may be at liberty to proceed for the recovery of such property; whereupon such proceedings shall be staid accordingly until His Excellency the Governor General shall, through the Provincial Secretary, declare it to be Her Majesty's pleasure that the Heirs, Devisees or Assigns of the said Aaron Stevens be permitted to proceed for the recovery of such property; whereupon every such Court shall order such proceedings to be continued as if the Order to stay the same had not been made: Provided always, nevertheless, firstly, that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor General, in the Instrument granting permission to the Heirs, Devisees or Assigns of the said Aaron Stevens to proceed for the recovery of such property, to impose any and such Conditions upon the Heirs, Devisees or Assigns of the said Aaron Stevens, as in his discretion he may think fit; and the Court in which such proceedings shall be pending, shall enforce the performance of such Condition, before allowing such proceedings to be continued: And provided also, secondly, that nothing in this Section contained shall extend or be construed to extend to any proceedings that the Heirs, Devisees or Assigns of the said Aaron Stevens shall or may be driven to adopt after having once obtained, by due process of Law or otherwise, the quiet and peaceable possession of any of such Lands or Tenements. III. And be it enacted, That this Act and the reversal of the Attainder of the said Aaron Stevens, herein referred to, shall be construed and taken in the most large and beneficial sense and manner in favour of the Heirs, Devisees and Assigns of the said Aaron Stevens. Proviso: Governor General may attach certain condition to such permission. Proviso: this section not to apply to pro ceedings by heirs &c. in possession. Act, &c. to be con strued beneficially. FOURTH SESSION, THIRD PARLIAMENT. TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. An Act to repeal the several Acts of the Parliaments of Lower and Upper Canada now in II. An Act for the better Management of the Provincial Penitentiary, PAGES. 1731 1773 III. An Act to provide for the Commutation of certain Bonds required under the Emigrant Act, 1790 IV. An Act to amend the Act concerning Land Surveyors. V. An Act to make certain alterations in the Territorial Divisions of Upper Canada, 1791 1792 VI. An Act to abolish the Right of Primogeniture in the succession to Real Estate held in fee simple or for the life of another, in Upper Canada, and to provide for the division thereof amongst such of the relatives of the last proprietor as may best accord with the relative claims of such parties in the division thereof, VII. An Act to amend an Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to simplify the transfer of real property in Upper Canada, and to render certain rights and interest therein liable under execution, VIII. An Act to facilitate the Leasing of Lands and Tenements, 1801 1805 1806 IX. An Act to compel the Registration of Deeds and Instruments creating Debts to the Crown, 1809 X. An Act to provide a remedy against Absent Defendants, 1810 XI. An Act to amend the Law relating to Apprentices and Minors, 1811 XII. An Act to amend the Heir and Devisee Act, 1814 XIII. An Act for the further amendment of the Administration of the Criminal Law, XV. An Act to alter the periods for holding certain Courts in the County of York, 1820 XVII. An Act to amend the Act substituting Salaries for Fees, in certain cases, in Lower Canada, 1821 XVIII. An Act to enable Creditors to attach the effects of Debtors about to leave the Province, in cases under Ten Pounds, Ibid. XX. An Act to amend a certain Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, relating to Notaries, XIX. An Act to authorize the holding of a Second Term of the Superior Court annually in the XXI. An Act to amend and make permanent the Acts in force in Lower Canada, for the XXII. An Act to amend the Act therein mentioned, enabling Her Majesty to direct the issue of XXIII. An Act to amend an Act to encourage the establishment of Building Societies in Lower 1824 XXIV. An Act to provide for defraying the expense of the River Police of Montreal, XXV. An Act to provide for defraying the expense of the River Police at Quebec, XXVIII. An Act to transfer the place of holding the meetings of the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Drummond, Number Two, from "French Village" in the Township of Kingsey, to the Village of Stanfold in the said Municipality, XXIX. An Act to explain and remove doubts under certain Acts passed for the improvement of XXX. An Act to close up part of Ottawa Street in the Village of Cayuga, XXXI. An Act to indemnify the Municipal Councillors of the County of Peterborough and others, for passing a certain By-law of the Municipal Council of the said County, which was XXXIV. An Act to incorporate The Orphans' Home and Female Aid Society, Toronto, XXXV. An Act to incorporate The House of Industry of Toronto, XXXVI. An Act to incorporate the Canada Guarantee Company, XXXVII. An Act to amend the Act intituled, An Act to incorporate the City of Kingston XL. An Act to extend the powers of The British America Fire and Life Assurance Company in Marine Assurance, and to reduce the number of the Directors of the said Company, 1851 XLI. An Act to amend the Act incorporating The Montreal Firemen's Benevolent Association, 1852 XLII. An Act to confer upon Charles Horatio Waterous, the Civil and Political Rights of a natural born British subject, XLIII. An Act to naturalize Ira Gould and others, and for other purposes, XLIV. An Act to authorize the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas and of Chancery in Upper Canada, to admit William Edwin Twynam, to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor XLV. An Act for the relief of Mortgagees, XLVI. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums required for defraying certain expenses XLVII. An Act to provide for the introduction of the Decimal System into the Currency of this XLVIII. An Act to extend the provisions of the Currency Act to certain Gold and Silver Coins XLIX. An Act to provide more effectually for taking the Periodical Census of the Province, 1864 L. An Act to repeal the Act of the 7th Victoria, Chapter 6, intituled, An Act to restrain Party LI. An Act to consolidate and regulate the General Clauses relating to Rail-ways, LII. An Act to repeal the Tonnage Dues imposed for defraying the expenses of maintaining Light Houses and for other purposes connected with the Navigation of the waters of this Province, and to provide for the payment of such expenses out of the Consolidated LIII. An Act for the further amendment of the Laws relating to the Public Works in this LIV. An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws affording protection to Magistrates and others LV. An Act to continue for a limited time an Act intituled, An Act to encourage the establishment LVI. An Act to extend the period for payment of Fees on Crown Patents, and for other LVII. An Act to remove doubt as to Municipal Corporate Bodies acquiring Public Works LIX. An Act to repeal in part and to amend an Act, intituled, An Act for the better protection 1898 LX. An Act to amend the Law of Lower Canada as regards the District or Circuit in which actions or proceedings affecting real property may be brought, and to make further provision LXI. An Act to prevent the hunting of Deer at improper seasons of the year, and further to amend the laws for the preservation of Game, LXII. An Act to explain and amend the Law in Lower Canada, respecting Bills of Exchange LXIII. An Act to appropriate all moneys accruing out of Tavern Licenses in the Counties which form the District of Kamouraska, and in the County of Ottawa, towards defraying the cost of the Court House and Gaol erected at Kamouraska, and the Court House and Gaol now being erected in Aylmer, LXIV. An Act to amend and extend the Law relating to the remedy by Replevin in Upper |