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# 1526
Incorporating Port Burwell
1948
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By-Law No. 1526.
To Incorporate the Village of
Port Burwell.
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Passed March 23rd, 1948.
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To Incorporate the Village of Port Burwell.
*HABEAS a Petition signed by at least one half of the
freeholders representing at least une•half of the assessed values
of the lands in the Police Village of Port Burwell and resident
tenants of the Police Village whose names are entered on the last
revised assessment roll of the Municipality of the Township of
Bayham in Ahich the Police Village of Port Burwell is 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
freeholders, was lodged with the Clerk of the County of Algin 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 *HAHAA9 the Clerk has satisfied himself as to the
sufficiency of the Petition, and has given his oertifiO&te that
the same is sufficient and the same complies with the provisions
of Section 12 of The Munioipal Aot, being R. S. 0. 1937, Chapter
266, Section 12;
AND WHERi3A,9 the said Petition was duly presented to
f the Council of the County of .Agin on the 20th day of January,
1948;
AND WHAR3M by census of the said Police Village of
Port Burwell taken as of January 31st, 1948 by H. 0. Alward, it
was shorn that the said Police Village of Port Burwell had a
population exceeding seven hundred and fifty persons;
AND &MIAS 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 in
the County of Elgin and having a general circulation in the
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Polioe 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 into 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 the said Village;
AND WHYS the area intended to be embraced in the
said Village of Port Burwell does not extend or occupy an area
of not Gore than 500 acres of land;
THE COUNTY COUNCIL ..s"NACTS:
(1) THAT the Police Village of Port Burwell be and the same
is hereby erected into an incorporated Village apart from the
Township of Bayham in which the same is situate, under the name of
"The Village of Port Burwell", and with the bounaries and limits
which may be more particularly described as follows:
The South parts of Lots Numbers Eight, Nine, Ten,
Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen in the lst Concession
of the Township of Bayham, particularly described
as follows:
COM? LACING in the Westerly limit of the said Lot
number Ten at a point Thirty chains Ten links
Southerly from the Northwesterly angle of said
Lot;
THENCE Easterly parallel with the road allo.vanoe
between the First and Second Concession to the
centre of the road between Lots numbers Ten and
Elevens
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 First 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 Corn ession;
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 Lots sight 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 Corporation of the Village of Port Burwell shall be
held in the Town Hall in the said Village on the last Monday in
December, 1948, and that the first eleotion of Reeve and Council-
lors for the said Corporation shall be held in tae Town H+111 in
the said Village on the first Monday in Junuury, 1949.
(3) THAT Harry 0. Alward shall be returning officer to hold
the first election for the said Village.
(4) THAT the Township of Bayham shall assess tae properties
in the Police Village of tort Burwell for taxation purposes for
the year 1949 at the same time and the same manner as other assess-
ments are made within the To unship of B yham 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.
(b) THAT all taxes imposed by the Township of Bayham in the
Polio* 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 suoh
arrears, penalty and interest after the 31st day of December, 1948
shall be payable to and collectible by the Treasurer of the Village
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 Bayham.
(6) THAT all adjustments of assets and liabilities as between
the Township of Bayham and the Village of Port BurweL shall be
as agreed upon, and in default of agreement, as Duncan Fletcher
MoCuaig, Judge of the County Court of the County of Algin, or his
successor in office, deems equitable.
(7) THA 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 Maroh 1948.
Read a second tins this 23rd day of Maroh 1948.
Read a third time and finally passed this 23rd day of March 1948.
J. D2 Thomson fl.Ct Jenkins
Clerk Warden