An Act to amend the Act respecting the Statutes of Canada. [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] H ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate Preamble. and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: Parliaments to of Parliament tures, and of 1. All the original Acts, passed by the Legislatures of the late Clerk of the Provinces of Upper or Lower Canada, or of the late Province of have the Canada, transferred to and deposited of record in the office of the custody of Clerk of the Senate, and also all original Acts of the Parliament of original Acts Canada heretofore assented to, or hereafter to be assented to by and of certain the Governor General, and all Bills reserved for the signification late Legisla of the Queen's pleasure, and assented to or disallowed by the reserved Bills. Queen in Council, shall be and continue to remain of record in the custody of the Clerk of the Senate of Canada, and such Clerk, as Custodian thereof, shall be known and designated as "The Clerk of the Parliaments:" And every thing now required by the Act intituled: "An Act respecting the Statutes of Canada," or by any other Act of the Parliament of Canada, to be done by the Clerk of the Senate, as Custodian of the said Acts or any of them, shall be done by the Clerk of the Parliaments. 2. The Clerk of the Parliaments shall have a Seal of Office, Clerk of the Parliaments and shall affix the same to certified copies of all Acts intended to have and for the Governor General or the Registrar General of Canada or use a Seal of required to be produced before Courts of Justice, either within or beyond the limits of the Dominion of Canada, and in any other case, when the said Clerk may deem it expedient. Office. 3. All copies of the Acts above referred to, so certified by the Certified Clerk of the Parliaments, shall be held to be duplicate originals, to be held to copies of Acts and also to be evidence, as if printed under the authority of be duplicate Parliament by the Queen's Printer, of such acts and of their originals. contents. Bound copy of Statutes copies of 4. As soon as practicable after the prorogation of every session of Canada and of Parliament, the Clerk of the Parlaments shall obtain from the Queen's Printer a sufficient number of bound copies of the Statutes reserved bills of Canada passed during such Session of Parliament, and shall duly certified, to be delivered deliver to the Governor General one copy duly certified, for to the Govern- transmission to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, as required by the British North America Act, 1867, together with certified copies of all Bills reserved for the signification of the Queen's pleasure, and one like copy of the said Acts in the English and French languages to the Registrar General of Canada. or and Bound Copy to Certified 5. The Clerk of the Parliaments shall also furnish certified copies of Acts to be furnished copies of any of the Acts above mentioned to any public officer on application or party applying for the same; and upon all such copies the said Clerk of the Parliaments shall, before delivering the same to such officer or party, receive from such party a fee at the rate of ten cents for every hundred words in the certified copy and certificate; and all sums so received by him shall form part of the contingent fund of the Senate. Copies for 6. All certified copies required for the public service shall be public service. obtained from the Clerk of the Parliaments through the Secretary of State of Canada. Certificate to be inserted at the foot of Act required 7. The Clerk of the Parliaments shall insert at the foot of every such copy so required to be certified, a written certificate, every copy of duly signed and authenticated by him, to the effect that it is a to be certified, true copy of the Act passed by the Parliament of Canada, or by the Legislature of the late Province of Canada, or of the late Province of Upper Canada or Lower Canada (as the case may be) in the session thereof held in the year of H. M. Reign, and assented to in Her Majesty's name, by the day of Preamble. CAP. II. An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1871. WH [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] THEREAS by article thirty-three of the Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America, signed at the City of Washington on the eighth day of May, 1871, it is provided that articles eighteen to twenty-five inclusive, relating relating to the fisheries, shall take effect as soon as the laws required to carry them into operation shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Canada, and by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island, on the one hand, and by the Congress of the United States on the other, and that such assent having been given, the said articles shall remain in force for the term of years mentioned in the said article thirty-three; and whereas it is expedient that the laws required to carry the said treaty into effect as respects Canada, should be passed by the Parliament of the Dominion: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: suspended as and citizens 1. The Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in the thirty- Certain Acts first year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter sixty-one, intituled "An regards United Act respecting Fishing by Foreign Vessels," and the Act of the said States' vessels Parliament passed in the thirty-third year of Her Majesty's reign, engaged in chapter fifteen, intituled: "An Act to amend the Act respecting taking fish (except