Preamble. 20 V. c. 57. Sect. 4 of the said Act amended, Preamble. Township of nexed to CAP. X. An Act to amend an Act passed last Session, intituled, An Act to amend the Common Law Procedure Act, 1856, and to facilitate the remedies on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. [Assented to 30th June, 1858.] WHEREAS it is inexpedient that the summary remedy for the recovery of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes provided by the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth clauses of an Act passed in the last Session of the Provincial Parliament, intituled, An Act to amend the Common Law Procedure Act, 1856, and to facilitate the remedies on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, should be allowed to take effect on and after the first day of July next: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The time fixed in the fourth clause of the said Act for the operation of the said clauses shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty. CAP. XI. An Act to amend the Act, intituled, An Act to enlarge the Representation of the people of this Province in Parliament, in so far as it relates to the Township of Armagh. [Assented to 30th June, 1858.] HEREAS it would be for the advantage of its inhabitants, that the Township of Armagh, now forming part of the Counties of Montmagny and Bellechasse, should be included within the limits of one County only: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. From and after the passing of this Act, the Township of Armagh shall, for all purposes whatsoever, form part of the County of Bellechasse, with the exception of that part of the said Township designated and known as "Les Prairies," lying within the limits of the Parish of St. François, which shall continue to form part of the County of Montmagny. САР. CAP. XII. An Act to confer additional powers on the Trinity W [Assented to 30th June, 1858.] HEREAS in an Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Preamble. Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to repeal a certain 12 V. c. 117. Act and Ordinance therein mentioned, relating to the Trinity House at Montreal, and to amend and consolidate the provisions thereof, no provision has been made for the disposal of effects found in the River St. Lawrence, within the Port of Montreal; And whereas it is desirable to invest the Trinity House of Montreal with the same powers in relation to effects so found as are given to the Trinity House of Quebec with respect to such effects: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: risdiction. 1. Every person finding any effects or thing in the River St. Notice to be Lawrence, or on the beach thereof, or in any part of the rivers given to the running into the same, within the Port of Montreal, shall, Trinity House by persons within four days, if the same be found within the Harbour of finding effects Montreal, and within fifteen days, if the same be found within within its juany other part of the Port of Montreal, give notice thereof to the Registrar and Treasurer of the Trinity House of Montreal, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and shall give him a description of the thing found; If, in the mean time, the master Party claimor owner claims the same, he shall pay to the finder, for his ing to pay a trouble, a fair remuneration, to be fixed by the Trinity House remuneration of Montreal, when the parties cannot agree upon it. to be fixed by Trinity House.. advertised; 2. When any thing found in the River St. Lawrence, within Effects not the above limits, has not been claimed, the Registrar and claimed to be Treasurer may advertise it during four weeks, in English and in French, in two or more newspapers published at Montreal, and if within one month after such publication the same be And sold if not claimed, the said Registrar and Treasurer shall sell the not claimed.. same publicly, and after deducting the expenses of advertising, sale or otherwise, two-thirds of the proceeds of the sale shall belong to the finder, and the remaining third to the Trinity House of Montreal. 3. This Act shall be construed as if its provisions made Interpretation part of the Act above cited, and all the words and expressions of this Act. used in this Act shall be held to have the same meaning that they have in the said Act, and all the provisions of the said Act, with regard to the penalties imposed by it, shall apply to the penalty imposed by this Act, which shall be deemed a public Act. САР. Public Act. CAP. XIII. Preamble. Renfrew in An Act to incorporate the Village of Renfrew, in the W County [Assented to 30th June, 1858.] HEREAS the inhabitants of the village of Renfrew, in the County of Renfrew, have by their petition represented, that from the rapid increase of the population of the said village, it has become necessary to confer upon it corporate powers, and have prayed that it may be incorporated accordingly, and it is desirable 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: 1. From and after the passing of this Act, the inhabitants of corporated as the said village of Renfrew shall be a body corporate apart a village. from the Township of Horton, in which the said village is situate; and as such shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with such powers and privileges as are now or shall hereafter be conferred on incorporated villages in Upper Canada, and the powers of such corporation shall be exercised by, through, and in the name of the municipality of the village of Renfrew. Boundaries of the village. Governor to appoint a Returning Offi cer. Notice of His duties. 2. The said Village shall comprise and consist of the following lots and parcels of land, that is to say: Lots numbers nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen in the first and second concessions of the Township of Horton, in the County of Renfrew. 3. Immediately after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Governor of this Province to appoint a Returning Officer for the said village of Renfrew, which Returning Officer shall appoint the time and place for holding the first election in the said village, of which appointment the said Returning Officer shall give notice in a newspaper published in the said village, or if there be no newspaper published there, then by notices posted in at least three conspicuous places in the said village ten days before the said election. 