Statuts du Canada

1873.-36 VICTORIA.

FIRST SESSION SECOND PARLIAMENT.

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1. An Act to provide for the examination of Witnesses on Oath by Committees of the Senate and House of Commons in certain

cases....

2. An Act to render Members of the Legislative Councils and Legis-
lative Assemblies of the Provinces now included, or which may
hereafter be included within the Dominion of Canada, ineligible
for sitting or voting in the House of Commons of Canada....
3. An Act to amend the Act respecting procedure in criminal cases...
4. An Act to provide for the establishment of "The Department of
the Interior."

5. An Act to amend the Act, intituled "An Act to make further
provision for the Government of the North West Territories."....
6. An Act respecting Claims to Lands in Manitoba for which no
patents have issued........

7. An Act to suspend for a limited time the operation of certain Acts relating to the Inspection of Steamboats in British Columbia........

8. An Act with respect to the Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Ships. 9. An Act to provide for the appointment of Harbour Masters for certain ports in the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.....

10. An Act to add to the number of the members of the Corporation of the Trinity House of Quebec, and to increase the powers thereof.......

11. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Port Wardens at Montreal and Quebec.............

12. An Act to amend the Act to provide for the appointment of a Harbour Master for the Port of Halifax

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13. An Act to incorporate "La Banque d'Hochelaga.' 14. An Act to incorporate the Three Rivers Bank 15. An Act to incorporate "La Banque de St. Jean."

16. An Act to increase the capital stock of the Union Forwarding and Railway Company

17. An Act respecting the Montreal and Champlain Railroad Company 18. An Act to extend the provisions of the Grand Trunk Arrangements Act, 1862, so far as relates to certain preferential bonds

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for a further period, to settle the rates of interest in future on
the preferential bonds and stocks, and for other purposes......

19. An Act to incorporate the Huron and and Ontario Transportation

Company...

20. An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Isolated Risk Fire

Insurance Company of Canada, and to change the name of the

said Company to the Isolated Risk and Farmers' Fire Insurance

Company of Canada

21. An Act to incorporate the Empire Fire and Marine Insurance

Company of Canada

22. An Act to amend the Act fourteenth and fifteenth Victoria, chap-

ter thirty-six, incorporating the Canada Guarantee Company

23. An Act to incorporate the Maritime Improvement Company of

the Dominion of Canada

24. An Act to amend the Charter of the Dolphin Manufacturing

Company....

25. An Act to enable James McNabb, of the township of Bosanquet,

to obtain an extension of his patent for a Horizontal Car

Coupler

26. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money re-

quired for defraying certain expenses of the Public Service for

the financial years ending respectively the 30th June, 1873, and

the 30th June, 1874, and for other purposes relating to the

Public Service

27. An Act to make temporary provision for the Election of Members

to serve in the House of Commons,...

28. An Act to make better provision respecting Election Petitions and

matters relating to Controverted Elections of Members of the

House of Commons..

29. An Act to change the limits of the Counties of Montcalm and

Joliette, for Electoral purposes..

30. An Act to re-adjust the amounts payable to, and chargeable

against, the several Provinces of Canada by the Dominion

Government, so far as they depend on the debt with which they

respectively entered the Union.....

31. An Act for the re-adjustment of the salaries and allowances of

the Judges and other Public Functionaries and Officers, and of the

indemnity to the Members of the Senate and House of Commons

32. An Act to amend the Civil Service Superannuation Act........

33. An Act respecting the Ocean Mail Service...

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34. An Act further to amend the Act to make further provision for

the Government of the North West Territories...

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35. An Act respecting the Administration of Justice, and for the estab-

lishment of a Police Force in the North West Territories ....... 110

36. An Act respecting Aliens and Naturalization in the Provinces of

British Columbia and Manitoba.....

118

37. An Act to authorize Free Grants of land to certain original settlers
and their descendants in the territory now forming the Province
of Manitoba........

38. An Act to remove doubts as to the construction of section 31 of
the Act 33 Victoria, chapter 3, and to amend section 108 of the

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Dominion Lands Act......

