the consent of such Synod, where not incorporated, shall by resolution, by-law or canon, from time to time order and direct. 4. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the right of Right of prepresentation to any Rectory, but such right of presentation sentation not shall continue to be exercised as it was before this Act was passed. affected. 5. The right to exercise the power of sale granted by this Sales to be Act, must be exercised within ten years from the passing within ten thereof. years. 6. This Act shall apply only to those rectories and rectorial To what rectolands which come within the provisions of the Act passed in ries the Act the session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered one hundred and seventy-five. 7. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. XVII. An Act to amend the Act of the present Session, intituled An Act to provide for the Sale of the Rectory Lands in this Province. W [Assented to 15th August, 1866.] shall apply. Public Act. HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act of the present Preamble. by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The sixth section of the Act passed in the present Session s. 6 of c. 16 of the Parliament of this Province, intituled: An Act to provide repealed. for the Sale of the Rectory Lands in this Province, is hereby repealed, and the following section shall be and is hereby substituted in lieu of the said section hereby repealed, and shall be taken and read as the sixth section of the said Act. "6. This Act shall not apply to any lands granted by the New section Crown, as sites for Churches, Parsonages or Burial Grounds, substituted. or now occupied as such." САР. CAP. XVIII. An Act to amend chapter thirty-two of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada respecting the Bureau of Agriculture and Agricultural Societies. INS [Assented to 15th August, 1866.] N amendment of chapter thirty-two of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, respecting the Bureau of Agriculture and Agricultural Societies, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Out of the sum appropriated for Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada, from Provincial Funds, five per cent. thereof shall be applied under the authority of the Governor in Council, towards the promotion of Agricultural instruction and information, and so much of the ninth section of the said Act as is inconsistent with this provision, is hereby repealed. 2. No portion of any money received by any Board of Agriculture, in Lower Canada, from Provincial funds, shall be paid by such Board for the publication of its transactions, or of any report, essay, lecture, notice, information, or other matter whatsoever, in any Agricultural journal or newspaper, or other publication whatsoever, which shall not have been previously approved of for such purpose by the Minister of Agriculture; and so much of the sixteenth section or of any other part of the said Act as is inconsistent with this provision, is hereby repealed. Preamble. Additional CAP. XIX. An Act to amend chapter thirty-four of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada relating to Patents of Invention. HER [Assented to 15th August, 1866.j ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The following paragraphs shall be added to the fifteenth paragraphs to section of the thirty-fourth chapter of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, intituled: An Act respecting Patents for Inventions, and construed as part of the said section: s. 15, of c. 34, Con. Stat. of Can. Oath to be 3. The arbitrators so named shall, before acting, take before taken by arbi- a Judge of any Court of Upper or Lower Canada, the following trators. oath : "I, the undersigned, (A. B.) being duly appointed an arbi- Form. "trator under the authority of the fifteenth section of the thirty"fourth chapter of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, do "hereby solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that I "will well and truly perform the duty of such arbitrator on the "interfering applications of (C. D. and E. F.) submitted to "me." bitrators with 4. The arbitrators, or any one of them, after having been so Powers of arsworn, shall have the power of summoning before them any otto party or witness, and of requiring them to give evidence on summoning of oath, orally or in writing, (or on solemn affirmation, if the per- witnesses, &c. sons be entitled to aflirm in civil matters,) and to produce such documents and things as such arbitrators deem requisite to the full investigation of the matters into which they are appointed to examine, and shall then have the same power to enforce the attendance of such witnesses, and to compel them to give evidence, as is vested in any Court of Law in civil cases, in that portion of the Province in which the arbitration shall be had; and any wilfully false statement made by any such witness on oath or solemn affirmation, shall be a misdemeanor punishable in the same manner as wilful and corrupt perjury; but no such party or witness shall be compelled to answer any question, by his answer to which he might render himself liable to a criminal prosecution; 5. The fees for the services of arbitrators shall be paid by Fees to arbithe parties naming them, respectively, except those of the third trators, how arbitrator, when named by the Minister of Agriculture, which paid. shall be paid by the applicants jointly. CAP. XX. An Act to confirm the Title to Lands held in trust for certain of the Indians resident in this Province. [Assented to 15th August, 1866.] HEREAS defects have been found to exist in respect to Preamble. the mode of execution of Titles to certain Lands in Upper Canada, acquired by certain Tribes of Indians, or by the Crown in trust for or on behalf of Indians or of Indian Tribes, and it is expedient to quiet and confirm such Titles: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. For and notwithstanding anything contained in any Act Certain deeds of the Parliament of the late Province of Upper Canada, or of of lands in trust for Indians, the Parliament of the Province of Canada, heretofore made confirmed, notand passed, every Deed, Conveyance or Instrument purporting withstanding to insufficient execution by married wo man. Preamble. 