2. Sub-section one of section six of the said Act is hereby S. 6 sab.-8. 1 amended by striking out the word "retail" in the fifth line amended. thereof, and substituting the word "sale" in lieu thereof.

3. The seventh section of the said Act is hereby repealed, S. 7 amended, and the following shall stand in lieu of and form the said section, and be read instead thereof:

"7. Every tavern and inn authorised to be kept under the provisions of this Act shall contain, and during the continuance "of the license shall continue to contain, in addition to what may "be needed for the use of the family of the tavern or inn-keeper, "not less than four bed-rooms, with a suitable complement of "bedding and furniture, and (except in cities and incorporated "towns), there shall also be attached to the said tavern or inn, proper stabling for at least six horses."

4. The twelfth section of the said Act is hereby repealed, S. 12 amended. and the following shall stand in lieu of and form the said twelfth section, and be read instead thereof:

"12. No certificate for a license to sell spirituous, fermented "or other manufactured liquors by wholesale or retail in any "tavern, ale house, beer house, place of public entertainment or shop, shall be granted to any applicant, except upon petition by the applicant to the council of the township, town or incorporated village, and to the commissioners of police in cities, as the case may be, in which the license is to have effect, pray"ing for the same; nor until the inspector, to be appointed as aforesaid, shall have reported that the applicant is a fit and pro"per person to have a license, and has all the accommodation "required by law; Provided always, that it shall not be lawful "for the council of any township, town, incorporated village, "or the commissioners of police in any city, to grant any cer"tificate for a license, or any certificate whatsoever, whereby 'any person can obtain or procure any license for the sale of spirituous, fermented, or intoxicating liquors, on the days of "the exhibition of the Agricultural Association of Ontario, or "of any county, electoral division, or township Agricultural So'ciety exhibition, either on the grounds of such society, or "within the distance of three hundred yards from such grounds."

5. The fourteenth section is hereby amended in the fourth S. 14 amendline thereof by inserting the words "or the transfer thereof," ed. between the word "license" and the word “if.”

6. The eighteenth section of the said Act is hereby amended s. 18 amendin the sixteenth line thereof, by striking out the words "the ed. certificate," and substituting in lieu thereof the words, "a certificate similar to that."

7. The twenty-first section of the said Act is hereby amended S. 21 amend

S. 29 amended.

in the second line thereof, by inserting the words, "or in his possession for sale," between the word "him" and the word "and."

8. The twenty-ninth section of the said Act is hereby repealed, and the following shall stand in lieu thereof, and form the said twenty-ninth section, and be read instead thereof:

"29. Any police officer, constable, or inspector of licenses may, at any time, enter into any tavern, inn, ale house, beer "house, or other house or place of public entertainment, or "into any shop or other place wherein refreshments, or liquors are sold, or reputed to be sold, whether legally or illegally; and any person being therein, or having charge thereof, who "refuses, or after due summons fails, to admit such police officer "or constable into the same, or offers any obstruction to his "admission thereto, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than "ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, for every such offence."

Time for regis

months after this Act.

CAP. XXIX.

An Act further to extend the time for the registration of Conveyances to Religious Institutions in Ontario.

Η ΕΙ

[Assented to 24th December, 1869.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. All deeds of conveyance of any real estate in Ontario, exetry under Con. cuted before the passing of this Act, for any of the uses, interests or Stat., c. 69, extended to 12 purposes enumerated in the first section of the sixty-ninth chapter of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, shall be as valid and effectual if the same shall have been registered before the expiration of twelve months after the passing of this Act, as if registered within twelve months after the execution thereof respectively, except in so far as the same may be affected by the prior registration of other deeds or instruments Proviso in fa- relating to the same lands respectively; Provided always, vour in certain that in all cases where any such religious bodies have not cases of per- erected any buildings or made improvements, and any peravoid unregis- son claiming to hold or to be entitled to any real estate or property included in any such deed, on account of the omission to register the same, shall, in virtue of such claim, have taken possession of such real estate before the passing of this Act, and also in all cases where the persons claiming to hold or to be entitled to such real property, on account of such

sons entitled to

tered deeds.

omission

omission as aforesaid, shall have actually sold or departed with, or shall have actually contracted to sell or depart with, such real estate before the passing of this Act, the provisions of this Act shall not extend to render invalid any right or title to such estate, but such right or title shall be taken and adjudged to be as if this Act had not been passed.

