135
COUNTYOFELGIN
By-Law No. 135
TO CONFIRM BY-LAW NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF YARMOUTH".
Passed 25th January 1866.
WHEREAS the Municipal Council of the Township of
Yarmouth on the Twenty-first day of August A.D. 1865 passed
By-Law Number One Hundred and Seventy-four, to convey to
Joseph R. Bostwick and John E. Couse certain portions of or-
iginal road allowance as described therein.
AND WHEREAS IT IS enacted in said By-Law that so
much of the original allowances of road, lying between Lot one
in the First and Second Concessions as has fallen into disuse
by the opening of Hill Street, be conveyed to Joseph R. Bostwick
the owner of the land appropriated to open the said street in
lieu thereof.
AND WHEREAS a certain portion of the original allow-
ance for road lying between the North half of Lot Number Nine
andtthe North half of Lot Numbêr eight in the Thirteenth Con-
cession of the Township of Yarmouth has fallen into disuse by
the opening and diversion of the said public travelled road
through the South West Angle of the North half of said Lot
Number nine. The Lands necessary having been purchased by
the Council of Yarmouth from the owners thereof, as set forth
in the annexed copy of said By-Law Number 174.
lÑHEREIN IT IS enacted that the said above described
price of useless road allowance be sold and conveyed to John
E. Couse, the owner of the land adjacent thereto, for the sum
of six dollars of lawful money of Canada. The amount of which
is paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the Municipality.
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Municipality Council
of the Corporation of the County of Elgin by virtue of the 343
Section of the Consolidated Municipal Institutions Act, that
By-Law Number One Hundred and Seventy-four of the Municipal
Council of the Corporation of the Township of Yarmouth be and
is hereby confirmed.
AND IT IS enacted that this By~Law shall take effect
from the date of the passing thereof. .
Passed in Council this Twenty-fifth day of January
A.D 1866.
(Cont'd)
By-Law No 135 Page 2
St. Thomas
County of Elgin
24 January 1866
William McKay T. M. Nairn
County Clerk Warden
County of Elgin
Read a first time 25 January 1866
Certified W. McKay, Clerk.
Read a second time 25 January 1866
Certified W. McKay, Clerk.
Read a third time and finally passed 25th January 1866
Certified W. McKay, Clerk.
See copy of By-Law No. 174. (Yarmouth)
(cont'd)
Page 3
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By-Law No
TOWNSHIP OF YARMOUTH
174
By-Law No
CERTAIN
COUSE
BOSTWICK AND JOHN E.
TO_CONVEY TO JOSEPH R
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PORTIONS OF ORIGINAL ROAD ALLOWANCES AS DESCRIBED THEREIN
Passed 21 August 1865.
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WHEREAS Joseph R. Bostwick in possession of part of
Lot Number One in the first concession of the Township has
laid out and opened a road or street, known upon a map of the
Village of Port Stanley as "Hill Street", in lieu of a portion
of the allowance for road between the first and second conces-
sions reported by Charles J. Davis, a Provincial Land Surveyor,
to be impracticable for the purposes of a pUblic road, while
the portion of Hill Street opened in lieu thereof is a travel-
led public road. While no compensation was ever made to the
owner of the lands thus appropriated and laid out in place of
the said original allowance for road; and whereas the notices
required by the Three Hundred and Twenty-first Section of
Chapter Fifty-four of the Consolidated Statutes of Upper Can-
ada have been duly published as therein directed.
BE IT THEREFORE enacted that so much of the original
allowance of road lying between Lot one in the first and sec-
ond concession as had fallen into disuse by the opening of
"Hill Street" above mentioned, be conveyed to Joseph R. Bost-
wick, the owner of the land appropriated to open the said
Street, in lieu thereof.
AND WHEREAS a certain portion of the original allow-
ance for road lying between Lots, the North half of Lot Number
Nine and the North half of Lot Number Eight in the Thirteenth
Concession of the Township, has fallen into disuse by the open-
ing and diversion of the said public travelled road through the
South West angle of the North half of said Lot Number Nine,·.
The lands necessary having been purchased by this Council from
the owner thereof Robert Lee, and notices having been given as
directed by the Three Hundred and Twenty first Section of the
said Act for the sale at this session of the Council of said
useless piece of Road Allowance, and no party having entered
an appearance agåinst the proposed sale.
BE IT enacted that the said above described piece of
useless Road Allowance be, and the same is hereby sold and
conveyed to John E. Couse, the owner of the land adjacent there-
to, for the sum of Six Dollars of lawful money of Canada,
)
(cont'd
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the amount of which is paid into the hands of the Treasurer
of the Municipality.
Signed Signed
Archibald McLachlin Daniel Luton
Municipal Clerk. Reeve
I hereby certifY: that the above is a true copy of a By-Law
passed by the Municipal Council of the Township of Yarmouth
on the 21st of August 1865
A. McLachlin
Municipal Clerk