Order in Council 725/1906

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era oronoiet Yet/Amara,- c`./rovelitot ain:d Fo4m4ra, Ify and wed /le ereZaee ceireerdive (Keiritiere. dicl° oat as /"Aft'a • that LETTERS PATKIT ineorporatine oar twin land

situated in the Oaoyooa Tnv 1 si on of Yale Districts in the County of

Yale, and c', escrioed in the pudic notice of intention to apply for HIS T D incorporutlon into a 11:triot itanieipality under the name of 'THR ERE

RD CORPORATION OF TAR DISTRICT OF COLD:CUM'', he lanced; O D N

A and it is further urdarad that FROM= BILLINGS, of the D city of Vernon, ne and is hereby anointed to ua the Ei1JRMING OFFICER ROVE PP

A at the first municipal election. ecfe Deplity lerki Rxecntive Council, • c e 1,/ . Ai-A ,cct 1.:E24 4 to-4 e4C 64-€ 4/1 • /1) Ala `I- 12c ti21— yr--‘

Dated

ORDER IN COUNCIL pro riding

To His Honour

The Lieutenant-Governor in Council;

Tho Committee of Council Lava had

oofore toam a Petition under the provisions of Chapter 143. F.S.

Bk\O D 1897, reine tha lAunicipalities Incorporation Acts, and Amendment

eAC Acts, signed by W. 'Wee Armstrong and twanti-rive otter persons

ral rosonting the recistared owners of more than one half in value

of the land to oe include:A within the limits of the propose

municipality, to be incorporatod under the ncoa of the NOORPORATION

OF THE DISTRICT OF COLDSTRFAP.

57La Provincial Saer.ltur/ to wr.oM u.e ..latter viaZ

rafarreJ reports t.nt area souiLht to CQ incorioratel, and

descrlye in Q.:: is sitni.te-1 in the Osoyoos Division

of Yale district in tie County of Yale; ti.at, the :iolicitor for

the retitioners has .urnished es. Statutory Declaration that the

contents of the Petition he verily oalievoF ar the rGsult of the

various searches he caused to na made and from personal knowledge, tire true; tLe jetitiOners air ear to have coniplied with the

;I.JviLjxls of Section 3A, of tta said Act with re4eot to the

creation of a District ,Junicipality.

The undersiemed therefore recocemends that the prayer of

Petition co granted, an-1 thiit LETTERS PATENT incori.or4ting the land

dascrioed in tho polio notice of intention to apply for inoorpOr-

poration ea issued, and further that such Letters provide for the appointaent of FREDERIC BILLINGS, of toe city of Varnon,

Solicitor, as RETURNING OFFJUR at tua first gunicipal Election.

Dated this' /a - day of Decemner, A.R., 1906. )L, - Provincial SacretarY.

.Approved this day of DacmuDer, A.D. 1906. _____------pr;;;Aftirc Vairer of the Executive Council. CANADA. • PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

EDWARD VII., by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and I ml, and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Kum, Defender the Faith, Emperor of India.

