Sub-sections

5 & 6 of sec

tion 74 of
18 V. c. 100,

repealed, and
other provi-

sions substituted.

The new provisions.

such appointment takes place in the year fixed for the general election of Councillors, and if in any other year, then, at the general monthly meeting in the month of January, or at a special meeting held within fifteen days after such general meeting.

COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS, &c.

XXV. The fifth and sixth sub-sections of the seventy-fourth section of the said Act are hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following provisions for the collection of assessments are substituted, and the said seventy-fourth section shall henceforth be read and interpreted as if the said provisions had originally stood in the place of the said fifth and sixth sub-sections hereby repealed.

2. The Secretary-Treasurer upon completing his CollectionRoll, shall proceed to collect the assessments therein mentioned, and for that purpose shall, on the next following Sunday, give or Collection and cause to be given public notice that the Collection-Roll is comgeneral notice pleted and deposited in his office, and that all persons whose names appear therein, as liable for the payment of any assess[Form No. 1.] ment, are required to pay the amount thereof to him at his office within twenty days of the publication of such notice;

to Rate

payers.

Special notice 3. If at the expiration of the said twenty days any assessment to Rate-payers remains unpaid, the Secretary-Treasurer shall leave at the in default. usual place of residence or domicile of such person in arrear, [Form No. 2.] or with him personally, a statement in detail of the various sums

and the total amount of assessments due by such person, and shall at the same time, in and by a notice annexed to such statement, demand payment of the assessments therein menCosts of such tioned, together with the costs of the service of such notice ac cording to such tariff as the Council shall have established;

notice.

In case of

teen days,

assessment to

be levied by seizure and sale.

4. If any person neglect to pay the amount of assessments imdefault for fif- posed upon him, for the space of fifteen days after such demand made as aforesaid, the Secretary-Treasurer shall levy the same with costs, by Warrant under the hand of the Mayor of the Municipality authorizing the seizure and sale of the goods and chattels of the person who ought to pay the same, or of any goods or chattels in his possession, wherever the same may be found within the local Municipality; and no claim of property, or privilege thereon or thereto shall be available to prevent the sale thereof for the payment of the assessments and costs out of the proceeds thereof.

Section 76 of

PENALTIES.

XXVI. All the provisions of the seventy-sixth Section of the 18 V. c. 100, said Act, shall apply to this Act, in as full a manner as if this Act had originally formed part of the said Act.

to apply to

cases under

this Act.

RECOVERY

RECOVERY OF PENALTIES, TAXES, &c.

XXVII. The first sub-section of the seventy-seventh section Sub-sec. 1 the said Act is hereby repealed.

and 18 V. c.

of sec. 77 of 18 V. c. 100, repealed. 2. All penalties imposed by the said Act as amended How penalties this Act, or by any By-law made by competent authority in under this Act tue of the said Act or of this Act, shall be recoverable be100, shall be re the Circuit Court of the Circuit in which the Local recoverable. unicipality or the major part thereof is situated, or before any stice of the Peace; all the fines and penalties incurred. any one person may be included in the same suit; and e costs in all such suits before a Justice of the Peace shall taxed according to the tariff of the Court of Commissioners or the trial of small causes; any law to the contrary notwithLanding;

3. The said seventy-seventh section of the said Act shall How section nceforth be read and interpreted as if the next preceding sub- 77 of 18 V. c. ction had originally been inserted therein, and had formed 100, shall be e first sub-section thereof in lieu of the sub-section hereby pealed.

(No. 1.)

UBLIC NOTICE TO BE GIVEN BY A SECRETARY-TREASURER OF
THE COMPLETION OF HIS COLLECTION-roll.

Public Notice is hereby given that the Collection-Roll of Municipality of the (Parish, Township) of (Name) is mpleted and is now deposited in the office of the undersigned. 1 persons whose names appear therein as liable for the payent of any Assessment, are hereby required to pay the amount reof to the undersigned at his said office, within twenty ys from this day, without further notice.

A. B. Secretary-Treasurer of the Municipality of

construed.

lace.)

Jate.)

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(No. 2.)

Sect. xxv.

ASSESSMENT. SECRETARY-TREASURER'S NOTICE FOR THE PAYMENT OF (No. 2.)

MUNICIPALITY OF THE (Parish, Township, &c.)

, Dr.

(Date of delivery.)

To the Corporation of the (Parish, Township, &c.)

Assessment on your (here mention the property, as house, land, &c.) valued at £

at (d.) in the £.

