An Act to incorporate the City of Armstrong, and in relation to the Corporation of the Township of Spallumcheen. [1st March, 1913.] W HEREAS a petition has been presented by certain of the Preamble. inhabitants of the tract of land set out in Schedule B to this Act, same being land within the limits of the Corporation of the Township of Spallumcheen, praying that said tract of land may be incorporated as a city municipality, under the name of "City of Armstrong," without complying with certain provisions of the "Municipalities Incorporation Act": And whereas it is deemed expedient to grant the prayer of the petitioners: Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "City of Armstrong Incorporation Short title. Act, 1913." 2. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council forth- Incorporation of the City of with, notwithstanding that the conditions and provisions of section 3 Armstrong. of the "Municipalities Incorporation Act" have not been complied with, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal, to incorporate, under the said Act, into a city, under the name of "City of Armstrong," the tract of land set out in Schedule B to this Act, being land within the limits of the Corporation of the Township of Spallumcheen, which Corporation is hereinafter referred to as "the present Municipality of the Township of Spallumcheen," and such city so incorporated is hereinafter referred to as " the city municipality "; and this Act is hereby declared to be within the meaning of the Indenture set out in Corporation of the What letters patent to specify. Council of City of Armstrong. Nomination of Poll to be taken. Where nomination and poll to be held. Notice of nomination. Schedule A to this Act, an Act incorporating the city therein referred to, and separating the city area therein referred to from the township corporation therein referred to. 3. After the issue of letters patent incorporating the city munici pality, the remaining area of the present Municipality of the Town. ship of Spallumcheen, which remaining area is hereinafter referred to as "the township municipality," shall remain a duly constituted municipality under the name of the "Corporation of the Township of Spallumcheen," and under the letters patent of the present Munici pality of the Township of Spallumcheen, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained. 4. The letters patent shall, in specifying all matters referred to in section 5 of the "Municipalities Incorporation Act," specify the matters contained in sections 5 to 13, both inclusive, of this Act, by incorporating the same therein in the manner set out in said lastmentioned sections or to the like effect; and reference in said letters patent to said sections, or any of them, by their respective numbers for the purpose of incorporating the same therein shall be sufficient compliance with this section in respect thereto. 5. The Council of the city municipality shall consist of a Mayor and five Aldermen, and the election of the first Council shall be governed by the following provisions, namely: (a.) The nomination of such Mayor and Aldermen shall be held on the second Saturday after the issue of letters patent incorporating the city municipality, from twelve o'clock noon to two o'clock p.m., and the polling, in case a poll shall be demanded, shall be held on the following Saturday after such nomination; the Returning Officer shall be such person as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall appoint: (b.) The poll to be taken by the Returning Officer, in case a poll shall be demanded, shall be open from nine o'clock a.m. to seven o'clock p.m., and the Returning Officer shall have authority to appoint a Deputy Returning Officer, Poll Clerk, and constables, and such other officers as he shall deem necessary for taking such poll and for maintaining order at the polling station: (c.) The nomination and poll, in case a poll shall be demanded, shall be held at Armstrong's Hall, Armstrong, British Columbia, or at such other place within the city munici pality as the Returning Officer may appoint: (d.) Seven days' notice, prior to such nomination-day, of the time and place of nomination and of the holding of the poll, in case a poll shall be demanded, shall be given by the Returning Officer in a newspaper published in the city |