To all to idiom these presents shall come.Gitertma. •*. • WHEREAS by Section 3A of the " Municipalities Incor- DeputyAttorney-General. f VI poration Act," it is provided that it shall be lawful /for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, by Letters Patent under the Public Seal, to incorporate into a District Municipality any locality in the Province (not already incorporated as a Municipality) under conditions therein specified : And whereas a petition has been addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council by a majority of the registered land-owners and pre-emptors of the locality in the County of Yale hereinafter described, praying that the said locality may be incorporated into a Municipality : And whereas the conditions prescribed by the said section have been duly complied with : And whereas the Honourable JAMES DUNSMUIR, Lieutenant-Governor of our Province, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, under and by virtue of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities him in that behalf enabling, hath ordered that the said locality, which may be described as follows :- That certain tract of land, situate in the County and District of Yale, the limit and extent of which is described as follows:—Commencing at the north-west corner of Section 30, in Township 6 of the Osoyoos Division of Yale District ; thence south 40 chains ; thence west 80 chains ; thence south-easterly along the south boundaries of Lots 59 and 60, registered plan 455, to the north-east corner of Lot 57 on said plan ; thence west along the north boundary of said Lot 57, 40 chains ; thence west along the south boundary of the north.half of the south-east quarter of Section 26, Township 6, 40 chains ; thence south 20 chains ; thence west along the north boundary of the south-west quarter of said Section 26 and north boundary of LoT14 on said plan to the north-west corner of said Lot 24 ; thence south-westerly along the west boundaries of Lots 24, 25, 26, and 27 on said plan to the south-west corner of said Lot 27; thence easterly along the north boundary of the Indian Reserve to its north-east corner ; thence south along the east boundary of said Indian Reserve to the south-east corner ; thence west along the south boundary of said Indian Reserve to the shore of Long Lake ; thence generally south, following the said shore of said lake to the west boundary of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section 3 in Township 9; thence south to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said Section 3; thence east 80 chains ; thence north 20 chains to the south boundary of Section 11 in Township 9; thence east along the south boundaries of Sections 11 and 12, 100 chains to the south-east corner of said Section 12; thence north 20 chains ; thence east 40 chains ; thence north 20 chains ; thence east 40 chains ; thence south 40 chains to the south-west corner of Section 8 in Township 6; thence east 40 chains; thence north 40 chains ; thence east 100 chains ; thence south 40 chains ; thence east 20 chains to the south- east corner of Section 9 in Township 6; thence north 80 chains ; thence east along south boundaries of Section 14 and 15 in said Township C, 120 chains; thence north 20 chains ; thence east 20 chains ; thence north 20 chains; thence east 100 chains to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section 18 in Township 3; thence north 40 chains to the north-west corner of said Section 18 ; thence east 40 chains to the south-east corner of Lot 13 in Group 1 of the said Osoyoos Division; thence north following the eastern boundary of said Lot 13 to the south boundary of Lot 87 in said Group 1 ; thence north and east along the easterly boundary of said Lot 87 to the southern boundary of the north half of the south-east quarter of Section :10 in Town- ship 3 ; thence east to the easterly boundary of said Section 30 ; thence north to the north-cast corner thereof ; thence west 40 challis ; thence south thorenceleminnosr;t1t1h2e0neechwaielsist 40 chains to the east boundary of Section 25, in Township to the north-east corner of Section 25, in Township 6 ; thence west 40 chains ; thence $011111 10 t.'114i11.4 111%•11Vs` 1H.r1 10 14141115 III the inks( 1■411111■1111y of section .211 in said .r„„,(1,ii, 6, thence north 40 eluttes , then''. west IN elloaiN: south 40 chains: thence %%est lYU chants j,. the ,•.t totinsIstry of sts•I ion 29 in Township thence ,„„.th 4') chains to the teeth east cos Het. of Section 29 in said l'ewnsitip ti; thence west along the north boulhtAll‘ , Of Sections 29 null 80. itit) chains to 114.iitt of conteseneement, and the inhabitants the...4 shall on, flout and /titer the twenty-find slay of 1Nsceniber, A.I). Mkt, lv