CAP. XCV.

An Act to provide for the separation of the County of Victoria from the County of Peterborough, and to fix the County Town at Lindsay.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

WHEREAS a great number of the Inhabitants of the several Preamble.

Townships and places in the County of Victoria have

by their Petition, prayed that the said County of Victoria, now united to the County of Peterborough, may be set apart as a separate County for Judicial and other purposes, without unnecessary delay; and the wealth and population thereof being sufficient to warrant the same, it is expedient to make provision to enable the said County to separate from the said County of Peterborough, as soon as the necessary provisions for that purpose shall have been made: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

and Victoria

may cause a

taken on the

I. It shall be lawful for the County Council of the United Council of Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, whenever they shall re- Peterborough ceive petitions from a majority of the Township Councils in on receiving the said County of Victoria, in favor of a dissolution of the said petitions to Union, to appoint some convenient day in the month of January that effect, of any succeeding year, for the purpose of taking a vote of the vote of the rate-payers of the said several Townships composing the said Rate-payers of County of Victoria, upon the question of such dissolution, which Victoria to be said vote shall be taken at the same places, in the same manner, question of a and by the same officers, as votes are taken for the election of dissolution. Councillors, and shall be recorded in books prepared for that purpose, each voter in favor of such dissolution voting "Yea," and each voter against such dissolution voting "Nay;" at least ten days' notice of the time appointed for taking the said vote being previously given in at least ten public places in each Municipality.

Officers to

return Poll

shall declare

II. The Returning officers to take such votes for the respec- Returning tive Townships shall, within ten days thereafter, return their Poll Books verified under oath, to the Clerk of the County books to Clerk Council, who shall publish and declare the result of the same of County for the information of all concerned; and if it shall appear that Council, who a majority of all the rate-payers voting at the said polling, have the result. recorded their yotes in favor of the said dissolution, then the Provisional Town Reeves and Deputy Town Reeves of the several Town- Council formships in the said County of Victoria, as the same is described ed if the majority of votes and limited in and by the Act passed in the Session held in the be yea fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and in- 14 & 15 V. tituled, An Act to make certain alterations in the Territorial c. 5. Divisions of Upper Canada, shall form a Provisional Municipal Council for the said County, and shall with respect to the

C.

&c.

Its powers to said County, have, possess and exercise, all and singular the be as under-rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred, granted or im12 V. c. 78, posed by the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act for abolishing the Territorial Division of Upper Canada into Districts, and for providing for temporary Unions of Counties for Judicial and other purposes, and for the future dissolution of such Unions as the increase of wealth and population may require, upon Provisional Municipal Councils erected by Proclamation under the authority of the said Act, and also all the powers which may be conferred on Provisional Municipal Councils generally by any other Act or Law in force in Upper Canada; and such Provisional Council shall and may, so soon as they shall think fit so to do, purchase or otherwise procure the necessary property at the Town of Lindsay, which is hereby declared to be the County Town of the said County of Victoria, and proceed to erect the necessary public buildings on such property; and all the provisions of the Act last above cited shall apply to the said Provisional Municipal Council and to the said County of Victoria.

Power to pur

chase the requisite lands in Lindsay, which shall be the County Town.

Proclamation

when the re

County Offi

cers to be appointed.

III. So soon as the Court House and Gaol of the said County and dissolution shall, be erected and completed at the Town of Lindsay aforequisite build said, according to the provisions of the fifteenth section of the ings are erect said lastly in part recited Act, and the other provisions of the ed at Lindsay. said fifteenth section shall have been complied with by the said County, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor of this Province to appoint the necessary officers as provided by the seventeenth section of the said lastly in part recited Act, and by Order in Council to issue a Proclamation dissolving the union between the said County of Victoria and the said County of Peterborough, from the date to be mentioned in such Proclamation and all the provisions of the said lastly in part recited Act, or of any other Act or law in force in Upper Canada applicable to Counties on and after their being separated from other Counties, shall apply to the said Counties of Peterborough and Victoria respectively.

First meeting

Council.

Notice.

IV. The said Provisional Council shall first meet at the said of Provisional Town of Lindsay, and a notice of such meeting shall be published in some newspaper published within the said County of Victoria or in some adjoining County, and a copy of such notice sent by mail or otherwise to each member of such Provisional Council, at least eight days before the day appointed for such meeting, by the Warden of the said United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria; or if such meeting should fail on the said day, a meeting may be called in like manner for another day.

Failure of meeting.

Warden to

V. The said Warden of the United Counties of Peterborough appoint a per- and Victoria shall, by a warrant under his hand and seal, apson to preside point one of the Town Reeves or Deputy Town Reeves of the said County of Victoria, to preside at the first meeting of the

until election

said Provisional Municipal Council until a Provisional Warden of Provisional shall be elected by such Provisional Municipal Council.

VI. This Act shall be deemed to be a Public Act.

Warden.

Public Act.

CAP. XCVI.

An Act to settle the Northern Boundary Line of the
City of Toronto.

