CAP. XV.

An Act to provide in a more certain manner for order in Enregistration, and to facilitate Enregistrations and Searches in the Registry Offices of Lower Canada.

[Assented to 16th May, 1856.] HEREAS it is necessary to make provision for better Preamble. ascertaining the order of the deposit of documents in the Registry Offices of Lower Canada, and for facilitating Registrations and Searches in the said Offices: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. The Minute or Day Book mentioned towards the end of Minute or Day the twentieth section of the Registry Ordinance of one thousand Book to be aueight hundred and forty-one, shall, from and after the expiration thenticated as provided by of one year from the passing of this Act, be authenticated section 19 of in the manner required by the nineteenth section of the 4 V. c. 30. said Ordinance with regard to the Registers used for registration, and the Registrars shall make the entries which they Entries to be are bound to make in the said Minute or Day Book, in the nu- made in numerical order of the documents which shall be delivered to them merical order, for registration, and shall state in each entry the number given to the document to which it relates; and they shall give to any Acknowledgperson requiring the same on delivering any document for regis- ment to be tration, and without demanding any fee therefor, an acknow- given. ledgment stating the number under which such delivery is entered in the said Minute or Day Book.

certified under

II. Registration may be made by means of extracts from Registration Notarial Instruments made in the manner prescribed by the may be made tenth section of the Act for the organization of the Notarial by extracts Profession passed in the Session held in the thirteenth and 13 & 14 V. c. fourteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, chaptered thirty-nine; 39, s. 10. and such registration shall have the same effect with respect to the extract as the registration of a copy of such instrument at full length, as prescribed by the fifth section of the Act concerning Registration passed in the seventh year of Her Majesty's Reign, chaptered twenty-two; the fee of the Registrar for the certificate endorsed on such extract shall be that fixed by the first section of the Act relative to Registration passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chaptered twenty-seven, that is to say, one shilling and six pence currency.

Fee.

this Act

III. Every Registrar shall, in the performance of his duties, Penalty for comply with all the requirements of this Act, as well as with non com those of all other Acts relating to the Registration of Deeds, pliance with under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds currency for every contravention of such requirements, without prejudice to damages payable to any party, which may be recovered as well as the

penalty

Signature of memorial

'morialist does

penalty (with costs) before any Court having jurisdiction in civil matters to the amount, by the party aggrieved by such contravention.

IV. The signature under which any memorial shall be executed, may be written by the hand of any other person when when the me the person requiring the registration of such memorial does not not know how know how to write, provided his name be accompanied by his ordinary mark which he shall make in the presence of the witnesses to the execution of the memorial; and this provision shall be held to have been the law from the time when the Registry Ordinance was brought into force.

to write.

Preamble.

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CAP. XVI.

An Act to amend the Provincial Act appropriating the moneys arising from the Clergy Reserves.

W

[Assented to 16th May, 1856.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to make better provision for the appropriation of moneys arising from the lands heretofore known as the Clergy Reserves, by rendering them available for Municipal purposes: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. The amount of "The Upper Canada Municipalities. appropriated Fund," remaining unexpended and unappropriated under the balance of the provisions of the first, second, third and fourth sections of the cipalities Fund said Act, on the thirty-first day of December, in the year one

U. C. Muni

shall be appropriated yearly.

Clerks of Mu

thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and on the same day in each year after the passing of this Act shall, by the Receiver General, be apportioned equally among the several City, Town, Incorporated Village and Township Municipalities in Upper Canada, in proportion to the number of Rate-payers that shall appear on the Assessment Rolls of such Municipalities for the year next before the time of such apportion

ment.

II. It shall be the duty of the Clerks of the several Cities, nicipalities in Towns, Incorporated Villages and Townships in Upper CaU. C. to make nada, on or before the first day of July next after the passing yearly to the of this Act, to transmit to the Receiver General a true Return Receiver Gen- of the number of Rate-payers appearing on the said several

certain returns

eral.

Assessment Rolls for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and on or before the first day of December in each year thereafter to transmit to the Receiver General a similar Return for the year in which such Return shall be made, and to make an affidavit, to be written on each of the said Returns,

and

and sworn before a Justice of the Peace, of the correctness of such Return.

return.

III. Any Clerk of any of the said Municipalities who shall Penalty ou fail to make any Return required by the next preceding sec- Clerks not tion of this Act, by the time therein limited, shall be liable making such for each failure to a penalty of twenty-five pounds to be paid to the Receiver General for the use of the Province, which penalty may be sued for and recovered by the Crown in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

IV. In case it should at any time appear that by reason Recovery of of an erroneous return too much money has been paid to a money overMunicipality, the excess shall be a debt due and recoverable paid under by the Crown from such Municipality.

erroneous

return.

V. So much of the fifth section of the before mentioned Repeal of inAct as is inconsistent with this Act, shall be and the same is consistent prohereby repealed.

visions.

CAP. XVII.

An Act to incorporate the Town of Galt and to define the limits thereof.

W

[Assented to 16th May, 1856.]

