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All Advocates, Barristers, Attornc|^ Stri^togti, ani Law, in Lower Canada, shall form a CyfcQM|t»on ,Smdffl " The Bar of Lower Canada," which HaMQfl(|l8l^t^ into four sections, — that is to say : one section r6r"^i( Montreal ; one section for the old district of Quebec : one^section for 10 the old district of Three Rivers ; and one section for the old district of St. Francis : and the Advocates, Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors and Proctors at Law, residing in the District of Gaspd, shall form part of the section of the District of Quebec. . • 2. The names of the members of the said Corporation shall be entered 15 on a general list, to bo kept by the General Counci], and the Secretary of each section shall likewise keep a similar list containing the name, christian name and residence, of each such member of his section, and such list shall be posted up in a conspicuous place in the oflSco of the Prothonotary in each old and in each new district. " 20 3. The said Corporation may sue and be sued in all Courts of in Lower Canada, may acquire moveable and imaioveable pro^ purchase, donation, bequest or otherwise, to the value of twent and dollars ; and each of the sections thereof may sue and be parately in any Court of Justice in Lower Canada, under the na^ 25 the "Bar of Lower Canada, section of the district of all matters relating to each such section respectively, and may acquire raoveal- id immoveable property to the value of twenty-four thousand dollars. 2. A 11 actions brought by or against any of the said sections respec- '^ > tively, shall only aflfect the section concerned therein ; and in all ac- tions against the said Corporation or against any of the said sections, service of process at the domicile of the Secre^^ajl9|^^rer tuf^he s General Council hereinafter mentioned, or at \ tary of the Council of the section concerned^' ,31^ be valid ; - • \ ; e Sflfre- ^. The said Corporation and each of thoi s«#d Common Seal ; on th»t of the Corporation sh8d|>J}e inscri "Bar of Lower Cannda," and on that of each d'Sz/^es words " Bar of Lower Canada, section of the district llAhave a e words ions the 40 4. The members of the said Corporation shall not be individually liable for any debt contracted by the said Corporation or any of the said sections. 155 / .? 9. The Corporation may make all snch by-lawB, rules and orden, as it deems necessary for the interior discipline and honor of the members of the bar ; — to regulate the admission of candidates to the study or practice of the law, — for the management of the property of the Corpo- ration — and, generally, all by-laws, rules and orders of general interest 5 to the said Corporation and the members thereof, and necessary to en- sure its well working ; which said by-laws, rules and orders, the said Corporation may change, alter, modify or repeal, whenever it shall deem necessary. 2. The said by-laws, rules and orders, shall not be contrary to the 10 laws of Lower Canada nor to the provisions of this Act. 4. The powers conferred on the Corporation by this Act shall be exercised by a general council, composed of the Batonnicr elected for each of the sections of the districts of Montreal, Quebec, Three Rivers and St. Francis, who shall elect and appoint one of their number to be 15 President, and shall elect and appoint, as to them shall seem fit, from among the members of one of the sections which they represent, a Sec- retary, who shall likewise be the Treasurer of the said general Council of the said Corporation, and who shall be a member of the general Council. COUNCILS OF SECTIONS AND TU!i:iR OFFICERS. 20 9. The Council of each section shall be composed of a Batonnier, a Syndic, a Treasurer and a Secretary, and eight other members for each of the sections of the district of Quebec and of the district of Montreal respectively, and of three other members for the section of the district of Three Rivers, and of five other members for the section of the dis- 25 trict of St. Francis ; and the majority of each of the said Councils res- pectively shall form a quorum ; and all questions submitted to the said Councils shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present, including the Batonnier. 6. At the first meeting for the election of the Council of any section, gQ the senior Advocate (reckoning by the date of his commission) then pre- sent shall preside, and shall have the casting vote ; and at all other meetings of sections the Batonnier shall preside, or, in his absence, any other member, to be chosen by the meeting. . 