. The township of Biddulph : short sketch of municipal history and official life, with some of the most important municipal events from the pioneer days of 1830 to 1912 : with The consolidated by-laws of the township . Village offered the Township $150 as partcompensation for their abolition. This was accepted by theTownship and the gates were reduced to kindling wood, andthis road made free of charge to the travelling public, we trustfor all time. The great struggle of the abolition of the Toll-gates waswith the Proof Line and St. Marys Gravel Road Company in1885. Under the Council of that ye
. The township of Biddulph : short sketch of municipal history and official life, with some of the most important municipal events from the pioneer days of 1830 to 1912 : with The consolidated by-laws of the township . Village offered the Township $150 as partcompensation for their abolition. This was accepted by theTownship and the gates were reduced to kindling wood, andthis road made free of charge to the travelling public, we trustfor all time. The great struggle of the abolition of the Toll-gates waswith the Proof Line and St. Marys Gravel Road Company in1885. Under the Council of that year—W. D. Stanley, Reeve:C. C. Hodgins, Deputy-Reeve, and P. J. Dewan, Wm. Hooperand Wm. Hodgins (Aunt Bettys William), Councillors-legal proceedings were taken against the Company to compelthem to put their road in a proper state of repair or to throw off their gates. Mr. Codey, , of Giencoe, was appointedby the Court to make an examination of the road and report onits condition, which he did. The report was altogether adverseto the Company. He ordered them to put their road in properrepair or to remove their gates at once. The Company resistedthis order and the matter went to Court. The late Judge Street. W. D. STANLEY, Clerk of the Township, 1912 was at this time Solicitor for the Company and appeared beforethe Court in that capacity. The late Judge William Elliott wason the Bench waiting to hear argument when, at the lastmoment, the Company threw up the sponge and signed anagreement to remove the gates forthwith. Our neighbors to -15- the south of us endured the locks and bars of this Company fora quarter of a century longer before they were able to kill thefatted calf and immortalize the event with jubilation, feastingand song. Freedom from Accidents on Public Roads During the seventy years of the life of the BiddulphCouncil, the To\A/nship has been remarkably clear of accidentsoccurring on the highways. During that time there were onlythree cases of any note of damag
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