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OF THE

PROVINCE OF CANADA

PASSED IN THE

TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA

AND IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.

Begun and holden at Quebec, on the Twelfth day of February, in the year
of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-three.

HIS EXCELLENCY

THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHARLES STANLEY VISCOUNT MONCK,
GOVERNOR GENERAL.

QUEBEC:

PRINTED BY GEORGE DESBARATS AND MALCOLM CAMERON,
LAW PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELI.ENT MAJESTY.

Anno Domini, 1863.

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ANNO VICESIMO-SEXTO

VICTORIA REGINE.

CAP. I.

An Act to enable County Councils to raise money for assisting persons in certain cases to sow their land, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 5th May, 1863.]

WHEREAS, from the failure last year of the crops in many Preamble. of the townships of Upper Canada, many persons will not be able to procure seed, without assistance, and it is expedient to empower County Councils to raise money for their relief: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

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1. Notwithstanding any law in force in Upper Canada, the County CounCouncil of any County may pass a By-law, or By-laws, for cils may raise raising money, not exceeding in the whole twenty thousand buying seed, dollars, to be expended in the purchase of seed, and for the &c. relief of persons suffering from the failure of the crops, and for no other purpose; and the debentures issued under such Bylaws shall be a charge on the County.

2. Such By-law shall be in the form of Schedule A to this Form of ByAct, and the sections numbered two hundred and twenty-two, law. two hundred and twenty-three, two hundred and twenty-four Certain proviand two hundred and twenty-five of the Act respecting the sions not to Municipal Institutions of Upper Canada, chapter fifty-four of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, shall not apply thereto.

apply.

3. The County Council shall lend the money so raised, in County to lend such sums as they may deem expedient, to Township Councils the Money to the Townships. requesting the same, and shall impose and levy a special rate, in each year, against the Municipality so borrowing, over and

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above

Townships to

lend to parties wanting seed, &c.

Or to purchase seed.

Township Council to levy rates,

&c., against

above all other County rates, until the loan and interest are repaid.

4. The Township Councils shall lend the money so borrowed, and may also lend any surplus Township funds in their possession, not otherwise appropriated, to the persons aforesaid, for the purposes aforesaid.

5. The Township Councils, if they deem it expedient, may purchase seed and deliver the same to the persons aforesaid, in the place of money.

6. The Township Council shall, by By-law, declare the time within which such loan shall be repaid, and shall impose, levy and collect a special annual rate, over and above all other the borrowers. rates, against the estate, real and personal, of the party borrowing, and all the rights and remedies shall apply thereto, which now or at any time hereafter shall apply to the collection of any other rate or tax upon such land, or the Council, if it see fit, may take other security, real or personal, for the payment of such loan.

Application of

7. No money raised under this Act shall be applied to any moneys raised. other purpose, and any surplus thereof unapplied, shall be added to the sinking fund, for the redemption of the debentures issued as aforesaid.

Exemption

from seizure.

No By-law to

S. No money lent or seed delivered, under this Act, shall be seized in execution, garnished or attached.

9. No By-law shall be passed and no debentures shall be be passed after issued, under any By-law passed in pursuance of this Act, after the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

1863.

Act limited to
U. C.

10. This Act applies to Upper Canada only.

SCHEDULE A.

BY-LAW NO.

Enacted by the County Council of the County of

intituled:

under and by virtue of the Statute of this Province, passed in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
An Act to enable County Councils to raise money for assisting
persons in certain cases to sow their land, and for other pur-
poses.

WHEREAS it is expedient to raise the sum of $

to be applied to the purposes in the said Statute set forth; be it therefore enacted, under the authority of the said Statute, that the said sum be forthwith raised for such purposes, and

that

that the Warden do cause debentures of the County of

which

to be issued, for the sum of $ debentures shall be payable within ten years, at furthest, from the date hereof, and shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable half-yearly, on the thirtieth day of June and thirty-first day of December, in each year; principal. and interest to be payable at in the Town

of

And whereas the sum of $

will require to be

raised annually, for paying the said debt and interest at the
time and in the manner aforesaid; and whereas the amount
of the whole rateable property in the said County, according to
the last revised Assessment Rolls, amounts to $
be it therefore further enacted, that the sum of

;

in the dollar, on the said gross rateable value of property, be levied and collected, in each year, over and beyond all other rates, general and special, for the purpose of paying the interest on, and creating a sinking fund to pay the said sum of $

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raised under the authority of this By-law and the Statute aforesaid.

CAP. II.

An Act to enable Local Councils to raise money.for assisting persons in certain cases to sow their land, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 5th May, 1863.]

last

WHEREAS, from the failure last year of the clips in many Preamble.

parts of Lower Canada, many persons will not be able to procure seed, without assistance, and it is expedient to empower Local Municipal Councils to raise money for their relief: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Notwithstanding any law in force in Lower Canada, the Local Councils Council of any local Municipality in Lower Canada, may pass may raise mo ney for buying a By-law, or By-laws, for raising money, not exceeding in the seed, &c. whole one thousand dollars, to be expended in the purchase of seed, and for the relief of persons suffering from the failure of the crops, and for no other purpose; and the debentures issued under such By-laws shall be a charge on the Municipality.

when to be in

2. Such By-law shall be in the form of Schedule A to this Form of ByAct, and shall come into force immediately after being passed law, &c., by the Council, at an ordinary or regularly called special meet- force. ing; anything in the Lower Canada Consolidated Municipal Act, or the Acts amending it, to the contrary notwithstanding.

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