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 AN ACT 
 
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 FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROCEEDS THEREOF; 
 
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 TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE MANAGEMENT 
 
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ANNO TERTIO & QUARTO 
 
 VICTORIiE REGINiE. 
 
 CAP. LXXVIII. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the Sale of the Clergy Reserves 
 in the Province of Canada^ and for the Distribution 
 of the Proceeds thereof. 
 
 [7th August, 1840.] 
 
 Whereas it is expedient to pro\ide for the final dispo- 
 sition of the Lands called Clergy Reserves, in Cam'da, * 
 and for the Appropriation of the yearly Income arising or 
 to arise therefrom, for the Maintenance of Religion and 
 the Advancement of Christian Knowledge within the said 
 Province ; be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent 
 Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the 
 Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this 
 present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of 
 the same, That after the passing of this Act it shall be ^Y^^,^*'"®'"''^' ""^ 
 lawful for the Governor of the Province of Canada, by 
 and with the Advice of his Executive Council, and under 
 such Regulations as may be by hun from time to time in 
 Council established in that behalf, and approved by the 
 Queen in Council, to scU, grant, alienate, and convey in 
 Fee Simple all or any of the said Clergy Reserves : Pro- Proviso, 
 vided nevertheless, that the quantity of the said Clergy 
 Reserves so to be sold as aforesaid in any one year, shall 
 not in the whole exceed One Hundred Thousand Acres, 
 without the previous approbation in writing of one of 
 Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. 
 
Investmrnt of Pro- 
 cocUk of Siili's under 
 7 JJ- 8 G. J, 0. «2, 
 
 Present payments to 
 Religious B(Hiies out 
 of Crown Revenues 
 to l>e the first charge 
 on the Fund. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 IT. And he it enacted, That the proceeds of all past 
 Sales of such Ilesen'cs which have been or shall be 
 invested under the authority of an Act passed in the 
 Eighth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, 
 intituled An Act to authorize the Sale of part of the 
 Clergy Reserves in the Provinces of Upper and Lower 
 Canada, shall be subject to such Orders as the Governor 
 in Council shall make for investing, either in some Public 
 Funds in tlie Province of Canada, secured on the con- 
 solidated Fund of the said Province, or in the Public 
 Funds of Great Britain and Ireland^ the amount now 
 funded in England^ together with the proceeds hereafter 
 to be received from the Sales of all or any of the said 
 Reserves, or any part thereof: Provided always, that the 
 necessary expenses of auch Sales shall be borne and 
 defrayed out of the first monies received therefrom. 
 
 III. And be it enacted. That the Interest and Divi- 
 dends accruing upon such Investments of the Proceeds 
 of all Clergy Reserves sold or to be sold, and also the 
 Interest to accrue upon Sales on credit of Clergy 
 Reserves, and all Rents arising from Clergy Reserves that 
 have been or may be demised for any term of years, shall 
 be paid to the Receiver General of the Province of Canada, 
 or such other Person as shall be appointed to receive the 
 Public Revenues of the said Province, and shall together 
 form an annual Fund for the purposes herein-after men- 
 tioned, and shall be paid by him from time to time, in 
 discharge of any Warrant or Warrants which shall from 
 time to time be issued by the Governor, in pursuance of 
 the provisions of this Act ; (that is to say), in the first 
 place, to satisfy all such annual Stipends and Allowances 
 as have been heretofore assigned and given to the Clergy 
 of the Churches of England and Scotland, or to any other 
 Religious Bodies or Denomin.tions of Christians in 
 Canada, and to which the Faith of the Crown is pledged, 
 during the natural Lives or Incumbencies of the parties 
 now receiving the same : Provided always, that until the 
 annual Fund so to be created and deposited with the 
 
and 
 
 Receiver fitnenil shall suftici! to meet the uhove-mcti- 
 tioncd StiiK-iiilH u ul Allowances, the tuinie, or ho much 
 thereof U8 the said Func. may he insufficient to meet, 
 hIuiU be defrayed out of the Casual and Territorial Ue- 
 vcnue of the (Jrown in the Province t)f Canada. 
 
