191
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 191
TO RAISE THE SUM OF NINETEENif THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
DOLLARS FOR COUNTY PURPOSES IN THE COUNTY OF ELGIN FOR THE YEAR
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY."
Passed in Council 23 June 1870.
WHEREAS by the thirteenth Section of the Assessment
Act 32 Victoria, Chapter 36 of the Province of Ontàrio, it is
enacted
THAT the Council of every County or local Municipality
shall every year make estimates of all sums which may be required
for the lawful purposes of the County or local Municipality for
the year in which such sums are required to be levied.
AND by the fourteenth Section of said Act it is also
enacted that the Council of every Municipality may pass one By-
Law or several By-Laws authorizing the levying and collecting
of a rate or rates of so:"much in the dollar upon the Assessed
Value of the property therein as the Council deems sufficiènt
to raise the sums required 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 one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, showing that the sum of
nineteen thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars will be re-
quired for the lawful purposes of said County exclusive of
Common Schools as follows.
Debentures and Coupons $ 1,904
Municipal Loan Fund 6,400
Common Schools 3,300
Grammar Schools 630
Superintendents 550
Board of Public Instruction 500
Administration of Justice 4,000
County Lines & Bridges 1,000
General Purposes 4,131
$22,415
Deduct for Common Schools 3,300
$19,115
AND WHEREAS by the seventy-fourth Section of said
Assessment Act, it is enacted that
(cont'd)
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THE Council of a County in apportioning a County rate
among the differènt Townships, ~owns, and Villages within the
County shall in order that the same may be assessed equally on
the whole rateable property of the County make the amount of
property returned on the Assessment Rolls for such Townships,
Towns, and Villages as finally revised and equalized for the
precedå:ng_: year the basis upon which the apportionment is made
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation of the
of Elgin by virtue and under the authority aforesaid
County
THAT there shall be levied and collected during the
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy a rate of two and
four-tenth Mills in the dollar upon $7,964,642 the amount of
propßrty r.eturned on the Assessment Rolls of the Townships and
Villages in the said County of Elgin as finally revised and equal-
ized for theLreceding year (1869) to raise the sum of nineteen
thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars required for the law-
ful purposes of said County and apportioned among the different
Townships and Villages in said County as contained in the follow-
ing Schedule.
$19,ll5
275
661
613
888
981
983
546
168
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
$2
2
3
3
2
1
1
Aldborough
Dunwich
Southwold
Yarmouth
Malahide
South Dorchester
Bayham
Vienna
AND IT IS ALSO enacted that the TreasurersØf,,;t1J.e· sev-
eral Municipalities in the said County of Elgin, shall pay the
several amounts to the County Treasurer as apportioned to be
paid and at such time as by law required.
AND IT 18 enacted that this By-Law shall take effect
and be in force from and after the seventeenth day of June one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.
of June A.D.
Passed in Council this twenty-third day
1870
St. Thomas
County of Elgin
23rd June 1870
(cont'd)
Nairn
T. M.
Warden
William McKay
County Clerk.
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By-Law No 191
Read a first time 23rd June 1870
Certified w. McKay, County Clerk
Read a second time 23 June 1870
Certified w. McKay, County Clerk
Read a third time and finally passed,
23 June 1870
Certified w. McKay, County Clerk