657
COUNTY OF ELGIN
657
By-Law No.
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TO ESTABLISH A POLICE VILLAGE AT SHEDDEN
Passed 27 November 190)
WHEREAS, under the authority of the Consolidated
Municipal Act, 190), it is enacted that the Council of any
County or the Councils of any Counties in which an unincor-
porated village is situate, shall set apart such unincor-
porated village as a Police Village upon a petition being
presented describing the area to be included in such vill-
age, 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 conduct-
ing the first election of Police Trustees as hereinafter
mentioned, and the date of the first meeting òf the Police
Trustees after such election.
AND WHEREAS a petition has been received from the
residents of the Unincorporated Village of Shedden, in the
Township of Southwold praying for the formation of a Police
Village.
AND WHEREAS, such petition defines the area to be
included in such village and is signed by a majority of the
ratepayers therein
in
a
Elgin County Council therefore enacts
1. That the Unincorporated Village of Shedden,
the Township of Southwold, be and is hereby set apart as
Police Village
The
2. That the ar.éa to be included in the said Police
Village of Shedden shall comprise all and singular that
certain parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in
the Township of Southwold, in the County of Elgin and Prov-
ince of Ontario, being composed of parts of lots numbered
fifteen and sixteen south and north of the north branch of
Talbot Road in said Township, more particularly described
as follows;
Commencing at a point in the Union Road thirty-three
rods south of the point of intersection of the north branch
of Talbot Road and the Union Road in the said Township;
thence easterly parallel to the north branch of Talbot Road,
forty rods;
THENCE northerly parallel to the Union Road one
hundred and seventy-five rods; thence westerly parallel to
the said north branch eighty rods; thence southerly parallel
)
(cont'd
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to the Union Road one hundred and seventy-five rods; thence
easterly parallel to the said north branch forty rods ~o the
place of beginning.
). A meeting of the electors shall be held for the
nomination of candidates for the office of Police"Trustees
in the said Village of Shedden, in Morrisòns Hall at noon
on Monday the twenty-eighth day of December 190).
The Returning Officer shall preside at such
shall give at least six days notice of the same
4.
and
meeting
5. If after a lapse of one hour more than three
candidates are nominated, the Returning Officer or Chairman
shall adjourn the proceedings until Monday the fourth day
of January 1904, when a poll or polls shall be opened in
Morrisons Hall, Shedden, at nine o'clock in the forenoon
and shall continue until five o'clock in the afternoon and
no longer
6. That M. R. Campbell be and is hereby appointed
Officer for conducting such election of Police
Returning
Trustees.
7. That the first meeting: of Police Trustees after
such eleci¡iÞni, shall be held at the Township Hall, Shedden,
on Monday the 18th day of January, 1904, at eleven o'clock
a.m.
Council Chamber
St.' Thomas
27 November 190J
Edward McKell or
Warden
McKay
Clerk
K. W.
County
and third time and finally
second
Received and read a first,
passed 27th November 1903.
Certified K. W. McKay,
County Clerk
657 is not sealed
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NOTE