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5 BY-LAW No, 101, A BY -LAW for improving and repairing the Court House and Gaol at the Town of Sandwich, for.the County of Essex, and to provide for the proper keeping of the same, and fur appropriating the money for the cost thereof out of the General Fund. Passed November 29th, 1895. Whereas it is deemed that those parts of the Court House and Gaol need u Gaoler's apartments are unsanitary and incommodious and the Inspector of Prisons has, from time to time, ordered the same to be remedied : And whereas plans and specifications of improvements and repairs to such Court House and Gaol, making provision for proper apartments for the Gaoler of the said Court Houee and Gaol, have been prepared by Messrs. Mason dt Rios, Architects, and approved of by the Inspector of Prisons for the Province of Ontario : And whereas it is deemed expedient and necessary to improve and repair the said Court House and Gaol, so as to provide such proper apartments for the said Gaoler for the proper keeping of such Court House and Gaol, in accordance with such plans and specifications, so far as the same are applicable thereto and with such amendments and alterations as may be necessary, in order to effectually carry out the said work : And whereas there is yet unappropriated of the General Fund at least the sum of 04,500: Now, therefore, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the County of Essex enacts as follows :— 1. That the Special Committee of the said Council appointed to carry out the improvements, repairs and alterations to the Court House and Gaol, at Sandwich, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to let the contract for the improv- ing and repairing the said Court House and of providing for proper apartments for the Gaoler thereof, as aforesaid, in accordance with the plans and specifications aforesaid with such amendments and alterations as may by them be deemed neow. ury, and that the Warden and Clerk of the Corporation of the County of Essex be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to sign, under the Corporate Seal of the said Corporation, the agreement or agreements for such improvement,► and repairs at a cost not exceeding $4,500. 8. That the cost thereof shall be borne by and paid first out of the General Fund heretofore unappropriated and that the Treasurer of the Corporation of the County of Essex do and he is hereby authorized and empowered to set aside the sum of 14,500, hereby appropriated out of the said General Fund for such purpose, and the same shall be paid out from time to time as the improvements and repairs progress, upon the certificate of the Architect or Inspector in charge thereof, endorsed by the chairman of the committee aforesaid and upon the warrant or warrants of the said Warden. (Signed) THOS. McKEE, [Signed) M. BARRET ,araNU. Clerk.