 IV. And be it enacted, That us soon as the said Fund rrovUion f..r tiio 
 shall exceed the amount of the several Stipends and Al- iila'scotund.*"'''*'''"''* 
 lowances aforesaid, and subject always to the prior satis- 
 faction and payment of the same, the said annual Fund 
 shall be appropriated as follows ; (that is to say,) the net 
 Interest and Dindends accruing upon the Investments of 
 the Proceeds of all Sales of such Reserves sold or to be 
 sold under the Authority of the before-recited Act of the 
 Eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth 
 shall be divided into three equal parts, of which two shall 
 be appropriated to the Church of England and one to the 
 Church of Scotland hi Canada ; and the net Interest and 
 Dividends accruing upon the Investments of the Proceeds 
 of all Sales of such Rescnes sold under the Authority of 
 this Act shall be divided into six equal parts, of which 
 two shall be appropriated to the Church of England and 
 one to the Church of Scotland in Canada: Provided 
 always, that the Amount of the before-mentioned Sti- 
 pends and Allowances which shall be paid to and received 
 by any Clergyman of either of the said Churches of Eng- 
 land or Scotland shall be taken, as far as the same will go, 
 as a part of the share accruing to each Church respec- 
 tively by virtue of this Act ; (that is to say,) the Stipends 
 and Allowances to any Clergyman of the Church of Eng- 
 land as part of the share accruing to the Church of Eng- 
 land, and the Stipends and Allowances to any Clergyman 
 of the Church of Scotland as part of the share accruing 
 to the said Church of Scotland, so that neither of the 
 said Churches shall receive any further or other Sura be- 
 yond such respective Stipends and Allowances until the 
 Proportion of the said annual Fund allotted to them re- 
 spectively in manner aforesaid shall exceed the annual 
 Amount of such Stipends and Allowances. 
 
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 Aiipliiatlon i>rt)io 
 
 l-'UlllllI 8U ullutti'd. 
 
 flow allotted Funds 
 arc to be paid. 
 
 Application of the 
 residue uf Fund. 
 
 V. And be it cnnctcd, Thut the Share allotted and 
 appropriated to each of the 8uid Cluirches HhuU be ex- 
 pended for the support and niuintenunee of Publie Wor- 
 ship and the Propuf^ation of lloUj^ious Knowledge, the 
 Share of the Haid (-hurth of England being ho expended 
 under the Authority of the *' Society for the Propagation 
 of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," and the Share of the 
 taid Church of Scotland under the Authority of a Board 
 of Nine Coniniissioners, to be elected by the Synod or 
 Synods of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in con- 
 nexion with the Church of Scotland, under such Regula- 
 tions as shall be from tune to time established by the 
 Governor of Canada, with the Advice of his Executive 
 Council. 
 
 VI. And be it enacted. That the Share of each of the 
 said Churches shall be paid by the Receiver General or 
 other Person appointed as aforesaid in discharge of any 
 Warrant or Warrants which shall from time to time be 
 issued by the Governor of the said Province in favour of 
 the Treasurer or other Officer who shall be respectively 
 appointed to receive the same by the said Society on be- 
 half of the said Church of Englaiul, and by the said 
 Commissioners on behalf of the said Chiurch of Scotland. 
 
 VII. And be it enacted, That, subject to the foregoing 
 Provisions, the Residue of the said annual Fund shall be 
 applied by the Governor of Canada, with the Advice of 
 the Executive Council, for Purposes of Public Worship 
 and Religious Instructioa in Canada. 
 
 VIII. And be it enacted, That the Receiver General 
 
 Guarantee of the 
 
 sumsof jE7,700tothe 
 
 tJhurch of England, q,. other Person appointed as aforesaid to receive the In- 
 
 and jE 1,580 to the * *^ 
 
 Church of Scotland, terest and Dividends accruing from the Investment of the 
 Proceeds of all Clergy Reserves sold or to be sold shall, 
 on or before the Fifteenth Day oi January in every Year, 
 deliver to the Governor a Certificate in Writing under 
 his Hand of the net Amount which in that Year will be 
 applicable to the several Churches of England and Scot- 
 land out of the said Fund under the Provisions of this 
 
