169
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 169
TO RAISE THE SUM OF TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND
SIXTY-ONE DOLLÀRS FOR COUNTY PURPOSES IN THE COUNTY OF ELGIN
FOR THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ETWHT."
WHEREAS by the Thirteenth Section of the. Act 29-
30, Victoria Chapter Fifty-thDee it is enacted that
THE Council of every Municipality shall every
year 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 in the Fourteenth Section of said Act it is
also enacted
THAT the Council of every Munic~pality may pass
one By-Law or several By-Laws authorising the levying and
collecting of a rate or rates of sO:-.much in the dollar upon
the Assessed Value of the property therein for the previous
year as the Council deem sufficient to raise the sums re-
quired on such estimates.
AND WHEREAS the Council of the County of Elgin
have made an estimate of all sums required for the lawful
purposes of the Municipality of the County of Elgin for the
year 1868 showing that the sum of Twenty-four Thousand Nine
Hundred and Sixty-one Dollars will be required for the law-
ful purposes of said county exclusive of Common Schools as
follows:
Debentures and Interest & Coupons $ 2,740
Municipal Loan Fund 6,400
Grammar Schools 600
Local Superintendents 560
Board of Public Instruction 500
Administration of Justice & Jurors 4,500
General Purposes Members, Wages Etc. 5,500
County Appropriation for Roads, 4,161
Bridges and other purposes $24,961
AND WHEREAS by the Seventy-fifth Section of said
Act, it is also enacted that the Council of a County in
apportioning a county rate among the different townships,
towns, and villages within the county shall in order that
the same may be assessed equally on the amount of property
returned on the Assessment Rolls of such townships, towns
and villages or reported by the valuators as finally revised
and equalized for the preceding year, the basis upon which
the apportionment is made
(cont'd)
By-Law No 169 Page 2
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation of the
County of Elgin by virtue and under authority aforesaid
THAT there shall be levied and collected a rate
of Three and a half Mills in the dollar upon the assessed
value of the property in the Municipalities of the said
County of Elgin in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty-eight to raise the sum of Twenty-four Thousand Nine
Hundred and Sixty-one Dollars required for the lawful pur-
pose of the said County of Elgin and apportioned amongst the
several Municipalities in said County on the amount of pro-
perty as returned on the Assessment Rolls and, as finally re-
vised and equalized for the preceding year (1867) as contained
in the following Schedule.
SCHEDULE
Aldborough $ 2,334
Dunwich 3,158
Southwold 4,722
Yarmouth 5,445
Malahide 4,226
South Dorchester 2,126
Bayham 2,648
Vienna 302
$24,961
AND IT IS enac~ed that the Treasurers of the sev-
eral Municipalities in the County shall pay the several
amounts to the County Treasurer as required by law.
AND IT IS enacted that this By-Law shall take ef-
fect and be in force from and after the Twentieth day of
June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-eight.
Passed in Council this Eighteenth day of June
A.D, 1868.
St. Thomas
County of El~in
18th June 18 8
William McKay T. M. Nairn
County Clerk. Warden
Read a first time 18 June 1868
Certified William McKay, Clerk.
Read a second time 18 June 1868
Certified William McKay, Clerk.
Read a third time and finally passed, 18 June 1868
Certified William McKay, Clerk.