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Les diagrammes solvents illustrent la micnode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 IP COPIES OF DOCUMENTS RELATIXG TO THE OTTA WA& PRESCOTT RAILWAY, LENGTH H MILES, PROM PRESCOTT TO OTTAWA, IVEING THE ONLY LINE OF RAILWAY^ TO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. LONDON; WATKULOW AND SONS, CAUl'KNTKRS' HALL, LONDON WALL. TATiLE OF CONTENTS. PAOi; Copy of the Act of the ParliairA.! t, of Canada, passed 18th March, 1865, for tlio Kelicf of the Ottawa and Prescott Company and the Sale of the Eaihviiv Copy of the Order of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada, dated 23rd December. 1865, vesting the property in Joseph Robinson, Esq., who purchased the Railway at the Sale, under the authority of the Act above-mentioned Copy of the Declaration of Trust of the said Joseph Eoljinson, Esq., dated 29th June, 1806 Copy of the first and only Mortgajre of £50,000 sterling, secured upon the Ottawa and Preseott Railway and Rolling Stock, Ac, dated 18th April, 1867, Interest at 8 per cent, per annum, payable half-yearly, at the Union Bank of London, London, England , 3 PAGE ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO VICTORIiE REGINiE. Cap. XXXV. An Act for the relief of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company and for ensuring the efficient working of its Railway and for other purposes. [Assented to 18th March, 1865.] TyilEREAS the interest on the bonds issued under the first mortgage and the interest on the second and third mortgages made by the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company is in arrear, and the Company has also become otherwise deeply indebted, and several of the creditors liave obtained judgment against it, and the Railway is in the hands of a Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery for Upper Canada at the instance and for the protection of certain of its bondholders ; and whereas the said Railway is out of repair ; and whereas the keeping open of the Rail- way for traffic, which is of the utmost importance to the interests of tliis Province, is by reason of tlie premises imperilled ; and it is necessary that the said Railway and its franchises shall be absolutely sold to secure hereafter the uninterrupted working of the said Railway ; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows : 1. Notwithstanding anything in any law or statute to the contrary, it shall be lawful for any mortgagee or judgment creditor of the said (Jouipauy to proceed upon liis mortgage or execution against lands, and sell thereunder the said Railway with all its lands, rights, privileges, franchises, and appurtenances, and any mortgagee or creditor of the said Railway Company may hecome the purchaser of the said Railway at such sale ; and such sale shall extinguish all mortgages, honds, judgments, and claims v/hutsoever exist- ing at the time of the said sale of such railway, and by and under such sale, whether made under power of sale in any mortgage, decree of the Court of Chancery in Upper Canada, or Sheriff's sale on such execution against lands as afore- said, the said purchaser, his heirs or assigns, shall acquire a good title to the said Railway and all the lands, rights, privileges, franchises, and appurtenances thereto belonging, or In any waj'- appertaining, freed and discharged from any claim and incumbranf^e whatever, and shall have full power and authority to sell and dispose of the same, to use and work the said Railway under the x\.ct of Incorporation of the said Railway Company, or any amendments thereof, as fully and effectually as if such Charter had bevjn granted to such purchaser. 2. The purchase money upon such sale shall be paid to the several creditors of the Company according to their priorities, as they may legally exist, or as may be settled by the said Court, and such purchaser, his heirs or assigns, may make such terms for the payment or security of the purchase money with such creditors as they may agree upon ; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent, nor shall any Act, law, or practice to tlio contrary, prevent any mortgagee or creditor ot the said Company becoming the purchaser of the said Railway as aforesaid. 3. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act, and the Inter- pretation Act shall apply to it, in so far as is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. h\ €\m\tn'iy. [Copy]. Saturday, the t\veiity-tlurd duj' of December, in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in the year of our Lord, 18G5. Bciu-ecn ALEXANDim SIMPSON AliRAIIAM DARBY - JIENRY DK^KINSON - WILJ.IAM TOTILILL - TKOMAS DROWN, and JOSI^^PII ROliTNSON, on behalf of themselves and all others the holders of the Donds of ttie Ottawa and L*RKsc()TT Railway Company, bear- ing- date the firs*^ day of November, ( )ne thousand eight hundred and Htty-thrce, and secui'ed as first charges on the said railway by a niurtg-age executed by the said Company to the said Alexander Simpson, bearing date the sixteenth day of starch. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three ( Plaiiiii/f'H, and 'JMIl'] OTTAWA AND TRESCOTT RAILWAY COMPANY - THE CITY OF OTTAWA AND THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF PRESCOTT, by Bill, and ------ ANDREW PORTER 6 = 1^ GEORGE KEATING - JAMES GOODWIN JAMES LEANOY ... - RICHARD W. SCOTT - ANDREW O'lIARA SAMUEL STARR EASTON - PETER MORAN - - . - MANUEL NORTHRUP - ALEXANDER IIEUSTON - HENRY J. FRIEL - . . - THOMAS PECK . - - . JAMES BENNING JAMES M. CURRIER - M. K. DICKINSON WILLIAM PALEN RING - JAMES HENEY .... JOHN MEYERS .... THOMAS BARR .... JAMES HODGE .... ALEXANDER ROSS - JOHN LYNCH .... FRANCIS M'DOUGALL- GEORGE SHERWOOD - RICHARD FARMER STEEL THOMAS RAYCROFT - THE COMMERCIAL BANK OP CANADA THOMAS BLACKBURN ROBERT BELL, and THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY OF CANADA - THOMAS REYNOLDS, and . SAMUEL CHRISTIE, made parties in the Master's Office - - -J Defohlunts. \\ t UPON the application of the above-named pluintlfF, Joseph Robinson, and upon hearing read the notice of motion and the various orders, affidavits, and proceedings had, taken and made in this cause, and in pursuance of the sixty-third section of the twelfth cliapter of the Consolidated Statutes ofUpper Canada, and of an Act passed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majestj' Queen Victoria, chaptered thirty-five. This orders that the lands and premises in question in this cause Lcing composed of ALL THE LANDS, rights, privileges, franchises, and appurtenances belonging or in any way appertaining to the Ottawa and Prescott Kail way Company, situate in the City of Ottawa and in the township of Gloucester, Osgoode, and I^orth Gower in the county of Carleton, and in the townships of South Gower, Oxford and Edwardsburgh, and in the town of Prescott, in the county of Grenville, together with all workshops and buildings thereon erected. And the engines, tools, stock, and other property contained therein, and all the rights, claims, privileges, tolls, revenues, franchises, and appurtenunces of the said railway, and all other property of the said Company, wheresoever situate and of whatsoever kind, character, or description, including the Rolling Stock thereof, be and THE SAAiE ARE HEREHY VESTED in ths Said plaintiff JOSEPH ROBUN^SO^N", his heirs and assigns for ever, for all the estate, right, title, and interest of the said plaintiffs other than the said Joseph Robinson, and of the said defendants therein. (Signed) A. GRANT, Rcfjistmr 8 [Copy.] DECLARATION OF TRUST BY JOSEPH ROBINSON, Esq., IN EESPECT OF THE OTTAWA AND PRESCOTT RAILWAY. Dated 29th June, 1866. / Seal \ \ London, J m I Seal \ TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOSEPH ROBINSON, of No. 7, Laurence Pountney Hill, Cannon Street, in the City of London, in that part of the IJnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Esquire, sends greeting : WHEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of the Province of Canada made and passed in the 13th and 14th years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled " An Act for the Incorporation of a Company to construct a Railway between Bytown and Prescott," certain persons therein named, together with such other persons as should under the provisions of tliat Act become subscribers to and proprietors of any share or shares in the railway thereby authorised to be made, were united into a Company for carry- ing on, making, completing, and maintaining the said in- tended railway and other works, and should for that purpose be one body politic and corporate by the name of "The 9 By town and Prescott Railway Company," and by that name should have perpetual succession, and should have a common seal and other the usual powers and riglits of bodies corporate not inconsistent with the said Act now in recital. AND WHEREAS by a certain other Act of the Parliament