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Bible Society Meetings, 1877

Anniversary Meetings of Branch Bible Societies, at which Public addresses on week day, and Sermons on Sundays, will be given by the Rev. James Green, of the Montreal Auxiliary Bible Society, and the Ministers of the Gospel in the different localities, according to the order, date and time given below. All are respectfully invited to attend

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By Law No 219

To define the duties of Overseers of Highways in the Township of the Front of Leeds & Lansdown and to repeal By Law No 162

Be it inacted by the municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of the Front of Leeds and Lansdown on the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and sixty seven that it shall be the duty of the overseers of Highways for the said Township to superintend make and keep in repairs the Highways Roads and Bridges allotted to them in thire respective divisions or to which they may from time to time be appointed by the said Council, that they sahll between the 30 day of May and the 15 day of July in each and every year Notify all the inhabitants liable at the time of such notice to the performance of statute Labour in there respective Divisions to assemble at a certain time and place for the performance of such Labour also states in such notice the implement tool or carrage required by the said overseerer to be used on said Road and it shall be the duty of the said parties so notified to furnish the same previded they have or can conveniently procure the same Such notice to be legal may be either verbal or written and personally served either with the wife or the child or servant over twelve years of age, at least four days before the time appointed for such a semblance that such inhabitants when so assembled as aforesaid shall commence work at eight oclock in the morning and leave off at the hour of five oclock in the afternoon of each day allowing an intermission and shall work faithfully eight hours for each day {page turned over} are severally liable as aforesaid.

2 Be it further enacted that any person who shall refuse to d the lawful or reasonable commands of such overseerer during the time he is required to work shall be liable at the discretion of such Overseerer to be dismissed from the Road or Highway and the Overseerer may allow him such credit for the part or portion of the day he may have worked as he may deem him entitled to.

Be it further enacted that any person liable to perform Statute Labour on the Highways who from sickness numerous forms or indigent circumstances shall think himself unable to perform such labour may (within four day after receiving notice from the Overseerer of Highways as provided in the first section of this By Law) make application to any or either of the Councillors of said Township for exemption in part or in whole and such counciller is authorized to grant a certificate under his hand which certificate shall within two days be handed by the person so expected to the Overseerer under whose superintendence he was liable to perform such labor & the overseerer shall enter or note the same on his list

4 Be it further enacted that in case any Bridge causeway or any part of the Highway become broken or damaged by loads otherwise that they are dangerous or impossible previous to or after the time allowed by this By Law for the performance of Statute labor it shall be the duty of the overseerer of the Division in which such damages ocurs to notify a portion or the whole of the inhabitants to asemble at a certain time and palce for the purposes of repairing said damages and the said Overseerer shall grant severally to such persons who may so assemble and repair said Damages certificates stating the amount of labour by them respectively performed which certification on production to such overseerers successor shall be received by him and the number of days so certified as performed shall be allowed to them on there next years statute labor.

5 Be it further enacted that every person assessed upon the Assessment Roll of said Township shall if his property be assessed at not more than $200 be liable to 2 days labor

return to be transmited to the Township Clerk on or before the fifteenth day of August in each and every year and to be in the form following

Return of Statute Labor performed and moneys expended on Road Division No under the superintendance of A.B. Overseerer of Highways in the Township of the Front of Leeds and Lansdowne for the Year A.D. 18 --

Be it further enacted that it shall be the duty of all overseers to furnish the Township Clerk with a true statement of all the inhabitants residing within the limits of there respective Divisions who may be liable to perform statute labor previous to the time of his making out the road list

Be it further enacted that all persons liable to perform statute labor shall severally perform such labor in the road division in which the Township Clerk shall have {illegible} there names as well appear by the lists furnished by the overseers as provided in the 10th section of this By Law provided always and it is hereby enacted that it shall be the duty of the Township Clerk to enter the names of all such persons so liable in the lists of the road Division in which they severally reside until otherwise directed by By Law or resolution of said Council

Be it further enacted that any person liable to the performance of statute labor on the public highways of said Township who shall neglect or refuse to perform the same when legally notified so to do (unless under this By Law or by Statute exemped) shall forfeit and pay one dollar for each day he shall be dificient or in arrears to be recovered before the Town Reeve or any Justice of the Peace on the Complaint of the Overseerer under whose superindence he was liable to perform such labor and it shall be the duty of such Overseerers to enter such complaint and prosecute all parties so deficient in arrears within the ttime specified in this By Law for making the returns of the statute labor to the Township Clerk

Be it further enacted that any person willfully stopping up or obstructing any public road or highway in said Township who shall not within a reasonable time after receiving notice from any Overseerer of Highways councillor or majistrate of said Township removed

such obstruction shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two Dollars and a turther Penalty of one Dollar for every twenty four house such obstructions shall remain on such road the same to be levied collected and disposed of as herein after directed

Be it further enacted that the words he and him only when they occur in this By Law as imparting the masculin gender and refer to the priviledge liabilites obligations and duties of a person assessed on the assessment rolls of said Township shall not be construed as exempting females who are assessed at more than $200 from the performance of statute labor or prohibiting them from compounding for the same but shall be understood to include female as well as male and all other words and phrases shall receive such fair and liberal construction as shall be best adapted to cary out this By Law according to its true intent meaning and spirit

Be it further enacted that for the contravention or breach of any of the provisions thereof this By Law every person so offending being convicted thereof before the Town Reeve or any one or more Justices of the Peace who are hereby authorized and empowered to hear and determine the same shall forfeit and pay (excepting when the amount of the pecuniary penalty is hereinbefore specially specified and moved a sum not exceeding five pounds nor less than five shillings currency as to the said Town Reeve Justice or Trustee may seem meet and default of payment of the said sum ( or of the sumes hereinbefore mentioned together with the costs within the time specified for the payment thereof at the time of conviction it shall be lawful for the said Town Reeve Justice or Justices to issue there warrrent directed to any Constable in said Township to levy the said sum and costs within a certain time to be in the said warrant specified.

and in case no distress sufficient to satisfy the said sum and costs shall be found it shall be lawful for the Town Reeve Justice or Justices to commit the offender to the common Jail of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville for any time not exceeding six days

Be it further enacted that all pecuniary penalties imposed and recovered under the provisions of this By Law shall be paid into the hands of the Township treasurer within twenty days after the receipt of the same and form part of the funds of the said Township

18 Be it further enacted that By Law No 162 of said council be and the same is hereby repealed

This By Law to have force and effect immediately after the passing thereof.

{cut off} OF THE SCOTTISH TONGUE

{cut off} the uncommon thing in England as in America to hear educated men and even {cut off}, remonstrating against the continuance of a Scottish literature. "Why," it is argued, "continue to use a language, and dialect which must soon become obsolete?" Well, we answer, it has a charm to us which we are not willing to sacrifice to utiliarianism. Practical as the world is, our tastes are happily not entirely so, and so we prefer holding fast those ideal things which to us are a joy forever. The memories of our early day are yet the morning sunshine of our lives. Where is the kindly heart that has not felt that

"There's aye a bit gleam o the gude and the true. As we dream the bit dream of our childhood anew."

And what brings this feeling home to a Scot at home or abroad -- like Scottish writings? When Tannahill wrote that simple line, "The midges dance abune the burn, " he set a living image before thousands of his countryment which all the gnats above the brooks in England could never have conveyed an idea of.

The Scot is notably sicker, but no people so frequently give up wealthy and desirable positions to enjoy on a moderate competence their fondly cherished home associations, nor do any more readily make sacrifices to attain cherished ideas. The Highland woman who asked here gudeman to "gang up and be hanged to please the Laird," is an exaggerated illustration of this feeling, while the history of "The Forty-five" Rebellion showed a national self sacrifice probably without a parallel. From the sage, Lociel, who foresaw and pointed out the terrible dangers imminent yet could not resist -- the wild poetical feeling swept, irresistibly through the people, who staked all in their devoted enthusiam, the world knows with what result. Yet from that great uprising, and the merciless down-trampling that followed it, what a glorious heritage of national poetry sprung! we do not say the people did wisely in linking their fate with that of the "Young Chevalier," but they were borne away impulsively by sympathy and love of right, the noblest impulses that stir the human heart. So whether it be wise or no, we feel that there is something grandly loyal in our enthusiastic love of our mother-tongue. This much for the ideal.

