An Act to amend and extend the provisions of the Act twenty-second Victoria, Chapter seventy-four, relating to the Town of Dundas. [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] Preamble, 22 V. c. 74. Corporation may issue de bentures under the said Act, and provide a Sinking Fund, W THEREAS the Corporation of the Town of Dundas have by their petition set forth that they are desirous of issuing Debentures under the provisions of the Act passed in the twenty-second year of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter seventyfour, and intituled: "An Act to enable the Municipal Corporation of the Town of Dundas to consolidate its debt, and to issue new Debentures for the redemption thereof," and that the said Corporation desire to have power to levy a special rate for the redemption of such amount only of the said Debentures as the said Corporation may, from time to time, actually issue and dispose of, and it is expedient to grant their 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, it shall be lawful for the Corporation of the said Town of Dundas, from time to time, to pass one or more By-laws for the issuing of Debentures under the authority of the said Act twenty-second Victoria, chapter seventy-four, for the purposes mentioned and set forth therein, and in and by such By-law or By-laws respectively to provide for, impose and levy a special rate of two per cent. as a Sinking Fund, for the redemption of such only of the said Debentures, as the said Corporation shall, from time to time, actually issue and dispose of. certain forma 2. It shall not be necessary to obtain the assent of the Mu- Such By-laws nicipal Electors of the said Corporation to the passing of any not subject to By-law under the authority of this Act, or in relation thereto, lities. to observe the formalities of or prescribed by the two hundred and twenty-third and two hundred and twenty-fourth sections of chapter fifty-four of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada. 3. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. XCV. An Act to amend the Act providing for the separation of the County of Peel from the County of York, and to provide for the selection of the County Town of the County of Peel. W [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] Public Act. Preamble. HEREAS a vote of the qualified Municipal Electors of the County of Peel has been taken on the question of the separation of the County of Peel from the County of York, in pursuance of the Act passed in the Session held in the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled: "An Act to provide for the separation of the County of Peel 19, 20 V. c. 66. from the County of York," and a majority of votes recorded in favor of such separation; And whereas the Provisional Council of the said County of Peel have represented to the Legislature, that the selection of the County Town of the said County, made by the said Council, in pursuance of the fourth section of the said Act, is unsatisfactory to a large majority of the inhabitants of the said County, and have, by their petition, prayed that the selection so made be set aside, and some other means provided for the selection of the County Town of the said County; And whereas it is desirable that such selection be made by the Municipal Electors of the said County: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The fourth section of the said recited Act, and all acts Section 4 of done and proceedings taken by the said Provisional Council on 19, 20 V. c. 66, the authority thereof, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. repealed. be taken as to 2. The said Provisional Council shall, at some meeting to By-law to be be hereafter called for that purpose by the Provisional Warden made for a vote of the said Council, or at some adjournment thereof, proceed to of electors to pass a By-law for the purpose of taking a vote of the Municipal County Town. Electors of the said County of Peel, on the selection of one of the three following places, namely, Malton, Brampton and Streetsville, as the County Town for the said County. 3. At least ten days notice of such meeting shall be given Notice of in some newspaper published in the said County of Peel, or if meeting for 29* none such vote. none be at the time published therein, then in some newspaper published in the adjoining County, and at least ten day's notice in writing shall also be given to each member of the said Provisional Council by being delivered to himself personally, left at his residence, or sent by mail to his usual Post Office address. 4. The said By-law shall provide for the taking of a vote of the Municipal Electors of the said County, on the selection of one of the three places hereinbefore named, as the County Town of the said County, in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as would be required on a By-law of the said Provisional Council requiring the approval of the Electors. 