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pant,) of the Estate which you have just described, as giving you a right
to vote at this Election,-(if he vote as a tenant say, that your present
lease of the said Estate was made for a term not less than one year,)
and that the said property has not been colorably or collusively leased
or let to you or allowed to be occupied by you for the purpose
of ena-
bling you to vote, and that it is of the actual value of seventy-five pounds
currency, or more (or of the yearly value of seven pounds ten shillings,
or more as the case may be),—and that no instalment of purchase
money, rent or sum of money which you have undertaken to pay to
the Crown therefor (except seigniorial dues) is now overdue and unpaid,
-that you are a Subject of Her Majesty by birth, (or naturalization, as
the case may be),-that you believe yourself to be of the full age of
twenty-one years,-that you have not already voted at this Election,
and that you have not received any thing nor has any thing been prom-
ised you, either directly or indirectly, to induce you to give your vote
at this Election. So help you God.

No. 3.

Oath or affirmation of a person claiming the right of voting as the owner of real property lying elsewhere than within some City or Town entitled to send a Member or Members to the Legislative Assembly, as bounded for Municipal purposes.

Oath of City Voter

whose property in

in the suburbs

You swear (or, if he be one of the persons permitted by Law to affirm in civil cases, you solemnly affirm) that you are actually and bona fide possessed to your own use and benefit of the Estate which thereof. you have just described, as giving you a right to vote at this Election, as your own property (or freehold),-that the said Estate has not been colorably or collusively conveyed to you for the purpose of enabling you to vote, and that it is of the actual value of fifty pounds currency or more, (or of the yearly value of five pounds currency or more, as the case may be), and that no instalment of purchase money, rent or sum of money which you have undertaken to pay to the Crown therefor (except Seigniorial dues) is now overdue and unpaid,—that you are a Subject of Her Majesty by birth, (or naturalization, as the case may be), -that believe yourself to be of the full age of twenty-one years,—— you that you have not already voted at this Election, and that you have not received any thing nor has any thing been promised you, either directly or indirectly, to induce you to give your vote at this Election. help you God.

No. 4.

So

Oath or Affirmation of a person claiming the right of voting as the tenant or occupant of real property lying elsewhere than with

Oath of Suburban
Tenant.

in some City or Town entitled to send a Member or Members to the Legislative Assembly,as bounded for Municipal purposes. You swear (or, if he be one of the persons permitted by Law to affirm in civil cases, you solemnly affirm) that you are actually and bona fide in possession for your own use and benefit as tenant (or occupant) of the Estate which you have just described, as giving you a right to vote at this Election,-(if he vote as a tenant say, that your present lease of the said Estate was made for a term not less than one year,) and that the said property has not been colorably or collusively leased or let to you or allowed to be occupied by you for the purpose of enabling you to vote, and that it is of the actual value of fifty pounds currency, or more, (or of the yearly value of five pounds currency, or more, as the case may be),—that no instalment of purchase money, rent or sum of money which you have undertaken to pay to the Crown therefor (except seigniorial dues) is now overdue and unpaid,—that you are a Subject of Her Majesty by birth, (or naturalization, as the case may be),—that you believe yourself to be of the full age of twenty-one years, that you have not already voted at this Election, and that you have not received any thing nor has any thing been promised you, either directly or indirectly, to induce you to give your vote at this Election. So help you God.

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No. 5.

Oath or affirmation of a person claiming the right of voting as being qualified as a proprietor or freeholder under the Elections Act of 1849.

You swear (or, if he be one of the persons permitted by law to affirm in civil cases, you solemnly affirm) that no instalment of purchase money, or any rent or other sum of money which you have undertaken to pay to the Crown for the property in respect of which you claim to be entitled to vote at this Election (adding in Lower Canada the words "except seigniorial rents") is now overdue and unpaid. So help you God.

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CLERGY RESERVES.

Extracts from an Act to make better provision for the appropriation of Monies arising from the Lands heretofore known as the Clergy Reserves, by rendering them available for Municipal

purposes.

I. The monies arising from the Clergy Reserves in Upper Canada two Funds, one shall continue to form a separate Fund, which shall be called, The

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Upper Canada Municipalities Fund; and the monies arising from the for U.C., and one
Clergy Reserves in Lower Canada shall continue to form a separate
Fund, which shall be called, The Lower Canada Municipalities Fund:

Of what such

consist

The Municipalities Fund for each section of the Province respectively, shall consist of all monies arising from the sale of Clergy Reserves in Funds shall that section of the Province, whether now funded or invested either in respectively. the United Kingdom or in this Province, or remaining uninvested, or hereafter to arise from such sales, the interest and dividends of monies forming part of such Fund, the interest upon sales of Clergy Reserves in that section of the Province, on credit, and rents, issues, and profits arising from Clergy Reserves therein demised or to be demised for any term of years, and other casual and periodical incomings arising from Clergy Reserves therein, after deducting therefrom the actual and necessary expenses attending the sales of the said Clergy Reserves and of managing the same and the Funds aforesaid; and the monies form- To be in the hands ing the said Funds shall be paid into the hands of the Receiver General General. and shall be by him applied to the purposes hereinafter mentioned, under the authority of this Act, or any general or special order or orders to be made by the Governor in Council.