Act ; and wlicncvcr the Sum mentioned in any such Cer- 
 tificate to be applicable to the Church o^ England in Up' 
 per Canada bIuiU be less than Seven thousand Hevcn 
 hundre<l Pounds, or the Sum mentioned in the Certificate 
 to be applicable to the Church of Scotland in Ujiper Ca- 
 nada shall be less than One thousand five hundred and 
 eighty Pounds, the deficiency in each case shall he made 
 good out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 
 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be charged 
 thereupon at the Qrarter Day next ensuing the Receipt 
 of such Certificate at the Treasury; and the Lord High 
 Treasurer, or three or more Commissioners of Her Ma- 
 jesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
 and Ireland, shall be authorized by their Warrant to di- 
 rect the Issue of the Simis needed to supply such Defi- 
 ciency in the following manner ; (that is to say,) such 
 Sum as shall be needed to supply the Deficiency of the 
 said Sum. of Seven thousand seven hundred Pounds to 
 such Person or Persons as shall be appointed to receive 
 the same by the Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 
 pel in Foreign Parts, and such Sum as shall be needed to 
 supply the Deficiency of the said Sum of One thousand 
 five hundred and eighty Pounds to such Person or Per- 
 sons as shall be appointed to receive the same by any 
 Writing under the Hands of any three or more of the 
 Commissioners under whose Authority the Share of the 
 Church of Scotland is to be expended as aforesaid ; and 
 all Sums so paid out of the Consolidated Fund shall be 
 severally applied, under the Authority of the said Society 
 and of the last mentioned Commissioners respectively, 
 for the Support and Maintenance of Public Worship and 
 the Propagation of Religious Knowledge in each of the 
 said Churches in Canada. 
 
 IX. And be it enacted. That Accounts of the Expen- Accounts of Expen- 
 ditiu-e of every Sum of Money so to be received out of to Governor in 
 the said annual Fund, or out of the Consolidated Fund 
 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by 
 the said Churches of England and Scotland^ or by any 
 
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 Summary remmly 
 for nii8application 
 of monies. 
 
 Repeal of part of 
 31 G. 3, c. 31. 
 
 Other Religious Body or Denomination of Christians rc- 
 Kpcctivcly, under the Authority of this Act, shall be, on 
 or before the Twentieth Day of July in each Year, ren- 
 dered to tlic Governor of the said Province in Council ; 
 and that until such Accounts shall have been rendered, 
 and the due and proper Expenditure of the Sum granted 
 during any preceding Year shall have been established to 
 the satisfaction of the Governor of the said Province in 
 Council, no other or further Sum or Projwrtion of the 
 said annual Fund shall be paid or allowed to any or either 
 of the Churches, Religious Bodies, or Denominations of 
 Christians failing, neglecting, or refusing to render such 
 Account, or to verify the same as aforesaid ; and that 
 Copies of such Accounts shall annually be laid before the 
 Legislature of the said Province. 
 
 X. And be it enacted, That whenever there shall ap- 
 pear to the Governor of the said Province in Council 
 sufficient reason to apprehend that there has been any 
 Misappropriation or Non -appropriation of any Sum or 
 Sums of Money paid to any of the said Churches, Reli- 
 gious Bodies, or Denominations of Christians, out of the 
 said annual Fund, or any Neglect or Abuse in the Ex- 
 penditure or Management of any such Sura or Sums, 
 upon Direction for that Purpose given by the Governor, 
 it shall be lawful for the Attorney General to apply sum- 
 marily, either by Petition or Information, to or in the 
 Court of Chancery, in Upper Canada^ or to any one of 
 the Superior Courts of Record in Lower Canada^ cetting 
 forth the nature of the Abuse apprehended, and praying 
 Discovery, and Relief in the Premises, as the natture of 
 the case may require. 
 
 XI. And be it enacted. That from and after the pass- 
 ing of this Act, so much of an Act passed in the Thirty- 
 first Year of the Reign of King George the Third, inti- 
 tuled An Act to repeal certain Parts of an Act passed in 
 the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled 
 '•An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Go- 
 * vemment of the Province of Quebec, in North America, 
 
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 ' and to make further Provision for the Government of the 
 ^ said Province.^ iiiMiA-Aic^x 'leservutionsol'Liuid here- 
 
 after to be made in Upjutr Canada or Lower Canada for 
 the Support and Mauitenancc of a Protestant Clergy, 
 shall be repealed. 
 
 XII. And be it enacted, That In this Act the Words .^Ki;[:V?i;;';':'"'\,., 
 " Province of Canada'' shall be taken to mean the Pro- •"""* "^«vernor." 
 vincc of Canada as constituted under an Act passed in 
 
 this Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to re-nnite 
 the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the 
 (government of Canada ; and the word " Governor" shall 
 be taken to mean and include the Governor, Lieutenant 
 Governor, or Person administering the Government of 
 tile Province of Canada. 
 
 XIII. And be it enacted. That this Act may be Act may be amended, 
 amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this 
 
 Session of Parliament. 
 
 Ofiice op Crown Lands, 
 
 Kingston, 6 th December, 1841. 
 
