An Act to amend the Act of Lower Canada wherein mentioned, extending certain privileges to persons of the Jewish persuasion

The first page of the official Act of Lower Canada in which the Congregation of German and Polish Jews was incorporated. 1846.

Transcription:

Transcript of An act to amend the Act of Lower Canada, extending
certain privileges to persons of the Jewish persuasion. 

ANNO NONO
VICTORID REGINA.
CAP, XCVI 

An act to amend the Act of Lower Canada herein mentioned, extending
certain privileges to persons of the Jewish persuasion.
[9th June, 1846.]

WHEREAS the provisions of a certain act of the Provincial Parliament of the late province of Lower Canada, passed in the ninth year of the reign of  George the Fourth, and intitled, An Act to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to persons professing the Jewish Religion, and for the obtaining certain inconveniences to which others of His Majesty’s subjects might otherwise be exposed, have proved insufficient for several of the purposes for which the said Act was intended, and it has been found necessary to make further provisions for the lid purposes; and whereas divers persons of the Jewish faith, calling themselves Portuguese Jews, and also diverse persons of the Jewish faith calling themselves German and Polish Jews are and for a considerable length of time have been, in possession of Synagogues in the City of Montreal, and form separate Congregations under the names of the Congregation of Portuguese Jews of Montreal, and of the Congregation of German and Polish Jews of Montreal: 

Be it therefore 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 intitule, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the said persons of the Jewish faith, calling themselves Portuguese Jews, or for the said persons calling themselves German and Polish Jews, being inscribed and registered in the manner provided by the afore said Act, and being members respectively of the said Synagogues, or any ten or more of them, to assemble or meet together from time to time at their respective Synagogues on such day and at such hour as they shall see fit, of which previous notice of at least three entire weeks shall be given in writing to each member, and shall be affixed on the outside of the principal door of the said Synagogues respectively and the said members of the said active Congregations so assembled at their respective Synagogues shall elect from amongst themselves a President, Treasurer, Secretary and three Trustees of their Congregation, and shalt record and enter all proceedings had in a register to be kept for that purpose by the said respective Secretaries.