2. The first election of councillors for the said munici- 1st election, pality shall be held on the day and at the place fixed by the warden of the county of Hochelaga, who shall preside at the said election; and all the articles of the municipal code of the province of Quebec relating to elections and to meetings of municipal electors, shall apply mutatis mutandis at the first election of councillors to be held as herein above enacted; provided that the said warden shall be obliged to give the notices required by article 294 of the said municipal code, and the other articles relative to this matter.

3. All the provisions of the municipal code and of the Municipal code to apply, acts amending the same relative to village municipalities established in virtue of the said code, shall apply to the said municipality of the village of Ste. Cunégonde.

4. This act shall take effect on the day of the sanction Act in force. thereof.

CAP. XLIII.

An act to divide the municipality of the township of Cox in the county of Bonaventure, district of Gaspé, into two separate municipalities.

[Assented to 28th December, 1876:]

WHEREAS the inhabitants of the municipality of P. camble..

the township of Cox, in the county of Bonaventure, district of Gaspé, have prayed that the said municipality be divided into two distinct municipalities, and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1. The municipality of the township of Cox shall for Division into the future cease to form a single municipality, and shall two municipalities. be divided into two separate municipalities, which shall New Carlisle. be known and designated as follows: "The municipality Paspebac. of New Carlisle," and "The municipality of Paspebiac.

comprised in

2. The municipality of Paspebiac shall include all that Territory portion of the township of Cox, which lies to the east of William Scott's bridge.

The municipality of New Carlisle shall include the remaining portion of the old municipality, which lies to the west of William Scott's bridge.

the new municipalities.

Municipal

code to apply.

1st election.

Subsequent elections.

Existing

municipal

3. All the provisions of the municipal code shall apply to those municipalities, as well as to the corporation and council of each, as if they had been separated under the provisions of such code.

4. A general election of municipal councillors shall be held in each of those municipalities on the second Monday in the month of February next after the coming into force of this act, at which election seven councillors shall be elected, in the manner provided by the municipal code.

Subsequent general elections in such municipality shall be held, at the time and in the manner determined by the municipal code.

5. The municipal by-laws, orders, rolls or enactments by-laws, &c. governing the municipality of the township of Cox, before the coming into force of this act, shall remain in force in both municipalities, until they shall have been repealed or amended by the council of one or other of the said municipalities.

Appropriation of moneys.

Division of moneys.

Division of property.

Act in force,

6. Any by-law that has not been approved by the majority of the rate-payers of the township of Cox, and any resolution of the present council of the municipality of the township of Cox, which may have been passed since the tenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and by which an appropriation of money exceeding one hundred dollars has been or may have been made, shall be null and. of no effect as to that part of such township which is hereby erected into the municipality of Paspebiac.

The division of the moneys belonging to the municipality of the township of Cox shall be made, without paying attention to any such appropriation, which, however, shall diminish in no way the rights that would have been enjoyed by the municipality of Paspebiac, if such appropriation had not been made.

7. The movable property, assets and liabilities of the present municipality of the township of Cox shall be divided between the two new municipalities of New . Carlisle and of Paspebiac, in conformity with the provisions of the municipal code and of the acts amending the

same.

8. The present act shall come into force on the first day of February, 1877.

An act to divide the municipality of the township of Malbaie, in the county of Gaspé, district of Gaspé, into two separate municipalities.

W

[Assented to 28th December, 1876.]

HEREAS the inhabitants of the east part of the municipality of Malbaie, in the county of Gaspé, have petitioned that they may be detached from the said municipality, by reason of its too great extent and of the difficulty which many of them experience in reaching the place where the sittings of the council are held, and that they be constituted into a separate municipality under the name of the municipality of the parish of Malbaie number two; and whereas it is just to grant their prayer; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

Preamble.

two munici

1. The municipality of the township of Malbaie shall Division into hereafter cease to form one municipality, and shall be palities. divided into two separate municipalities, which shall be known and designated as follows: "Municipality of the parish of St. Pierre de la Malbaie number one, " and Municipality of the parish of St. Pierre de la Malbaie Names, number two."

