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The Brussels Post, 1893-6-16, Page 66 THE BRUSSELS aleasselesessuesesememeauseeiwasesewswesseenessessweesiesewassesie HURON V$. MORRI's. nee Wan, In the matter of the Arbitration be- tween the Corporation of the Ooenty of Huron (hereinafter called "the Coonty") and the corpovetiou of the Townelep of Morris, (hereinafter called "the Town- ship.") Whereas Itis Honor Isaao Francis Tom, County Judge, bas been duly ap. pointed arbitrator by and on behalf of "the County," Wm, Clegg, grata -mor - chant, arbitrator by and on behalf of "the Township," and Jas.. A. Morton, barrister at•law, third arbitrator, by the said two other arbitrators, to whom wore referred in pursuance of section 538 (a) of the Consolidated Municipal Act 1802, all questions relating to the share or percentage which thoCounty shall con. tribute towards the maintenance of the following bridges within the said town- ship of Morris, being bridges of I00 feet in length or more, namely: (a) The bridge crossing the River Maitland on the road between the first and seoond concessions of the said Town• ship to the east of said Township and usually known as Rattan's bridge. (b) The bridge known as Ard's or Fat - row's' bridge on the sideroad between lots 10 and 11 in the second oouuession. (c) The bridge known as Hogg's bridge on the rood between the lith and titl1 cons. of the said township a little east of the town hall of Morrie, at lot 17. (d) The bridge known as Clark's bridge close by said town hall, (e) The bridge known RS the Sunshine bridge on the sideroad between lots 10 and 11 iu the Oth con. of said township. (1) Tbo bridge known as the Bodmin bridge, east of Be}grare, on the road'be- tween the 4th and 5th Daus, at lot 0 in said township. (g) The bridge known as Gallagher's bridge, on the road between the 3rd and 4th cons. at lot 11 in said township. (h) The bridge known as Armstrong's bridge on the road betweeu the 5th and 5th cons, at lot 3 in said township. (i) The bridge known as Brandon's bridge on the road, a deviation of the concession road between the 2nd and 3rd eons. at lot 5 in said township, and (1)), The bridge known as Martin's or Vanal- stine's bridge on the road between the 1st and tad Done. of said township. And, whereas, the said third arbitra- tor was appointed on the 17th day of February A. D. 1898, and whereas the County and the Township by their Coon. sol agree that the time for making the award in the premises should be extend- ed and by writing under the hands of the said counsel dated the 27th day of Feb., A. D. 1895, the said time was thereby ea - tended to the 1st day of May, A. D. 1808. And, whereas, before proceeding to try the matter of the said arbitration the said arbitrators respectfully made and subscribed before a Justice of the Peace for the County of Huron the oath re- quired by section 807 of the Consolidated Municipal Aot 1802. Now, we, the said arbitrators, Isaac Francis Toms, Wm. Clegg and J. A. Mor- ton, having taken upon ourselves the burden of said referenoe, 5,05 having beard the evidenoe adduced and the ills• gattoue made by both parties, de award as follows :- 1. That the County shall contribute nothing toward the rnainteu0uce of the two bridges hereinbefore mentioned and known as Ard's or Farrow's bridge and Clarke's bridge. 2. That the Connty shall contribute towards the maintenance of the other 8 bridges bereinbefai'e 'motioned, being bridges 100 feet in length or more, and being : (a) The bridge known as Rat- tan's bridge. (c) The bridge known as Hogg's bridge. (e) The bridge known as the Suu•hiue bridge. (f) The bridge known as the Bodmin bridge. (g) The bridge known as Gallagher's bridge, (h) The bridge known as Armstrong's bridge. (1) The bridge Mown as Brandon's bridge and (j) the bridge known as Mar, tin's or Vanalabine's bridge, all within the said township of Morris, forty per oentum of the cost of meintenanoe of the said eight bridges hereinbefore last men• tioned, for the period of ten years, in- cluding the present year 1803, to be paid from time to lime as the work and materials are done and provided. 3. That the County shall pay to the Township, on the scale of the High Court, forty par centum of the Town• ship's 00•ts of the reference ; and the County shall also pay seventy per centum of the arbitrators' fees. In all other re- spects each party to the reference shall pay its own costs. And the said Isaac Francis Tome, the arbitrator appointed by the county, do - clines to join en this award for the reasons contained in a memorandum signed by him annexed hereto, In witness whereof we leave hereunto set our hands this 20th day of April A. D. 1898. (Sgd.) W. CLEGe. (Sgd.) 1. A. Moaxov, Signed in the presence of (Sgd) Wet. 13. Toween, JODGE TOII's REPORT. As I am unable to agree with my brother arbitrators, I will briefly give my reasons : 1. The section 533 (a) is a difficult one to construe, I give my opinion with great diffidence. I think the Legislature only intended to give relief where a township was so burdened with bridges required for the convenience of tate public in ad. clition to their other ordinary obligations that their taxation was all out of ;proper. tion propor- tion with the other mttuleipalities. 