242
COUNTY OF ELGIN
242
By-Law No
TO RAISE AMOUNTS FOR COUNTY PURPOSES IN THE COUNTY OF ELGIN
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FOR THE YEAR 18
Passed 5th June 1873.
. WHEREAS 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 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 Mun-
icipality for the year in which said sums are required to be
levied.
AND by the fourteenth Section of said Act, it is
enacted that the Coundil of every Municipality may pass one
By-Law or several By-Laws authorißing the levying and collect-
inn of a rate or rates of so much in the dollar upon the as-
sessed 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 Elgin has
made an estimate of all sums required for the lawful purposes
of the Municipality for the year one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three shewing that the sum of thirty-five thâus-
and seven hundred and forty-eight dollars is required to be
raised for County purposes.
AND WHEREAS by the 74th Section of said Assessment
is enacted
it
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 asses-
sed equally on the whole of the rateable property of the
County make the amount of property returned on the Assess-
ment Rolls for such Townships, Towns and Villages as finally
revised and equalized for the preceding year, the basis upon
which the apportionment is made.
Act
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation of the
County of Elgin in Council assembled by virtue and under
authority aforesaid.
THAT the sum of twenty-one thousand and twenty-five
dollars be raised in the said County during the current year
for debentures and coupons of the Canada Southern Railway
and that a rate of two and a half Mills in the dollar be
levied on the rateàble property in said Municipality to raise
said amount.
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THAT the sum of twenty-one thousand and two dollars
be raised in the several Municipalities in the said County
during the current year for County purposes and general ex-
penditures.
AND THAT a rate of one and three quarter Mills 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 ap-
portioned upon the amount of property in the several Munici-
palities in the County as finally revised and equalized for
the preceding. year(1872) to raise said amounts as per
Schedule following;
SCHEDULE
Municipalities Southern General Total
Railway Co. Rate
Aldbourough 2,222 1,556 3,778
Dunwich 2,838 1,988 4,826
Southwold 4,214 2,951 7,165
Yarmouth 4,437 3,107 7,544
Malahide 3,330 2,332 5,662
South Dorchester 1,833 1,283 3,116
Bayham 1,799 1,259 3,058
Vienna 150 105 255
Aylmer 202 142 344
Totals 21,025 14,723 $35,748
AND IT IS HEREBY enacted that this By-Law shall be
in force and take effect on the fifth day of June one thous-
and eight hundred and seventy-three.
St. Thomas
County of Elgin
5th June A.D. 1873
William McKay John McCausland
County Clerk. Warden
Read a first time 5 June 1873
Certified W. McKay, Clerk.
Read a second time 5 June 1873
Certified W. McKay, Clerk.
Read a third time and finally passed
5 June 1873
Certified W. McKay, Clerk