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Cap. 1.   All Acts to be deemed Public Acts, as regards pleading. Proof of Acts. Thirty-eighthly. Every Act shall, unless by express provision it is declared to be a Private Act, be deemed to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially noticed by all Judges, Justices of the Peace and others without being specially pleaded;— And all copies of Acts, public or private, printed by the Queen’s Printer, shall be evidence of such Acts and of their contents, and every copy purporting to be printed by the Queen’s Printer shall be deemed to be so printed, unless the contrary be shewn;

Preamble to be a part of Act. All Acts remedial, and to be construed as such. Thirty-ninthly. The Preamble of every such Act as aforesaid shall be deemed a part thereof intended to assist in explaining the purport of the Act;— And every Act and every provision or enactment thereof, shall be deemed remedial, whether its immediate purport be to direct the doing of any thing which Parliament deems to be for the public good or to prevent or punish the doing of any thing which it deems contrary to the public good,—and shall accordingly receive such fair, large and liberal construction and interpretation as will best ensure the attainment of the object of the Act and of such provision or enactment according to their true intent, meaning and spirit.

Applicable Rules of construction not excluded. Fortiethly. Nothing in this Section shall exclude the application to any Act, of any Rule of Construction applicable thereto, and not inconsistent with this Section.

Provisions herein to apply to this Act. Forty-firstly. The provisions of this Act shall apply to the construction thereof, and to the words and expressions used therein.

 Acts to be done by more than two. 8. When any act or thing is required to be done by more than two persons, a majority of them may do it.   Certified copy of every Act to be furnished to Queen’s Printer. 9. The Clerk of the Senate shall furnish Her Majesty’s Printer with a certified copy of every Act of the Parliament, of Canada so soon as the same has received Royal Assent, or if the Bill has been reserved, so soon as the Royal Assent thereto has been proclaimed in Canada.

 Printer to distribute printed copies of Acts. 10. Her Majesty’s Printer shall, immediately after the close of each Session of Parliament, or so soon after as may be practicable, deliver or transmit by Post, or otherwise, in the most economical mode, the proper number of printed copies of the Acts of Parliament, in the English language or French language, or both languages, (to be printed by him at the public expense,) to the parties hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:

Who shall receive such copies. To the Members of the two Houses of Parliament respectively, such numbers of copies each, as may from time to time