of the said Province, made and passed in the 14th and 15th years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Bytown and Pres- cott Railway Company," and also by two certain other Acts of the Parliament of the said Province made and passed in the 16th year of Her Majesty's reign, entitled respectively " An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Bytown and Prescott Railway Company" and "An Act for the granting of certain lots in the town of Bytown to the Bytrwn and Prescott Railway Company," certain other powers and pro- visions were made, enacted, conferred and declared in respect to or in or upon +he said Railway Company. AND WHEREAS by a certain other Act of the Parliament of the said Province made and passed in the 18th year of Her ISIajcsty's reign, entitled " An Act to change the name of the Bytown and Prescott Railway Company and to amep^^ the Act incorporating the same," it was enacted that the Company incorporated under the first hereinbefore in part recited Act should be called and known by the name and style of "The Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company" instead of being called and L •, wn by the name and style of the "Bytown and Piescot Railway Company." AND WHRRE AS in pursuance and under the authority of the said several hereinbefore in part recited Acts, or of some or one of them, the said Railway Company carried on, made, completed and maintained the said railway and other works and purchased or acquired and held certain lands, and laid the track of the said railway and sidings and erected mes- suages, houses, buildings, and machinery thereon respectively, or on some part thereof, and exercised and maintained the 10 ( powers, rights, an(l privileges incident to the carrying on, making, maintaining, and complei'on of the said railway, and granted and conferred in and by the said Acts A Parlia- liament o^ some or one of them. AND WHEREAS by a certain other Act of the Parliament of the said Province made and T^asscd in the 28th year of Her Maj<^sty's reign, entitled " An Act for the relief of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company and for ensuring the efficient working of its Railway and for other purposes," after reciting that the interest on the bonds issued under the first mortgage and the interest on the isecond and third mortgages made by the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company was in arrcar and that the Com- pany had alao become otherwise deeply indebted, and several of the creditors had obtained judgment against it, and that the railway was in the hands of a receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery for Upper Canada at the instance and for the protection of certain of its bondholders, and further recit- ing that the said railway was out of repair, and furthor reciting that the l-.o-oping open of the railway for traffic, which was of the utmost importance to the interests of tlio said Province was bj'- reason of the premises imperilled, and that it was necessary that the said railway and its francliises should bo absolutely sold to secure tlieri^after the uninterrupted working of the said railway. It ^vas by the said Act r >w in recital enacted, that notv/ithstanding {Uiything in any law or statute to the contrary, it should be lawful for any mortgagee or judg- ment creditor of the said Company to proceed upon liis mi.rtgago or execution against lands and sell thereu ider the said railway with all its lands, lights, privileges fran- cliises, and appurtenances, and any moi tgagea or creditor of the said railway company might become the purchaser of the said railway at surh snlo, and such sale should cxHnguisli all mortgages, bonds, judgments, and claims whatsoever exist- ing at the time of the said sale of such railway, und by and under such sale, whether made under power of sale in any .3 11 IS If?