Seventh Class as aforesaid, the sum of seventeen shillings and six pence, as his rate or proportion of the district assessment, to be levied for the uses and purposes aforesaid.

XIX. And also to demand and receive, for and during the time aforesaid, of the 6th clase. of every Inhabitant Householder, whose name shall be included in such Eighth Class as aforesaid, the sum of twenty shillings, as his rate or proportion of the district assessment, to be levied for the uses and purposes aforesaid.

XX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Collect or of each and every parish, township, reputed township or place, shall, and he is hereby required once in every three months to pay or cause to be paid to the Treasurer of the district, all such monies as he shall have received under and by virtue of this Act, and shall also produce the book or books of assessment for the examination of the said Treasurer, and it shall and may be lawful for the said Treasurer, upon being satisfied that all the monies to be received by virtue of this Act have been duly collected and paid or accounted for by the Collector, to pay into the hands of the said Collector, the sum of three pounds for every hundred pounds so by him collected and paid as aforesaid, and at and after the same rate and proportion, for any sum less than one hundred pounds, by him collected and paid, and the said Treasurer shall and is hereby required to give a receipt for the monies so collected and paid over to him, which receipt shall be a good and sufficient discharge, to the said Collector, for the monies so collected and paid by him to the said Treasurer.

Provision for the cur

XXI. Provided always and be it enacted, That for the purposes of the current year. rent year which will determine on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, it shall and may be lawful, for the said Collectors, and they are hereby required, to demand and levy in manner hereinafter to be mentioned, from each and every Inhabitant, according to the several classes in which they shall respectively be included, one half of the rate to be yearly assessed on each and every class according to the proportions herein before set forth, and that each and every person whose name shall be returned in the First Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of fifteen pence, that each and every person whose name shall be returned in the Second Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of two shillings and six pence, that each and every person, whose name shall be returned in the Third Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of three shillings and nine pence, and that each and every person whose name shall be returned in the Fourth Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of five shillings, and that each and every person, whose name shall be returned in the Fifth Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of six shillings and three pence, and that each and every person, whose name shall be returned in the Sixth Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of seven shillings and six pence, and that each and every person, whose name shall be returned in the Seventh Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of eight shillings and nine pence, and that each and every person, whose name shall be returned in the Eighth Class, shall pay for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of ten shillings.

F

XXII.

No collector to act without having entered into a bond with a sufficient surety.

(Sec 48 Geo, III. c 14, $2 and 53d c 9, s 2.

A treasurer to be ap.

pointed by the justices in quarter sessions for their respective Districts, to whom he shall give sufficient security.

XXII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Collectors shall make out a Book of Account, containing the names of each Inhabitant Householder, within their parish, township, reputed township, or place, who are liable to be charged with such assessment, divided into their respective classes, according to the returns made by such Assessors as aforesaid, and that upon the payment of the rate so charged upon them in their several classes, the said Inhabitant Householders, and each of them may require the Collector to write the word " paid," opposite to his or her name, and likewise to write down in figures the sum so paid in a ruled column or margin in such Book to be made, and that such entry shall be a full and sufficient discharge to such Inhabitant Householder for the payment of the said

rate.

XXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any Inhabitant Householder shall refuse or neglect to pay the sum or rate, for which he stands classed and rated in manner aforesaid, by the space of fourteen days after demand duly made of the same by the said Collector, such Collector shall, and he is hereby required, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person so neglecting or refusing to pay, having first obtained a warrant for that purpose, under the hand and seal of some Justice of the Peace, within the said District, and to render the overplus, if any there shall be, after deducting the amount of the rate assessed and the charges of the distress and sale, to the owner thereof.

