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BY-LAW NO. 1526,
to incorporate the Village of Port Burwell.
WHEREAS a Fetition signed by at least one half of the
freeholders representing at least one-half of the assessed value
of the lands in the Police Village of Port Burwell and resident
tenants of the Police Village whose names are entered on the las
revised assessment roll of the Municipality of the Township of
Bayham in which the Police Village of Port Burwell 1S situate,
and in case of tenants who have been resident in the district
for at least four months next preceding the presentation of the
Petition, all of the petitioners being British subjects and of
the full age of twenty-one years, and at least one half of them
freeholder s, was lodged with the Clerk of the County of Elgin on
the 20th day of January, 1948, praying for the erection of the
Police Village of Port Burwell into the Village of Port Burwell;
AND WHEREAS the Clerk has satisfied himself as to the
sufficiency of the Petition, and has given his certificate that
the same is sufficient and the same complies with the provisions
of Section 12 of The Municipal Act, being R. S. o. 1937, Chapter
266, Section 12;
AND WHEREAS the said Petition was duly presented to
the Council of the County 0 f Elgin on the 20th day of January,
1948;
AND vVHEREAS by census of the said Police Village of
Port Burwell taken as of January 31st, 1945 by H. O. Alward, it
was shown that the said Police Village of Port Burwell had a
population exceeding seven hundred and fifty persons;
AND WHEREAS public notice was published once a week
for two successive weeks in the St. Thomas Times Journal on the
6th and 13th days of March, 1948, and in the Aylmer Express
on the 11th and 18th days of March, 1948, newspapers published i
th€ County of Elgin and having a general circulation in th€
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Police Village of Port Burwell and °the Township of Bayham, and
such notice ·set forth that it waS intended to incorporate the
present boundaries as occupied by the Police Village of Port
Burwell int~ the Village of Port Burwell, and the description of
the area intended to be embraced in the said Village and that
the County Council would meet this date to consider a By-law to
incorporate said Village;
AND WHEREAS the area intended to be embraced in the
said Village of Port Burwell does not extend or occupw an area
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of more than 500 acres of land;
THE: COUNTY COUNCIL ENACTS:
(1) THAT the Police Village of Port Burwell be and the same
is hereby erected into an incorporated Village apart from the
l'ownship of Bayham in which the same is situate, under the name 0
liThe Village of Port BurwelP', and with the boundaries and limits
which may be more particularly described as follows~
The South parts of Lots Numbers Eight, Nine, ~en,
~leven, Twelve and Thirteen in the 1st Concession
of the Township of Bayham, particularly described
as follows:
COMMENCING· in the Westerly limit of the said Lot
number Ten at a point Thirty chains Ten links
Southerly from the North-westerly angle of said
Lot;
THENCE Easterly parallel with the road allowance
between the First and Second Concessions to the
centre of the road between Lots numbers Ten and
Eleven;
THENCE Southerly along the centre of the said
road, Seven chains and Twelve links;
THENCE Easterly parallel with the road allowance
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between the l''irst and Second concessions to the
Easterly limit of Lot number Thirteen;
THENCE Southerly along the Easterly limit of
Lot number Thirteen to the Southerly limit of
the First Concession;
THENCE Westerly along the Southerly limit of the
First Concession to the Westerly limit of Lot
number Ten;
THENCE Northerly along the Westerly limit of
Lot Ten to the point of beginning.
AND ALSO the Southerly parts of L,ots J;;ight and
Nine in the said First Concession, as shown on
Plan registered in the Registry Division of the
County of Elgin as Number 228.
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(2) THAT the first nomination of Reeve and Councillors
for the said Gorporation 0 Ï the Village of Port Burwell shall be
held in the 'I'own H all in the said Village on the last Monday in
December, 1948, and that the first election of Reeve and Council-
lors for the said Corporation shall be held in the Town Hall in
the said Village on the first Monday in January, 1949.
(3) THAT Harry O. Alward shall be returning officer to hold
the first election fur the said Village.
(4) THAT the Township of Bayham shall assess the properties
in the Police Village 'of Port Burwell for taxation purposes for
the year 1949 at the same time and the same manner as other asses
ments are made within the Township of Bayham for taxes payable in
the year 1949, and such assessment shall be the assessment for
the properties of the Village of Port Burwell for the year 1949.
(5) THAT all taxes imposed by the Township of Bayham in the
Police Village of Port Burwell up to the 31st day of December,
1948, and all arrears of said taxes and penalty and interest
thereon, shall belong to the said Township of Bayham, and any suc
arrears, penalty and interest after the 31st day of December, 191.
shall be payable to and collectible by theæreasurer of the Villa
of Port Burwell in the same manner as taxes oWing to the Village
of Port Burwell, and the Treasurer shall remit the whole of such
payments to the Treasurer of the Township, of Baybam.
(6) THAT all adjustments of assets and liabilities as betwee
the Township of Bayham and the Village of Port Burwell shall be
as agreed upon, and in defaUlt of agreement, as Duncan Fletcher
McCuaig, Judge of the County Court of the County of Elgin, or his
successor in office, deems e~uitable.
(7) THE incorporation of the Village of Port Burwell shall
come into effect on the 1st day of January, 1949.
Read a first time this 23rd day of March 1948.
Read a second time this 23rd day of March 1948.
Read a third time and finally passed this 23rd day of March 1948,
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Clerk Warden
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hereby oertifies thtlt 1¡11$ p¡¡,1H.t1o.n þJ.'eael1ted '1>0
!'Ill:) on the 20'l>h day of JanUå1i"1 by the L'atept\Y'e.l,"a
01: '¡¡he 'PoUc¡¡tVl11age 01' ?o.t't. Bù1>well ¡'~q1i;aatlng
thet IncQrpOl'£i1¡lon as a V11:!.age 1a 31.\t.f1cient
to meet '/.>h.iÖ1 røqub'em¡¡¡n'l:,fJ 01': Bectiol! 1í';. Cha,?ter
266. R. S. O. 1937.
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