29 V. c. 7. Provision made vided for in the said Act. to be a Conveyance and Transfer of Lands, in Upper Canada, to any Tribe of Indians, or to the Crown in trust for or on behalf of Indians or of Indian Tribes, or now held by the Crown on any such trust from any married woman seized of or entitled to such real estate, and made and executed before the passing of this Act, by such married woman, either jointly with or without her husband, or made and executed by any person constituted and authorized by power of attorney executed by such married woman, either jointly with or without her hus band, to execute such Deed, Conveyance or Instrument in her name or on her behalf, shall be taken and deemed a valid Conveyance of the Land therein mentioned, and the execution thereof shall be taken and deemed to be valid and effectual and to have passed the estate of such married woman in the said land, although such Deed, Conveyance, Instrument or Power of Attorney was not executed by such married woman in accordance with the provisions of any Law or Statute in force in Upper Canada in respect to the conveyance of real estate by married woman, and although no certificate of the consent of such married woman to convey her estate in the said land, or an informal or insufficient certificate was endorsed upon such Deed, Conveyance or Instrument, whether executed by such married woman or by her Attorney, and although no certificate of such consent or an informal or insufficient certificate was endorsed upon such Power of Attorney. CAP. XXI. An Act to amend the Act twenty-ninth Victoria, chapter seven, respecting works connected with the defence of the Province. [Assented to 15th August, 1866.] WHEREAS it is expedient to remove doubts under the seventh section of the Act passed in the twenty-ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled: An Act to extend and amend the Acts respecting Public Works to and with respect to works connected with the defence of the Province, so as to provide for the decision of certain cases not provided for in the said section: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, declares and enacts as follows: 1. In any case mentioned in the said seventh section, in in cases unpro- which a jury had not sat before the passing of the said Act, or in which since the passing thereof the jurors have been discharged as having been tampered with by the party to whom the price or compensation is to be paid, or otherwise through his fault, without rendering a verdict, such price or compensation shall be enquired of and determined by the official arbitrators in the manner provided in other cases in and by the said section and Act. CAP CAP. XXII. An Act to regulate the means of egress from Public [Assented to 15th August, 1866.] W HEREAS, the neglect of a proper mode of constructing Preamble. the doors and gates of Churches and of Halls or build ings used for holding public meetings, is a source of great danger to life and limb, and it is desirable to provide a remedy:" Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: outwards. 1. In all Churches, Theatres, Halls or other buildings in Doors of this Province hereafter to be constructed or used for holding to be hung so churches, &c. public meetings, or for places of public resort or amusement, as to open all the doors shall be so hinged that they may open freely outwards, and all the gates of outer fences, if not so hinged, shall be kept open by proper fastenings during the time such buildings are publicly used to facilitate the egress of people, in case of alarm from fire or other cause. churches, &c., 2. Congregations or others owning Churches, and indivi- Doors of duals, corporations and companies owning Halls, Theatres, or existing other buildings used for the purpose of holding public meetings, to be altered if or places of public resort or amusement, shall, within twelve necessary. months from the passing of this Act, be required to have the doors of such Churches, Theatres, Halls or other buildings so hinged as to open freely outwards. ing the provi Act. 3. Individuals, companies and corporations owning or pos- Individuals, sessing public halls, churches or other buildings used for public companies meetings, who shall violate the provisions of this Act, shall be tions liable to liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, recoverable on infor- fine for neglectmation before any two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, sions of this or before the Mayor or Police Magistrate of any city or town; one moiety of such fine shall be paid to the party laying the information, and the other moiety to the municipality, within which the case may arise, and parties so complained against shall be liable to a further fine of five dollars for every week succeeding that in which the complaint is laid, if the necessary changes are not made : and trustees 2. Congregations possessing corporate powers, and all trus- Congregations tees holding Churches or buildings used for Churches under the incorporated Act, chapter sixty-nine, of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper holding for conCanada, intituled: An Act respecting the property of religious fe for negregations institutions in Upper Canada, and Incumbents and Church- glecting the wardens holding Churches, or buildings used for Churches provisions of under the Act of the parliament of Upper Canada, chapter seventy-four, third Victoria, intituled: An Act to make provision for this Act. |