First registration division and Sague 2. The County of Saguenay and the Parishes of St. Etienne de la Malbaie, St. Agnès, St. Irénée and St. Fidèle and the of Charlevoix Townships of Callières and DeSales, shall constitute a registration division to be called the first registration division of the Counties of Charlevoix and Saguenay, and the registry office of the said division shall be held in the Parish of St. Etienne de la Malbaie. nay. Second division. Records of the of Charlevoix 3. The remaining portion of the said County of Charlevoix shall form a second registration division, which shall be known as the second registration division of the Counties of Charlevoix and Saguenay, and the registry office of the said division shall be held in the Parish of St. Peter and St. Paul, called Baie St. Paul. 4. The books and records, instruments and documents reregistry office lating to the registration of titles in the County of Charlevoix to be deposit- effected before this Act shall come into force, shall be deposited ed in the said in the office of the Registrar for the said first division, who is hereby first division. authorized to receive the same, and to make searches, deliver Transcripts uments affect- be furnished to the Registrar thereof on payment of certain fees, &c. Such copies, thentic. copies, extracts and certificates thereof or there from according to law, which shall be of the same validity and effect as if the said books and records had been originally registered in the said office. 5. Whenever the Municipal Council of the County in which the registry office of either of the said new registration districts is situated, shall have provided funds for paying the necessary expenses, such Council may require any Registrar in whose office there shall be registered any deed, instrument or document affecting real property in such new registration district, to furnish copies thereof to the Registrar of such new registration district, with copies of all entries relative thereto, or such abstract of such registered documents as may be desired, certified by such other Registrar and fairly transcribed in properly bound books to be furnished by the Municipality, the said copies to be paid for out of the funds furnished as aforesaid at the rate of four pence currency for every hundred words, or such other rate as the Registrar furnishing the same and such Municipal Council may agree upon :-And the Registrar of such new registration division may and shall thereafter grant copies of or extracts from, or make searches and grant certificates, and perform all other official acts with respect to such deeds, instruments, documents or entries, as he might do and would be bound to do if the same had been originally registered and made in his registry office, and may demand and take the like fees therefor :-And such copies, extracts, certificates and acts shall prima facie avail for all purposes as if granted and performed by the Registrar having the custody of the original books, entries and documents to which they relate, saving the right to prove error therein, and the recourse of all parties against such other Registrar as aforesaid, if the error be in the copies furnished by him to to the Registrar of such new registration division under this Act. c. 99. 6. Nothing herein contained shall impair the effect of the Act not to Act passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, prevent the intituled, An Act to establish a Registry Office in and for each effect of 18 V.. Electoral County in Lower Canada, or shall prevent either of the Counties of Saguenay and Charlevoix or Chicoutimi from becoming a registration County under the provisions of the said Act. 7. So much of the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Inconsistent Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to divide the County of provisions of 12 V. c. 131, Saguenay into two divisions for the registration of deeds, or of &c., repealed.. any other Act or law as may be inconsistent with this Act, is hereby repealed. S. This Act shall have force and effect upon, from and Commenceafter the first day of October next. 9. The Interpretation Act shall apply to this Act. 10. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. X X X VI. An Act to divide the Township of Hemmingford, in the County of Huntingdon, into two separate Municipalities. [Assented to 24th July, 1858.] ment of Act. Interpretation. Public Act. HEREAS certain of the inhabitants of the Township of Preamble.. Hemmingford, in the County of Huntingdon, have, by their petition, represented, that the welfare and convenience of those residing in the western section of the said Township would be greatly promoted if the said Township of Hemmingford were divided into two Municipalities, and have prayed that it may be so divided, and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: constituted 1. Upon, from and after the first day of January, one New township thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, so much of the pre- of Havelock sent Township of Hemmingford as lies in the first range of described and said Township, from lot number twenty-one to lot number after 1st Janforty-two; in the second range, from the centre of the by-road uary 1859. on lot number seventy-two to lot number ninety-three; in the third range, from the centre of the said by-road, on lot number one hundred and eighteen, to lot number one hundred and thirty-seven; in the fourth range, from the centre of the said by-road, on lot number one hundred and sixty to lot number one ship for all purposes. one hundred and seventy-four; in the fifth range, from lot number one hundred and ninety-six to number two hundred and six; in the first range of the Clergy Reserve lands, in the said Township, from lot number eleven to lot number fifteen, and lots numbers ten and eleven in the second range of the said Clergy Reserve lands,-including all lots and parts of lots hereinabove mentioned,-shall be separated from the present Township of Hemmingford, and shall form a distinct Township To be a town- and Local Municipality, under the name of the Township of Havelock, and the said Township of Havelock shall hereafter be deemed to be such separate Municipality for all municipal, school, judicial and other purposes whatsoever, in the same manner and to all intents and purposes as though the said Township of Havelock had always been distinct from, and had never formed part of the said Township of Hemmingford, and shall enjoy and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges conferred by any Acts or laws whatsoever upon Township Remainder of Municipalities in Lower Canada; and the remainder of the Hemmingford said present Township shall constitute and remain the Township Municipality of Hemmingford; and so many of the present Municipal Councillors and School Commissioners as reside within the Township of Hemmingford as hereby constituted, shall, notwithstanding this Act, remain in office, and continue to be Members of the Municipal Council and School Commissioners for the Township of Hemmingford as limited by this Act, until they vacate their seats in due course of law. to be a township. 