County Coun and appoint Inspectors of 412. The expense of conveying any prisoner to, and of keeping him in a Lock-up-House shall be defrayed in the same manner as the expense of conveying him to and keeping him in the Common Gaol of the County. 413. Nothing herein contained shall affect any Lockup-House heretofore lawfully established, but the same shall continue to be a Lock-up-House as if established under this Act. 414. The Council of every City, Town and Incorporated Village may, by By-laws, establish, maintain and regulate lock-uphouses for the detention and imprisonment of persons sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten days under any By-law of the Council; and of persons detained for examination on a charge of having committed any offence; and of persons detained for transmission to any Common Gaol or house of Correction either for trial or in the execution of any sentence. HOUSES OF INDUSTRY AND REFUGE. 415. The Council of every County may establish a House cils may erect of Industry and House of Refuge, and provide by By-law for the erection and repair thereof, and for the appointment and duties of Inspectors, Keepers, Matrons and other servants for the superintendence, care and management of such House of Industry or of Refuge, and in like manner make rules and regu lations (not repugnant to law) for the government of the same. Who liable to thereto. 416. Any two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, or be committed of the Inspectors appointed as aforesaid, may, by writing under their hands and seals, commit to the House of Industry or of Refuge, to be employed and governed according to the rules, regulations and orders of the House : Indigent. Idle. Lewd. Frequenters of 1. All poor and indigent persons who are incapable of sup porting themselves; 2. All persons without means of maintaining themselves and able of body to work and who refuse or neglect so to do; 3. All persons leading a lewd, dissolute, or vagrant life, and exercising no ordinary calling, or lawful business sufficient to gain or procure an honest living; 4. And all such as spend their time and property in public Public Houses. houses, to the neglect of any lawful calling ; refractory in 5. And Idiots. Punishment of 417. Every person committed to the House of Industry or of Refuge, if fit and able, shall be kept diligently employed at labour during his continuance there; and in case any such mates. person person is idle and does not perform such reasonable task or labour as may be assigned, or is stubborn, disobedient or disorderly, such person shall be punished according to the rules and regulations of the House of Industry or of Refuge in that behalf. accounts of ex penses, &c. 418. The Inspectors shall keep an account of the Inspectors to charges of erecting, keeping, upholding and maintaining the keep and render House of Industry or of Refuge, and of all materials found and furnished therefor, together with the names of the persons received into the House, as well as of those discharged therefrom, and also of the earnings, and such account shall be rendered to the County Council every year, or oftener when required by a Bylaw of the Council, and a copy thereof shall be presented to each Branch of the Legislature. 419. The Council of every City and Town may respectively pass By-laws: Towns and 1. For erecting and establishing within the City or Town, Work-houses or on such Industrial farm, or on any ground held by the in Cities and corporation for public exhibitions, a work-house or house of Houses of Corcorrection, and for regulating the government thereof; rection. thereto. 2. For committing or sending, with or without hard labour, Who liable to to the work-house or house of correction, or to the Industrial be committed farm, by the Mayor, Recorder, Police Magistrate or two Justices of the Peace for the City or Town respectively, such description of persons as may by the Council be deemed, and by By-law be declared expedient; and such farm or ground held as aforesaid, shall, for the purposes in this sub-section mentioned, be deemed to be within the City or Town and the jurisdiction thereof. THE CARE OF GAOLS AND COURT HOUSES, &c. 420. The Sheriff shall have the care of the County Custody of Gaol, Gaol offices and yard, and Gaoler's apartments, and the Gaols and appointment of the keepers thereof. Court Houses. 421. The County Council shall have the care of the Court County CounHouse and of all offices and rooms connected therewith, whether cil to appoint keepers, &c. the same forms a separate building or is connected with the Gaol, and shall have the appointment of the keepers thereof; and shall from time to time provide all necessary and proper accommodation for the Courts of Justice other than the Division Courts and for all officers connected with such Courts. 422. In any City not being a separate County for all pur- City Gaols to poses, but having a Gaol or Court House separate from the be regulated by By-law. Wilful false de County Gaol or Court House, the care of such City Gaol or FALSE DECLARATIONS. 423. The wilful and corrupt making of any false statement clarations to be in any declaration required or authorized by this Act, shall be a misdemeanor punishable as wilful and corrupt perjury. perjury. Interpretation of words. Municipality. Council. County. Township. Land, Real estate. Highway, roads, &c. Electors. Town Reeve. Next day. Exception. INTERPRETATION CLAUSE. 