CAP. XXX.

An Act to Incorporate the Toronto, Simcoe and
Muskoka Junction Railway Company.

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[Assented to 24th December, 1869.]

HEREAS A. J. Alport, W. D. Ardagh, Noah Barnhart, Preamble. G. L. Beardmore, A. H. Browning, Hugh M. Clarke, Henry Creswick, A. P. Cockburn, Dalrymple Crawford, Fred. Cumberland, M. Davis, Wm. G. Deacon, N. Dickey, A. P. Dodge, Wm. Elliot, R. J. Griffith, Wm. Hamilton, Robert Hay, C. Harvie, Alex. Henderson, W. H. Howland, Robert Leadlay, Wm. Lount, David Morrow, Thos. McConkey, J. D. Merrick, A. R. McMaster, Donald McKay, Hon. J. McMurrich, Angus Morrison, F. H. Medcalf, G. Perceval Ridout, R. J. Reekie, D. L. Sanson, Robert Simpson, Jno. Steele, Frank Smith, Thos. Smith, Robert Spratt, S. B. Harman, J. Teviotdale, D. Thurston, Jno. Turner, John Wallis, Robert Walker, Robert Wilkes, and Jno. World, have petitioned the Legislature for an Act of Incorporation to construct a railway from some point on the Northern Railway of Canada, within the County of Simcoe, to unite the waters of Lake Simcoe with those of Lakes Muskoka and Rousseau, through and within the Counties of Simcoe, Ontario, and Victoria, with branches and extensions to the Georgian Bay, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows::

1. The said A. J. Alport, W. D. Ardagh, Noah Barnhart, G. Incorporation. L. Beardmore, A. H. Browning, Hugh Clarke, Henry Creswick, A. P. Cockburn, Dalrymple Crawford, Fred. Cumberland, M. Davis, Wm. G. Deacon, N. Dickey, A. P. Dodge, Wm. Elliot, R. J. Griffith, Wm. Hamilton, Robert Hay, C. Harvie, Alex. Henderson, W. H. Howland, Robert Leadlay, Wm. Lount, David Morrow, Thos. McConkey, J. D. Merrick, A. R. McMaster, Donald McKay, Hon. J. McMurrich, Angus Morrison, F. H. Medcalf, G. Perceval Ridout, R. J. Reekie, D. L. Sanson, Robert Simpson, Jno. Steele, Frank Smith, Thos. Smith, Robert Spratt, S. B. Harman, J. Teviotdale, D. Thurston, Jno. Turner, John Wallis, Robert Walker, Robert Wilkes, and John

World,

World, together with such other persons and Corporations as shall become shareholders of the Company hereby incorporated, shall be and are hereby ordained constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic, by and under the name and style CorporatCom. of "The Toronto, Simcoe and Muskoka Junction Railway Company."

pany.

Certain

clauses of Cons.

Railway Act to apply.

Construction of Railway.

Provisional directors,

2. The several clauses of the Railway Act of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and amendments with respect to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth clauses thereof, and also the several clauses thereof with respect to "interpretation," "incorporation," "powers," "plans and surveys," "lands and their valuation," "highways and bridges," "fences," "tolls," "general meetings," "president and directors, their election and duties," "calls,"" shares and their transfer," "municipalities," "shareholders," "actions for indemnity and fines, and penalties, and their prosecution," " by-laws, notices, &c.," "working of the railway," and "general provisions," shall be incorporated with, and be deemed to be a part of this Act, and shall apply to the said Company, and to the Railway to be constructed by them, except only so far as they may be inconsistent with the express enactments hereof; and the expression "this Act," when used herein, shall be understood to include the clauses of the said Railway Act so incorporated with this Act.

