Scobie's Municipal Manual for Upper CanadaHugh Scobie |
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... therein . Eighteenthly . For regulating or preventing the fishing with nets or Fishing with seines , the use of fishing lights , or the erection or use of weirs for eels or nets , & c . other fish in any harbour , river or public water ...
... therein . Eighteenthly . For regulating or preventing the fishing with nets or Fishing with seines , the use of fishing lights , or the erection or use of weirs for eels or nets , & c . other fish in any harbour , river or public water ...
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... therein ; and such Returning Officer shall fix the place for the said to be fixed . election , and give notice thereof by posting the same in at least three public places within his Ward , at least ten days next before the election ...
... therein ; and such Returning Officer shall fix the place for the said to be fixed . election , and give notice thereof by posting the same in at least three public places within his Ward , at least ten days next before the election ...
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... therein . LXXI . And be it enacted , That every such Police Magistrate shall have the power of suspending from the duties of his office any Chief Constable or Constable of the Town of which he is the Police Magistrate for any period in ...
... therein . LXXI . And be it enacted , That every such Police Magistrate shall have the power of suspending from the duties of his office any Chief Constable or Constable of the Town of which he is the Police Magistrate for any period in ...
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... therein . LXXX . And be it enacted , That the Town Council of any such Town shall be composed of the Councillors elected by and for the different Wards of such Town , and shall have all such powers , duties and liabili- different Wards ...
... therein . LXXX . And be it enacted , That the Town Council of any such Town shall be composed of the Councillors elected by and for the different Wards of such Town , and shall have all such powers , duties and liabili- different Wards ...
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... therein . On acquittal of a defendant , costs to be paid out of City funds , when there was rea- prosecution . sonable cause for Recorder may suspend High Constable , & c . , Bailiff , Chiet from their duties . Proviso as to a Bailiff ...
... therein . On acquittal of a defendant , costs to be paid out of City funds , when there was rea- prosecution . sonable cause for Recorder may suspend High Constable , & c . , Bailiff , Chiet from their duties . Proviso as to a Bailiff ...
Common terms and phrases
Act passed aforesaid allowance for road amend amount appointed Arbitrators assessed Assessor authority boundary line By-law Clerk Collector Collector's Roll Common School Company concession Councillors County Treasurer deemed District duty election enacted erected expedient Fence Viewers freeholders and householders Governor hereby High Bailiff highway include and consist Incorporated Village inhabitants intituled Junior County jurisdiction Justice land lawful levied liberties thereof lots numbers Lower Canada Majesty Majesty's Reign manner meeting moneys Municipal Corporation oath paid Parliament party payment Peace penalty person or persons pounds currency powers Proclamation Provisional Municipal Council purposes Quarter Sessions real property regulating repealed respectively Returning Officer Road or Bridge Saint Saint George's Ward Schedule school section Street taxes thence therein tion Town or City Town or Village Town which lies Townreeve Township Trustees Union of Counties Upper Canada vested Vict Ward to comprise Welland Canal writ writ of summons
Popular passages
Page 154 - Township (as the case may be) and that I have not received and will not receive any payment or reward, or promise of such, for the exercise of any partiality or malversation or other undue execution of the said office...
Page 219 - 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, intituled, An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada...
Page 111 - America" and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province".
Page 94 - 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, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and...
Page 179 - Capias ad satisfaciendum, adapted to the Case, together with the Costs of such Entry, and of the Execution if by Fieri facias ; and such Writ and Writs may bear Teste on the Day of issuing the same, whether in Term or Vacation ; and the Sheriff or other Officer executing any such Writ shall be entitled to the same Fees, and no more, as upon any similar Writ grounded upon a Judgment of the Court.
Page 189 - I do declare and affirm that I am, and have been, for the thirty days last past, an actual resident of this school district and that I am qualified to vote at this meeting.
Page 99 - It shall be lawful for the trustees to call in and demand from the stockholders respectively, all such sums of money by them subscribed, at such times, and in such payments or instalments as...
Page 49 - ... shall prevent, lessen, or impeach any remedy at law or in equity which any party aggrieved by any such offence might or would have had if this act had not been passed; but nevertheless the conviction of any such offender shall not be received in evidence in any action at law or suit in equity against him...
Page 111 - Sessions assembled, and regulations \ and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to make and ordain such rules and regulations as...
Page 48 - ... every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as in the case of simple larceny...