Commandants of polts not being coinmiflioners of the peace fhall tothe neareft commillioners of the peace to be proceeded against. fend all feizures Appeal to the governor and coun cil, Upon giving fecurity, Execution fuf. demnation, fuch owner or owners, perfon or perfons intrufted as aforefaid, fhall recover the poffeffion of all fuch goods fo feized. All commandants of pofts, not being commiffioners of the peace, are hereby required to fend fuch fecurity, together with all informations and papers relative to fuch feizure, and for want of fuch fecurity to fend the goods, wares, merchandizes, provi. fions, boats, battoes, canoes or other carriages fo feized, together with a certificate of the caufe of feizure, to the commiffioners of the peace refiding nearest the place where fuch feizure fhall be made, who fhall proceed therein in manner herein before mentioned. VI. If any perfon or perfons fhall think him or themselves aggrieved by the judg ment or determination of the faid commiffioners of the peace, it fhall and may be. lawful for fuch person or persons to appeal therefrom, at any time within twelve months from the time of giving fuch judgment or determination, to the governor and council of this province, any five or more of whom (the commiflioners of the peace who fhall have given such judgment or determination only excepted), with the Governor, Lieutenant governor or chief juftice, fhall conftitute a court of appeals for that purpose; who are hereby authorized fully to examine into the grounds and nature of the appeal, and the judgment or determination of the faid commiffioners of the peace to reverse, or affirm, according to the opinion of the major part of the faid court of appeals:—and in case the same shall be reserved, the appellant fhall be reftored to all that he has loft by fuch feizure and condemnation, and be allowed fuch cofts and charges as the faid court shall award and adjudge. But no perfon fhall be intitled to fuch appeal, unless he fhall have first given good, and fufficient fecurity for profecuting the fame, and paying all fuch condemnation money and cofts, as fhall be awarded by the court of appeals, in cafe the judgment and determination of the commiffioners of the peace fhall be affirmed. Upon fuch fecurity fo given, the levying of the penalty, and the fale of the goods, pended untill the wares, merchandizes, boats, battoes, canoes, or other carriages feized, fhall be fufdetermination of the appeal. pended, and be made to abide the final determination and judgment of the court of appeals. the forfeitures. Diftribution of VII. All penalties and forfeitures recovered by virtue of this ordinance, fhall be divided and applied in the manner following, that is to fay, after deducting the charges of prosecution from the grofs produce thereof, one moiety of the net proceeds fhall be paid into the hands of the receiver general of this province, for the ufe of the King's Majefty, and the other moiety to the perfon or perfons who fhall feize inform and fue for the fame. GUY CARLETON. Ordained and enacted by the authority aforefaid, and paffed in Council under the Great Seal of the province, at the Council chamber in the cafile of St. Lewis, in the city of Quebec, the twenty-ninth day of March, in the feventeenth year of the reign of our fove-· vereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the grace of GoD of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, and fo forth, and in the year of our LORD one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-feven. faifis, avec un certificat des raifons de la faifie aux Commiffaires de la paix réfidens les plus voifins du lieu où telle faifie aura été faite, qui en décideront dans la forme ci-deffus mentionnée. VI.Si quelqu'uns fe trouve lézés, par telle fentence ou décifion des Commiffaires de la paix, fleur fe et pourra être loilible d'en interj. tter appel en tous tems dans l'espace d'une année du tems auquel telle fentence ou décision aura été donnée, au Gouverneur et Confeil de cette Province, dont cinq ou plus des membres (excepté feulement les Commiffaires de la paix qui auront prononcé telle fentence ou jugement) avec le Gouverneur, le Lieutenant gouverneur ou le