and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: I. From and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may Debentures be lawful for the Municipality of the said Town of Dundas to issued under call in, cancel and annul all and every of the Debentures made, 72, may be By-law No. executed or issued by them under the said By-law No. 72, for cancelled. the purpose of raising money, or being treated as security to the Great Western Railway Company, for the purpose hereinbefore recited, and to repeal the said By-law; and the proceedings Proceedings already had by them under and by virtue of the By-law No. 88, under By-law for all the purposes of the said Consolidated Municipal Loan No. 88, to be Fund Act, shall be held and taken to be valid and effectual, and not inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions, spirit and meaning of the said Act 16 Victoria, chapter 54; and it Governor may shall and may be lawful for the Governor in Council to approve approve Bythe said By-law No. 88, so passed by the said Municipality, law No. 88. subject to any requirement provided for in the said Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund Act, which the Governor in Council may demand or deem necessary. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CLI. An Act to declare the Act confirming a Survey of the Township of Ameliasburgh to extend to the Township of Hillier, which at the time of the said Survey formed part of Ameliasburgh. W [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] valid. Public Act. HEREAS an Act was passed during the Session of the Preamble. fourteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act to con- 13 & 14 V. The said Act Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby declared and enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: I. The provisions of the Act cited in the Preamble to this applies to Hil- Act were intended to apply and do apply to the said Township of Hillier. lie. Public Act. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CLII. Preamb'e. 12 V. c. 35. How the side Island shall be drawn. An Act to determine the manner in which the division or side lines of the Lots in the Township of Wolfe Island shall be drawn. W [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] HEREAS it appears by the Petition of the Inhabitants and Municipality of the Township of Wolfe Island, in the County of Frontenac, that serious evils would result to the proprietors of the lands in the said Township, if the division or side lines of the lots were drawn parallel to the governing boundaries, as provided by the thirty-seventh section of the Act of the Legislature of this Province, passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to repeal certain Acts therein mentioned, and to make better provision respecting the admission of Land Surveyors and the Survey of lands in this Province; And whereas the said Inhabitants and Municipality have expressed their desire that the division or side lines of the lots in the said Township be drawn from the posts at one front of the concession to the posts bearing the same numbers at the other front thereof, without regard to the course of the base line of the Township, and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: I. For and notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in lines in Wolfe the thirty-fifth, thirty-seventh and thirty-ninth sections of the Act cited in the preamble to this Act, all the division or side lines of the lots in the said Township shall be drawn from the posts at one front of the concession to the posts bearing the same numbers at the other front thereof. Public Act. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CAP. CLIII. An Act to determine the course of the division or side lines of the Lots in certain Concessions in the Township of Smith. [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] HEREAS the owners of land in the Township of Smith, Preamble. in the County of Peterborough, have set forth by their petition, that owing to the Township being nearly surrounded by water, and to the irregularity of the original survey thereof, it is necessary to determine the course on which the division or side lines of the Lots in all the Concessions, except the first three, should be drawn, and have expressed their desire that the course of the said division or side lines of the Lots be established in the manner hereinafter provided, and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: on the Centre course of a I. For and notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in Sides lines, the thirty-fifth, thirty-seventh and thirty-ninth sections of the except in Con. Act of the Legislature of this Province, passed in the twelfth 1, 2 and 3, and year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to repeal Road, to be certain Acts therein mentioned, and to make better provision governed by respecting the admission of Land Surveyors and the Survey of the mean lands in this Province, the mean course of that part of the certain part of south-western boundary of the said Township of Smith, which the S. W. bounconstitutes the governing boundaries of the first, second and Township. third Concessions thereof, determined in the manner prescribed in the thirty-ninth section of the Act above cited, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be the course of the division or side lines of the Lots and of any lines required to run parallel with the division or side lines of the Lots, in all the Concessions of the said Township, except the first, second and third, and those fronting on the Centre Communication Road. Road shall be II. The division or side lines of the Lots, and of any lines How the lines required to run parallel with the division or side lines of the in concessions Lots, in the Concessions fronting on the said Centre Commu- Centre nication Road, shall be drawn at such angle with the mean drawn. course of that part of the south-western boundary of the Township, which constitutes the governing boundaries of the first, second Public Act. second and third Concessions thereof, as is stated in the plan and field notes of the said Township, of record in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands of this Province. III. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CLIV. Preamble. An Act to repeal the Act confirming a certain allowance for Road in the Township of Monaghan. [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] WHEREAS owing to an error in the Act passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, 16 V. c. 228. An Act to confirm a certain allowance for Road in the Township of Monaghan, and to provide for the compensation of persons suffering loss by the confirmation of such allowance, by which the eastern limit of the said road allowance is declared to be the rear boundary of the Park lots numbered from number one to number ten inclusive, in the twelfth concession of the Township of Monaghan aforesaid, instead of the rear boundary of the Park lots numbered from number one to number twenty inclusive, the Act is inoperative; And whereas the said Act by derogating from the provisions of the general Act, (twelfth Victoria, chapter thirty-five,) in so far as relates to the easterly limit of lot number twelve in the twelfth Concession of the Township of Monaghan and establishing an erroneous limit instead thereof, interferes with the vested rights of the proprietors of the aforesaid lot number twelve in the twelfth Concession, and it is expedient that the Act first above cited be repealed, and that the provisions of the said general Act be left to their operation in the premises: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: Tee said 16 V. c. 228, re- be, pealed. I. The Act first mentioned in the preamble to this Act shall and the said Act is hereby repealed. CAP. CAP. CLV. An Act to confirm the present boundaries of certain Lots in the Township of Winchester. [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] HEREAS it appears by the plans and field notes of the Preamble. original Survey of the township of Winchester, in the County of Dundas, performed by Deputy Provincial Surveyor Lewis Grant, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, that he laid out a commons fifteen chains in width between the eastern boundary of the township and lots number twenty-four in the several concessions he surveyed; And whereas the commons aforesaid has not been laid down on the plan of the township by Deputy Surveyor John Stegmann, who surveyed the third concession, nor on the plan thereof signed Wm. Chewett, Senior, Surveyor, Upper Canada, and dated Williamsburgh, tenth of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and on which the entries of the grants of the lots in the said township were made; And whereas it appears by the memorial of certain freeholders, householders and inhabitants of the said township, that owing to the original posts on the concession lines of the township having decayed or having been destroyed, all trace of the commons aforesaid disappeared, and that all the boundaries of the lots in the said township, excepting a few lines recently run in the eleventh concession, have for the last thirty years been established without leaving a commons, in the full assurance that none had been left in the original survey, and in all cases dividing the surplus land according to law; And whereas no part of the said commons has been sold or granted by the Government, and serious injury would be sustained by the proprietors of the lands in the said township, if a re-survey thereof was made, leaving a commons, and it is therefore expedient to comply with the request of the said proprietors by abolishing the said commons: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: sent bounda I. For and notwithstanding any thing to the contrary con- Notwithstandtained in the Act of the Legislature of this Province, passed in ing 12 V. c. the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act 35, the preto repeal certain Acts therein mentioned and to make better pro- ries of lots in vision respecting the admission of Land Surveyors and the Survey the Township of Lands in this Province, the aforesaid survey of the said Deputy. Grant's Provincial Surveyor Lewis Grant of the commons aforesaid, shall be valid, |