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(3) Licensing and regulating ferries between any two places Ferries. 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 Livery stables 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.

roll of 1873-4 legalized,

2. The assessment roll of said Municipality for the years Assesment one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four as finally revised by the Court of Revision shall be, and the same is hereby declared legal, valid and binding.

CHAP. 33.

An Act for the Incorporation of the Town of Belleville as a City, and for the Consolidation of the debt thereof.

[Assented to 2nd March, 1877.]

WHEREAS the limits of the Town of Belleville have been Preamble. extended by proclamation, published in the Ontario Gazette; and whereas by petition the Corporation of the said Town of Belleville have represented and shown to the satisfaction of the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, that the said Town including its aforesaid extension, contains at present a population of eleven thousand one hundred and twenty souls, and that owing to the construction of several lines of railway with their several terminuses within the said Town of Belleville, and also to the proposed erection and carrying on of smelting works therein, the same will become a large manufacturing place, and the population thereof is rapidly increasing; and whereas the said Corporation of the Town of Belleville have for some years been separated from the County of Hastings for municipal purposes; and whereas the said Corporation have by their petition also asked and prayed to become incorporated as a City, and also for the right and power to consolidate the debt of the said Town, amounting to two hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars; and whereas the said Town of Belleville have issued debentures to the amount of two hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars, which whole sum remains unpaid and not yet due, but a portion thereof will become due and be payable within a short time; and whereas

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by petition of the said Corporation permission is also asked to issue new debentures and to borrow money thereon for the purpose of meeting and paying such old debentures as the same may mature, and for such other purposes as are hereinafter mentioned, and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petitioners;

Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. On and after the thirty-first day of December next corporated as after the passing of this Act, the said Town of Belleville a City. shall be and is hereby incorporated as a City, and shall be known thereafter as the Corporation of the City of Belleville, and as such shall enjoy and possess all the rights, powers, and privileges exercised and enjoyed by all cities incorporated in the Province of Ontario.

First Election.

2. For the purpose of holding the first election of Mayor for the said City of Belleville, Robert Newberry of the Town of Belleville, who is now the Clerk thereof, or in case of his death or inability to act, such other person as the Council of the said Town may, by by-law to be passed before the said thirty-first day of December, appoint in his stead, shall be and he is hereby appointed Returning Officer for the holding the first nomination for such election and it shall and may be lawful for the said Returning Officer to hold the same at the City Hall, in the said City of Belleville, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of the said thirty-first day of December next, and he shall preside thereat; and the Deputy Returning Officers to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned and directed, shall hold the nominations for Aldermen at twelve o'clock noon of the same day in each ward of the said City, and the said Deputy Returning Officers shall preside at the nomination for Aldermen, or in case of the absence of the said Returning Officer or any of the Deputy Returning Officers, the electors present shall choose from among themselves a chairman to preside at the said nomination or nominations, and such chairman shall have all the powers of a Returning Officer or Deputy Returning Officer, as the case may be, and if a poll be required, the polling for the said election shall take place one week thereafter at the place or places at which the said nominations may have been held.

Deputy Re3. The Council of the said Town shall, by by-law, appoint turning officers for each of the wards into which said City is divided, a Deputy Returning Officer, and such Returning Officer and each of such Deputy Returning Officers, shall, before holding said elections take an oath or affirmation as required by law, and shall respectively be subject to all the provisions of the Municipal Laws of Ontario, applicable to Returning Officers at elections in cities so far as the same do not conflict with this Act, and the said Deputy Returning Officers shall have all the powers and per

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form the several duties devolving on Deputy Returning Officers with respect to municipal elections in cities.

4. The Council of the said City to be elected in manner as Constitution aforesaid, shall consist of a Mayor, who shall be the head there- of Council. of, and three Aldermen for each ward, and they shall be organized as a Council on the same day of the week next following the week of the polling, or if there be no polling, on the same day of the second week next following the week of nomination, and subsequent elections shall be held in the same manner as in other cities incorporated as such in the Province of Ontario, and the said Council and their successors in office shall have, use, exercise and enjoy all the powers and privileges vested by the Municipal Institutions Acts in City Councils, and shall be subject to all the liabilities and duties imposed by said municipal laws on such Councils, and all the powers of the Town Council of the Town of Belleville shall continue until the Council for said City is organized.

oath of office.

5. The several persons who shall be elected or appointed Council to take under this Act shall take the declaration of office and qualification now required by the municipal laws of Ontario to be taken by persons elected or appointed to like offices in cities.

6. At the first election of Mayor and Aldermen, the qualifica- Qualification tions of the electors and of the Mayor and Aldermen, shall be the of electors. same as that required in towns for electors, Mayors, and Councillors respectively; and at all subsequent elections the qualifications of the electors, Mayor, Aldermen, and officers, shall be the same as required in cities; and at such first election the electors shall vote in the several wards as aforesaid.

to be used.