4. The duties of the said Returning Officer, and the qualiQualification fications of the voters and persons elected as Councillors at such first election, shall be as prescribed by law with respect to townships in Upper Canada. of voters. Copy of Collector's Roll ed to Returning Officer. to be furnish 5. The Collector or Township Clerk of the Township of Horton, or other person having the legal custody of the Collector's Roll of that Township, for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, shall furnish to the said Returning Returning Officer, on demand made by him for the same, a true copy of such Roll, so far as the same relates to voters resident in the said village, and so far as such Roll contains the names of the male freeholders and householders rated upon such Roll in respect of real property lying within such limits, the amount of the assessed value of such property for which they shall be respectively rated on such Roll, which copy shall be verified on oath or as is now required by law. 6. The said Returning Officer, before holding the said Returning Election, shall take the oath or affirmation now required by Officer to be law to be taken by Returning Officers for incorporated villages in Upper Canada. sworn. 7. Elections for Councillors for the said village of Ren- Subsequent frew, after the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, elections to be shall be held in conformity with the provisions of law apply- as in other ing to incorporated villages in Upper Canada. places. 8. The several persons who shall be elected or appoint- Oaths of Offied under this Act, shall take the same oaths of office and of cer, &c. qualification now prescribed by law. 9. The number of Councillors to be elected under this Act Number and shall be five, and they shall be organized as a Council in the powers of Councillors, same manner as in villages incorporated under the provisions &c. of the Upper Canada Municipal Acts, and have, use and exercise the same powers and privileges as in the said incorporated villages. 10. From and after the passing of this Act, the said village Village sepashall cease to form part of the said township of Horton, and rated from shall, to all intents and purposes, form a separate and inde- Township. pendent municipality, with all the privileges and rights of an incorporated village in Upper Canada; but nothing herein Proviso as to contained shall affect or be construed to affect any taxes existing debts. imposed for the payment of any debts contracted by the township of Horton aforesaid, but the said village of Renfrew shall be liable to pay to the treasurer of the township of Horton aforesaid, in each and every year until any such existing debt be fully discharged, the same amount which was collected within the said described limits of the said village towards the payment of such debt, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and the same shall be a debt against the said village. lor to be elect 11. Any Councillor elected to serve in the township council New Townof the said township of Horton, for the present year, and ship Councilresiding within the above prescribed limits of the said village, ed in place of shall, immediately on the passing of this Act, cease to be such any one residcouncillor, and the duly qualified electors of the said township ing in Renof Horton, not included in the said limits, shall thereupon 4 proceed frew. collect taxes during 1858; how the vil lage taxes for this year shall be raised. Proviso: as to share of Clergy Reserve Fund. proceed to elect a new Councillor or Councillors, as the case may be, to serve in the council of the said township, for the remainder of the year, as in the case of death or resignation provided for by the Municipal laws of Upper Canada. Township 12. The officers of the said council of the township of Officers not to Horton, shall not proceed to collect any rate or assessment imposed by the said council for the present year, within the limits of the said village, but the amount which may be required for the purposes of the said village within the present year, shall be based on the assessment of the township assessor or assessors for the present year, and shall be collected by the officer or officers to be appointed by the said village council for that Proviso as to purpose: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall School rates. affect any school section or school rate for the present year, nor the right of any school section to any money already set apart for School purposes; And provided further, that the said village of Renfrew shall be entitled to recover from the said Township of Horton, such share of all money apportioned to such Township from the Upper Canada Municipalities Fund, prior to the passing of this Act, as shall bear the same proportion to the whole sum so apportioned to the said Township as the number of rate-payers resident within the limits of the said village, as shewn by the Collector's Roll of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, bears to the whole number of rate-payers of the said Township; And also provided further, that the said village of Renfrew shall be entitled to recover from the said Township of Horton all money which may have been collected by the said Township for all Tavern, Shop and Auctioneer Licenses granted within the limits of the said village for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. Proviso as to and Auction eer licenses. sessment Roll Requisite pro- 13. The Clerk of the said Township shall, and he is here. portion of As- by required to furnish to the Clerk to be appointed by the to be furnish Council of the said village, on demand made by him therefor, a true copy of the Assessment Roll for the present year, so far as the same shall contain the rateable property assessed within the said village, and the names of the owners thereof. ed for Ren frew. As to expenses 14. The expenses of any assessment imposed for the preof assessments sent year, so far as the same shall relate to assessments made for 1858, &c. within the limits of the said village, and the expenses of furnishing any documents, or copies of papers and writings, by the Clerk or other officer of the Council of the said Township, hereinbefore referred to or required to be furnished, shall be borne and paid by the said village Council to the said Township Council or otherwise as the said Township Council shall require. Public Act. 15. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. САР. |