7. The election of the Council of any section shall be by ballot, and 35 shall be held on the first day of May in each year, unless such day be a Sunday m't^fSte d' obligation^ and then on the next day thereafter not being a Sunday or a/^ dignity, interests or duties of the profession, he shall submit the said complaint, without delay, to a meeting of the Council specially called for the purpose, and if it is considered by tho Council, that the matter requires investigation, he shall order an accusation to bo brought against such member ; 20 3. Ihe Syndic shall then draw up the act of accusation in tho form of Schedule No. 2, hereunto annexed, which said act shall be trans- mitted to the Secretary, who shall cause a copy thereof to be made, duly certified by him, and shall serve tho said copy on the accused party, with an order in the name of the B&tonnier of tho section, 25 requiring the said accused party to appear in person before the Council, on the day and at the hour and place mentioned iu the said order which said order shall bo in the form of Schedule No. 3, hereunto annexed ; 4. The service of the act of accusation and of the order to appear, shall be made by a messenger appointed for that purpose who shall j^O deliver copies thereof to the accused party in person, and the said messenger shall make a return on oath (to be administered by the Secretary of the section or any Judge or any Commissioner of the Superior Court) of such service ; 35 5. All proceedings relating to accusations made before Councils of sections as aforesaid, shall be in writing, and the Secretary of such section shall be bound to take detailed notes of the testimony heard, which notes and proceedings, or any copy thereof, shall be received as valid proof before the General Council, and in any Court of Law iu 40 Lower Canada ; and all such documents of procedure shall be made up into one record ready for transmission to tho General Council in case of appeal, and to be returned to the Council of the section after the rendering of final judgment ; 6. The General Council shall determine by its by-laws the manner in AK which the proceedings relative to the said accusations shall be conducted before the said Councils of sections. 90. Each Coaneil shall have the right to require witnesses to appear before it by sttbpoenaa in the form of Schedule No. 4, hereunto annexed. t .^1 in the name of the BAtonnier, under the seal of the section, and signed hy the Secretary, and ahall have the same powers with respect to compelling the attendance of witnesses to give evidence as arc exercised by the Civil Courts in Lower Canada, and the tubpoenaa or other 6 recesses required in virtue of this Act shall be served through a ailifT of the Superior Court ; and any Bfitonnier or other person presiding over the Council during the accusation shall have the Mame pewer of imposing fines upon witnesses, and of ordering their impriaou- roent as though for contempt of Court as any Judge sitting in any Court of Justice in Lower Canada. 10 91. The Secretary or any other member of the Council of the section shall administer the oath required bv this Act to the witnesses or any other person ; and every person guilty of any wilful false statement in any oath required by this Act, shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be liable to the penalties by law imposed therefor. 1^ 99. Any member accused as aforesaid, may defend himself by counsel, who shall not, however, be chosen from among the Council of the section, before which such accusation is brought. Any member accused who shall consider himself aggrieved by the final or interlocutory judgment rendered by the Council of the sec- 20 tion in respect of the accusation made before it, shall not have power to appeal except to the General Council, in the manner hereinafter pre- scribed, and no judgment of the Council of one of the sections rendered in virtue of this Act shall be reversed, except by means of the appeal in this Act mentioned ; 25 2. In order to such appeal, the member aggrieved must deposit, within thirty days after judgment shall have been rendered, in the hands of the Treasurer of the Council of the section by which such judgment shall have been rendered, fifty dollars, which sum shall be repaid to the member demanding the appeal if the judgment of the Council of the 30 section is reversed or modified with costs, but otherwise shall be liable for the costs occasioned by the appeal as shall be decided by the judg- ments rendered upon such appeal ; and no record shall be transmitted to the Secretary-Treasurer of the General Council, unless the deposit hereinbefore required shall liave been made and the Inscription of appeal 35 shall have been duly served upon the Secretary of the Council of the section, by which such judgment was rendered ; and no inscription shall be received until such deposit shall have been made ; If such appeal Is not made within thirty days after judgment shall have been rendered, such judgment shall be executory without further delay ; 40 r>. The serving of the inscription and the deposit shall render It obligatory upon the Secretary or other ofiicer of the Council of the section, by which such judgment shall have been rendered at once to transmit to the Secretary-Treasurer of the General Council the record of the accusation made against the member appealing, with the 45 inscription, the certificate of deposit together with the proceedings and copies of all judgments and orders in the case and the Secretary- Treasurer of the General Council shall at once place the case on the roll of appeal. 