members thereof, and to fix the salary and allowances of said members, and in the said city the provisions of the said Municipal Act respecting police commissioners shall not apply or be of any effect, unless and until adopted by by-law of the said city council; but this section shall not apply or have any force or effect after it shall appear from any general census, or from any census which may be taken by the assessor, or under a by-law of the municipality, that said city contains fifteen thousand inhabitants or more, and the Police Magistrate of the said City of Guelph shall not receive a salary exceeding twelve hundred dollars until it appears in the manner aforesaid that said city contains fifteen thousand inhabitants or more. Preamble. Town incorporated. CHAPTER 42. An Act to incorporate the Town of Mount Forest. [Assented to 11th March, 1879.] W HEREAS the population of the Village of Mount Forest, in the County of Wellington, is rapidly increasing, and owing to the situation and location of the said village on the present Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, and also on the proposed Georgian Bay and Wellington Railway, it is likely to become a large manufacturing place, and attract the trade of a large, populous and wealthy section of country; and whereas the inhabitants of the said village, at a public meeting held in the said village, passed a resolution in favour of incorporating the said village as a town; and whereas the council of the said village have, by their petition, represented that the incorporation of the said village as a town would promote its future progress and prosperity, and enable its inhabitants to make suitable regulation for the protection and improvement of property, and to carry out improvements they are desirous of making, and that a portion of the Townships of Arthur, Normanby and Egremont, should be included in the said town: and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition : Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. On and after the twenty-ninth day of December next after the passing of this Act, the said Village of Mount Forest shall be and is hereby constituted a corporation or body politic under the name of the Corporation of the Town of Mount Forest, and shall enjoy, and have all the rights, powers and privileges enjoyed and exercised by incorporated towns in the Province Province of Ontario, under the existing municipal laws for the said Province. 2. The said Town of Mount Forest shall comprise and con- Limits of sist of the present Village of Mount Forest, and of the third town. division of lot number thirty-two and the whole of lot number thirty-three in the first concession of the Township of Egremont, in the County of Grey, and of all those portions of lots sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy and seventy-one adjacent to the said village in the third concession of the aforesaid Township of Egremont south of Sligo Road produced, and of the third division of lot number thirty-two and the whole of lot number thirty-three in the first concession of the Township of Normanby, in the aforesaid County of Grey: and of the first and second divisions of lot number two, east of the Guelph and Owen Sound Road, and the whole of lot number two to the centre of Bentley Street and west of the Guelph and Owen Sound Road, and also lot number one in the eleventh concession, all in the Township of Arthur, in the County of Wellington. 3. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, the provisions Revised Staof the Revised Statutes respecting Municipal Institutions with tutes respecting Municipal regard to matters consequent upon the formation of new cor- Institutions porations and the other provisions of the said statutes applica- to apply. ble to the erection of a village into a town under the said statutes and to the town so erected, shall apply to the said Town of Mount Forest, in the same manner as they would have been applicable had the said Village of Mount Forest been erected into a town under the provisions of the said statutes. 4. All debentures heretofore authorized under any by-law Existing of the said Village of Mount Forest, and whether the same had debentures. been issued or not, shall be valid and binding upon the said Corporation of the Town of Mount Forest. 5. At the first election of mayor, reeve, and councillors Qualifications. (and deputy reeve, if entitled to such), for the said Town of Mount Forest, the qualification of electors and that of officers required to qualify shall be the same as that required in villages by the municipal laws of Ontario. Act. 6. The expenses of obtaining this Act, and of furnishing Expenses of any documents, copies of papers, writings, deeds, or any matters whatsoever required by the clerk or other officer of the said town or otherwise, shall be borne by the said town, and paid by it to any party that may be entitled thereto. 7. The said Town of Mount Forest shall for all municipal, Town to form judicial, electoral and school purposes and also for the purpose of Wellington. part of County of registration of titles, belong to and form part of the County of Wellington. Wards. 8. The said Town of Mount Forest shall be divided into four wards, in manner described in the Schedule to this Act, to be called respectively North Ward, East Ward, South Ward, and West Ward, which said several wards shall be respectively composed and bounded as follows: SCHEDULE. (Section 8.) WARDS OF THE TOWN OF MOUNT FOREST. North Ward-Shall comprise all that part of the said town which is bounded as follows, that is to say: Commencing at the intersection of the centre lines of King Street and Main Street; thence northerly along Main Street to the northerly limit of the said town (being the limit between the said town and the second and third divisions of lot thirty-two, in the first concession of the Township of Egremont); thence easterly along said limit to the rear line of the first concession of the Township of Egremont; thence southerly along said line to the centre of Sligo Road; thence easterly along said road to the centre of the road allowance between the said town and the Township of Egremont, known as the base line road; thence southerly along said road to the centre of King Street produced; thence westerly along King Street to the place of beginning. East Ward-Shall