enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as followeth: I. The tract of land within the boundaries or limits hereinafter described shall be incorporated into a Town to be called and designated as the Town of Whitby. Incorporation. plied to. II, So much of the Upper Canada Municipal Corporations Acts as Municipal Correlates to Towns shall be and is hereby incorporated in this Act, and portion Act apthe said Town of Whitby shall have and exercise all and singular the same rights, powers, privileges and jurisdiction, as are given, granted or conferred upon or as shall by virtue of any Act or parts of Acts now in force in Upper Canada, or which shall hereafter be in force, belong to incorporated Towns, and all the rules, regulations, provisions and enactments therein contained or which shall in any wise relate or belong to the same, shall apply to the Town of Whitby as fully as if the said tract of Land had become a Town under the ordinary operation of the said Acts, with the exception hereinafter made for the first election. III. The said Town of Whitby shall be comprised within the following limits or boundaries, that is to say: all that certain parcel of land known as lots numbers 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29, in the broken front of the Township of Whitby, and lots numbers 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, and the North halves of lots numbers 22, and 31 in the first concession of the said Township, and lots numbers 25, 26, 27 and 28, and the south halves of lots numbers 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31 in the second concession of the Township of Whitby aforesaid. Boundaries of divided into IV. The said Town of Whitby shall be divided into three Wards Town of Whitby in the following manner, that is to say: All that part of the Town three Wards. south of the centre of the first concession aforesaid shall form the South Ward, and all that part of the Town south of Dundas Street to the centre of the first concession aforesaid shall form the Centre Ward, and all that part North of Dundas Street in the second concession of the said Township of Whitby shall form the North Ward. V. The Sheriff for the time being of the County of Ontario shall be ex officio Returning Oflicer for the purpose of holding the first Muni First Election Qualification of First Meeting of cipal Election under this Act, and shall, on or before the Tenth day of December next after the passing of this Act, by his warrant, appoint a Deputy Returning Officer for each of the three Wards into which the said Town of Whitby is hereby divided, to hold the first election therein; and in the discharge of their duties such Deputy Returning Officers shall severally be subject to all the provisions of the said Upper Canada Municipal Corporations Acts applicable to first elections in Towns incorporated under the said Acts. VI. The qualifications of Candidates and Electors at such first election shall be the same as the qualifications for Candidates and Electors respectively at Elections for Municipal Councils ín Townships in Upper Canada. VII. The first Meeting of the Town Council of the said Town of Whitby shall be held in the Court House in the said Town, at the hour of Twelve o'clock noon, on the second Monday next after such first election. VIII. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. Preamble. TOWN OF CORNWALL. An Act to declare valid a certain Survey of part of the Town of Whereas the Town Council of the Town of Cornwall have prayed by their Petition to the Legislature, that a certain Survey of part of the said Town, made by order of the said Town Council, be declared legal and valid, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said Petition: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: I. The Survey of that part of the said Town of Cornwall commencing South of Four Street and continuing North thereof, made and completed under and by virtue of a resolution of the said Town Council, passed on the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, by John Bruce, Esquire, Deputy Provincial Surveyor and adopted by the said Town Council under and by virtue of another Resolution passed by them on the fifteenth day of February, one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-four, shall be taken and held to be a true and correct Survey of the above described part of the said Town, and, it shall to all intents and purposes be deemed and considered to be legal and valid. OTONABEE CONCESSION ROAD. An Act to authorize the Municipal Council of the Township of Otonabee to exchange a Concession Road allowance for another portion of land to be given in lieu thereof. Whereas the main road leading to the Town of Peterborough from the South East, running in part along the Concession line between the twelfth and thirteenth Concessions of the Township of Otonabee, inter- Preamble, sects the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway at level crossings twice within the distance of a mile, to the great inconvenience and danger of the travellers on the said line; And whereas a slight alteration in the direction of the road would altogether avoid the said Railway and be otherwise more convenient for the public: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to reunite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: pass a By-law to exchange road allowance. I. It