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Clay, Sand, Lime and Ballast, per ton....

Timber, per hundred cubic feet.....

Sawed Lumber of every kind, per thousand feet, board

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Buffalo Skins, per dozen..........

Earthenware, (loose,) per hundred pieces,

2d.

2d,

3d.

3d.

3d.

3d.

4d.

6d.

6d.

6d.

6d.

6d.

6d.

6d.

9d.

9d.

9d.

9d.

1s.

1s.

Is.

1s.

1s.

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Handspikes, Oars and Billets, per iundred pieces...

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Grain, Seeds, Indian Corn, Pulse, Malt and Salt,
per hundred minots...

Railway Sleepers, per handred pieces...

Bricks, Tiles and Slates for roofing, per thousand... 6d.
Pipe Staves, (Standard,) per mille......

SCHEDULE C.

38.

Goods on which there shall be levied a rate of nine pence per one thousand pounds gross weight:

Arrowroot,-Barley,-Pot or Pearl,-Batting,-Biscuit,Bread, -- Butter,Blue,-Brimstone,-Cheese,-Crackers,Coffee,Cocoa, --Chocolate, -Candles, -Cork, unmanufactured, Cordage, -Cotton Wool, --Flax, Feathers,-Fruit, dried, --Glue, Grease,-Gunpowder, Ginger, Hemp,Hops,-Honey,-Junk,-Leather,-Lard,-Lampblack,-Nuts of all kinds,-Oakum,-Oil-Cake,--Ochire,-Paints,-Putty,Rice,-Rags,-Rope,-Sugar, raw or refined,--Soap,-Starch,Spices,-Sago,--Salaratus,-Salts,-Snuff,--Saltpetre,--Sulphur, --Teas, Tobacco,-Tow,--Tallow,-Wadding,-Wool,-- Wire,

-Wax,-Wrapping-paper,-Whetstones.

SCHEDULE D.

Goods on which there shall be levied a Rate of one shilling and three pence per ton gross weight:

Anchors,--Anvils,-Alum,-Chains,-Metals of all kinds in Pigs, Bar, Bolts, Rods, or Sheets,--Hollow iron-ware,-Plough

Moulds,-

moulds,--Nails,-Spikes,-Shot,-Stoves,--Ores of all kinds,-
Chalk,-Cement,-Gypsum,--Plaster of Paris,--Whiting,--
Copperas,-Grindstones,-- Mill-stones, - Dye-Woods,-Soda-
Ash,--Raft Gear, Bran, -- Shorts, Luggage, Bones,-
Hoofs,-Horns.

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SCHEDULE E.

Goods on which there shall be levied a Rate of one shilling per one hundred gallons thereof:

All Liquors, Wines, Oils and Fluids whatsoever in wood or other packages except bottles.

SCHEDULE F.

Goods on which there shall be levied a Rate of nine pence per ton measurement of forty cubic feet:

Earthenware, Stoneware, Chinaware and Glassware in packages.

SCHEDULE G.

On all Goods, Wares and Merchandize whatsoever not otherwise classed or described, there shall be levied a Rate of three shillings and four pence upon every one hundred pounds of the value thereof: Provided always, that upon Goods, the value of which cannot be ascertained satisfactorily, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Commissioners to levy a Rate of one shilling and three pence per ton weight or measurement, as they may see fit.

CAP. CXLIV.

An Act to prevent the taking of Trout with nets in the
Lakes of the County of Saguenay.

W

[Assented to 19th May, 1855.]

THEREAS it is highly desirable that the Trout now found Preamble. in the lakes and streams in the County of Saguenay, should be preserved from the destruction with which they are threatened by the pernicious practice of fishing with seines or other nets: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of 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, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lover Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

Trout not to

nets in the

County of
Saguenay.

1. After the passing of this Act no person shall, at any season be taken with of the year, take or attempt to take any Trout in any of the lakes or waters in the County of Saguenay, with any seine net, gill net or other kind of net whatever, or stretch, place or use such net in any of the lakes or waters in the said County, or catch or attempt to catch any Trout therein by other means than by hook and line, or with a spear; Provided always that the words "waters in the said County," shall not apply to the waters of the river St. Lawrence.

Proviso.

Penalty for

this Act.

able.

II. Each and every person offending against the provisions contravering of this Act shall, for the first offence, incur a penalty of not less than twenty shillings, and not more than five pounds, and for a second or any subsequent offence a penalty of not less than thirty shillings, nor more than ten pounds, in the discretion of How recover- the Magistrate before whom he shall be convicted; and such penalty shall be recoverable with costs on complaint before any one Justice of the Peace, on the oath of any one credible witness other than the informer or prosecutor, or on the oath of such informer or prosecutor if he shall renounce all share of the penalty, and shall, if not forthwith paid, be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender on the warrant of such Justice, or if the offender have no known goods and chattels whereon the penalty can be levied, then, if the penalty be not forthwith paid, he may be committed to the common Gaol of the district, for a time not less than eight days nor exceeding fifteen days, unless the penalty and costs he sooner Application of paid; and one moiety of such penalty shall belong to the Crown for the public uses of this province, and the other moiety to the informer or prosecutor, unless he shall have renounced his right to such moiety, in which case the whole of such penalty shall belong to the Crown for the uses aforesaid.

penalty.

