ΑΝΝΟ ΝΟΝΟ VICTORIE REGINE. CAP. XLVIII. An Act to convey a part of the Concession Line between the third and fourth Concessions of the Township of Barton, in the Gore District, to Robert Jarvis Hamilton. [23rd May, 1846.] WH HEREAS the Gore District Council, by their By-law number thirty-eight, Preamble. took from Robert Jarvis Hamilton a line of road across part of Lots Numbers Recital Thirteen and Fourteen, in the third Concession of the Township of Barton, descending the mountain to the Town of Hamilton, for the accommodation of the public, in consequence of the Concession Line between the third and fourth Concessions descending the mountain on ground so steep as to be impracticable and useless as a road allowance, and by such By-law the said Council granted to Robert Jarvis Hamilton the said Concession Line in lieu of the road taken; And whereas by reason of the said Council not having power to make a grant of the public allowance for a road, the inhabitants of Hamilton and the Township of Barton have presented a Petition to Parliament with a plan of the road so taken, and the Concession Line granted, and a Report of the District Surveyor, by which it appears that the Concession Line so granted to the said Robert Jarvis Hamilton is altogether useless to the public, and that it is but just and reasonable that the said part of the Concession Line between the third and fourth Concessions should be granted to the saidRobert Jarvis Hamilton, who is the owner of the land on each side thereof: 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 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 the authority of the same, That the following part of the Concession Line between the third and fourth Concessions of the Township of Barton, in the Gore District, that is to say: commencing at the north-west corner of Lot Number Fourteen in the fourth Concession of Barton, thence south seventy-two degrees fifteen minutes east, twenty-four chains, to the intersection of Strangman's Road, with the allowance for road between the third and fourth Concessions, thence north seventeen degrees forty-five minutes east, one chain, thence north seventy-two degrees fifteen minutes west, twenty four chains more or less, to the south-east corner of Lot Number fifteen in the third Concession of Barton aforesaid, thence south seventeen degrees forty-five A certain part sion Line be tween third & of the Conces fourth Conces sions of Township of Barton, Hamilton, &c. vested in R. J. forty-five minutes west, one chain to the place of beginning-excluding the space occupied or required by the Port Dover Road-be and the same is hereby vested in the said Robert Jarvis Hamilton, his heirs and assigns for ever, in conformity to the said By-law and according to the prayer of the said Petition. MONTREAL: Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS, An Act for defining and establishing the Course of the Side Lines of lots in the Gore of the Township of Gloucester, in the District of Dalhousie. W and [18th May, 1846.] THEREAS certain inhabitants of the Gore of the Township of Gloucester, in Preamble. the District of Dalhousie have, by their petition, represented that doubts have Recital. arisen as to whether there exists in the said Gore a proving or governing line by which the course of the side lines between the lots in the same may be determined, and for want of which they may be subjected to much loss and inconvenience, and have prayed that the side line laid down in the field in the month of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, by Duncan McDonnell, Deputy Provincial Surveyor, as the division line between Lot A and Lot Number One in the said Gore, may be declared to be permanently established as the proving or governing line of the said Gore of the Township of Gloucester; and whereas it is just proper that the prayer of the said petition be granted: 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 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 the authority of the same, That the said side line laid down in the field by the said Duncan McDonnell in the month of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, as the division line between Lot A and Lot Number One in the said Gore of the Township of Gloucester be, and the Township the same is hereby declared to be permanently established as the proving or governing of Gloucester. line of the said Gore of the Township of Gloucester, and that all side lines in the said Gore shall be governed thereby; any law, usage or custom to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS, A certain des made the governing line cribed line, for the Gore of SOLT. ANNO NO NO VICTORIÆ VICTORIA REGINE. CAP. LI. An Act to alter the mode of Assessment in the Towns of Niagara and WHE [18th May, 1846.] THEREAS the District Council of the Niagara District have prayed for the Preamble. repeal of a portion of the Act hereinafter mentioned, inasmuch as the same applies to the Assessment of the Town Lots in Niagara and Queenston: 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 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 the authority of the same, That the second section of the Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, passed in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of King George the Third, and intituled, An Act to repeal the several Laws now in force, relative to levying and collecting Rates and Assessments in this Province, and further to provide for the more equal and general Assessment of lands and other rateable property throughout this Province, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed, in so far as the same relates to the assessing Town Lots in the Towns of Niagara and Queenston, in the Niagara District, at a certain annual value. MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS, Section 2 of Act of U. C., repealed in so as relates to Queenston 59 Geo. 3, c. 7, far the Towns of and Niagara. |