XXIV. Repealed by 46 Geo. III. c 5, s 6:

XXV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Justices at their respective General Quarter Sessions, or the greater part of them, then and there assembled, to nominate and appoint a proper person, being resident in the said District, to be Treasurer of the said District, which Treasurer shall give sufficient security, in such sunis, as shall be approved of by the said Justices at their respective General Quarter Sessions, or the greater part of them, then and there assembled, to be accountable for the several sums of money which shall be respectively paid to him in pursuance of this Act, and to pay such sum or sums of money as shall be ordered to be paid by the Justices in their General Quarter Sesseions, and also for the due and faithful execution of the trust reposed in him, and all and every such sum or sums of money as shall be paid into his hands by virtue of and in pursuance of this Act, shall be deemed and taken to be the public stock of the District, and the said Treasurer shall and is hereby required, to pay so much of the money in his hands, to such person and persons as the said Justices at their respective General Quarter Sessions, or the greater part of them, then and there assembled, shall by their orders direct and appoint, for the uses and purposes herein before recited, and for any other uses and purposes to which the public stock of any District is or shall be applicable by law, reserving at all and every time or times to and for his own use, and as a reward for his labor and expence, the sum of three pounds for every hundred, that shall or may be paid into his hands by the said Colkent, to the treasurer on lectors for the purposes aforesaid.

In what manner and

to what uses the public stock of the District shall be applied.

Allowance of 3 per

anomies received.

Treasurer to keep

books of entries, and at

every quarter sessions to lay before the jusreceipts and disburse

tices a statement of his

XXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Treasurer shall, and is hereby required, to keep Books of Entries of the several sums respectively received and paid by him in pursuance of this Act, and also to deliver in true and exact accounts upon oath, if required, (which oath any one of the Justices at their respective General Quarter Sessions is hereby ments. authorized to administer) of all and every sum or sums of money respectively received and paid by him, distinguishing the particular uses to which such sum or sums of money have been applied, to the Justices at every General Quarter Sessions to be holden for the District, and shall lay before the Justices of such Session the proper vouchers for the same, and the discharges of the said Justices of the Peace, or the greater part of them, by their orders made at their General Quarter Sessions to such Treasurer, shall be taken and allowed, as good and sufficient acquittances to the full amount thereof.

XXVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Justices of the Peace, at their General Quarter Sessions assembled, or the greater part of them, from time to time, to continue such Treasurer in his office so long as they shall see convenient, and to remove him at their pleasure, and appoint any other person in his place.

Treasurer to be con

tinued, or removed, at pleasure, by the justices quartersessions.

Provision for the future assessments, after

years.

XXVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in order to make provision for the District Assessment after the expiration of two years the expiration of two as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace, in their General Quarter Sessions in the month of April assembled, or the greater part of them, to cause an estimate to be laid before them of the sum or sums of money, that may be necessary, to defray the charges and expences accruing to their respective Districts, for the uses and purposes aforesaid, for the ensuing year, and having determined and resolved upon the same, to cause the amount of the sum to be raised, to be divided, in an exact proportion to the rate with which each class is severally charged, as herein before is provided, and to declare that the assessment required will be a half rate, a third, fourth, fifth, eighth, or any aliquot part of a rate, by computing the proportion, which the sum proposed to be raised bears to the amount of the sum, which shall have been raised by the original rates of two shillings and six pence, five shillings, ten shillings and twenty shillings, severally imposed on each respective class as aforesaid, and for that purpose to make a special order declaring the amount of the sum intended to be raised, and specifying the fractional part of the rate to be assessed and collected (in case it shall of a rate to be assessed not be deemed necessary to impose an entire rate, according to the proportions aforesaid) on each and every Inhabitant Householder, according to their respective classes as aforesaid, which order being signed by the said Justices in their General Quarter Sessions in the month of April assembled, or the greater part of them, shall be binding upon each and every Inhabitant Householder, in respect of the rate, with which he stands charged throughout this Province. And the High Constable shall, at such times as the said Justices by their order in Sessions shall direct, cause such rates to be levied by a warrant under his hand, directed to the Assessors and Collector of every parish, township, reputed township or place within this Province.

XXIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no new As

The fractional part

when it will suffice.

No new assessmen sessment to be made until 3-4t

he exponded.

of the preceding rate sessment shall be made, until it shall appear to the Justices at their respective General Quarter Sessions, or the greater part of them, then and there assembled, by the accounts of their Treasurer or otherwise, that three-fourths of the money collected by virtue of the preceding rate, shall have been expended for the uses and purposes mentioned in this Act.

