companies. 3. It shall and may be lawful for the said Corporation to Agreement enter into such agreements and agreement as they may be ad- with the vised with the said Norval Manufacturing Company, Limited, not inconsistent with the terms set forth in said by-law and to receive from the said Company, such covenants, promises, and undertakings in relation to the premises as they may be advised, and to enforce such agreements, covenants, promises, and undertakings in such way and manner as they the said Corporation may be advised, and as fully and effectually as the same might be enforced by an individual. under Muni affected. 4. Nothing in this Act contained shall in anywise affect the Claim of the claim of the Province of Ontario in respect of the debt con- Province tracted under the Act establishing a Consolidated Municipal cipal Loan loan Fund for Upper Canada, and Acts amending the same, or Fund not the claims of the holders of the debentures issued in respect of the said debt under the provisions of the Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered forty-seven, and intituled an "Act respecting the Municipal Loan Fund 36 V. c. 47. Debt, and respecting certain payments to municipalities." CHAP. 45. An Act to authorize the Town of Dundas to pass a taxes. [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] WHEREAS the Corporation of the Town of Dundas has Preamble. by petition prayed that it may be empowered to pass a by-law exempting the Canada Screw Company from payment of municipal taxes for the period of twenty-one years on any additions since the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, which they have built or which they may build to their present Screw Factory in Dundas, and any land which they have acquired since above date, and any machinery which may have been put into said Factory since said date or any which may hereafter be put into the same and used therein; 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: Canada Screw 1. The Municipal Council of the Town of Dundas is here- Certain proby empowered to pass a by-law at any regular sittings of perty of the said Council to be held hereafter, exempting the Canada Company may Screw N be exempted from taxation. Screw Company or their lessees or tenants from payment of municipal taxes, for the period of twenty-one years from the passing of this Act, on any addition which they have built since the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, or which they may hereafter build to their said Screw Factory in Dundas, and on any machinery which may have been put into said Factory since said date, or which may hereafter be put into the same to be used and employed by them or any of them in such Factory: but nothing in this Act shall exempt from taxation any building erected prior to said first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and used as part of said Factory: Provided always, that no such by-law shall be valid until the same has been submitted to the rate-payers or the property holders of said Town, and has received their sanction in the manner provided by law in case of by-laws of Municipal Councils requiring the assent of the electors of a Municipality before the final passing thereof. Power to sell Square, CHAP. 46. An Act to empower the Council of the Municipality of the Township of Adelaide to sell certain lands. [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] HEREAS the Municipal Council of the Township of Adelaide have petitioned for power to sell St. George's Square in the Village of Adelaide, which said square has been granted and patented to the said Corporation of Adelaide to be held in trust by the said Corporation for the purpose of erecting a town-hall and holding agricultural exhibitions of the Township Agricultural Society thereon, a more suitable place for the purposes aforesaid having been procured by said Municipality; and whereas it is expedient and proper 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. The said Corporation of the Township of Adelaide shall St. George's have power to sell, convey and dispose of St. George's Square in the Village of Adelaide, in the County of Middlesex, and Province of Ontario, notwithstanding, and freed from any trusts in the said grant thereof contained. CHAP. CHAP. 47. An Act to alter and amend the survey of the lands of the Canada Company in the Townships of Bosanquet and McGillivray. [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] WHEREAS William Rath, Provincial Land Surveyor, by Preamble. the direction and instruction of the Canada Company, made the original survey of part of the lands of the Canada Company, in the Townships of Bosanquet and McGillivray, dated the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the map and plan of the said survey were duly filed and registered in the registry offices of the Counties of Lambton and Middlesex, in which the said lands are situated, in the same year; And whereas, in consequence of a large quantity of the said lands in the said Townships, which were swamp lands, having been drained and reclaimed by the Canada Company, a new survey of the said lands became necessary, and accordingly, by the direction and instruction of the Canada Company, a new plan and survey of part of the said Townships, so surveyed as aforesaid by the said William Rath, has been made by D. S. Campbell, Provincial Land Surveyor, dated the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six; And whereas it is desirable that the said plan and survey of the said D. S. Campbell shall be substituted for and stand in the place of the said plan and survey of the said William Rath, and the said Canada Company have, by their petition, asked for the passing of an Act to confirm the same; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: "and McGilliv 1. The plan and survey of the parts of the Townships of Plan of survey Bosanquet and McGillivray, made by the said D. S. Campbell, in Bosanquet P. L. S., and dated the fourth day of May, one thousand eight ray legalized. hundred and seventy-six, shall be substituted for and stand in the place of the plan and survey of the parts of the said Townships made by the said Willam Rath, P. L. S., and dated the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and shall be to all intents and purposes whatever, the original survey of the said parts of the Townships of Bosanquet and McGillivray. 