- mortgage, de'^Tee of the Court of Olumcery in Upper Canada, or Sheriff's sale on such execution against lands as aforesaid, the said purchaser, his heirs or assigns, should acquire a good title to the said railway and all the lands, rights, privileges, franchises, and appurtenances thereto belonging, or in any way appertaining freed and discharged from any claim and incumbrance whatever^ and should have full power and authority to sell and dispose of the same, to use and work the sind railway under tlio Act of Incorporation of the said railway company, or any amendments thereof, as fully and effectually as if such charter had been granted to such pur- chaser. xVND AVIIEUEAS a certain suit was instituted in the Court of Chuncery for Upper Canada, in which Alexander Simpson, Abraham Darby, Henry Dickinson, "William Tot- liill, Thomas Brown, and Joseph Robinson, on behalf of themselves and all otheis the holders of the bonds of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company bearing date the first day of November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty- three, and secured as first charges on the said raihvay by a mortgage executed by the said Company to the said Alexander Sim])son, bearing date the sixteenth day of jMarch, One tliousand eight hundred and fifty-three, the plaintiffs and the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company, the City of Ottawa, and the Town Council of the Town of Prescott, by IJill, and certain other parties made parties in the Cluster's Office were defendants, and a sale of the said railway was thereunder held at which the said Joseph Rcbinnon was ad- judged the puicliaser of the same. AND WllERKAS by an onler of the said Court of Chancery made in tlio hereinbefore-recittHl suit on Saturday, the twenty-third day of Detemher, in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty (iueen Victoria, and in tlio year of our Lord One tliousand eigh^ hun 'red and sixtj-five, upon the npi)li- cation of the therein above-nauu>d plaintitl Joseph Robinsim (party hereto), and upon hearing nud the notice of motion Wk 12 and the various orders, affidavits, and proceedings had, taken and made in the said cause, and in pursuance of the 63rd section of the 12tli chapter of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, and of an Act passed in tlie twenty-eig-hth year of the reign of Her Ma,icsty Queen Victoria, chaptered 35, it was ordered that the lands and premises in question in the said cause being composed of all the lands, rights, privileges, franchises, and appurtenances, belonging or in any way appertaining to the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company, situate in the City of Ottawa, and in the town- ships of Gloucester, Osgoode^ and North Gower in the county of Carleton, and in the townships of South Gower Oxford, and Edwardsburgh, and in the town of Prescott in the county of Grcnville, together with all workshops and buildings thereon erected, and the engines, tools, stock, and other property contained therein : and 1 11 the rights, claims, privi- leges, tolls, revenues, franchises, and appurtenances of the said railway, and all other property of the said Company wheresoever situated, and of whatsoever kuul, character, or description, including the rolling stock thereof, sliould be and tlie same were thereby vested in the said plaintiff Joseph Kobinson, his heirs and assigns for ever, for all the estate, right, title, and interest of the said pluintilFs (other than the Piiid Joseph Ivobinson) and of the said defendants therein. AND AVIIEHEAS by the 12th chapter of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, it is cnactal that in e'-ery case in which the Court has authority to ordoi the execution of a deed, conveyance, transfer, or as,signment of any property, real or jjcrsonal, the C^ourt may make an order or a decree vesting such real or personal estate in such person or perscms, and in sutili manner and for such estates as would be done by any dot^d, conveyance, assignment, or transfer, if executwl ; and then^upon the order or decree sludl have the same etrect, both at law and in equitv, as if tUo legal or other estate or interest in the property liud been 13 actually conveyed by deed or otherwise for the same estate or interest to the person in whom the same is so ordered to be vested. AND "WHEREAS by letters patent under the great seal of the Province of Canada, bearing date the second day of February, in this present year, one thousand eight hundred and si:xty-six, ah those parcels or tracts of land situate, lying, and being in the city of Ottawa, in the county of Carleton aforesaid, containing by admeasurement one acre and sixty-five thousand square links, more or less, and being composed of Lots Nos. 4, 5, and 6, on the west side of Dalliousie Street, Lots Nos. 10, 11, 12, and 13, on the north side of liolton Street, and Lots Nos. 10, 11, 12, and 13, on the south side of Bolton Street in the aforesaid city of Ottawa, were granted unto the said Joseph Robinson, his' heirs and assigns for ever; but in trust to be