I, the undersigned, A. B., solemnly declare that I am a ratepayer of the Township (or as the case may be) of (The Municipality the Council of which proposed the By-law), and that I am desirous of promoting (or opposing, as the case may be) the passing of the By-law to (here insert object of the Bylar), submitted to the Council of said Township (or as the case may be).

The voter will go into one of the compartments, and with the pencil provided in the compartment, place a cross (thus X) on the right hand side, in the upper space if he votes for the passing of the by-law, and in the lower space if he votes against the passing of the by-law.

The voter will then fold up the ballot paper so as to shew the name or initials of the Deputy Returning Officer (or Returning Officer, as the cas

may be) signed on the back, and leaving the compartment will, without shewing the front of the paper to any person, deliver such ballot so folded to the Deputy Returning Officer (or Returning Officer, as the case may be) and forthwith quit the polling place.

If the voter inadvertently spoils a ballot paper, he may return it to the Deputy Returning Officer (or Returning Officer, as the case may be), who will, if satisfied of such inadvertence, give him another ballot paper.

If the voter places on the paper more than one mark, or places any mark on the paper by which he may be afterwards identified, his ballot paper will be void, and will not be counted.

If the voter takes a ballot paper out of the polling place, or deposits in the ballot box any other paper than the one given to him by the Deputy Returning Officer, (or Returning Officer, as the case may be), he will be subject to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.

In the following form of Ballot Paper, given for illustration, the Elector has marked his ballot paper in favour of the passing of the By-law:

I, A. B., solemnly promise and declare that, at the voting on the bylaw submitted to the electors by the Council of the Township (or as the case may be) of (and the voting on which has been appointed for this day), I will not attempt in any way whatsoever unlawfully to ascertain the manner in which any elector shall vote or has voted, and will not in any way whatsoever aid in the unlawful discovery of the same; and I will keep secret all knowledge which may come to me, of the manner in which any elector has voted.

CHAPTER 185.

An Act respecting the establishment of Municipal
Institutions in the Districts of Algoma, Muskoka,
Parry Sound, Nipissing, Thunder Bay and Rainy
River.

ELECTIONS AND COUNCILS AFTER THE

FIRST:

Voters' qualification, s. 39.
Councillors' qualification, s. 40.
Election how conducted, s. 41.
Nomination meeting, ss. 42-44.
Polling, s. 45.

Tenure of office, s. 46.
Controverted elections, s. 47.
Vacancies in Council, s. 48.
Conduct of business, s. 49.

Reeve to be a Justice of the
Peace, s. 50.

POLICE VILLAGES :

Formation of, ss. 51, 52.
Electors, s. 53.

Trustees, s. 54.

POWERS OF LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
AS TO ANNEXATION OR UNION, s. 55.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS AS TO ALGOMA
AND THUNDER BAY, s. 56.

Municipalities may be organized.

Union township munici

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1.—(1) The inhabitants of any township in any of the districts of Algoma, Muskoka, Parry Sound, Nipissing, Thunder Bay and Rainy River, having a population of not less than 100 persons, may organize themselves into a township municipality, and the inhabitants of any locality in any of the said districts not exceeding in area 20,000 acres not surveyed into a township or townships, and having a population of not less than 100 persons, may likewise organize themselves into a township. municipality. 47 V. c. 33, s. 1; 48 V. c. 20, s. 7, Preamble and Sched.

(2) Provided always that any number of townships in the palities may District of Rainy River, having in the aggregate at least 100 be organized. inhabitants, may organize themselves into a union township municipality, although the population of any one of the said

townships may not amount to one hundred persons, and the proceedings for the purposes of such organization, and all other purposes mentioned in this Act, shall, as nearly as may be practicable, be the same as are hereinafter provided for in respect of the organization of an individual township municipality, and all rights, privileges, and powers conferred upon or granted to individual municipalities organized thereunder shall extend and be applicable to such union township municipality, provided that any township forming part of such union municipality having at any time after the formation thereof a population of not less than one hundred persons may withdraw from such union, and the inhabitants thereof may organize themselves into an individual township municipality in the same manner and for all purposes under this Act, as if such township had not formed part of a union township municipality, and on such withdrawal the assets and liabilities of such township shall be determined, borne and paid in like manner as is directed by the provisions of The Municipal Act Rev. Stat. in regard to the withdrawal or separation of municipalities. c. 184. 50 V. c. 30, s. 1.

