from its course between such Counties or such County and City, or along the bounds of such Town or Village, and in some parts thereof lie wholly within one or the other of such Counties, City, Town or Village, and no By-law to be passed by any of such Municipal Corporations with respect to any such road or bridge, for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall have any force or effect whatsoever until the passing of a By-law in similar or corresponding terms as nearly as may be by the other of such Corporations.

XL. And be it enacted, That the Municipal Council of each County shall, upon the report of the Auditors of the County, finally audit and allow all accounts chargeable against the County: and in case any such charges shall not be specially regulated by law, it shall be their duty to allow for the same such sums as may be just and reasonable; and they shall in like manner also audit aud allow the accounts of the County Treasurer, and of the Collectors of the several Townships within their County, so far as the accounts of such Collectors shall relate to County purposes.

XLI. And be it enacted, That the Municipal Council of each County shall have power and authority to make a By-law or By-laws for each, all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:

Firstly. For the purchase and acquirement of all such real and personal property, within the County, as may be required for County purposes, and for the sale and disposal of the same when no longer required. Secondly. For the erection, preservation, improvement or repair of a Shire Hall, Court House, Gaol, House of Correction, House of Industry, and of all other Houses and other buildings required by or being upon any land acquired by or belonging to such County as a Corporation. Thirdly. For the purchase and acquirement of such real property as may be required for County Grammar School purposes, and for the erection, preservation, improvement and repair of County School Houses for the use of Grammar Schools in such parts of the County, or within any City or the liberties thereof, lying within the boundaries of such County, as the wants of the people most require, for the sale and disposal of the same when no longer required, and for making such provision in aid of such Grammar Schools as they may deem expedient for the advancement of education in the same.

Fourthly. For making some permanent provision for defraying, out of the public funds of such County, the expense of the attendance at the seat of the University of Toronto, and of that of Upper-Canada College, and Royal Grammar School there, of such and so many of the Pupils of the different Public Grammar Schools of such County, as shall be desirous of, and in the opinion of the respective Masters of such Grammar Schools shall be of competent attainments for entering into competition for any of the Scholarships, Exhibitions or other similar Prizes offered by such University or College to competition amongst such Pupils, but which Pupils from the inability of their Parents or Guardians to incur the necessary expense of such attendance, might otherwise be deprived of the opportunity of competing for the same.

Fifthly. For the endowment of such and so many Fellowships, Scholarships, Exhibitions and other similar Prizes in the University of Toronto, or in Upper Canada College and Royal Grammar School there, to be open to competition amongst the Pupils of the different public Grammar Schools of such County, as they shall deem expedient for the encouragement of Learning amongst the youth of such County.

Sixthly. For the appointment of the Inspectors of the County House of Appointment of Industry and of such and so many Officers as may be necessary for Inspectors of

try.

House of Indus- carrying into effect any of the provisions of this Act, or of any other Act of the Legislature of this Province, or of the late Province of Upper Canada, the erection or maintainance of such Houses of Industry or of any By-law or By-laws of the Municipal Council of such County respecting the same.

Seventhly. For the settling the remuneration to all County Officers in all cases where the same is not or shall not be settled by Act of the Legislature, and for providing for the payment of the remuneration by such Act of the Legislature or by the By-laws of the said Municipal Council provided and appointed for all County Officers.

Eighthly. For regulating all Ferries between any two places in such County, and for establishing the rates of pay or hire to be taken by the owners or conductors of the boats or vessels employed on such Ferries, but no By-law for any such purpose shall have any force or effect until the same shall have been assented to by the Governor of this Province in Council.

Ninthly. For settling and paying a rate at which the Townreeves and Deputy Townreeves forming such Municipal Council shall be remunerated for their attendance at such Council: Provided always, nevertheless, that no By-law to be passed for this latter purpose after the year of of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, shall be valid, unless the same shall by the terms of it be limited to take effect two whole years at least from the passing thereof.

Tenthly. For the erection, construction or repair of such drains and water courses as the interests of the inhabitants of such County at large shall in the opinion of the Municipal Council require to be so erected, constructed or repaired at the public expense of such County.

Eleventhly. For the opening, constructing, making, levelling, pitching, raising, lowering, gravelling, macadamizing, planking, repairing, planting, improving, preserving and maintaining of any new or existing highway, road, street, side-walk, crossing, alley, lane, bridge or other communication running, lying or being within one or more Townships or between two or more Townships of such County, or between such County and any adjoining County or City, or on the bounds of any Town or Incorporated Village lying within the boundaries of such County, as the interests of the inhabitants of such County at large shall in the opinion of the Municipal Council require to be so opened, constructed, made, widened, changed, diverted, levelled, pitched, raised, lowered, gravelled, macadamized, planked, repaired, planted, improved, preserved or maintained at the public expense of such County; and for entering into, performing and executing any arrangement or agreement with the Municipal Corporation of any such adjoining County.or Counties, City or Cities, or of any such Town or incorporated Village as aforesaid, for the execution of any such work at the joint expense and for the joint benefit of the Municipal Corporation of such Counties, Cities, Towns or Villages and the people they represent respectively; and for the stopping up, pulling down, widening, altering, changing or diverting of any such highway, road, street, bridge or communications within the same; Provided always, nevertheless, that no such new, widened, altered, changed or diverted highway, road, street, side-walk, crossing, alley, lane, bridge or other communication, shall be laid out so as to run through or encroach upon any dwelling house, barn, stable, or outhouse, or through any orchard, garden, yard or pleasure ground, without the consent in writing of the owner thereof.