 In obedience to tlie commands of Ilis Excellency the Administrator of tlie 
 Government, conveyed in Chief Secretary, Mr. Murdoch's letter of this 
 date, directing me to take the necessary steps for carrying into ed'ett tlie 
 regulations established for the sale of the Clergy Reserves, and for making 
 1 lem generally known. The order passed by ller Majesty in Council, on 
 the 2 1 st October last, for the disposal of the Clergy Lands in this Provuice, 
 is published for tl;i« information of the public. 
 
 JOHN DAVIDSON, 
 
 Commissioner of Crown Lands 
 
 for the Province of Canada. 
 
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 AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 
 
 THE 21sT OF OCTOBER, 1841. 
 PRESENT : 
 
 The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 
 Uis Royal Highness Prince Albert, 
 
 Lord Chancellor, Earl of Aberdeen, 
 
 Lord President, Sir Robt. Peel, Bart. 
 
 Lord Steward, Sir George Murray, 
 
 Lord Chamberlain, Sir J. Graham, Bart. 
 Earl Jersey. 
 
 Whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 
 3rd and 4th years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled ^^An Act to pro- 
 vide for the sale of the Clergy Reserves in the Province of Canada, and for 
 the distribution of the proceeds thereof^^ reciting that "^Y is expedient to pro- 
 vide for the final distribution of the Lands called the Clergy Reserves in 
 Canada^ and for the appropriation of the yearly income arising or to arise 
 therefrom^ for the maintenance of Religion and the advancement of Christian 
 Knoioledge within the said Province^* it was amongst other things enacted, 
 that after the passing of the said Act, it should be lawful for the Governor 
 of the Province of Canada, by and with the advice of His Executive 
 Council and under such regulations as might be by him from time to time 
 in Councils established in that behalf, and approved by the Queen in 
 Council, to sell, grant, alienate and convey in Fee simple all or any of 
 the said Clergy Reserves : Provided nevertheless, that the quantity of the 
 said Clergy Reserves, so to be sold as aforesaid, in any one year should 
 not in the whole exceed one hundred thousand acres, without the previous 
 a[)probation in writing of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of 
 State. And whereas in pursuance of the said Act, the Governor of the 
 Province of Canada with the advice and consent of His Executive Coun- 
 cil, did on the 13th day of July 1841, establish certain regulations for 
 the sale of the Clergy Reserves in that Province in the words and figures 
 following, that is to say : 
 
 First — That Her Majesty's Commissioner of Crown Lands in and for 
 the said Province, shall under the said regulations and during the plea- 
 sure of the Governor, act in the sale and disposal of the Clergy Reserves 
 aforesaid. 
 
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 Second — That the said Commissioner shall render to the Governtneut, 
 accounts up to the ■ day of the months of——— and — — — in 
 
 each year. 
 
 Third — That it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to receive 
 and collect all monies arising from sales of the said Reserves heretofore 
 made, which are now due and owing or which shall hereafter become due 
 and owing, as well as all monies arising from sales hereafter *~ be made. 
 
 Fourth — That it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to cause 
 inspections of the said Reserves to be made by competent persons, and 
 that the Inspectors so to be employed shall make returns upon oath of the 
 Reserves by them respectively Inspected, which returns shall exhibit whe- 
 ther or not the said Reserves are occupied or improved, or whether the 
 same are vacant, and if occupied or improved by whom, and under what 
 authority or claim, if any such shall be asserted. The extent and nature 
 as well as the value of such improvements, the value of the land apart 
 from the improvements, the nature of the soil, and all such other circum- 
 stances as shall or may effect the valuation. 
 
 Fifth — That such returns shall be submitted to the Governor in Coun- 
 cil, and approved, altered, or modified, as the case may require. 
 
 Sixth — That any party or parties who shall think himself or themselves 
 aggrieved by any of the said Returns may have his or their case considered 
 upon Petition to the Governor in Council. 
 
 Seventh — That upon confirmation of any such return the same shall be 
 communicated to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and the land con- 
 tained in such return shall be considered open for sale at the price stated 
 in such return as confirmed, including the value of improvements, to the 
 first person who shall apply for and pay for the same. 
 
 Eighth — That the seventh Rule shall not apply to lessees with unexpired 
 leases, or to lessees with leases containing clauses for the renewal of the 
 same, until the expiration of the term ; unless such lessees shall select to 
 become Purchasers, in which case they shall be entitled to purchase at the 
 price stated in such return, upon payment of arrears of rent. 
 
