3. This Act shall in no wise discharge any land within the Act not to afsaid Village, or any person from liability for any assessment fect liability or penalty imposed or incurred under the said Acts, within the for assesssaid Parish of St. Christophe d'Arthabaska, before the passing hereof. 4. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. САР. СІХ. An Act to erect the Village known by the name of "Radnor Forges," into a separate Municipality under the name of "Fermont." [Assented to 16th August, 1858.] WHEREAS the Village known by the name of "Radnor Forges," situate in the Parish of St. Maurice, in the District of Three-Rivers, contains about four hundred inhabitants, and more than fifty occupied dwelling-houses, within a space less than thirty acres in extent, but cannot, under the present Municipal law, be erected into a distinct Municipality in consequence of the real property qualification required for members of Municipal Councils; And whereas the inhabitants of the said Village have, by their petition, prayed to be erected into a Village Municipality, and to be incorporated as the "Municipality of Fermont": Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: ments, &c. Public Act. Preamble. aries. 1. From and after the passing of this Act, the Village at Village of present known by the name of "Radnor Forges," bounded as Fermont infollows, that is to say: all the land contained within the limits of corporated. lots Numbers twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two, in the south- Its boundeast concession of the range of Ste. Marguerite, in the Seigniory of Cap de la Magdeleine, in the County of Champlain, and of lots eighteen, nineteen and twenty, in the north-west concession of the said range of Ste. Marguerite, in the said Seigniory, containing in all three hundred and fifty acres, or there about, in superficies, shall be called "Fermont," and shall, for all the purposes of the Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855, and of all Acts amending the said Act, and of all Acts which may hereafter be passed to amend and consolidate the said Act and the said Acts amending the same, be detached from the Parish and Municipality of St. Maurice, and shall be erected into a Village Municipality by the name of the "Municipality of Fermont ;" And the inhabitants of the said Its corporate Municipality are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic name and for all purposes whatsoever, by the name of the "Corporation style. of the Village of Fermont ;" and the style and title to be used by the Council of the said Corporation in all its proceedings shall be, the "Municipal Council of Fermont." Who may elect 2. The Electors, Mayor and Councillors, shall be the male and be elected. inhabitants of the said Municipality, of the full age of twentyone years, and proprietors of real estate within the limits of the said Municipality, of the value of twenty-five pounds currency at the least, or being occupants as tenants or otherwise of houses worth at the least a yearly rental of seven pounds ten shillings currency, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. First meeting of electors; held. 3. As soon as possible after the passing of this Act, the senior Justice of the Peace resident within the said Municihow called and pality, or if there be no such Justice of the Peace, the senior resident Militia Officer, shall issue a public notice to be read and posted up during eight days in the most public and frequented place within the said Municipality, calling upon the Municipal electors to assemble at the said place on the day appointed in the said notice, and at nine o'clock in the forenoon of the said day, in order then and there to elect seven Municipal Councillors to constitute the Municipal Council of the said Municipality, and he shall preside at the said election which shall be held under the provisions of the Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855. Election of If the party calling the meeting be a candidate. Future elec tions to be held as in other places. Powers and duties of the 4. If the party presiding at such meeting be or become himself a candidate, he may appoint any other Municipal elector to preside at such election. 5. After the first election shall have been held in the manner above mentioned, all subsequent proceedings and elections shall take place in accordance with the provisions of the said Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855, and of all Acts amending the same now in force, and of all Acts which may hereafter come in force to amend or supersede the said Act. 6. The said Municipal Council and the said Corporation of the Village of Fermont shall have all the powers, rights, privileges and advantages, and shall fulfil all the obligations and duties of a local Municipality under the provisions of the said Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855, and of any Acts now in force amending the same, or which may hereafter come in force amending or superseding the said Act, and of any other Acts now in force which may come in force hereafter, in the same manner as if the erection of the said Village of Fermont into a local and Village Municipality had taken place under the provisions of the said Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855, and of the Acts now so amending the same. Appointment 7. As soon as the Municipal Council shall have been organof Assessors, ized by the election of a Mayor and a Secretary-Treasurer, the and making Council may proceed to the appointment of three Assessors, who shall make an assessment of all the assessable property in the said Village, in the manner provided for in the Lower Canada Municipal and Road Act of 1855. assessmentroll. Public Act. 8. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. САР. САР. СХ. An Act to authorize the Senate of the University of Toronto to appropriate certain Lands for the purposes of a Park, and to include the same within the limits of the City of Toronto, and to extend the Police Regulations of the said City to the University Lands adjacent thereto. [Assented to 16th August, 1858.] WHEREAS the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Members Preamble. of the Senate of the University of Toronto, deem it expedient, with a view to the interests of the said University, to set apart a certain portion of the Lands now vested in Her Majesty on behalf of the said University, for the purposes of a Park; And whereas the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto, have offered to put in order the said Park, take charge thereof and keep the same in order, in consideration that the same may be appropriated as a Public Park, to which the public generally shall have free access; And whereas it is for the interests of the said University