Preamble. Chapter 52 of 1882. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 10. An Act respecting the Harbour Commissioners of [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] WHEREAS by section six of chapter fifty-two of the Statutes of 1882, the Harbour Commissioners of Three Rivers were authorized to borrow any sum or sums of money not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, for the purposes and upon the terms and conditions therein mentioned, such sums of money to be raised by the issue of debentures, with coupons attached; and whereas the said Commissioners have, under the said authority, borrowed the sum of eighty-two thousand dollars, and have issued debentures therefor to a like account, with coupons attached, a part of which coupons have fallen into arrear and remain unpaid-which debentures and unpaid coupons are held by the Government of Canada; and Chapter 76 of whereas by section four of chapter seventy-six of the Statutes of 1885, the said section six of the Act first above cited was repealed, save and except as to the debentures theretofore issued by the said Commissioners; and whereas it is expedient to renew the said authority, upon the conditions and with the limitation hereinafter provided: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1885. Power to borrow money. 1. For the purpose of purchasing wharves or beach property, or for constructing wharves or other accommodation for vessels within the limits of the harbour of Three Rivers, the corporation of the Harbour Commissioners of Three Rivers may borrow, in such sums and for such number of years, and at such rates of interest not exceeding five per cent per annum, with a sinking fund of one per cent per annum to be applied to the payment of the capital, such interest and sinking fund to be payable half yearly, as are found expedient, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars, and may expend such sums for the purposes above mentioned, in the manner deemed by them best calculated to promote the commerce and interests of the harbour of Three Rivers. 2. The said sums of money may be raised by the issue of Debentures. debentures under the hands of three of the said Commissioners, and the seal of the corporation, countersigned by the secretary-treasurer of the said corporation, with coupons signed by him for the half yearly interest, payable to bearer at the times when the said interest is made payable. 3. The said sums so borrowed, and the interest thereon, How payable. shall be paid out of the revenues of the said harbour. 4. The said debentures shall, notwithstanding anything Ranking. contained in section three of chapter seventy-six of the Statutes of 1885, have priority of ranking and privilege over the sum of eighty-two thousand dollars already borrowed, as set forth in the preamble hereto. 5. No loan shall be effected, and no expenditure shall be Approval by incurred, without the previous authorization of the Minister of Minister. Public Works. ment to be 6. No loan shall be effected, and no debentures shall create Interest due any lien or charge on the said harbour, until the said Commis- to Governsioners have paid to the Government of Canada the amount paid before of the interest then due and unpaid on the hereinabove-men- borrowing. tioned sum of eighty-two thousand dollars. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Preamble.. Number of members for each province. Present elec to continue 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. II. An Act to readjust the Representation in the House of [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] HEREAS by the census of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and in accordance with The British North America Act, 1867, and certain other Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and of the Parliament of Canada, the province of Manitoba is, by its present population, entitled to seven members in the House of Commons, the province of Nova Scotia to twenty members, the province of New Brunswick to fourteen members, and the province of Prince Edward Island to five members, respectively; and whereas by reason thereof and of the existence of great inequalities in the respective populations of certain electoral districts in the other provinces of Canada, it is expedient to readjust the boundaries of certain electoral districts: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The House of Commons shall consist of two hundred and thirteen members, of whom ninety-two shall be elected for Ontario, sixty-five for Quebec, twenty for Nova Scotia, fourteen for New Brunswick, seven for Manitoba, six for British Columbia, and five for Prince Edward Island. 2. The said provinces respectively shall, for the purposes of toral districts the election of members to serve in the IIouse of Commons, be except as here divided into the electoral districts established by The Repreinafter altered sentation Act, and by this Act; each of the electoral districts Renfrew, N. hereby constituted shall, unless hereinafter otherwise provided, return one member; and each of the now existing electoral districts shall remain constituted and represented as it now is, except in so far as it is altered by the following provisions of this Act, that is to say : ONTARIO. 