Juge en Chef, conftitueront une cour d'apel à cet effet qui font, par ces préfentes, autorifes d'examiner le fonds et la nature du dit apel, et d'infirmer ou confirmer la fentence ou décision des dits Commiffaires de la paix, à la pluralité des voix de la dite cour d'apel. Et dans le cas où elle fera infirmée, l'apellant fera reftitué de tout ce qu'il aura perdu par telle faifie et condamnation, ainsi que des frais et dépens que la cour lui allouera et adjugera. Mais qui que ce foit ne fera reçu à l'apel, à moins qu'il n'ait premierement donné bonnes et fuffifantes cautions de le pourfuivre, de paier le montant de la condamnation, et les frais qui feront alloués par la cour d'apel dans le cas où la fentence et décision des Commiffaires de la paix fut confirmée. voifin Commif faire de la paix pour en juger. Apel au Gouver neur et Confeil, En donnant cau tions. Exécution fuf pendue jufqu'à la En conféquence de telles cautions, l'exécution des amendes et de la vente des effets, denrées, marchandifes, provifions, bateaux, chaloupes et canots fera fufpendue jufqu'à décifion de l'apel. la décison définitive de la cour d'apel. VII. Toutes peines et amendes prélevées en vertu de cette Ordonnance feront partagées et apliquées dans la maniére fuivante; fçavoir, après déduction faite des frais de poursuite fur le produit total, une moitié nette du produit fera paiée entre les mains du Receveur-général de cette Province au profit de fa Majefté, et l'autre moitié au profit de tout et chacuns particuliers qui les auront faifi, dénoncé et poursuivi. Statué et Ordonné par la fufdite autorité et paffé en Confeil fous le grand fçeau de la Pro- Traduit par ordre de Son Excellence, F. J. CUGNET, S. F. Par ordre de Son Excellence,.. J. WILLIAMS, C, L. C. Aplication des amendes. CAP Preamble. Rate at which the different coins Shall pafu. For regulating the militia of the province of Quebec, and rendering it of more general utility, towards the preiervation and fecurity thereof. IN [Repealed by Prov. Stat. 34. GEO. III. Cap. 4th. Sec. 31.] CA P. IX. AN ORDINANCE For regulating the currency of the province. N order to afcertain the value of the different coins ufually paffing in this province, and to prevent the fame from being falfified or impaired, it is ordained and enacted by his excellency the captain general and governor in chief of this province, by and with the advice and confent of the Legislative Council of the Province, that the following fpecies of coins fhall pass current throughout this province, at and after the rates herein after mentioned, that is to fay, 5 3 4 о O 1 3 10 12 3-4 6 2 The Louis d'Or paying two-pence one farthing for every grain of gold under weight. Higher or lower And all the higher or lower denominations of the faid gold and filver coins, shall pafs current in their due proportions. And the faid fpecies of coins or any of them, at the faid rates, fhall be deemed a legal tender in payment of all debts whatever. proportion. Any perfon con II. If any perfon whatsoever fhall, after the publication of this ordinance, for luvicted of in pair cre or gain, by any art, ways or means, clip wafh, round, file, impair, diminish or faling or dimmie fify, or caufe to be clipped, washed, rounded, filed, impaired, diminished or falfified gold coin pafling any coin paffing current in this province (other than the current coin of Great Britain, current in the pro- whereof the clipping, washing, rounding, filing, impairing, diminifling or falfifying, is declared vince, to be high treafon by the criminal laws of England, now in force in this province) fuch perfon offending CAP VIII. ORDONNANCE Qui régle les Milices de la province de Québec et qui les rend d'une plus grande utilité pour la confervation et la fureté d'icelle. [Rappellé par le Stat. Prov. 34me Gro. III. Cap. 4. Sec. 31.] CAP ORDONNANCE Qui établit le cours de la monnoie en la Province de QUEBEC. AFIN de fixer la Valeur des diferentes espéces de monnoie qui pallent communé ment en cette Province, et d'empêcher qu'elles ne foient falfifiées ou altérées; il eft Statué et Ordonné par fon Excellence le Capitaine-général et Gouverneur en Chef de cette Province, de l'avis et confentement du Confeil