Provisions of apply to this Act. (c.) Nor if such owner or occupier will pay to the owner of such fence or of any part thereof, such sum as the fence viewers may award to be paid therefor under the fifth section of this Act." 2. The provisions of the said Act for determining disputes 37 V. c. 25, to between the owner of occupied adjoining lands; the manner of enforcing awards thereunder; appeals therefrom; the Schedules of forms attached thereto, and all other provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall apply to proceedings under the first section of this Act. Townships of CHAP. 30. An Act to apply the Municipal Law to certain Townships in the District of Nipissing. H [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The inhabitants of the Townships of Hagarty, Sherwood, Jones, Richards and Burns, are hereby erected into a Township corporation under the name of "The Corporation of the United Townships of Hagarty, Sherwood, Jones, Richards and Burns.' 2. The inhabitants of the Townships of Clara and Maria are hereby erected into a Township corporation by the name of Maria to be a "The Corporation of the United Townships of Clara and Maria." Township corporation. First Election. 3. The nominations and polling for the election of the first Council of each of the said Municipalities shall be held at such times and place as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council by his proclamation shall appoint, and the returning officer shall perform the like duties in respect to such election as are performed by Township Clerks at elections in their Municipalities, and shall have authority to do whatever is requisite to the proper holding of the said election, and shall be paid his disbursements and his reasonable charges in that behalf by the corporation of the Municipality." Lieut.-Gover 4. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by proclamation annex either of the said Municipalities, either at the same time or at different times, to the County of Renfrew, and may so annex such Municipality either as a separate Municipality or nor may annex said municipalities to Renfrew. may may unite the same to some other incorporated Township or Union of Townships of such County, and annex the same as so united, and thereafter the said Townships so united shall form part of the County of Renfrew for municipal, judicial, and registry purposes. 5. So long as such Townships remain part of the District of Voters' Lists Nipissing, the Stipendiary Magistrate of the District shall revise the voters' lists, and the provisions of the Acts relating to voters' lists shall apply to such Townships with the substitution of the Stipendiary Magistrate for the Judge of the County Court where such officer is mentioned or referred to in such Acts. of voters. 6. Until voters' lists can be used for the said Municipa- Qualification lities, the Election Law as applicable to the said Townships, and the right to vote at elections of members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, by the inhabitants of the said Townships as now possessed by them, shall remain and be in force as if this Act had not been passed. Renfrew. 7. In case the said Townships or any of them should be Provisions as united to the County of Renfrew, the provisions of the Registry in case of to registration Laws of the Province, relating to the transfer of books, deeds, union with memorials, plans, wills, or other documents from one registry office to another, where a part of a County is detached therefrom and is attached to another County, for which a separate registry office is kept, shall apply to the territory so annexed, and to the Registrars of Renfrew and Nipissing. CHAP. 31. An Act respecting the Municipality of Shuniah. [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Acts respecting Preamble. and for the organization of the Municipality of Shuniah, to make further provisions for the said Municipality; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: Council. 1. In addition to the powers of a Township Council, con- Further powers ferred by the above-mentioned Acts, the said Municipality and conferred on the Council thereof shall possess all the rights and powers both of a Township and County Council in all matters respecting public schools, and public roads and bridges. By-laws as to licenses Auctioneers, etc. Hawkers,etc. Ferries, etc. Cabs, etc, 37 V. c. 28, to apply to Shaniah. Assessment. 2. The Council of the said Municipality shall also have power to pass by-laws for the purpose of 1. Licensing, regulating and governing auctioneers and other persons selling or putting up for sale goods, wares, merchandize, or effects, by public auction, and for fixing the sum to be paid for such license, and the time it shall be in force; 2. Licensing, regulating and governing hawkers or petty chapmen, and other persons carrying on petty trades, who have not become permanent residents in the said Municipality, or who go from place to place, or to other men's houses on foot, or with any animal bearing or drawing any goods, wares, or merchandise, for sale, or in or with any boat, vessel, or other craft, or otherwise carrying goods, wares or merchandize for sale; and for fixing a sum to be paid for a license for exercising such calling within the said Municipality, and the time such license shall be in force; and for providing the Clerk of the said Municipality with licenses in this and the previous sub-section mentioned, for sale to parties applying for the same in the Municipality under such regulations as may be prescribed in such by-law; 3. Licensing and regulating ferries between any two places, within the said Municipality, and establishing the rates of ferriage to be taken thereon; but no such by-law as to ferries shall have effect until assented to by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council; 4. Licensing and regulating the owners of livery stables and of horses, cabs, carriages, omnibuses, and other vehicles used or kept for hire; for establishing the rates of fares to be taken by the owners or drivers thereof, and for enforcing payment of such fares. 