159
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 159
"TO CONFIRM BY-LAW NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX OF
THE CORPORATION OF THE 'rOWNSHIP OF SOUTHWOLD."
Passed 18th June 1867.
WHEREAS by the second subsection of Section
Number 345 of Chapter fifty-one 29-30th Vfuctoria -
IT IS ENACTED that no By-Law for the sale or
stoppfung up of any o~iginal allowance for road within
any Township shall have any force unless passed in accor-
dance with the 323rd section of said act nor until con-
firmed by a By-Law of the Qouncil of the County fun which
the Township is situated at an ordinary session of the
County Council held not sooner than three months nor later
than one year next after the passing thereof.
AND WHEREAS the Council of the Municipality of
the Township of Southwold on the twelfth day of November
A.D. 1866 passed By-Law number one hundred and thirty-
SIDX to convey to James Foot a certain old road allowance
across lot number forty-five north on Talbot Road East
in said Township of Southwold as not being required for
a public road in consequence of another road being es-
tablished in lieu thereof and more particularly mentioned
and described in said By-Law and the descriptions there-
with connected a copy of which is annexed to ~his By-Law
and forms a part thereof.
IT IS ENACTED by the Corporation of the County
of Elgin under the authority aforesaid.
That By-Law number one hundred and thirty-six
of the Corporation of the Township of Southwold be and the
same is hereby confirmed.
AND IT IS ALSO enacted that this By-Law shall
take effect from and after the twenty-first day of June
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Passed in Council this 18th day of June 1867.
St. Thomas, County of Elgin T.M. Nairn
18th June A.D. 1867 Warden
(Cont' d. )
By-Law No 159 Page 2
Read a first time 18 June 1867
Certified William McKay C Clerk
Read a second time 18 June 1867
Certified William McKay C Clerk
Read a third time and finally passed 18 June 1867
William McKay C Clerk
See Copy of By-Law No. 136 Southwold
and description of road allowance intended to be conveyed
to James Foot in said By-Law.
(Cont'd)
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159
By-Law No
TOWNSHIP OF SOUTHWOLD
136
By-Law No
TO CONVEY CERTAIN ROAD ALLOWANCES
MENTIONED
HEREIN
Passed 12th November 1866
WHEREAS the original road allowance across Lot
number forty-five north on Talbot Road East in the Town-
ship of Southwold and known as the Old Road leading from
St. Thomas to London being condemned by Daniel Hanvey
Esquire Provincial Land Surveyor as not being required
for a public road in consequence of another road being
established in lieu thereof
AND WHEREAS over one months notice has been
given of the intention to pass this By-Law at the present
session of this Council and to submit the same to the
County Council for their approval, by putting up six
written notices in as many different places in the vicinity
of the said road allowance, as well as publishing the same
in the St. Thomas Dispatch for three successive weeks
AND WHEREAS James Foot has made application to
the Municipality of Southwold to purchase the said road
allowance for which he will pay the sum of twenty-five
dollars
The Municipal Council of the Township of
Southwold by virtue of the authority vested in them by
12th Victoria Chapter 332 of the Municipal Institution Act
of Upper Canada hereby conveys to and vest in James Foot
the allowance for road across lot number forty-five north
on Talb9t Road East in the Township of Southwold contain-
ing one half acre.
( Signed)
John Smith
Reeve
(Cont'd)
(Signed)
Samuel Tubby
M. C.
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159
By-Law No
"Descriptionuof the road allowance intended to be conveyed
to James Foot in said By- Law".
All that certain parcel or tract of land and
premises situate, lying and being in the Township of
Southwold in the County of Elgin of the Province of Canada
containing by admeasurement half an acre be the same, more
or less, being composed by part of lot number forty-five
North on Talbot Road East in the said Township of Southwold
which was formerly laid out and established according to law
and used as part of the public highway leading from the Village
of St. Thomas to London and is now designated and known by
the name of the Old Road to London and the piece of the
said Old Road by these, presents intended to be conveyed is
butted and bounded as follows.
That is to say - Commencing where the said Old Road
is intersected by the south limit of a road which was laid
out A.D. 1846 and leading westward from a road formerly laid
out from the Townline road between Yarmouth and Southwold to
the easterly limit of what was then called the Plank Road,
now known by the name of the London and Port Stanley Gravel-
led Road which said road laid out in the said year of Our Lord
1846 was established by a By-Law of the District Council of
the London District on the 12th day of February A.D. 1846;
which said By-Law is numbered 99, relation to the said By-
Law being had the particulars thereof will more fully appe
ar
Then from the intersection of the said Old Road
with the South limit of the said road established under said
By-Law, southerly about four hundred and sixty~two feet; then
southwesterly about two hundred and fifty feet more or less
to the easterly limit of the said London and Port Stanley
Gravelled Road - the piece of the Old Road by these presents
intended to be conveyed is to be 'the same width and to be
in the same place as it was first laid out in the original
survey thereof and to extend southerly and westerly as
originally laid out from the south limit of said road est-
ablished under said By-Law to the easterly limit of the
said Gravelled Road whither on actual admeasurement, the
distances agree with the distances or courses mentioned in
this deed or not