7. The last revised assessment rolls and voters' lists re- Last Assessspectively, of the said Town of Belleville, shall be taken to be ment Rolls the roll and voters' lists for any future municipal or parliamentary election in the said City, until a new assessment be made by the said City, and the same be formally revised, and the voters' list thereunder duly completed.

the Town to

8. The property and assets of the Town of Belleville shall Property of belong to the City of Belleville; and all the debts, liabilities, be that of the and obligations of the said Town of Belleville, shall be assumed City. and paid by the Corporation of the City of Belleville.

9. The provisions of the municipal law relating to matters Municipal consequent upon the formation of new municipal corporations, Law to apply. and the other provisions of the municipal law of Ontario, shall, except as herein otherwise provided, apply to the said Corporation of the City of Belleville in the same manner as if the said Town had been erected into a City, under the Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of Her Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act 36 V.c. 48. respecting Municipal Institutions in the Province of Ontario."

Corporation may issue Debentures.

36 V. c. 48.

Proviso.

Application of debentures.

Exchange of debentures.

Collectors roll 1876, declared valid.

Rector of
Belleville.

10. The Corporation of the Town of Belleville, or of the City of Belleville as the case may be, may pass a by-law or by-laws for the issuing of debentures in such sum or sums and to such amounts, either in Canadian currency or sterling, as they deem meet: Provided that such by-law or by-laws are not inconsistent with the provisions of said Act respecting Municipal Institutions in the Province of Ontario: And provided also, that the said Corporations, or either of them, shall not issue debentures under this Act for more than a sufficient amount to retire debentures previously issued and now unpaid and outstanding; and it shall not be necessary to obtain the assent of the electors of the said Town or City to the passing of any by-law under this section notwithstanding anything contained in said Act respecting Municipal Institutions in the Province of Ontario or any Act amending the same.

11. The proceeds of the debentures to be issued under this Act aforesaid shall be applied in the redemption of the said debentures heretofore issued by the Town of Belleville, and for no other purpose whatever; and any officer of the City applying such proceeds for any other purpose than as herein provided shall be civilly liable for the amount.

12. Either of the Corporations aforesaid may, in the same, or in any other by-law or by-laws, authorize the exchange of the debentures to be issued under this Act, for the debentures already issued by the said Town of Belleville, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the Corporation and the holder of such debentures: Provided always, that such new debentures be not negotiated or exchanged at a lower rate than par.

13. The Collector's roll for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, now in the hands of the Collector for said Town, shall be as valid and binding on all persons concerned as if the same was placed in the hands of said Collector on or before the first day of October prior to the passing of this Act.

14. Nothing herein contained shall give the Rector of Belleville any right to a larger share in the distribution of the Rectory funds, than he would have been entitled to, had the said City remained a Town, nor shall he be entitled to the increased sum to which Rectors of Cities are entitled out of such funds, until the said City contains the number of inhabitants which would entitle it to be a City under the Act respecting Municipal Institutions of the Province of Ontario.

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CHAP. 34.

An Act to Incorporate the City of Brantford.

WHEREAS

[Assented to 2nd March, 1877.]

WHEREAS the Corporation of the Town of Brantford have Preamble. by their petition represented that, the assent of the electors of the said Town having been obtained thereto, the Council of the said Town have finally passed a by-law of the said Corporation, intituled, " By-law No. 285: To withdraw the Town of Brantford from the jurisdiction of the Council of the County of Brant," in which County the said Town is situated, pursuant to the statute passed by the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, chapter forty-eight, intituled "An Act respecting Municipal Institutions in the Province of Ontario," and also representing that the said Town contained a population of ten thousand souls, and that its population is rapidly increasing, and that the said Town, by reason of its increased and extensive railway facilities, its large manufacturing and mercantile interests, and its situation in the midst of a rich agricultural district, is now and will continue to be an important commercial centre; and whereas the said Corporation, by their said petition, have prayed that the said Town might be erected into a City to be called "The City of Brantford;" and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition;

Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. On and after the thirty-first day of May next after Brantford inthe passing of this Act, the said Town shall be erected into a corporated as a City. City, to be called "The City of Brantford," and the said City shall have the corporate name of "The Corporation of the City of Brantford," and the said City shall have, possess, and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges vested in, conferred upon, and enjoyed and exercised by incorporated cities of this Province. And the present Mayor and Council of said Town shall be and continue to be the Mayor and Council of said City, and shall hold office until the election of their successors, as provided by this Act, and shall exercise all the rights and powers, and perform all the duties pertaining to the offices of Mayor and Aldermen respectively of a city, and in the event of death, resignation, or disqualification of said Mayor, or of any member of said Council, a new election shall be held to fill the vacancy under the provisions of the Municipal Act of 1873.

2. The Council of the said City shall consist of a Mayor, The Council. who shall be the head thereof, and fifteen Aldermen, three

Aldermen

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