4. Upon the receipt of the record the Secretary-Treasurer of the 46 General Council shall deposit in Her Majesty's Post Office a notice, 165-6 post paid, of such appeal, and of the day fixed bj him for the hearing thereof, which shall not take place before the expiration of fifteen dajs from and after the depositing of the naid notice in the Pont Officp ; nuch notice shall be addressed to the appellant and to the Bfttonniers ^ of all the sections of the Bar of Lower Canada, requiring them to attend on the day and at the hour and place therein mentioned. 5. In case of the absence, illness or death of any of the nUtonnierrt of the said sections, ho shall bo replaced by the senior mcmbrr of the Council, and the Secretary of such section shall deliver to such member 10 full powers to act in the room and stead of the BAtonnier, who is not acting. 6. The B&tonnicrs before whom the appeal shall bo lodged, one of whom may be the Blttonnicr presiding at the time of the rendering of the judgment appealed from, or a majority of them, may connrni, 16 reverse or alter the judgment, for reason of error either in the judgment or in any interlocutory judgment or onlcr, and may render such judgment as ought to have been rendered, and may award costs ; and in the case of a judgment of suspension, may fix the day from which such suspension shall commence. The judgment of tho Bfitonnier, 20 together with tho record, shall,be forthwith remitted to the Secretary of the section from which the record was received ; and such judgment shall forthwith bo registered by the Secretary, and shall stand as tho judgment of the Council of the section, as if originally rendered there. 7. A tariff of fees payable to tho Bdtonniers and to the Secretary- 26 Treasurer of the general Council shall bo prepared by tho general Council, who shall decide by whom such fees shall bo paid. 94. In case of tho suspension of a member of a section, tho Secretary of such section shall give notice thereof to the Secretaries of the other sections, and such member, so suspended, shall not practise 30 in any Court of Justice in Lower Canada during tho term of such suspension, and mention shall be made of his suspension on tho general list, and on the list of the list of the section to which he belongs, and everything by him done as an advocate after his suspension shall be absolutely null in law. 36 StI. Any member of the Council who absents himself from any of tho meetings of the said Council without legitimate cause, shall incur a fine of one dollar, for every such absence. EXAMINATION AND ADMISSION TO STUDY OR PRACTICE. ^6. Every Council of a section may make by-laws to regulate tho 40 examinations for admission to the study and the practice of the pro- fession of advocate, and shall appoint in such number as may be necessary and as hereinafter provided, committees of three or five members of the Bar, who shall have practised more than five years as advocates, and who shall not be in any way in arrears for subscriptions 46 or other dues, to examine candidates for the study or the practice of the profession, and it shall be the duty of such committees so appointed, the quorum whereof shall be three : First. To inquire into the acquirements, capacity and morals of ev^ry candidate for the study of the profession, who shall present biffl' 185.7 • I ir, ■olf before auoh committt c, and to make their report to the Council of the Keotion, who, if tho report be farorable, shall give iiuch candidate a cortiftcate of hie admiHoioQ na aborc moutiuncd, under the signature cf the U4tonnior, couutcr«i^ned by tho Secretary and under the hcuI of tho section, and if tho report be unfavorable, Huch candidate Hhall nut •> b(> ullnwcd to proHcnl hiiiiself until th<< next examination. The Hiiine Hhall be the case in renpoct of a candidate for admission to practice. tSecondh/. To examino every catididute for admission to practice, on his legal attainmentH nnd bin •(UuliticatiitnM, and to inquire into bin morals and tho regularity of his clerkship ; and if such canuidate ia found cap- ^'^ able and (lualifiod, and to have conformed to all tho provisions of thin Act, the Butonnier of tho section, on the report made to him in writing to that efTect, shall grant the said candidate a dii>lomu, admitting him to the profession, which diploma shall bo in the form of the tSchedulo No. 1, hereto annexed, and shall be Hufficient to authorize the party obtain- ing Buch diploma, to pnictico us im Advocate, BarriHter, Attorney, So- licitor and rroctor at law, in nil Courts of Justice in Lower Canada, on the said candidate ho admitted taking an oath well and truly to perform his profoHnional duties, wiiich outh Khali be administered by the Secretary of the section, who shall make u note thereof on the diploma ; 