078
COUN'ry OF ELGIN
78
By-Law No
.:'£'Q._ERECT !'B.~.J¿I1fNCORPOR4c'rEJ:LYILLAGUJ' MILLERS BURGH
IN-'J'_HE T..Q1f'!.I1SHI~_Q1': YARlVlQUTli INTO A]O:[:.ICE VIJ~LAGE AND
Passed 17th November 1859
Tº-~SSI9:.!:I LI~'!lTS _1'HERE'£.Q'
WHEREAS a number of the inhabitants residing
on the south halves of lots number four and five in
the ninth concession of the Township of Yarmouth and
the north halves of lots number four and five in the
eighth concession of the said Township of Yarmouth hav-
ing petitioned the Council of the Corporation of the
County of Elgin to be erected into a Police Village
under the name of Millersburgh.
AND \1JHEREAS by the ninth section of the Munici-
pal Institutions Act of Upper Canada it is enacted as
follows
"On petition of any of the inhabitants of
an unincorporated Village, the Councilor Councils of
the County or Counties within which the Village is
situate may by By-Law erect the same into a Police Village
and assign thereto such limits as may seem expedient"
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Council of the
Corporation of the County of Elgin by virtue of the author-
ity aforesaid and it is hereby enacted by authority of the
same that a Police Village be erected in the Township of
Yarmouth in the County of Elgin under the name of
Millersburgh and that the said Village be comprised of
the south halves of lots number four and five in the
ninth concession of Yarmouth and the north halves of lots
number four and five in the eighth concession of the
said Township of Yarmouth and that the boundaries of said
half lots be the limits assigned to said Police Village
AND IT IS ALSO enacted under the authority
aforesaid and by virtue of the 85th section of said act
that the election of Police Trustees for said Village
shall be held on the second Monday in January at the
house of John B. Miller in said Village and at the hour
of ten o'clock in the forenoon
(Cont'd)
By-Law No. 78 Page 2
AND IT IS thereby enacted by the 92nd Section
of the said Municipal Institutions Act of Upper Canada
that "In every By-.Law establishing a Police or Incorpo-
rated Village, a Returning Officer shall be appointed who
is to hold the first election for such Village."
BE IT THEREFORE enacted that Samuel W. Thompson
be Returning Officer at the first Election of Police
Trustees to be held at the house of John B. Miller in
said Village of Millersburgh.
AND IT IS enacted that this By-Law shall take
effect from and after the 17th day of November A. D. 1859
St. Thomas-·County of Elgin
17 November 1859 Levi Fowler
Warden
W. McKay
Clerk
Read a first time 17 November 1859.
\11. McKay Clerk
Read a second time 17 November 1859.
W. McKay Clerk
Read a third time and finally passed 17 November 1859
W. McKay Clerk