of Receiver

and allowances

Reserves before

Curing ce

II. The annual stipends or allowances which had been before the Annual stipends passing of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed charged on the in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's reign, and cited in the preamble the Imperial Act, to this Act, assigned or given to the Clergy of the Churches of England to be payable and Scotland, or to any other Religious Bodies or denominations of periods. Christians in either section of the Province, and chargeable under the Act of the said Parliament on the Clergy Reserves in such section (and to which the faith of the Crown is pledged), shall, during the natural lives or incumbencies of the parties receiving the same at the time of the passing of the said Act, be the first charge on the Municipalities Fund for that section of the Province, and shall be paid out of the same in preference to all other charges or expenses whatever: Provided always, Proviso. that the annual allowance heretofore payable to the Roman Catholic Church in Upper Canada, and to the British Wesleyan Methodist Church for Indian Missions, shall continue to be payable during the twenty years next after the passing of this Act, and no longer.

of unappropriated

the municipanties

V. The amount of the Municipalities Fund in and for either Section Yearly division of the Province remaining unexpended and unappropriated under the balance among foregoing provisions of this Act, on the thirty-first day of December in in each section of each year, shall, by the Receiver General, be apportioned equally among pectively, accordthe several County and City Municipalities in the same Section of the ing to population. Province, in proportion to the population of such Municipalities res

the province, res

Municipality

pectively according to the then last Census made either under the Act to provide more effectually for taking a periodical Census of the Province, or any other Act under which Census may be legally taken of the Municipalities in either section of the Province; and the portion thereof coming to each Municipality shall be paid over by the Receiver General to the Treasurer, Chamberlain or other Officer having the legal custody of the monies of such Municipality, without other authority than this Act, and shall make part of the General Funds of the Municipality, and be applicable to any purpose to which such Funds are Proviso: if the applicable: Provided always, that if at the time when such payment is to be made, any sum of money, shall be payable by any such Municiceiver General. pality to the Receiver General for any cause whatever, and shall be overdue, he may retain in his hands in satisfaction or part satisfaction thereof, the sum which would otherwise be payable to such Municipality, or so much thereof as may be equal to the sum so payable to him by the Municipality and overdue, and shall deliver to the Treasurer, Chamberlain or other officer as aforesaid, a discharge in favour of the Municipality for a sum equal to that so retained by him; and for the purposes of this section, each Municipality into which any County in Lower Canada may be at the time divided, and each Union of Counties for Municipal purposes in Upper or Lower Canada, shall be taken to be a County Municipality.

have money to pay to the Re

What shall be deemed a Muni

cipality.

TITLES OF ACTS

Not contained in this Manual, but to which it may be sometimes necessary for

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CHAPTERS.

IV. An Act to make better provision with regard to the Tolls to be levied on the Public Provincial Works, and for other purposes relative to the said Works.

VI. An Act to repeal certain Acts therein mentioned, and to make further provision respecting Emigrants.

VIII. An Act to make provision for the preservation of the Public Health in certain emergencies.

X. An Act for putting a Legislative Interpretration upon certain terms used in Acts of Parliament, and for rendering it unnecessary to repeat certain provisions and expressions therein, and for ascertaining the date and commencement thereof, and for other purposes.

XI. An Act to confirm the erection of certain Townships, and for other purposes relative to the erection of Townships.

XXIII. An Act to provide for the Seizure and Sale of Shares in the Capital Stock of Incorporated Companies.

XXV. An Act to exempt Naval and Military Officers and others on duty in Her Majesty's Service, from the payment of Toll upon any Turnpike Road in this Province.

LXXXII. An Act to amend the Charter of the University established at Toronto by His late Majesty King George the Fourth, to provide for the more satisfactory government of said University, and for other purposes connected with the same, and with the College and Royal Grammar School forming an appendage

thereof.

LXXXIV. An Act to amend the several Laws therein mentioned relative to the appointments and duties of Inspectors of Weights and Measures in Upper Canada.

XCIV. An Act to detach a certain tract of Land from the Midland District and to annex it to the District of Bathurst.

XCV. An Act to define the Boundary between the Districts of Bathurst and Johnstown.

XCVIII. An Act to divide the Township of Cayuga, in the District of Niagara, into two Townships.

XCIX. An Act to divide the Townships of Leeds and Lansdowne in the District of Johnstown.

C. An Act to alter the Boundary Line between the Townships of Hallowell and Sophiasburgh, in the District of Prince Edward.

CI. An Act to appoint Commissioners to define the Boundary Line between the Township of Walpole in the Niagara District, and the Township of Woodhouse in the Talbot District.

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