SYDENHAM

Ainsi Ordonné et Statué par Tatorité susdite, et passé en Conseil Spécial, sous le Grand Sceau de la Province, à l'Hôtel du Gouvernement, dans la Cité de Montréal, le neuvième jour de Février dans la quatrième année du règne de Notre Souveraine Damo Victoria, par la grâce de Dieu Reine de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, Protectrice de la Foi, &c, et l'an de Notre Seigneur, mil huit cent quarante et un.

Par Ordre de Son Excellence,

W. B. LINDSAÏ",

Greffier du Conseil Spécial.

80 C. 8. Anno decimo etundecimo Georgii IV. A. D. 1830.

CAP. VIIL

An Act to establish Registry Offices in the Coun* ties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shefford and Missisquoi.

(26 th March 1830.)

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WHEREAS it is expédient to establish within certain Counties of this Province, Offices for tVie enregistration of ail Deeds concerning iramoveable property situate within such counties: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the ad* vice and consent of the Législative Council and Assembly of the Province of Lower Canada, constituted and asserabled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, intituled, " An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act ;< passed in the fourteenth year ofHis Majesty' s Reign, intituled, " An Act for makingmore effectuai provision for the Gcvernmcnt " oj the Province of Québec, in NorfA America ;" and to fnake further provision for the Government of the said Province; And it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act there shall be established in each ofthe Counties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shefford and Missisquoi, an Office for the enregistration of ail Acts or deeds in law and instruments in writing, by which immoveable property shall or maybe transferred, disposed ofor incumbered in any way, whetber the same be by bargain and sale, enfeofment, gift, mortgage, hypothèque, exchange, devise or niarriage contract, ar.d that it shall be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Persons administering the Government of this Province, to name the place in each County where such Register Office shall be kept, and to nominate and appoint a person of sufficient integrity and ability, to each and every Office that shall or may be established, and as often as occasion may require, under the condition hereinafter mentioned, who shall faithfully cause to be enregistered ail deeds and instruments in writing by which immoveable property held in free and common soccage or otherwise within the Counties aforesaid, may be transferred, alienated or affected, that shall be presented to him, in the order in which they may be presented to him, in manner hereinafter mentioned.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the passing of this Act, no Act or Deed in law or

A. T>. 1830. Anno decimo et undecimo Georgii IV. C. S. 81