of erecting the Firemen's Hall and Engine House on King Street, known as By-law number thirty-eight; 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 twenty thousand pounds, for the purpose of paying for certain land purchased for the enlargement of Covent Garden Market, and for defraying the expense of erecting a Town Hall, Market House and other buildings thereon, known as By-law number thirty-six ; and by virtue of a certain other By-law of the said Town of London, passed on the seventh day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to authorize the Town Council of the Town of London, to raise by way of loan the sum of six thousand five hundred pounds, for the purpose of constructing a sewer from Waterloo Street to Richmond Street, and thence Southerly along the centre of Richmond Street to the River Thames, known as By-law number forty-three; and by virtue of a certain other By-law of the said Council passed on the twenty-second day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, authorizing the issue of debentures to raise by way of loan the sum of two thousand pounds, known as By-law number forty; and by virtue of a certain other By-law of the said Council passed on the thirtieth day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, authorizing the issuing of debentures to raise by way of loan the sum of two thousand eight hundred pounds, for the purpose of paying for five hundred shares of stock in the London Gas Company, known as By-law number fifty; and by virtue of a certain other By-law of the said Council passed on the second day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, to authorize the issue of debentures to the extent of eighteen thousand pounds, to desubstituted for fray the costs of certain improvements in the Town of London, those called in. known as By-law number sixty-one; and to substitute therefor debentures to be issued under this Act; Provided always, that no debentures shall be redeemed before due at any greater sum than was received for such debentures so to be redeemed; Provided also, that no portion of the debentures to be issued under this Act, or of the proceeds thereof, shall be applied to the payment of any interest accrued or to accrue on the debentures to be redeemed.

New Deben

tures to be

Proviso.

Proviso.

The said Bylaws may be repealed upon Debentures being paid.

IV. For and notwithstanding any provision, clause, matter or thing contained in any Act of the Parliament of this Province to the contrary, it shall and may be lawful for the City Council of the City of London, after having called in or paid the debentures described in the next preceding section, to repeal such By-laws in the said section set forth as have not been already quashed by the Court of Queen's Bench for Upper Canada.

cent. to be

V. For the payment, satisfaction and discharge of the deben- Sinking Fund tures to be issued by virtue of this Act, it shall and may be of two per lawful for the Common Council of the said City of London, provided. and they are hereby required so to do, in any By-law or By-laws to be passed authorizing the said loan, and the issuing the debentures therefor, to impose a special rate per annum over and above, and in addition to, all other rates to be levied in each year, and over and above the interest to be payable on such debentures, which shall be sufficient to form a sinking fund of two per cent. per annum for that purpose.

VI. It shall be the duty of the Chamberlain of the City of Investment of London, from time to time to invest all sums of money raised Sinking Fund. by special rate for the sinking fund provided for by this Act, in any debentures issued by the Government of Canada, or in such other securities as the Goyernor of this Province shall by Order in Council direct or appoint, and to apply all dividends or interest on the said sinking fund to the extinction of the debt created under this Act.

VII. Any By-law to be passed under this Act shall not be repealed until the debt or debts created under this Act and the interest thereon shall be paid and satisfied.

By-laws not to be repealed until debts are paid.

VIII. And whereas the sum of sixteen thousand pounds, part Recital. of the debt of the City of London, was contracted in the construction of certain main sewers in the said City, and at the time such sewers were directed to be made, it was the intention of the Corporation that a considerable portion of the cost of such sewers should be raised by assessing the proprietors of such real property as might be immediately benefitted by such improvements; but no By-law was ever passed by the Town Council of the Town of London for that purpose; Be it enacted, Special assess that it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen and ments author Commonalty of the City of London, to assess the proprietors of sewers. such real property in the City of London as may abut upon any public street, highway, square or place through which the said sewers pass, or immediately opposite or near to such sewers, for such sum or sums of money yearly, in like manner as the Common Council of the said City of London are by this Act empowered to impose assessments for the redemption of the debentures to be issued under the authority of this Act.

ized for certain

vested as

IX. It shall be the duty of the Chamberlain of the City of Money collectLondon, whenever any money shall be collected by virtue of ed to be inthe preceding section of this Act, to invest the same in manner Sinking Fund. as by this Act is provided for the sinking fund contemplated by this Act.

tures to be

X. The funds to be derived from the negotiation of the de- Funds derived bentures to be issued under this Act, when received, and all from Debensuch debentures as shall be issued but not negotiated, shall be deposited

deposited by the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in some one of the chartered Banks in this Province, on such conditions as the City Council shall from time to time agree upon, and only be withdrawn therefrom as they may from time to time be required for the payment or redemption of the debentures so to be redeemed.

XI. The rate imposed upon the Town of London for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, under any of the By-laws mentioned in the third section of this Act, is hereby declared to be a legal rate; and it shall and may be lawful for the Collector or Collectors of the City of London for the time being, at any time before the first day of January, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, to collect from the persons rated and charged upon the Collectors' roll for the said year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree, who shall not before have paid the taxes so therein imposed, such sum or sums as are rated and set down on the said roll, and to use the same means for the collection thereof, as for the taxes of the year in which such collection shall be made.