2. The said plan of the said D. S. Campbell shall be regis- Plan of survey tered in the registry offices of the Counties of Lambton and to be regisMiddlesex, within three months after the passing of this Act. СНАР. tered. CHAP. 48. Preamble. Survey made by J. S. Bruce confirmed. Pending uits and titles acquired by possession. An Act to legalize a Survey in the Township of W [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] HEREAS it appears, by the petition of Reuben Rose, James Hagerty, James Smith, John S. Cassleman and others, of the Township of Matilda, in the County of Dundas, that, on or about the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, one John S. Bruce, P. L. S., was according to law instructed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands to survey the lines between the seventh and eighth concessions of the said Township of Matilda, and at that time, but without instructions, did subdivide the eighth concession into lots and planted posts or monuments at the corners of each lot, and that a plan of such survey is now on file in the Crown Lands Department; that such survey has been accepted by the land owners in said concession; that any subsequent surveys have been made from the posts or monuments then planted; that every lot in the said eighth concession is now occupied; and that any change in such survey would subject such land owners to much trouble and expense; and whereas the petitioners have prayed that the subdivision of the said eighth concession in the aforesaid Township of Matilda into lots, may be legalized, confirmed, and established by authority of the Legislature of this Province as the true survey of that part of the said Township of Matilda affected thereby; and whereas it is expedient to grant their prayer; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The survey so made by the said John S. Bruce shall be held and deemed to be and is hereby declared to be, to all intents and purposes, the only true and unalterable survey of the lots in the eighth concession of the Township of Matilda; and the lines, limits, boundaries, and angles thereby established, and the monuments planted by the said surveyor to designate the same respectively, are hereby declared to be the only true and unalterable lines, limits, boundaries, and angles of the said lots, and the only true and unalterable monuments to designate the same, respectively, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding. 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect any suit or action now pending, nor shall it affect or reverse any judgment heretofore given or rendered either with respect to any of the lands in said eighth concession, or with respect to any title or estate in any of said lands; nor shall it affect or disturb any title or estate in any of the said lands acquired by length of possession. СНАР. CHAP. 49. An Act relating to St. Mark's Church, Niagara. W [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] HEREAS the Rector and Churchwardens of St. Mark's Preamble. Church, in the Parish of Niagara, in the Diocese of Niagara, have by their petition set forth that the following lands and premises, that is to say-All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying, and being in the Town of Niagara, containing by admeasurement two acres, be the same more or less, which said two acres are butted and bounded as follows: Commencing at the corner of Wellington and Ricardo Streets, and running north-west, along Ricardo Street, two hundred and eight feet to the land formerly granted to the Church of England; thence running south-west, parallel to Wellington Street, four hundred and sixteen feet to Byron Street; thence along Byron Street south-east, two hundred and eight feet to the corner of Wellington and Byron Streets; thence along Wellington Street four hundred and sixteen feet to the place of beginning, were, by a certain indenture dated the twenty-third day of April, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, conveyed by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance to the Lord Bishop of Toronto and his successors, upon the trusts and for the purposes following, that is to say, for the use of the said Church and for a burial ground in connection therewith; And whereas, since the date of such grant as aforesaid, the Town Council of said Town of Niagara, by resolution, prohibited the use of said premises as a burial ground, in consequence whereof the said land is not available for the purposes for which it was granted, and that it is advisable to sell the same, and to add the proceeds thereof to the Rectory Land Fund of the Parish of Niagara, the same being for the use of the said Church; And whereas, there have not been any interments or burials in the premises in question; And whereas the petitioners have prayed that an Act may be passed enabling them to sell the said lands, and apply the proceeds thereof in manner aforesaid; 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: Churchwar 1. The said Rector and Church wardens are hereby authorized Rector and to sell the said lands and premises for the best price that can dens may sell be got for the same, and to convey the said lands and premises certain lands. in fee simple absolute to the purchaser or purchasers thereof. |