2. In order to constitute and establish a municipality as Judge or above provided, it shall be lawful for the District Judge in Stipendiary Magistrate, Algoma and in that part of Thunder Bay not included within upon petition. Rainy River, and in Rainy River or any other of the said to call a public meeting to districts, for the Stipendiary Magistrate of the district in form Municiwhich such locality is situate, upon the receipt of a petition in pality. which the limits of the proposed municipality are defined, and signed by not less than thirty inhabitants of such locality, to call a meeting by public notice of said inhabitants, to consider the expediency of erecting a municipality. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 2; 50 V. c. 8, Sched.

posit to meet

3. Before the Judge or Stipendiary Magistrate calls said Petitioners to meeting, it shall be the duty of those petitioning for the make a demunicipality, to deposit with him a sum sufficient to meet the expenses of expense of the meeting, as also of the election to be held, as hereinafter provided. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 3.

the meeting and election.

appoint chair

man.

4. The Judge or Stipendiary Magistrate shall name some fit Judge or and competent person to preside at the meeting, who shall forth- Magistrate to with report the result of the same, with the votes given thereat, to the Judge or Stipendiary Magistrate, under oath, which may be administered by any Justice of the Peace. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 4.

provide for

5. Upon receiving the report of the meeting for the estab- Judge or lishment of a municipality, the Judge or Stipendiary Magis- Magistrate to trate shall fix a time and place for holding the first election first election. in the proposed municipality, and shall, in the notice providing for the election, name the returning officer who shall preside

Council, of what officers composed.

Qualification

of voters.

Nomination.

Election by acclamation.

Notice of time and place of

thereat; but no such municipality shall be established unless at such meeting at least thirty freeholders or householders have voted in favour thereof. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 5.

6. The officers to be elected at the said election shall be one reeve and four councillors, who shall have the same qualification as voters, and shall constitute the council of the township, the reeve being the head thereof. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 6.

7. The persons qualified to vote at the election shall be male British subjects of the full age of twenty-one years, being householders resident in the locality proposed to be organized into a municipality. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 7.

8. At the time and place appointed by the Judge or Stipendiary Magistrate under section 5 of this Act, the nomination of candidates shall be made in the manner provided in respect to the nomination of candidates at municipal elections. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 8.

9. In case no more persons are nominated than are required to be elected, the returning officer shall declare such persons to be elected. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 9.

10. In case a poll is required the returning officer shall adholding poll. journ the proceedings until the same day of the following week, and shall declare the place at which a poll will be opened in the locality, and shall forthwith post up in at least six of the most public and conspicuous places in the locality, a notice declaring that a poll will be held at such time and place. R.S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 10.

Poll book and

11. The returning officer shall, previous to the opening of how filled up the poll, procure a poll book, and he shall enter in such book, in separate columns, the names of the candidates proposed and seconded at the nomination, and shall, opposite to such columns, write the names of the electors offering to vote at the election and shall, in each column in which is entered the name of a candidate voted for by a voter, set the figure "1" opposite the voter's name. R. S. Ò. 1877, c. 175, s. 11.

Casting vote,

Term of office

first mem

12. In case a casting vote is required to determine an election, the returning officer, whether otherwise qualified or not, shall give a casting vote for one or more of the candidates, so as to decide the election, and except in such case, the returning officer shall not vote at any such election. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 12.

13. The persons elected shall hold office until their successors are elected, or appointed and sworn into office, and hold their first meeting. R. S. O. 1877, c. 175, s. 13.