EDWARD WHELAN, QUEEN'S PRINTER.

VOL. l.———NO. 21.

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, ‘Vcdncsday, July 31, 1867. 9-

An Act to amend the Act relating to

Land Assessment. [Passed May 17, 1867.

HEREAS the Act of the Twentyvseventh Victoria, Chapter Thirty-seven, intituled “ An Act to consolidate and amend the Several Laws imposing an assessment on all lands in this Colony, and for the encouragement of Education,” does not mention or include the land comprised and situate in Princetown and Royalty; and it is expedient that such defect and omission should be remedied, and the said land be made liable to assessment, as in fact in- tended; and whereas the owners of the said land have been divested of the right to return two members to the General Assembly, formerly exercised by them, and it is just that the said land should be assessed as Township Lands: Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Gov-

ernor, Council and Assembly. as follows :—

I. From and after the passing of this Act, the land being and comprising the Town Lots and Pasture Lots in Princetown and Royalty shall annually be assessed for, and subject to, and the owners of such Town and Pasture Lots shall be liable to payithe same rates of assess- ment, under and by virtue of the said recited Act, as if the said Town and Pasture Lots in the said Town and Royalty were portions of, and included in, the Township lands of this Is- land, and at the same rate per acre as is now or may hereafter be chargeable under the said re— cited Act on Township lands in this Island; and the .said acreable tax or assessment, in res- pect of the lands comprising the said Town and Royalty of Princetown, shall first become due and payable at the period at which the first

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annual payment of land tax shall become due and payable next after the passing of this Act.

II. All and every the powers and authorities, provisions, rules, regulations, directions, clauses, proceedings, matters, and things mentioned and set forth in the said recited Act of the Twenty- seventh Victoria, Chapter Thirty-seven, shall severally and respectively be duly observed, practised and applied to and put in execution in relation to the land assessment hereby im- posed on the said lands in the said Town and Royalty, and for the recovery thereof as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the same powers and authorities, rules, regu- lations, directions, proceedings, clauses, matters and things were particularly repeated and re- enacted in the body of this Act, with reference to the said assessment hereby imposed, and as if the said lands in the Town and Royalty afore- said had been and were now in and by the said recited Act declared to be part of the Township lands of this Island, and had been and were by the said recited Act assessed as such Township lands.

III. The land in Charlottetown, formerly occupied as the Barrack Square, and the owners and occupiers thereof, shall be liable hereafter to pay land assessment under the said recited Act, in proportion to area, on the same footing and to the same extent as Town Lots in Charlottetown.

IV. For recovery of the said last mentioned assessment, hereby imposed, the aforesaid Act of the Twenty-seventh Victoria, Chapter Thirty-seven, and all other Acts of the Legis- lature in force in any way relating to the re- covery of land assessment, shall, in all their provisions, and in all respects where applicable,