 Ninth — That in case of expired leases which shall not have been re- 
 newed, and where lands shall have been occupic 1 and improved without 
 authority for the space of five years next beA i' the first day of January 
 last, the lessees on their assignees, or the occujun; vliere there shall have 
 been no lease, shall for the space of twelve Calencior i.;onths after the land 
 
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 shall be offered for sale, be entitled to purchase the Fame and to be allowed 
 a deduction for improvements, in no case to exceed 25 per cent, upon the 
 purchase money. 
 
 Tenth — That all future sales shall be for money in hand. 
 
 Eleventh — That the Agents cf the said Commissioner shall, under the 
 direction of the said Commissioner, effect sales and receive monies, as well 
 upon former sales as upon sales to be made by themselves, and shall 
 without delay transmit the same to the principal office, deducting therc- 
 frorn the same allowance as upon sales of Crown Lands, 
 
 Twelfth — That the securities of the said Commissioner and of the said 
 Agents respectively, shall be extended to transactions in the sales of and 
 receipts for Clergy Reserves. 
 
 Thirteenth — That upon production at the principal office of the re- 
 coil)! or receipts of any of the said Agents, the amount shall be credited 
 ujK)ii the purchase and the Agent charged with the same, and upon pay- 
 ment in full the Commissioner aforesaid shall certify the same and Letters 
 Patent shall issue to the purchaser. 
 
 Fourteenth — That transfers of sales made heretofore on credit, shall be 
 made in the Books t ('the Commissioner of Crown Lands upon assignment 
 executed and depositeil \n his office, and upon payment of the Instalments 
 due upon the sale. 
 
 Now therefore Her Majesty in Council having taken the said Regula- 
 tions into consideration, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her said 
 Council, to approve thereof, and the same are hereby approved accordingly, 
 and the Right Honorable Lord Stanley, one of Her Majesty's Principal 
 Secretaries of State is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 WM. L. BATHURST. 
 
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 Province of ) 
 Canada, j 
 
 R. D. JxVCKSON. 
 
 VICTORIA, hij the Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom 
 of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the 
 Faith, 8j-c. 8jX. SfC. 
 
 To all to whom tlicse presents shall come — 
 
 Greeting : 
 A PROCLAMATION. 
 
 Whereas at a Session of the Parliament of that part of Our Province 
 of Canada foru'erly known as Upper Canada, holden at the City of Toronto, 
 in Our said Province, on the Third day of December, one thousand eight 
 hundred and tliirty-nine, and prorogued on the Tenth day of February 
 following, in the third year of Our Reign, a certain Bill, entitled ^^AnAct 
 to male provision for the management of the Temporalities of the United 
 Church of England and Ireland in this Province, and for other purposes 
 therein mentioned,'' and also a certain other Bill, entitled '"''An Act to amend 
 an Act pnsHcd in the Ninth year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, 
 Chapter Two, entitled *An Act for the relief of the Religious Societies 
 therein mentioned,''' were passed in the Legislative Council and Assembly, 
 and were at the prorogation of the said Session, on the Tenth day of 
 February aforesaid, presented to our Governor-General of our said Pro- 
 vince, for Our Assent thereto, who, in pursuance of the authority vested 
 in him by a certain Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, passed in the 
 thirty-first year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, 
 entitled '''•An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the Fourteenth 
 year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled ''An Act for making more effectual 
 provision for the. Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, 
 and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province,"^ 
 and according to his discretion then and there declared that he reserved 
 the aforesaid Bills for the signification of Our Pleasure thereon : Now 
 KNOW ye, that the aforesaid Bills, respectively, entitled "^w Act to make 
 provision for the management of the Temporalities of the United Church 
 of England and Ireland, in this Province, and for other purposes therein 
 mentioned," and ''''An Act to amend an Act passed in the Ninth year of the 
 Reign of King George the Fourth, Chapter Ttvo, entitled ^An Act for the 
 relief of the Religious Societies therein mentioned," having been laid before 
 Us in Council, We have been pleased to Assent to the same : And We 
 T)o by these Presents, according to the provisions of the said Act, passed 
 
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 in the thirty-first year of the Reign of His late 'Majesty King George 
 the Third, Assent thereto, of which all Our loving Subjects will take 
 note, and govern themselves accordingly. 
 
 In testimony whereof. We have caused these our Letters to be made 
 Patent, and the Great Seal of Our said Province to be hereunto 
 affixed : Witness Our Trusty and well-beloved Sir Richard 
 DowNES Jackson, K. C. B., Administrator of the Government 
 of Our said Province of Canada, and Lieutenant-Gcneral Com- 
 manding our Forces in British North America, &c. &c. &c., at 
 Kingston, this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord 
 one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year 
 
 of Our Re!gn. 
 