used, occupied, and enjoyed by the said Joseph Robinson, his heirs and assigns, as a depot groimd, and for all or any the uses of and in connection with the Ottawa and Prcscotl Railway ar.d its ai)purteiiance9. AND WlIl'^REAS, although the said Joseph Robinson was adjudged the purchaser of the said railway, as set forth in the hereinbefore-recited order of tlie Court of Chancery for Upper Canada, yet, in truth and in fact, the same was so purchased and acquired by him on belialf of other persons hereinafter named in the schedule hereunto annexed, together with himself, in the various interests, shares, or proi)ortion8 hereinafter in the said schedule mentioned; and the name of the said Joseph Robinson was used in the said purchase and in the said recited order as a trustee for such other persons in respect of such interests, shares, or proportions, together with the interest, sliare, or proportion of him the said Joseph Robinson therein, and the said Joseph Robinson has therefore agreed to execute suoh a declaration of ^rust us is hereinafter contained. 14 NOW KNOW YE, AND THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that the said Joseph Robinson, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, shall henceforth stand seized or possessed of all the lands, rights, privileges, franchises, and appurtenances belonging or in any way appertaining to the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company, situate in the city of Ottawa, and in the townships of Gloucester, Osgoode, and North Gower in the county of Carleton, and in the townships of South Gower Oxford, and Edwardsburgh, and in the town of Prescott in the county of Grenville, in the Province of Canada together with all the workshops and buildings thereon erected, and the engines, tools, stock, and other property contained therein, and all the rights, claims, privileges, tolls, revenues, franchises, and appurtenances of the said railway, and all other property of the said Company wheresoever situated, and of whatsoever kind, character, or description, including the rolling stock thereof, as the same was vested in the said Joseph Robinson by the hereinbefore-recited order of the Court of Chancery for Upper Canada. AND also all those parcels or tracts of land situate, lying, and being in the city of Ottawa, in the county of Carleton aforesaid, containing by admeasurement one acre and sixty-five thousand square linlis, more or less, and being composed of Lots Nos. 4, 5, and () on the west side of Dalhousie Street, Lots Nos. 10, 11, 12 and 13 on the north side of Bolton street, and Lots Nos. 10, 11, 12, and 13 on the south side of IJolton Street, in the aforesaid city of Ottawa, as granted to the said Joseph Robinson by letters i)atent hereinbefore in part recited. IN TRUST for the several persons namod in the schedule here- unto annexed (which schedule shall be taken and road as part of this instrument) and their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, according to the several shares, interests, or i)ro- portions in the said schedule mentioned, and accordhig to the 15 KSENTS s heirs, mce forth rights, ging or Prescott d in the rower in )f South town of Canada thereon property ■68, tolls, railway, resoever cription, i^ested in order of all those the city itaining square 6, and , 11, 12 S^os. 10, , in the Josc])h d. IN e hore- as part trators, or i)ro- 5 to the nature and quality of the same property respectively . IN "VVI T- NESS whereof I, the said Joseph Robinson, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the twenty-ninth day of Tune, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERKED TO. Ottawa and Prescott Railway. Schedule of Proprietors of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway. No.l. 2, -3. 6. 6, 7. 8. The Ebbw Yale Company, London Thomas Robinson „ .. if Robinfson and Eyre W. J). Starling F. A. Tamplin Liverpool IJailey Brothers & Co. Thomas Reynolds, Montreal Doll ars 405,4S2 ,ViT 127,242 M 101,324 ,%y 6,792 ,c^ 11,887 i*"^ 27,170 ^ 50,000 789,909 ,y}^ .^, Signed, sealed, and delivered by " the above-named Joseph Robinson, in the presence of JOHN WISEMAN, 5, Bank Buildings, London, Gentleman, W. GRIFFITHS, Slime place, Gentleman . JOSEPH ROBINSON. 16 / Saal \ ) \ London. / City of London, to wit. I Seal \ y London. / I, WILLIAM GRIFFITHS, of No. 5, Bank Buildings, in the City of London, Gentleman, make oath and say as follows : — 1. The above are my names, place of residence, and occupation, and I am one of the witnesses to the within- written instrument, and to the three originals thereof. 