itwottsorate.I as a NIttitleipalitv under the said Act and amendments thereto. and hath illAat• further plovisiona illy tenor and ettlet hereinafter appearing. SOW KNOWV F. that by these presents We slo libreby order and proclaim that the locality heryintsolote deserilssl. and ties inhabitants there'' shall, on, from and after the twenty-tit-4 IKasettls.r. A.11. l9011, ineorpontted as a l)istrict Municipality, under anti subject to the pi...1.t, n. of the "Municipal Chitties Act," and amendments thereto. lust niftier and subject to the provisions hereinfier containts1 or referred to. Thts said Municipality shall Ise ...ailed and known by the name and style of "The Corporation of the l)Istrict of l'ol‘istrastm.- The said Municipality shall mattprise all that locality hereinbefore described. The l'uncil shall consist of a Reeve and four l'ouneillors, and the wholekumber present at each meeting thereof shall not ire lews than three. The nomination shall take place, and the poll sir any) shall be held at the Cold- stream ()dies. at Collstretutt The noutillations for the first' election of Councillors shall be on the eighth day of January. A.D. l907. at lt o'elock, noon, and the polling tif gfiy)shall be on the twelfth day of January. A.D. 1907. and shall continue for one slay' only, and the poll shall be kept open between ill., hours of 9 A. M. and 7 P.m., andMr. Frederic Billings, of Vernon, shall be the Returning t)tlicer thereat. The persons qualified to be notninate.1 for and elected Reeve of such Municipality at the first election shall be such persons as are male British subjects, who have been for the three tnonths next pn.ceeding the day of nomination the registered owners, in the Land Registry °dice, of land or real property, situate within the Municipality, of the assessed value, on the last Provincial Assessment Roll, of five hundred dollen. or more over an,t els:ice any rtvgisteresd judg,ment, and who are otherwise duly qualified as voters. - The persons qualitied to Ifte nominate,' for and elected Councillors of such Muni- cipality at the first election shall i.e such persona as are male British subjects, who have been for the three months next preceding the slay of nomination the registered owners, in the Land Registry Office, of land or real property, situate within the Muni- cipality. of the aeses-ed value, on the bait Provincial Assessment Roll, of two hundred and fifty sloSlars or trewe over and above any registered judgment, or who are homesteaders. lessee*, fr.m the Crawn, or pre-ctaptors who have nailed within the Slutlici- pality fw the *pose of one year or more immediately preceding the nomination, and wig, are ascsemed for five hundred dollars or ',sore, on the butt Provincial Assessment Roll. over arst above any registere.1 judgment, and who are otherwise qualified rte voters. The persona .t.ta:iti-.1 to vote for hexes, and Cfaitteillont at such first election shall be all math persesses aa are male British siihjetta of the full age of twenty-one year+, who are freehoblers, horneetesulent or preasnuptors within the hoiiiiikries of the Municipality, who have resisb,.I within this boenderien of the Municipality for IMO year immediately pre' tding the date of these litters Patent, mid who shall, hefhre the day of %web election, bare *11,5.41 to the If,tmrning Illliro.r, with have had their mimes placer' on the elect/sr, for such del-liars The fleseve arm' fioir.eislors ele,:t.e.I are smelt first election until din tintriwwir, fa' a laali/ifety in their *11fri•RibT.1, 11/11/01 been 04Wirtli Ili, 1111104M he or they shall die ov r.IR;xn, for iotehT114% It sche.l In the draty a the ito•trorninz to enter in it !Nook, in alioluthetical order, the, rasmns, osettreamea aral IseCrgeltilill4 of all persons, titinlilli.1 to VOIA, nn 111.01.4!.01,111, who ruake appliesationv, lion , as *forests id, is, have their nam es 14,0441 situ slid' 144,1001 Snell list laptli in the hiss. of tr,e ea for 40fis els el isal. P/04610: rho 'mane ref any v.r.s,n AO Ise phul.,1 tlio list, Ile shall ilink.e aid sign a fifttlAir*tif•to in sfitiNf, verse oaths, suiting forth his name a/PIrs.:4 pinliikaisonk SS 01/001,sSli,l. which *hall I, Meet wit), the ketranthie 1,0'044 finch hat an,! .teelaratiorsa =bell Is. rep s.n Lis impaction Icy may vivo' within lawful lwavra.. Any porm,n may staafsilli n that. his WIMP is improperly fallifted Irian the tolvr14' fiat ie OAPs $0.7 (Aloe aara4. N improperly inmates, &hilt ods, and may apply tit Any JrMIKa of the k'l'isrAree 1;1014•1 (;01/11 Or hare his risme inserted thereon sir In have "7 "M'a improperly ireserte,1 thereon Omsk off 110. anifl liSt its snit. Intkr Now "AN4141%4^ 66.16s ti, Io dOtAtiffinail foi tie. Judge 101 given in the, 3

