court.

Montreal, to obtain the confirmation and ratification of Confirmation the said plan or map, after having given public notice of by superior the day and hour at which such petition shall be so pre- Notice. sented, in the newspapers published one in the English and one in the French language, in the city of Montreal; provided that the said notice shall, at least, have two insertions in each of the said newspapers, and that one month at least shall elapse between the date of the last insertion of the said notice and that of the presentation of the said petition.

5. Every such plan or map, when confirmed by the Effect of said superior court, shall be final, decisive and binding confirmation. upon the said corporation and proprietors therein interested and upon all other persons; and no indemnity or damage shall be claimed or granted at the time of the opening of any of the new streets, by-roads, avenues, public places, squares or boulevards indicated on the said plan, for any building or improvement whatsoever that the proprietors or other persons may have made or caused to be made, after the confirmation of the said plan, upon any land or property reserved either for new streets, by-roads, avenues, squares or boulevards, or for the widening of any of the said streets, public places or boulevards of the said municipality; provided that Proviso. nothing contained in this act shall be construed as depriving the said corporation of the right of widening any of the streets, public places or boulevards designated in such plan after its confirmation, if deemed advisable so to do, but after any such plan shall have been so confirmed, no alteration shall be made unless approved by a vote of two thirds of the members of the council.

6. A duplicate of the said plan shall be deposited Deposit of immediately after its completion in the office of the pro- plans. thonotary of the said court and another in the archives of the said corporation, and when such plan shall have been confirmed and ratified by the superior court as aforesaid, the secretary-treasurer shall make an entry upon the duplicate of the said plan deposited in the archives of the said corporation in the following words: "confirmed by the superior court on the day of ,one thousand

Special entry.

7. The said corporation shall have all the necessary Opening of powers to open to the public, whenever the said corpora- streets laid tion shall deem it advantageous to do so, in the interest down on plan. of the municipality, any new street, highway, public place or boulevard shewn on the said plans or maps, also

to widen any of the streets, highways, public places or Widening. boulevards thereon indicated as widened, after having

adopted, however, the formalities and procedure pre- Procedure.

Streets and boulevards not opened.

Preamble.

Village

scribed by the municipal code relative to such matters and to expropriation.

8. The designation of new streets, public places and new boulevards in and by this act, applies to such streets, public places and boulevards as have not been opened and named before the passing of this act.

CAP. XL.

An act to erect a new village municipality, in the parish of Notre-Dame de Grâces,

[Assented to 28th December, 1876.]

WHEREAS the cure of Notre-Dame de Grâces, the

honorable J. E. Prud'homme, legislative councillor of this province, Jérémie Décarie, Félix Prud'homme, Joseph St. Germain, and divers others inhabitants, freeholders of the parish of Notre-Dame de Grâces, in the banlieue of Montreal, in the county of Hochelaga, have prayed that, for their greater benefit, an act be passed to erect a new village municipality in the said parish; comprising chiefly the lands of Côteau St. Pierre and of Côte St. Luc; and whereas it is expedient to accede to such demand; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

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1. A new village municipality is erected in the parish municipality of Notre-Dame de Grâces, which shall comprise within its limits the lands of Côteau St. Pierre, the lands of Côte St. Luc, and several lands of Côte St. Antoine to the line hereinafter established, all which are detached from and shall cease to form part of the municipality of the village of Notre-Dame de Grâces.

Territory.

Name.

Boundaries.

2. Such municipality shall bear the name of "Municipality of the village of Notre-Dame de Grâces West."

3. The municipality of Notre-Dame de Grâces West shall be bounded as follows:

To the north-west by the municipality of Côte des Neiges, and by the parish of St. Laurent;

To the south-west by the parish of Lachine;

To the south-east by the trait-carré of the lands of Côteau St. Pierre ;

To the north-east by the Côte St. Paul road as far as the road known as the upper Lachine road, thence by the north-east line of lots numbers 188, 188a and 189 of the cadastre of the parish of Montreal, as far as the Côte St. Antoine road; thence by the north-east line of lot number 202 of the said cadastre, as far as lot number 201; thence at right angles, by the south-east line of the said

lot number 201, and the prolongation thereof across lot number 213, as far as its north-east line; and thence again at right angles, by the said north-east line of lot number 213, as far as the boundary line of the said municipality of Côte des Neiges.

4. The municipality of Notre-Dame de Grâces West Wards. shall be divided into three wards:

Notre-Dame Ward;

St. Peter's Ward; and,

St. Luc Ward.

5.

cillors.

Notre-Dame ward shall be entitled to two coun- Notre-Dame

Such ward shall include the territory comprised towards the south-east, between the West Avenue, extended to the land of Léon Prud'homme; towards the southwest, the north-east line of the said land of Léon Prud'homme, prolonged until opposite the slope of Côte des Neiges; towards the north-west, little Côte des Neiges; toward the north-east, the limits of the munici pality of Notre-Dame de Grâces West.

ward has two councillors.

St. Peter's

St. Peter's ward shall comprise the lands of Côteau St. Pierre, throughout their whole extent, not included in wards, three. Notre-Dame ward, and shall be divided into three, and councillors. each subdivision shall be entitled to one councillor elected by the electors of such subdivision.