2. The said diploma shall be registered at length, in the registers of the section from which the said diploma is issued, in a book kept by tho Prothonotary of the Superior Court of the district in which the sec- tion is situate, and also in the registers of tho general Council, and for each such cnregistration tho party obtaining such diploma shall pay one ^5 dollar ; 3. Notice in writing shall be given by tho candidate to the Secretary of tho section at least one month previous, that ho intends to present himself to bo admitted to study, or to be admitted to practice, which _^ notice shall be posted up by the Secretary in tho place where the meetings ** ot the section arc generally held, and shall mention the day on which the examination of such candidate or aspirant will take place ; 20 4. Meetings for examinations for admission to study or practice shall take place, and bo held on the day, and at the hour, and place fixed oc by tho by-laws of the several sections, provided that such meetings shall be held at least onco in every three months ; and if such examination cannot take place or bo concluded on the day fixed, the committees appointed to examine may adjourn from day to day, until the examina- tion of all the candidates shall be concluded. 97. No person shall be admitted to examination for admission to ^^ tho study or the practice of the profession unless he shall have paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the Council of the section the sums hereinafter mentioned, and no person shall be admitted to the study of the profession unless it appears to tho committee appointed to inquire into the qualification of tho candidate that the candidate is sufficiently acquainted with the English or tho French language, and with the ^^ Latin language, and that he has rcceiyed a liberal education subject to the provisions herehiafter contained, and such candidate, after baying receiyed the certificate mentioned in the twenty-sixth sec- tion, shall cause his articles, passed before notaries, to be registered in a register kept for that purpose by the Secretary, for which reg- ^^ istration he shall pay one dollar, and one dollar for the certificate of 155-8 fox iLc certificate of icgialiatiyu ; nud iLi- liiijn of tlio cIcrkaLii) of siijiii- stutl(>nt ahnll he reckoned only from the »l«to of «neli rep^intrKtion. / 9N. No. porson ahkll he udmittrd to praitico an nn lulvocate, nttor* ney, solicitor and proctor ut law, unlc»s hi> han tnincd the full a^i* 6 of twenty>ono years, and has studied rei^ulii.-ly and without interruptiuu under a notarial agreement uh a clerk and *«tudcnt, with a praei.sing adfocate during four conseoativc years, or tliret confccaiivo years, if hi> hai followed a rcgnlar and complete course of law in a University, or inoorporatod coltoge, in which such course of law is established, which 10 conrso of law ihan bo subject to tho provisions hereinafter contained, und has taken a degree in law in sueh ITniverflity or ineorpornted eolleg<> : und such course or law may be followed ut tho Hamo time that tin* student is serving his time of stud^ under articles, with a practising advocate, to bo verified by tho articles of elerknhip, tlic oortifieato of 15 the patron and the diploma conferring tho decree, or unless he is admit- ted under chapter seventy-fivo of the Confiolidated Statuten of C'linadu. 2. The (Governor from time to time may reiiuiru uf nil lJi)iver;4itiv4 or Incorporated Collegcn, claiming to havu entabliflhed therein such a course of law, a Report fully showing the detailed re(|uircment.<) ol' 20 «uch course, and by Order in Council, to be nublishcd in the Canada Qatette^ may declare his approval thereof, if the same are deemed sufR- eient, or may proscribe such other and further rc(|uircmcntH oa may bt; tleemed fit ; and no diploma or degree in law shall avail under this sei.*- tion unless granted in conformity with the rer^uircments of such Ordci 25 in Council. 90. No candidate shall bo admitted to practise in uny Hection in which ho has not studied ; and if he studied partly in one section and partly in another, he shall be admitted only in tho section in which he terminated his clerkship ; and he shall produce a certificate of .study SO from the Council of tho section in which ho performed a part of his clerk- ship, which certificate shall be given to him by the BAtonnier under tho seal of the section, and this over and above the affidavit required by the preceding suction of this Act. 50. Nbthing in this Act, nor the repeal by Schedule A of the Con- 35 solidated Statutes for Lower Canada of any special Act, nor the repeal of any Act respecting the Bar of Lower Canada, exempting any student or person whatsoever from the operation of any of the foregoing and following sections shall prejudice the right of such student or person to admission to the practice of the profession, or to any exemp tion or 40 privilege acquired under any such Act, and any person desirous of pre- senting himself for admission to the practice of the profession may do so at tne time nearest to the termination of his clerkship, but he shall not obtain his diploma until after tho full completion of his clerkship. 