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order as a Cemetery, until the remains of the dead shall have be properly been removed therefrom, as provided in the first section of this kept. Act, and shall allow free access thereto at seasonable times, to those having relations or friends buried there, but without allowing any further burials therein, and may apply to such purpose any part of the proceeds of the land to be sold by them as aforesaid.

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III. It shall be the duty of the said Trustees or their succes- Trustees to sors, to select and contract for the purchase of a piece of purchase ano ground well adapted for the purposes of a Public Cemetery, in her piece of the Township of York, and not more than two miles beyond the metery. boundaries of the City of Toronto and the liberties thereof, and such piece of ground shall and may be conveyed to and vested in the said Trustees and their successors for ever, and shall be by them held and used as a Public Cemetery, and in trust for the purposes of the Acts hereinabove cited, and of the Act passed in the Session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to authorize the 14 & 15 V. Trustees of the Toronto General Burying Ground to acquire an c. 167. additional lot of land, and subject to the provisions thereof; And it shall be lawful for the said Trustees or their successors Out of what to apply such part of the proceeds of the land they are hereby Funds such empowered to sell, as may not be required for the purpose paid for. mentioned in the next preceding section, to the payment of the purchase money of the land to be acquired by them under this section, and the land so to be acquired by them may be in addition to the twenty-five acres they are empowered to acquire by the Act last aforesaid: Provided always that the Proviso. said Trustees shall not be capable of acquiring or holding, and Consent of they are not hereby authorized to acquire or hold, any such Municipality piece of ground for the purposes aforesaid, nor shall the same tained for new be vested in them until after the Municipal Council of the Cemetery. Municipality within the limits of which the same may be situate shall have passed a By-law consenting to and authorizing in express terms the establishment of a Cemetery on such piece of ground; and provided also that it shall not be lawful for the Proviso. said Trustees at any time after such piece of ground shall become vested in them for the purposes aforesaid, to make or suffer to be made any other use of the same than for the purposes of such Cemetery.

IV. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. CXLVII.

An Act to authorize the City of Hamilton to negotiate a
Loan of Fifty Thousand Pounds.

[Assented to 19th May, 1855.]

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Public Act.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament of this Province, Preamble.

passed in the sixteenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty 16 V. c. 95. Queen Victoria, chapter ninety-five, it was enacted that it

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Debentures

for such Loan.

should be lawful to and for the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Hamilton to raise by way of Loan upon the credit of the Debentures thereinafter mentioned the sum of fifty thousand pounds, for the purpose among others of carrying on and completing certain public improvements within the said City; And whereas the Common Council have commenced the construction of large and extensive sewers within the said City, and the balance of the said sum of fifty thousand pounds remaining after payment of the sums specifically charged upon it by the said Act, has been found quite insuflicient to complete the same, and they have accordingly petitioned to be authorized by Law to borrow a further sum of fifty thousand pounds for the purpose of completing the said sewers and other improvements required within the City: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. It shall and may be lawful to and for the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Hamilton, to raise by way of Loan upon the credit of the Debentures hereinafter mentioned, from any person or persons, body or bodies corporate, either in this Province, in Great Britain or elsewhere, who may be willing to lend the same, a sum of money not exceeding the sun of fifty thousand pounds of lawful money of Canada, in addition to the sum of fifty thousand pounds mentioned in the said in part recited Act.

II. It shall and may be lawful for the Mayor of the said City may be issued of Hamilton, for the time being, to cause to be issued Debentures of the said City under the Corporation seal, signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being, in such sums not exceeding in the whole the said sum of fifty thousand pounds authorized to be borrowed under this Act, as the Common Council shall direct and appoint; and the principal sum secured by the said Debentures and the interest accruing thereon shall be made payable either in sterling or currency, in this rovince, in Great Britain or elsewhere, as the said Common Council shall deem expedient or necessary.

Rate to be im. posed for a Sinking Fund on such Loan.

III. For the payment, satisfaction and discharge of the Debentures to be issued by virtue of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Common Council of the said City of Hamilton, and they are hereby required so to do in any By-law or By-laws to be passed authorizing the said Loan or any part thereof and the issuing of the Debentures therefor, to impose a special rate

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per annum, over and above and in addition to all other rates to be levied in each year and over and al ove the interest to be payable on such Debentures, which shall be sufficient to form a Sinking Fund of two per cent. per annum for that purpose.

IV. It shall be the duty of the Chamberlain of the said City Investiment of Hamilton, from time to time to invest all sums of money tion of Sink. and applica raised by special rate for the Sinking Fund provided in this ing Fund. Act, either in the Debentures issued under this Act or in any Debentures issued by the Government of Canada, or in such other securities as the Governor of this Province shall by order in Council direct or appoint, and apply all dividends or interest on the said Sinking Fund to the extinction of the debt created under this Act.

V. Any By-law to be passed under this Act shall not be re- By-laws made pealed until the debt or debis created under this Act and interest under this Act thereon shall be paid and satisfied; and the one hundred and not to be repealed. seventy-eighth section of the Municipal Corporations Act of Upper Canada, shall extend to any By-law passed under this Act.

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VI. The funds derived from the negociation of the Debentures Deposit and to be issued under this Act shall when received, be deposited application of by the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in some rowed under one or more of the chartered Banks of this Province, on such this Act. conditions as the said Common Council shall from time to time agree upon, and only be withdrawn therefrom as they may from time to time be required for the payment and discharge of the liabilities that may be incurred in carrying out the improvements contemplated by the Corporation of the said City.