comprise all that part of the said town which is bounded as follows, that is to say: Commencing at the intersection of the centre lines of King Street and Main Street; thence easterly along King Street produced to the centre of the road allowance between the said town and the Township of Egremont; thence southerly along said road to the centre of London Road; thence southerly along London Road to the centre of Queen Street; thence easterly along Queen Street to the limit between the said town and lots numbers one and two, in the ninth concession of the Township of Arthur; thence southerly along said limit to the limit between said town and the second and third division of lot number two, east of the Guelph and Owen Sound Road; thence westerly along said limit to the centre of the Guelph and Owen Sound Road; thence northerly along said road fifteen chains, more or less, to that line which was the southerly limit of the Village of Mount Forest; thence westerly along the said line twelve chains and fifty links, more or less, to the centre line of John Street produced; thence northerly along said line to the centre of Queen Street; thence easterly along Queen Street to the centre of Main Street; thence northerly along Main Street to the place of beginning. South South Ward-Shall comprise that part of the said town. which is bounded as follows, that is to say: Commencing at the intersection of the centre lines of Main Street and Wellington Street; thence southerly along Main Street to the centre of Queen Street; thence along Queen Street to the centre of John Street; thence along John Street produced to that line which was the southerly limit of the Village of Mount Forest; thence easterly along the said line to the centre of the Guelph and Owen Sound Road; thence southerly along said road to the centre of Bentley Street; thence westerly along Bentley Street to the westerly side of Elizabeth Street; thence along the westerly side of Elizabeth Street to the limit between the said town and lot number three, west of the Guelph and Owen Sound Road in the Township of Arthur; thence along said limit to the limit between the said town and lot number two, in the eleventh concession of the Township of Arthur; thence northerly along said limit to that line which was the southerly limit of the Village of Mount Forest; thence easterly along said line to the centre of Cork Street; thence northerly along Cork Street to the centre of Queen Street; thence easterly along Queen Street to the centre of Wellington Street; thence easterly along Wellington Street to the place of beginning. West Ward-Shall comprise all that part of said town which is bounded as follows, that is to say: Commencing at the intersection of the centre lines of Wellington Street and Main Street; thence westerly along Wellington Street to the centre of Queen Street; thence along Queen Street to the centre of Cork Street; thence along Cork Street to that line which was the southerly limit of the Village of Mount Forest; thence westerly along said line to that line which was the easterly limit of lot number one, in the eleventh concession of the Township of Arthur; thence southerly along said line to the limit between the said town and lot number two, in the eleventh concession of the Township of Arthur; thence westerly along said limit to the centre of Lover's Lane; thence northerly along the centre of Lover's Lane to the centre of Queen Street; thence to the centre of Sligo Road; thence easterly along the centre line of Sligo Road to the limit between the said town and lots seventy-five and seventy-four, in concession "A" and lot thirty-three in the first concession of the Township of Normanby; thence northerly along said limit to the limit between the said town and the second and third divisions of lot number thirty-two, in the first concession, of the Township of Normanby; thence easterly along said limit to the centre of Main Street; thence southerly along Main Street to the place of beginning. CHAPTER Preamble. By-law confirmed. Election of reeve and councillors confirmed. General Acts to apply ex cept so far as varied hereby. CHAPTER 43. An Act relating to the incorporation of the Village of Tiverton. W [Assented to 11th March, 1879.] HEREAS certain inhabitants and ratepayers of the Village of Tiverton, in the County of Bruce, by their petition, represent that the by-law, hereto appended, was duly passed by the Council of the Corporation of the County of Bruce, on the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight; and that, under section eighty-six, of chapter one hundred and seventy-four, of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, the first election under a by-law erecting a locality into an incorporated village should take place on the first Monday in January next after the end of three months from the passing of the by-law by which the change was made, and that until such day the change should not go into effect; and that it would be productive of great benefit to the petitioners that the election held on the last Monday in December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, should be confirmed; and have prayed for an Act confirming the same; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The said by-law of the County Council of Bruce, a copy of which is set forth in the schedule to this Act, marked A, incorporating the Village of Tiverton, is hereby confirmed as if the incorporation of the said village had gone into effect on the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the territory described in the said by-law is from that date to be taken and considered as having been erected into an incorporated village, called and to be called the Village of Tiverton, and the inhabitants thereof as formed into a municipal corporation by the name of "The Corporation of the Village of Tiverton." 2. The election of reeve and councillors for the said Village of Tiverton, held, under the said by-law, on Monday, the thirtieth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, is hereby confirmed; and the Reeve of the said Village of Tiverton, then elected, shall have a seat in the County Council of Bruce, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. 3. Except as herein specially enacted, all the provisions of the Acts passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Province 'of |