51. In addition to the list hereinbefore mentioned, the Secretary of ^c each section shall keep a book in which the names of all students who have caused their articles of clerkship to be registered, with the date of such registration, shall be entered according to date, and in which ?)ook he shall also enter, separately, the names of all the members of the profession in his section, with the date of their admission ; and no gQ person shall practice a* an Advocate, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor and Proctor at Law in any Court of Justice in Lower Canada, unless 1BS*8 - \ his name is entered in tlio said book, and ou theliat, and in tho register kept by the Prothonotary of tho Superior Court for tho District in which is situate the section in which such person intends practising. 2. And no Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor or Proctor at Law, shall Eractise in any Court of Justice in Lower Canada, if he has be^-n, or if 6 e is, or if he shall be convicted of felony or of any other infamous crime, or of any one of the offences enumerated in the twenty-ninth section of chapter ninety-two of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada ; and by such conviction he shall lose the privileges granted to him by his diploma, and all proceedings by him shall be null and void 10 from and after tlio date of such conviction. 3. The Clerk of the Crown for the Criminal Court by which sucli con- viction shall have been pronounced shall transmit information thereof to the Secretary of tho section in which the Advocate so convicted of felony as aforesaid practised, to the end that the name of such Ad- IS vocate may be erased from the list. And the Secretary of such section shall transmit to the Secretary-Treasurer of the general Council the name of tho Advocate so deprived of his privileges to the end that it may be erased from tho general list. •13. Over and above the fees hereinbefore mentioned, the following 20 fees shall bo paid to the Treasurer of each section previous to the examination of any candidate either for the study or the practice of the profession, viz. : for each certificate of admission to the study of the profession, twenty dollars ; for each diploma, fifty dollars ; and all sums received on account of the section shall form part of the general 25 fund of tho section. >r,>.i.: l!. The following sums shall be retained by the Treasurer, and shall form part of the general fund of the section, in case of the rejection of the candidate for admission cither to the study or to the practice of tho profession, viz. : — for admission to study, five dollars ; for admission to 80 practice, ten dollars. The Treasurer of the section shall return the balance to the candidate so rejected. , . / _., ANNUAL SUnSORlPTlON OP MEMBBRS. 38. Until the councils of sections shall have otherwise provided by by-law, each member of the profession in each section shall pay annually 35 on tho first day of May, into the hands of the Treasurer, the sum of six dollars, which shall form part of the general fund of the section. 2. An«l all members of tho bar, paying such subscription annually, shall have the use of the library and books of their section, subject only to such rules as the Council of the section may enact for the regulation 4Q of the said library ; and the said Council is hereby authorized to make such rules, and from time to time to change the same as it deems pro- per, to increase the said subscription, and for other purposes. 3. No member who has neglected *- pay the said subscription or any portion thereof, or any sum legally im^yosed by the Council of his sec- 45 tion, shall be entitled to vote as any meeting of the section so long as he remains in arrears. 188-10 . ; 10 115 1. Any inomber discontinuing the pi-uctice uf lii» prufession, may re- lievo himself from tho payment of such suhscriptioii, during anch time ii8 ho ceases to practise, by paying all arrears thereof and giving a written notice of his retirement to the Secretary of tho Section, who 5 sholl inform the Secretary of tho General Council thereof, and tho foot of his having ceased to practise shall be entered opposite his name on tho special list, and such member shall not resume tho practice of his profession, nor shall any professional act of his be valid after the giving uf such notice, unless he baa previously notified the Secretary of the 10 Section of his intention to return to the practise of the profession ; in which case the fact of his resuAing practice shall be also noted upon the said list, and ho shall again become liable theni^eforward to tho payment of tho said subscription. 34. The Councils of Sections may appoint annually a committee of 15 not less than five to be chosen from amongst the members of their respective sections, whose duty it shall he to superintend and tako charge of the Library belonging to the section, and to make rules pertaining to the management thereof. FUNDS OF SECTIONS. 