 R. D. J. 
 
 By Command. 
 
 S. B. Harrison, Secretary. 
 
 ANNO QUARTO ET QUINTO 
 
 VICTORIA REGIN^. 
 
 AN ACT to make provision for the Management of the Temporalities 
 of the United Church of England and Ireland^ in this Province^ and 
 for other purposes therein mentioned. 
 
 [Royal Assent Promulgated 3rd December, 1841.] 
 
 Whereas it is desired on behalf of the United Church of England and 
 Ireland, in the Province of Upper Canada, that provision should be made 
 by law for the internal management, by the Members of the said Church, 
 of the Temporalities thereof, and also for allowing the endowment thereof; 
 and it is just and expedient that such provision should be made : Be it 
 therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with 
 the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the 
 Province of Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and 
 under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, 
 entitled "-4n Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth 
 year of His Majesty's Beign, entitled ^An Act for making more effectual 
 
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 provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec^ in North America^ 
 and to make further proinsion for the Government of the said Province,' " 
 and by the authoiity of the same, That from and after the passing of this 
 Act, the soil and freehold of all Churches of the Communion of the said 
 United Church of England and Ireland, now erected or hereafter to be 
 erected in the said Province, and of the Church-yards and Burying- 
 grounds attached or belonging thereto, respectively, shall be in the Parson 
 or other Incumbent thereof, for the time being, and that the possession 
 thereof shall be in the Incumbent for the time being, and the Church- 
 wardens to be appointed as hereinafter is mentioned, by whatever title the 
 same may now be held, whether vested in Trustees for the use of the 
 Church, or whether the legal estate remains in the Crown, by reason of 
 CO Patent having been issued, though set apart for the purposes of such 
 Church, Church-yard or Burying-ground : Provided always, that nothing 
 herein contained shall extend to affect the rights of any other Church, or 
 Body of Christians, to any Landed Property, or Church now erected, but 
 that the same shall remain as if this Act had not been passed. 
 
 II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all 
 Pew-holders in such Churches, whether holding the same by purchase or 
 lease, and all persons holding sittings therein, by the same being let to 
 them by Church-wardens, and holding a Certificate from the Church- 
 wardens of such Sitting, shall form a Vestry for the purposes in this Act 
 mentioned and declared. 
 
 III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a 
 meeting of such Vestry shall be holden on Monday in Easter week, in 
 each and every year, after due notice thereof given during the Divine 
 Service on the morning of Easter Sunday, for the purpose of appointing 
 Church- wardens for the ensuing year; and that at such meeting one 
 Church- warden shall be nominated by the Incumbent of the Parsonage or 
 Rectory to which the said Church belongs, and the other shall be elected 
 by a majority of those pre«ont and entitled to vote at such Vestry Meeting 
 as aforesaid : Provided, nevertheless, that in case of such Incumbent 
 declining or neglecting to nominate a Church-warden, then both of the 
 said Church-wardens shall for the current year be elected in the manner 
 aforesaid, and in case the Members of such Vestry shall neglect to elect 
 a Church-warden, then both of such Church-wardens shall for the current 
 year be nominated by the Incumbent : Provided always, that if from any 
 cause a Vestry Meeting shall not take place at the time aforesaid, such 
 
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 appointment of Church-wardens may take place at any subsc(iuent Vestry 
 Meeting to be called in manner hereinafter provided ; and in ease of ilie 
 death or change of residence to twenty miles or more from any such 
 Church, of either of the said Church-wardens, a Vestry Meetinf^ shall 
 be thereupon called, for the election, by the said Vestiy, of a new Church- 
 warden, in case the one deceased or removed had been elected by the 
 Vestry, or for the nomination of a new Church-wardeu by the Incumbent, 
 in case the one deceased or removed had been nominated by the 
 Incumbent. 
 
 IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no 
 person shall be eligible to the office of Churcli-wardcn except members 
 of the said Church of the full age of twenty-one years, and who shall 
 also be Members of such a Vestry. 
 
 V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That such 
 Church-wardens shall hold their office for one year from the time of their 
 appointment, or until the election of their Successors, except in case of 
 an appointment or nomination to fill up any vacancy occasioned by death 
 or removal as aforesaid, and in such case the person so appointed or 
 nominated shall hold the said office until the next annual election. 
 
 VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That such 
 Church-wardens so to be elected and appointed as aforesaid, shall, during 
 t'oir term of office, be as a Corporation to represent the interest of such 
 Church, and of the members thereof, and shall and may svic and be sued, 
 answer and be answered unto, in all manner of suits and actions whatso- 
 ever, and may prosecute indictments, presentments and other criminal 
 proceedings, for and in respect of such Churches and Church-yards, and " 
 all matters and things appertaining thereto, and shall and may in con- 
 jimction with the Rector or Incumbent, make and execute faculties or 
 conveyances, or other proper assurances in the Law, to all Pew-holders 
 holding their Pews by purchase, or leases to those holding the same by 
 lease, and shall and may grant certificates to those who shall have rented 
 sittings; such Conveyances, Leases and Certificates, to be given within a 
 reasonable time after demand made, and at the charge of the person 
 applying for the same ; and further, it shall be the duty of such Church- 
 wardens from time to time to sell, lease and rent, Pews and Sittings, upon 
 such terms as may be settled and appointed at Vestry meetings to be 
 holden for that purpose as hereinafter provided : Provided always, that 
 
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 any such sale, lease or renting, shall be subject to such rent-charge or 
 other rent as may from time to time be lated and assessed in respect 
 thereof, at such Vestry meetings. 
 
 VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case 
 of the absolute purchase of any Pew in any such Church as aforesaid, the 
 same shall be construed as a Free-hold of Inheritance not subject to for- 
 feiture by change of residence or by dicontinuing to frequent the same, and 
 the same may be bargained, sold and assigned to any purchaser thereof, being 
 a member of the Church of England ; and such purchaser, provided the same 
 be duly assigned and conveyed to him, shall hold the same with the same 
 rights, and subject to the same duties and charges, as the original purchase r 
 thereof. 
 
 VIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid. That any Pew-holder, 
 whether by purchase or lease, and any person renting a Pew or Sitting, 
 shall and may during their rightful possession of such Pew or Sitting, have 
 a right of action against any person injuring the same, or disturbing him 
 or his family in the possession thereof. 
 
 IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That such 
 Church-wardens so to be appointed as aforesaid, shall yearly and every 
 year, within fourteen days after other Church-wardens shall be nominated 
 and appointed to succeed them, deliver in to such succeeding Church- 
 wardens a just, true, and perfect account in writing (fairly entered in a 
 book or books to be kept for that purpose, and signed by the said Church- 
 wardens,) of all sums of money by them received, and of all sums rated 
 or assessed, or othciwise due and not received, and also of all goods* 
 chattels, and other property of such Church or Parish in their hands as 
 such Church-wardens, and of all monies paid by such Church-wardens so 
 accounting, and of all other things concerning their said office, and shall 
 also pay and deliver over all sums of money, goods, chattels, and other 
 things, which shall be in their hands, unto such succeeding Church-war- 
 dens ; which said account shall be verified by oath before one or more of 
 Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, who are hereby authorised to admi- 
 nister the same ; and the said book or books shall be carefully preserved 
 by such Church-wardens, and they shall and are hereby required to permit 
 any member of such Vestry as aforesaid, to inspect the same at all reason- 
 able times, paying one shilling for such inspection, and in case such 
 Church-wardens shall make default in yielding such account as aforesaid, 
 or in delivering over such money, goods, or other things as aforesaid, it 
 
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 shall be in the power of the succeeding Churcrli-wardcns to proceed 
 against them at Law for such default, or to file a bill in equity for discovery 
 and relief; and in caac of the re-appoint luent of the Hanic Church- wardens, 
 then such account as aforesaid, shall in like manner an is aforesaid, be made 
 and rendereu before an adjourned meeting of such Vestry, fourteen days 
 atlter such re-appointment. 
 
 X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That it nhall 
 be in the power of the Incumbent of any such Parsonage, Rectory, or 
 Parish as aforesaid, or of the Church-wardens thereof, to call a Vestry 
 JMeeting whenever he or they shall think proper so to do, and it shall be 
 his and their duty so to do, upon application being made for that purpose 
 in writing by six at least of the members of such Vestry as aforesaid; and 
 in case tipon such written application being made as aforesaid, such In- 
 cumbent and Church-wardens shall refuse to call such meeting, then one 
 week after such demand made, it shall be in the power of any six of such 
 members of the vestry to call the same by notice to be affixed on the outer 
 Church door (or Church doors where more than one), at least one week 
 previous to such intended meeting. 
 
 XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That in all 
 N'cstry Meetingn, the Hector or Incumbent of the Church shall preside as 
 Chairman when present, and in his absence, such person as the majority 
 present at such meeting shall iiame ; and the Vestry Clerk, when there is 
 one and present, or in case there be no Vestry Clerk or he be absent, then 
 such person as the Chairman shall name, shall be Secretary of such Vestry 
 Meeting, and the proceedings of such Vestry Meeting shall be entered in 
 a book to be kept for that purpose, and preserved in the custody of the • 
 Church-wardens. 
 
 XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the 
 rent-charge to be paid upon Pews holden in freehold, and the rent to be 
 paid for Pews and Sittings in Pews leased or rented, shall be regulated 
 from time to time at such Vestry Meetings as aforesaid: Provided, 
 nevertheless, that no alterations shall be made therein, except at Vestry 
 Meetings called for such special purpose, and so expressed in the notice 
 calling the same ; and further, that the charges to be made in respect of 
 such conveyances, leases, and certificates, shall in like manner be regulated 
 at such Vestry Meetings as aforesaid. 
 
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 Mil. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the 
 Clerk of the Church, the Organist, the Vestry Clerk, the Sexton, and 
 Dther subordinate servants of the Church, shall be nominated and appointed 
 by tht; Church-wardena for the time being, and that their salary and wages 
 Khuli bo brought into the gencnU account, tu be rendered as aforesaid by 
 buch Church-wardens. 
 
 XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the 
 ftes on Marriages, Ikptisms, and other services of the Church of the like 
 nature, and the charges payable on breaking the ground in the Cemetries 
 «)r Cluirch Yards, and in the said Churches for burying the dead, shall be 
 rcf^ulated by the Ordinary, or in case of there being no Ordinary, by the 
 iJihliop of the Diocese. 
 
 XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall 
 be in the power of the Members of such Vestries, at such Vestry Meetings 
 Hs aforesaid, to make Bye-Laws for the regulation of their proceedings 
 and the management of the 'i'cmporalities of the Church or Parish to 
 which they belong, so as the same be not repugnant to this Act, nor con- 
 trary to the Canons of the said United Church of England and Ireland. 
 
 XVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That any 
 deed or conveyance of land, or of personalty, that may be made to any 
 IJishop of the said Church, in the said Province, and to his Successors, for 
 the endowment of his Sec, or for the general uses of the said Church, as 
 such Bishop may ai>point, or otherwise, or for the use of any particular 
 Church then erected, or thereafter to be erected, or for the endowment of 
 a Parsonage, Rectory, or Living, or for other uses or purposes appurtenant to 
 such Church in general, or to any particular Church or Parish, to be named in 
 such deed, and any such deed or conveyance, to any Parson, or Rector, or 
 other Incumbent, and his Successors, for the endowment of such Parsonage, 
 Rectory, or Living, or for other uses or purposes appurtenant thereto, shall 
 be valid and effectual to the uses and purposes in such deed or conveyance 
 to be mentioned and set forth, the Acts of Parliament commonly called 
 the Statutes of Mortmain, or other Acts, Laws, or usages, to the contrary 
 thereof notwithstanding; Provided always, that in order to the validity of 
 such deeds and conveyances, the same shall be made and executed six 
 months at the least before the death of the person conveying the same, 
 and shall be registered not later tlian six months after his decease. 
 
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 XVII. And bo it further enacted by the authority aforcoaid, That in 
 the event of any person or persons, bodies politic or cor])oratc, desiring to 
 erect and found a Church or Churches, and to endow the same with u 
 sufficiency for the maintenance of such Church and of Divine Service 
 therein, according to the rites of the said Church of England and Irchtiid, 
 it shall and may be lawful for him, or them, to do so, upon procuring the 
 License of the Bishop, under his hand and seal, for that purpose; and 
 thereupon, after the erection of a suitable Church, and the appropriation 
 by the founder thereof, of such Church so erected, and of lands and hcre- 
 dituiiients, or other property, adequate to the maintenance thereof, and of 
 an Incumbent, and adequate to the usual and ordinary charges attendant 
 upon such Church, such provision being made to the satisfaction of the 
 Bishop, such Founder, his Heirs and Assigns, being Members of the said 
 Church of England, or such body politic or corporate, as the case may be, 
 bhall have the right of presentation to such Church, as an advowson in fee 
 presctitative, according to the Rules and Canons of the said United 
 Church of England and Ireland. 
 
 XVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
 nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, in 
 any manner, to confer any Spiritual Jurisdiction or Ecclesiastical Rights 
 whatsoever upon any Bishop or Bishops, or other Ecclesiastical Person, of 
 the said Church, in the said Province of Upper Canada. 
 
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