NO. IN THIS VOLUME. 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 TABLE OF ACTS. Buildings and Ships. [2nd May, 1850.]-Left to its operation. page 469. page 471. An Act to authorise the Public Treasurer to pay a sum of two hundred and fifty pounds to the Reverend Samuel Power, Roman Catholic Priest, towards the completion of the Roman Catholic Church, in the parish of St. Patrick, in Grenada. [9th November, 1850.]-Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 3rd February, 1851. page 472. An Act to fix the rate of, and to provide for, the payment of Sloop hire, by prosecutors, and by witnesses for the prosecution of indictments, coming from, and returning to Carriacou. [9th November, 1850.]-Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 3rd February, 1851. page 472. An Act to amend the Tonnage Act. [9th November, 1850]. Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 3rd February. 1851. page 473. An Act for procuring Annual Returns of certain objects of Property. [12th December, 1850.] page 474. An Act to increase the number of Colonial Revenue Officers, and to constitute the Ports of Hillsborough, in Carriacou, and Grenville, in Grenada, Ports of Entry, and to provide for the management and collection of the Customs at the said Ports. [18th December, 1850.]—Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 5th May, 1851. page 480. An Act to make provision for the treatment of certain African Immigrants. [18th December, 1850.] Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 14th April, 1851. page 482. page 483. 452 453 454 456 457 458 459 461 NO. IN THIS 183 184 185 186 TABLE OF ACTS. An Act to render more simple and effectual the Titles by which Congregations or Societies, for purposes of Religious Worship or Education in Grenada, hold Property for such purposes. [10th November, 1851.] Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 11th February, 1852. page 492. An Act, further to continue and amend an Act, intituled, "An Act for granting an aid to Her Majesty, to be applied for the purposes of Immigration." [29th December, 1851.] Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 15th May, 1852. page 494. An Act for granting unto Her Majesty an aid, by rates, taxes, and assessments. [29th December, 1851.] Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 5th April, 1852. page 495. An Act to amend the Law in regard to the Publication of the Banns of Marriage, and to facilitate the solemnization of Marriages. [25th May, 1852.] 187 188 page 500. 466 467 page 501. 189 468 190 191 192 An Act for continuing the appointment of a Police magistrate. [11th Aug. 1852.] Left to its operation by Order in Council, dated 10th November, 1852. page 502. An Act for granting a sum of money to the Governor and Directors of the Colony Hospital to be applied in the erection of a cottage and out-offices for the use of the Surgeon of that corporation. [11th Aug. 1852.] page 503. An Act to naturalize Francis de Casta, Roman Catholic Priest, within the Island of Grenada, and its dependencies. [11th Aug. 1852.] Confirmed by Order in Council, dated 10th November, 1852. page 503. An Act further to continue and amend an Act intituled "An Act for granting an Aid to Her Majesty to be applied for the purposes of Immigration." [2nd Nov. 1852.] EXTRACT from the Definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship between His Britannic Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the King of Spain; concluded at Paris, the 10th Day of February, 1763. To which the King of Portugal acceded on the same Day. ART. IV. His Most Christian Majesty renounces all pretensions, which he has heretofore formed, or might form, to Nova Scotia or Acadia, in all its parts, and guarantees the whole of it, and with all its Dependencies, to the King of Great Britain: moreover, His Most Christian Majesty cedes and guarantees to his said Britannic Majesty, in full right, Canada, with all its Dependencies, as well as the Island of Cape Breton, and all the other Islands and Coasts in the Gulph and River St. Laurence, and, in general, every thing that depends on the said Countries, Lands, Islands and Coasts, with the Sovereignty, Property, Possession, and all Rights, acquired by Treaty or otherwise, which the Most Christian King, and the Crown of France, have had till now over the said Countries, Islands, Lands, Places, Coasts, and their Inhabitants, so that the Most Christian King cedes and makes over the whole to the said King, and to the Crown of Great Britain, and that in the most ample manner and form, without restriction, and without any liberty to depart from the said Cession and Guaranty, under any pretence, or to disturb Great Britain in the Possessions above-mentioned. His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the Liberty of the Catholic Religion to the Inhabitants of Canada: he will consequently give the most precise and most effectual Orders, that his new Roman Catholic Subjects may profess the Worship of their Religion, according to the Rites of the Romish Church, as far