Charlottetown divided into five Wards

Description of Wards

Administra- tion vested in a Mayor and eight Councillors

Salary of Mayor

Cap. 17. III EDWARD VII. 1903.

2. For the purposes of this Act the said City of Charlottetown shall be and is hereby divided into Five Wards, to be called respectively, the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards, and which said Wards. shall be divided, bounded and limited as follows, that is to say :—Number One shall comprise all 'that part of Charlottetown which lies south of Dorchester Street, including the parcel of land formerly known as the “Military Barrack Ground ; ” Number Two shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies south of Richmond Street and north of Dorchester Street; Number Three shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies south of Grafton Street and north of Richmond Street ; Number Four shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies south of Fitzroy Street and north of Grafton Street; Number Five shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies north of Fitzroy Street, including~ the Common of the said town.

3. The administration of the fiscal, prudential and municipal affairs, and the Government of the said City, shall be vested in one principal officer. who shall be and shall be styled the Mayor of the Cityof Charlottetown, and eight persons who shall be and shall be styled Common Councilmen of the City of Charlottetown, to be severally elected, one Councillor for each of the Wards One, Two and Three, two Councillors for Ward four; and three Councillors for Ward Five, as hereinafter provided; and such Mayor and Common Councilmen for the time being shall be, and be called, the City Council of the City of Charlottetown; and all By-laws made by the said City Council shall express to be enacted by the City Council of the City of Charlottetown, and there shall be paid from and out of the moneys belonging to the said City to the said Mayor, for the time being, in lieu of all fees and perquisites, a salary not exceeding three hundred and twenty-five dollars currency per annum.