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II. And be it enacted, That from the unappropriated public monies of the Province, 
a sum not exceeding two thousand pounds, shall be annually applied, for a term of years 
not exceeding five years from the passing of this Act, to defray the expenses of the said 
Survey, or any arrears of expenditure already incurred, which sum shall be paid at such 
times and in such manner as the Governor in Council may direct. 
III. And be it enacted, That the person or persons employed by the Governor in 
Council for the purposes mentioned in the first section of this Act, shall make a report to 
the Governor of this Province on or before the first day of May in each year, setting forth 
generally the progress made in the Survey hereby authorized. 
IV. And be it enacted, That the words ‘'Governor in Council," wheresoever they 
occur in this Act, shall be understood to mean the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or 
person administering the Government of this Province, acting by and with the advice of 
the Executive Council thereof. 
V. And be it enacted. That the due application of the monies hereby appropriated 
shall be accounted for to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, through the Lords 
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, in such manner and form as Her Majesty, Her 
Heirs and Successors shall direct; and an account thereof shall be laid before the Provincial 
Legislature at the then next Session thereof. 
Anno Octavo 
Victorise ReginSB 
CAP. XII 
An Act to revive and continue for a limited time the Act making 
provision for a Geological Survey of this Province 
( 24 th July, 1850.) 
Whereas the period limited in the second section of the Act hereinafter cited as that 
during which the sum of money therein mentioned should be annually applied to defray 
the expenses of the Geological Survey directed by the said Act, hath expired, and it is 
expedient to revive and continue the said appropriation and the said Survey: Be it there- 
fore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Canada, 
constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the 
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, “An Act 
to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada,” 
and it is hereby enacted by tlie authority of the same, That for and notwithstanding any- 
thing in the second section of the Act passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty’s Reign, 
and intituled, “An Act to make provision for a Geological Survey of this Province,” the 
annual appropriation made by the said section for the purposes of the said Act shall be and 
is hereby revived, and shall continue during five years from the passing of this Act, and 
thence until the end of the then next Session of the Provincial Parliament, and shall be 
held to have been so continued from the expiration of the period of five years mentioned 
in the said section, and all the provisions of the said Act shall be revived, and shall apply 
to the said appropriation as hereby continued. 
An Act to make further provision for the Geological Survey 
of this Province. (Cap. XIII) 
(Assented to 16th May , 1856.) 
Whereas by an Act of the eighth year of Her Majesty’s Reign, chaptered sixteen, the 
sum of two thousand pounds annually, for five years, was appropriated for making a 
Geological Survey of this Province, and by an Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years 
of Her Majesty’s Reign, chaptered twelve, the said Act was revived and further extended 