2. The arbitrators are entitled, in my opinion, under sub•seotion "b" (the arbi- teetars sharp amongst other matters, ,Oo.) to consider the amount expended by the municipalities upon the building and maintenance of highways. 8. Morris contends that the intention of the not is to equalize the expenditure for bridge, over 100 feet in length. Were this the case the Legislature could easily have arrived nt that result by enaobing Unit the county should assume all bridges Over 100 feet in length ; this would equal. izs the expenditure to a hent. 4. It will be seen by the schedule that with bbe exception of Turnberey, the ex. peuditurs of Morris for roads is the low- 008 on the list .0000. They say that their excessive bridge expenditure prevents them from building roads, their total rate For roads and bridges ie .0187 ; Compare this with Stephen .0823, Grey .0215, Moltiltop .0245. 5. The average rate over the tenuity for bridges is .00574. Stephen is .0005, Grey .0004, if Morris is right, Stephen and Grey havingbridges over 100'feet in length oottld obtain relief under this act, while IMoleillop could obtain no re the bridge rate for that township b 00574, I can see no fairness in f¢ lop with a rate of .0245. for bridges roads contributing to the expenditure Morrie with a rate of 0187 for bid and roads, and I cannot think that Legislators intended to perpetrate e au injustice, and I am therefore led oonetrue the seotion in the manner dilated. 0, The [watage road expenditnro'n the county is .0108, that of Morris .00 int assessed value and population Mo is about on a 900 with the ntuuioipali I have mentioned, Stephen, Grey McKillop. 7, All muuioipalibies have cape burdens which, however, they may o trot, but they are required by law to pair highways and bridges and may pnnisbed and are oivilly responsible Dam damages iu Daof default, This is primary liability upon all munioipalit why under section 583 should brid alone be considered ? 8. Is the seotnon nob intended beep to a township with a sparse populati low assessment and maintaining a uu ber of bridges over the 100 feet ov streams crossing roads whist are es by foreign travel in a great measure, a may truly be said to be bridges requit for the convenience of the public, th the menioipality might well nay, we ha to build these bridges primarily for o own use, foreign travel use them mo than we do, we must keep them in go repair, or pay damages, the foreign bray requires more rebuilding and mors r pair than if we alone need them, we he a low assessment, itis unfair ; More is ease which the Legislature !night w be asked to consider, and I think t section is intended to apply to such case. The tabulated statement we ha prepared does not appear to me to oho that the taxation of any municipality the county is so greatly dispreportiona as to require in justice any readjus meat. 9. If my colleagues are coereot their oonsbruotion of the rection, then would agree in their award. (Sgd,) Isaac P. Toots. Ma. G.tnnOW's LwrTEn. lief, we feel that the same wisdom and hon- esty of purpose will oonbinao to ahem - tome their publio career, 3vd,—That we 0eeommend our dale• Wee to the Liberal Convention at Otte - we to support 0e a Volley of the pari .snob resolutions as will ; 1st, ab leash provide for immediate free trade with Great Britain and an =proud offer of free trade with every other country in the world that will extend to 00000508 similar privileges ; 2nd, the reoonsbruo- tion of the Senate Boas to make it elec- tive instead of appointive, if it be deem. ed inadvisable to abolish it altogether, and that the constitution be amended 00• oordingly; 3rcl, that the superannuation of Civil servants be abolished ; 4th, that legislation be euaoted to properly oon• trol the railway' companies of Canada so Mit they will be unable to diserimivate 0gainet the people of this country in favor of the people of a foreign country. These resolutions, sspeoielly those re- lating to trade, the Senate and the rail- ways, elicited a most interesting dieous• which h was taken part in by Mr, Bishop, Mr, Falser, the Secretary, Mes- srs. D. D. Wilson ; Watson and Camp- bell, of Seaforth, McLean, of Tooker - smith ; Beek and Mole wan, 0f Hensall ; Dr. Stanbnr'y, Bay681d ; McMillan, Mul. lett, and others. There wee not a great divereity of opinion. Some favored even a milder measure of free trade, while some appeared afraid to go quite so far, but on the whole the oondentnation of the N. P. was unanimous and the general desire was that trade should be es free on all sides as the circumstances of the country will permit, and the final deals• ion arrived at was that the resolution ex. pressed the feelings of all about as near. ly as possible, and it was adopted unani- mously. On the resolntiou respecting theSenate some thought there should be no reoonabruobion, but