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DocumentsEntry/Object ID
2018.20.46Scope and Content
Object is a rectangular paper Bylaw written on lined paper for the Township of Packenham and sealed by the township clerk. The paper itself is machine woven, while the media is black ink in the form of handwritten text which covers approximately 70% of the surface of the paper. There is a red wax seal at the bottom of the page, and a mark at the top of the page where it appears a seal may have been affixed and then later removed. The object is 21cm wide and 34cm long.
Transcription of artifact is as follows:
4.2.11
Bylaw
To issue Debentures to raise by way of law a sum of money for the erection of a School House in the School Section W S in the township of Packenham.
Passed August 19 1885
Whereas the Justices of School Section W eight here applied to the Municipal Council of the Township to issue Debentures for the sum of two thousand and twenty five dollars payable in two yearly annual installments.
Therefrom the municipal Council of the Township of Pakenham in the County of Lanark enacts as follows. That the Reve be and he is hereby suthrujed [unknown word] To issue Debentures signed by the Reeve and Treasurer and sealed with the seal of the municipality for the sum of Four Hundred and thirty five Dollars with interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum in two equal annual installments.
And be it enacted that for the purpose of paying the said Debentures and interest thereon as aforesaid there shall be assessed, raised, levied and collected of and from the assessed value of said School Section W Eight in each of of the two following years a rate or assessment of five and seven tenths mills on the Dollar. The first payment to be payable on the first day of Jany 1886. And the second and last payment on the first day of Janney 1887., said Debentures to be payable at the Montreal Bank, Almonte.,
Srjen [spelling uncertain]
S. S. Dickson Reve
James Conny.
Township Clerk
Certifur [spelling uncertain] cemet aky
James Conny
Township Clerk
[the following is written on the back side of the document]
By Law
Of
Sep pf Almonte onCollection
DocumentCataloged By
Plewes, ColeLocation
Location
Container
Archive Box 3Shelf
1Cabinet
Archive CupboardRoom
Collections RoomBuilding
M.V.T.M.Category
PermanentDate
November 7, 2023General Notes
Note
Status: OK
Status By: MacMillan, Lindsay
Status Date: 2020-11-26Created By
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June 29, 2019Updated By
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November 26, 2020