2. The municipality of the parish of St. Pierre de la Territory Malbaie number. two, shall hereafter comprise all that comprised in part of the township of Malbaie, bounded as follows: to the new muthe north by the township of Douglass, to the east by Gaspé nicipalities. basin, to the south by the bay of Malbaie and the waters of the gulf of St. Lawrence, to the west, by the west line of lot No. 19 of the first range north, for the distance of fifty chains, more or less, to the intersection of the Belle Anse and Gaspé road, thence following such road fiftytwo chains more or less, to the depth of the first range north, thence following the trait-carré of the said depth, more or less to the trait-carré of the depth on the third range of the Belle Anse and Gaspé road, thence following the said trait-carré to the intersection of the said division of the townships of Malbaie and Douglass, as set forth on the plan which accompanies the petition of the petitioners. The municipality of St. Pierre de la Malbaie number one shall include the remainder of the old municipality.

Municipal

3. All the provisions of the municipal code shall apply to such municipalities, as also to the corporation code to apply.

1st election

Subsequent elections.

Division of property.

Act in force.

and council of each of them, in the same manner as if they had been separated under such code.

4. A general election of municipal councillors shall be held in the municipality of the parish of St. Pierre de la Malbaie number two, on the second Monday of the month of February, next after the coming into force of this act, at which election seven councillors shall be elected in the manner prescribed by the municipal code. The general elections following in such municipality shall be held as in other local municipalities.

5. The movable estate, assets and liabilities of the existing municipality of the township of Malbaie, shall be divided between the two new municipalities, in accordance with the municipal code and the acts which amend the same.

6. This act shall come into force on the day of its

sanction.

Preamble.

Division into

palities.

САР. X L V.

An act to erect the township of Bolton into two distinct municipalities for municipal and school purposes.

W

[Assented to 28th December; 1876.]

HEREAS a large number of the inhabitants of the township of Bolton in the county of Brome, have by their petition prayed that the said township should be erected into two separate and distinct municipalities; and it is expedient to grant their petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1. The territory heretofore known and distinguished two munici as the township of Bolton, in the county of Brome, is from and after the passing of this act divided and erected into two separate and distinct municipalities, in such manner as that the first four ranges on the west side of said township shall form one municipality, and the remaining ranges shall form another municipality—to be severally hereafter known as "the municipality of west Bolton" and the "municipality of east Bolton."

Names.

Purposes of

2. The said two municipalities hereby constituted subdivision. shall be separate and distinct for all municipal and school

purposes.

Bolton.

3. A meeting of the qualified electors of the said 1st election municipality of West Bolton shall be held at the Brill in West School House in the said municipality on the first Monday in the month of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven for the election of councillors in accordance with the provisions of the municipal code; Present counand the municipal councillors of the present township of Bolton shall continue in office for the said municipality East Bolton of East Bolton, with the exception of those who retire and to continue those who do not reside within its limits.

in office.

school com

4. A meeting of the qualified electors of said munici- Election of pality of West Bolton shall be held at the said Brill School missioners House on the second Monday, in the month of March, for West one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven for the Balton. election of school commissioners in accordance with the law.

5. Nothing contained in this act shall have the effect Actual obliof discharging the whole or any portion of the said gations. municipalities, or either of them, from debts and obliga

tions contracted by the municipality of the said township of Bolton, prior to the passing of this act.

6. This act shall come into force on the day of the Act in force. sanction thereof.

CAP. XL V I.

An act to erect the village of Pointe au Pic into a separate municipality.

[Assented to 28th December, 1876.]

HEREAS the inhabitants of that part of the parish Preamble. of St. Etienne de la Malbaie, in the county of Charle-.

voix, known by the name of Pointe au Pic, have by their ..petition represented that the present population of the.. said Pointe au Pic is over four hundred souls; that the village of Pointe au Pic is a watering place that is well known abroad, and to which, every summer, a great many strangers resort; that it is opportune to grant the said village of Pointe au Pic the powers of a village municipality so as to insure the maintenance of good order and the execution of the improvements necessitated by the rapid growth of the said village; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as foHows:

1. From and after the sanction of this act, the follow- Village mu. ing portion of the municipality of the parish of St. Etienne nicipality de la Malbaie shall constitute a separate village munici- erected. pality, under the name of the "Municipality of the village Name."