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thousand dollars, in the purchase of debentures issued by Municipalities for drainage works; and section five of the said Act is amended by inserting the words "two hundred and fifty," in lieu of "two hundred," in the fourth line of the said

section.

Provisions of

extended.

CHAPTER 8.

An Act to authorize Investments in Municipal Debentures issued in aid of Stone or Timber Drainage.

HER

[Assented to 11th March, 1879.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. The provisions of the "Ontario Tile Drainage Act," passed 41 Vic., c. 9, in the forty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered nine, are hereby extended to authorize every Township Council to pass by-laws for borrowing money by the sale of debentures of the Municipality, for the purpose of lending the same for stone or timber drainage, in the same manner and subject to the like conditions as such Councils are, by the said Act, authorized to pass by-laws for borrowing money as aforesaid for the purpose of lending the same for tile drainage.

Purchase of

Lieutenant

Governor in
Council.

2. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to Debentures by time, in his discretion, invest any part of the sum of Two Hundred Thousand dollars mentioned in the tenth section of the said Act in the purchase of any debentures issued under by-laws passed under this Act and deposited with the Commissioner of Agriculture together with the affidavits of the Reeve in the form given in Schedules B. and C. of the said Act, or to the like effect, and in respect of which the Commissioner of Agriculture shall have certified to the propriety of investment.

Debentures

3. After any such investment has been made the debentures not to be ques- shall not be questioned, and shall be deemed valid to all intents and purposes.

tioned.

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4. The provisions of the said "The Ontario Tile Drainage Act," are hereby incorporated in this Act as if every section of the said "Ontario Tile Drainage Act" except the first, tenth and eleventh sections thereof were repeated in this Act with the substitution of the words "stone or timber" for the word "tile" wherever such word occurs in the said Ontario Tile Drainage Act."

5. It shall not be necessary to pass separate by-laws under Provisions as the said Act, and under this Act, but two or more of the classes to by-laws. of drainage authorized to be aided under the said Act and this Act may, if the Council think fit, be included in the same by-law, and the amount to be loaned in respect of each kind of drainage may be stated, or the same may be left unstated; in the latter case the Council may afterwards loan the money in such proportions for each kind of drainage specified in the by-law as they think fit, or may apply the same to one kind only, and this option may be exercised whether the kinds of drainage are stated in the by-law conjunctively or disjunctively.

6. The forms given in the said Act shall in applying the Forms. same to this Act be varied to meet the case, and in the application of the owner, (Schedule D), the inside size of the drain, shall under this Act be given in lieu of the size of the tile.

citation.

7. This Act may be cited as "The Ontario Stone and Mode of
Timber Drainage Act," or this Act and the said first mentioned
Act may be cited together as "The Ontario Tile, Stone and
Timber Drainage Acts."

8. Section two of the said "Ontario Tile Drainage Act" 41 V., c. 9, 8. is hereby amended by striking out all the words after the word 2, amended. "in" in the fifteenth line and substituting the following words therefor, viz.: "Such Newspapers as the Council by Resolution may direct."

CHAPTER 9.

An Act respecting payments, under the Municipal
Loan Fund Scheme, where Indians are interested.

[Assented to 11th March, 1879.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario,

enacts as follows:

of money pay

1. Where, in the unorganized townships or parts of districts Expenditure mentioned in the Schedule appended to the Act passed in the able to locality fortieth year of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered thirteen, and in- in which population wholly tituled "An Act respecting payments to unorganized Townships or chiefly or parts of Districts under the Municipal Loan Fund Scheme," Indians. the population consists wholly or chiefly of Indians or persons of Indian blood, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may authorize any money which is payable to the locality under the said Act to be expended for any purpose, whether of a temporary or permanent nature, that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may consider beneficial to the said population.

CHAPTER

R. S. O., c. 34

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CHAPTER 10.

An Act to amend the Agriculture and Arts Act.

[Assented to 11th March, 1879.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. The Revised Statute, respecting Agriculture and Arts, s. 41 amended. chapter thirty-five, section forty-one, is hereby amended by adding thereto the words "and a majority of the Board of Directors so elected shall be resident in the said Electoral District."

CHAPTER 11.

Formation of
Association

An Act to incorporate the Poultry Association of
Ontario.

HE

[Assented to 11th March, 1879.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. Any number of persons, not less than twenty-five, may and qualifica. organize and form themselves into an Association, to be known

tion of mem

bers.

Declaration and notice.

as

The Poultry Association of Ontario," by signing a declaration in the form of Schedule A. to this Act annexed, and paying each not less than one dollar to the funds of the Association for that year; and all persons thereafter paying each the sum of one dollar (or such other sum, not being more than two dollars, as the Association may fix by by-law) annually to the funds of the Association, shall be members thereof.

