900 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



transmitted by the Governor, or, in his Absence, by the Lieutenant- 

 governor, or Commander in Chief for the Time being, and laid 

 before his Majesty for his Royal Approbation; and if his Majesty 

 shail think fit to disallow thereof, the same shall cease and be void 

 from the Time that his Majesty's Order in Council thereupon shall 

 be promulgated at Quebec. 



XV. Provided also, That no Ordinance touching Religion, or by 

 which any Punishment may be inflicted greater than fine or Imprison- 

 ment for three Months, shall be of any Force or Effect, until the 

 same shall have received his Majesty's Approbation. 



XVI. Provided also. That no Ordinance shall be passed at any 

 Meeting of the Council where less than a Majority of the whole 

 Council is present, or at any Time except between the first Day of 

 January and the first Day of May, unless upon some urgent Occasion, 

 in which Case every Member thereof resident at Quebec, or within 

 fifty Miles thereof, shall be personally summoned by the Governor, 

 or, in his Absence, by the Lieutenant-governor, or Commander in 

 Chief for the Time being, to attend the same. 



XVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 

 nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, 

 to prevent or hinder his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, by his 

 or their Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, from 

 erecting, constituting, and appointing, such Courts of Criminal, Civil, 

 and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction within and for the said Province of 

 Quebec, and appointing, from Time to Time, the Judges and Officers 

 thereof, as his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall think neces- 

 sary and proper for the Circumstances of the said Province. 



XVIII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted. That nothing 

 in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to 

 repeal or make void, within the said Province of Quebec, any Act 

 or Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain heretofore made, for 

 prohibiting, restrauung. or regulating, the Trade or Commerce of 

 his Majesty's CoWKfes and Plantations in America; but that all 

 and every the said Acts, and also all Acts of Parliament heretofore 

 made concerning or respecting the said Colonies and Plantations, 

 shall be, and are hereby declared to be. in Force, within the said 

 Province of Quebec, and every Part thereof. 



No. 1S.1776: British Statute, 15 Geo. Ill, Cap. 10. 



An Act to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Provinces of Massachuset's 

 Bay, and New Hampshire, and Colonies of Connecticut, and Rhode Island, 

 and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Gi<eat Britain, Ireland, and 

 the British Islands in the West Indies, and to prohibit such Provinces and 

 Colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland, or 

 other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations. 



" Whereas by an Act made in the twelfth year of the reign of King 

 Charles the Second, intituled, an Act for the encouraging and 

 538 increasing of shipping and navigation; and by several subse- 

 quent Acts of Parliament which are now in force, it is. amongst 

 other things, enacted, That for every ship or vessel which shall load 

 any commodities, in those Acts, particularly enumerated, at any 

 British plantation, being the growth, product, or manufacture thereof, 