The members of the House of Assembly to be allowed wages for their attendance thereat, not exceeding 10s per day.

XXX. [Repealed by 43 Geo. III. c 11, s 2.]

SCHEDULE.

HIGH CONSTABLE'S WARRANT, to Levy the Rate.

To the ASSESSORS and COLLECTOR of the township of

in the said District.

Form of high consts: WESTERNB and for this District in their General Quarter Sessions as

Y virtue of an order from His Majesty's Justices of the Peace,

ble's warrant for levying the rate.

Form of an Assessment.

---42, c 2, s 6.43, c 11

sembled, yon are hereby required to raise the sum of

within your

township, in such manner as by a certain Act of the Legislature of this Province, for that purpose, passed in the thirty third year of his present Majesty's Reign, is directed, being the proportion of your township (or parish) for and towards the General District Assessment for defraying the expences of building a Goal and Court-House and keeping the same in repair, for the payment of the Goaler's salary, for the support and maintenance of Prisoners, for building and repairing Houses of Correction, for the construction and repairing of Bridges and other purposes in the said Act mentioned, and hereof you are not to fail on the peril that shall ensue thereof.

Given under my hand this

Township of

day of

A. H. High Constable.

FORM OF AN ASSESSMENT.

EASTERN DISTRICT. A building a Gaol and Court-House, and keeping N Assessment for defraying the expences of (See 34 Geo. III. c 6. the same in repair, for the payment of the Gaoler's salary, for the support and -46, c 5.--48, c 14-maintenance of Prisoners, for building and repairing Houses of Correction, 51, c8-53, c9-55, for the construction and repair of Bridges and other purposes mentioned in an Act of the Legislature of this Province, of the thirty-third year of his present Majesty, intituled, an Act to for the township, or reputed township, called made and Assessed the

c 5.--56, c 18, s 4.)

day of

in the county of

Class I. Containing the names of such Inhabitant Householders living within the township aforesaid, as we to the best of our knowledge and judgment, do believe are possessed of real or personal property, goods or effects to the value of Fifty Pounds, and not amounting to One Hundred Pounds, and who are severally and each to pay the sum of two shillings and six pence, in respect of their rate and proportion of the said Assessment.

G. H.

I. K.First Class : rate two shillings and six pence.
L. M.

Class II. Containing the names of such Inhabitant Householders, living within the township aforesaid, as we to the best of our knowledge and Judg

ment

ment, believe are possessed of real or personal property, goods or effects to their own use, to the value of One Hundred Pounds, and not amounting to One Hundred and Fifty Pounds, and who are severally and each to pay five shillings, in respect to their rate and proportion of the said assessment.

N. O.

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P. Q. Second class: rate five shillings.
R. S.

Class III. Containing, &c. Class VIII. Containing, &c.

Assessed by us

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Assessors

CHA P. IV.

An Act to regulate the laying out, amending and keeping in repair, the PUBLIC HIGHWAYS and ROADS within this Province.

[Repealed by 50 Geo. III. c 1.]

CHAP. V.

An Act to Confirm and make valid certain MARRIAGES heretofore contracted in the Country, now comprised within the Province of Upper-Canada, and to provide for the futnre SOLEMNIZATION of MARRIAGE within the same.

Preamble.

HEREAS, many Marriages have been contracted in this Province at a time when it was impossible to observe the forms prescribed by law for the Solemnization thereof, by reason that there was no Protestant Parson or Minister duly ordained residing in any part of the said Province, nor any consecrated Protestant Church or Chapel within the same, and whereas the parties having contracted such Marriages, and their issue may therefore be subjected to various disabilities, in order to quiet the minds of such persons, and to provide for the future Solemnization of Marriage within this Province, Be it enacted and declared by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper-Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great-Britain, intituled," An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province," and by the authority of the same, That the Marriage and Marriages of all persons, not being under any canonical disqualification to contract contracted, before any Matrimony, that have been publicly contracted before any Magistrate or ployment, declared vaCommanding Officer of a Post, or Adjutant, or Surgeon of a Regiment, act- lid,

Marriages heretofor person in public em