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fly -LAW wo. 506. <br />A BY -Law to 111corporate the Village of Ford CitY, in the Towii- <br />ship of Sandwich East, lit the County of Essex. <br />Passed December 3rd, 1012. <br />with With immediatee eighbol ood, taken under tilee directionlof tl eY City <br />the County of Essex, show that tine same contains o Council ver seven hundred and <br />• fifty inhabitants, <br />t <br />And whereas the residences of such inhabitants are sufficiently near to <br />form an Incorporated village. <br />And whereas not less than one hundred resident freeholders and house- <br />holders of the said village and neighborhood of whom not less than one -half <br />are freeholders, by their petition, do pray for the incorporation of the said <br />village and neighborhood as a village. - <br />It is therefore enacted by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the <br />Ocunty of Essex in Ccuneil assembled under and by virtue of the Municipal <br />Institutions Act of Ontario, as follows; <br />1. On and after the passing of this by -law the inhabitants of the said <br />village of Ford City and neighborhood comprised within the boundaries here- <br />inafter mentioned shall be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate <br />apart from the Township of Sandwich East, in which the said village of Ford <br />City and neighborhood are situate, under the name of "The corporation of the <br />Village cf Ford City" and shall enjoy all such rights, powers and privileges as <br />are now or shall hereafter be conferred upon incorporated villages in the <br />Province of Ontario. <br />2. The said Village of Ford City shall comprise and consist of the follow- <br />ing lots and parcels of land and be bounded as follows, that is to say; All and <br />singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate lying and <br />being in the Township and <br />ip of Sandwich East, County of Essex, Ontario, conta <br />ing by admensuremont four hundred and eighty -flve acres more or loss, being <br />composed of the northerly portions of lots numbers ninety -seven (07) to one <br />hundred and eleven (111), inclusive, in the First Concession of the said Town- <br />ship of Sandwich East, commencing at the intersection oY the northerly limits <br />of the lands of the Canadian Bridge Company, Limited, with the easterly <br />limits of the lands of the Lake Erie and Detroit River Railroad Company, <br />which said point is also in the easterly limit of the Town of Walkerville; <br />thence easterly along said northerly limit of lands of said Canadian Bridge <br />Company four hundred and eight (408) feet more or less to the northesterly <br />limit of said last mentioned Company's lands, thence southerly. along tlto <br />easterly limit of the lust mentioned Company's lands one thousand four <br />hundred feet nine inches more or less to the northerly limit oP tine ]ands of <br />the Essex•Terminal Railway Company, thence north easterly along said <br />,.northern limit of said Essex Terminal Railway Company's lands four thousand <br />and thirty feet more or less to its intersection with the southerly limit of lands <br />Of the Grand Trunk Railway Company; thence easterly along said last.men- <br />tioned limit one thousand and seventy feet more or less to its intersection <br />with the easterly limit of a private road known as the Parent Road; thence <br />northerly along s--,!d last mentioned limit three hundred and t Road; thence <br />feet <br />mare or less to a point six hundred feet from the southerly limit of tie e feet <br />sor and Tecumseh Railway Company's lands measuring southerly along said <br />easterly limit; thence easterly and parallel with said southerly limit of gild <br />Railway Company's lands and at a uniform distance of six hundred feet there. <br />from measuring on a ccnrse parallel with said easterly limit of Parent Road <br />a distance of three thousand three hundred foot more or less to the easterly <br />limit of Said let nlunber one hundred and eleven; McNiff's survey, said last <br />mentioned point being also in t11e easterly limit oP the lands of one Tracy Mc- <br />Gregor, thence northerly along said last mentioned limit one thousand eight <br />hundred and for Peet more or less to tine channel bank of the Detroit River; <br />thence westerly and Poilowing the several courses and bends of said channel <br />bank to the north- easterly limit of the said Town of Walkerville, thence <br />southerly along the easterly Ilmlt of said Town of Walkervtllo Pour hundred <br />and seventy -five feet ma's or less to the southerly limit of Sandwich Street; <br />thence westerly along the said at mentioned fluff fifty Peet more or less to <br />the north- eadte'13- angle of lands of Parke Davis and Company, Limited; <br />thence southerly along the easterly limit of said lands of Parke Davis and <br />