shall be lawful for the Municipal Council of the Township of Otonabee, by a By-law to be passed by them for that purpose, to exchange so much of the road allowance between the twelfth and thir- Township may teenth Concessions as lies on the West side of lot number twenty-eight and the north western corner of lot number twenty-seven, being bounded by the side line between lots twenty-eight and twenty-nine to the north, and the line of the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway to the south, for so much land in the twenty-eighth lot in the thirteenth Concession of the said Township as will give a road of equal width to the said Concession Road. II. So soon as a valid conveyance shall have been executed to the said Municipal Council, of the land to be given in exchange for the said portion of the said allowance for road, it shall be lawful for the Such By-law said Municipal Council to pass a By-law as aforesaid, and such By-law exchanged in shall have the effect of vesting the said portion of the said allowance shall vest land parties. for road in the party who executed the conveyance of the part of the twenty-eighth lot in the thirteenth Concession given in exchange there for. III. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. Preamble. 16 V., c. 22. A Municipal Loan Fund es. tablished for each section of the 'rovince. Proviso, How Debentures shall be issued. Proviso. MUNICIPAL LOAN FUND AMENDMENT. 17 VIC., CAP. 13. An Act to extend and amend the Act to establish a Consolidated Whereas it is expedient to extend to Lower Canada the advantages of the Act passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to establish a Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund for Upper Canada," and to limit the amount of Loans to be raised for Upper Canada and Lower Canada respectively; And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Act for the above and other purposes hereinafter mentioned; Be it enacted, &c.:— II. Notwithstanding any thing in the said first cited Act contained, there shall be a Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund for each section of the Province of Canada, which shall not at any time exceed the sum of one million five hundred thousand pounds sterling, for either of the said sections, together with such further sum or sums of money as may constitute the Sinking Fund formed or to be formed under the authority of the said Act or of this Act; and the said Funds shall be called respectively the Lower Canada and the Upper Canada Municipal Loan Funds, and shall be managed by the Receiver General under the direction of the Governor in Council, in the manner provided by the said Act, in separate accounts for each, and the books and accounts thereof shall be kept in his office: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any Municipality to pass any By-law for the purpose of raising a Loan under this Act, for an amount exceeding twenty per cent. on the aggregate valuation of the property affected by such By-law, in the said Municipality, according to the then last assessment roll thereof. III. All Debentures to be issued by the Receiver General under the provisions of the said Act or of this Act, shall be issued upon the credit of the said Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund of Lower Canada or Upper Canada as the case may be; Provided always, that the Debentures heretofore issued upon the credit of the Consolidated Loan Fund for Upper Canada, under the authority of the said Act above referred to, and of the Act amending the same, or either of them, shall be and con tinue to be valid and legal as if this Act had not been passed. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES AMENDMENT ACT. An Act to amend the Upper Canda Joint Stock Pier, Wharf, For the better protection of the rights of Shareholders in the Com- Preamble. entitled to a vote. I. That the Fourth section of the Statute of this Province passed Each Shareholder in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter one hundred and twenty-four, intituled, An Act to provide for the formation of Joint Stock Companies for the construction of Piers, Wharves, DryDocks and Harbours, shall be amended by adding to the same the following words: "and provided further that at any election of "Directors of any such Company as is therein referred to, after the "formation thereof, each Stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for every share of Stock he may hold or be possessed of in any such "Company, and upon which such Stockholder shall not be in arrear ❝for or upon any call in respect thereof; and that any person being "Stockholder having paid all calls made, shall be eligible as "Director." a a Each Stockholder eligible as Director. ELECTION FRANCHISE EXTENSION. An Act to amend an Act intituled, An Act to extend the Elective Franchise and better to define the qualifications of Voters in certain Electoral Divisions by providing a system for the registration of Voters. Whereas there is reason to apprehend that in many parts of this Preamble. Province, the Lists of Voters required by the Act of the now last Session hereinafter cited, may not be completed by the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, so that if the said Act were brought fully into force on that day, great injustice might be done in many cases: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative |