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4th Wm. 4, c 23.

said City lying to the north of the northerly boundary line of Queen Street west, and west of the westerly boundary line of Yonge Street.

And so much of the Liberties of the said City as lies to the southward and eastward of the St. Lawrence Ward, shall be and is hereby attached to the St. Lawrence Ward; so much thereof as lies to the northward and eastward of the said St. David's Ward, shall be and is hereby attached to the said St. David's Ward; so much thereof as lies to the northward of the said St. James's Ward, shall be and is hereby attached to the said St. James's Ward; so much thereof as lies to the southward and westward of the St. George's Ward, shall be and is hereby attached to the said St. George's Ward; so much thereof as lies to the westward of the St. Andrew's Ward, shall be and is hereby attached to the said St. Andrew's Ward; and so much thereof as lies to the northward and westward of the St. Patrick's Ward, shall be and is hereby attached to the said St. Patrick's Ward; the limits between the respective portions of the said Liberties hereby attached to the different Wards of the said City being ascertained by the extension of the boundary lines between the said Wards respectively, through the said Liberties, except the boundary line between the portions hereby attached to the St. Lawrence Ward, and that hereby attached to the St. David's Ward, which shall consist of the northerly boundary line of King Street east to the River Don.

"An Act to extend the limits of the Town of York; to erect the said Town into a City; and to incorporate it under the name of the City of Toronto."

(Repealed, excepting the following.)

[XCVI. Provided always, that no person shall have a right to vote No person to vote for a member to represent the County of York, or any Riding thereof, forty Riding. In in respect to any property situate within the limits of the City of Torespect to proper ronto or the Liberties thereof.]

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[XCVII. And be it further euacted by the authority aforesaid, That ronto to be un- whenever in any Act of Parliament, proclamation, letters patent, record, ever the name of Writ, or other legal proceeding, deed, will, instrument, or writing of any York occurs in kind or description, the name of "York" is or shall be used, with intention to apply it to the place commonly called the Town of York, in this Province, or to any part of the Township of York, included by this Act within the said City or the Liberties thereof, the City of Toronto or the Liberties thereof shall, according to the locality, be taken to have been meant and intended, and the name Toronto shall, to all intents and for all purposes, stand in the contemplation of law in the stead and place of York, whenever the name of York is applied to any place within the said City of Toronto or the Liberties thereof, and shall be so understood and applied by all Courts, Judges and Justices, and by all persons concerned in any public act or duty; and that it shall change the name be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Person Adminis

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tering the Government of this Province, to give to any Village, Town, of any place hereTownship or place in this Province, now bearing the name of Toronto, ronto. such other name or names as to him may seem fit; and from the time of such name or names being changed, by official notification in the Upper Canada Gazette, all and every the provisions in this clause contained for carrying the change of name into effect, with respect to the City and Liberties of Toronto, shall in like manner to apply to and be in force in respect to such other place or places of which the name may be changed, according to the nature of the case.]

Extract from an Act to authorize the Governor General to issue a Proclamation to declare the County of Perth to be separated from the United Counties of Huron, Perth and Bruce, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

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Patrick's Ward.

[III. And whereas the Common Council of the City of Toronto, by 16 Vic., Cap. 81. their petition, have, for two successive years, prayed that St. Patrick's Ward in the City, may be divided into two Wards: Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor of this Province, by an order in Council, to issue a Proclamation under the Great Seal of this Province, dividing the said Ward into two Wards, and divide St. declaring by what names such Wards shall thenceforth be known and called, and from and after the first day of January next after the teste of such Proclamation, the said Wards so to be named and described in such Proclamation, shall be considered as separate Wards of the said City, in the same manner as if they had been originally mentioned and described as such separate Wards in the Upper Canada Municipal Coporations' Act of one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and Elections shall be held in and for the said Wards, on the first Monday in January next after the teste of such Proclamation, in the same manner as for any other Wards in the said City, and the persons whose names shall be entered on the Collector's Roll for St. Patrick's Ward, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, residing within each of such Wards respectively, at the time of holding the Elections therefor, and otherwise by law qualified to vote at Municipal Elections, shall be allowed to vote at the Election to be held in such Wards respectively, on the said first Monday in January.

[The Ward of St. Patrick, with the liberties attached thereto, divided into two Wards, to be called respectively, St. John's Ward and St. Patrick's Ward. Proclamation, dated 3rd December, 1852.]

St. John's Ward, to comprise all that part of the said City, lying st. John's Ward. between the westerly boundary line of Yonge Street and the middle of

the College Avenue, and to the north of the northerly boundary line of

Queen Street.

Ward.

St. Patrick's Ward, to comprise all that part of the said City, St. Patrick's lying to the west of the middle of the College Avenue, and to the north of the northerly boundary line of Queen Street.

Amherstburg.

Limits.

Chatham.

Limits.

SCHEDULE D.

TOWNS WITH MUNICIPALITIES ONLY, OR WITHOUT ANY MUNICIPAL
ORGANIZATION.

First Division.

1. Amherstburg. To consist of all that part of this Province situate partly in the Township of Malden and partly in the Township of Anderdon, in the County of Essex, and lying within the following limits, that is to say:

Commencing in front of the River Detroit, at the south-west angle of lot number three on the said river, in the Township of Malden; thence, easterly, along the southerly boundary line of the said lot number three, to the easterly side of the allowance for road in rear of the said lot; thence, northerly, along the easterly side of the said allowance for road, to the boundary line between the said Township of Malden and the said Township of Anderdon; thence, northerly, in the same direction as the said last mentioned course, across the said last mentioned boundary line to the northerly boundary line of block D in the said Township of Anderdon; thence, westerly, along the said last mentioned boundary line, to the water's edge of the said River Detroit; thence, westerly, in the same direction as the said last mentioned course, five chains; thence, southerly, following the direction of the water's edge in its several windings on the easterly shore of the said River Detroit, keeping always at the distance of five chains from the same, to a point opposite the said place of beginning; thence, easterly, in the direction of the said southerly boundary line of the said lot number three in the said Township of Malden, five chains, to the said place of beginning.

2. Chatham,-To consist of all that part of this Province situate within the County of Kent, and lying within the following limits, that is to say:

Composed of lot number twenty-four, in the first concession by the eastern boundary in the Township of Raleigh, lots numbers one and two in the first concession by the western boundary of the Township of Harwich, and also of the Village plot of Chatham-north, being the front part of lot number one in the Township of Chatham, and butted and bounded as follows, that is to say:

Commencing upon the River Thames, upon the limits between lots numbers twenty-three and twenty-four in Raleigh aforesaid; thence, south, forty-five degrees east, to the south-easterly side of the road allowance between the first and second concessions of Raleigh; thence, north, forty-five degrees east, following the south-easterly side of said

road allowance, across lot number twenty-four in Raleigh and numbers one and two in Harwich, to the limits between lots two and three in the first concession of Harwich; thence, north, forty-five degrees west, along said limits between lots two and three in Harwich, to the said River Thames; thence, in prolongation of the last mentioned course, across the said river, to the water's edge of the north-westerly bank thereof; thence, along the same westerly, to the limits of lots one and two in first concession of the Township of Chatham; thence, north, forty-five degrees west, to the north westerly side of Head Street in the town plot of Chatham-north; thence, south-westerly, following the northwesterly limits of Head Street, to the south-westerly side of the allowance for road on the town-line between Chatham and Dover east; thence, south, forty-five degrees east, to the water's edge of the River Thames; thence, along the same westerly with the stream, to a point opposite the line between lots numbers twenty-three and twenty-four in the first concession of the said Township of Raleigh; thence, across the river to the place of beginning.

3. Guelph, To consist of all that part of this Province situate in the County of Waterloo, and lying within the following limits, that is to

say:

Commencing at a point where the south-westerly side of the Edinburgh road in the said County intersects the north-westerly side of the London road produced in the said County; thence, north-east, in a course along the north-westerly side of the said London road, and crossing the river Speed, to the easterly bank thereof; thence, along the said easterly bank, down the stream, and following the course thereof to its junction with the Eramosa branch of the said river; thence, crossing the said Eramosa branch in a direct line, to the south-easterly bank thereof; thence, down the united stream along the south-easterly bank thereof, and following the course thereof, to a point where the said southeasterly bank intersects the south-westerly side of the said Edinburgh road produced; thence, north-west, following the course of the said south-westerly side of the Edinburgh road, to the place of beginning.

Guelph.

Limits.

4. Simcoe, To consist of all that part of this Province situate in the Simcoe. County of Norfolk, and lying within the following limits, that is to say: Commencing on the town-line between the Township and Gore of Limits. Woodhouse, at the limit between lots numbers twelve and thirteen, in the said Gore of Woodhouse; thence, westerly, on the limit between said Gore lots twelve and thirteen, thirty chains; thence, northerly, parallel to the said town-line, (called Norfolk Street in the Town of Simcoe,) be the distance more or less, to the intersection of the north

Woodstock.

Limits.

L'Orignal.

erly side of Paterson's Creek, or Messrs. Wilson's Mill Pond, as may be; thence, following down the northerly side of said Mill Pond and Creek, to the north-westerly limit of the town-line between the townships of Townsend and Woodhouse; thence, easterly, on the said limit, to the distance of twenty chains from the north-westerly angle of the Township of Woodhouse; thence, southerly, parallel to the said townline between the Township of Woodhouse and Woodhouse Gore (or Norfolk Street aforesaid,) to the intersection of the said limit between lots numbers twelve and thirteen in the Gore of Woodhouse produced easterly; and thence, along the same, westerly to the place of beginning.

5. Woodstock,-To consist of all that part of this Province situate in the County of Oxford, and lying within the following limits, that is to say:

Commencing on the northerly limit of Dundas Street at a point where a post has been planted at the south-west angle of lot number eighteen, in the first concession of the Township of Blandford; thence, in a northerly direction along the westerly boundary of the said lot, to the allowance for road between the first and second concessions of the said Township of Blandford; thence, continuing the same course to the northerly limit of the said road allowance; thence, westerly, along the said northern limit, to the River Thames; thence, in continuation of the last mentioned course, across the said river, to the water's edge on the westerly bank thereof; thence, along the water's edge of the River Thames on the westerly bank thereof, to a point opposite the southerly bank of Cedar Creek; thence, across the said River Thames to the water's edge on the southerly bank of Cedar Creek; thence, along the water's edge of Cedar Creek on the southerly side thereof, to the eastern limit of the allowance for road between lot number twenty-one in the first concession of the Township of east Oxford and the Gore between east and west Oxford; thence, southerly, along the said eastern limit, to the southern limit of the allowance for road between the first and second concessions of the said Township of east Oxford; thence, easterly, along the said southern limit, to a point opposite to the centre of lot number eighteen in the first concession of the said Township; thence, on a line equi-distant from the eastern and western side lines of the said lot number eighteen on a course about north fifteen degrees forty minutes west, to Dundas Street; thence, continuing the same course, to the northern limit of Dundas Street; and thence, westerly, along the northern limit of Dundas Street, to the place of beginning. Second Division.

1. L'Orignal,—To consist of all that part of this Province situate in

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