20 25 ^- iO 20 3tS. The Treasurers of the different sections shall on the first day of May in each year, and whenever they shall be required bo to do by their sections, make an exact return of the receipts and expenditure of their respective sections. 86. The Council of each section shall, whenever it shall think 25 ptoper to do so, examine the accounts of its Treasurer, and no sum shall be expended without an order from the Council, signed by the BS.tonnier, unless such expenditure shall have been ordered by a meeting of tho section. 37. All fines and contributions imposed under this Act, and in 30 conformity with its provisions shall be recoverable, with costs, before any Court of Justioe having civil jurisdiction in the District in which tho defendant resides on a simple certificate of the B&tonnicr, counter- signed by the Secretary of the section ; aFid it shall be sufficient, in the declaration for the recoveiy of such contributions or fines, to set forth 85 the amount demanded, and to mention in a summary manner the period during which such fines have been incurred or such contributions have become due without specially alleging the particular facts of the case. 38. No omisBion on the part of the councils of sections to meet, and no neglect on the part of any section to proceed to the election of its ^^ Council and Officiers, shall prevent the other sections from proceeding under this Act to the election of their respective Councils or from carrying this Act into operation, with respect to such sections as are organised or shall any such omission cause the dissolution of the corporation or of any such Council. 55 FOBHATION OF NEW SECTIONS. 39. Notwithstanding any alteration in the limits of any District for judicial purposes, the several sections of the Bar in Lower Canada shall not be fmected by suoh alteration, but shall continue with the loctvl JimitB and jurisdiction they respectively l^ad on tho tenth (^»y of Ju^^e, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, until altered b^jr Proclama- tion, and tho section of the District of Quebec ehali include the Districts of Gasp^ and Kaniouraska, and that the District of Montreal shall include the District of Ottawa ; but the Governor may by l^o- tlamation whenever in his opinion it is expedient, constitute a section o or sections of the Uar, in and for any District or Districts which he thinks proper to assign as the local limits of any such section, and tho local limits of any previously existing sections may bo reduced accord- ingly by such Troclaniation, but their organisation and powers shall not be affected except so far as they depqjid on such local limits ; and any 10 such Proclamation shall take effect as regards each section from the day to be appointed therein for that purpose. 2. And iipon, from and after the date of any such proclamation, the District or Districts therein mentioned, shall, under the name of " Uar of Lower Canada, Section of the District or Districts of 15 constitute a separate section of the Bar," and all tho provisions of this Act, so far as it is not otherwise herein provided, shall apply to such section. 3. The Council of every such section shall consist of three members of the Bar, besides a Bdtonnier, Syndic Secretary and Treasurer. 20 4. The first election of the Council in any such section, shall take place within three months after the date of such proclamation, at a meeting to be held at the Couit House of tho District of the section for which such election is to take place, which meeting shall be called by at least five members of tho Bar, practising witbm the limits of the sec- 25 tion, by public notice to be inserted in the Canada Gazette, at least fifteen days before such meeting, and by a public notice posted up at the Court House of the section where such meeting is to take place, at least eight days before such meeting. 5. If tho limits of such section include two or more Districts, the 30 place at which the election shall be held, shall be named in such pro> clamation, and the notice of such meeting shall bo posted up at tho Court House of each District within the limits of such section ; and tho ordin- ary meetings of the Council, and of the members of any such section, shall be held at tho place where such first election takes place, or at 35 such place as the said Council may fix. 0. No such election shall take place unless there be present at the meeting so called, at least eight members of the Bar practising trithin the limits of the section. 