269
COUNTY OF ELGIN
269
By-Law No
COUNTY OF ELGIN
A BY-LAW TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNCIL OF THE
LAND FOR AN INDUSTRIAL FARM AND TO
IN
TO ACQUIRE AN ESTATE
AND PROVIDE FOR THE
INDUSTRY AND REFUGE
ESTABLISH A HOUSE OF
REPAIR THEREOF
WHEREAS by the 355th Section of the Municipal
Institutions Act of 1873 it is recited that the Council
of every County, City or Town separated from a County may
acquire an estate of landed property for an Industrial Farm
and may establish a house of industry and a house of re~uge
and provide by By-Law for the erection and repair thereof.
ERECTION AND
enacted by the Corporation of the
Council assembled and under the
BE IT THEREFORE
County of Elgin in County
authority aforesaid.
THAT the Council of the County of Elgin be and is
hereby authorized to purchase and acquire fifty acres of
land in the Township of Southwold being part of Lot Number
39 North on Talbot Road East (and now owned by John Cole)
for an Industrial Farm for the said County of Elgin and to
erect and establish a house of industry and refuge therein
and it is also enacted.
THAT IT shall be lawful for the Treasurer of the
said County of Elgin to pay on the order of the Warden the
sum of three thousand dollars for said land.
AND IT IS also enacted that a house of industry
and refuge be erected on said land and that a special commit-
tee composed of Messrs King, Galbraith, Brown, Davis and the
Warden, be appointed to procure tenders and plans and speci-
fications and to superintend the erection of a house of
industry and refuge on said property as they maybe in-
structed by said County Council.
AND IT IS also enacted that said Committee shall
have full power and authority to employ such architect and
overseer as they may consider necessary and order payment of
their services as well as for the erection of the buildings,
fencing and drainage that may be required as soon as they may
think it for the interest of the County to do so.
AND the County Treasurer of said County of Elgin
is hereby required to pay on the order of the Chairman of
said special committee such sums of money as may from time to
time be required for the erection of said buildings or in any
way connected therewith.
(Cont'd)
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AND that the sum of money to be expended in the
said buildings and land shall not exceed ten thousand dollars
in the whole.
St. Thomas
18 June 1875 George Suffel
William McKay Warden
C. . Clerk
Read a first time 18 June 1875
Read a second time 18 June 1875
Read a third time and finally passed 18 June 1875
Certified - William McKay Clerk