210
COUNTY OF ELGIN
210
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OF ELGIIT::"
By-Law No
Passed in Council 21 June 1871
WHEREAS by the Tenth Section of the Act 29-30th
Victoria Chapter Fifty-one of the Statutes of the Province
of Canada entitled "An Act Respecting Municipal Institutions'
it is enacted as follws:
When the census returns of the unincorporated
Village with its immediate neighbourhood taken under the
direction of the Councilor Councils of the County or
Counties in which the Village and its neighbourhood are
situate shew that the same contain over Seven hundred and
Fifty Inhabitants and when the residences of such
Inhabitants are sifficiently near to form an incorporated
Village then on petition by not less than One hundred
re sident .freeholders and householders of the Village and
neighbourhood of whom not fewer than one half shall
be freeholders the Bouncil or Councils of the County or
Counties in which the Village and neighbourhood are
situate shall, By-Law erect the Village and neighbourhood
into an Incorporated Village, apart from the Township or
Townships in which the same are situate by a nameahd with
boundaries to be respectively declared in the By-Law and shall
name in the By-Law the place for holding the first Election
and the Returning Officer who is to hold the same, and that
no Town or Village incorporated after the passing of this Act
the population of which does not exceed One Thousand souls
shall ex~end over or occupy within the limits of the
incorporation an area of more than Five hundred acres
of land.
AND WHEREAS the census of the unincorporated
Village of Aylmer in the County of Elgin with its
imm~diate neighbourhood 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
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said neighbourhood contain Eight hundred and
Eighty-nine Inhabitants whose residences are sufficiently
near to form an Incorporated Village and comprised within
an area of not more than Five hundred acres.
AND WHEREAS more than One hundred resident
freeholders and householders of the said Village
and neighbourhood of whom not fewer than one half are
freeholders have presented their petition to the
said County crouncil praying that the said Village and
neighbourhood may be erected into Incorporated Village
apart from the said Township of Malahide by the name of
the Village of Aylmer, and with the boundaries hereinafter
declared comprising within an area of nOID more than Five hundred
acres.
AND WHEREAS the Council of the County of Elgin
deems it desirable to grant the prayer of the said petition.
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Council of the
Corporation of the County of Elgin under and by virtue
of the authority aforesaid.
That the unincorporated Village of Aylmer and its
said neighbourhood be and is hereby erected into an
Incorporated Village apart from the Township of Malahide in
which said Village is situate under the name of the
"Village of Aylmer" and with the boundaries or limits
hereinafter declared to be a body copporate having all the
powers of a Separate Municipality
That the said Village hereby incorporated shall
comprise the following lands and the boundaries or limits
of said Village of Aylmer, shall be determined thereby that
is to say all and singular~
acres of Lot Nine
The South Twenty-five
The South Seventy-five acres of Lot Ten
acres of Lot Eleven
The South Seventy-five
The South Fifty acres of Lot Twelve
all in the Seventh Concession of the said Township
of Malahide in the County of Elgin and Province of Ontario
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North Fifty acres of Lot Nine
The
The North Ninety acres of Lot Ten
The North Ninety acres of Lot Eleven and
all in
the Sixth Concession of the said Township of Malahide, and
also the allowance for Talbot Road between the Sixth and
Seventh Concessions of the said Township of Malahide,
between said Lots numbers Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve,
and that portion of the Aylmer and Port Bruce gravel road
lying and being within the limits of the Municipality
hereby erected subject to the Vester rights and powers of
the Aylmer and Port Bruce Gra¥el Road Company, in all
containing by a measurement four hundred and ninety-six
acres.
acres of Lot Twelve
North Twenty-five
The
That the first election of Reeve and Councillors
for the Municipality hereby erected shall be held at the
Town Hall in the said Village of Aylmer on Monday the first
day of January one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-two
being the first Monday in January next after the end of
three months from the passing of this By-Law and that
James Sutherland Hallowell shall be Returning Officer to hold
the first election for the said Village of Aylmer.
That until Council for the said Village of
Aylmer be organized the Council for 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
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
AND IT IS enacted that this By-Law shall take effect
from and after th~ date of the passing thereof
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St. Thomas County of Elgin T.M. Nairn
21 June 1871 Warden
William McKay Clerk
Read a first time 22 June 1871.
Certified W. McKay Clerk
Read a second time 22 June 1871.
Certified W. McKay Clerk
Read a third time and passed 22 June 1871.
Certified W. McKay Clerk