254
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 254
:'fQ_!Y.lI S1L'f!!JLSUM --º:LEORTLTHO!I§ßND ....--ºNE -1!!INDRED AND
gIGHTY-SEVEN DOLLARS FOR COUNTY PURPOSES IN THE COUNTY
QE_ELGJ]LFOR THE_YEA!L18Z!:!:".
Passed 18th June 1874.
WHEREAS' by the thirteenth section of the Assessment
Act 32nd<Yictoria chapter 36 of the Province of Ontario
it is enacted that
The Council of every county shall every year
make estimates of all sums which may be required for the
lawful purposes of the county for the year in which such
sU~à à~e required to be levied, and by the fourteenth
section of said Act, it is enacted that the council of
every municipality may pass one or several By-Laws authorizing
the levying and collection of a rate or rates of so much in
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 Elgin
has made an estimate of all sums required for the lawful
purposes of the municipality for the year 1874 showing
that the sum of forty thousand and one hundre~ and eighty-
seven dollars is required to be raised for county purposes.
AND WHEREAS by the 74th 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 sum
may be assessed equally on the whole of the 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.
(Cont'd)
Page 2
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation of
the County of Elgin in council assembled and by virtue
and under the authority aforesaid, that the sum of
nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars be raised in said
County of Elgin during the current year for debentures
and coupons of the Canadian Southern Railway and that a
rate of two and four tenths of a mill in the dollar
be levied on the rateable property in said municipality
to raise said amount
254
By-Law No
That the sum of fifteen thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four dollars be raised in the several municipalities
in the said county during the current year for county
purposes and general expendit~re 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 ALSO that the sum of four thousand, four
hundred and twenty-three dollars be raised in the
township municipalities in said county for school purposes
being an equivalent to the legislative apportionment
to said County of Elgin for the year 1874, and as
apportioned by the Chief Superintendent of Education
AND IT IS enacted that the said rates shall be
apportioned and levied upon the amount of property in the
several municipalities in the county as finally revised
and equalized for the preceding year (1873) to raise said
amounts as per schedule:
Common
Schools
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ê.Q.1:!EDULE
General
Coun:tLRate
Municipalities Southern
___-Railj'Œ:Y:__.
Totals
1678 4295
2072 5376
3175 7985
3281 8365
2465 6350
1461 3420
1440 3779
120 255
_-1'Z£___________-162 __
517
550
820
821
688
305
722
Aldborough 2100
Dunwich 2754
Southwold 3990
Yarmouth 4263
Malahide 3197
S. Dorchester 1654
B ayh am 1617
Vienna 135
A:Y:lm~~___________190____
$40187
$4423
)
(Cont I d
$15864
$19900
Totals
By-Law No 254 Page 3
AND IT IS enacted that this By-Law shall take
effect and be in force from and after the twentieth
day of June 1874.
Passed in Council this 18th day June 1874.
St. Thomas John McCausland
County of Elgin Warden'
17 June 1874
William McKay
County Clerk
Read a first time 18 June 1875
Read a second time 18 June 1875
Read a third time 18 June 1875
Certified W. McKay County Clerk