Twelfthly. For the protection and preservation of any timber, stone, sand or gravel growing or being upon any allowance or appropriation for any of such County roads,

Thirteenthly. For regulating the driving and riding on or over any Regulation of County bridge erected or to be erected under the authority of such Mu- driving on nicipal Council.

Bridges.

Fourteenthly. For preventing the immoderate riding or driving of hor- Prevention of ses or cattle in any of the public highways in such County, whether immoderate such highways be Township or County roads.

driving on Highways, &c.

Fifteenthly. For making regulations as to pits, precipices and deep Regulations as waters, or other places dangerous to travellers in the immediate neigh- to Pits, &c., near bourhood of any County Road or Bridge.

Roads.

&c., in the

Townships,

County.

Sixteenthly. For granting to any Town, Township or Village, in such Granting loans County, by way of loan or otherwise, such sum or sums of money in aid to Towns, of such other moneys as may be raised by the Municipal Corporation of such Town, Township or Village, or by voluntary subscription, for or towards the making, opening or erecting of any new road or bridge in such Town, Township or Village in cases where such Municipal Council shall deem such Town, Township or Village work of sufficient importance to justify the affording such assistance to it, with a view to the general interest possessed by the County at large in such Town, Township or Village, and yet where such work is not of a character, in their opinion, to justify them, in at once assuming the same as a County work to be executed wholly at the expense of the County at large.

others.

Seventeenthly. For attaching any new Township or Townships within Attaching such County not having a sufficient population for a separate Municipal Townships to organization of their own under the provisions of this Act, to such of the older Townships of such County as they shall deem best for the convenience of the inhabitants of such new Township or Townships, and for thus forming them into a Union of Townships for the purpose of such Municipal organization.

Eighteenthly. For regulating the manner of granting to associated Joint Stock Road or Bridge Companies, licenses to proceed with any roads or bridges within the jurisdiction of such Municipal Council, and the manner of afterwards ascertaining and declaring according to law the completion of the works undertaken by such Companies respectively, so as to entitle such Incorporated Companies to levy tolls upon such works, and of all examinations, enquiries and investigations necessary for the proper, efficient and judicious exercise of such power.

Granting licen

ses to Road or Bridge Com

panies.

Nineteenthly. For taking stock in or lending money to any Incorpora- Taking Stock in ted Road or Bridge Company to which such Municipal Council shall Road or Bridge Companies. have granted a license, to proceed with such work in accordance with the requirements of the Statute in that behalf, or in or to any other such Incorporated Road or Bridge Company in whose road or bridge the inhabitants within the jurisdiction of such Municipal Council shall in the opinion of such Municipal Council be sufficiently interested to warrant them in taking such stock or lending such money for the advancement of such enterprize; all dividends, interests and proceeds to arise or be As to Dividends, received from such stock or loan being at all times applicable to the interest, &c. general purposes of such Municipal Council, and to go in reduction of

the rates required to be levied for such purposes.

Twentiethly. For the imposing fines not exceeding in any case ten Fines. pounds, currency, for the breach of all or any of the By-laws or Regulations of such Municipal Council.

Twenty-firstly. For borrowing under the restriction and upon the se- Borrowing curity hereinafter mentioned, all such sums of money as shall or may moneys. be necessary for the execution of any County work within their jurisdiction and the scope of the authority by this Act conferred upon them.

.

Levying moneys

Repealing or amending Bylaws.

County Munici

pal Councils may define

Twenty-secondly. For raising, levying, collecting and appropriating such moneys as may be required for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, either by way of tolls to be paid on any County Bridge, road or other public work, to defray the expense of making, repairing or maintaining the same, or by means of a rate or rates to be assessed equally on the whole rateable property of such County liable to assessment, according to any law which shall be in force in Upper Canada concerning Rates and Assessments.

Twenty-thirdly. For the repeal, alteration or amendment from time to time of all or any of such By-laws, and the making others in lieu thereof as to them may seem expedient for the good of the inhabitants of such County.

III. POLICE VILLAGES.

XLII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Municipal Council of any County, by By-law to be passed upon the limits of villages petition of any number of the inhabitants of any unincorporated Village or

&c.

And fix place of first election, &c.

Meeting for election of

Police Trustees.

Hamlet, situate in such County, or for the Municipal Councils of any two or more Counties, upon any such petitions from the inhabitants of any unincorporated Village or Hamlet situate partly within one of such Counties and partly within another or others of them, to define the limits within which in respect to such Village or Hamlet there is, in the opinion of such Municipal Council or Municipal Councils, a resident population sufficient to make it expedient that the provisions of this Act for the regulation and Police of unincorporated Villages should be applied to such Village or Hamlet, and in every such By-law such Municipal Council or Councils, shall fix the place in such Village or Hamlet, where the first annual election of Police Trustees, under the authority of this Act, shall be held for such Village, the person who shall preside at such meeting, and the hour at which such meeting shall be opened for that purpose.

