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Fitzroy Township Minutes, 10 June 1865

From the Ottawa Citizen, Friday July 21, 1865, page 2, column's 3-4:

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Corporation of the Township of Fitzroy
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Minutes of Council, June 10, 1865
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      The Council met pursuant to adjournment.  Present: The Reeve, and Messrs. Neil, Story, and Dean.
      The minutes of last session were read.
      Motion No. 1.  Moved by Mr. Dean, seconded by Mr. Neil, that James Blair be directed by this Council to make a culvert across the side road between Lots No. 20 and 21, at the forth concession line to take the water down the fourth concession line, and to repair the road from said side line to the School House. -- Carried.
      No. 2.  Moved by Mr. Neil, seconded by Mr. Dean, that the tender of Wm. Story, be accepted for the Collectorship of this township for the current year. -- Carried.
      No. 3.  Moved by Mr. Dean, seconded by Mr. Story, that the By-law to appoint certain officers for the current year, and to repeal part of By-law No. 156, be now read a first, second, and a third time and passed, any rule to the contrary notwithstanding. -- Carried.
      By-law No. 156 was read a first, second, and third time and passed accordingly.
      No. 4.  Moved by Mr. Dean, seconded by Mr. Story, that Thomas McCormack be directed by this Council to expend twenty days Statute labor on the Fourth concession line of this township, opposite Lots Nos. 12, 13, and 14. -- Carried.
      No. 5.  Moved by Mr. Neil, seconded by Mr. Story, that William Sullivan be directed by this Council to expend thirty days labor on the Seventh concession across lots 9 and 10, and twenty days from the Carp bridge on the side line between lots 10 and 11, in the Sixth and Seventh concessiions, and the remainder from Mr. Fraser's store, on the main road, to the end of his section. -- Carried.
      No. 6.  Moved by Mr. Dean, seconded by Mr. Story, that Peter Denis, Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. F. McCarthy, be exempt from statute labor and the payment of taxes for the current year. -- Carried.
      No. 7.  Moved by Mr. Neil, seconded by Mr. Story, that this Council do now adjourn until the 8th day of July next. -- Carried.
(Signed) James Hubbell,
Reeve.
W. P. Taylor,
      Township Clerk.
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BY-LAW No. 159.
By-law to appoint certain officers for the Township of Fitzroy, for the year 1865, and the repeal part of B-law No. 156:
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appoint certain officers for the Township of Fitzroy, for the year 1864, and to repeal part of By-law No. 156,
      The Corporation of the Township of Fitzroy enacts as follows:
      That the following persons be and they are hereby appointed to the undermentioned offices, for the township of Fitzroy, for the current year, namely :
      Poundkeeper -- Thos. Fraser, jr.
      Collector -- Wm. Story
      Overseers of Highways -- Andrew White and Richard Wilson
      That so much of By-law No. 156, as relates to the appointment of Robert Owens as Overseers of Highways, and James Mills as Poundkeeper, is declared to be, and the same is hereby repealed.
      Given under the hand of the Reeve, and the Seal of the Corporation of the Township of Fitzroy, this 10th day of June 1865.
(Signed) James Hubbell,
Reeve (L? S.)
W. P. Taylor,
      Township Clerk.

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William Story (who would have been about 45 at this time) was the son of John Story and Margaret Latimer, and whose brother David was my gggg-grandfather.   

Googling "Statute labor" gave the following definition from The Free Dictionary : "a definite amount of labor required for the public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in certain English colonies."

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