Légiflatif d'icelle ce qui fuit, qu les pièces fuivantes de monnoie auront cours dans cette Province, fuivant les dife rens taux ci-aprês mentionnés, fçavoir: 17 5 3 10-0 12 -3 ·1 En paiant deux penneis un farthing pour chaque grain au deffous du dit poids. L'Ecu de France de fix livres tournois. L'Ecu de France de quatre livres fix fols tournois La piéce de France de vingt-quatre fols tournois 3-4 2-6 1 8 Préambule. Cours des difé rentes efpécca de monnole. Et les dites Les plus hautes, La piéce de France de trente-fix fols tournois Et toutes les différentes piéces de monnoie d'or ou d'argent ci-denommées, les plus hautes comme les plus baffes auront cours à raison de ces diférens taux. Et les dites efpéces de monnoie, ou aucune d'elles, feront légalement données en paicinent de toutes dettes quelconques. II. Si qui que ce foit après la publication de cette Ordonnance, dans la vue de faire quelque gain ou profit, rogne, fue, lime, coupe, altére, diminue ou falfifie quelques efpéces de montoie aiant cours en cette Province (autre que les efpices de la Grande Bretagne, dont la rognure, le juage, la limure, la coupure, l'altération, to diminution ou la falfification, font déclarés étre un crime de lèze Majefté par les loix criminelles d'Angleterre, en force dans cette Province) tel particulier qui y contreviendra et qui en fera convaincu en aucun tems, dans l'espace de fix mois après la contravention commife, dans une des Cours de féance générale de quartier comme les plus baffes à propor tion. offending therein, fhall and may be indicted for every fuch offence, at any time within fix months after it is committed, at any Quarter or General Seffions of the peace, for the district in which the offender fhall be found, or in any other court of criminal jurifdiction in the province; and being thereof legally convicted, fhall be fined one 4/ Shall be fined hundred pounds for every offence; the profecutor fhall be intitled to receive fifty pounds out of the faid fine, and the remainder thereof shall belong to our fover...î Lord the King. £. 10 . 100. Indemnity to any offender dif covering another. Penalty of £20 for coining or ny copper money, or importing any counterfeiting a falfe copper money, If any perfon fo offending, fhall difcover any other perfon fo offending, fo that fuch perfon be thereupon convicted, the perfon fo difcovering fhall be discharged and indemnified from the penalty by realon of any fuch offence, if fuch perfon fo difcovering hath not been before convicted thereof, and fhall be admitted as an evidence to prove the fame. III. If any person fhall, after the publication of this ordinance, make, coin or counterfeit or caufe to be made, coined or counterfeited, any brafs or copper money of any fpecies or denomination, or fhall import or caufe to be imported into the province, any falfe or counterfeit copper money, in order to fell or pafs away the fame; fuch perfon fhall, for every fuch offence, forfeit the fum of Twenty pounds, which shall be How to be reco-recovered by information, before two or more commiffioners of the peace, who fhall hear and determine fuch information in a fummary manner, and upon the oath of one credible witnefs (being fome other than the informer) and fhall caufe the faid fum to be levied by warrant of diftrefs out of the offender's goods; and of the faid fum, one half shall belong to his Majefty, and the other half to the informer. vered. એ IV. No perfon fhall be obliged to receive at any one payment above the value of one fhilling in copper money. GUY CARLETON. Ordained and enacted by the authority aforefaid, and paffed in council under the Great By his Excellency's Command, J. WILLIAMS, C. L. C. Preamble. Concerning bakers of bread in the towns of Quebec and Montreal. "O prevent the frauds and abuses that might be committed by perfons carrying on the business of baking and felling bread, It is ordained and enacted by his excellency the captain general and governor in chief of this province, by and with the advice and confent of the Legiflative Council of the fame, that from and after the No perfon to first day of May next, no perfon whatsoever shall bake and fell bread in either of the carry on the bufi, towns |