person whose name is proposed to be struck off. The Judge shall hear and dispose of all such applications in a summary way, and the Returning Officer shall amend the list in accordance with the Judge's decision. At least six days' notice of Me time and place of nomination and of holdinc, of the poll (if any) shall he given by the said Returning Officer; such notice to be pasted during that period in the manner provided by Section 30 of the " Municipal Elections Act." The Returning Officer shall, on the day of nomination, at 2 o'clock, P.M., announce the names of the persons put in nomination in that behalf as candidates for the offices of Reeve and Councillors, as prescribed by the "Municipal Elections Act." At the clos4 of the time for nominating the candidates the Returning Officer shall deliver to. every candidate, or agent of a candidate, applying for the same, a duly certified list of the names of the several candidates who shall have been nominated ; and any votes given sit the election for any other candidates than those so nominated shall he null and void. If, at the expiration of the time appointed for the election as aforesaid, no more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the Returning Officer shall forthwith declare the candidates who may stand nominated to be elected, and return their 'mines to the Registrar of the Supreme Court. No speeches or interruption to the proceedings of nominating candidates at the hustings shall be permitted by the Returning Officer between the reading of the notice of election and the closing of the proceedings on nomination day by the Returning Officer. If, at the expiration of such time, more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the Returning Officer shall declare the names of the candidates, and publicly proclaim the day previously stated in his proclamation, and the place at which the poll shall be so opened in the Municipality, for the purpose of taking the votes of the electors according to law ; and shall then adjourn the election, and shall take a poll by ballot, and shall cause to be posted up notices of his having granted such poll, indicating the names, residences, and occupations of the candidates so nominated, in the order in which they shall be printed on the ballot papers, which notices shall, as soon as possible after the nomination, be placarded in all the blues where the proclamation for the election was posted up. If, after the adjournment of an election by the Returning Officer for the purpose of taking a poll, one of the candidates nominated shall die before the poll has commenced, the Returning Officer shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, countermand notice of the poll, and all the proceedings with reference to the election shall be commenced afresh: Provided that no fresh nomination shall he necessary in the case of a candidate who stood nominated at the time of the countermand of the poll. In case of a poll being held, the candidates (duly qualified) who shall obtain the greatest number of votes shall be Reeve and Councillors respectively. Every person qualified to vote shall have five votes, being one for each Councillor to be elected, and one for Reeve, but he may vote for any less number than five : Provided always, that he shall not cast more than one vote in favour of any one candidate, or vote on more than one occasion. And in the event of the number of votes being found to have been equal for any two or more candidates, one or more of whom, but not all of such candidates, being by the state of the poll entitled to be declared elected, the Returning Officer shall, by a casting vote or votes, ns the case may be, decide which of the candidates for whom the votes may be equal shall be elected: Provided that the said Returning Officer shall not vote except in case of an equality of votes as aforesaid. All expenses attendant upon the said election shall be borne by the said Munici- pality. The opening of the ballot bores and counting the votes shall be in the presence of the candidates, if they attend for that purpose. The Returning Officer, after the declaration of the poll, shall retain the ballot pampers and boxes until a Clerk shall be duly appointed, to whom he shall forthwith deliver the Hanle. Every person who shall have presented himself for nomination, and who shall have been elected a Reeve or Councillor, must serve for the term for which he has been elected, unless in the case of sickness, or in default pay a sum of fifty dollars towards the Municipal Revenue ; such sum, with coati, shall be recoverable by the Clerk of the Municipality, summarily, before any Justice of the Peace. Any vacancy in the office of Reeve or Councillor shall be filled as provided by the " Municipal Elections Act." The first meeting of the Council shall be held on the first Monday after the day of election at the Coldatream Office at Coldstream Ranche aforesaid, at 12 noon.