as the Laws of Great Britain permit. His Britannic Majesty further agrees, that the French Inhabitants, or others who had been Subjects of the most Christian King in Canada, may retire, with all Safety and Freedom, wherever they shall think proper, and may sell their Estates, provided it be to subjects of His Britannic Majesty, and bring away their Effects, as well as their Persons, without being restrained in their Emigration, under any pretence whatsoever, except that of Debts, or of Criminal Prosecutions: the Term limited for this Emigration shall be fixed to the Space of Eighteen Months, to be computed from the Day of the Exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty. ART. IX. THE Most Christian King cedes and guarantees to His Britannic Majesty, in full Right, the Islands of Grenada, and of the Grenadines, with the same Stipulations in favour of the Inhabitants of this Colony, inserted in the fourth Article for those of Canada: and the Partition of the Islands, called Neutral, is agreed and fixed, so that those of St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago, shall remain in full right to Great Britain, and that of St. Lucia shall be delivered to France, to enjoy the same likewise in full right; and the high contracting Parties guarantee the partition so stipulated. ART. XXII. ALL the Papers, Letters, Documents, and Archives, which were found in the Countries, Territories, Towns, and Places, that are restored, aud those belonging to the Countries ceded, shall be respectively and bona fide delivered, or furnished, at the same time, if possible, that Possession is taken, or, at latest, four months after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty, in whatever Places the said Papers or Documents may be found. ART. XXVI. THEIR Sacred Britannic, Most Christian, Catholic, and Most Faithful Majesties, promise to observe sincerely and bond fide, all the Articles contained and settled in the present Treaty; and they will not suffer the same to be infringed, directly or indirectly, by their respective Subjects; and the said High Contracting Parties, generally and reciprocally, guarantee to each other all the Stipulations of the present Treaty. BY THE KING : A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE R. WHEREAS, We have taken into Our Royal Consideration, the extensive and valuable Acquisitions in America, secured to Our Crown, by the late Definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris, the 10th day of February last; And being desirous that all Our loving Subjects, as well of Our Kingdoms as of Our Colonies in America, may avail themselves, with all convenient Speed, of the great Benefits and Advantages, which must accrue therefrom to their Commerce, Manufactures, and Navigation; We have thought fit, with the advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, hereby to publish and declare to all Our loving Subjects, that We have, with the advice of Our said Privy Council, granted Our Letters Patent, under Our Great Seal of Great Britain, to erect within the Countries and Islands ceded and confirmed to Us, by the said Treaty, Four distinct and separate Governments, stiled and called by the names of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and Grenada ; and limited and bounded as follows, viz. :— First-The Government of Quebec; bounded on the Labrador Coast by the River St. John, and from thence, by a Line from the Head of that River, through the Lake St. John, to the South End of the Lake Nipissim; from whence the said Line, crossing the River St. Lawrence and the Lake Champlain, in 45 Degrees of North Latitude, passes along the High Lands which divide the Rivers that empty themselves into the said River St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Sea; and also along the North Coast of the Baye des Chaleurs, and the Coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to Cape Rosieres, and from thence crossing the Mouth of the River St. Lawrence, by the West End of the Island of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid River of St. John. Secondly-The Government of East Florida; bounded to the Westward by the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River; to the Northward, by a Line drawn from that part of the said River where the Chalahouchee and Flint Rivers meet, to the Source of St. Mary River, and by the Course of the said River to the Atlantic Ocean; and to the Eastward and Southward by the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Florida, including all Islands within Six Leagues of the Sea Coast. Thirdly-The Government of West Florida; bounded to the Southward by the Gulf of Mexico, including all Islands within Six Leagues of the Coast, from the River Apalachicola, to Lake Ponchartrain; to the Westward, by the said Lake, the Lake Maurepas, and the River Mississippi; to the Northward, by a Line drawn due East from that Part of the River Mississippi, which lies in 31 Degrees North Latitude, to the River Apalachicola or Chatahouchee; and to the Eastward, by the said River. |