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 Authorizing Tu/elve Thousand PomUU to bt raited on the credit of ifu Oomeh' * 
 dated Municip<U Loan Fund, and for ether purposes. 
 
 -rrrHEREAS it is expedient to ad- 
 W vance the sum of Twelve Thou- 
 sand Pounds to a Joint Stock Company 
 oonsistmg of the Municipalities through 
 which the Queenston and Grimsby 
 Macadamized Rood passes, or such of 
 them, as with private persons constitute 
 a sufficient number to form a Company, 
 for the purpose of assisting the said Com- 
 pany in the completion of the said Mac- 
 adejnizod Road ; And Whereas it is 
 advisable that such advance should be 
 made imder the provisionB of an act of the 
 Provincial Parliament, passed during the 
 year 1852, and intituled, " An Act to 
 establish a Consolidated Municipal Loan 
 Fund for Upper Canada ;'' Be it there- 
 fare enacted by the Municipal Council _ , 
 
 of the United Counties of Lincoln and I day of December 1352, and the day 
 Welland, and it is hereby enacted by [when said By-Law will be takea into 
 the authority of the same. That there 'considei-ation boing the 26th day of 
 be raised on the credit of the said 'January 1853, and that on Tuesday the 
 Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund tiie j I8th day of January 1853, at 11 o'clock 
 sum ol Twelve Thousand Pounds, Pro- in the forenoon, general meetings of the 
 vincial Currency, which sum shall be qualified municipal electors of the sev- 
 
 Thousand Pounds has been loaned, as 
 herein contemplated. 
 
 IV. And be it further enacted, That 
 the Loan hereby required and authori- 
 zed, shall be for the term of Thijrty 
 Years from the first day of January, 
 1853, and that the interest thereupon 
 shall be payable on the first dsys of Jan- 
 uary and July in each year. 
 
 NOTICE 
 
 S hereby given, that the above is a 
 j_ true copy of a Uy-Law which will 
 be taken into consideration by the Coun- 
 cil of the United Counties of Lincoln 
 and Welland after the expiration of one 
 month from the first publication thereof, 
 snch first publication being on the 24th 
 
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 loaned to a J'oiut Stock Company, 
 formed as aforesaid, for the completion 
 of the Queenston and Grimsby Macad- 
 amized Road, such Company to consist 
 of the Municipalities through which 
 the Road aforesaid passes, that is to say, 
 the Councils of the Townshiio of Nia- 
 gara, Grantluim, TiOiith, Clinton and 
 Grimsby, a: d the Council uf the Town 
 of St. Catharines, or of so many of 
 them as will, with private subscribers 
 approved by this Council, contribute, 
 in such proportions as they inay agree 
 among themselves, a Capital Stock not 
 less than Fourteen Thousand Pounds. 
 
 II. And be it further enacted, that so 
 soon as the Company aforesaid shall be 
 duly registered, and shall have given se- 
 curity, approved by tins Council, for the 
 payment of the sums already pa^.d or for 
 which this Council is liable, in conside- 
 '.ation of the Iraniiler of the said Road 
 to these Counties by the Provincial <-io- 
 vermnent, the Warden is, and he is 
 hereby authorized to transfer to the 
 Joint Stock Company so formed, as 
 aforesaid, the Queenston nnd Grimsby 
 Macadamized Road, with all the mate- 
 tials thereon and appurtenant thereto. 
 
 m. And be it further enacted, That 
 ao soon us the Joint Slock Company, so 
 formed as aforesaid, shall have given 
 security upon their capital stock, and in 
 a manner declared satisfactory by reso- 
 lution of this Council, foi- the payment 
 oft interest and principal of the said sum 
 of Twelve Thousand Pounds, it 
 riiail be the duty of the Treastuer, 
 •••«r«- F- C'jrtificate of a mtviority of the 
 J^d of Directors of such Joint Stock 
 Oompany, to the effect that work has 
 keen done on the road to an amount 
 Meatei in value than the amount certi- 
 Sed for, to make advances firom time to 
 onta the whole «um of Twelve 
 
 oral launicipalitlcs within the United 
 Counties aforesaid will be held for the 
 purpose of considering such By-Law 
 and approving or disapproving the same, 
 svh. meetings to he held in the several 
 municipalities at the plat s hereinafter 
 mentioned, that is to say : — 
 In Louth, at the Town Hall, Jordan ; 
 In Clinton, at the Town Ilall, Beams- 
 
 ville ; 
 In Caistor, at Frederick Sniitl 's Inn; 
 In Stamford, at Jno. Evans' inn, Drum- 
 
 mondville ; 
 In Grantham, at Peter Vanderlip's Inn, 
 
 Te . Mile Creek ; 
 In Gainsborough, at Luke Cavers' Inn, 
 
 Welland]:x)rt ; 
 In Pelham, at the Town Hall ; 
 In Grimsby, at Morse's Buildings, 
 Smithville ; 
 
 T'^orold Villanc, at the Counjil 
 Chamber, Thorold ; 
 Humlierstonc. at the Town Hall, 
 Ston<! Bridge ; 
 In Crowland, at the Town Hall, Skin- 
 ner's Corners ; 
 .1 Thorold Township, at the Town 
 
 Hall, Allanbursh ; 
 In Bertie, at Mrs. AVilson's Inn, Cross 
 
 Fvoads ; 
 In St. C harinos, at the Town Hail ; 
 In Wauitleet, at Marshvillo, Mann's 
 
 Inn ; 
 In Niagara Township, at Lancaster's 
 
 Inn, St. Davids ; 
 In Chippawa, at Davis' Hotel ; 
 In Niagara Town, at the Town Hall ; 
 In WiUoughby, at McCarthy's Inn. 
 
 Pv oTfici of the Council of the United 
 Counties of Lincoln and Welland, 
 
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 Niagara, Dec. 23rd, 1852. J 
 
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