2. No division of the Township shall however take place unless the same shall have been approved of at a public meeting of the Municipal Electors of the said Township of Hemmingford, to be called by the Mayor of the said Township, or in his default, by the Senior Justice of the Peace residing therein, by posting up a notice of at least eight days indicating the time, place and object of the same, in at least four public places in the said Township, such meeting to be held before the first day of December next, at the place where the poll at the last General Election was held; at which meeting the question shall be submitted to the said Electors: and if at such meeting a poll is demanded by six electors, the votes of the electors shall be taken in the manner provided for in the case of a By-law of a Municipality for creating a debt for the purpose of subscribing for stock in a Railway Company. 3. The present debts, obligations and liabilities of the present Township of Hemmingford (if any there be) shall be assumed by the Township of Hemmingford as hereafter to be constituted; and to enable the said Township to provide for the payment thereof, the Municipality thereof shall be entitled to have and receive all rates and assessments which may be due and collectable in the present Township of Hemmingford at the time of the passing of this Act, and in the event of the amount received from such rates and assessments not being sufficient sufficient for the payment in full of the said liabilities, it shall be lawful for the County Council of the County of Huntingdon to pass a By-law, providing for a special assessment to be levied in the Township Municipalities hereby constituted, of an amount sufficient for the complete discharge of joint debts and liabilities as may be then still unprovided for. fund. 4. And in the event of any surplus funds remaining in the Division of hands of the Secretary-Treasurer for the present Township of any surplus Hemmingford, after all the liabilities of the said Township have been paid and satisfied, it shall be the duty of the said Secretary-Treasurer to make an apportionment thereof between the two Municipalities hereby constituted, such apportionment to be based upon the value of the assessable property in each of the said Municipalities, as shewn by the last Valuation Roll for the present Township of Hemmingford. 5. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. XXXVII. An Act to authorize the Municipality of the Parish of [Assented to 24th July, 1858.] Public Act. WHEREAS it is expedient to open a road in the Muni- Preamble. cipality of the Parish of Ste. Marguerite de Blairfindie, in the County of St. John, in Lower Canada, extending from the southern extremity of the Range of La Carrière to the range adjoining the Seignorial ine, in the said parish of Ste. Marguerite de Blairfindie, and to facilitate communication in the said parish, and to amend the eleventh paragraph of the Paragraph 11 fifty-second section of the Lower Canada Municipal and Road of section 52 Act of 1855: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice 100. and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: of 18 V. c. open a certain 1. The Municipal Council of the said Parish of Ste. Mar- Council of the guerite de Blairfindie shall be empowered, upon procès-verbal Parish emduly homologated before it, in conformity with the Lower powered to Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855, to open a road or road communication, commencing at the southern extremity of the Range of La Carrière, and terminating at the range adjoining the Seignorial line, (including the two said ranges), in the line separating the land of David Roy from that of Dame Veuve Eloi Roy, or their representatives; and the said road shall not Width and have less than twenty-four feet in width, nor more than thirty quality of the feet between the ditches, and shall be graded and drained in the manner prescribed by the said Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855, notwithstanding any provision under road. the Proviso Public Act. Preamble. in Acton and the said Act to the contrary, and specially the eleventh paragraph of the fifty-second section thereof; Provided that the compensation to be paid by the said Municipality to the proprietors of the land taken for the opening of the said road, shall be established, regulated and paid, subject to the conditions and in the manner prescribed by the said Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855. 2. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. XXX VIII. An Act in relation to certain registrations affecting lands in the Township of Acton, and in that part of the Township of Upton situate in the County of Bagot, in the District of St. Hyacinth. W [Assented to 24th July, 1858.] HEREAS doubts exist as to the validity of the re gistration of certain deeds, judicial proceedings, judgments and other documents, affecting and hypothecating certain lands situate in the Township of Acton, in that part of the Township of Upton which was annexed to the former County of St. Hyacinth, by the thirty-fifth section of the Act sixteenth Victoria, chapter one hundred and ninety-four, and in that part of the said township of Upton, which was annexed to the County of Bagot, by the Act eighteenth Victoria, chapter seventy-six; And whereas it is highly important to remove such doubts: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: Actes, &c., af- 1. All deeds, judicial proceedings, judgments, and other fecting lands documents, of whatsoever nature, affecting and hypothecating part of Upton any lands situate in the Township of Acton, and in the said registered part of the Township of Upton, which was annexed to the said since June, former county of St. Hyacinth, by the said Act sixteenth Vic1853, in St. Hyacinth or toria chapter one hundred and ninety-four, and which have Drummond, been registered since the fourteenth day of June, one thousand declared legal- eight hundred and fifty-three, and also all deeds, judicial proly registered if registered ceedings, judgments and other documents of whatsoever nature, affecting and hypothecating lands situate in the said other part of the Township of Upton, which was annexed to the County of Bagot, by the said Act eighteenth Victoria chapter seventysix, and which have been registered since the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, either in the Registry Office for the County of Drummond, or in the Registry Office for the County of St. Hyacinth, shall be deemed and they are hereby declared to have been and to be legally registered, whether such registrations thereof have been effected in as herein mentioned. the |