214
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 214
TO RAISE THE SUM OF FORTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND
SEVEN DOLLARS FOR COUNTY PURPOSES IN THE COUNTY OF ELGIN FOR
THE YEAR ONE ~~HOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENT'(.._ONE".
\~EREAS by the thirteenth section of the Assessment
Act 32nd Victoria Chapter 36 of the Province of Ontario it
is enacted that -
The Council of every Oounty or local Municipality
shall every year make estimates of all sums which may be requir-
ed 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 collect-
ing of 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 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 one showing that the sum of
Forty Seven Thousand Five Hundred and Seven dollars will be
required for the lawful purposes of said County inclusive of
Common Schools as follows -
DebenturesandCoupons~ $ 1.820.00
Municipal Loan Fund 6,400.00
Southern Railway Debentures and
Coupons 25,000.00
Grammar Schools 650.00
Inspector & Examiners of Schools 750.00
Administrator of Justice· Ii·, 000.00
County Lines and Bridges 2,000.00
General Purposes ),487.00
$41 ·, 107.00
Common Schools '3 ,I-¡.OO. OQ.
$47,507.00
(Cont'd
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No
BY-Law
of said
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section
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AND WHEREAS by the seventy fourth
Assessment Act it is enacted that -
The Council of a County in apportioning a county
rate among the different towúships, towns and villages within
the County shall in order that the same may. be assessed eq-
ually on the whole rateàble 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 preceding year the basis upon which the apportionment
is made.
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation of the
County of Elgin by virt~e and under the authority aforesaid.
That there shall be levied and collected during the
year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy One, a rate of five
and a half mills.in the dollar upon $ 8,019,488.00 The amount
of property returned on the Assessment Rolls of the townships
and villages in the said County of Elgin as finally revised
and equalized for the preceding year (1870) to raise the sum
of $ 47,507.00 required for the lawful purposes of said County
as mentioned in the' foregoing estimate in i:his By-law and as
apportioned amo~g the several townships and villages in said
County in the following schedule
Amounts
Raised
Total
To Be
Total
Common Schools
General
Purposes
Southern
Railwa: Rate
Municipal-
ities
4,618
6 , 5LI-1
9,409
9,776
7 , 64L~
3,804
5,330
¡rr,-;:;-JJ?.5.
4>'""7,507
316
¡H8
630
660
594
245
537
$"3,400
1,858
2,665
3,791
3,937
3,050
1,538
2,093
175
$19,107
2,1}44
3,l¡-58
4,988
5,179
l¡·,000
2,021
2,700
210
$25,000
Aldborough
Dunwich
Southwold
Yarmouth
lVIalahide
S. Dorchester
Bayham
Vienna
AND IT IS ALSO enacted that the Treasurers of the
several Municipalities in the said County of Elgin shall pay
the reFJpective amounts to the County Treasurer as apportioned
to be paid and at such time as by law required.
AND IT IS ALSO enacted that this By-law shall take
effect and be in force from and after the 22nd day of June
One thousand eight hundred and seventy one
1871
D
of June A
second day
twenty
Passed in Gouncil this
St. Thomas
County of Elgin
21st June 1871
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Nairn
(Cont
I)'. M.
Warden
William McKay
County Clerk
By-Law No 214 Page 3
Read a first time 22 June 1871.
Certified W. McKay Clerk
Read a second time 22 June 1871.
Certified W. McKay Clerk
Read a third time 22 June 1871~
Certified W. McKay Clerk