3. The said Company shall have full power and authority to lay out construct and complete a double or single iron railway from some point on the Northern Railway of Canada, within the County of Simcoe, connecting the waters of Lake Simcoe with those of Lakes Muskoka and Rousseau, through and within the Counties of Simcoe, Ontario and Victoria, or any of them, with branches and extensions to the Georgian Bay, and with full authority to pass over any of the country between the points aforesaid, and to carry the said Railway through the Crown lands lying between the points aforesaid.

4. The said A. J. Alport, W. D. Ardagh, Noah Barnhart, G. L. Beardmore, A. H. Browning, Hugh M. Clarke, Henry Creswick, A. P. Cockburn, Dalrymple Crawford, Fred. Cumberland M. Davis, Wm. G. Deacon, N. Dickey, A. P. Dodge, Wm. Elliot, R. J. Griffith, Wm. Hamilton, Robert Hay, C. Harvie, Alex. Henderson, W. H. Howland, Robert Leadlay, Wm. Lount, David Morrow, Thos. McConkey, J. D. Merrick, A. R. McMaster, Donald McKay, Hon. J. McMurrich, Angus Morrison, F. H. Medcalf, G. Perceval Ridout, R. J. Reekie, D. L. Sanson, Robert Simpson. Jno. Steele, Frank Smith, Thos. Smith, Robert Spratt, S. B. Harman, J. Teviotdale, D. Thurston, Jno. Turner, John Wallis, Robert Walker, Robert Wilkes, and John World, with power to add to their number, shall be and are hereby constituted Provisional Directors of the said Company, and shall hold office as such until other directors shall be elected under the provisions of this Act by the shareholders; and shall have

power

power and authority, immediately after the passing of this their powers. Act, to open stock-books and procure subscriptions for the undertaking, to make calls upon the subscribers, to cause surveys and plans to be made and executed, and as hereinafter provided, to call a general meeting of the shareholders for the election of directors, and with all such other powers as under the Railway Act are vested in ordinary Directors.

pany.

5. The Capital Stock of the Company hereby incorporated Capital stock shall be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars (with power to in- of the Comcrease the same in the manner provided by the Railway Act), to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, which amount shall be raised by the persons and corporations who may become Shareholders in such Company, and the money so raised shall be Application of applied, in the first place, to the payment and discharge of all the money fees expenses and disbursements for procuring the passage stock. of this Act, and for making the surveys, plans and estimates connected with the works hereby authorized; and all the remainder of such money shall be applied to the making equipment and completion of the said Railway, and the other purposes of this Act, and to no other purpose whatever.

6. And it shall further be lawful for any municipality or Municipalities municipalities, through any part of which, or near which the may aid by granting Railway or works of said Company shall pass or be situated, to bonuses, etc. aid or assist the said Company, by loaning or guaranteeing or giving money by way of bonus or other means to the Company, or issuing Municipal bonds to or in aid of the Company, and otherwise in such manner and to such extent as such municipalities, or any of them, shall think expedient: Provided always such aid to be that such aid, loan, bonus or guarantee, shall be given under a granted by By-Law. by-law for the purpose, to be passed in conformity with the provisions of the Act respecting Municipal Institutions for the creation of debts; and all such by-laws so passed shall be valid, notwithstanding that such rate may exceed the aggregate rate of two cents in the dollar on the actual value of such ratable property, Provided that the annual rate of assessment shall not in any case exceed for all purposes three cents in the dollar on the actual value of the whole ratable property within the municipality, or portion of a municipality, creating such debt.

7. In case a majority of the persons rated on the last assess- If a portion of ment roll as freeholders in any portion of a Municipality do the munici pality desire to petition the Council of such municipality, defining the metes aid, Council and bounds of the section of the Municipality within which to pass a By-Law, the property of the petitioners is situated, and expressing the desire of the said petitioners to aid in the construction of the said Railway by granting a bonus or donation to the said Company for this purpose, and stating the amount which they so desire to give and grant and to be assessed therefor, the Council of such Municipality shall pass a ByLaw: