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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 2 Mar 1929, p. 3

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Eit | 4 i/ «y : wy 2. | * . o & * C » S afunruday--: »uAcf-- Z2X i M ies ie c inmsesoreienatint } + i to Halt Speculat bill to Malt Spbeculation | | In Suburban Cemeteri | * a *3 > | a n Juburoan Cemeieries II easareus € t Amendment to Assessment Act Wou!ld Allowm Exemption 0j /. A#J No More T han 40 Per Cent. of Such Land in Excess of Five Acres, Unless Aciually Occupied by Graves That all extensive properties that are termed cemeteries may not be places for the purpose their name indicates, but may be the basis of some vast real estate speculation, was the information brought to the attention of the Ontario Legislature yosterday afternoon. This funcreal topic was the subjec | of a measure introduced by Loopold | Macaulay (Conservative, South York). | His bill bears the prosaic title of "An | Act to Amend the Assessment Act." ;BuL it has to do with a place which R. F. Miller (Liberal, Haldimand) has | on Thursday pictured as the resting | place of "booze hoisters," and which the / Liberal member so picturesquely de-- scribed as "the marble orchard." _ The bill is, in the words of Mr. Mac-- aulay, "to stop speculating in lands and townships bordering on cities ostensib-- ly held for cemeteries, but really held as a real estate speculation." And to top this speculation, the bill .et:g;c'.sé.c amending a section of the act having to do with assessment exemption sOo that it will read: "In no case shall more than 40 per cent. of such land in excess of five acres be exempt, un--. less it is actually occupied by graves."|

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