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![handle is hein.ssl/sscan0281 and id is 1 raw text is: ANNO TERTIO-DECIMO & QUARTO-DECIMO
VICTORI X
REGINAE.
CAP. LXXX.
An Act to provide for the future management of the Toronto Harbour.
[10th August, 1850. ]
T HEREAS under the Act of the Parliament of Upper Canada, passed in the Prcabl.
V'9 ~ third year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, and intituled, An Act
granting a sum of money for the construction of Works to improve and preserve the u.0. w. 4, c. 31.
Harbour of York, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and the Act of the said
Parliament, passed in the seventh year of the said Reign, and intituled, An Act granting U. C. 7 W. 4, c. 64.
a sum of money to complete the improvement of the Harbour of Toronto, certain
improvements in the Harbour of Toronto were made and sums of money were advanced
by the Government for making the said improvements, the claim of the Province for
any balance whereof can easily be adjusted in a satisfactory manner, and it is expedient
that the operation of the said Acts should cease, and that better provision should be
made for the improvement and management of the said Harbour: 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, That from and after the The said Acts to
passing of this Act, the operation of the Acts cited in the Preamble to this Act shall cease.
cease, and the improvements made under the same or hereafter to be made in the said
Harbour shall be under the control and management of the Commissioners hereinafter
mentioned.
II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Common Council of the City Commissioners to be
of Toronto to appoint two persons to be Commissioners under this Act, and for the appointed, and by
Toronto Board of Trade to appoint two other persons to be Commissioners under this whom.
Act, and for the majority of such Commissioners to recommend another person to be
a Commissioner under this Act, who shall upon such recommendation be appointed by
the Governor of this Province, but if such majority shall report that they cannot agree
on shch person, then the Governor shall appoint such fifth Commissioner without such
recommendation; and the four first mentioned C6mmissioners shall hold office respect-
ively during the pleasure of the authority by whom they shall have been appointed and
by whom they may be removed, re-appointed, or others appointed in their stead; and
the fifth Commissioner shall be removeable by the Governor, and in case of such
removal, another shall be appointed in the manner aforesaid.
III. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners shall be a body corporate, by Comms sioers to be
the name of The Commissioners of the Harbour of Toronto, and shall by that name have a body corporate.
and may exercise the powers vested in bodies corporate by the Interpretation Act, and
all such powers as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect, according to its
true intent and meaning; and such powers may be exercised by any three of the said Quorum,.
Commissioners as effectually as by all of them; and if any three of them shall execute
any deed, and affix the corporate seal of the Commissioners to the same, it shall be held
to be the deed of the Commissioners.
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