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COUNTY OF ELGIN
152
By-Law No
~O PROVIDE FOR REWARDING ANY PERSON APPREHENDING PERSON§.
STEALING HORSES'
GUILTY OF
Passed 22nd January 1867
WHEREAS by the Act 29-30 Victoria Chapter 51 it
is enacted by the 26th Sub section of Section 355 of said
Act that the Council of every County Municipality in Upper
Canada is required to provide by By-Law that a sum nôt
less than twenty dollars shall be payable as a reward to
any person or persons who shall pursue and apprehend or
cause to be apprehended any person or persons guilty of
stealing any horse or mare within the said County.
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Council of the
Corporation of the County of Elgin by virtue and under
authority of the twenty-sixth subsection of section number
three hundred and fifty-five of the act 29-JO Victoria
Chapter fifty-one that the sum of thirty dollars be paid
as a reward to any person or persons who shall pursue and
apprehend or cause to be apprehended any person or persons
guilty of stealing any horse or mare within the said County
of Elgin, and that such reward shall be paid out of the
funds of the Municipality on conviction of the thief and on
an order of the Judge before whom the conviction is obtained.
AND IT IS enacted that this By-Law shall take effect
from and after the twenty-second day of January in the year of
Our Lord One Thousand Eight ~undred and 'sixty-seven.
1867
Signed by order and on behalf
of the Council of the Corporation
of the County of Elgin
of January A.D.
Passed in Council this twenty-second day
of Elgin
County
1867
St. Thomas .-
22nd January
William McKay
County Clerk
Nairn
Warden
M.
T
Read a first time 22nd January 1867.
Certified - W.
County Clerk
McKay
second time 22nd January 1867
Certified - W
Read a
County Clerk
22nd January 1867.
McKay County Clerk
McKay
Read a third time and finally passed
Certified - W.