Court.

Policemen and Recorder's Court in the name of the said Corporation or of in Recorder's any member of the Police Force of the said city, provided they are brought for offences committed within the limits of the said city; and all and every the provisions of the said last cited Act in regard to said offences and the mode of prosecuting and punishing therefor, and all the proceedings, orders and convictions authorized and commanded to be made in and by the said Act, shall be incorporated with this Act, with such modifications as are necessary for their application to the said Recorder's Court.

Judgments of
Recorder's

registered summarily.

53. Notwithstanding any thing to the contrary contained in the Acts fourteenth and fifteenth Victoria, chapter one hundred Court may be and twenty-eight, and eighteenth Victoria, chapter one hundred and sixty-two, it shall not be necessary hereafter to enregister at length the proceedings and judgments of the Recorder's Court in cases respecting the recovery of assessments, taxes and other dues of the like nature, but such proceedings and judgments shall be enregistered summarily; and it shall not be necessary, in any summons or action before the Recorder's Court, to specify or recite the By-law under which such action is brought, but it shall be sufficient to state that it is in virtue of the By-law in that behalf made.

Sect. 45 of 14,

54. The forty-fifth section of the Act fourteenth and fifteenth 15 V. c. 128, Victoria, chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, is hereby amended so that the word "February," wherever it occurs in the said section, shall be replaced by the word " April."

amended.

Contrary enactments.

Act not to re

law.

55. All the provisions of any law inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

56. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal peal any By- any By-law heretofore made under any Act or part of an Act or provision of law hereby repealed; and notwithstanding such repeal every such By-law now in force shall have the same force and effect as if this Act had not been passed unless and until the same be repealed or altered by virtue of this Act.

Public Act.

57. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

САР.

CAP. LXXIII.

An Act to authorize the Corporation of the City of
Montreal to acquire a site upon which to erect a
Terminus for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.

[Assented to 19th May, 1860.]

HEREAS "The Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Montreal" have, by their petition, applied for authority to enable them to acquire in the said city a lot of land suitable for the erection of a terminus for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada and to carry into effect an arrangement made between them and the Grand Trunk Railway Company, and it is expedient to grant them such authority: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

Preamble.

certain lot and

1. The Corporation of " The Mayor, Aldermen and Citi- Corporation zens of the City of Montreal" is hereby authorized to acquire may acquire a in the said city, at the foot of McGill street, on the West side convey it to of the said street, a lot of land which they shall be empowered the Company to cede and give to the said Grand Trunk Railway Company, for a Termifor the erection of a terminus; provided the said Corporation tain condidoes not pay for the said lot a sum exceeding fifty thousand tions. dollars, and provided that the said cession and donation shall only be made to the said Company, subject to the conditions following, that is to say:

nus, on cer

built.

1. That the said Grand Trunk Railway Company shall Station to be construct and erect, on the lot so ceded and given, a freight station, adequate to the requirements of the commerce of the said city, and also a passenger depot;

used as a Sta

2. That in the event of the said lot so ceded ceasing to be Reversion of employed as a station or terminus of the said Grand Trunk lot when not Railway, the ownership thereof shall pleno jure revert to the tion. said Corporation, who may forthwith take possession thereof and make use of it for municipal purposes, or dispose of it in any other way they may think proper;

3. That the said Company, upon taking possession of the To be used said lot, shall forthwith proceed to have a line of rails laid forthwith. down to connect the said lot with the said Grand Trunk Railway, and with all possible diligence to erect on the said lot the buildings necessary for the said station.

bonds at not more than 10

2. To enable the said Corporation to acquire the lot in Corporation question, they are hereby authorized to issue bonds or deben- may issue tures to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, redeemable in five or ten years, and bearing interest at six per per cent. incentum per annum.

3. This Act shall be a Public Act.

terest.

Public Act.

CAP.

Preamble.

Powers of

School Commissioners

transferred to

cil.

CAP. LXXIV.

An Act further to amend the Act Incorporating the
City of Three-Rivers.

W

[Assented to 19th May, 1860.]

THEREAS the Corporation of the City of Three-Rivers have, by their Petitions, prayed that the powers of the ⚫ School Commissioners of the Municipality of the City of ThreeRivers may be transferred to the Council of the said City, and that further amendments may be made to the Act incorporating the said City; and whereas it is expedient to grant such prayer: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. From and after the passing of this Act, all the powers and duties of the School Commissioners for the School Municipality of the City of Three-Rivers shall be vested in and devolve upon the City Coun- the Corporation of the said City, and the Mayor and Councillors of the said City, and their successors in office, shall be ex officio the School Commissioners for the said City for all the purposes whatsoever of the Schools in the said City; the Mayor shall be ex officio the Chairman, and their corporate name, when acting as such Commissioners, shall be "The School Commissioners for the City of Three-Rivers."

Corporate name,-and Chairman.

School Com

missioners to

hand over

books, papers,

money, &c.

Penalty for default.

Rights of dissentient

Schools, saved.

Dissentient
Councillors

not to act as
Commission-

ers.

