of the said town of London East, respectively; and in the event of the submission of the by-law referred to in the forty-sixth section hereof to the electors of the said town, every elector may vote in each ward of the said town in which he may have the necessary qualification. SCHEDULE "A." A by-law to provide for the issue of water-works debentures to the amount of $ under the authority of "An Act to authorize the village of London East to construct and maintain water-works, and to incorporate said village as a town. Whereas, the said recited Act authorizes the issue of debentures for the purposes therein mentioned to an amount not exceeding dollars; and whereas a by-law authorizing the construction of water-works for the village of London East, by the authority of the said recited Act, has been duly passed in accordance therewith, and the expenditure thereby authorized to be incurred is the sum of Be it therefore enacted by the municipal council of the corporation of the village of London East as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the water commissioners of the village of London East to raise by way of loan from any person or body corporate who may be willing to advance the same, upon the credit of the debentures hereinafter mentioned, a sum of money, not exceeding in the whole the sum of dollars, and to cause the same to be paid into the branch or agency office of the at the City of London, to be kept and applied in the manner provided in section forty-two of the said Act. 2. The reeve may cause any number of debentures, which shall be marked and known as water-works debentures, to be made for such sums as may be required, but not for less than one hundred dollars, or twenty pounds of sterling money of Great Britain each, and such debentures shall be made under the common seal of the said village, and signed by the reeve and treasurer thereof. 3. The said debentures shall be made payable in years at furthest, from the date of the respective issue thereof either in sterling money of Great Britain, or currency of this Province, or Great Britain, or elsewhere, and shall have attached to them coupons for the payment of interest. 4. The said debentures shall bear interest after the rate of per centum per annum from the date thereof, and the interest shall be payable half-yearly, on the first days of January and July in each and every year. Passed Passed in open council the the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty and given under the corporate seal of the said muni cipality. First ward shall comprise all that part of the said town which is bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-west angle of lot formerly known as number twelve in concession "C" of the township of London, then easterly along the south boundary of said lot twelve, lot eleven and lot ten, in said concession "C," to the centre of the south boundary of said lot ten; then northerly along the eastern limit of said town to the south side of Florence street; then westerly along the south side of Florence, Campbell, and York streets to Adelaide street, then southerly along the east side of Adelaide street to the place of beginning. Second ward shall comprise all that part of the said town which is bounded as follows: Commencing on the east side of Adelaide street at its junction with the north boundary of York street, then northerly along the east side of Adelaide street to the south side of Queen's Avenue, then easterly along the south side of Queen's Avenue to the west side of Quebec street, then southerly along the west side of Quebec street to the south side of Dundas street, then easterly along the south side of Dundas street to the eastern limit of the said town, then southerly along the eastern limit of said town to the north side of Florence street, then westerly along the north side of Florence, Campbell and York streets, to the place of beginning. Third ward shall comprise all that part of the said town. which is bounded as follows: Commencing on the north side of Queen's Avenue at its junction with Adelaide street, then easterly along the north side of Queen's Avenue to the east side of Quebec street, then southerly along the east side of Quebec street to the north side of Dundas street, then easterly along the north side of Dundas street, to the south east corner of "Abbott's Survey," then northerly along the eastern limit of "Abbott's Survey" to the north east angle thereof, then westerly along the northerly limit of said survey to the westerly limit of lot number ten in the first concession of the township of London, then northerly along the said last mentioned limit to the centre of the said first concession, then westerly along the centre of said concession to the south east angle of the north west quarter of lot number eleven in the said first concession, then northerly along the easterly limit of the said north west quarter of lot number eleven to the southerly limit of the road allowance, between the first and second second concessions of the said township of London, then westerly along the said last mentioned road allowance to the easterly limit of Adelaide street, and then southerly along the said last mentioned limit to the place of beginning. CHAPTER 42. An Act respecting the Village of Millpoint. [Assented to 4th March, 1881.] WHEREAS the corporation of the village of Millpoint have by their petition represented that they desire to change the name of the said village, and that hereafter the same may be known as the village of Deseronto; 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. The name of the village of Millpoint, in the county of Hastings, shall be and the same is hereby changed to the village of Deseronto, and hereafter the corporation of the village of Millpoint shall be known as and called the corporation of the village of Deseronto. 