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COUNTY OF ELGIN
227
Law No
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TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF ELGIN TO
"
ISSUE DEBENTURES FOR THE SUM OF TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
WITHIN TEN YEARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING FOR THE
PAYABLE
IN THE COUN'rY OF
ERECTION OF AEIREPR(LOF REGISTRY OFFICE
ELGIN AND MAKING ALTERATIONS IN THE JAIL PREMISES AND
AROUND THE JAIL YARD OF THE SAID COUNTY
ERECTING A WALL
OF ELG IN
WHEREAS the Registry Office of the County of Elgin
not being deemed to be fireproof, it is considered expedient
to erect a fireproof office upon a plan and on a site ap-
proved by the Inspector of Registry Offices and the Lieute-
nant Governor in Council.
AND WHEREAS the Inspector of Prisons having re-
ported the Jail of the County of Elgin as not being in
accordance with the regulations governing prisons, it is
therefore considered necessary to erect a wall around the
prison yard and alter the interior of the prison so as to
conform with the requirements of the Prison Inspectors'Act.
AND WHEREAS it will require the sum of five thou-
sand dollars to pay for the erection of a new and fireproof
Registry Office.
AND the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the
alterations to be made in jail premises and the erection of
a wall around the prison yard.
AND WHEREAS it will be necessary to raise annually
during the next ten years by special rate the sum of three
thousand two hundred dollars to provide the payment of the
said sum of twenty thousand dollars and the interest on the
debentures to be issued for the same as hereafter mentioned.
AND WHEREAS the amount of the rateable property of
the Municipality of the County of Elgin irrespective of any
future increase of the same, according to the last Assessment
Rolls being for the year 1872 was eight million, one hundred
and ninety five thousand, four hundred and forty-three dollars
AND WHEREAS to provide for the payment of the in-
terest upon and to create an equal yearly sinking fund for the
payment of the said sum of Twenty thousand dollars, it will
require an equal annual special rate of four tenths of a mill
in the dollar on the whole of the rateable property of the
said Municipalities of the County of Elgin in addition to all
other rates to be levied in each year according to the
Municipal Act.
d)
(Cont'
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AND WHEREAS the amount of the existing debt of
the said County of Elgin is as follows
400
10
10
$
of
sum of
For principal the sum of
and for interest the sum
making on the whole the
amount is due for arrears of interest
It isthßrefóre enacted by the Council of the Cor-
poration of the County of Elgin -
and no
THAT IT shall be lawful for the said Municipality
to raise the .sum of twenty thousand dollars to provide for
the erection of a fireproof Registry Office and make the
required alterations in the jail premises in the County of
Elgin.
THAT IT shall for the purpose aforesaid be lawful
for the Warden of the said County to cause any number of
debentures to be made for such sums of money as may be re-
quired for the said purposes not less than one thousand
dollars each and not exceeding in the whole the sum of
twenty thousand dollars which said debentures shall be seal-
ed with the Seal of the said Corporation and be signed by
the Warden and Treasurer thereof.
THAT the said Debentures shall be made payable
at the office of the Treasurer of the County of Elgin fun
the Town of St. Thomas within ten years from the day this
By-Law shall take effect and shall bear interest at the rate
of sixpercentum per annum from the date thereof, payable half
yearly on the first days of the months of January and July in
each year at the office of the Treasurer of the said County
of Elgin in the said Town of St. Thomas for which interest
coupons signed by the Warden and Treasurer of the said
County shall be attached to the said Debentures.
THAT for the purpose of providing for the payment
of such interest and to make an equal yearly sinking fund
for the payment of the said debentures and equal special
rate of four tenths of a mill in the dollar shall in addition
to all other rates shall be raised. levied and collected
in each year during the ten years next after this By-Law
shall take effect upon all the rateable property in the
Municipality of the County of Elgin unless such Debentures
and Interest shall be sooner paid.
THAT this By-Law shall take effect QR, from and
after the fifteenth day of November in the year of Our Lord
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Two
(Cont'd)
By Law No 227 Page 3
St. Thomas - County of Elgin
12th November 1872 John Ellison
William McKay Warden
County of Elgin Elgin
Read a first time 12th November 1872
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a second time 12th November 1872
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a third time and passed 12th November 1872
Certified William McKay Clerk