636
COUNTY OF ELGIN
636
By-Law No
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Passed June 14th,
úŒST LORNE
TO ESTABLISH A POLICE VILLAGE AT
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,
1902
WHEREAS under the authority of the Act, 63 Vic-
toria, Chapter 33, Section 50, it is enacted that the Coun-
èil of any County or the Councils of any Counties in which
an unincorporated village is situate, shall set apart such
unincorporated village as a police village upon a petition
being presented, describing the area to be included in such
village, and signed by a majority of the ratepayers therein
Where such unincorporated village lies wholly in one county
the council shall, in and by such By-Law, fix a time and
place for and shall name a Returning Officer for conducting
the first election of Police Trustees as hereinafter men-
tioned and the date of the first meeting of the Police
Trustees after such election.
AND WHEREAS a petition has been received from the
of the Unincorporated Village of West Lorne in the
of Aldborough, praying for the formation of a Police
residents
Township
Village.
AND WHEREAS such petition defines the area to be
included in such village and is signed by a majority of the
ratepayers therein.
The Elgin County Council therefore enacts
1. That the Unincorporated Village of West Lorne
in the Township of Aldborough, be and is hereby set apart
as a Police Village
2. That the area to be included in the said Police
Village of West Lorne shall comprise all and singular that
certain parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in
the Township of Aldborough, in the County of Elgin and Pro-
vince of Ontario, being composed of the south halves of lots
numbers eighteen and nineteen and the south east quarter of
lot number seventeen in the eighth concession and the north
halves of lots eighteen and nineteen, the north east quarter
of lot seventeen, and the south east quarter of lot eighteen,
and the south west quarter of lot number nineteen in the
ninth concession all in the Township of Aldborough.
3. A meeting of the electors shall be held for
the nomination of candidates for the office of Police Trustees
in the said Village of West Lorne in the Township Hall at noon
on Wednesday, the ninth (9th) day of July 1902.
(Cont'd)
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4. The Returning Officer shall preside at such
meeting and shall give at least six days notice of the
same.
5. If, after a lapse of one hour, more than
three candidates are nominated, the Returning Officer or
Chairman shall adjourn the proceedings until Wednesday the
sixteenth (16th) day of July 1902, when a poll or polls
shall be opened in the Township Hall, West Lorne, at nine
o'clock in the forenoon and shall continue until five o'clock
in the afternoon and no longer.
6. That Dugald McPherson be and is hereby ap-
pointed Returning Officer for conducting such election of
Police Trustees.
7. That the first meeting of Police Trustees
after such election, shall be held at the Township Hall
West Lorne, on Wednesday the 23rd day of July, 1902 at
eleven o'clock a. m.
Council Chambers
St. Thomas
June 14th, 1902.
K. W. McKay Wm. Jackson
County Clerk Warden
Passed June 14th, 1902.
Certified - K W McKay County Clerk