held in Common. W [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] HEREAS it is expedient further to amend, in the manner hereinafter set forth, the Act chaptered forty-four of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, intituled: An Act L. C. Cap 44. respecting the partition of Township Lands held in Common : Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: Special Report to be made by Com- Notice to be given by Commissioners. 1. The Commissioners appointed and acting under the twelfth section of the said Act, instead of reporting generally on the matters there in set forth, and with a view to further legislation as thereby is provided, shall report specially to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, on the matters and in the manner hereinafter set forth: 2. As soon as possible after the passing of this Act, they shall give public notice, in the manner required under the Lower Canada Consolidated Municipal Act, in each of the Townships of Bolton and Magog, that no claim of any person in respect of the lands therein, granted on the nineteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to Nicholas Austin and others, associates, as tenants in common, or in respect of any part thereof, will be received or in any wise recognized, or acted or reported on, by them, unless the same shall have been presented to them before the expiration of one month from the date of such notice; and no claim of any person shall be receiunless filed in ved, or in any wise recognized, or acted or reported on, by them, unless the same shall have been presented to them before the expiration of such term; No claim to' be received time. To obey instructions from Commis 3. They shall conform to any instructions which they may received from time to time from the Commissioner of Crown sioner of Lands, as to the place or places, and the times, or their sittings Crown Lande. for the receiving of claims, the hearing of parties, and the conduct generally of their inquiry. 2. In two separate reports, each to be made in duplicate, one Two Reports: for the Township of Bolton, and one for the Township of Ma- one for each Township,; gog, to be made within such reasonable delay as the Commis- what they sioner of Crown Lands may assign or allow, they shall set forth must shew. and declare, by a sufficient legal description thereof, the several properties in each of the said townships respectively, which in their judgment ought equitably to be assigned, by way of partition, to the resident proprietors, specifying in whose favor, as such proprietor, they adjudge that the title to each of such properties ought to be quieted, and stating succinctly the chain of title in each case : 2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may call on them to Reports may revise such reports, in respect of any omission or error which be corrected. on examination he may apprehend to have been made therein; and any correction of any such omission or error may thereupon be made by them; 3. Whenever satisfied of the apparent sufficiency of such Registration reports, whether after or without such correction, the Commis- of Reports sioner of Crown Lands shall endorse on each duplicate thereof, when approhis approval of the same,-and shall transmit one of such du- missioner of plicates of the report for the Township of Bolton, to the Crown Lands. Registrar of the County of Brome, and of that for the Township of Magog, to the Registrar of the County of Stanstead, and shall cause the other duplicate of each of the said reports to be filed and kept of record in his Department,—and shall insert in the Canada Gazette a notice declaring that he has done so; 4. Each of such Registrars shall file and keep of record in Registrar may his office, the duplicate report so transmitted; and shall there grant copies. allow the same to be examined, and shall grant certificates of copies or extracts, or otherwise, therefrom, to all intents as though the same were an ordinary register of his office. Commis 3. On and from the date of such notice in the Canada Ga- Persons in zette, the several persons specified by such reports as those in whose favor .whose favor the Commissioners adjudge that the title to such sioner reports properties ought to be quieted,—and the representatives of such to become propersons, shall be held to become, and shall be, to all intents prietors. possessed, as proprietors under title and in good faith, of the several properties so assigned to them, and shall so hold the same, free and clear of all manner of adverse claim whatever, petitory, hypothecary or otherwise, whether from the Crown or any other party, at all resting on or arising out of the character of the original grant thereof, as having been made to the said associates as such joint tenants; and on and from the same Remaining date, all the remainder of the lands so originally granted to the lands to revert said associates, shall revert to the Crown, and shall thereafter to the Crown. be dealt with as Crown Lands, subject, however, to the pro visions of this Act: During one year petitory actions may be brought. Not afterwards. 2. For the term of one year from such date, and no longer, any party may wage his recourse by petitory action against any of such persons, upon any claim not at all resting on or arising out of the character of the said original grant, as having been made to the said associates as such joint tenants; and at and from the expiration of the said term of one year, every such person against whom no such petitory action has been brought, shall be held to become, and shall be, to all intents the absolute proprietor of the property so assigned to him; and in all petitory be dealt with, actions so brought, the respective claims of the parties shall be dealt with by the Courts, to all intents as though the said original grant had been made to a grantee, solely, and not as a joint tenant with the others of the said associates. How such actions shall Supplementary Report and what to contain. May be corrected Commissioner 4. Besides their two reports aforesaid, the commissioners appointed and acting under the twelfth section of the said Act, within such reasonable delay as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may assign or allow, shall also make one or more supplementary reports, in which they shall succinctly set forth for his information, all the claims of every kind which may have been laid before them, other than those favorably reported on in their said two reports, together with their opinion as to each, and the facts (so far as established) whereon their opinion is based, and all such reasons for their opinion, and all such suggestions, as they may see occasion to assign or offer: 2. The Commissioner of Crown Lands may call on them to revise such supplementary report or reports, in respect of any omission or error which on examination he may apprehend to have been made therein; and any correction of any such omission or error may thereupon be made by them. 5. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, authoof Crown rize, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands, in terms of such Lands, under order in Coun- orders, may from time to time make such settlement (whether cil, may settle by way of grant, at a reduced or nominal price, from the lands claims on the in the said townships so reverting to the Crown as aforesaid, or otherwise) of all or any claims or classes of claims, which may be brought before him, in respect of the lands so granted to the said associates, or in respect of any part thereof, as may most effectively and equitably tend to the quieting of the titles to the lands in the said townships, according to the spirit and intent of the said Act. said lands, equitably. CAP. CAP. L. An Act to change the period for the annual meetings of Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada. W [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] HEREAS the third week in January has been found to Preamble. be an inconvenient period for the holding of the annual meetings of Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. So much of the seventy-ninth section of the "Act respec- Part. of Sect. ting the Bureau of Agriculture and Agricultural Societies" 79 of Con. Stat. Can., forming the thirty-second Chapter of the Consolidated Statutes cap. 32, re'of Canada, as provides that Agricultural Societies in Lower pealed. Canada shall hold their Annual Meetings in the third week of the month of January in each year, is hereby repealed, as to Exception. all Societies elsewhere than in the Districts of Saint Francis, Bedford, Arthabaska and Beauharnois. 2. The said Societies shall hold their annual meetings in Annual meetthe course of the month of December, in each year, in the ing to be held manner prescribed in the said Act. in November. 3. At such meetings the said Societies may do anything What may be which by the said Act they are authorized to do at their an- done at such nual meetings in January. meetings. 4. This Act shall form part of the said Act, which shall Act to form henceforth be read and construed as if the annual meetings of part of Con. the said Societies were therein and thereby required to be held Stat. Can. in the course of the month of December. CAP. LI. An Act to amend Chapter Seventy-one of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, respecting the Medical Profession and the sale of Drugs. W [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] cap. 32. HEREAS it is expedient to amend chapter seventy-one Preamble. of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, in tituted An Act respecting the Medical Profession and the sale Con. Stat. of Drugs," and to make better provision for the granting of L. C. cap. 71. licenses for the sale and distribution of Medicine by retail in Lower Canada: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the |