2. Such declaration shall be in duplicate, and one part thereof shall be written and signed on the first page or pages of a book, to be kept by the Association, for recording the minutes of its proceedings during the first year of its existence; and the other part thereof shall be written and signed on a sheet of paper or parchment, and shall forthwith be sent by post to the Commissioner of Agriculture, who shall, as soon as may be after the receipt thereof, cause a notice of the formation of such Association to be inserted in the Ontario Gazette.

3. Upon the insertion in the Ontario Gazette of the notice Completion of of the formation of such Association, it shall become a corpora- incorporation. tion for the object and purpose of the encouragement of the breeding of poultry in Ontario, and for the dissemination of information relating to the breeding, rearing, management, and improvement of poultry in Ontario; and for all purposes connected therewith or relating thereto; and the said Association may acquire and hold, lease, mortgage, and alienate property, real and personal, but only for the purposes of such Association.

4. The first Board of Directors of the said Association shall Directors. consist of Thomas Gowdy, George Murton, I. W. Buck, John Aldons, W. H. Doell, John McClelland, John Eastwood, Allan Bogne, and James Fullerton, who, as soon as practicable after the publication of the said notice in the Ontario Gazette, shall hold their first meeting, at such time and place as shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Agriculture; and at such meeting the said Directors shall elect from among themselves a President of the said Association, two Vice-Presidents, and two Auditors; and shall also elect, from among themselves or otherwise, a Secretary and a Treasurer (or a SecretaryTreasurer), who shall constitute the officers of the Association until their successors are elected at the first annual meeting of the Association, to be held at the Town of Guelph, between the first days of January and April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

5. The Association may make by-laws for the admission of By-laws. members, and for its guidance and proper management, and for the promotion of the objects of the Association.

6. The Association shall hold an annual exhibition, open Annual exhito the whole Province, between the first day of January and bitions. the first day of April in each year, at such time and place as the Association at its annual meeting shall appoint.

7. The Association shall hold an annual meeting in each Annual meetand every year, at the same time and place as the annual ings. exhibition is held; and the retiring officers shall at such meeting present a full report of their proceedings, and of the proceedings of the Association, and a detailed statement of its receipts and expenditure for the previous year, duly audited by the Auditors; and the Association shall at such meeting elect a President, two Vice-Presidents, and nine Directors; and the officers so elected shall elect, from among themselves or otherwise, a Secretary and a Treasurer (or a SecretaryTreasurer); and the Association shall elect two Auditors; and the Association shall at each such meeting appoint the time and place for holding the next annual exhibition and meeting.

The officers (a majority of whom shall form a quorum) Powers of

shall officers.

Report to be sent to Commissioner of Agriculture.

Aid to Association.

Ss. 17 and 18 of R. S. O. c. 35 amended.

This Act to be

read as

shall have full power to act for and on behalf of the Association; and all grants of money and other funds of the Association shall be received and expended under their direction, subject, nevertheless, to the by-laws and regulations of the Association.

9. A copy of the annual report of the proceedings of the Association, and a list of the officers elected, and also a report of such information as the Association may have been able to obtain on the subject of poultry, and the breeding, rearing, management, and improvement thereof, and on all subjects connected therewith or relating thereto, whether in this Province or elsewhere, shall be sent by the Secretary of the Association to the Commissioner of Agriculture, within forty days of the holding of such annual meeting.

10. Such Association, so long as the number of its bona fide members is not less than fifty, and so long as it complies with the provisions of this Act, and of "The Agriculture and Arts Act," shall be entitled to receive from unappropriated moneys in the hands of the Treasurer of the Province, a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars in any one year, provided that the Secretary of the Association shall, on or before the first day of September in each year, transmit to the Commissioner of Agriculture an affidavit, which may be sworn to before any Justice of the Peace, stating the number of members who have paid their subscriptions for the current year and the total amount of such subscriptions.

11. The seventeenth and eighteenth sections of "The Agriculture and Arts Act" are hereby amended by inserting after the words "Ontario Society of Artists," in each of the said sections, the words "the Poultry Association of Ontario."

12. This Act shall be read as part of "The Agriculture ana part of Agri- Arts Act," and the said Association shall be deemed to be an Association coming under the said Act.

culture and

Arts Act.

SCHEDULE A.

(See section 1.)

We, whose names are subscribed hereto, agree to form ourselves into an Association under the provisions of the Act intituled "An Act to incorporate the Poultry Association of Ontario," to be called "The Poultry Association of Ontario;" and we hereby severally agree to pay to the Treasurer the

sums

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