XLIII. And be it enacted, That on the second Monday in January next after the end of three calendar months from the passing of such By-law or By-laws, as the case may require, and annually, on the second Monday of January in each and every year thereafter, until such Village shall be incorporated under the provisions of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the resident freeholders and householders of such unincorporated Village to assemble at the time and place appointed for that purpose, and to proceed to elect from among themselves three Appointment of Police Trustees for such Village, which three Trustees, or any two of Inspecting Trustee. them, by a Memorandum in writing under their hands to be filed with the Township Clerk of the Township in which such Village is situate, or when such Village is situate within two or more Townships, then to be filed with the Township Clerk of some one of such Townships, shall within a reasonable time after the election, nominate and appoint one of their number to be the inspecting Trustee of such Village.

Township Collector to deliver a copy of the roll of freeholders

and householders to the person presiding at the election.

Attestation of such copy.

XLIV. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Collector and Collectors of the Township or Townships within which such unincorporated Village shall be situate, whether appointed under this Act or before the passing thereof, to deliver to the person appointed to preside at any such election, or to any person by him appointed to receive the same, a fair copy of the Collector's Roll made up next before such election, so far as such Roll contains the names of the resident freeholders and householders of such unincorporated Village, with the amount for which they shall be assessed upon such Rolls; which copy shall be verified by affidavit or affirmation appended to, or endorsed upon such copy, and sworn or affirmed before any Justice of the Peace for the County, to the effect, that the same is a true copy of such Roll, so far as

Tenants of parts of houses.

relates to the unincorporated Village for which such election is to be held, and that it includes the names of all the resident freeholders and householders in such unincorporated village, and the amount for which they shall have been assessed as entered upon such Roll, and the persons entitled to vote or be elected at such election shall be those whose names are upon the said Roll or Rolls thus verified, and who shall continue at the time of the election to be resident in such Village: Provided Proviso as to always, firstly, that the holder or occupier of any separate portion of a house having a distinct communication with a road or street, by an outer door shall be considered a householder within the meaning of this Act in case he shall be assessed therefor, as a house upon such Collector's Roll or Roll's as aforesaid: And provided also, secondly, that no Proviso as to person shall be qualified to be elected at any such election of Trustees qualification of who shall not have been entered upon such Roll or Rolls as aforesaid, for rateable property held in his own right or that of his wife as proprietor or tenant, to the value of one hundred pounds of lawful money of Canada.

XLV. And be it enacted, That at every subsequent annual election of Police Trustees for such unincorporated Village after the first, the person to preside at such election, and the hour at which the same shall commence, shall be appointed by the Trustees for the preceding year or any two of them under their hands, of which due notice shall by them be given by written or printed notices thereof, to be put up in at least three of the most public places in such unincorporated Village.

XLVI. And be it enacted, That if at the time and place appointed for any first or subsequent election of Trustees, for any such unincorporated Village, the person appointed to preside thereat shall not attend within one hour after the time appointed for commencing the proceedings, the resident inhabitant freeholders and householders of such Village, or a majority of them may, if they think proper, proceed to nominate a person to preside at such meeting, and the election of Trustees for such year shall be held by such person, as if he had been the person appointed by the Municipal Council of the County or by the Trustees for the preceding year as aforesaid.

XLVII. And be it enacted, That upon the happening of any vacancy by death or otherwise, amongst the Police Trustees of any such unincorporated Village in the course of the year for which they shall have been elected, it shall and may be lawful for the remaining Trustee or Trustees by a memorandum in writing, to be filed with such Township Clerk as aforesaid, to supply such vacancy by the appointment of Trustees or a Trustee in their or his place, which Trustees or Trustee so appointed, shall hold his office to the end of the term of office of the person in whose place he shall have been appointed, and no longer, and shall, during the time he shall hold the same, possess all the authority of such person.

XLVIII. And be it enacted, That any Inspecting or other Trustee of any of the said unincorporated Villages, who shall wilfully neglect or omit to fulfil any of the duties hereby imposed upon him, or to prosecute any offender against the Regulations of Police hereinafter established, for such unincorporated Villages, at the request of any inhabitant householder, offering to adduce proof of the offence, shall, on being thereof convicted in manner hereinafter provided, incur a penalty of twenty shillings, currency.

electors.

Appointment of side at annual elections.

persons to pre

Provision in case person appointed to preside at

of absence of

election.

Provision in case of vacancy among the Police Trustees.

Penalty against

Trustees for neglect of duty.

sued for within a certain time.

XLIX. And be it enacted, That the penalties prescribed in and by Penalties to be the next immediately preceding section of this Act, or under that for the establishment of Regulations of Police for such unincorporated Villages, shall be sued for within ten days after the offence for which they shall have been incurred shall have ceased, and not afterwards.

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