VII. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP. CXLVIII.

An Act to incorporate the Town of Paris, and to define the limits thereof.

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[Assented to 19th May, 1855.]

HEREAS the Municipal Council of the Village of Paris, by Petition have prayed the Legislature to incorporate the same into a Town; And whereas the population of the same amounts to about two thousand four hundred inhabitants; And whereas it is expedient and necessary, and would tend to promote the benefit and convenience of the inhabitants, if the prayer of the said Petition were granted: Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:

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I. The tract of land within the boundaries or limits hereinafter described, shall upon, from and after the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six, be incorporated into a Town to be called and designated as the Town of Paris.

II. So much of the Upper Canada Municipal Coporations Acts as relates to Towns, shall be and is hereby incorporated in this Act, and the said Town of Paris shall have and exercise all and singular the same rights, powers, privileges and jurisdiction, as are given, granted or conferred upon, or as shall by virtue of any Act or parts of Acts now in force in Upper Canada, or which shall hereafter be in force, belong to incorporated Towns; and all the rules, regulations, provisions and enactments therein contained or which shall in any wise relate or belong to the same, shall apply to the Town of Paris as fully as if the said tract of land had become a Town under the ordinary operation of the said Acts, with the exception hereinafter made for the first election.

III. The Town of Paris shall consist of all that part of this Province situate in the County of Brant, and lying within the following limits, that is to say: commencing at the North-westerly angle of Lot number Twelve in the First Concession of the Township of Brantford; thence, Southerly, along the limit between the said Lot and Lot number Eleven in the said Concession, for a distance equal to three quarters of the depth of the said Concession; thence, Easterly, by a line drawn parallel to the line in front of the Concession to the Grand River, and across the same to the Easterly bank thereof; thence, Northerly, along the water's edge of the said river, against the stream, to the Southern limit of the allowance for road between the Townships of Brantford and South Dumfries; thence, Easterly, along the Southern limit of the said allowance for road, to a point ten chains Eastward of the limit between Lots numbers Twentyeight and Twenty-nine in the First Concession of the Township of South Dumfries, produced; thence, Northerly, parallel to the governing boundary of the Lots in the Gore of the said Township of South Dumfries to the limit between the said Gore and the First Concession of South Dumfries; thence, Westerly, along the last mentioned limit to the limit between Lots numbers Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine in the First Concession of the Township of South Dumfries; thence, Northerly, along the limit between the last mentioned Lots to the centre line of the said First Concession; thence, Westerly, along the said centre line to the Easterly limit of the Galt road; thence, Northerly, along the Easterly limit of the Galt road, six chains, sixty links, more or less, to an angle in the said road; thence, Westerly, at right angles to the part of the Galt road before mentioned, to the rear line of Lots fronting on Jane street; thence, North-westerly, along the rear line of the said Lots to the limits between Lots numbers Thirty and Thirty-one in the First Concession of the Township

Township of South Dumfries; thence, Northerly, along the limit between Lots numbers Thirty and Thirty-one aforesaid, to the allowance for road in the rear of the said First Concession; thence, Westerly, along the Southerly limit of the last mentioned allowance for road to the Westerly limit of the grounds belonging to the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich Railway Company; thence, Southerly, along the Westerly limit of the said grounds as far as it continues on a straight line; thence, South-easterly, in prolongation of the said straight line, to the Northerly bank of Smith's Creek; thence, Southerly, following the Northerly bank of the said Creek, with the stream as it turns and winds to the centre line of the First Concession of the Township of South Dumfries; thence, Westerly, across the said Creek and along the said centre line of the First Concession to the Westerly limit of the South-easterly quarter of Lot number Thirty-one in the First Concession of the Township of South Dumfries; thence, Southerly, along the Westerly limit of the South-westerly quarter of Lot number Thirty-one aforesaid and prolongation thereof, to the Southerly limit of the allowance for road between the Townships of South Dumfries and Brantford; thence, Easterly, along the Southerly limit of the last mentioned road allowance to the place of beginning.

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IV. The said Town of Paris shall be divided into four Division into Wards, to be called, respectively the South Ward, Queen's Wards. Ward, King's Ward and North Ward. The said South Ward South. to comprise all that part of the said Town which lies South of Dundas street; Queen's Ward to comprise all that part of the said Queen's. Town North of Dundas street, following Grand River and the South and West side of Smith's Creek to the Town boundary; King's Ward, to comprise all that part of the said Town which King's. lies on the South side of Charlotte street to Smith's Creek, including the East side of Grand River and East side of River street North to the Railway, following it to the Grand River; North Ward to comprise all that part of the said Town which North. lies North of the South line of Charlotte street to the Town limits.

V. The Clerk for the time being of the said Village of Returning Paris, shall be ex officio Returning Officer for the purpose of Officer and holding the first Municipal Election under this Act, and shall, Deputy Reon or before the Twenty-first day of December next after the cers at first passing of this Act, by his warrant, appoint a Deputy Returning election. Officer for each of the four Wards into which the said Town of Paris is hereby divided, to hold the first Election therein; and in the discharge of their duties such Deputy Returning Officers shall severally be subject to all the provisions of the said Upper Canada Municipal Corporations Acts applicable to first Elections in Towns incorporated under the said Acts.

VI. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

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