The subdivisions shall be: 1st, to the east of Côteau St. Pierre, St Peter East, and it shall comprise the territory included between the limits of the municipality and the south-west line of the land of D. Jérémie Décarie, line. prolonged to the trait-carré of the land; 2nd, St. Peter Centre, comprising all the lands included between the south-west line of the land of Jérémie Décarie, and the south-west line of the land of the widow Mills (lines comprised throughout their entire length); 3rd, St. Peter West, from such latter line to Lachine.

St. Luc ward shall comprise all the lands of Côte St. st. Luc ward, Luc, not included in Notre-Dame ward.

Such ward shall be divided into two sub-divisions, that is to say St. Luc East, and St. Luc West; and each subdivision shall be entitled to one councillor. A line A line passing in the south-west line of the land belonging to Th. O'Brien, and acquired from the late A. Hurtubise, and extending towards the south-east in the south-west line of the lot of John Brodie, shall be the division line of St. Luc ward.

three councillors.

Should any new municipality or municipalities be New subdivi erected, the council of Notre-Dame de Grâces West may, if sion of wards, it see fit, make a new subdivision of the wards still belonging to Notre-Dame de Grâces West, without, however, changing the limits of such wards.

6. All the provisions of the act passed in the present session intituled: "An act to authorise the corporation of the village of Notre-Dame de Gråces, to have a plan of the said municipality made, and to define the procedure to be followed to have the said plan declared binding on all concerned, and for other purposes," shall apply to the new municipality of the village of Notre-Dame de Grâces West; and the council of the municipality of the village of Notre-Dame de Grâces West, shall, for the preparation and confirmation of the plan or plans of the municipality, have all the powers given by the said act to the council of the municipality of the village of NotreDame de Grâces.

But if the council of the said municipality of NotreDame de Grâces West do not deem it expedient to have such plan or plans forthwith made, then it shall be the duty thereof to cause a plan of the municipality, for the lines of the cross streets only, to be made as soon as possible, and to pass a by-law to render such plan binding, with the effect as provided in the act mentioned in this section; and the plan or plans, mentioned in the said act may, thereafter, be made at any time that the council shall deem expedient.

7. All the provisions of the municipal code shall apply to the municipality of Notre-Dame de Grâces West, except in so far as they are inconsistent with the present act.

8. The first municipal election of the said municipality shall take place on the second Monday of February

next.

9. The present act shall come into force on the day of the sanction thereof.

CAP. XLI.

Preamble.

An act to change the name of the municipality of the village La rivière St. Pierre, and to extend its powers.

[Assented to 28th December, 1876.]

WHEREAS the corporation of the village La rivière

St. Pierre have, by petition from the municipal council of the same, prayed for a special act of incorporation to change the name of the said municipality, and also for further and special provisions as to the mode and manner for laying out plans for projected streets, roads and avenues, and as to the mode of making the divisions or subdivisions of the property in the said municipality, for municipal purposes; and whereas it is expedient to

grant the same; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1. From and after the passing of this act the name of Name the said municipality shall be changed from that of the changed. village of La Rivière St. Pierre to that of the village of Verdun, and the inhabitants, rate-payers and proprietors of the territory comprised within the limits of the former municipality of the village of La Rivière St. Pierre, and within the territory hereinafter mentioned, shall form a corporation or body politic, known as "the corporation of the village of Verdun," acting and exercising powers New Lame: under the provisions of the municipal code of Quebec save as hereinafter provided for.

plan of streets and boulevards.

2. It shall be lawful for the said corporation at any Lines and time to cause public streets, highways, by-roads, avenues, squares and boulevards, within the municipality of the village of Verdun, to be laid out, fixed and determined under the direction and supervision of the said corporation and of the provincial surveyors to be employed. by them, and under the conditions prescribed by said corporation, and to give a name to each of the said public streets, highways, by-roads, avenues, squares and boulevards; and for that purpose the said corporation may employ a sufficient number of surveyors or other competent persons who shall with all due diligence proceed to lay out, fix and determine under the direction and supervision as aforesaid, and under as uniform a system as circumstances may permit, such public streets,. highways, by-roads, avenues, squares and boulevards, of such dimensions, width and extent as may appear to them most desirable for the public interest.

duties of

surveyors and

3. The said surveyors or other persons employed in Powers and the exercise of the duties assigned to them in and by the preceding section, may and they are hereby autho- their rized to enter in the day time upon any property or real employees. estate within the limits of the said municipality, and they shall under the direction and supervision aforesaid, make out plans or maps at the expense of the corporation, indicating the streets, highways, by-roads, avenues, public squares and boulevards, now existing as well as those they shall lay out and determine by virtue of this act; and shall designate upon said plans or maps the new lines of such streets or sections of streets, public highways, by-roads, avenues, public squares and boule- Lines vards that the said corporation may have determined to widen in the interest of the public.

4. It shall be lawful for the said corporation to cause Line and the said public streets, highways, by-roads, avenues, plan of a por