CHAPTER 102.

An Act Respecting the Boundaries of Municipalities in the Province of Manitoba.

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the
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Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:-

SHORT TITLE.

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as. "The Municipal Boundaries

Act."

INTERPRETATION.

Interpre

tation,

"settlements,"

ships,"
"ranges."

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2. The "parishes," "settlements," "lots," "sections," "townParishes," ships" and "ranges," and the numbers thereof, referred to in “lots," this Act, are and mean the parishes, settlements, lots, sections, tions", "town- townships and ranges respectively in Manitoba, according to the systems of survey authorized by "The Dominion Lands Acts" of the Parliament of Canada and used by the Government of Canada, and the (numbers thereof according to such systems and, unless a contrary intention appears, the word parish" herein includes the outer two miles attached to the river lots, where such have been surveyed and laid down in the official map of the Dominion Lands Office.

Parish."

East, "west."

3. The expressions "east" and "west," where used in this Act after a number or after the word "range or ranges," mean respectively east of the principal meridian and west of said meridian, according to the said systems of survey.

Municipal and

DIVISIONS.

4. The divisions of the Province for Municipal and Judisions of Pro- cial District purposes shall hereafter be as provided in this

Judicial Divi

Western Ju

5. The Western Judicial District shall comprise the rural dicial District municipalities of Archie, Arthur, Birtle, Blanchard, Boulton. Clanwilliam, Cornwallis, Daly, Ellice, Elton, Glenwood, Harrison Miniota, Morton, Oakland, Oak River, Odanah, Pipestone

Rossburn, Russell, Saskatchewan, Shell River, Shoal Lake, Sifton, Silver Creek, Strathclair, Turtle Mountain, Wallace, Whitehead, Winchester and Woodworth, the City of Brandon, the Towns of Birtle, Minnedosa, Rapid City and Virden, and all the unorganized territory lying west of a line drawn northerly along the eastern limit of range numbered seventeen west from a point in the northern boundary line of the Rural Municipality of Clanwilliam to the centre line of Lake Winnipegosis, thence northerly along the centre line of Lake Winnipegosis to the north boundary of the Province of Manitoba." 53 V. c. 55, s. 2; 54 V. c. 11, s. 1.

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6. The Central Judicial District shall comprise the Rural Central JudiMunicipalities of Langford, Lansdowne, North Cypress, North Norfolk, Portage la Prairie, Rosedale, South Cypress, South Norfolk and Westbourne, the Towns of Gladstone, Neepawa and Portage la Prairie, the Village of Carberry, and all the unorganized territory lying within and bounded by the following limits, that is to say :-On the west by the eastern limit of range numbered seventeen west, on the east by a line running through the middle of Lake Manitoba, on the south by the north boundary of township numbered twenty and the same produced east to the said line running through the middle of Lake Manitoba, and on the north by the north boundary of township numbered thirty and productions thereof to intersect the eastern and western limits herein before defined. 53 V. c. 55, s. 3; 54 V. c. 11, s. 2.

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7. The Eastern Judicial District shall comprise the Rural Eastern Judi Municipalities of Argyle, Assiniboia, De Salaberry, Dufferin, Franklin, Gimli, Hanover, Kildonan, La Broquerie, Lorne, Louise, Macdonald, Montcalm, Morris, Pembina, Rhineland, Ritchot, Rockwood, Springfield, Stanley, St. Andrews, St. Boniface, St. Clements, St. François Xavier, St. Laurent, St. Paul, Taché and Woodlands, the City of Winnipeg, the Towns of East Selkirk, Emerson, Morris, Nelson, St. Boniface and West Selkirk, and all the unorganized territory not included within the Central and Western Judicial Districts." 53 V. c. 55, s. 4; 54 V. c. 11, s. 3.

to debts and

municipality transferred

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8. Any municipality, or portion thereof, transferred from Provision as one Judicial District to another by chapter fifty-five of the liabilities of Acts passed in the fifty-third year of Her Majesty's reign, or by this Act, did and shall after such transfer cease to be liable for from one Judi any of the debts or liabilities, or to be entitled to any share in another. the assets, of the Judicial District out of which it was or is taken, and did and shall thereupon become liable to a proportionate share, according to assessment, of the debts or liabil ities of the District into which it was or is put, and entitled to a proportionate share of the assets thereof. 53 V. c. 55, s. 5.

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City of
Brandon.

Brandon divided into wards.

9. The City of Brandon shall be bounded as follows:Commencing at the northeast corner of section numbered twenty-five in township numbered ten in range numbered nineteen west of the principal meridian in the Province of Manitoba; thence running south along the eastern boundary of sections numbered twenty-five, twenty-four and thirteen, to the southeast corner of said section numbered thirteen; thence west, along the southern boundary of sections numbered thirteen, fourteen and fifteen, to the southwestern corner of said section numbered fifteen; thence north, along the western boundary of sections numbered fifteen, twenty-two and twenty-seven, to the northwest corner of said section numbered twenty-seven; and thence east, along the northern boundary of sections numbered twenty-seven, twenty-six and twenty-five, to the place of beginning. 53 V. c. 55, s. 8.

10. The City of Brandon shall, until further divided in the manner mentioned in "The Municipal Act," be divided into four wards, to be called and numbered respectively "One," "Two," "Three," and "Four;" and the boundaries of said wards shall be as follows:

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WARD ONE.

Ward One shall be composed of sections numbered thirteen, Ward One. twenty-four and twenty-five, and those portions of sections numbered fourteen, twenty-three and twenty-six situate and being to the cast of the easterly limit of Sixth Street.

WARD TWO.

Ward Two shall be composed of those portions of sections Ward Two. numbered fourteen, twenty-three and twenty-six situate and being between the easterly limit of Sixth Street and the easterly limit of Ninth Street.

WARD THREE.

Ward Three shall be composed of those portions of sections Ward Three. numbered fourteen, twenty-three and twenty-six situate and being between the easterly limit of Ninth Street and the westerly limit of Twelfth Street.

WARD FOUR.

Ward Four shall be composed of those portions of sections Ward Four. numbered fourteen, twenty-three and twenty-six situate and being west of the westerly limit of Twelfth Street, and the whole of sections numbered fifteen, twenty-two, and twenty53 V. c. 55, s. 9.

seven.

11. The City of Winnipeg shall be bounded as follows: City of Win

Commencing at a point in the centre of the Red River where the line between lots numbered two and three of the Parish of Kildonan would strike, if produced easterly thereto : thence westerly along the said line between lots numbered two and three to the northeast corner of section numbered twenty-four in township numbered eleven in range numbered two east of the principal meridian; thence westerly, along the north side of the road allowance, to a point opposite the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section numbered twenty-four of the before-mentioned township and range; thence southerly, along the western line of the aforesaid quarter-section, to the southwest corner thereof; and thence in the same direction, along the east line of the southwest quarter of the same section, to the southeast corner thereof; thence due south, along the west side of the Government road allowance, to its intersection with the north side of the road allowance on the four-mile limit of the lots fronting

nipeg.