First election. Notice of such election. Quorum for election. Con. Stat. L. C. c. 72 repealed; effect of such repeal. Corporation continued. Existing Bylaws saved. 4. The first election of the Council in any such section, shall take place within three months after the date of such proclamation, at a meeting to be held at the Court House of the District of the section for which such election is to take place, which meeting shall be called by at least five members of the Bar, practising within the limits of the section, by public notice to be inserted in the Canada Gazette, at least fifteen days before such meeting, and by a public notice posted up at the Court House of the section where such meeting is to take place, at least eight days before such meeting; 5. If the limits of such section include two or more Districts, the place at which the election shall be held, shall be named in such proclamation, and the notice of such meeting shall be posted up at the Court House of each District within the limits of such section; and the ordinary meetings of the Council, and of the members of any such section, shall be held at the place where such first election takes place, or at such place as the said Council may fix; 6. No such election shall take place unless there be present at the meeting so called, at least eight members of the Bar practising within the limits of the section. 40. Chapter seventy-two of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, intituled: An Act respecting the Bar of Lower Canada, and the several Acts and parts of Acts amending the same, are hereby repealed, but all transactions, proceedings, matters and things, done and taken under the said Acts, or any of them shall remain and continue as if no such repeal had taken place, and so far as necessary, may and shall be continued, prosecuted, enforced and proceeded with under this Act, and this Act shall be held not to operate as a new law, but shall be construed and have effect as a consolidation and an amendment of the law as contained in the said Acts and parts of Acts so repealed and for which this Act is substituted: 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to dissolve the Corporation of the Bar of Lower Canada as heretofore existing, which shall be held to continue under this Act and subject to the provisions thereof as one and the same Corporation; 3. By-laws passed by the General Council, or by the Council of any of the sections of the Corporation, and now in force, which may be inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, and those not repealed or amended by this Act shall continue in full force and effect until repealed by competent authority. 41. 41. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to students Act how to apat present under articles, except in so far as respects the man- ply to students ner of examination of candidates for admission to practice, as ticles. provided by this Act. 42. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. how under ar Public Act. To all to whom these presents concern,-Greeting: I, the undersigned, Bâtonnier of the Bar of Lower Canada, section of the District of , day of , in conformity with the provisions of chapter of the Statutes of Canada, passed in the thirtieth year of the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, in pursuance of the certificate to me delivered by three (or several, as the case may be,) of the examiners of the said section, dated the whereby it appears that A. B., of under the requirements of the said Act, after having served a regular clerkship, as prescribed by law, has undergone before them, on the the examination necessary to his admission to the profession of Advocate; and that from such examination it appears that he is in all respects worthy and qualified to be so admitted, have given and granted to him, according to the provisions of the said Act, the present diploma, conferring on him the right of practising as an Advocate, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor and Proctor at Law, in all Courts of Law in Lower Canada. Given at the city (or town) of under my signature and the seal of this section, and countersigned by the Secretary thereof, on the day of the month of of our Lord one thousand in the year C. D., Bâtonnier. SCHEDULE SCHEDULE No. 2. ACT OF ACCUSATION. Province of Canada, District of Bar of Lower Canada, Section of the District of To the Bâtonnier and the members of the Council of the Bar of Lower Canada section of the district of A. B., Esquire, Syndic, elected for the section of the Bar of Lower Canada, called section of the district of hereby informs the said section that C. D., Esquire, one of the members of the said Bar, residing in the said section of the district of is accused on the oath of persons &c., &c., as worthy of credit, by E. F., of follows, that is to say that the said C., D., (here recite the offence.) Wherefore, the said A. B. prays that an order may issue from the section, summoning the said C. D., to appear before the said section, in order that proceedings may be then had on the present information, as to law and justice may appertain. By the Bâtonnier and members of the Council of the Bar of Lower Canada, section of the district of To C. D., Esquire, Advocate, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor and Proctor at Law, of in the said section of the You are hereby required to appear in person before us, in our chambers, in the city of the o'clock in the at noon, day of then and there to answer the charge, a copy whereof is above written, brought against you by A. B., Esquire, Syndic of the said said section of And you are informed that in case of your non-appearance before us on the day and hour and at the place hereinabove mentioned, proceedings will be had by default on the said charge. By the Bâtonnier and members of the Council of the Bar of Lower Canada, section of the district of We hereby command you and each of you to appear in person before us, in our chambers, in the city (or town) of o'clock in the day of noon, to bear evidence and speak the truth on all matters within your knowledge, respecting a charge brought before us by Esquire, Syndic of against the Bar of the section of the district of C. D., Esquire, a member of the said Bar; and herein fail not, under a penalty of a fine of dollars. of our section and the signature of our Secretary, this Given in the city (or town) of CAP. XXVIII. Preamble. Duty on documents registered. posed. An Act to provide a fund towards defraying expenses incurred for matters necessary to the efficiency of the Registry Laws of Lower Canada. W [Assented to 15th August, 1866.] HEREAS it is expedient to create a fund for defraying the expenses incident to the inspection of Registry Offices in Lower Canada, and to the making of the plans and books of reference required by chapter thirty-seven of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, respecting the registration of documents affecting real property: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. There shall be imposed, levied and collected on each deed, instrument or document registered in any Registry Office in Lower Canada, on or after the day to be fixed for that purpose How to be im- by Order of the Governor in Council, to be published in the Canada Gazette during at least one month before such day, and on every search made in any such Registry Office on or after the said day, such duties respectively, as shall be fixed in such order as aforesaid, not exceeding the following rates, that is to say: Maximum rates. Proviso. Payable by stamps, unless otherwise ordered. On every will, marriage contract or donation..... 30 cents. On every deed or instrument effecting or evidencing 30 cents. 15 cents. On every search with or without certificate....... 5 cents. Provided, that by any subsequent order to be published in like manner, the Governor in Council may, from time to time, increase or diminish the said duties, or any of them, but so as not in any case to exceed the rates aforesaid. 2. The said duties shall be paid by the party requiring the registration or the search, and shall form a fund for defraying expenses incident to the inspection of Registry Offices, and the To form a fund making of the plans and books of reference, required under for certain pur- the thirty-seventh chapter of the Consolidated Statutes for poses. Lower |