CAP. XXX VII

An Ordinance to change the place of the Registry Office for the County of Stanstead.

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eleventh years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, chapter eight, intituled, An Act to establish Registry Offices in “ the Counties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shefford & and Missisquoi,” it is, among other things, Enacted, in effect, that it shall be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government of this Province, to name the place in each County at which the Registry Office established under the authority of the said Act shall be kept ; and whereas Georgeville, in the County of Stanstead, was, under the authority of the said Act, named in the manner therein provided as the place where the Registry Office for the said County should be kept ; and whereas it hath become expedient that the said Registry Office should hereafier be kept at Stanstead Plain, instead of at Georgeville aforesaid, but doubts have arisen whether the place of keeping the said office can now be changed, except by Legislative Enactment :—Be it therefore Ordained and Enacted by His Excellency the Governor of the Province of Lower Canada, by and with the advice and consent of the Special Council for the affairs of the said Province, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority ofan Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the first year of the Réign of Her present Majesty, intituled %.An Act lo make & lemporary provision for the Government of Lower Canada,” and - it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Ordinance, the Registry Office to be kept for the County of Stanstead, under the provisions of the Act hereinbefore cited, shall be kept at Stanstead Plain, in the said County, and not at Georgeville, aforesaid ; uny appointment of the last named place, for that purpose, under the said Act, to the contrary notwithstanding,

J. COLBORNE

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À. D. 1839. Anno Secundo Victoriæ Reginæ. C.37. 107