724
COUNTY OF ELGIN
724
By-Law No
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RODNEY.
TO INCORPORATE THE VILLAGE OF
1907
WHEREAS a petition by not less than one hundred
resident freeholders and tenants of the Unincorporated
Village of Rodney and neighborhood in the Township of
Aldborough, of whom not fewer than one half were freeholders,
was lodged with the Clerk of the County of Elgin on the! 20th
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 the County of
Elgin appointing Duncan McNabb of the Township of Dunwich
to make a return of the Census of the said Unincorporated
Village and neighborhood
AND WHEREAS the said Duncan McNabb 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 "Rodney Mercury", a
newspaper published in the said Village of Rodney, on the
fifth and twelfth days of December, 1907, such notices
setting 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 Rodne:y" 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 n~ne of
the Village of Rodney and with the boundaries and limits
which may be more particularly described as follows: -
(Cont'd)
By-Law No. 724 Page 2
The north half of lot number seven in the
eighth concession, the north half of lot number six
in the eighth concession, and the south west quarter
of lot number seven in the eighth concession, and the
south east quarter of lot number six in the eighth con-'
cession, and the south half of lot number six in the
seventh concession, and the south half of lot number
seven in the seventh concession, all in the Township
of Aldborough aforesaid, comprising in all five hun-
dred acres.
2. That the first election. of Reeve and Coun-
cillors for the said Corporation of the Village of Rodney
shall be held in the Town Hall in the said Village on the
first Monday in January, 1908.
J. That John D. Shaw 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
There is a typed copy (certified) dated August 12th, 1959
J. D. Thomson Clerk