day of July and the thirtieth day of September in each year; that the rolls shall be returnable to the city clerk on the first day of October in each year; that the time for closing the court of revision shall be the fifteenth day of November in each year, and that the time for final return by the judge of the county court shall be the thirty-first day of December in each year; and the periods for taking said assessment and for the revision of the rolls by the court of revision and by the county judge shall thenceforth be as herein above provided, and not otherwise; and that the assessment to be made and taken in this present year shall be adopted as the assessment on which the rates shall be levied next year, and the assessment so made in each year following the present year shall be the assessment for the rates for the year following the year in which it is so made. 2. That one assessor shall be appointed, according to law, to make the said assessment, who shall have his office in the city buildings, and who shall give his whole time to the discharge of the duties of his said office, and whose salary shall be at the rate of seven hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. 3. That this by-law shall come in force and take effect on the first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty. (Sgd.) ROBERT J. CARSON, [L.S.] (Sgd.) M. FLANAGAN, City Clerk. Mayor. CHAPTER 38. An Act to close part of a certain road allowance between the Township of Kingston and the Village of Portsmouth. [Assented to 4th March, 1881.] WHEREAS that portion of the original allowance for a road Preamble. forty feet in width, lying between the township of Kingston and the village of Portsmouth, in the county of Frontenac, which lies south of the southerly boundary of Hale street, has never been made fit for travel, and terminating at a bluff, affords no convenient access to the water; and whereas the lands on both sides of the said portion of the said road allowance belong to Her Majesty for the purposes of the asylum for the insane at Kingston, and the said road allowance divides the asylum grounds into two portions, causing great inconvenience in the use of the said asylum grounds, and exposing the pa allowance closed. tients in the said grounds to annoyance, from persons coming upon the said road allowance for the purpose of gazing upon or interfering with the said patients; and whereas access to the water can be more conveniently had by the inhabitants of the said township and village, by the road running along the front of the first concession of the said township of Kingston; and whereas the Commissioner of Public Works, in order to ensure to the said inhabitants of the said township and village, convenient access to the water, has, on behalf of Her Majesty, agreed to purchase the broken front of lot number fifteen, in the first concession of the said township of Kingston; and whereas it is expedient that the said portion of the said road allowance should be closed; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: • Part of road 1. The portion of the said allowance for road, which is south of the southerly boundary line of Hale street, shall no longer be, or be liable to be, used as a public highway, and such portion shall be hereafter vested in Her Majesty, and her successors, for the public uses of the Province. Access to water to be provided for public. 2. The Commissioner of Public Works shall set apart so much of the said broken front of lot number fifteen aforesaid, as he finds requisite, and considers expedient to set apart, in order to ensure convenient access to the public, from Front street aforesaid to the waters of Little Cataraqui Bay. Preamble. CHAPTER 39. An Act respecting the Debt of the County of Lennox and Addington, and to enable the said County to consolidate the same. [Assented to 4th March, 1881.] HEREAS, the corporation of the county of Lennox and Addington, have at various times passed certain by-laws authorizing the issue of debentures, and have issued under such by-laws, debentures creating debts to the amount of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, which said debentures are all now outstanding, and will fall due at various times, and funds have not been provided for redeeming the said outstanding debentures, or paying the said debts; and whereas the said corporation of the county of Lennox and Addington have petitioned to be authorized to consolidate the said debts of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and to discharge the said indebtedness, by the issue of new debentures to that amount; and 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: sum of 1. The said debenture debts of the corporation of the county of Debts consoliLennox and Addington, are hereby consolidated at the sum of dated at the one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and it shall and may be $160,000. lawful to and for the said corporation of the county of Lennox and Addington, to raise by way of loan upon the credit of the debentures hereinafter mentioned, and by this Act authorized to be issued, from any person or persons, body or bodies corporate, either in this Province, in Great Britain or elsewhere, who may be willing to lend the same, a sum of money not exceeding one hundred and sixty thousand dollars of the lawful money of Canada. for new 2. It shall and may be lawful for the said corporation of Authority to the county of Lennox and Addington, to pass a by-law or by- pow delaws, authorizing the said loan of one hundred and sixty bentures. thousand dollars, and the issuing of the debentures therefor, in accordance with this Act, and to impose in and by said by-law or by-laws, a special rate per annum, on the whole ratable property of the said municipality, to be called "The Consolidated Loan Rate," over and above, and in addition to all other rates to be levied in each year, which shall be duly levied in each year, and shall be sufficient to pay the sums falling due annually, for interest, and to provide a fund for the due payment of the principal, when the same shall fall due, of the said debentures last mentioned. 