168
COUNTY OF ELGIN
168
By-Law No
TO E~UALIZE THE VALUATIONS OF PROPERTY IN THE ASSESSMENT ROLLS
TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN THE COUNTY OF ELGIN
OF THE TOWNSHIPS
1868
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WHEREAS by the Seventy-second Section of the Assess-
ment Act for Upper Canada, 29-30 Victoria Chapter Fifty-three,
it is enacted that the Council of every county shall yearly be-
fore imposing any county rate, and not later than the first
day of July, examine the Assessment Rolls of the different
townships, towns and villages in the county for the preceding
financial year for the purpose of ascertaining whether the
valuations made by the Assessors in each township, town or
village for the current year bears a just relation to the
valuations so made in all such townships, towns and villages
and may for the purpose of county rates increase or decrease
the aggregate valuations of real and personal property in any
township, town or village, adding or deducting so much per cent
as may in their opinion be necessary to produce a just relation
between all the valuations of real and personal estate in the
county but they shall not reduce the aggregate valuation there-
of for the whole county as made by the Assessors.
FOR THE YEAR
AND WHEREAS the Council of the County of Elgin as
required by said Section Number Seventy-two have examined
the Assessment Rolls of the different townships, towns, and
villages in the,Countycôf Elgin for the preceding financial
year to ascertain whether the valuations made by the Assessors
for the curent year bears a just relation to the valuations
so made in all such townships, towns and villages
of the
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation
of Elgin by virtue of the authority aforesaid.
County
THAT the following schedule of valuations be the
equalized valuations of real and personal property in the
several townships, towns and villages in the County of Elgin
for the year 1868.
(cont'd)
By-Law No 168 Page 2
SCHEDULE
MUNICIPALITIES REAL AND EQUALIZED
PERSONAL IN
PROPERTY 1868
ASSESSED
1868
Aldborough 540,250 661,070 adding 2t per cent
Dunwich 590,396 870,448
Southwo Id 1,015,825 1,383,430
Yarmouth 1,579,572 1,617.696
lYIailia:hide 1,279,240 1,164,356
South Dorchester 720,320 600,500
Bayham 865,760 705,850
Vienna 100,54~ 8~,000
p,691,90 7,08 ,350
AND IT IS ALSO enacted that this By-Law shall be
in force and take effect from and after the Twentieth day of
June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-eight.
Passed in Council this Eighteenth day of June, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-eight.
St. Thomas
County of E1~in
18th June 18 8
William McKay T. M. Nairn
County Clerk Warden
Read a first time 18th June 1868
Certified W. McKay, County Clerk
Read a second time 18th June 1868
Certified w. McKay, County Clerk
Read a third time and passed 18th June 1868
Certified W. McKay, County Clerk