2. In the province of Ontario (a.) The electoral district of North Renfrew shall consist of the town of Pembroke, that part of the village of Eganville north of the river Bonnechère, and the townships of Ross, (b.) The electoral district of South Renfrew shall consist of Renfrew, S. the townships of McNab, Bagot, Blithfield, Brougham, Horton, Admaston, Gratton, Matawatchan, Griffith, Lyndoch, Raglan, Radcliffe, Brudenell, Sebastopol, Ilagarty, Richards, Sherwood, Burns and Jones, the villages of Arnprior and Renfrew, and that part of the village of Eganville south of the river Bonnechère ; (c.) The electoral district of Lincoln and Niagara shall con- Lincoln and sist of the town of Niagara, the city of St. Catharines, the Niagara. townships of Niagara, Grantham, Clinton, Louth, Pelham and Gainsborough, and the villages of Beamsville, Merritton and Port Dalhousie; (d.) The electoral district of Welland shall consist of the Welland. townships of Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone, Stamford, Thorold and Willoughby, the villages of Chippewa, Fort Erie, Niagara Falls and Port Colborne, and the towns of Niagara Falls, Thorold and Welland; (e.) The electoral district of Haldimand and Monck shall Haldimand consist of the townships of Oneida, Rainham, Seneca, North and Monck. Cayuga and South Cayuga, Canboro', Dunn, Moulton, Sherbrooke and Wainfleet, and the villages of Caledonia, Cayuga, Hagersville and Dunnville; S. (f.) The electoral district of South Wentworth shall consist Wentworth, of the townships of Saltfleet, Binbrooke, Barton, Glanford, North and South Grimsby, Caistor, East and West Flamborough, the town of Dundas, and the villages of Grimsby and Waterdown ; (g.) The electoral district of North Wentworth and Brant Wentworth, shall consist of the townships of Ancaster, Blenheim, East N., and Brant Brantford, South Dumfries and Beverley; (h.) The electoral district of South Brant shall consist of the Brant, S. townships of West Brantford, Onondaga and Tuscarora, the city of Brantford and the town of Paris; (i.) The electoral district of South Norfolk shall consist of Norfolk, S. the townships of Houghton, North Walsingham and South Walsingham, Charlotteville, Woodhouse and Walpole, the town of Simcoe, and the villages of Port Dover and Port Rowan; (j.) The electoral district of West Bruce shall consist of the Bruce, W. townships of Saugeen, Bruce, Kincardine, Huron and Kinloss, the town of Kincardine, and the villages of Tiverton, Port Elgin and Lucknow ; (k.) The electoral district of North Bruce shall consist of the Bruce, N. townships of Arran, Elderslie, Amabel, Albemarle, Eastnor, Lindsay and St. Edmunds, the Saugeen and Cape Croker reserves, and the villages of Southampton, Wiarton, Chesley, Tara and Paisley; (1.) The electoral district of Bothwell shall consist of the Bothwell, townships of Sombra (including Walpole Island, St. Anne's Nipissing. Algoma. West Toronto. Ottawa City. Hamilton. Ontario, S. Ontario, N. Island and the other islands at the mouth of the River St. (m.) The electoral district of Nipissing shall consist of the temporary judicial district of Nipissing, as defined by the Act forty-seventh Victoria, chapter three, of the Statutes of the province of Ontario, and the townships of Head, Clara and Maria, and shall include that part of the district of Algoma bounded by a line running along the western boundary of the townships of Long and McGiverin, thence northerly by a line in extension of the said western boundary to a point intersecting the Canadian Pacific Railway at or near Ridout station, thence to the northern boundary of the province of Ontario; (n.) The electoral district of Algoma shall consist of that part of the district of Algoma bounded on the east by the western boundary of the electoral district of Nipissing, and on the south, west and north by the boundaries of the province of Ontario, and shall include Manitoulin Island and the islands adjacent thereto; (0.) The electoral district of West Toronto shall consist of the wards, as constituted on the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, of St. Andrew, St. George and St. Patrick, and shall return two members; (p.) The electoral district of the city of Ottawa shall consist of the city of Ottawa, except that part thereof known as New Edinburgh; (q.) The electoral district of the city of Hamilton shall consist of the city of Hamilton as at present constituted for municipal purposes, and shall return two members; (r.) The electoral district of South Ontario shall consist of the townships of West Whitby, East Whitby, Reach and Scugog, the towns of Whitby and Oshawa, and the village of Port Perry; (s.) The electoral district of North Ontario shall consist of the townships of Scott, Brock, Thorah, Mara, Rama, Morrison, Ryde, Draper, Oakley, Macaulay, Maclean and Ridout, and the villages of Beaverton, Bracebridge and Cannington. Wright. QUEBEC. 3. In the province of Quebec (a.) The electoral district of Wright shall consist of the city of Hull, the town of Aylmer, the township of Templeton, including the village of Pointe-à-Gatineau, the townships of Hull, Eardley, Masham, Wakefield, Lowe, Denholm, Aylwin, Hincks, Bowman, Bigelow, Blake, Northfield, Wright, Bouchette, Cameron, Wabasse, Bouthillier, Kensington, Maniwaki, Egan, Lytton, Sicotte, Aumond, Robertson, and all the unorganized territories west of the River du Lièvre to the southern boundary of the county of Montcalm; |