709
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law NO
709
TO ESTABLISH A POLICE VILLAGE AT FINGAL
Passed 30th November 1906
WHEREAS under the authority of the Consolidated
Municipal Act, it is enacted that
The c::ouncil of any county in which an unincorpo,,",
rated village is situated, shall set apart such unincorpo-
rated 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 within one
county, the Council shall in and by such By-Law fix the time
and place for, and shall name a Returning Officer for con-
ducting the first election of Police Trustees as hereinafter
mentioned, and the date of the first meeting of the Police
Trustees after such election.
AND WHEREAS a petition has been received from the
residents of the Unincorporated Village of Fingal in the
Township of Southwold praying for the formation of a Police
Village.
AND WHEREAS such petition defines the area to be
incorporated in such village and is signed by a majority of
the ratepayers therein;
The Elgin County Council therefore enacts
1. That the Unicorporated Village of Fingal in
the Township of Southwold be, and is hereby set apart as a
Police Village
2. That the area to be included in the said Police
Village of Fingal 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
Province of Ontario being composed of parts of lots numbers
18 and 19 on the north and south sides of the Talbot Road,
,¡;Jast in the said Township of Southwold, which said portions
are more particularly described as follows
Part of lot number 18 north of the Talbot Road:_
East containing forty-two and one half acres, more or less
described as follows:
(cont'd)
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COMMENCING at the intersection of the westerly
limit of the Union Road with the northerly limit of the
Talbot Road East; thence west along the northerly limit
of the Talbot Road eighty rods to a point; thence easterly
parallel to the westerly limit of the Union Road eighty-
five rods to a point;
THENCE easterly parallel to the northerly limit
of the Talbot Road eighty rods to the westerly limit of the
Union Road; thence southerly along the westerly limit of
the Union Road eighty rods more or less to the place of be-
ginning.
number 19 north of the Talbot Road
and one half acres more or less, de-
Part of lot
containing forty-two
scribed(aê fOllows,
COMMENCING at the intersection of the easterly limit
of the Union Road with the northerly limit of the Talbot
RQad East; thence easterly along the northerly limit of
the Talbot Road East eighty rods to a point; thence northerly
parallel to the easterly limit of the Union Road eighty-five
rods to a point
THENCE westerly parallel to the northerly limit
of the Talbot Road East eighty rods to the easterly limit
of the Union Road; thence southerly along the easterly
limit of the Union Road eighty-five rods more or less to
the place of beginning.
Part of lot number 18 south of the Talbot Road
East containing thirty acres more or less, described as
follows
COMMENCING at the intersection of' the westerly
limit of the Union Road with the southerly limit of the
Talbot Road East; thence westerly along the southerly limit
of the Talbot Road eighty rods; thence southerly parallel
to the westerly limit of the Union Road sixty rods to appoint
THENCE easterly parallel with the southerly limit
of the Talbot Road eighty rods more or less to the westerly
limit of the Union Road; thence northerly along the westerly
limit of the Union Road sixty rods more or less to the place
of beginning.
)
Part of lot number 19 south of the Talbot Road
East containing thirty acres more or less, described as
follows;
(cont'd
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Commencing at the intersection of the easterly limit
of the Union Road with the southerly limit of the Talbot
Road East, thence easterly along the southerly limit of the
Talbot Road .East eighty rods to a point; thence southerly
parallel to the easterly limit of the Union Road sixty rods
to a point; thence westerly parallel to the southerly limit
of the Talbot Road eighty rods more or less to the easterly
limit of the Union Road; thence northerly along the easterly
limit of the Union Road sixty rods more or less to the place
of beginning
Together with all those portions of the Union Road
and the Talbot Road East lying within or between the said
parcels so described
J. A meeting of the Electors shall be held for the
nomination of candidates for the Office of Police Trustees
in the said Village of F'ingal in Masonic Hall, at noon on
Monday the Jlst day of December 1906
4. The Returning Officer shall preside at such
and shall give at least six days' notice of the
meeting,
same.
5 If, after the lapse of one hour, more than three
candidates are nominated, the Returning Officer or Chairman
shall adjourn the proceedings until Monday the seventh day
of January 1907, when a poll shall be opened in Masonic Hall
F'ifugal, at nine o'clock in the forenoon and shall continue
until five o'clock in the afternoon and no longer.
and is hereby appointed
such Election of Police
6. That Dr. D. Smith be
Officer for conductingn:
Returning
Trustees
7. That the first meeting of Police Trustees, after
their election, shall be held in the Masonic Hall, F'ingal,
on Monday the twenty-first day of January 1907 at eleven
o'clock a.m.
Council Chambers
St. Thomas
JOth November 1906
Luton
W. F'
Warden
K. W. McKay
County Clerk
Passed JOth November 1906
Certified County Clerk