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225 COUNTY OF ELGIN By-Law No 225 RAISE THE SUM OF FORTY-ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY- TO YEM~ ONE THOUSAND TWO DOLLARS FOR COUNTY PURPOSES IN THE " WHEREAS by the thirteenth Section of the Asseslsment Act 32 Victoria Chapter 36 of the Province of Ontario it is enacted that EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO The Council of every County or local Municipality shall every year make estimates of all sums which may be re- quired for the lawful purposes of the County or local Munici- pality for the year in which said 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 collection of a rate or rates of so much on the dollar upon the assessed value of the property therein as the Council may deem sufficient to raise the sums required on said estimates. AND WHEREAS the Council of the County of the County of Elgin have made an estimate of all sums required for the lawful purposes of the Municipality for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two shewing that the sum of forty- one thousand six hundred and forty-two dollars. AND WHEREAS by the Seventy-Fourth Section of said Assessment Act it is enacted - That the Council of a county in apportioning a County rate among the several Townships, Towns and Villages within the County shall in order that the same may be assess- ed 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 preceding year the basis upon which the apportionment is made. BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation of the County of Elgin in Council assembled by virtue and under the authority aforesaid - THAT the sum of twenty-three thousand and thirty- seven dollars shall be raised in the several Municipalities of the County during the current year for debentures and composed of the Canada Southern Railway and that a rate of two mills and eight tenths of a mill in the dollar to be levied on the rateable property in said Municipality to raise said amount. (Cont'd) By-Law No. 225 Page 2 THAT the sum of eighteen thousand six hundred and five dollars be raised in the several Municipalities in the said County of Elgin during the current year for County purposes and general expenditure. AND THAT a rate of two mills and two tenthsiiof a mill in the dollar be levied on the rateable property in said County to raise said amount. AND IT IS enacted that the said rates shall be apportioned upon the amount of property on the Assessment Rolls for the several Municipalities in the County as finally revised and equalized for the preceding yearviz 1871 to raise said amounts required for the lawful purposes of said County exclusive of schools and as mentioned and required under the seventy-fourth Section of said Asses~me~t, Act and this By-Law and apportioned amongst the several Townships and Villages in said County in the following Schedule. SCHEDULE Southern General Totals Railway Rate County Rate Aldborough 2383 1866 4249 Dunwich 3135 2565 5700 Southwold 4724 3871 8595 Yarmouth 4860 4199 9059 Malahide 3600 2784 6384 S. Dorchester 1912 1587 3499 Bayham 2001 1385 3386 Vienna 196 159 355 Aylmer 226 189 415 $23037 18605 41642 AND IT IS also enacted that the Treasurers of the several Municipalities in the said County of Elgin shall pay the respective amounts to the County Treasurer as ~pportioned to be paid and at such time as by Law required. AND THAT that this By-Law shall be in force and take· effect from and after the eig.hth day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. St. Thomas-County of Elgin John Ellison 7th June 1872 Warden William ]V]cKay County of Elgin County Clerk (Cont'd) By-Law No 225 Page 3 Read a first time 7th June 1872 Certified - W. McKay Clerk Read a second time 7th June 1872 Certified - W. McKay Clerk Read a third time 7th June 1872 Certified William McKay Clerk