IV.  Amerika.  1387  246.  Canada.

person  or  in  any  pleading  or  process  in  or  issuing  from  any  court  of  Canada  established
under  this  act,  and  in  or  from  all  or  any  of  the  courts  of  Quebec.

The  acts  of  the  parliament  of  Canada  and  of  the  legislature  of  Quebec  shall
be  printed  and  published  in  both  those  languages.

Ontario  and  Quebec.

134.  Until  the  legislature  of  Ontario  or  of  Quebec  otherwise  provides,  the
lieutenant-governors  of  Ontario  and  Quebec  may  each  appoint,  under  the  great  seal
of  the  province,  the  following  officers,  to  hold  office  during  pleasure,  that  is  to  say,
—  the  attorney-general,  the  secretary  and  registrar  of  the  province,  the  treasurer
of  the  province,  the  commissioner  of  crown  lands,  and  the  commissioner  of  agriculture
and  public  works,  and  in  the  case  of  Quebec,  the  solicitor-general;  and  may  by  order
of  the  lieutenant-governor  in  council  from  time  to  time  prescribe  the  duties  of  those
officers,  and  of  the  several  departments  over  which  they  shall  preside  or  to  which
they  shall  belong,  and  of  the  officers  and  clerks  thereof,  and  may  also  appoint  other
and  additional  officers  to  hold  office  during  pleasure,  and  may  from  time  to  time
prescribe  the  duties  of  those  officers,  and  of  the  several  departments  over  which
they  shall  preside  or  to  which  they  shall  belong,  and  of  the  officers  and  olerks  thereof.

135.  Until  the  legislature  of  Ontario  or  Quebec  otherwise  provides,  all  rights,
powers,  duties,  functions,  responsibilities  or  authorities  at  the  passing  of  this  act
vested  in  or  imposed  on  the  attorney-general,  solicitor-general,  secretary  and
registrar  of  the  province  of  Canada,  minister  of  finance,  coommissioner  of  crown  lands,
commissioner  of  public  works,  and  minister  of  agriculture  and  receiver  general,  by
any  law,  statute  or  ordinance  of  Upper  Canada,  Lower  Canada  or  Canada,  and  not
repugnant  to  this  act,  shall  be  vested  in  or  imposed  on  any  officer  to  be  appointed
by  the  lieutenant-governor  for  the  discharge  of  the  same  or  any  of  them;  and  the
commissioner  of  agriculture  and  public  works  shall  perform  the  duties  and  funotions
of  the  office  of  minister  of  agriculture  at  the  passing  of  this  act  imposed  by  the  law
of  the  province  of  Canada  as  well  as  those  of  the  commissioner  of  public  works.

136.  Until  altered  by  the  lieutenant-governor  in  council,  the  great  seals  of
Ontario  and  Quebec  respectively  shall  be  the  same,  or  of  the  same  design,  as  those
used  in  the  provinces  of  Upper  Canada  and  Lower  Canda  respectively  before  their
union  a8  the  province  of  Canada.

137.  The  words  “and  from  thence  to  the  end  of  the  then  ensuing  session  of
the  legislature’”’,  or  words  to  the  same  effect  used  in  any  temporary  act  of  the  province
of  Canada  not  expired  before  the  union,  shall  be  construed  to  extend  and  apply  to
the  next  session  of  the  parliament  of  Canada,  if  the  subject  matter  of  the  act  is
within  the  powers  of  the  same  as  defined  by  this  act,  or  to  the  next  sessions  of  the
legislatures  of  Ontario  and  Quebec,  respectively,  if  the  subject  matter  of  the  act
is  within  the  powers  of  the  same  as  defined  by  this  act.

138.  From  and  after  the  union  the  use  of  the  words  ‘Upper  Canada”  instead
of  “Ontario”,  or  “Lower  Canada”  instead  of  “Quebec”  in  any  deed,  writ,  process,
pleading,  document,  matter  or  thing,  shall  not  invalidate  the  same.

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