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Until provision be made by by-layv in that behalf, all iiroceedingm at and relating to the meetings of the Council shall bett4d and taken in accordance with the provisions contained in the " Municipal Clauses Act,," and all the powers, privileges and duties of the Reeve and Council shall be the same as those prescribed by the said Act. At the first meeting, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Council may elect a Clerk, Treasurer, Collector and Assessor, or such officers as they may deem necessary, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the Council, and receive such remuneration as the Council may by by-law appoint.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of Our said Province to be hereunto affixed : WITNESS, the Honourable JAMES DuNsmtna, Lieutenant- Governor of Our said Province of British Columbia, in Our City of •P Victoria, in Our said Province, this nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, and in the sixth year of Our Reign.

■•• By Command.

Provincial Secretary. CANADA. PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

EDWARD VII., by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, KING, Defender lie Faith, Emperor of India. rTo all to whom these presents shall cone.—GREETINO ) IATHEREAS by Section 3A of the " Municipalities Incor- Deputy ilttorney-General. f II poration Act," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, by Letters Patent under the Public Seal, to incorporate into a District Municipality any locality in the Province (not already incorporated as a Municipality) under conditions therein specified : And whereas a petition has been addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council by a majority of the registered land-owners and pre-emptors of the locality in the County of Yale hereinafter described, praying that the said locality may be incorporated into a Municipality : And whereas the conditions prescribed by the said section have been duly complied with : And whereas the Honourable JAMES DUNSMUIR, Lieutenant-Governor of our Province, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, under and by virtue of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities him in that behalf enabling, bath ordered that the said locality, which may be described as follows:— That certain tract of land, situate in the County and District of Yale, the limit and extent of which is described as follows:—Commencing at the north-west corner of Section 30, in Township 6 of the Oeoyoos Division of Yale District ; thence south 40 chains ; thence west 80 chains ; thence south-easterly along the south boundaries of Lots 59 and 60, registered plan 455, to the north-east corner of Lot 57 on said plan ; thence west along the north boundary of said Lot 57, 40 chains ; thence west along the south boundary of the north half of the south-east quarter of Section 26. Township 6, 40 chains ; thence south 20 chains ; thence west along the north boundary of the south-west quarter of said Section 26 and north boundary of Lot 24 on said plan to the north-west corner of said Lot 24 ; thence south-westerly along the west boundaries of Lots 24, 23, 26, and 27 on said plan to the south-west corner of said Lot 27 ; thence easterly along the north boundary of the Indian Reserve to its north-east corner ; thence south along the east boundary of said Indian Reserve to the south-east corner ; thence west along the south boundary of said Indian Reserve to the shore of Long Lake ; thence generally south, following the said shore of said lake to the west boundary of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section :3 in Township 9; thence south to the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said Section 3; thence east 80 chains ; thence north 20 chains to the south boundary of Section 11 in Township 0 ; thence east along the south boundaries of Sections 11 and 12, 100 chains to the south-east corner of said Section 12; thence north 20 chains ; thence east 40 chains ; thence north 20 chains ; thence east 40 chains ; thence south 40 chains to the south-west corner of Section 8 in Township 6: thence east 40 chains ; thence north 40 chains ; thence east 100 chains ; thence south 40 chains ; thence east 20 chains to the south- east corner of Section 9 in Township 6; thence north 80 chains; thence east along south boundaries of Section 14 and 15 in said Township C. 120 chains ; thence north 20 chains ; thence east 20 chains ; thence north 20 chains; thence east 100 chains to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of Section 18 in Township 3 ; thence north 40 chains to the north-west corner of said Section 18 ; thence east 40 chains to the south-east corner of Lot 13 in Group 1 of the said Osoyous Division ; thence north following the eastern boundary of said Lot 13 to the south boundary of Lot 87 in said Group 1 ; thence north and east along the easterly boundary of said Lot 87 to the southern boundary of the north half of the south-east quarter of Section 30 in Town- ship 3; thence east to the easterly boundary of said Section 30; thence north to the north-east corner thereof ; thence west 40 chains ; thence south '20 chains: thence west 40 chains to the east boundary of Section 25, in Township 6 ; thence north 20 chains to the north-cast corner of Section 25, in Township 6; thence west 40 chains ; thence 2

