Salary of Agent, travelling expenses, rent of office, &c. 3,300 00 Supplies to be furnished in connection with treaties and payments toj 6,000 00 €3,776 00 MISCELLANEOUS. 2,500 00 Postage 1,200 00 5,000 00 75,000 00 400 00 1,400 00 10,000 00 Printing "Canada Gazette " Miscellaneous Printing Unforeseen Expenses; Expenditure thereof to be under Order in Council and a detailed account thereof to be laid before Parliament, during, the first fifteen days of the next Session Expenses connected with ascertaining correct time at Ottawa and firing of noon gun Expenses of Investigations relating to Wrecks.. Commutation in lieu of remission of duties on articles imported for the use of the Army and Navy, to be apportioned by Order in Council. To provide for examination and classification of Masters and Mates (Mercantile Marine) To provide one half of the British Share of the Expenditure in reference to Surveys of the Boundary Line, between Canada and the United States of America, on the 49th parallel of North Latitude (revote). To provide for purchase and maintenance of Life Boats, Life Preservers, and for rewards for saving life To pay one-half of the cost of surveying boundary line, between Ontario, and the North West Territories (revote) Surveys in Manitoba, North West Territories Pay and Maintenance of 322 officers and men for one year, including the expense of providing Barrack accommodation and contingencies, also the expense contingent on the return of the force from Manitoba... Towards ascertaining the longitude of Fort Garry To meet awards for claims for alleged damages arising out of the construction of the dam at the head of the Beauharnois Canal. COLLECTION OF REVENUES. Salaries and Contingent Expenses of the several Ports. CAP. IV. An Act to indemnify the Members of the Executive Government and others, for the unavoidable expenditure of Public Money, without Parliamentary grant, occasioned by the sending of an expeditionary force to Manitoba, in 1871. W1 [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] 31 V., c. 5, 8. HEREAS it appears, that by reason of certain troubles in Preamble. the Province of Manitoba, in the year 1871, it became unavoidably necessary for the Executive Government to authorize the expenditure of the sum of money hereinafter mentioned in sending an expeditionary force to the said Province, without any Parliamentary grant authorizing such expenditure; and that, under the provisions of the thirty-fifth section of the Act passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter five, and intituled: "An Act respecting the Collection and Management of the 35. Revenue, the Auditing of Public Accounts, and the Liability of Public Accountants," upon the report of the Minister of Militia and Defence, that a sum of one hundred thousand dollars was urgently required to meet such expenditure, and upon the report of the Minister of Finance, that no Parliamentary provision was made for such expenditure,-an Order in Council was passed, bearing date the seventeenth day of October, 1871, whereby His Excellency the Governor-General was advised to issue a Special Warrant, signed by himself, for the sum aforesaid, and such Special Warrant was accordingly so signed and issued by His Excellency for the said sum, which the Receiver-General was thereby directed to place to his credit in a special account, in conformity to the Act above cited, out of and against which all warrants, duly signed and attested by the proper officers, and certified by them to be for the said service, were directed to be paid and charged ; and it appears further that out of the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, the sum of sixty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-two cents, was so paid, charged, and expended for the service aforesaid; And whereas, full detailed accounts of the sums so expended up to the thirty-first day of March now last, inclusive, have been laid before Parliament in the statement of the Auditor-General, hereinafter mentioned; And whereas, the Auditor-General, in obedience to the thirty-fifth section of the Act above cited, prepared a statement containing a copy of the said Order in Council, and of the Special Warrant, and an account of the expenditure incurred in consequence thereof, and delivered the same to the Minister of Finance, who laid them before Parliament on the third day of the present Session, as required by the Act and section aforesaid, so that all the requirements of the law in the premises have been complied with; And whereas, it is expedient under the circumstances above mentioned, to indemnify the several members Indemnity clause. members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, and the officers and persons concerned in advising and giving effect to the Order in Council above mentioned: Therefore Her Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, the Auditor-General, and all officers and persons concerned in advising or carrying out the Order in Council referred to in the preamble to this Act, or in advancing or expending the sum of money therein. mentioned, are hereby indemnified and exonerated from all liability therefor, and the said Order in Council and Expenditure shall be held to have been lawfully made. Preamble. 34 Vic. c. 3. Clause 3 of CAP. V. An Act to amend the Act 31 Victoria, chapter 3, respecting the Loan for paying a certain sum to the Hudson's Bay Company. [Assented to 14th June, 1872] Namendment of the Act passed in the thirty-fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act respecting the Loan authorized by the Act 32 and 33 Vic., cap. 1, for the purpose of paying a certain sum to the Hudson's Bay Company," and to the end that the said Act may express more clearly the intention of Parliament in passing it; Her Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:- 1. The third clause of the first section of the said Act is hereby sec. 1 amended so amended as to read as follows: Clause of "Any sum issued out of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom, under the Act of the Imperial Parliament, known as The Canada (Rupert's Land) Loan Act, 1869, with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum per annum, shall be the next charge on the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, after the sinking fund for the said loan"; And the fifth clause of the said section is hereby so amended as to read as follows: "The annual sums for the sinking fund shall be remitted to the Treasury of the United Kingdom by equal half yearly payments, in such manner as the said Treasury may from time to time direct, and for the investment and accumulation thereof, under the direction of the said Treasury, in the names of four trustees nominated from time to time, two by the said Treasury, and two by the Government of Canada, and the investment and application of the said sinking fund shall be made in the manner provided by The Canada (Rupert's Land) Loan Act, 1869, hereinbefore cited." amendment. And the Act hereby amended, shall have effect as if the said Effect of clauses had been worded as aforesaid at the time of its being passed. CAP. VI. An Act respecting the Public Debt and the raising of Loans authorized by Parliament. [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] W HEREAS it is expedient to amend and consolidate the en- Preamble. actments now in force respecting the Public Debt and the raising of Loans authorized by Parliament, and so to avoid the necessity of inserting any such provisions in the annual Bills of Supply: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: ized by Parlia 1. Whenever in any Act passed in any former session, or in the How loans, present or any future session of the Dominion Parliament, author- &c., author. ity is given to the Governor in Council to raise, by way of loan, ment may be any sum of money for the public service, or the security of the raised. Dominion is authorized to be given for any sum of money deposited in any Government Savings Bank, or otherwise entrusted for safe keeping to the Dominion Government, then unless there be some provision to the contrary in the Act by which such authority as aforesaid is given, such sum shall, in the discretion of the Governor in Council, be raised or such security given, in one of the following ways, or partly in one and partly in another or others thereof, that is to say: debentures. 1. By the issue and sale, or the delivery as such security, of By issue of debentures of the Dominion, which shall be in such form, for such separate sums, and at such rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and the principal and interest whereof shall be made payable at such periods and places, as the Governor in Council may deem most expedicnt, and subject to such regulations as he may see fit to make, and such principal and interest shall be chargeable on the Consolidated Revenue Fund. stock. 2. By the issue and sale, or the delivery as such security, of By issue of "Canada Dominion Stock," bearing such rate of interest not exceed- Dominion ing six per cent. per annum as may be deemed most advisable, payable half yearly, and the principal and interest whereof shall be chargeable on the Consolidated Revenue Fund, such stock not to be redeemable until the time to be fixed by the regulations hereinafter mentioned, but at and after that time to be redeemable at |