40 '10. Chapter seventy-two of tlic Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada intituled '^ An Act respecting the Bar of Lower Canada," and the several Acts and parts of Acts amending the same, aro hereby repealed, but all transactions, proceedings, matters and things, done and taken under the said Acts, or any of them, shall remain and continue as if no ^5 such repeal had taken place, and so far as necessary, may and shall be continued, prosecuted, enforced and proceeded with under this Act, and this Act shall be held not to operate as a new law, but shall be construed and have effect as a consolidation and amendment of the law as contained in the said Acts and parts of Acts ro repealed, and for 50 which this Act is substituted. ice-13 10 15 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to dissolve /o Corporation of the Bar of Lower Canada as heretofore existing, wheh shaU be held to continue under this Act and subject to the provisions thereof as one and the same Corporation. fi 8. By-laws passeu the general Council, or by the Council of any of the sections t . ihe Corporation, and now in force, which may bo inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act, are hereby re- pealed, and those not repealed or amended by tliis Act shall continue in full force and effect until repealed by competent authority. 10 41. The provisions of thid Act shall not apply to students at present under articles, except in so far as respects the manner and the time of examination of cancudatcs for admission to practice, as provided by this Act. 15 49. This Act sball be deemed a public Act. SCHEDULE No. 1. Province of Canada, District of DIPLOMA. / To all to whom these presents couceru, Greeting : I, the undersigned, Butonnier of the Bar of Lower Canada, section of the District of in conformity with the provisions of chapter of the Statutes of Canada, passed in the thirtieth year of tne reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in pursuance of the cer- tificate to me delivered by three (or several, at the cote may be) of the examiners of the said section, dated the , whereby it appears that A. B., of , under the requirements of the said Act, after having served a regular clerkship, as prescribed by law, has undergone before them, on tho day of the examination necessary to his admis- sion to the profession of Advocate ; and that from such examination it appears that he is in all renpccts worthy and qualified to be so ad- mitted, havo given and granted to him, according to the provisions of tho s«d Act, the present diploma, conferring on him the right of prac- tising as an Advocate, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor and Proctor at Law, in all Courts of Law in Lower Canada. Given at the city {or town) of , under my signa- ture and the seal of this section, and countersigned by the Secretary thereof, on tho day of tho month of , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L. S.] C. D., Bitonnier. E. F., Secretary. SCHEDULE No. 2. ACT OF ACCUSATION. Province of Canada, District of } Bar of Lower Canada, Section of the District of To the Butonnier and the members of the Council of the Bar of Lower Canada, section of the district of « 165-13 A. B., Esquiro, Sjrudic, elected for the eection of the Bftr of Lower Canada called eeotion of tho district of , herdby iafonDs the said section that C. D., Esquire, one of the members of the said Bar, residing in tho said section of the district of y is accused on the oath of persons worthy of credit, br E. F., of , kc.y &c., as follows, — that is to say : That the said C. D. [A«re recite the offence.^ Wherefore, tho said A. B. prays that an order may issue from the section, summoning the said C. D. to appear before the said section, in order that proceedings may be then nad on the present in- formation, as to law ana justice may appertain. Duno at , this day of , one thousand eight hundred and (Signed,) A. B., Syndic. BOHEDULE No. 3. S0MM0N8 OF TUB ACCUSED. Province of Canada, District of Bar of Lower Canada, Section of the District of By the B&tonnier and members of tho Council of tho Bar of Lower Canada, section of tho District of To C. D., Esquire, Advocate, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor and Proctor at Law, of , in tho said section of the district of , Greeting : You are hereby required to appear in person before us, in our cham- bers in tho City of , tho day of , at o'clock in the noon, then and there to answer the charge, a copy whereof is above written, brought against you by A. B., Esquire, Syndic of the said section of And ydu are informed that in case of your non-appearance before us ou the day and hour and at tho place hereinabove mentioned, proceedings will be had by default on the said charge. Given at , under the seal of the said section of the dis- trict of , and the signature of our B&tonnier, and counter- signed by our Secretary, this day of 18 [L. S.j (Signed,) F. G., Bfttonnier. R. S., Secretary. SCHEDULE No. 4. SUBPOINA. Province of Canada, ^ Bar of Lower Canada, District of j Section of the District of By the B&tonnier and members of the Council of the Bar of Lower Canada, section of the district of ToA. B., of , Greeting: Wo hereby command you and each of you to appear in person before m, in our chambers in the city (or town) of i th