Yet are we not without reason for the faith to which we cling, for there are virtues in the Scottish language well worthy of preservation. Uttered by rude tongues it may be harsh, but from modulated lips it is very musical, and we have often heard people of other nations speak of the pleasure it gave them. There is a tender pathos in the dialect, and a fine rythmical flow in the strong simple words , with their profusion of vowels, to which we proudly cling. If any one doubts the truth of this let them read Hogg's "Bonny Kilmeny," and believer: or Tannahill's "Bonnie Wood o'Craigielea," or "Gloomy Winter's now awa;" Burns' "Nannie O;" or Robert Nicoll's__

"There nane like you, theres nane like you

The youngsters blithe around me now,

Are bonnie a', baith great an' sma',

But auld gudewife there's nane like you"

Simple thoughts enough , but tenderly expressed and touchingly grand in their simple homely woreds.

Willie Laidlaw', "Lucy's Flittin', is another fine illustration of the expressive tenderness of our venaculara:

"O what is that pits my puir heart a flutter

And what {missing}ars the tear come sae fast to my e'e

If I was'na {missing}ettlet to be only better,

Than what gars me wish ony better to be."

"The Braes o'Gleniffer," and "When the Kye come hame," are equally beautiful . How that verse beginning "When the bluart bears a pearl," take hold of the Scottish heart, and where is the Scot whose ambition would not be fired to write as musically. The first four verses of Miss Blamire's "What ails this heart o'mine," Lady Ann Lindsay's "Auld Robin Gray,"the Countess of Nairn's "I'm wearin' awa," "The Rowan Tree," and many others have excellencies and beauties enough to stimulate the Scotch to follow in such footsteps for generations to come.

Nor does the Scottish muse of modern days lag far behind. Henry Scott Riddell's "Scotland Yet," " I'll awa hame to my ain folk," and other pieces, are worthy of her palmiest days. W. Cameron's "Meet me on the Gowan Lea," "Jessie o' the Dell," and "Morag's Faery Glen,"--

"Ye ken whar you, we burnie rins roarin' to the sea,"--

are brimming with gladness and beauty as the birdies and the burnies themselves.

Many of the Scottish idioms are very expressive and there is a pith in the language, as there has always been in the race which uses it. Take for example Burns' "Address to the Deil," "Tam o'Shanter," or "Death and Dr. Hornbook," or Nicoll's "We'll mak' the warld better yet."