that the old hulk should be completely abolished. The reeolntions, after this full minted,oration, were alt finally adopted. The following were appointed delegates to at- tend the Convention at Ottawa ;—D. D. Wilson, Seaforbh ; Alex. Mustard, 13ruoelield ; Geo. Mel;+ wan, Rennin; H. Smith, Hay ; A. Bishop, ef. P. P., Us - borne. A number were also appointed as alternates. sing Me and of Igoe the nob to ver DO; rris tins and sial ou- re- be for a les, ges ply on, m- or ed nd ed en ve or re od el 0 ve a ell he ve w in to t• in I 0 I f u f 11 0 r • y d GODEaICw, OST., June 0th, '03. Josern Gnawer, 'Esq., Warden, County of Huron, Goderich. Be Monne vs. Hume. Mo DEAR SIR,— As you are aware, an award was orad in the above matter', a copy of whioh herewith enclose. You will observe tha two of the Arbitrators eoncar in oharg ing the County with forty per cent. o the cost of maintaining eight of tit bridges in question for the stat to years, including the present year. Th award also directs the County to p0 forty per oent. of the 'Township's posts o tate reference, and seventy per cent. o the Arbitrators fees. The Oounty wi also have to pay its own costa. Judg Toms, as you will see, dissents entirely and agrees with what has been my con taction tbrongbout. doting upon you instructions I appealed from the award aud the appeal was argued [mite recent] before bis Lordship Justice Ferguson who has not yet given judgment. Unti he does give judgment the County should certainly not act upon or recognize in anY way the award, which, there is goo reason to believe, will be ultimately se aside. Of course the questions present ed are almost wholly new. We have bad 13C1legislation of a similar character, and the matter i=, therefore, one of consider- able difficulty, and will, possibly, net be considered settled by the judgment of any one judge, and a matter which the County Council should consider at its present session is whether, supposing Justice Fergasnn differs from lots Honor Judge Tome, the County would be in• alined to go any further by way of appeal. It is necessary to consider that at the present session, because appeals have to be taken within fixed periods after judgments are delivered from which liter intended to appeal. The matter could, of course, be left in my feeds, or (whioh I would very mooh prefer,) left with you and your committee instead of the Counoil taking any direct action. The Judge before whom it was argued (Justice Ferguson) is a very painstaking and careful judge, and I look forward to Ids judgment with -great interest, as I have no doubt it will go a long way to• wards elucidating what everyone admits is a very difficult and obscure section of the municipal law to deal with. I should also say that during the session of the House just closed, an Aot was introduced to repeal the Sections in question by the Member for South Huron, but was withdrawn because it was introduced too late in the session to receive careful oonsideration. There is no doubt, I think, that a more deliberate attack upon the Seotiml in question will be made at the next session. I mention this for your guidance in dealing with the demands which I understand ars be. ing made by other Townships to be put upon the same footing se Morrie. Yours truly,. J. T. Gamow. SOUTH HERON il1L'01111EH% A meeting of the Reforntere of South Huron was held in Dixon's hall, Breeze field, on Monday, June 5th. There teas a fair but not large attendance. The chair was oocupied by the President, Juo. Hannah, and the Secretary, Thomas Fraser, attendee to the dittiespeetniniug to that office as usual. After pt'elirnm- ary business a committee consisting of the Secretary geed D, D. Wilson, Robert eloMitian and M. Y. McLean was ap• pointed to prepare a series of resolutions to be submitted for the consideration of the meeting, While bbe committee was out Archibald Bishop, al. P. P., who was present, was called on and delivered an interesting address, descriptive of the legislation passed at the last session of the Ontario Legislature. John Mcil4il• lan, M. P., is at present in the old coun- try, 1'heoommitbee on resolutioue sub• milted their report, malting the follow• ing recommendations :•- 1st. --That this meeting desires to ex• prase its continued eonddente in 'the Government of Sir Oliver Mowatt, and approvee of and communes the wise, economical and jedioioua policy which has been pursued by them, 2n5.—T.hat we desire to expose un- qualified confidence in Sir Wilfred Lathier and his colleagues in the leader- ship of the Liberal party of the Dotnin- ion, believing that their course in the past bas been dictated by a desire to ads Vance the interests of the eotlntry and Genet.•al 1Newes. The Sultan of Johore will visit the World's Fair. There is a plague of lootiets in the Cauca valley, Ecuador. The Duke of Ildiuburgh has been pro• meted to the rank of admiral of the fleet. The steamships Campania and Paris started an another ocean race on Satur- day from New York. 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