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CAP. LXXX.

Preamble.

Bothwell in

Town.

An Act to incorporate the Town of Bothwell and to define the limits thereof.

[Assented to 15th August, 1866.]

WHEREAS the inhabitants of the unincorporated village

of Bothwell, in the township of Zone, in the county of Kent, have, by their petition, represented that it is desirable, in order to promote the progress and prosperity of the said village, and to enable the inhabitants thereof to carry out the improvements they are desirous of making, and to provide necessary arrangements for the preservation of thepeace within the limits of the said village, that the said village be incorporated as a town; and that according to a census duly taken under a Bylaw of the Corporation of the said township, the number of inhabitants residing within the boundaries of the said town as described in the second section of this Act, amounts to three thousand five hundred and sixty-two; and whereas the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act of Upper Canada are inadequate to provide for the incorporation of the said village as a town in the first instance, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petitioners, and to provide accordingly: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. From and after the passing of this Act, the inhabitants corporated as a of the said village shall be a body corporate, apart from the township of Zone, in which the said village is situated, with such powers and privileges as are now or shall hereafter be conferred on incorporated towns in Upper Canada, and the powers of such Corporation shall be exercised by, through and in the name of the Corporation of the Town of Bothwell.

Boundaries of the Town.

Wards.

St. George's
Ward.

2. The said town of Bothwell shall comprise and consist of the following lots and parcels of land, that is to say, lots numbers eleven and twelve and thirteen in the ninth concession, lot number twelve in the tenth concession, lots numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, in the first range north of the Longwoods road, and lots numbers seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty-one in the River Thames range, south of the Longwoods road, all in the said township of Zone.

3. The said town of Bothwell shall be divided into five wards, to be called respectively, St. George's Ward, St. Andrew's Ward, St. Lawrence Ward, St. David's Ward, and St. Patrick's Ward:

1. St. George's Ward shall comprise parts of lots eleven, twelve and thirteen in the ninth concession, forming a triangle,

bounded

bounded on the south by the Great Western Railway track, on the west by the concession road between the eighth and ninth concessions in the said township, and on the east by the line of Main Street, as laid down on the plan of the said village;

2. St. Andrew's Ward shall comprise those parts of lots St. Andrew's twelve and thirteen in the ninth concession, bounded on the Ward. south by the Great Western Railway track, on the east by the concession road between concessions nine and ten, on the north-east by the boundary line between lots thirteen and fourteen in the ninth concession, on the west by the line of Main Street aforesaid, and on the north-west by the concession road between concessions eight and nine in the said township of Zone;

3. St. Lawrence Ward shall comprise those parts of los St. Lawrence eleven and twelve in the ninth concession in the said township Ward. of Zone, south of the Great Western Railway track, and west of Peter Street, as laid down in the plan of the said village; also parts of lots four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten in the range north of the Longwoods road, in the said township, being the parts of the said lots lying to the west of Peter Street aforesaid;

4. St. David's Ward shall comprise lot twelve in the tenth St. David's concession, and parts of lots four, five, six, seven, eight, nine Ward. and ten in the range north of the Longwoods road in the said township, being the parts of the last mentioned lots, lying to the east of Peter Street aforesaid; also parts of lots eleven and twelve in the ninth concession of the said township, being the parts of the said lots situated to the south of the Great Western Railway track, and east of Peter Street aforesaid; also lots one, two and three in the range north of the Longwoods road in the said township;

5. St. Patrick's ward shall comprise lots seventeen, eighteen, St. Patrick's nineteen, twenty and twenty-one, in the river range south of Ward. the Longwoods road in the said township.

election.

4. Immediately after the passing of this Act, it shall be Returning lawful for the Governor of this province to appoint a Returning officer for first Officer for the town of Bothwell, which said Returning Officer shall appoint the time and place for holding the said first election in the several wards of the said town, to be held not later than one month from the time of his said appointment, of which appointment for the holding of the said election, the said Returning Officer shall give notice in a newspaper published in the said town, or if there be no newspaper published there, then by notice posted in at least three conspicuous places in the said town, ten days before the said election; and shall, by Deputies. his warrant, appoint a Deputy Returning Officer for each of the wards into which the said town is divided; and in the discharge

Proviso:

Qualification of
Electors, &c.

Nomination of candidates.

Notice.

Returning officer to preside.

Proceedings at
Election.

Returns by
Deputies.

Copies of Collectors Roll to furnished to be Returning Officer.

Oath of office.

Subsequent Elections.

discharge of their duties, such Returning Officer and Deputy Returning Officers shall be respectively subject to all the provisions of the Acts respecting the Municipal Institutions of Upper Canada applicable to Returning Officers at elections in towns in Upper Canada; Provided always, that at the first and second elections to be held in the said town, the qualification of the electors and of the mayor and councillors shall be the same as that of electiors of councillors in townships.

5. The meeting of the electors shall take place for the nomination of candidates for the mayoralty at a time and place to be appointed by such Returning Officer, of which appointment notice shall be given as provided for the said first election, in the next preceding section of this Act; such meeting to be held at least one week before the said election.

6. The said Returning Officer shall preside at such meeting, or in case of his absence, the electors present shall choose from among themselves a chairman to officiate, who shall have all the powers of a Returning Officer.

7. The proceedings otherwise in the said election for the office of mayor shall be as prescribed by law with respect to such elections in towns in Upper Canada.