3. The provisions of the Consolidated Public School Act of 1874 shall be held to apply to the Municipality of Shuniah, so far as the circumstances of the case will admit, subject to appeal to the Minister of Education, and (1.) The Minister of Education shall have authority to decide all cases of appeal in school matters made to him as herein provided ; (2.) School money raised under the authority of this Act or of the Consolidated Public School Act of 1874 for school purposes shall be expended in the establishment and support of schools within that Township of the Municipality of Shuniah, in which it has been levied and collected; (3.) Should no school exist in such Township, the moneys so raised shall be expended in support of the schools in the whole Municipality. 4. The said Council shall, subject to the other provisions of this Act, assess and levy on the whole rateable property within its jurisdiction, a sufficient sum in each year to provide for all expenses of the said Municipality, including moneys required for educational purposes, provided always, that such rate shall not not, in any one year, exceed an aggregate of two cents in the dollar on the actual value exclusive of school rates, but inclusive of statute labour, and that the rate for school purposes shall not for any one year exceed an aggregate of one-half a cent in the dollar on the actual value of the property assessed. mineral loca 5. For the purpose of such assessment, no unoccupied Assessment of mineral locations or unoccupied Township lots shall be assessed unoccupied at more than one dollar an acre, actual value, even though the tions. said Township lots may have been sub-divided into Village lots; and in the Town plot of Fort William, no unoccupied sub-division lot shall be assessed higher than four dollars for each lot until after the year one thousand eight hundred and seventynine. 6. Sections two and three of the Act passed in the thirty- 39 V. c. 37, ninth year of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered thirty-seven, sec. 2 & 3, reentitled "An Act relating to the Municipality of Shuniah and 4, 5 and 6 not pealed,and sec. the tax imposed on lands in the District of Algoma," are here- to apply. by repealed, and the provisions of sections four, five and six, of the said last mentioned Act shall not apply to or affect by-law No. 47 of the said Municipality, entitled "A by-law amending by-law No. 35, and making further provision for a bonus of $35,000 in aid of a branch railway from Prince Arthur's Landing to the Canada Pacific Railway," nor to the moneys to be raised thereunder, and the said by-law, No. 47, is hereby declared a valid subsisting by-law binding upon the said Municipality. valid 7. The debentures issued by the said the Municipality of Debentures Shuniah under by-laws numbers thirty-five and forty-seven of the said Municipality are hereby declared to be good and valid, and binding upon the said Municipality and the Townships and wards mentioned in the said debentures, and the Council of the said Municipality is hereby empowered to levy and collect taxes for the payment of the said debentures and interest coupons attached thereto at the times mentioned in the said debentures and coupons upon the lands embraced in the said Municipality and the Townships and wards mentioned in the said debentures. arrears of taxes. 8. The Council of the said Municipality is hereby empow- Remission of ered to remit so much of the arrears now owing on account of taxes upon unoccupied lands embraced in the said Municipality as to the said Council may seem meet: Provided that such remission shall in no case exceed fifty per centum of the amount of arrears of taxes now owing; and provided also that no arrears now owing on account of taxes upon any lands embraced in the Village of Prince Arthur's Landing, shall be remitted under this section. Sec. 59, 9. Section fifty-nine of the Act passed in the thirty-second 32 V. o. 36, year of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered thirty-six, intituled amenced. L "An 32 V. c. 36,. Sec.63, sub-seз. 1, amended. "An Act to amend and consolidate the laws respecting the Assessment of Property in the Province of Ontario," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words, "except in the Municipality of Shuniah, in which Municipality all the duties of the Court of Revision which relate to the matters aforesaid, shall be completed and the rolls finally revised by the Court before the fifteenth day of July in every year." 10. Sub-section one of section sixty-three of the said last mentioned Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words, "except in the Municipality of Shuniah, in which Municipality the notice shall be given within ten days after the first day of August in every year, and all such appeals in the said Municipality shall be determined before the fifteenth day of September in every year." Licensing auctioneers, etc. Hawkers and petty chap men. CHAP. 32. An Act respecting the Municipality of Sault Ste. H' [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The Council of the Municipality of Sault Ste. Marie shall have power to pass by-laws for the purpose of (1) Licensing, regulating and governing auctioneers and other persons selling or putting up for sale goods, wares, merchandise or effects by public auction; and for fixing the sum to be paid for every such license, and the time it shall be in force; (2) Licensing, regulating and governing hawkers and petty chapmen, and other persons carrying on petty trades, who have not become permanent residents in the said Municipality, or who go from place to place, or to other men's houses on foot, or with any animal bearing or drawing any goods, wares or merchandise for sale, or in or with any boat, vessel, or other craft, or otherwise carrying goods, wares or merchandise for sale; and for fixing the sum to be paid for a license for exercising such calling within the said Municipality, and the time such license shall be in force; and for providing the Clerk of the said Municipality with licenses in this and the previous sub-section mentioned, for sale to parties applying for the same in the said Municipality, under such regulations as may be prescribed in such by-law; |