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46                 MUNICIPAL LAW.
                         4. Every public scliool  Iiouhc, city or town or towiiHhip  liall, court-
                      house, fffiol, house of correction, lock-up, and public hospital, with the land
                      attached thereto and personal ])roperty belongniff to each of them.
                         5. Every pul)lic road and way or public square.
                         G. The property bolonifing to any county or local municipality, unless
                      occu])ied by some person as tenant or lessee otherwise than as a .servant of
                      the ccjrporation for the purpo.ses thereof.
                         7. Public parks, whether situated  vvithin  the municipality owning
                      them or el.sewlua-e.
                         <S. The Provincial  Penitentiary, central  prison, and  the  Provincial
                      Reformatoiy and land attached thereto.
                         I). Every indu.strial farm, poor-house, alms-house, house of industry,
                      asylum, and every lujuse belonyini;' to a com])any for the i-eformation of
                      offenders, and the real and personal pro])orty belonifing thereto.
                         10. The property of every  ])ublic library, mechanics' institute, ajjri-
                      cnltui-al (n- horticultural .society, if actually occupied by such  society, and
                      all the lands and i)uildinffs of "joint stock companies for the erection of
                      exhibition buildings," when the nmnicipality in which such building,s are
                      erected consents to the exemption.
                         11.  'i'he personal pro|)erty and official income of the Governor-General
                      of (.'anada, and the otticial income of the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.
                         12. The houses and premises of the officers, non-conniiissioned  ofHcer.s
                      and privates in Her  Majesty's regular army or navy in actual service,
                      while occupied by them, and not exc(^eding in value $2,000  ; also the pay
                      or half-pay pensions, salary or gratuity received by  p(!r.sons in  either
                      service from the Imperial treasury.
                         13. All pensions of .S200 and under payable out of the public moneys
                      of the Dominion of Canada or of this Province.
                         14. All grain, tlour, live stock or produce of the farm or  field in
                      transitu, held in store or warehouse  for the bona  fitte purpose of being
                      shipped to some other place.
                         15. All horses, cattle, sheep and swine which are owned and held by
                      any owner or tenant of a farm, and carrying on the general business of
                      farming or grazing.
                         IG. The income of a farmer derived from his fai'm, and the income of
                      merchants, mechanics or other persons derived from  capital  liable  to
                      asse.s.sment.
                         17. Personal property invested  in mortgage upon  land, or due on
                      account of the  sale of land, or invested  in the Dominion, Provincial or
                      municipal debentures.
                         18. Shares in the capital of a chartered bank doing business in this
                      Province.  The dividends however derived from such shares are assessable.
                         19. Stock held in any incorporated company whose personal estate is
                      liable to assessment in this Province.
                         20. Stock held in any railway, sliares  in building  societies, and any
                      company incorpoi'ated for loaning money upon real estate.  The interest
                      and dividends derived from such investments are assessable.
                         21. Stock held in any toll road, and the income derivable therefrom.
                         22. All personal property which is owned out of t'.is Province.
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