HEREAS the inhabitants of the Village of Galt, by peti- Preamble. tion, have prayed the Legislature to incorporate the same into a Town, the population, according to a census taken last year, approaching to the number required by law; And whereas it is expedient and necessary and would tend to promote the benefit and convenience of the inhabitants if the prayer of the said petition were granted: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. The tract of land within the boundaries or limits hereinIncorporation after described shall, upon, from and after the first day of of the Town January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, be incorporated into a Town, to be called and designated as the Town of Galt.

of Galt on 1st January, 1857.

II. So much of the Upper Canada Municipal Corporations Upper CanaActs as relates to incorporated towns, shall upon, from and after da Municipal the day last aforesaid, apply to the said Town of Galt, which shall Corporations Acts to apply have and exercise all and singular the same rights, powers, to it. privileges and jurisdiction as are given, granted or conferred upon, or as shall, by virtue of any Act or parts of Acts now in force in Upper Canada, or which shall hereafter be in force, belong to incorporated Towns; and all the rules, regulations, provisions and enactments therein contained, or which shall in any wise relate or belong to the same, shall apply to the Town

Boundaries of

Galt.

of Galt, as fully as if the said tract of land had become a Town under the ordinary operation of the said Upper Canada Municipal Corporations Acts, with the exception hereinafter made as regards the first election.

III. The Town of Galt shall consist of that part of this Prothe Town of vince situate within the County of Waterloo, in Upper Canada, and lying within the following limits, that is to say: "Commencing on the western limit of lot number seven, in the centre of the tenth concession of the Township of Dumfries, in the said County of Waterloo; thence on the said limit, to the allowance for highway between the tenth and eleventh concessions; thence along the said allowance to its junction with the macadamized road leading from Galt to Dundas; thence on the same course as the side lines of the concession to the Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Road; thence along the said Turnpike Road, crossing the allowance for Highway betweeen the eleventh and twelfth concessions, to the junction of the said Turnpike Road with the common road leading from Galt to Preston; thence parallel to the allowance for highway between the eleventh and twelfth concessions, crossing the Grand River, to the side line between lots numbers eleven and twelve in the eleventh concession, produced into the twelfth concession; thence along the said side line, crossing the allowance for highway between the eleventh and twelfth concessions, and between lots numbers eleven and twelve in the eleventh concession, crossing the allowance for highway between the tenth and eleventh concessions, and between lots numbers eleven and twelve in the tenth concession, to the centre of the said tenth concession; thence through the centre of the said tenth concession, crossing the Grand River to the place of beginning."

To be divided into five Wards,

First Ward.

IV. The said town of Galt shall be divided into five Wards, to be called respectively the First Ward, Second Ward, Third Ward, Fourth Ward, and Fifth Ward:

1. The said First Ward shall be bounded as follows, that is to say commencing at the north-easterly angle of the Town, at the junction of the Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Road with the common road leading from Galt to Preston; thence in a south-easterly direction along the west side of the Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Road to Beverly street; thence along the centre of Beverly street to its junction with Church street; thence along Church street northerly to the centre of North street; thence west, along the centre of North street until it crosses North Water street; thence to the Grand River between the properties of James Kay and James Watson; thence northerly, along the east bank of the Grand River to the northern boundary of the Town; thence easterly, along the said boundary to the place of beginning.

2. The said Second Ward shall be bounded as follows, that Second Ward, is to say: commencing where Beverly street intersects the Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Road; thence south-easterly along the west side of the said road to the place where the Town line leaves the said Turnpike Road; thence southward along the Town boundary until it intersects the said Turnpike Road leading from Galt to the Toll-gate; thence westerly along the centre of the said road to the centre of Mill Creek; thence south-westerly along the centre of Mill Creek to the Grand River; thence northerly along the Grand River to the line between the properties of James Kay and James Watson before mentioned; thence easterly along the said line to North Water street; thence crossing North Water street and proceeding along the centre of North street easterly until it intersects Church street; thence southerly along Church street until it intersects Beverly street; and thence north-easterly along the centre of Beverly street to the place of beginning.

3. The said Third Ward shall be bounded as follows, that is Third Ward to say commencing where the Town boundary crosses the Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Road leading from Galt to the Toll-rate; thence westerly along the road between the tenth and eleventh concessions of the Township of North Dumfries, to where the Town boundary leaves the concession road; thence southerly along the said boundary to the south-east angle of the Town; thence westerly along the southerly boundary of the Town to the Grand River; thence northerly along the easterly bank of the Grand River to the centre of Mill Creek; thence along the centre of Mill Creek to the centre of Main street; and thence along the centre of the Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Road to the place of beginning.

4. The said Fourth Ward shall be bounded as follows, that Fourth Ward. is to say: commencing at the centre of the bridge crossing the Grand River at Main street; thence westerly in a produced line from the centre of Main street to its intersection with the western boundary line of the Town; thence northerly along the said boundary to the north-west angle of the Town; thence easterly along the northern boundary thereof to the Grand River; thence southerly along the western bank of the Grand River, to the place of beginning.

5. The said Fifth Ward shall be bounded as follows, that is Fifth Ward. to say commencing at the centre of the bridge crossing the Grand River at Main street; thence southerly along the western bank of the said River to the southerly boundary of the Town; thence west along that boundary to the south-west angle of the Town; thence northerly along the western boundary of the Town to the south-west angle of Fourth Ward; thence easterly along the southerly boundary of Fourth Ward to the place of beginning.