2. All the by-laws of the said the corporation of the village of Millpoint shall, until altered or repealed by said corporation, be and remain the by-laws of the said the corporation of the village of Deseronto, and all elections held heretofore and appointments made, and which were and are in force at the passing of this Act, shall be held and taken in all respects as if the said change of name had taken place when the same were made and had, and in all and every respect whatsoever the said corporation of the village of Deseronto shall be taken and held to be the same as the corporation of the village of Millpoint. CHAPTER 43. An Act to organize the Municipality of Neebing. [Assented to 4th March, 1881.] WHEREAS John McKellar, Peter McKellar, Edward Ingalls, P. L. Knappin, Neil McDougall, J. N. Black, Daniel McKellar, and P. J. Brown, being householders and freeholders of the municipality of Shuniah, have, by their petition, represented that it is desirable that certain portions of the said municipality should should be withdrawn therefrom and formed into a new municipality, and have prayed that an Act may be passed for that purpose; 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. The following townships, islands, and other lands in the Limits of district of Thunder Bay, namely: the townships of Blake, of Neebing. municipality Crooks, Pardee, Paipoonge, Neebing, McKellar, and the several islands in front of the said townships, respectively, and forming parts thereof, are hereby withdrawn from the municipality of Shuniah and organized as a separate municipality, called "The Municipality of Neebing," and the inhabitants thereof Corporate are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of name. 'The Corporation of the Municipality of Neebing." 2. The said corporation shall have and possess all the rights, Corporation to have rights of powers, liabilities and incidents of a township municipality; township muand the council thereof shall have power to pass by-laws for nicipalities. such purposes as are provided for townships under "The Municipal Act," and the provisions of the said Act, and of "The Assessment Act" relating to township municipalities and their officers shall apply to the municipality erected under this Act, except where inconsistent with any express provision of this Act; and the provisions of the law at any time in force respecting public schools in municipalities without county organization shall also apply to the said municipality, and all the provisions of law now applying to the municipality of Shuniah, and not inconsistent with this Act, shall also apply to the said municipality of Neebing. liable for all cipality of 3. The sections of the Municipal Act, from fifty to sixty Municipality inclusive, relating to matters consequent upon the formation of Neebing of new corporations, except as hereinafter provided, shall apply claims existing to the municipality of Neebing, and nothing contained in this against muniAct shall free the townships or wards comprising the muni- Shuniah. cipality of Neebing from any liability now existing against the municipality of Shuniah, and the creditors of the said municipality of Shuniah shall continue to have all the rights and remedies which they had previous to the passing of this Act for the enforcement of their claims against the townships and wards heretofore composing the said municipality of Shuniah. 4. The said municipality of Neebing shall be entitled to Takes to which ninety per cent. of all taxes levied in any of the wards form- municipality of Neebing ing said municipality of Neeting previous to the passing of entitled. this Act, and the said municipality of Neebing shall have full power and authority to collect the same, or any part thereof uncollected at the time of the coming into force of this Act. Wards. First election. Returning officers. First meeting of council. and remunera 5. Every township, with the islands in front thereof, within the distance of one mile, shall be considered, and is hereby declared to be, a ward of the said new municipality; except that the islands numbered one and two at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River, together with Georgina Islet in front, shall be attached to the township of McKellar, and constitute the McKellar Ward. 6. The nominations for the first election shall be held at Fort William, and the polling shall take place at such times and at such places within the municipality as the stipendiary magistrate of the district of Thunder Bay shall, by his proclamation, appoint. The polling day shall not be less than two weeks nor more than six weeks from the day of nomination. 7. Such persons shall act as returning officers in the various wards as the said stipendiary magistrate may in writing ap. point. 8. The first meeting of the council shall be held at a time and place to be fixed by the stipendiary magistrate. Appointment 9. The said council shall, at their first meeting, or as early tion of clerk, as possible thereafter, appoint a clerk, treasurer, and collector, treasurer, and who shall hold office until removed or dismissed by said councollector. cil; and the said council shall also fix the remuneration to be paid said officers, by by-law to be passed for that purpose. Appointment of assessor. Roll to be returned to clerk. Appeal against assessment. Council to hear and determine appeals. 10. The said council shall, as early as convenient after their first meeting, appoint one or more assessors, who shall enter upon a roll, to be provided for that purpose, the names of all the freeholders and householders in said municipality, and the amount of all the real and personal property owned by them respectively, and the actual value thereof, at the same time entering on said roll whether the owners are resident or not; and the said assessor or assessors shall duly notify the person or persons so assessed by leaving a notice at his or her place of abode, or if a non-resident, by mailing the same at the nearest post office, to the address of the person so assessed, if known, stating in such notice the particulars of said assessment. 11. The said roll shall be returned to the clerk of the municipality within such time as shall be provided for by a by-law to be passed by said council. 12. Any person so assessed, if he shall complain of his assessment, shall within one month after the time fixed for returning said roll, notify, in writing, the clerk, of his grounds of complaint. 13. The said council shall thereafter appoint a time and place, which time shall be on some day during the months of |