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143 COUNTY OF ELGIN By-Law No. 143 "TO AUTHORIZE THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF ELGIN TO LEVY THE SUM OF TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS UPON THE SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES IN THE COUNTY OF ELGIN FOR THE GEN- ERAL PURPOSES OF THE COUNTY IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND~SIXTY-SIX". Passed 21st June 1866 WHEREAS it is necessary and expedient to levy and collect in the several Municipalities of the County of Elgin a sufficient sum for the general purposes of said County in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. WHEREAS by the Eleventh Section of the Act Twenty- second Victoria Chapter Fifty-five of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada the Council of every Municipality is required every year to make estimates of all sums which may be required for the lawful purposes of the County, City, Town, Township or Village for the year in which such sums are required to be levied. And by the twelfth section of said Act it is recited that the Council of every Municipality may pass one By-Law or a rate or rates of so much in the dollar upon the assessed value of the property therein as the Council deems sufficient to raise the sums required on such estimates. AND WHEREAS as estimate has been made by the Council of the County of Elgin of the sums required for the lawful pur- poses of the Municipality of the County of Elgin for the current year showing that the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars will be required for the lawful purposes of the County of Elgin exclusive of Schools as follows - Debentures and Interest 2,400 Municipal Loan Fund 6,400 Grammar Schools 500 Local Superintendents 560 Boards of Public Instruction 400 Administration of Justice & Jurors 3,500 General Purposes - Members Wages, etc. 2,824 Grants for County Roads & Bridges 2,000 Grant to County Volunteers (on Service) 2,000 Books for Registry Office & fees under Registry Act 3,000 23,634 Less cash on hand & to receive from Gravel Road 1, 6 34 $22.000 (Cont'd) By-Law No. 143 Page 2 BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Municipal Council of the County of Elgin by virtue of the authority aforesaid that there shall be levied and collected in the several Municipalities of the County of Elgin in the year one thou- sand eight hundred and sixty-six the sum of twenty-two thou- sand dollars for the general expenditures and liabilities of the County of Elgin and for the lawful purposes thereof. AND IT IS ALSO enacted that there shall be levied and collected a rate of five tenths of a cent in the dollar upon the assessed value of the property in the said County of Elgin for the purpose of raising the said sum of twenty- two thousand dollars, and that sàid amount be apportioned and collected in the several Municipalities of the County of Elgin as contained in the schedule forming part of this By-Law and the full amounts paid over to the County Treasurer as by law directed. AND IT IS ALSO enacted that this By-Law shall be in force and take effect from and after the twenty-second day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. Schedule Municipalities Amounts Aldborough 2,186 Dunwich 2,804 Southwold 4,322 Yarmouth 4,754 Malahide 3,476 Dorchester 1,646 Bayham 2,453 Vienna 359 $22,000 Passed in Council this twenty-first day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. St. Thomas - County of Elgin T. M. Nairn 21 June 1866 Warden William McKay County Clerk Read a first time 21st Jûne 1866. Certified - William McKay County Clerk Read a second time 21st June 1866. Certified - William McKay County Clerk Read a third time 21 June 1866. Certified William McKay County Clerk