south 40 chains; thence west 40 chains to the east Wounds*? of Section 26 in said Township 6; thence north 40 chains; thence west 120 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence west 120 chains to the west boundary of section 29 in Township 6; thtince north 40 chains to the north-east corner of Section 29 in said Township 6; thence west along the north boundaries of Sections 29 and 30, 160 chains to point of commencement, and the inhabitants thereof shall, on, from and after the twenty-first day of December, A.D. 1906, be incorporated as a Municipality under the said Act and amendments thereto, and bath made further provisions to the tenor and effect hereinafter appearing. NOW KNOW YE, that by these presents We do hereby order and proclaim that the locality hereinbefore described, and the inhabitants thereof shall, on, from and after the twenty-first day of December, A.D. 1906, be incorporated as a District Municipality, under and subject to the provisions of the " Municipal Clauses Act," and amendments thereto, and under and subject to the provisions hereinfter contained or referred to. The said Municipality shall be called and known by the name and style of "The Corporation of the District of Coldstream." The said Municipality shall comprise all that locality hereinbefore described. The Council shall consist of a Reeve and four Councillors, and the whole number present at each meeting thereof shall not be leas than three. The nomination shall take place, and the poll (if any) shall be held at the Cold- stream Office at Offilstreani Randle. The nomination for the first election of Councillors shall be on the eighth day of January, A.D. 1907, at 12 o'clock, noon, and the polling (if any) shall be on the twelfth day of January, A.D. 1907, and shall continue for one day only, and the poll shall be kept open between the hours of 9 A.M. and 7 r st., and Mr. Frederic Billings, of Vernon, shall be the Returning tlflicer thereat. The persons qualified to be nominated for and elected Reeve of such Municipality at the first election shall be such persons as are male British subjects, who have been for the three months next preceeding the day of nomination the registered owners, in the Land Registry Office, of land or real property, situate within the Municipality, of the assessed value, on the last Provincial Assessment Roll, of five hundred dollars or more over and above any registered judgment, and who are otherwise duly qualified as voters. The persons qualitiol to be nominated for and elected Councillors of such Muni- cipality at the first election shall be such persons as arc male British subjects, who have been for the three months next preceding the day of nomination the registered owners, in the Land Registry Office, of land or real property, situate within the Muni- cipality, of the assessed value, on the last Provincial Assessment Roll, of two hundred and fifty dollars or more over and above any registered judgment, or who are homesteaders, lessees from the Crown, or pre-emptors who have resided within the Munici- pality for the space of one year or more immediately preceding the nomination, and who are assessed for five hundred dollars or more, on the last Provincial Assessment Roll, over and above any registered judgment, and who are otherwise qualified as voters. The persons qualified to vote for Reeve and Councillors at such first election shall be all such persons as are male British subjects of the full age of twenty-one years, who are freeholders, homesteaders or pre-emptors within the boundaries of the Municipality, who have resided within the boundaries of the Municipality for one year immediately preceding the date of these Letters Patent, and who shall, before the day of such election, have applied to the Returning Officer, and have had their names placed on the list of electors for such election. The Reeve and Councillors elected at such first election shall hold office until his successor, or a majority of their successors, have been sworn in, unless he or they shall die or resign or become disqualified. It shall be the duty of the Returning Officer to enter in a book, in alphabetical order, the names, addresses and occupations of all persons, qualified to vote as aforesaid, who make application to him, as aforesaid, to have their names placed on such list, and such list shall be the lint of the electors for such election. Before the name of any person shall be placed on the list, he shall make and sign a declaration in writing, before some person authorised to administer oaths, setting forth his name, address, occupation and qualifications as aforesaid, which declaration shall be filed with the Returning Officer. Such list and declarations shall be open to inspection by any person within lawful hours. Any perm may complain that his name is improperly omitted from the voters' list, or that any other name is improperly inserted thereon, and may apply to any Judge of the Supreme or County Court to have his name inserted thereon or to have any names improperly inserted thereon struck off the said list. In such latter case reasonable notice, to be determined by the Judge applied to, shall be given to the 4 •