5. All the provisions of the Act respecting the Municipal Institutions of Upper Canada, so far as the same relates to the taking of a vote of the Municipal Electors on a By-law of a County Council, shall, as nearly as may be, apply to the vote to be taken under this Act. 6. In case of an equality of votes on any two or more places, the Provisional Warden shall have a casting vote, and the place for which the greatest number of votes shall have been given, shall be the County Town of the said County of Peel. 7. The said Provisional Council shall and may purchase or acquire land at the place so selected, and erect the necessary County Buildings thereon, and shall and may have and exercise all the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred on Provisional Municipal Councils by law, and all the Laws in force in Upper Canada, respecting the separation of Junior Counties from Senior Counties to which they have been united, shall, so far as not otherwise provided for, apply to the separation of the said County of Peel from the County of York. 8. Provided always, that the By-law providing means for purchasing or acquiring land, and for erecting the necessary buildings thereon, shall, before its final passing, be submitted to the Municipal Electors of the County, and a vote shall be taken upon the same in like manner as provided by the one hundred and ninety-third section of Chapter fifty-four of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada. 9. This Act, and the said first recited Act, shall be considered as one Act. 10. This Act shall be a Public Act. САР. CAP. XCVI. An Act to divide the Township of Sandwich, in the HEREAS it is expedient to separate the Township of Sandwich, in the County of Essex, into two distinct Municipalities, inasmuch as such division of the said Township will greatly promote the welfare and convenience of its inhabitants: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: Preamble. ed and consti tuted. 1. Upon, from and after the first day of January, one thousand Township of eight hundred and sixty-one, all that portion of the said Sandwich Township of Sandwich, which lies to the east of the Talbot East describand Windsor Road and the allowance for road between the Fourth and Fifth Concessions of Sandwich Petite Côte, shall constitute a separate Township or Municipality, by the name of the Township of Sandwich East; and the said Township of Sandwich East shall thereafter be deemed to be such separate Municipality for all Municipal, School and other purposes whatsoever, in the same manner, to all intents and purposes, as though the said Township had always been distinct from and had never formed part of said Township of Sandwich, and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges appertaining to other Townships in Upper Canada; and the remainder of said Remainder of Township shall be a Township of itself by the name of the Sandwich to Township of Sandwich West. 2. All and every the assets and debts of the present Municipality of Sandwich shall be divided between the respective Municipalities of Sandwich East, on the one hand, and Sandwich West, on the other, in the same manner and by the same proceedings, as nearly as may be, as in the case of a separation of a junior Township from a senior Township, and as soon as the said debts shall have been divided as aforesaid, each of the said Municipalities shall be bound to the payment of the share of the said debts which shall have been so assigned to it as aforesaid, as though such share of the said debts had been incurred by such Municipalities respectively. form Sandwich West. How the debts of the present township shall be paid. 3. The first Election of Municipal Councillors, for the said First munici Townships, shall take place on the first Monday of January, in pal election. the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one : And the place for holding such Election, for the Township of Place in SandSandwich West, shall be where the last annual Election of wich West. Councillors for the Township of Sandwich was holden; and the Returning Officer at such Election shall be the Township Clerk of the present Township of Sandwich; And And the place for holding the Election, for the Township of Sandwich East, shall be at the School House, near the Pilette Road, on the Tecumseth Road, in the said Township; and the Sheriff, for the time being, of the County of Essex shall be the Returning Officer for the said Election; and the proceedings. generally, in reference to such elections and to all matters not hereinafter specifically provided for, shall be the same as in the case of the separation of a Junior Township from a Senior Township under the Act respecting the Municipal Institutions of Upper Canada, and Sandwich West shall be deemed to have been the Senior Township, and Sandwich East shall be deemed to have been the Junior Township. 4. The Clerk of the said Township of Sandwich shall furnish to the Returning Officer of the Township of Sandwich East, before the said Election, a copy of the Assessment Roll of the Township of Sandwich for the present year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, so far as the same contains the rateable property assessed, and the names of the owners, tenants and occupants thereof, within that part of the said Township which is hereby constituted the Township of Sandwich East. 5. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. XCVII. An Act relating to the Sale of Land for Taxes in the W [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] HEREAS the Treasurer of the United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria issued his Warrant, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, to the Sheriff of the said United Counties, to sell certain lands, therein mentioned, for the non-payment of taxes; and whereas, in pursuance thereof, the Sheriff advertised the said lands for three months in the local paper, and by an inadvertency the same were advertised in the Canada Gazette for only thirteen weeks; and whereas doubts have arisen as to the sufficiency of the last mentioned notice, and it is expedient to set at rest such doubts: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The said Notice in the Canada Gazette shall be held and taken to be a sufficient Notice, and the sales made under it shall be valid, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. |