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letter of the Prefildent of the Wdlln^on,
Grey A Bruce Railway to the Warden
of Brace— Able expoHure of the nar-
row plan for obtalnlnif a bonnH with-
6at the consent of the ratepayers.
WILUHarON, OBEY AMD BRUCl RAILWAY.
Hamilton, Ont., Nov. 22, 1870.
To John Oillief, Warden, and the Council of
the Count;/ of Rnift :
Dbar Sirb, — ^You will have Hecn that tho
Narrov. Gauge Com|>any, after Ix^ng fairly
Vieatcn in Bruce, apptalc<l to tiic Ontario
Ijcgislatiire for an amendment in its Chart^T
which wotild 'facilitate it in ohtiiining tlio
aBsiHtance which it never could otherwise
liave obtained from tlie County Council and
the peoplu of IJruce. In Borac way, the
amendment wa8 Hraiigglid tlirougb the
HouHC, witliout any of our friends apparently
discovering itH character or its objects, ami
Mr. Laidlaw, as you are doubtless aware, is
now trying to work it to advantage lioth in
Bruce and Orey.
The Act, in brief, gives tho narrow-gauge
Company tlie power to group together any
numl)er of the; townsliips of a county in
which it considers the aggregate majority of
tlie ratepayers may be favorably disposed to-
wards it, and virtually to constitute the
townships so groupe*! a new municipality for
the pur|K)se of granting a narrow gauge
bonus. It is not left optional with the town-
ships vhether or not they shall bi; included
in the scheme — it is enough that they shall
" l>e asked," provided only that a majority ntoly,
of the Reeves and Dt^juty-Reeves can bo
induced to sign a petition to the County
Council, asking that bo<ly to submit a By-
Law to tlie ratepayers of the seotlon se-
lected ; thus, OS is the fact, in the County
of Orcy, eleven townships may be selected,
the Retives and Deputy-Reeves of five of these
to'.vnships may be utterly opposed to the
scheme and refuse to sign the petition, but
if those of the otiicr si.x — being a majority —
comply, the refusal of the minority will not
save these townshijts from lieing involved in
the scheme. Similarly in voting at the polls,
all the rateimyers in tlie five townships may
vote against the By-law; but if those in the
other six who vote in favor of it prove to \w
the majority, then the whole eleven town-
ships are mulcted in the amount of the iKinus.
In short, the narrow gauge compony is in-
vested with the power of creating a county
within r. county, for the purpose of granting
a narrow gauge bonus, and this is tho only
Act it can legally perfonn. Should the vote
ut the polls go in favor of the By-law, the
County Council have no option with regard
to its ratification. The Act distinctly says
that the Council "shall pass" the By-law.
I think you will agree with me that a piece
of legislation which breaks up tho Municipal
(Corporations of the country — which deprives
County Councils of a power which they have
liitherto had and have not abused— is an ini-
i|uitous measure which ought to l)e resisted
in every way while it is in force, and repealed
at the earliest {KMsible moment. If any such
change were needed in our municipal system
the people interested ought to have been con-
suited, or, at least, informed that it was in
contcm|)lation. No other ('oin|)nny now Iiom,
and no other Company ever liml, tho (lower
which this Act confers ii|)on tJiu Narrow
Gauge Comitany.
As Mr. Laidlaw is now trying to manipu-
late the Southern township of Brinu-, you
will probably be called upon to consider the
matter in your offli'ial capacity. The Act is
so ingeniously wonled, that a casual reader
might 1)0 excused for falling into the error
that the County Council is not only liouiid
to ratify tlio by-law, should it receive the ap-
proval of the majority of tlie ratepayers, but
that it is also lM)iind to submit it to them
upon tho petition of the majority of tho
Reeves and Deputy Ruevt-s ; and, as a matt4!r
of fiu't, it was under this misapprehension
that the County Council iif Grey submitted
their by-law. A careful reading of tho 5th
section, however, will show you that this is
not the fact — that the County Council is un-
der no legal obligation to submit the by-law
at all — and if you agree with me, that the
intendml operation of tin; Aet ought to
lie defeated in every legitimate way. I
take the iilterty of suggesting tliat the
pniper point for resisting Mr. Laidlaw's
scheme in Bruce will be when the petition of
the Reeves and Deputy Reeves is presenti-d
to your County Council, should the plan
reai'li that stage. If the Council refuse to
submit the By-law, tli(f schein ; is effectually
check-mated. Should the Coiineil think it
wise to go furthi^r and demand a repeal of
this flagrant violation of Muniei|)al rights, I
can asHure you of our hearty sup|>ort in this
quaiter. and it seems to m:! that steps, with
this end in vi(.>w, ought to be taken imuiedl-
In answer to this, I am aware it may
be said that the operation of the
law is no worse than the case
«f a Township voting against a County
lH)nus and being compelled to |iay their
portion of it, but y lu will not fail to observe
an csHciitlal ilistini lion between an appeal to
the rccof-;niy.ed Municipal Inxlies of the coun-
try, marked liy lH)undarics to which |)ri'suin-
ably all have consented, and an appeal to a
IkkIv called into existence for the sole pur-
pose of securing the success of that appeal,
and ceasing to exist as soon its tlie end is
served. If the (jompany of which 1 have the
honor to be President could have carved out
thi.' County of Bruce in the same way in 1 8(50,
the dilHculty of securing our Ismus would
have been very little indeed.
Y«ii have a practical example of tlu; mis-
chievous working of this Act in your town-
ship of Carrick, which is included in Mr.
liuidlaw's division of Bruce. Now, the peo-
ple of Carrick have been made iwrties to the
pr(!sci>t plan at the sole will and pleasure of
the Narrow Gouge Com|)any, acting under the
uutliority of an Act i)assed without the con-
sent of the people of that township, and
Rgainst which they hod no opportunity of
protesting — of which not one of them prolia-
bly had any knowledge, until it came threat-
ening them with the forcible appropriation
of a (Mirtion of their earnings, to be applied
to the building of a railway which they liavn
no iiee<i for, and which they have clearly
shown they have no desire for.
I have tho honor to be, dear Sirs,
Yours faithfully,
Wm. McGrvsBiN,
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