shellfishing by Foreign Vessels,"-and the Act of the said Parliament fish) on coasts passed in the thirty-fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter of Quebec, Nova Scotia, twenty-three, intituled: "An Act further to Amend the Actd New respecting fishing by Foreign Vessels," and the ninety-fourth Brunswick. chapter of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, (third series) intituled: " Of Coast and Deep Sea Fisheries,"-and the Act of the legislature of Nova Scotia, passed in the twenty-ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter thirty-five, amending the same,—and the Act of the legislature of New Brunswick, passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter sixty-nine, intituled "An Act relating to the coast fisheries, and for the preventing of illicit trade.” so far as the said Acts of the Legislatures of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, respectively, apply to any case to which the said Acts of the Parliament of Canada apply, shall be and are hereby suspended as respects vessels and inhabitants of the United States of America engaged in taking fish of every or any kind except shell-fish, on the seacoasts and shores, and in the bays, harbours, and creeks of the Provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, as shall also all Acts, laws or regulations (if any) over which the Parliament of Canada has control, which would in any wise prevent or impede the full effect of the said Article eighteen. oil from 2. Fish oil and fish of all kinds (except fish of the inland lakes Fish and fish and of the rivers falling into them, and except fish preserved in United States oil) being the produce of the fisheries of the United States, shall fisheries to be be admitted into Canada free of duty. froe. 3. Goods, wares, and merchandizo arriving at any of the ports Transit of goods through of Canada, and destined for the United States of America, may be Canada in entered at the proper custom house, and conveyed in transit, bond. without the payment of duties, through Canada, under such rules, regulations, and conditions for the protection of the Revenue, as the Governor in Council may from time to time prescribe; and under like rules, regulations, and conditions, goods, wares and merchandize vessels from one part of Canada to merchandize may be conveyed in transit, without payment of duties, from the United States through Canada, to other places in the United States, or for export from ports in Canada. Carriage of 4. Citizens of the United States may carry in United States' goods in United States' Vessels, without payment of duty, goods, wares and merchandize from one port or place in Canada to another port or place in Canada, provided that a portion of such transportation is made another, con- through the territory of the United States by land carriage, and in bond, under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon between the Government of Her Majesty, and the Government of the United States. ditionally. When this Act shall come into force. 5. The foregoing sections of this Act shall come into force upon from and after a day to be appointed for that purpose by a Proclamation based upon an order of the Governor in Council, and shall remain in force during the term of years mentioned in Article thirty three of the said Treaty. Preamble. $688,999 37 granted for 1871-2, and for purposes CAP. III. 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, 1872, and the 30th June, 1873, and for other purposes relating to the Public Service, MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, W [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] HEREAS it appears by messages from His Excellency the Right Honorable John, Baron Lisgar, 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 seventy two, and the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, 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 Canada, there shall and may be applied a sum not exceeding in the whole six hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and ninetyin Schedule A, nine dollars and thirty-seven cents, towards defraying the several charges Canada. charges and expenses of the public service of the Dominion, from out of the Con. the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Rev. Fund of hundred and seventy-one, to the thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, not otherwise provided for, and set forth in Schedule A to this Act, and also for the other purposes in the said Schedule mentioned, and relating as well to the public service of the financial year aforesaid, as to that ending on the thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. out of the 2. Froin and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, $20,729,060 85 there shall and may be paid and applied a sum not exceeding in granted for 1872-3, and the whole twenty million seven hundred and twenty-nine thousand purposes in and sixty dollars and eighty-five cents, towards defraying tho Schedule B, several charges and expenses of the Dominion, from the first day Con. Rev. of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Fund of seventy-two, to the thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, not otherwise provided for, and set forth in the Schedule B to this Act, and for other purposes in the said Schedule mentioned. Canada. laid before 3. A detailed account of the sums expended under the authority Accounts to be of this Act shall be laid before the House of Commons of Canada, Parliament. during the first fifteen days of the then next Session of Parliament. SCHEDULE |