XII. The By-laws to be made under the authority of this Act shall not affect the priority of any debentures issued for stock taken in any Railway Company.

XIII. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. XCVIII.

An Act to incorporate the Town of Woodstock, and to divide the same into Wards, and to define the limits thereof.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS the Municipal Council of the Town of Woodstock have, by Petition, prayed the Legislature to incorporate the same into a Town having the same rights, powers, privileges and jurisdiction as Towns in general; And from the said petition, it appears that by a census lately taken, the said Town contains a population exceeding three thousand souls; And whereas it is expedient and necessary and would tend to promote and be for 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 now known as the Town of Woodstock shall, upon and from and after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, be incorporated as a Town, with the rights, powers, and privileges of incorporated Towns in general, and as if the said Town had been

mentioned

mentioned and included in the Schedule B annexed to the with the usual Upper Canada Municipal Corporations Act of 1849, and privileges. with the rights, powers and privileges which 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 in general; 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 of Woodstock as fully as if the said Town had been contained in the said Schedule B., with the exception hereinafter made as regards the first election.

II. The said Town of Woodstock shall be divided into five Divided into Wards in the manner described in the Schedule to this Act.

five Wards.

election.

III. The Clerk for the time being of the said town of Wood- Returning stock shall be ex officio Returning Officer for the purpose of Officer at first holding the first Municipal Election under this Act, and shall, on or before the twenty-first day of December next after the passing of this Act, by his warrant, appoint a Deputy Return- Deputies for ing Officer for each of the five wards into which the said Town the Wards. of Woodstock is hereby divided, to hold the first election therein; and in the discharge of their duties, each Deputy Returning Officer shall severally be subject to all the provisions of the Upper Canada Municipal Corporations Acts applicable to the first elections in Towns incorporated under the said Acts.

IV. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

SCHEDULE.

WARDS OF THE TOWN OF WOODSTOCK.

St. Andrew's Ward shall be bounded as follows, that is to say commencing at the point on the northern limit of the town where the centre line of Vansittart street intersects the said northern limit; from thence extending in a southerly direction along the said centre line of Vansittart street to the northern limit of Dundas street; thence following the same course to the centre line of Dundas street; thence in a southeasterly direction to the point of intersection of the southern limit of Dundas street and the centre line of Bishop street; thence along the centre line of Bishop street and Broadway street, to a point opposite the northern termination of the division line between lots numbers fifteen and sixteen on the south side of Main street; thence southerly to the northern termination of the said division line; thence southerly along the said division line to the southern termination thereof; thence southerly in a straight line to the point where the southern boundary of Sudworth street intersects the centre line of Robertson street; thence in a southerly direction along the centre line of Robertson

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Robertson street, to the southern boundary of lot number twentyone in the first concession of the township of East Oxford; thence in the same course to the southern limit of the town; thence in a westerly direction along the said southern limit to the eastern limit of the allowance for road between the said lot twenty-one and the Gore between East and West Oxford; thence in a northerly direction along the western limit of the town to the southerly bank of Cedar Creek; thence following the limit of the town by Cedar Creek and the River Thames to the north-west corner of the town; thence easterly along the northern limit of the town to the place of beginning.

St. George's ward shall be bounded as follows, that is to say comniencing at the point on the northern limit of the town. where the centre line of Vansittart street intersects the said northern limit; thence extending in a southerly direction along the said centre line of Vansittart street, to the northern limit of Dundas street; thence following the same course to the centre line of Dundas street; thence in an easterly direction along the centre line of Dundas street, to the centre line of Victoria street; thence in a northerly direction along the centre line of Victoria street, to the centre line of Percival street; thence in a westerly direction along the centre line of Percival street, to the centre line of Wellington street; thence in a northerly direction along the centre line of Wellington street, to the northern limit of lot number twenty in the first concession of the township of Blandford; thence continuing the same course to the northern limit of the town; thence along the northern limit of the town, in a westerly direction, to the place of beginning.

St. David's Ward shall be bounded as follows, that is to say: commencing at the point on the northern limit of the town where the centre line of Wellington street produced, would intersect the said northern limit; thence in a southerly direction along the said centre line of Wellington street to the centre line of Percival street; thence in an easterly direction along the said centre line of Percival street, to the centre line of Victoria street; thence in a southerly direction along the centre line of Victoria street, to the centre line of Dundas street; thence in an easterly direction along the centre line of Dundas street, to a point opposite the south-west angle of lot number eighteen, in the first concession of the township of Blandford; thence in a northerly direction to the said south-west angle ; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern limit of the town to the north-east angle of the town; thence in a westerly direction along the northern limit of the town to the place of beginning.

St. Patrick's Ward shall be bounded as follows, that is to say commencing at the point on the centre line of Dundas street, where the centre line of Vansittart street, produced in a southerly direction, would intersect the centre line of Dundas

street;