Excerpt from Ordinances Made and Passed by the Administrator of the Government, and Special Council for the Affairs of the Province of Lower Canada, Vol. 1: Constituted and Assembled by Virtue of and Under the Authority of an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria AN AM to make temporary provision for the Government of Lower Canada. [10th February, here AS in the present state of the Province of Lower Canada the House of Assembly of the said Province, constituted under the Act passed in the 3' G thirty-first year of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act to re peal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled. An Act for making more efeclual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, ' and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province, cannot be called together without serious detriment to the interests of the said Province, by reason whereof the Government of the said Province cannot be duly administered according to the provisions of the said Act - And whereas it is expedient to make temporary provision for the Go' vernment of Lower Canada, in order that Parliament may be enabled, after mature deliberation, to make permanent arrangements for the Constitution and Government of the said Province upon such a basis as may best secure the rights and liberties, and promote the interests of all classes of Her Majesty's subjects in the said Province - Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from the pro clamation of this Act in the said Province, as hereinafter provided, until the first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, so much of the said Act of the thirty-first year of King George the Third, and of any other Act or Acts of Parliament, as constitutes or provides for the constitution or calling of a Legisla. Tive Council or Legislative Assembly for the Province of Lower Canada, or as con fers any powers or functions upon the said Legislative Council and Legislative As sembly, or either of those bodies, shall cease and be of no force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.