. The Montreal law reports [microform]. Law reports, digests, etc; Law; Jurisprudence; Droit. » .. i. ^- •• 420 MONTREAL IXW ,•' ' w). "Conaideriiig that thih action was institttted in the UoVj^»m, 'guperior X3ourt^ at the city of SherbTooke, by respondents , oteSto ?f against appellants, to recover $60 baBin tax tt being com- ' poUnders of liquors at the ^aid city, undftr the by-law . . No. 116 of the respondents, imposing said fax^s upon ap- ' pellantq as being suoh balers and comj)onnders; - ^ ^ "And considering thati amongst pther matters and ; grounds of defence, the a
. The Montreal law reports [microform]. Law reports, digests, etc; Law; Jurisprudence; Droit. » .. i. ^- •• 420 MONTREAL IXW ,•' ' w). "Conaideriiig that thih action was institttted in the UoVj^»m, 'guperior X3ourt^ at the city of SherbTooke, by respondents , oteSto ?f against appellants, to recover $60 baBin tax tt being com- ' poUnders of liquors at the ^aid city, undftr the by-law . . No. 116 of the respondents, imposing said fax^s upon ap- ' pellantq as being suoh balers and comj)onnders; - ^ ^ "And considering thati amongst pther matters and ; grounds of defence, the appellants pleaded tha* the le- ' gislatu^ df. this province had not constitutionally the power to authorize the making of said by-law, and that thCenacting and passing thereof was therefore Ultra/ vir^ ' of respondents and the council under the Charter,Act, 39 Vic, ch. 60, and amendment- thiereof, 4t Vict., ch. 84, and m^re 'particularly so ultra vi^e^ aa to the said 1100 ihx imposed'by said by-law on-appellants as^being ooja- pounders; v " :" And considering that neither the-said charter nor .. anjeiiding Act, in enumerating and specifying the numerous and specific trades, businesses wxd occupa- tions, to wit, in the 7th sub-section of said charter and ^^ Act, respectively, hath specified as-being liat^to such'taxatibri, compounders ae assumed by said •byJaw, and that this omission is n^ot covered so as bf" inference legally to include compounders by .the uncer- tain meaning to be given to the vague, general and inde- finite last lines of sub-section 7 of sai4 Acts, more particu: • lafly'too vague and uncertain in the matter of taxation as in thapresent case; :, 1 * ' "« •• Conndering, therefore, that the legislaiure hathl^t- delegated, by either of said Acts, or otherwise, to the cor- poration respondents the power to impose the said tax of |;100 upon appellants as compounders, and that Hi pas- sing the said by-law, in so far
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