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,