that such offer should be accepted, and that such appropriation should be sanctioned by Legislative enactment; And whereas it is expedient that such Park should form part of the said City of Toronto, and that the other lands vested in Her Majesty as aforesaid, adjacent to the City of Toronto, should be subject to the Police Regulations of the said City: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Bursar of the University of Toronto may demise at University a nominal rent, for a period of nine hundred and ninety-nine may lease to years, to the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of City, not exceeding 50 Toronto, for the purposes of a Park, as well for the use of the acres of land, Professors, Students and other Members of the University, as adjacent to of the public generally, and for no other purpose whatsoever, Park. the City for a so much of the land vested in Her Majesty as aforesaid, situate within or adjacent to the limits of the said City, as the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Members of the Senate of the said University may, by By-law approved of by the Governor in Council, set apart for such purposes, not exceeding in the whole fifty acres, in trust for the said purposes, and upon such terms and conditions as may have been heretofore or may hereafter be agreed upon between them. 2. So long as the said lease shall remain in force, the land Land so leased so demised shall be deemed to be and shall be taken to form to be part of the City, and a part of the said City of Toronto; and the residue of the residue of the lands so vested in Her Majesty as aforesaid, adjacent to the University said Park, shall be subject to all the Police Regulations of the to be subject lands adjacent said City of Toronto, and to all By-laws of the said City in to its Police that behalf. Regulations and By-laws. САР. СХІ. An Act to provide for the selection of a County Town for the County of Bruce. [Assented to 16th August, 1858.] Preamble. WHEREAS by virtue of the Act passed in the session 19, 20 V. c 19. Proclamation avoided. Selection left held in the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to separate the County of Bruce from the County of Huron, and of the Act passed in the now last Session of Parliament to explain the Act above cited, the Governor in Council has, by proclamation dated the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven, appointed the Town of Walkerton, to be the County Town of the said County of Bruce; And whereas the Provisional Council of the said County, by their Petition, have prayed, that an Act may be passed to enable the Municipal Electors of the said County of Bruce to select a County Town for the said County,-that six places may be submitted for the selection of the said Electors, namely, the Villages of Kincardine, Southampton, Walkerton, Paisley, Greenock, and Inverhuron, all in the said County, and that one of the above named places, which shall receive the greatest number of votes of the said Electors, may be the County Town; And whereas the Inhabitants of the said County have by their Petition prayed that an Act may be passed to avoid the said Proclamation, declaring the Village of Walkerton the County Town of the said County of Bruce, but that the selection of a County Town for the said County of Bruce shall be left to the decision of the Governor in Council,-and that each Town or Village in the said County desiring to do so, shall present to the Governor in Council its respective claims in writing, and that from among them a choice shall be made; And whereas the Provisional Council of the said County of Bruce have refused to pass a By-law to raise the necessary funds for the erection of the County Buildings, at Walkerton: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Proclamation of the Governor appointing Walkerton the County Town is hereby avoided. 2. The selection of the County Town shall be left to the to Governor in decision of the Governor in Council, and a new Proclamation shall issue appointing the County Town in accordance with such decision. Council. Claims of pla3. Each place desiring to do so, shall present its claims in ces submitted. writing to the Governor in Council, before the first day of October next, and the choice shall be made from among such places. 4. The Provisional Council of said County of Bruce, shall, Provisional before any action shall be taken by the Governor in Council, Council to vote the necessary supplies for the said County Buildings, and vote supplies pass a valid By-law for raising and applying the same. 5. The decision of the Governor in Council shall be final. 6. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CXII. An Act to limit the amount of Municipal Taxation on certain lands within the City of Hamilton. W [Assented to 16th August, 1858.] before the choice is made. Decision to be final. Public Act. HEREAS the Honorable Malcolm Cameron, the owner Preamble. in fee of lots numbers twenty and twenty-one in the second concession of the Township of Barton, in the County of Wentworth, hath by his petition to the Legislature represented, that when he purchased the said lots in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, they were not included in the city (then the town) of Hamilton; that the said lots were separated from the rest of the city by a considerable tract of vacant ground, and by a wide and deep ravine; and that when the said Town was constituted a City in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, he consented to have the said lots included within the City, in the hope that the said vacant ground would be built upon as part of the City, and that the said ravine would be bridged by the Corporation; but that this has not been done, and that the said vacant ground has not been built upon, but on the contrary a large portion thereof has been converted into a public Cemetery, and he finds it impossible to sell any part of the said lots for building purposes, and that they are completely cut off from the City, while they are nevertheless burthened with heavy taxes; for all which reasons he has prayed that he may be relieved as regards the amount of taxation upon the said lots for Municipal purposes; And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: not to be as 1. Upon, from and after the first day of January next, and The lands until the expiration of ten years from that day, no portion of mentioned in the said lots, whether built upon or not, or whether otherwise the Preamble improved or not, shall be assessed at a higher actual value se-sed above a than the rate of forty dollars per acre of actual value, or two certain value, dollars and forty cents of yearly value, and such assessed during ten value shall be held to include the value of all buildings and 38* other years. |