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MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS,

UPPER CANADA.

ACT 12 VIC., CAP. 81.

An Act to provide, by one general law, for the erection of Municipal Corporations, and the establishment of Regulations of Police, in and for the several Counties, Cities, Towns, Townships and Villages in Upper Canada, as amended by Acts 13 and 14 Vic., cap. 64; 14 and 15 Vic., cap. 109; and 16 Vic., cap. 181.

WHEREAS it will be of great public benefit and advantage that Preamble.

provision should be made, by one general law, for the erection of Municipal Corporations and the establishment of Regulations of Police in and for the several Counties, Cities, Towns, Townships and Villages in Upper Canada: And whereas, with a view to this object, certain Acts of the Parliament of this Province, and certain others of the Parliament of the late Province of Upper Canada, have, by an Act 12th Vic., Cap. 80 passed during this present Session of Parliament been repealed: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly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 this Act shall commence and have force Commencement and effect upon, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and not before; excepting always such of its provisions as may require that any thing Exception as to be done preparatory to the first elections to be held under it, which ceedings. provisions shall be in force immediately upon, from, and after the passing thereof.

of this Act.

preparatory pro

[Whereas in the engrossment of the Act passed in the last Session 13th and 14th Vic. of Parliament, chaptered eighty-one, and intituled, An Act to provide, cap. 64, sec. 1. by one general law, for the erection of Municipal Corporations and Preamble. the establishment of Regulations of Police, in and for the several 12 Vict. c. 81. Counties, Cities, Towns, Townships and Villages in Upper Canada,

N.B.-The amended portions of the Act are printed in close type, and on the margin will be found the Act, Chapter, and Section of each.

some errors were accidentally committed, and amongst them, one of the Schedules in the said Act referred to, and intended to have been annexed to the same, was wholly omitted: And whereas there are also some inaccuracies, as well in the body of the said Act as in the Schedules thereunto annexed; And whereas it is expedient as well to correct the said errors and inaccuracies as to amend the said Act in some of the provisions thereof, and to make some further provisions for the better accomplishment of the object 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-reunite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of Certain words, the same, That the several words, phrases and sentences in the first

&c., inentioned

in Schedule A. substituted for

certain others in the said Act.

column of the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked A, numbered from one to thirty-six inclusive, and set forth at length in the second column of the said Schedule, as such several words, phrases and sentences are contained in those several parts of the several and respective Sections, sub-sections and provisoes of the said Act particularly referred to in the third column of the said Schedule, opposite to each of such words, phrases and sentences respectively, shall be, and the same as so contained in such sections, sub-sections and provisoes, are hereby repealed; and the several and respective words, phrases and sentences set forth in the fourth column of the said Schedule, opposite to each of such first mentioned words, phrases and sentences respectively, shall be, and the same are hereby substituted for such first mentioned words, phrases and sentences, each for each respectively; and henceforth, the said substituted words, phrases and sentences, instead of those for which they are so substituted as aforesaid respectively, shall be, and shall be deemed and taken to have been the words, phrases and sentences used in the several and respective sections, sub-sections and provisoes of the said Act in the third column of the said Schedule mentioned, opposite to each of such words, phrases and sentences respectively, and, in the parts of such sections, sub-sections and provisoesHow the said Act therein particularly mentioned; and the said Act, and all other Acts shall hereafter be referring to the same, shall be construed as if such substituted words, phrases and sentences had been there used in such respective sections, sub-sections and provisoes respectively, and in the parts thereof respectively in the said third column of the said Schedule mentioned as aforesaid, at the time of the passing of the said Act, anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, nevertheless, that nothing in this Section contained, shall render void or otherwise affect in any way, anything heretofore done under the authority of the said Act, but the same, unless it shall have been made the subject of proceedings at Law actually instituted before the passing of this Act, shall be, and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed; anything herein contained to the contrary nowithstanding.]

construed.

Proviso as to things already done.

14th and 15th Vic [XXXVI. And be it enacted, That the several words, phrases and sentences of "The Upper Canada Municipal Corporations' Act" of one

сар. 109.

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