sand dollars, or such amount thereof as may have been not pay 6. In case the net income received in respect of the use of If the net the said graving dock be not in any year sufficient to meet proceeds will the interest upon the principal sum of five hundred thou- interest and a sand dollars, or such amount thereof as may have been sinking fund. paid by the Minister of Finance, the Quebec Harbour Commissioners shall, out of the general funds of the said corporation, pay a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars per annum, until the debt to the Government is paid, in respect of the same; and such sum of ten thousand dollars per annum shall be a charge upon the moneys and funds of the Quebec Harbour corporation next after the charges now existing upon the same, under any Act or Acts in force relating to the said corporation. use of dock. 7. Any ships belonging to Her Majesty, or to the Domin- Precedence of ion of Canada, shall at all times have precedence in the use H.M. ships in of the said graving dock, when required by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 8. The Act passed in the thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's 35 V., c. 6, to reign, entitled "An Act respecting the Public Debt and the apply to loan. raising of loans authorized by Parliament," shall apply to any loan to be raised as aforesaid, subject to the special provisions of this Act. 9. In this Act the words "Quebec Harbour corporation," Interpretashall mean the Corporation of the Quebec Harbour Commis- tion. sioners. TABLE OF CONTENTS. (TREATIES AND ORDERS IN COUNCIL PREFIXED.) TREATIES. Convention between Great Britain and France for the mutual sur render in certain cases of persons fugitive from Justice......... Convention between Her Majesty and the French Republic, supple- ORDERS IN COUNCIL, PROCLAMATIONS AND REGULATIONS. Orders in Council, &c., on subjects connected with the Customs...... Proclamations on subjects under the control of the Department of PAGE iii V xi xviii XXV xxxi xxxix xlii li lxiv lxxx cii .....clxxxiv Proclamations on subjects under the control of the Department of the Interior.... ......clxxxix Regulations made by His Excellency the Governor General in 1872.". cxciv ACTS OF CANADA. SECOND SESSION, THIRD PARLIAMENT, 38 VICTORIA, 1875. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. 1. An Act to amend "The Interpretation Act" as respects the printing and distribution of the Statutes, and the territorial 8. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the Public Service, for the financial years ending respectively the 30th June, 1875, and the 30th June, 1876, and for other purposes relating 4. An Act to amend the Act respecting the Public Debt, and the raising of Loans authorized by Parliament.... 5. An Act further to amend the Acts regulating the issue of 6. An Act to amend the Act providing for the organization of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada. 7. An Act to amend and consolidate the Statute Law for the regulation of the Postal Service 8. An Act to amend the Dominion Militia and Defence Acts........ 9. An Act further to amend the Civil Service Superannuation Act 10. An Act to amend the Acts respecting Controverted Elections... 11. An Act to establish a Supreme Court and a Court of Exchequer, 12. An Act to provide for the institution of Suits against the Crown by Petition of Right, and respecting procedure in 13. An Act respecting defective Letters Patent, and the discharge 19. An Act to amend the Law relating to Bills of Exchange.. 20. An Act to amend and consolidate the several Acts respecting Insurance, in so far as regards Fire and Inland Marine 21. An Act respecting Life Insurance Companies and Companies 22. An Act respecting the Intercolonial Railway 23. An Act respecting the Lien of the Dominion on the Northern 24. An Act further to amend the General Acts respecting Railways 25. An Act to extend and amend the Law requiring Railway Com- panies to furnish Returns of their Capital, Traffic and Working 29. An Act to extend certain provisions of "The Seamen's Act, 30. An Act to amend the Acts thirty-sixth Victoria, chapter nine, and thirty-seventh Victoria, chapter thirty-four, respecting 32. An Act to repeal an Act of the Legislature of Prince Edward Island, for the collection of the Cape Race Light-House Toll 33. An Act to amend "The Fisheries Act.". 34. An Act to amend the Act chapter forty-six of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, intituled "An Act respecting the Culling 35. An Act to repeal the Export Duty on stave bolts and oak logs 36. An Act to compel persons delivering certain Merchantable |