3. It shall not be necessary to obtain the assent of the Assent of electors of the said county to the passing of any by-law under electors to by-law not this Act, or to observe the formalities in relation thereto, pre- required. scribed by "The Municipal Act." to the amount 4. It shall and may be lawful for the municipal council of Debentures the said corporation of the county of Lennox and Addington, may be issued after the passing of such by-law or by-laws, authorizing the of $160,000. same, in accordance with this Act, to cause to be issued debentures of the said corporation, under the corporate seal, signed by the warden and countersigned by the treasurer and clerk of the said county, for the time being, for such sums not exceeding in the whole the said sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, as the said council shall direct and appoint, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per anuum, payable half-yearly. 5. The principal sum to be secured by the debentures to be Debentures, issued under the preceding sections of this Act shall be payable when and how either in sterling or currency, and the same with the interest accruing payable. Application 44 VIC. accruing thereon, may be made payable either in this Province, in Great Britain or elsewhere, as the said council may, by the by-law or by-laws direct or shall deem expedient; and a portion of the said debentures issued under any such by-law shall be made payable in each year for thirty years, from the time at which the by-law authorizing the issue of the same shall take effect, and so that the sums to be levied for principal and interest shall be as nearly equal in each year as may be, and it shall not be necessary to levy for or provide any sinking fund to retire the said debentures. 6. The funds derived from the negotiation and sale of the of proceeds. said debentures, shall be applied in and to the payment of the said debts of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and not otherwise, and shall for that purpose be deposited until required in the agency of a chartered bank of Canada, at Napanee or elsewhere in this Province, or invested in government securities or stock, either of the Dominion of Canada or the Province of Ontario, upon such terms as the said municipal council and such bank or government shall from time to time agree upon, and shall only be withdrawn therefrom as the same may be required from time to time for the payment and redemption of the said outstanding debenture debt, or any part thereof, and not otherwise. Outstanding debentures may be called in. By-law not until debt 7. The treasurer of the said county shall, on receiving instructions from the said council, so to do, from time to time, but only with the consent of the holders thereof, call in any of the said outstanding debentures, and liabilities, specially provided for by this Act, and shall discharge and satisfy the same with the funds raised under this Act, or may, with the like consent substitute therefor, the said debentures, or any of them above authorized to be issued by this Act, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the said council and the said holders of said outstanding debentures. 8. Any by-law to be passed under the second section of this to be repealed Act, and in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, authorizing the said loan, shall not be repealed until the debt created under such by-law, and the interest thereon shall be paid and satisfied. satisfied. Investment of 9. The said municipal council shall, and it shall be the duty sinking fund. of the treasurer of the said county for the time being, to invest from time to time, all moneys raised by the special rate provided by this Act, and the by-law or by-laws imposing the same, or derived from the investment of the said moneys as hereinafter mentioned, less the interest, payable in respect of the said debentures, to be issued in pursuance of this Act for the then current year, in either the bank or government securities mentioned in the sixth section of this Act, as the said council shall direct, and upon such terms as the said council and bank or government government shall agree upon, and such moneys shall only be withdrawn therefrom as the same may be required from time to time for the payment and redemption of the said last-mentioned debentures, or the said outstanding debentures, or any part thereof, and to apply the residue of such moneys from time to time, to the payment of the interest on the said deben- Payment of tures and not otherwise, nor for any other purpose what- interest. ever. 10. Any provisions in the Acts respecting municipal institu- Inconsistent tions in the Province of Ontario, which are or may be inconsistent provisions in Municipal with the provisions of this Act, or any of them, shall not apply Acts not to to the by-law or by-laws to be passed by the said corporation apply. under the provisions of this Act, and no irregularity in the Irregularity form, either of the said debentures, authorized to be issued by not to render this Act, or of the by-law or by-laws authorizing the issuing bentures inthereof, shall render the same invalid, or illegal, or be allowed valid. as a defence to any action brought against the said corporation for the recovery of the amount of the said debentures and interest, on any or either of them or any part thereof. by-law or de not discharged. 11. Nothing in this Act contained, shall be held or taken to Liability of discharge the corporation of the county of Lennox and Adding- corporation ton from any indebtedness or liability which may not be included in the said debt of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. CHAPTER 40. An Act to authorize the Corporation of the City of [Assented to 4th March, 1881.] W HEREAS the municipal council of the corporation of the Preamble. city of London have, by their petition, represented that the lands hereinafter mentioned were purchased by the said corporation from the Government of Canada, and were, with other lands, by letters patent, under the great seal of the Dominion of Canada, bearing date the twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, granted to the said corporation, to hold unto the said corporation for the following purposes, that is to say: the two and one-half acres at the east end of the block, parcel or tract of land therein and hereinafter mentioned, next to Waterloo street, for the purpose of a high school, and the remainder of the said block, parcel or tract of land, containing three acres, two roods and eleven perches, more or less, for the purposes |