195
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 195
A BY-LAW TO INCORPORATE THE VILLAGE OF AYLMER IN THE COUNTY
OF ELGIN."
WHEREAS by the Act of the late Province of Canada
passed in the twenty-ninth" and thirtieth years of Her Majesty's
reign entitled "An Act respecting the Municipal Institutions
of Upper Canada" it is enacted as follows.
"When the census returns of an unincorporated Vil-
lage with its immediate neighbourhoó.d, taken under the direct-
ion of the Councilor Councils of the County or Counties in
which the Village and its neighbourhood are situate show that
the same contain over seven hundred and fifty inhabitants and
when the residences of such inhabitants are sufficiently near
to form an Incorporated Village, then on petition by hot less
than one hundred resident freeholders and householders of the
Village ånd neighbourhood, of whom not fewer thàn one half
shall be freeholders the Council'Jor Councils,jóf"ithe'Ooun;l;yoor
Counties in which the Village and neighbourhood are situate
shall by By-Law erect the Village and neighbourhood into an
Incorponated Village apart from the township or townships in
which the same are situate, by a name and with boundaries to
be respectively declared'. fun the By-Law and shall:¡name the By-
Law the place for holding"the first election and the returning
officer who is to hold the same';"
AND WHEREAS the census of the unincorporated Vill-
age of Aylmer in the County of Elgin with its immediate neigh-
bourhood has been taken under the direction of the Council of
the Corporation of the County of Elgin and the returns thereof
show that the said Village and its said neighbourhood contain
over seven hundred and fifty inhabitants whose residences are
sufficiently near to form an Incorporated Village.
AND WHEREAS more than one hundred resident freehold-
ers and householders of the said Village and neighbourhood, of
whom one-half at the least are freeholders, have presented their
petition to the said Council praying that the said Village and
neighbourhood may be erected into an Incorporated Village,
apart from the said Township, by the name and with the bound-
aries hereinafter declared.
AND WHEREAS it is desirable to grant the prayer of
the said petition
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Council of the Cor-
poration of the County of Elgin
1st. THAT the said Village and neighbourhood be and the same
are hereby erected into and created an Incorporated Village by
the name of "The Village of Aylmer" and with the boundaries or
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limits hereinafter declared to be a body corporate, separate
and apart from the Corporation of the Township of Ma1ahide in
which the same are situate having all the powers and privileges
of a separate and independent Municipality and subject to the
provisions of any and all ò£0the statutes of the Province of
Ontario or of the Dominion of Canada, now or hereafter to be
enacted and in force affecting the Municipal Institutions of
the said Province of Ontario. '
2nd. THAT the said Village hereby incorporated shall comprise
the following lands and the boundaries or limits shall be de-
termined thereby, that is to say; All and Singular the north
half of the north half of Lot Number nine, the north half of
Lot Number ten and the north half of Lot Number eleven and the
north quarter of the north half of Lot number twelve in the
sixth concession of the Township of Malahide in the County of
Elgin and Province of Ontario and the south quarter of the south
half of Lot Number nine, the south three quarters of Lot Number
ten, the south three quarters of the south half of Lot Number
eleven, and the south half of the south half of Lot Number
twelve in the seventh concession of the said Township of Mala-
hide, in all containing by admeasurement five hundred acres.
Jrd. THAT the first election of Council Lors for the Municipality
hereby erected shall be held at the Town Hall in the said Vil-
lage of Aylmer; and that James Sutherland Hallowell shall be
the Returning Officer to hold the same
4th. THAT until the Council so to be elected shall be organ-
ized, the Council of the Corporation of the said Township of
Malahide shall continue to have the same powers in the said
Village and neighbourhood as heretofore, and all other officers
and servants of the said Township having jurisdiction in the
said Village and neighbourhood shall until dismissed or until
successors be appointed continue in their respective offices
(until such organization) with the same powers, duties, and
liabilities as heretofore.
T. M. Nairn
Warden
William McKay
County Clerk
Elgin
Read a first time 27th September 18~0
Certified W. McKay,
Clerk
Read a second time 27th September 1870
Certified W. McKay, Clerk.
27th September 1870
Clerk.
Read a third time and finally passed
Certified W. McKay