39. An Act to make further provision as to Duties of Custom3 in

Manitoba and the North West Territories...

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40. An Act respecting the admission of the Colony of Prince Edward

Island as a Province of the Dominion....

123

41. An Act respecting the Export Duties imposed on Lumber by the

Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick...

125

42. An Act to continue for a limited time "The Insolvent Act of 1869,"

and the Acts amending the same....

126

43. An Act further to amend the Act relating to Banks and Banking. 127

44. An Act to amend the Patent Act of 1872.....

129

45. An Act to amend the Act respecting the construction of the

Intercolonial Railway

130

46. An Act to amend an Act respecting the Militia and Defence of the

Dominion of Canada....

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47. An Act respecting Weights and Measures...

48. An Act to provide for the Inspection of Gas and Gas Meters......

49. An Act to amend and consolidate, and to extend to the whole

Dominion of Canada, the laws respecting the Inspection of cer-

tain Staple Articles of Canadian Produce

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50. An Act to amend the Act respecting offences against the person... 199

51. An Act further to amend the law respecting certain matters of

procedure in criminal cases...

52. An Act to extend the Act passed in the 33rd year of Her

Majesty's reign intituled: "An Act to amend the Penitentiary

Act of 1868.".

53. An Act to amend the Acts respecting the Inspection of Steamboats

54. An Act respecting Pilotage...

57. An Act to provide for keeping order on board Passenger Steamers 254

58. An Act to amend the Acts for more effectually preventing the

Desertion of Seamen; and for other purposes.

59. An Act to repeal the law of British Columbia, intituled "An

Ordinance respecting Harbour and Tonnage Dues, and to regulate

the Licenses on the Vessels engaged in the coasting and inland

navigation trade...

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60. An Act to make further provision for the improvement of the

River St. Lawrence between Montreal and Quebec

61. An Act respecting the Trinity House and Harbour Commissioners

of Montreal.......

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258

62. An Act further to amend the Acts to provide for the management

and improvement of the Harbour of Quebec..

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63. An Act respecting the Harbour of Pictou, in Nova Scotia

64. An Act to amend the Act respecting Joint Stock Companies to

construct works to facilitate the transmission of Timber down

Rivers and Streams

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65. An Act for the better protection of Navigable Streams and

Rivers.....

281

66. An Act to incorporate the Dominion Board of Trade

67. An Act to incorporate the King's County Board of Trade

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68. An Act to incorporate the Oshawa Board of Trade

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289

69. An Act respecting the Central Prison for the Province of Ontario 295

70. An Act to amend chapter fifty-eight of the Consolidated Statutes

If the late Province of Canada

297

71. An Act respecting Interest and Usury in the Province of Nova

Scotia

297

72. An Act to amend the Act respecting certain Savings' Banks in the

Provinces of Ontario and Quebec

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73. An Act to incorporate the Stadacona Bank

74. An Act to incorporate the Imperial Bank......

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75. An Act to incorporate the Victoria Bank of Canada

76. An Act to incorporate the Pictou Bank.

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77. An Act to incorporate "La Banque de St. Hyacinthe

78. An Act to incorporate the Central Bank of Canada..

79. An Act to change the name of the "Superior Bank of Canada

to that of the "Federal Bank of Canada'

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80. An Act to amend the General Acts respecting Railways.....

81. An Act to amend the Act thirty-fourth Victoria, chapter forty-
three, intituled: "An Act to enable certain Railway Companies
to provide the necessary accommodation for the increasing traffic

over their Railways, and to amend the Railway Act, 1868

62. An Act to empower the Montreal Northern Colonization Railway

Company to extend its line from Deep River to a point of in-

tersection with the proposed Canadian Pacific Railway, and also

to extend its line to Sault Ste. Marie, the Georgian Bay and

Lake Superior, or to unite its line with any line of Railway

extending to the points above mentioned

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83. An Act to enable the Great Western Railway Company to further

extend and improve its connections....

315

84. An Act to enable the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company