2. That I was present, and, together with another witness who has attested the same, saw the within-named Joseph Hobinson duly sign, seal, execute and deliver the witliin-written instrument and three other originals of the same. 3. That the place of execution was No, 5, Bank Buildings, iii the City of London. 4. That I know the said Joseph Robinson. Sworn before me at No. 19, Coleman^ Street, in the City of London, in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, onUv. GRIFFITHS, this twenty-ninth day of June, in tUe year of our Lord One thousand eipht hundred and sixty-six. Before mo, CHARLES BISCUOFF, A Commissioner to administer Oaths in and for the Canadian Courts under Statute 26 Vic, Cap. 41. "W 17 By His Excellency the Right Honourable Charles Stanley Viscount Monck, Baron Monck, of Ballytranmore, in the County of Wexford, Governor-General of British North America, and Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice- Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. To all to whom these presents shall como greeting : — These are to certify that Charles Bischoff, whose name is subscribed to the annexed document, is a Commissioner duly commissioned to administer oaths in and for the Canaad, in the County of Herts, in England aforesaid ; by the said Abraham Darby, on the twenty-eighth day of ^lay in the year aforesaid, at Ebbw Vale* in the county of Monmouth, in ICngland aforesaid ; by the said Ilcnry Dickinson, on tlic twenty-ninth day of May, in the voar aforesaid, at Severn Ilouao, Colebrook Dale, in the county 41 of Salop, in England aforesaid ; by the said William Latham Bailey, on the fifth day of June, in the year aforesaid, at No, 6, Cook Street, Liverpool, in England aforesaid ; by the said Crawshay Bailey, John Crawshay I'ailey, and Henry Bailey on the 7th day of June, in the year aforesaid, at No. 16, New Street, Spring Gardens, in the City of Westminster, in England aforesaid ; and by the said William Quilter, on the said seventh day of June in the year aforesaid, at No. 3, Moorgate Street, in the citj of London aforesaid. 4, That I knew the said Joseph Robinson, Abraham Darby, Henry Dickinson, William Tothill, Thomas Robinson, Alex- ander Robert Eyre, Crawshay Bailey, John (h-awshay Bailey, Henry Bailey, WilliaLi Latham Bailey, Thomas Reynolds, William Columban ^IcKenna, and William Quilter. Sworn before me, at my Cambers, at >y No. 6, Old Jewry, in Iho City of London, England, on the seventh day of June, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. ) WM. MERRICK. J. .MORRIS. A Commissioner for hiking Affidavits in and for the Canadian Ccuits. CITY OF LONDON, \T, WILLIAM MERRICK, of No. GREAT BRITAIN, ( C, Old Jewry, in the City of London, (TO WIT.) ) in that part of tho United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, solicitor, do swear and say as follows :-— 1. Tho above is my nnm(>. place of residence, and occupa- tion, or calling, in full. 2. That I wiiH pros(>nt and did see the within deed and four other originals f hereof, duly executed, signed, .ealcd, and delivered by the therein-named William Dallison Starling, Frederick William Hurgoync Vernon, Frederick Augustus 42 i Tamplin, and Thomas Abercrombie Welton, in the presence of myself and another attesting witness. 3. That the same was ao executed by the said William Dallison Starling, on the thirteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, at Lawrence Pountney, Hill, Cannon Street, in the City of London, aforesaid; by the said Frederick William Burgoyne Vernon, on the fourteenth day of June, in the year aforesaid, at 21, Harrington Street, Liverpool, in England, aforesaid ; by tlie said Frederick Augustus Tamplin, on the said fourteenth day of June, in the year aforesaid, at No. 2, Rumford Place, Liverpo( .^foresaid ; and by the said Thomas Abercrombie Welton, OL seventeenth day of June, in the year afore- said, at No. .., Moorgate Street in the City of London, aforesaid. 4. That I knew the said William Dallison Starling, Frederick William Burgoyne Vernon, Frederick Augustus Tamplin, and Thomas Abercrombie Welton. Sworn before me, at my Chambers, at No. 6, Old Jewry, in the City of London, England, on the twentietli day of June, One thousand eigh. hundred and sixty-seven, J. MORRIS, A Commissioner for taking Attidavils in and for the Canadian Courts. WM. :mehrick. n ir 1, le li e, ie e- n, us K,