There are not a few useful Scottish words which have no English synonym, while many are indifferently represented. "Wersh" cannot be expressed in English; its best representative is saltless, but this is a thoroughly negative condition, whilst wersh is a very positive flavor, as every one who tastes unsalted bread or brose is apt to testify. "Douse" expresses at once a pleasant and tranquil disposition, with a well-conditioned body. "Crouse" is nearly untranslateable; it is conceited, sprightly and inclined to braggart. "Dinnle," the painful sensation caused by the return of warm blood to very cold fingers. Who knows the English of it? Is it tingle: How indefinite, while dinnle or dinnlin expresses the exact feeling sharp as the sensation itself. "Toom" is empty, but specially applicable to wood vessels, the word itself being the very echo of an empty barrel. "Braw" is better than any word we know to represent it. "Bonnie" is better than pretty, and not always so much as beautiful, commonly denoting kindliness of countenance, with beauty, when applied to living things. "Blithe;" this Saxon word may be claimed as thoroughly Scotch, the English having neglected it. It has no equal in its place, as Scotch authors have well proved. "Threepit" expresses enforcing as well as maintaining, and is very pithy. "Birkle;" In a Burns Glossary we have seen this interpreted "a clever fellow." Had Burns with "a Hieland gill in his cheek" caught this gomoral at his translation, what a loundering the cuif had got A "birkle" is a proud upsetting fellow, more guilty of lack of brains than their possession. We all know how finely sarcastic it is. "D'ye see you birkie ca'd a Lord." "Leal" is the very essence of loyal affection, and a word of rare merit. "Biel" is a shelter from the wind and a very expressive word. "Pawky" may be rendered artful, dodging; we know no better. It is full of meaning, generally implying humorous cunning. "Eerie;" Whoever in a dark and lonely place has felt a vague, undefined dread, a creepiness of the hair, though not really in fear, has been eerie. The feeling is well-known, but not expressible in English. "Glamour;" Let him who knows the English of this explain it. The "evil eye" of the gipsy and the killing glance of the lover possess it. "Gleg" is quick sharp and active, concentrated. "Gowk" is a simple foolish person; goose is the only translation. "Kep" is neither catches nor receives, but both. How perfectly poetical is the proverb "Ilka blade o' grass keps its ain drap o' dew." "Gawkie" is a thoughtless and awkward lassie or woman. "Gowpin," as much as can be lifted in both hands placed together. "Gancie" is at once handsome, sprightly, and of ample proportions. There are scores of such words which might be quoted. Where shall we find haffets for an Englishman, or a word to make him mensfn'; how set him hotchin' by a cozie ingle, or rinnin' pechin' upa brae, which is not a hill. While others dodge we will jouk; they may be big and sturdy fellows, we can set against them strappin', buirdly chiels. They dinna ken our grips and clours and cowps for carles "dour an'din," nor how we can daud and dirl the croons o' Dae-nae guids and gar them sough and swither. aye, and wauble as feckless as a tewed and wuzzent runch. As little ken they what a cantie hit bodie auld Grannie is, or how she loes to tent the toddlin weans. They may court their gentle girls on pretty hillocks or vales; we'll woo our canny lassies on the bonnie knowes or in the bieldy howes; while their children go to pluck the pretty daisies, our 'ill gang to "pu the gowans fine:" while brooks ripple between their flowery hanks, burns shall wimple by the broomie hraes where goslins cheep and linties chirl, and laverocks lilting sing. What Scot would not prefer a brumel to a brambleberry; or a hine to a rasp (the mention of which might se one's teeth on edge instead of a watering); or gloaming to twilight; or a scaur to a precipice, which might be a linn; or guidwife to good wife; or lowe to flame, which is also bleeze; or agley to crooked, which is different; or birr, or eident, or couthie, or vauntie, or rowth or gear, or girn or glower, or Laird, or Bailie, to any corresponding English, and there are many other words equally expressive.

It is easy however to have too much of a good thing, and Scotticized Scotchis as unpalateable to a Scot as would be an over-stuffed haggis. Hately Waddell's version of the twenty-third Psalm is sadly overdone. The man who renders drookit for anoint, might aiblins dook till he dreeps in a Liddisdale dow and be nae the dafter for it.

Though "old times" or "long ago" can never be taken as an equivalent for "Auld Lang Syne," the Scotch have long been cognizant of and adopted many of the excellencies of the English language, and we are quite willing to play a give-and-take game. Let England and Scotland unite in language as they did in government. We shall not even insist upon kinging them this time as at the last union, but will meet them and treat them frankly as though they were our very equals. If England is not sufficiently enlightened for this, Scotland can well afford to wait, resting on her dignity, and great as is her penuriousness (she has long been a thrifty banker), from her overflowing wealth so carefully garnered she will continue to sent her sones, as she has done for ages past to beautify and enrich English literature in all its branches, and the world shall be gladdened by her bounty.

But as an Arab after offering his favorite steed for sale begins ruefully thinking over its many good qualities, so do we of our Scottish muse. A verse of John Imlah's song "There lives a young lassie far down in yon glen," springs to our lips:

"Red, red as the rowan her milling wee mon

And white as the gowan her breast and her brow

Wi' the foot of a fairy she links ower the lea

Ah! weel I loe Mary, and Mary loes me."

And while that music floats though our brain we swither about the agreement rushly proposed, and really don't think Scotland could ever afford to give up her native Doric. Life without it would not be worth having. J.H.P.

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