173
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OF ELGIN
COUNTY
173
By-Law No
A COMMISSIONER AND ENFORCE THE REPAIR OF THE
TO APPOIN'r
'rRAVELLED
ON THE LINE OF ROAD
BRIDGE ACROSS CATFISH CREEK
THE TOWNSHIPS OF YAR-
'rHE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN
IN LIEU OF
MOUTH AND SOUTH DORCHESTER
1868
WHEREAS the Township Councils of Yarmouth and South
Dorchester have neglected and refused to repair the bridge
across Catfish Creek on the line of road travelled in lieu
of the Township boundary line between the Townships of Yar-
mouth and South Dorchester, South of the Village of Maple-
ton and adjoining Lot Number Nine in the Tenth Concession
of Yarmouth.
11 th November
Passed
AND WHEREAS a majority of the ratepayers resident
on the lots bordering on the side of.such liné of road
have petitioned the County Council of the County of Elgin
at the present session to enforce the repair of such bridge
on said line of road by the Township Councils interested.
AND WHEREAS the Township Councils of Yarmouth
and South Dorchester having neglected to repair said bridge
in a manner similar to the bridges on other local roads,
and in the opinion of this Council it is necessary that
said bridge should be repaired.
AND WHEREAS by the fourth subsection of Section
Number 341 of the Municipal Institutions Act 29-30 Victor-
ia Chapter 51, it is recited that it shall be the duty of
a County Council receiving such petition from the ratepayers
to consider and act upon the same at the session at which
the petition is presented and to determine upon the amount
which each Township Council interested shall be required to
apply for the repair of such lines of road.
IT IS THEREFORE enacted by the Corporation of
the County of Elgin in session assembled that by virtue and
under authority of the 341st Section and Subsections of the
Municipal Institutions Act 29-30 Victoria Chapter 51-
That the sum of forty dollars shall be applied
by the Township Council of the Township of Yarmouth and
the like sum of forty dollars shall be applied by the Town-
ship Council of the Township of South Dorchester for the
repair of the bridge across Catfish Creek on the line of
road travelled in lieu of the Township line road between
the Township of Yarmouth and South Dorchester and adjoining
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173
By-Law No
Concession of Yarmouth
Lot Number Nineteen in the Tenth
south of the Village of Mapleton.
AND IT IS ALSO enacted by the authority aforesaid
that Wallace Michael of the Township of Yarmouth be and is
hereby appointed a Commissioner to execute and enforce the
requirements of this By-Law.
Provided always that if the representatives of the
Townships interested shall intimate to this Councilor to
the Commissioner hereby appointed their intention to execute
the work themselves, then said Commissioner shall delay pro-
ceeding for a reasonable time but if the work be not proceed-
ed with during the favourable season by the Township officers
then the Commissioner shall undertake and finsih it himself.
AND IT IS enacted that any sum of money herein de-
termined upon as the portion to be paid by the respective
Townships of Yarmouth and South Dorchester shall be paid by
the County Treasurer on the Order of said Commissioner and
the amount retained out of any money in his hands belonging
to such Townships.
AND IT IS enacted that this By-Law shall be in
force and take effect from and after the twelfth day of Nov-
ember. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight
Passed in Council the eleventh day of November A.D
1868
St. Thomas
County of Elgin
12 November A.D;
T. M. Nairn
Warden
1868
William McKay
County Clerk, Elgin
Read a first time 11 November 1868
Certified W. McKay, Clerk
Read a second time 11th November 1868
Certified W. McKay, Clerk
1868
11th November
finally passed
McKay, Clerk
Read a third time and
Certified W.