person whose name is proposed to be struck off. The Judge shall hear and dispose of all such applications in a summary way, and the Returning Officer shall amend the list in accordance with the Judge's decision. At least six days notice of the time and place of yomination and of holding of the poll (if any) shall be given by the said Returning Officer ; such notice to be posted during that period in the manner provWd by Section 30 of the " Municipal Elections Act." The Returning Officer shall, on the day of nomination, at 2 o'clock, ex., announce the names of the persons put in nomination in that behalf as candidates for the offices of Reeve and Councillors, as prescribed by the " Municipal Elections Act." At the close of the time for nominating the candidates the Returning Officer shall deliver to every candidate, or agent of a candidate, applying for the same, a duly certified list of the names of the several candidates who shall have been nominated ; and any votes given at the election for any other candidates than those so nominated shall be null and void. If, at the expiration of the time appointed for the election as aforesaid, no inure candidates stand nominated than there lire vacancies to be filled tip, the Returning Officer shall forthwith declare the candidates who may stand nominated to be elected, and return their names to the Registrar of the Supreme Court. No speeches or interruption to the proceedings of nominating candidates at the hustings shall be permitted by the Returning Officer between the reading of the notice of election and the closing of the proceedings on nomination day by the Returning Officer. If, at the expiration of such time, more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the Returning Officer shall declare the names of the candidates, and publicly proclaim the day previously stated in his proclamation, and the place at which the poll shall be so opened in the Municipality, for the purpose of taking the votes of the electors acconling to law ; and shall then adjourn the election, and shall take a poll by ballot, and shall cause to be posted up notices of his having granted such poll, indicating the names, residences, and occupations of the candidates MO nominated, in the order in which they shall be printed on the bollot papers, which notices shall, as soon as possible after the nomination, be placarded in all the places where the proclamation for the election WIN posted up. If, after the adjournment of an election by the Returning Officer for the purpose of taking a poll, one of the candidates nominated shall die before the poll has commenced, the Returning Officer shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, countermand notice of the poll, and all the proceedings with reference to the election shall be eminence(' afresh : Provided that no fresh nomination shall be necessary in the case of a candidate who stood nominated at the time of the countermand of the poll. In case of a poll being held, the candidates (duly qualified) who shall obtain the greatest number of votes shall ho Reeve and Councillors respectively. Every person qualified to vote shall have five votes, being one for each Councillor to be elected, and one for Reeve, but he may vote for any less number than five : Provided always, that he shall not cast more than one vote in favour of any one candidate, or vote on more than one occasion. And in the event of the number of votes being found to have been equal for any two or more candidates, one or more of whom, but not all of such candidates, being by the state of the poll entitled to be declared elected, the Returning Officer shall, by a casting vote or votes, as the case may be, decide which of the candidates for whom the votes may be equal shall be elected : Provided that the said Returning Officer shall not vote except in case of an equality of votes as aforesaid. All expenses attendant upon the said election shall be borne by the said Munici- pality. The opening of the ballot bo cos and counting the votes shall be in the presence of the candidates, if they attend for that purpose. The Returning Officer, after time declaration of the poll, shall retain the ballot papers and boxes until a Clerk shall be duly appointed, to whom he shall forthwith deliver the same. Every person who shall have presented himself for nomination, and who shall have been elected a Reeve or Councillor, must serve for the term for which he has been elected, unless in the case of sickness, or in default pay a sum of fifty dollars towards the Municipal Revenue ; such mum, with costs, shall be recoverable by the Clerk of the Municipality, summarily, before any Justice of the Peace. Any vacancy in the office of Reeve or Councillor shall be filled as provided by the " Municipal Elections Act." The first meeting of the Council shall be held on the first Monday after the day of election at the Coldstream Office at Coldstream Ranche aforesaid, at 12 noon. 4