(Here add the various other items of taxation).

£ S.

D.

Total..

SIR, Take notice that, having failed to pay the above mentioned
sum within the time prescribed by public notice, you are hereby required,
within fifteen days from the date hereof, to pay the same to me at my office,
together with the costs of this notice and service thereof as below, in de-
fault whereof, execution will issue against your goods and chattels.

(Copy of Account.)

COSTS.

CAP. CII.

An Act to regulate the amount of security to be given by the Registrars of Lower Canada.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed by the Legislature of the Preamble. Province of Canada, in the eighteenth year of Her

Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to establish a Registry 18 V. c. 99. Office in and for each Electoral County in Lower Canada, the responsibility attached to Registrars has been greatly diminished by the reduction of the limits within which their duties are confined; And whereas the several penal sums required by An Act to explain and amend the Laws relating to 14 & 15 V. the registration of Deeds in Lower Canada, passed in the c. 93. session of the said Legislature held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, to be inserted in any recognizance entered into by any Registrar, were fixed for Counties of greater extent than those to which the first above mentioned Act refers, and it is therefore just to reduce the amount of the same: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. Notwithstanding any thing contained in the second section Amount of seof the said Act to explain and amend the laws relating to curity to be the registration of Deeds in Lower Canada, the penal sum reduced, notgiven hereafter in any recognizance to be entered into by any Registrar here- withstanding after for any County for Registration purposes, under the first 14 & 15 V. above mentioned Act, shall be one thousand pounds; Provided c. 93. always, that the foregoing provisions of this Act shall in no Exceptions as wise affect or alter the amount of security given or to be given to certain Reby the Registrars of the Registration divisions of Quebec, Mont- gistration di real, Three-Rivers, and Sherbrooke, which shall continue to be the amount established for them respectively before the passing

of this Act.

Proviso:

visions.

II. No Registrar appointed since the passing of the said first Amount of mentioned Act, nor his sureties shall be liable henceforth, under existing serecognizance entered into and now in force, for any greater curi:y reduced to £1,000. amount than the said penal sum of one thousand pounds which would require to be inserted in a recognizance entered into by such Registrar after the passing of this Act; but the penal sum in any such recognizance heretofore entered into, and now in force as aforesaid, is hereby reduced to the amount by this Act fixed and prescribed.

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САР.

CAP. CIII.

Preamble. Act of L. C., 2 V. c. 26.

manner of

An Act to amend an Ordinance of Lower Canada for the Relief of certain Religious Societies.

W

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS by an Ordinance of the Legislature of Lower Canada, passed in the second year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter twenty-six, Congregations or Societies of Christians, of any denomination whatsoever, in Lower Canada, are enabled to hold ground, for the purposes and under the limitations therein specified, by the instrumentality of a Trustee or Trustees, to whom and to whose successors, (to be appointed in the manner set forth in the Deed of Grant, Concession or Conveyance) the lands necessary for such purposes may be conveyed; And whereas lands have been conveyed to Trustees on behalf of such Congregations or Societies in Lower Canada under the said Ordinance without the manner of appointing successors to such Trustees being set forth in the Deeds of Grant, Concession or Conveyance of such lands, as required by the said Ordinance, and it is expedient to provide a remedy for such omission: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

Meeting for I. It shall be lawful for any Congregation or Society of settling the Christians of any denomination, on whose behalf lands in continuing the Lower Canada are now held under the said Ordinance by a succession of Trustee or Trustees without the manner of appointing succesTrustees, sors being set forth in the Deed of Grant, Concession or Conwhere the Trust Deed veyance of such lands, at any time within one year after the does not pro- passing of this Act to assemble in a public meeting, duly convened by notice in writing signed by at least five members of such Congregation or Society, and affixed to the door of their Church or place of Worship, and at such meeting, by the votes of a majority of the adult male members of such Congregation or Society, then and there present, to determine and declare in what manner the successors to such Trustee or Trustees shall be appointed.

vide for the

same.

Record of the

the

II. A record of the proceedings of the meeting shall be made proceedings to out in writing and signed by the Chairman and Secretary be made, and how. thereof, and shall thereafter be deposited of record among archives of the Congregation or Society, and a copy of such record, certified to be a true copy by such Chairman of Secretary, on oath before a Justice of the Peace, shall be deposited, by acte de dépôt, in the usual manner, in the office of a Public Notary, whose copies thereof shall thenceforth be prima facie evidence of the contents thereof.