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 PROVINCE y Court of Appeals. 
 
 LOWER-CANADA.) 
 
 JOSEPH r.A.?O.S PEKKAULT & W^U- Ga-''. 
 
 Esquires, 
 
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 « „r>» Respondent. 
 
 Francois Baillarge, ^ 
 
 J, Jr>pealfrorn a Ju^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^U. 
 Kino's Bench for the Dislncioj ^' ' josenh Francois 
 
 APPELLANTS' CASE. 
 
 This was an Action brought in the Court of^King Ben^^ 
 (Jebec by the above-named AppeUant^ tor ^^^^ ^^^^ defendant 
 Clerks of the Peace tor »he Di^"^^^^^ Jf prosecutions msti- 
 
 for the PV°"«dings in a cons der^^^ J (^^,bec. against 
 
 luted by him. »« Road Treasurer ^or 7^^ Assessment* upon 
 
 personslor non-payment of the^rCoti^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Highways and 
 Luses. Compositions for P"^°"^^ ^^^^^ ^f eighteen hundred and 
 Contributions for horses, in tne apru i, 5 
 
 thirteen. 
 
 The DeCarauon is a co-™ -,i^jlt^;':^r.r;wh!^h 
 [re'-S'lendarrrC^otrtelo: pleaded .h^e genera. i.sue „»» 
 <!;'u"/«(,whe.eapon issue was joined. 
 
 The merits of U>e Case, as appearing from Ae Evidence, arc 
 as follows : — 
 
 The Defendant having been recently appomted^^^^^^ 
 
 surer for the Cuy of Q-t>-. -P-;*^^ ^ ^X Appellants, on the 
 Baillargfe the former one. de verea in ^^ ^ jj^^ ^r sche- 
 
 fifieeniR of January ^^g^^^f "/^d ' en"v^^^^^^^ "^'"" °* Defaulters, 
 dule containing eight »^«'"^f^l^^"?i Stcompositions and Con- 
 v,ho had neglected to pay 1^"^^^°"^*"^^^^^^ ^o it. in the following 
 tnbutions. with a direction or oraer prehxea to . 
 
 words : 
 
 Messieurs les Grefiiers de la Paix sont autorizes de poursuivre 
 Ics Dclmquants mentionnes dans ce compte. 
 
 Quebec, le 15 Janvier, i8i4« ^.^^^ ^ p^ Baillarge', 
 
 Triiorier da Cliemin'* 
 
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In consequence of this direction and by the assent of the Ma. 
 jri<iirates, eight hundred and eighty-six prosecutions were instituted 
 (there being several causes of action against some individuals 
 amongst the Defaulters) and regularly proceeded in against all 
 thoae persons who could be found. 
 
 The prosecutions ternr^'natpd variously. — Thiee hundred of the 
 Defendants were convicted, some of the Prosecutions relinquisht- J 
 and some of thtin dismisicd upon proof. 
 
 The fees for the whole of the proceedings according to the 
 Tariff established at the Quarter Sessions in April, one thousand 
 tight hundred and eleven, (an authenticated copy of which was 
 fyled in the cause, and constitutes No. JO in the record,) amounted 
 in the whole to i hrec hundred and seventy-one pounds ten shillings 
 and ten pence, of which there still reiiidined one hundred and 
 seventy pounds thirteen shillings and lour pence due the Appel- 
 lants, after Heductiiiij a sum of two hundred pounds, seventeen shiU 
 lings ard six pence, for which they have given credit on account. 
 [See No. 8, in the Record. J 
 
 On the hearing of the caufe it wr.s objected on the part of the 
 Deft-ndant, that he was not liable to tliis demand, on account of its 
 having been incurred by h'ln in his capacity of a public officer, to 
 which it was answered on the part of the PlaintilTs that this was not 
 one those cases in which he either had pledged or would have been 
 authoiized to p'-dge the credit of the Government, and did not 
 therefore by any means fall within the purview of any of those cases 
 in which it has been holden that public officers actmg ostensibly on 
 the part and under the authority of the Government, have been 
 holden under certain circumstances not to have rendered themselves 
 personally responsible.— That thecasehere was as between the Ap- 
 pellants and the Respondent clearly a private transaction, for which 
 neither the Government nor any other person, except the Defendant 
 himself was or could be liable to the Plaintiffs; — that it was remark- 
 able that the Deleniant was authorized by the two Provincial Acts, 
 of the 36 Geo. 111. cap. 9 and 39th Geo, IH. c. 5. to reimburse 
 himself all such expences as he may incur for the purposes of 
 those Acts, and allowed a shilling in the pound for his trouble ; 
 and that one of the duties which he is expressly directed to per- 
 form by those Acts is to institute the necessary prosecutions, the 
 Expences of which he is of course to be allowed in his accounts 
 as much as he would any other necessary disbursement in the 
 performance of such duties. 
 
 It appears difficult to conceive therefore whether the dismissal 
 of the cause by the Court below has proceeded from some idea 
 that the Defendant had in some way or other pledged the credit of the 
 Government for or rendered it in some measure liable for the ex- 
 pences of these proceedings, or upon what other principle it took 
 place. 
 
 A similar difficulty will scarcely however occur again ; the pre- 
 sent Respondent who has since the commencement of this action 
 instituted a great number of other proceedings in every respect 
 similar, at present paying the whole of the tees to the Clerks of 
 the Peace, at the ntoment "of the performance of their duties. 
 
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 It is against this Judgment of dismissal that the present Appeal 
 is instituted, there appeanng as the Appellants humbly suggest, to 
 be no more reason for their losing the Balance of one hundred 
 and sevfnty pounds, thirteen shillings and tour pence, which is now 
 due to them out of the original sum of three hundred and seventy- 
 one pounds, ten shillings and ten pence, than the whole of the rest 
 of that sum or the fees which have been incurred since, and which 
 are now paid regularly in consequence of their refusing longer to 
 give credit to the Respondent. 
 
 Quebec, lOth July, 1814. 
 
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