253
COUNTY OF ELGIN
253
By-Law No
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Council 1:7 June 1874
WHEREAS by the eighth section of the Municipal
Institutions Act 36th Victoria Chapter 48 of the Province
of Ontario it is enacted as follows:
Passed in
When the census returns of an unincorporated
Village with its immediate neighbourhood taken under
the direction of the Council of the County in which
the Village and its neighbourhood are situate show
that the same contain over Seven hundred and Fifty in-
habitants and when the residences of such inhabitants
are sUfficiently near to form an incorporated Village,
then a petition by not less than One hundred resident free-
holders and householders of the Village and neighbourhoo~i
of whom not fewer than one half shall be freeholders,
the Councilor Councils of the County or Counties in which
the Village and neighbourhood are situate shall by 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 name and 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,provided always
that no Town or Village incorporated after the passing of
said Act the population of which does not exceed One
Thousand souls shall extend 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 Port Stanley in the County of Elgin with its
immediate neighbourhood has been taken under the direction
of the Council of the County of Elgin and the returns
thereof show that the said Village and its neighbourhood contain
over Seven hundred and Fifty inhabitants whose residences
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are sufficiently near to form an Incorporated Village
and comprised within an area of not more than five
hundred acres.
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AND WHEREAS more than one hundred resident freeholders
and householders of the same village and neighbourhood
of whom not fewer than one half are freeholders have
presented their petition to the said County Council
praying that the said village and neighbourhood may be
erected into an Incorporated Village apart from the
Townships of 'Yarmouth and Southwold by the name of
"Village of Port Stanley", and with:,.' the boundarie s
herein after declared comprising within an area of not
more than five hundred acres.
AND WHEREAS the Council of the County of Elgin
deems it expedient 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 Port Stanley
and its said neighbourhood be and is hereby erected into
an Incorporated Village apart from the Townships of
Yarmouth and Southwold in which said village is situate
under the name of the "Villgge of Port Stanley", and with
the boundaries or limits hereinafter declared and set
forth to be a body corporate having all the powers and
privileges of a separate Municipality.
That the said village hereby incorporated shall
pomprise: Commencing at the north east angle of/lòt
number one in the first concession of the Township of
Yarmouth and at the·· southerly limit of road allowance
between fi~st and second concessions or Hill Street
THENCE westerly òn the southerly limit of Hill
Street, thirty-nine chains more or less to the intersection
of the west limit of London and Port Stanley GravèlRoad
or Oolborne Street with the southerly limit of Elgin Street
on lot number sixteen in the second concession north of
Lake Road, Township of Southwold.
)
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THENCE north sixty-eight degrees west two cha:i.ns
more or less to the centre of Kettle Creek
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THENCE westerly following the windings of said
creek to where the easterly limit of a road on lot
number fifteen in said second concession north of Lake
Road, and known as Mill Street, intersects the westerly
limit of Kettle Creek.
THENCE south thirty-five degrees west on the
easterly limit of Mill Street three chains, twenty-six
links more or less to an angle in said road or street.
THENCE south eight degrees east on the easterly
limit of a laid out road on lot lettered D, or
continuation of Mill Street. Thirty-eight chains more or less
to the southerly limit-õf Lake Road
THENCE westerly on the southerly limit of Old Lake
Road, sixteen chains more or less to the centre of lot
No. 15 south of Old Lake Road.
THENCE southerly parallel to the west limit of
said lot number fifteen, eighteen chains more or less to
the southerly limit of the present travelled Lake Road
or less
THENCE westerly on the southerly limit of
present. travelled Lake Road forty-six chains more
to the westerly limit of lot. number fourteen
southerly on the westerly limit of lot
seven chains to Lake Erie
THENCE
number fourteen,
THENCE easterly along the shores of Lake Erie
to the easterly limit ofilot number one in the first
concession of the said Township of Yarmouth.
THENCE northerly on the easterly limit of said lot
number one, sixty-six chains more or less to the place
of beginning.
AND IT IS ALSO enacted that the first election
of Reeve and Councillors for the Municipality hereby
erected shall be held at the Union School House in
Port Stanley in the said Village of Port Stanley on the first
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Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, being the first Monday in January next,
after the end of three months after the passing of the
By-Law. And that Joseph R. Bostwick of Port Stanley
shall be Returning Officer to hold the first election
for the said Village of Port Stanley.
And that until the Council for the said Village
of Port Stanley be organized, the Councils of the said
Townships of Yarmouth and Southwold shall continue to
have the same powers in the said village as heretofore,
and all other officers and servants of the said townships
shall nntil dismissed or until successors are appointed
continue in their respective offices until such organization
with the same powers, duties and liabilities as heretofore
And that this By-Law shall take effect from and
after the date of the passing thereof.
The following lands and the boundaries or limits
hereinafter declared of the said Village of Port Stanley
shall be determined thereby, that is to say:
Lot number fourteen south of present travelled
Lake Road, Township of Southwold.
Part of lot number fifteen south of Old Lake
Road in said Township of Southwold.
Lot number six.teen south of Old Lake Road.
Lot number six.teen in first range north of Lake
Road in said Township of Southwold.
Part of lots numbers fifteen and sixteen in
second range north of Lake Road and
Part of lot lettered "D", Township of Southwold
and
Lot number one in the first concession of
the Township of Yarmouth. And more particularly described
as follows.
Passed in Council this seventeenth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy~four
St Thomas John McCausland
17 June 1874 Warden
William McKay
County Clerk
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Read a first time 17th June 1874
Read a second time 17th June 1874
Read a third time and finally passed 17th June 1874
Certified W. McKay Clerk