424. Unless otherwise declared or indicated by the context, whenever any of the following words occur in this Act, the meanings hereinafter expressed, attach to the same, namely: 1. The word "Municipality" means any locality the inhabitants of which are incorporated under this Act, but it does not mean a Police Village; 2. The word " Council" means the Municipal Council or Provisional Municipal Council, as the case may be; 3. The word "County " means County, Union of Counties or United Counties, or Provisional County, as the case may be ; 4. The word "Township" means Township, Union of Townships or United Townships, as the case may be ; 5. The words "Land" "Lands," "Real Estate" "Real Property," respectively, include lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein; 6. The words "Highway," "Road" or " Bridge," mean respectively a Public Highway, Road or Bridge; 7. The word "Electors " means the persons entitled for the time being to vote at Municipal Elections in the Municipality, Ward, or Electoral Division or Police Village, as the case may be ; 8. The term "Reeve " includes the Deputy Reeve when there is a Deputy Reeve for the Municipality; 9. The words "next day are not to apply to or include Sunday or Statutory Holidays. CONFIRMING AND SAVING CLAUSES. 425 So much of the Schedules in either of the Municipal Corporation Acts of 1849 and of 1850, as defined the limits or boundaries of any Cities or Towns, being Schedule B of the Act of 1849, numbers two, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, ten ten and eleven, and Schedule C of the same Act numbers one, two and three, and Schedule B of the Act of 1850, numbers one, five, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen; tion. And also so much of Schedule D of the said Acts of 1849 and Further excep1850, as relates to Amherstburg, and also so much of the two hundred and third section of the said Act of 1849, and so much of any other sections of either of the said Acts relating to any of the Schedules thereof as have been acted upon or as are in force and remain to be acted upon at the time this Act takes effect, and all Proclamations, and special statutes by or under Acts formerly which Cities and other Municipalities have been erected, so repealed to confar as respects the continuing of the same and the boundaries thereof, shall continue in force. tinue repealed. 426. All proceedings on behalf of or against any existing Pending proMunicipal Corporation, or Police Trustees pending when this ceedings to Act takes effect, shall be continued under this Act, in the name in which the same are then pending. continue. 427. All things lawfully done under former enactments Past transacare confirmed, except any matter which has been, or within tions confirmone year after the passing of this Act, may be made the subject of proceedings at law or in equity. ed. and enforced. 428. All offences, neglects, fines, penalties, moneys, debts and Previous other matters and things which immediately before this Act goes ties, &c., may offences, penalinto effect might have been prosecuted, punished, enforced be prosecuted or recovered under any former Municipal Act, may be prosecuted, punished, enforced or recovered under this Act, in the same manner, within the sa ne time, and in the same name, and by the same process and proceedings, as if the same respectively had been committed or incurred or had accrued or become due or payable immediately after the taking effect of this Act. CAP. LV. Amversed by Call. 1861 38 An Act respecting the Assessment of Property in ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: Also by Esh 19 18631th Lead PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS. 1. This Act may be cited as The Consolidated Assess- Short title. ment Act of Upper Canada." 16 V. c. 182, s. 93. 2. In this Act, the word " County," and the word "Town- Interpretation. ship," include a Union of Counties or of Townships, as the case Meaning of property. Unoccupied land how designated. In the case of pany, &c. case may be, while such Unions continue.--The words. "County Council," include " Provisional County Council,"-the word "Town," means "Incorporated Town,"-and the word "Village," means "Incorporated Village," the word "Ward," does not apply to a Township Ward,--and the words "Local Municipality," does not include Counties or United Counties, unless there is something in the subject or context requiring a different construction. 16 V. c. 182, s. 90. 3. The terms" Land," "Real Property," and "Real Estate," respectively, include all buildings or other things erected upon or affixed to the land, and all machinery or other things so fixed to any building as to form in law part of the realty, and all trees or underwood growing upon the land, and all mines, minerals, quarries and fossils in and under the same, except mines belonging to Her Majesty. 16 V. c. 182, s. 3. 4. The terms "Personal Estate " and " Personal Property" include all goods, chattels, shares in incorporated companies, money, notes, accounts and debts at their full value, and all other property, except land and real estate and real property as above defined, and except property herein expressly exempted. 16 V. c. 182, s. 3. 5. The term property property as above defined. "includes both real and personal 16 V. c. 182, s. 3. 6. Unoccupied land owned by a person not resident and not having a legal domicile or place of business in the Township, Village, Town or City where the same is situate, or whose residence or domicile or place of business therein cannot, upon diligent enquiry by the assessor be found, and who has not sig nified to the Assessor personally or in writing, that he owns such land and desires to be assessed therefor, shall be denominated "Lands of non-residents." 16 V. c. 182, s. 8. 7. The real estate of a Railroad Company, situated in a Railroad Com- Municipality other than that where the office of the said Company is held, is not to be considered land of non-residents. 16 V. c. 182, s. 8. All taxes to be levied equally able property. upon the rate What property 8. All municipal, local or direct taxes or rates, shall, when no other express provision has been made in this respect, be levied equally upon the whole reteable property, real and personal, of the Municipality or other locality according to the assessed value of such property, and not upon any one or more kinds of property in particular or in different proportions. 16 V. c. 182, s. 13. PROPERTY LIABLE TO TAXATION. 9. All land and personal property in Upper Canada shall be liable to taxa- liable to taxation, subject to the following exemptions, that is tion are ex 16 V. c. 182, s. 2. EXEMPTIONS. |