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Date: 1848-08-14
By: UK (Parliament)
Citation: An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the Third and Fourth Years and Her present Majesty, to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, as relates to the Use of the English Language in Instruments relating to the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, UK, 1848, c 56.
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THE

STATUTES

OF

THE UNITED KINGDOM

OF

GREAT BRITAIN

WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES
BY N. SIMONS, OF LINCOLN’S INN, Esq.
BARRISTER AT LAW

VOLUME THE NINETEENTH
Containing the Acts 11 & 12 Victoria (1847-8) and 12 & 13 Victoria (1849)
With a copious Index.

LONDON:

Printed by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty.

M.DCCC.XLIX.

C A P. LVI.

An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the Third and Fourth Years and Her present Majesty, to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, as relates to the Use of the English Language in Instruments relating to the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

[14th August 1848]

‘ WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty initialled An Act to re-unite the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada and for the Government of Canada, it is amongst other things enacted, that from and after the said Re-union of the said Two Provinces, all Writs, Proclamations, Instruments for summoning and calling together the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, and for proroguing and dissolving the same, and all Writs of Summons and Elections, and all Writs and Public Instruments whatsoever relating to the said Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, or either of them, and all Returns to such Writs and Instruments, and all Journals, Entries, and written or printed proceedings of what Nature soever, of the said Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, and of each of them respectively and all written or printed Proceedings and Reports of Committees of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly respectively, shall be in the English Language only: Provided always that the said Enactment should not be constructed to prevent translated Copies of any such documents being made but no such Copt should be kept among the Records of the Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly, or be doomed in any Case to have the Force of an original Record: And whereas it is expedient to alter the Law in this respect, in order that the Legislature of the Province of Canada or the said Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly respectively, may have Power to make Regulations herein as to them may seem advisable:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of the said recited Act as is herein-before recited shall be repealed.

II. And be it enacted, That this Act or any Part thereof, may be repealed, altered, or varied at any time during the present Session of Parliament.