8. Every Deputy Returning Officer shall make the returns required by the one hundred and tenth section of the Municipal Institutions Act to the said Returning Officer, who shall have all the powers and perform the several duties of town clerks with respect to municipal elections in towns in Upper Canada.

9. The collector or township clerk of the township of Zone, or other person having the legal custody of the collector's roll of that township for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, shall furnish to the Returning Officer on demand made to him for the same, true copies of such roll so far as the same relates to voters resident in the several wards in the said town, and, so far as such roll contains the names of the male freeholders and householders rated upon such roll in respect of real property lying within such limits, the amount of the assessed value of such real property for which they shall be respectively rated on such roll, which copies shall be verified on oath, or as is now required by law.

10. The said Returning Officer and Deputy Returning Officers before holding the said election shall take the oath or affirmation now required by law to be taken by Returning Officers for incorporated towns in Upper Canada.

11. Elections for mayor and councillors for the said town of Bothwell, after the year one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix, shall be held in conformity with the provisions of law applying to incorporated towns in Upper Canada.

12. The several persons who shall be elected or appointed Oaths of qualiunder this Act, shall take the oaths of office and of qualifica- fication, &c. tion now prescribed by law.

Council.

13. The council of the said town of Bothwell to be elected Constitution of in manner aforesaid, shall consist of the mayor, who shall be the Town the head thereof, and of two councillors for every ward, and they shall be organized as a council in the same manner as in towns incorporated under the provisions of the Upper Canada Municipal Acts, and have, use and exercise the powers and privileges vested in the mayor and councillors in incorporated

towns.

14. From and after the holding of the election under this Town sepaAct, the said town shall cease to form part of the township of rated from Zone, and shall, to all intents and purposes, form a separate zone. Township of and independent municipality, with all the privileges and rights of an incorporated town in Upper Canada, but nothing Proviso herein contained shall affect or be construed to affect any as to debts. taxes imposed for the payment of any debt contracted by the township of Zone aforesaid, but the said town of Bothwell shall be liable to pay to the treasurer of the township of Zone aforesaid, in each and every year until any such existing debt be fully discharged, the same amount which was collected within the said described limits of the said town towards the payment of such debt, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the same shall be a debt against the said town.

made.

15. The officers of the said council of the township of Zone Collection of shall not proceed to collect any rate or assessment imposed by rates in the the council for the present year within the limits of the said Town; how town, but the amount which may be required for the purposes of the said town shall be based on the assessment of the township assessor or assessors for the present year, and shall be collected by the officer, or officers to be appointed by the said town council for that purpose.

furnished.

16. The clerk of the said township shall, and he is hereby Copy of assesrequired to furnish to the clerk to be appointed by the council ment Roll to be of the said town, on demand made by him therefor, a true copy of the assessment roll for the present year, so far as the same shall contain the rateable property assessed within the said town, and the names of the owners or occupants thereof.

assessments for

17. The expenses of any assessment imposed for the pre- Town's share sent year, so far as the same shall relate to assessments made of expenses of within the limits of the said town, and the expenses of fur- 1866. nishing any documents or copies of papers or writings, by the clerk or other officer of the council of the said township hereinbefore referred to, or required to be furnished, shall be borne and paid by the said town council to the said township council or otherwise, as the said township council shall require. 18. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. 29

Public Act.

САР.

Preamble.

Boundaries of

New Edin

burgh.

CAP. LXXXI.

An Act to incorporate the Village of New Edinburgh, in the County of Carleton.

[Assented to 15th August, 1866.]

HEREAS the inhabitants of that part of the Township of Gloucester, in the County of Carleton, commonly known as the Village of New Edinburgh, have by their petition represented that it has become the seat of residence of His Excellency the Governor General of Canada, and from the rapid increase of the population it has become necessary to confer upon it corporate powers, and prayed that it may have such powers conferred upon it; and it is desirable to grand the prayer of the said petition: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Those tracts of land being composed of parts of lots the Village of numbers two, three, four and five, in the Ottawa and Rideau junction gore of the township of Gloucester, described and lying within the following boundaries, that is to say: commencing at the northerly point of intersection of the waters of the north branch of the River Rideau with the waters of the Ottawa River, thence up stream along the water's edge on the northerly side of the said north branch of the River Rideau, to the point where the easterly boundary line of the "Rideau Hall Domain," if produced, would intersect the said water's edge, thence to and along the said easterly boundary line in a northerly direction to the most easterly point of the said domain, thence along the boundary line of the said domain in a north-westerly direction to a point where the east side of Thomas street in New Edinburgh aforesaid, if produced northerly, would intersect the said boundary, thence in a straight line running due north-west to and along the water's edge of the Ottawa River, to the place of beginning; also the tract of land commonly called and known as "Green Island," bounded on the northeast and south by the Rideau River, and on the west by the River Ottawa; shall, upon, from and after the first day of January, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, cease to be part of the said township of Gloucester, and shall be incorporated as and shall be a village, to be called and designated as the Village of New Edinburgh.

Incorporation 1st Jan., 1867.

on and after

Certain provi

municipal Act to apply to New Edinburgh.

2. So much of the Act respecting the Municipal Institutions sions of U. C. of Upper Canada as relates to incorporated villages, shall, upon from and after the day last aforesaid, apply to the said Village of New Edinburgh, and the said village shall have and exercise all and singular the rights, privileges, and jurisdiction which are thereby granted or conferred to or upon, or as, by virtue of the said Act or any Acts now in force, or hereafter to

be

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