2. So soon as this Act shall come into force, the School Commissioners then in office, and their Secretary-Treasurer, shall be bound to deliver over to the Secretary-Treasurer of the said City, all the books, papers, money and other moveable property, and also all the immoveable property, which the said School Commissioners may have in their possession, together with a statement in detail and under the oath of the SecretaryTreasurer of the said Commissioners, of all the moneys which have been collected and expended by them in the course of the two last School years, and of the balance they may have in hand; and upon failure by them so to do, they shall severally be liable to the fines and penalties and to the other provisions established by and contained in the Act nineteenth, and twentieth Victoria, chapter fourteen.

3. Nothing contained in this Act shall derogate from or affect the rights of dissentients or dissentient Schools, which shall continue and have force and effect in all respects as though this Act had not been passed.

4. No Councillor being a dissentient shall act as a School Commissioner, in case there shall be one or more dissentient Schools in operation in the said City; but the other members of the said Council shall act as such Commissioners.

5. In case the Mayor is a dissentient, the members of the Provision if said Corporation, qualified to act as such Commissioners, shall the Mayor is a choose one from among their number to be the Chairman of the said School Commissioners.

dissentient.

6. The right of granting licenses for ferries from one shore Corporation of the River St. Lawrence to the other, the place of arrival or to grant ferry departure being within the limits of the said City, shall be licenses. vested exclusively in the Corporation of the said City.

7. No member of the said Corporation shall be entitled to Councillors vote on any question in which he may have any direct pecu- not to vote niary interest, distinct from the common interests of all the when inteinhabitants of the said City.

rested.

8. The existence or legality of the Statutes or By-Laws Legality, &c., passed by the said Corporation, and invoked in any action or of By-laws judicial proceeding whatsoever, shall be taken to be admitted presumed if when so invoked, unless such existence or legality be specially questioned. not specially called in question.

Electors and

:

9. By the public notice required to be given for the holding Mayor to be of any election by the eighth section of the Act incorporating chosen by the said City, a meeting of the municipal electors of the said Municipal City shall also be summoned to be held at nine o'clock in the when and forenoon, at the City Hall, for the purpose of choosing a person how. to be the Mayor of the said City, and if but one candidate then and there offers himself or is proposed to the said electors, the Chairman of the said meeting shall proclaim such person to be duly elected Mayor; and if two or more persons present themselves, or are proposed as candidates, the election shall be held in the manner prescribed by the Act of Incorporation, in each Ward of the said City.

10. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. LXXV.

An Act to incorporate the Town of Sorel.

[Assented to 19th May, 1860.]

Public Act.

HEREAS the provisions of the Lower Canada Munici- Preamble. pal and Road Act of 1855, and of the Acts amending the same, do not meet the present requirements of the town or borough of William Henry, or Sorel; and whereas it is necessary to make more ample provision for regulating the internal affairs of the said Town: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. From and after the passing of this Act, the inhabitants of Town of Sorel the Town of Sorel, as hereinafter described, and their successors, incorporated. shall

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Corporate name and powers.

shall be and are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name of "The Mayor and Council of the Town of Sorel," and separated from the County of Richelieu for all municipal purposes, and by the same name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power to sue and to be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all Courts and in all actions, causes and suits at law whatsoever, and shall have a Common Seal, with power to alter and modify the Real property. same at their will and pleasure; and shall be in law capable of receiving by donation, acquiring, holding and departing with any property, real or moveable, for the use of the said Town; of becoming parties to any contracts or agreements in the maBonds, notes, nagement of the affairs of the said Town; and of giving or accepting any notes, bonds, obligations, judgments or other instruments or securities, for the payment of, or securing the payment of any sum of money borrowed or loaned, or for the execution or guaranteeing the execution of any duty, right or thing whatsoever.

&c.

the town.

Boundaries of 2. The said Town of Sorel shall comprise all that portion or tract of land forming part of the County of Richelieu, bounded in front by the River Sorel, otherwise called the River Richelieu or Chambly, in the rear by a line running parallel to the east side of Royal Square, in the said Town of William Henry, at a distance therefrom of one hundred chains, measured perpendicularly, on the North side by the River St. Lawrence, and on the South side by a line parallel to the South side of Royal Square, in the said Town, at a distance therefrom of one hundred and twenty chains, the said limits corresponding with the limits of said Town, as already established by competent authority.

be elected.

Mayor and six 3. There shall be elected, from time to time, in the manner Councillors to hereinafter mentioned, a fit and proper person who shall be and be called the Mayor of the Town of Sorel, and six fit persons who shall be and be called the Councillors of the Town of Sorel; and such Mayor and Councillors for the time being shall form the Council of the said Town, and shall be designated as such, and shall represent for all purposes whatsoever the Corporation of the Town of Sorel.

Qualification

of Mayor.

4. 1. No person shall be capable of being elected Mayor of the Town of Sorel, unless he shall have been a resident householder within the said Town for one year before such election, nor unless he be possessed to his own use, in his own name or in the name of his wife, of real estate, within the said Town, of the value of one thousand dollars, after payment or deduction of his just debts :

Qualification 2. No person shall be capable of being elected a Councillor of Councillors. of the said Town, unless he shall have been a resident of the