The Municipal Manual for Upper Canada

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Thompson & Company, 1855 - Municipal corporations - 478 pages

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Page 233 - 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...
Page 324 - When a person is assessed as trustee, guardian, executor or administrator, he shall be assessed as such, with the addition to his name of his representative character, and such assessment shall be carried out in a separate line from his individual assessment...
Page 279 - The Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 367 - Dominion, which shall be in such form, for such separate sums, and at such rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and...
Page 297 - ... rail, post, bar, or other fence belonging to any turnpike gate, or set up or erected to prevent passengers passing by without paying any toll directed to be paid by any act or acts of parliament relating thereto, or any house, building, or weighing engine erected for the better collection, ascertainment, or security of any such toll, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be punished accordingly.
Page 285 - It shall be lawful for such company to call for and demand from the stockholders, respectively, all sums of money by them subscribed, at such time and in such proportions as...
Page 426 - Township or place already laid out, or hereafter ways' laid out; and also all roads laid out by virtue of any Act of the Parliament of Upper Canada, or any roads whereon the public money has been expended for opening the same, or whereon the Statute Labour hath been usually performed, or any roads passing through the Indian Lands, shall be deemed common and public highways...
Page 409 - Justices are hereby empowered and required to administer without fee or reward), be levied by distress and sale of the offender's Goods and Chattels, by Warrant, under the hand and seal, or hands and seals of such Justice or Justices...
Page 337 - ... any special rate for collecting the, interest upon debentures issued, or any local rate or school rate or other special rate, the proceeds of which are required by law, or by the by-law imposing it, to be kept distinct and accounted for separately; and every such last mentioned rate shall be calculated separately, and the column therefor shall be headed " Special Rate," " Local Rate," " Public School Rate," " Separate School Rate," or " Special Rate for School Debts,
Page 438 - Fence running into the water is necessary to be made, the same shall be made in equal parts, unless by the parties otherwise agreed ; and in case either party shall refuse or neglect to make or maintain the share to such party belonging, similar proceedings shall or may be had, as in other cases of the like kind respecting other Fences in this Act mentioned.

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