723
COUNTY OF ELGIN
723
By-Law No.
"
VILLAGE OF WEST LORNE.
TO INCORPORATE THE
1907
WHEREAS a petition by not less than one hundred
resident freeholders and tenants of the Unincorporated
Village of West Lome and neighborhood in the Township of
Aldborough, of whom not fewer then one half were freeholders,
was lodged with the Clerk of the County of Elgin on the 13th
day of November, 1907, praying for the incorporation of the
said Unincorporated Village and neighborhood.
Passed 21st December,
AND WHEREAS on the 22nd day of November By-Law
No, 722 was passed by the County Council of Elgin, ap-
pointing Walker Caughell of the Township of Yarmouth to
make a return òf the Census of the saœd Unincorporated Village
and neighborhood and whereas the said Walker Caughell has
made his Census Return showing that the said Unincorporated
Village and its immediate neighborhood, contains over seven
hundred and fifty inhabitants
AND WHEREAS public notice was published once a
week for two successive weeks in the Elgin "Sun", a news-
paper published in the said Village of West Lorne, on the
fifth and twelfth day of December, 1907, such notice s€,tting
forth a description of the area intended to be embraced in
the said Village, and date when the County Council would meet
to consider a By-Law to incorporate the village.
AND WHEREAS the area intended to be embraced in
the said Village does not extend over or occupy an area of
more than five hundred acres of land
The County Council enacts
1. That the Unincorporated Village of West I,orne
and its immediate neighborhood be and are hereby erected
into an Incorporated Village, apart from the Township of
Aldborough in which the same are situate, under the name of
the Village of West Lorne and with the boundaries and limits
which may be more particularly described as follows: _
number 19 in the 9th
The north half of lot
Aldborough,··lOO acres.
a)
of
(
number 18 in the 8th
(Cont'd)
b) The south half of lot
of Aldborough, 100 acres
(
concession
concession
Page 2
72)
By-Law No
9th
The north half of lot number 18 in the
Aldborough, 100 acres
(c)
of
concession
(d) That part of the $outhhalf of lot 19 in the
8th concession of Aldborough, described as follows:
Beginning at the south easterly angle of said lot
19, in the 9th concession of Aldborough. Then northerly on
the limit between lots 19 and 20 in the said 8th concession
to the northerly boundary of the right of way of the Canadián
Southern Railway Company; thence westerly along the said
northern boundary of the Canada Southern Railway Company's
property to the centre line dividing the easterly and westerly
halves of said lot no. 19. Thence northerly along said
centre line to the centre line dividing the northerly and
southerly halves of said lot 19. Thence westerly along said
last mentioned centre line to the west limit of said lot no.
19; thence southerly along said west limit of lot 19 to the
south west angle of said lot. Thence easterly along the
southerly limit of said lot 19 to the place of beginning,
52 acres.
in
(e) That part of the east quarter of lot 17
the 8th concession of Aldborough described as follows:
Beginning at the south east angle of said loi; 17.
Thence westerly along the southerly limit of said lot 17, a
distance of )0 rods. Thence northerly at right angles to
said southerly limit to the northerly limit of the right of
way of the Canada Southern Railway Company. Thence easterly
along the northerly limit of said Railway Company's rig~t of
way to the easterly limit of said 10t number 17. Thence
southerly along the said easterly limit of said lot 17 to
the place of beginning - 10 acres.
(f) The north easterly half of the north east
quarter of lot number 17 in the 9th concession of Aldborough
- 25 acres.
in
number 18
(g) The south east quarter of lot
concession of Aldborough - 50 acres.
in the 9th
The south west quarter of lot 19
Aldborough - 50 acres.
the 9th
(h)
concession of
2. That the first election of Reeve and Council-
lors for the said Corporation of the Village of West Lorne
shall be held. in the Town Hall in the said Village on the
first Monday in January, 1908.
Cont'd)
(
By-Law No. 723 Page 3
3. That John Chaseley shall be Returning Of..
ficer to hold the first Election for the said Village.
County Council Chamber
St. Thomas
21st December 1907
K. W. McKay W. Tolmie
County Clerk Warden
Passed 21st December 1907
Certified - County Clerk