Preamble.

CAP. CXLV.

An Act to confirm the City of Toronto in the possession of the Peninsula and Marsh now held by it under License.

W

[Assented to 19th May, 1855.] THEREAS the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto now hold, under a license of occupation from the Crown, bearing dat the twelfth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-sever, the Peninsula in front of the said City, and also the marsh adjoining the said Peninsula, to the eastward of the Bay in front of the said City, and being desirous to improve the said Peninsula, and to reclaim the said marsh, have expended large sums of money in surveying the same, and have laid out the said Peninsula in roads and streets, with a view of leasing the same to individuals, and have also entered into a correspondence with, and adopted a resolution to co-operate with the Harbor Commissioners, to carry out any measures that

may

may be adopted for the benefit and improvement of the Harbor, by the construction of a Canal across the said Peninsula, or by such other means as may be found necessary: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of 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, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

Governor in

inserted in the

1. It shall and may be lawful for the Government of this Province, by an Order in Council or otherwise, to grant to the Council may said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto, grant the said Peninsula, &c, the said Peninsula, and the marsh to the eastward of the said Bay to the Corpo(commonly known as Ashbridge's Bay), upon such terms and ration. conditions as the Governor of this Province in Council may think fit: Provided always, that in auy Order in Council, Letters Proviso: conPatent, or other Instrument granting to the said Corporation the ditions may be said Peninsula, or marsh, or any part thereof, or any other lands grant and en now vested in the Crown, it shall be lawful to insert any condi- forced. tions or restrictions as to the manner in which the same shall be used, or the purposes to which they shall be applied, or the buildings and works which shall or shall not be erected thereon, or any other conditions or restrictions whatever which the Governor shall think it for the public interest to cause to be inserted; and such conditions and restrictions shall have full force and effect, any rule of law as to the conditions or restrictions which may be inserted in grants and enforced at law to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. CXLVI.

An Act to enable the Trustees of the Toronto General Burying Ground, to close the same, to sell a portion thereof, and to acquire other ground for the purposes of the Trust.

W

[Assented to 19th May, 1855.]

Public Act.

HEREAS the Trustees of the Toronto General Burying Preamble. Ground, the Municipal Council of the Village of Yorkville, and many of the inhabitants of the said Village and of the City of Toronto, have, by their Petition to the Legislature, represented that by reason of the great increase in the extent and population of the said City, and of the rapid growth of the said Village within which the said Burying Ground is situate, it hath become highly desirable that the same be closed, and that the portion thereof in which there may be no graves, be

disposed

No further

take place in
the said
ground.
Act 12 V.
c. 104.

Act of U. C. 7 G. 4, c 21.

disposed of and the proceeds applied to the purchase of another and more eligible site for a Public Cemetery: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of 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, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

I. The Trustees for the time being, in whom the Toronto interment to General Burying Ground is vested, under the anthority of the Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to amend the Act therein mentioned, and to vest the Toronto General Burying Ground in certain Trustees and their Successors, and the Act of the Parliament of Upper Canada, passed in the seventh year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to authorize certain persons therein named and their successors, to hold certain lands for the purpose therein mentioned, shall not, after the expiration of three months from the passing of this Act, permit any interment to take place in the land now used as the said Burying Ground and Trustees may described in the Act last aforesaid; And it shall be lawful sell part of the said ground in for the said Trustees for the time being or for any four or which there more of them, to demise or to sell and convey to any person or are no graves. persons who may agree to lease or to purchase the same, all that portion of the land vested in the said Trustees as aforesaid, in which there shall then be no graves containing bodies; Portion where and that portion thereof in which there are such graves shall not be there are gra- sold or occupied until the bodies buried therein shall have Sold until the been removed by the relations or friends of the dead, to the bodies are re- Public Cemetery to be purchased by the said Trustees, as moved to new aforesaid, in which Cemetery there shall be allotted to such Cemetery,

ves not to be

&c.

Power to
Trustees to

parties burial places corresponding in size with those in the Toronto General Burying Ground, in case snch Bodies shall be removed to such Public Cemetery by the said Trustees, with the consent of the relatives and friends of the dead, or by such friends and relatives of their own accord; And the said Trustees or any four of them, shall have power to sell such land sell land con- containing no graves or from which the bodies buried therein taining no shall have been removed, for such prices and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, and to receive the purchase money and discharge the purchaser, who shall not be bound to see to the execution of the trust on which the land is held, or to the application of the purchase money.

graves.

The part in which there

are graves to

II. The said Trustees and their Successors shall keep that part of the land aforesaid in which there shall be graves containing bodies, properly fenced and in decent and becoming

order

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