Until provision be made by by-law in that Is.half, all proceedings at and relating to the meetings of the Council shall be held and taken in accordance with the provisions contained in the " Municipal Clauses Act," and all the powers, privileges and duties of the Reeve and Council shall be the same as those prescribed by the said Act. At the first meeting, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Council may elect a Clerk, Treasurer, Collector and Assessor, or such officers as they may deem necessary, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the Council, and receive such remunerative► as the Council may by by-law appoint. IN TEsneoNv WnEnEor, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of Our said Province to be hereunto affixed : WITNESS, the Honourable JAMES DUNSMUIR, Lieutenant- Governor of Our said Province of British Columbia, in Our City of Victoria, in Our said Province, this nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six, and in the sixth year of Our Reign.

By Command. k_44r2 \424,47., Provincial Secretary. M ,,tkintil Or Kith Ctitit

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT the following is a true copy of a 10: nute of the

Honourable the Executive Council of the Province of British Columbia, approved by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor on the 12th day of December, A.D. 1906.

Deputy Provincial Secretary.

725. At the Executive Council Chamber, Victoria, B. C. The 10th day of December, A.D. 1906. Present: The Honourable Mr. McBride in the Chair. Mr. Fulton

Mr. Tatlow Mr. Green On the recommendation of the Honourable The Provincial Secretary.

and under the provisions of Chapter 143: R.S. "Municipalities Incorporation Act". H s liJnour the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia,

by and with the advice of his Executive Council, doth order as follows: that LETTERS PATENT incorporating certain land situated in the Osoyoos Division of Yale District, in the County of Yale, and described in the public notice of intention to apply for incorporation into a District Municipality under the name of "THE

CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLDSTREAM", be issued; and it is further ordered that FREDERIC BILLINGS, of the city of Vernon, be and is hereby appointed to be the RETURNING OFFICER at the first municipal election.

"A. CAMPBELL REDDIE." Deputy Clerk: Executive Council. 725.

To His Honour The Lieutenant-Governor in Council;

The Committee of Council have had before them a Petition under the provisions of Chapter 143, R.S.

1897, being the "Municipalities Incorporation Act". and Amendment Acts, signed by N. McGee Armstrong and twenty-five other persons representing the regis,ered owners of more than one half in value of the land to be included within the limits of the proposed municipality, to be incorporated under the name of the "CORPORATION

OF THE DISTRICT OF COLDSTREAM". The Provincial Secretary to whom the matter was referred,reports that the area sought to be incorporated, and described in the Petition, is situated in the Osoyous Division of Yale District in the County of Yale; that the Solicitor for the petitioners has furnished a Statutory Declaration that the contents of the P. tition he verily believes as the result of the various searcher he caused to be made and from personal knowledge, are true; that the petitioners appear to have complied with the provisions of Section 3A, of the said Act with respect t, the

Cr' . f District Municipality. The undersigned therefore recommends that the prayer of

Petition be granted, and that LETTERS PATENT incorporating the land described in the public notice of intention to apply for incorpor- poration be issued, and further that such Letters provide for the appointment of FREDERIC BILLINGS, of the city of Vernon, Solicitor, as RETURNING OFFICER at the first Municipal Election.

Dated this 10th day of December, A.D., 1906.

"Fred. J. Fulton" Provincial Secretary.

Approved this 10th day of December, A.D., 1906.

"Richard McBride" Presiding Member of the Executive Council. 725

Dated 12th December

ORDER IN COUNCIL providing Letters Patent, Incorporating "District of Coldstream" in Osoyoos Division Yale Dist. County of Yale and F. Billings to be returning officer