W

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS the Concession Line now forming the northern Preamble. limit of the liberties of the City of Toronto, (being the allowance for road between the Park Lots and the second Concession in the Township of York,) has been found to diverge from the proper course, and the Common Council of the City of Toronto caused the same to be made straight, and expended a large sum of money in turnpiking and otherwise improving the said line of road and in building stone culverts thereon, and after such expenditure was made it was discovered that the said line in the original survey thereof had been either through carelessness or inadvertence run irregularly and crookedly, by means whereof the line of road upon which such expenditure was made is without the liberties of the said City, and the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto have no power to retain possession thereof or arrange with the owners and proprietors or others interested in the land so taken in the straightening of the said road for the value thereof or for damages claimed by them; And whereas it is expedient that authority be given to the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto, to straighten the said road and to arrange with the said proprietors or owners of land necessarily taken for that purpose, or other persons interested therein, and that such straight line should be made the northern boundary of the said City of Toronto: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

be the northen

I. From and after the passing of this Act the said Concession The Line as Line so straightened as aforesaid shall be taken to be and shall straightened to be the northerly boundary line of the liberties of the said City boundary of of Toronto; and all the land lying between the line so Toronto: and straightened and the line as originally run, together with the the land gainland contained within the said original line, shall be vested in Corporation. the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto for the purposes hereinafter mentioned.

ed vested in

II. All claims for compensation to parties whose property Settlement of shall be taken by virtue of the preceding section, shall be claims of persettled and adjusted by arbitration in the manner prescribed by sons losing the thirty-third section of the Act passed in the sixteenth year

of

How the land

To be convey

ed to certain parties on certain conditions.

of Her Majesty's Reign, and chaptered one hundred and eighty

one.

III. All the land lying between the new line of road so gained shall be straightened as aforesaid and the southern limit of the old line, dealt with. and vested in the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto by this Act, shall be held by them in trust from time to time to convey the same to the respective owners or proprietors of the land lying to the south of and immediately adjoining the said old line of road or the person or persons having the legal estate therein, according to the frontage of their respective lots thereon, so soon as such owner or proprietor or such other person or persons as aforesaid, or any of them, shall have paid to the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto, the value of their several and respective pieces of land agreed upon at any time hereafter between the said respective owners or proprietors, or other person or persons as aforesaid, and the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto; and in case such value shall not be agreed upon between them as aforesaid, within one month after the passing of this Act, the same shall be ascertained by arbitration in like manner as is prescribed in the second section of this Act; And in making their award in the premises it shall be the duty of the arbitrators to take into consideration all the circumstances which have rendered necessary the said reference; Provided always, that until the settlement of such value and the payment thereof to the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, or other party whomsoever, to enclose or any wise obstruct the said old line of road under any pre

Proviso.

Public Act.

Preamble.

in
tence whatsoever.

IV. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. XCVII.

An Act to authorize the City of London to negotiate a Loan of sixty-three thousand pounds to consolidate the debt of the City, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS the Corporation of the City of London have petitioned to be authorized by law to borrow, on the debentures of the said City, a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand pounds, for certain purposes and under certain restrictions in the said petition set forth, and it is expedient that the prayer of their petition should be granted so far as to enable them to pay off the debts hereinafter set forth: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. It shall and may be lawful to and for the City Council of City Council the City of London to raise by way of loan, upon the credit of raise £63,000 by the debentures hereinafter mentioned, from any person or per- Debentures. sons, body or bodies corporate, in this Province, in Great Britain or elsewhere, who may be willing to lend the same, a sum of money not exceeding sixty-three thousand pounds.

II. It shall and may be lawful for the Mayor of the said Form of City of London for the time being, to cause to be issued Debentures. debentures of the said City of London, under the Corporation Seal of the said city, signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Chamberlain of the said city for the time being, in such sums, not exceeding in the whole the said sum of sixtythree thousand pounds, as the Common Council shall direct and appoint, and the principal sum secured by the said debentures and the interest accruing thereon, shall be made payable in this Province, in Great Britain or elsewhere.

of money so

III. So much of the said loan so to be raised as aforesaid as Application shall be necessary for the purpose, shall be applied by the City raised. Council of the City of London in the redemption of all such debentures of the said city as shall be outstanding when this Act shall come into force; and the Chamberlain of the City of London is hereby authorized and empowered, on receiving instructions so to do, from the City Council, and with the consent Debentures isof the holders thereof, to call in such debentures of the City of sued by virtue of certain ByLondon as may have heretofore been issued by virtue of a By- laws, may be law of the Town Council of the Town of London, passed on the called in. first day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, authorizing the issue of debentures to raise by way of loan the sum of five thousand pounds, for the purpose of paying certain debts due by the said Town of London, and for making improvements therein, known as By-law number nineteen; and by virtue of a certain other By-law of the said Town Council, passed on the ninth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, authorizing the issue of debentures to raise by way of loan the sum of five thousand five hundred pounds, for the purpose of paying certain debts due by the said town and for making improvements therein, known as By-law number twenty-four; and by virtue of a certain other By-law of the said Town Council, passed on the twenty-seventh day of January in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to authorize the issuing of debentures to raise by way of loan the sum of two thousand pounds, for the purpose of paying the purchase money of certain land acquired for the enlargement of Covent Garden Market, known as By-law number twenty-nine; and by virtue of a certain other By-law of the said Town Council, passed on the twenty-seventh day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to authorize the issuing of debentures to raise by way of loan the sum of nine hundred pounds, for the purpose of defraying the expense

of