Cromwell Municipality. To William Jackson Barry, Epq., Cromwell. Sib, —We, the undersigned Electors of Cromwell, heraby request that you will allow jouißelf to be put in Nomination at the ensuing Election for the office of Mayor, in the Municipality of Cromwell. Your well-known energy of character, and the many proofs you have given of a desire to further the best intertsis of t this Township and district, assure us, that in requesting you to come forward at this Election, we will not only be doing our duty to ourselves as citizens, but to you as one in whom we can place the utmost confidence. And we pledge ourselves to use our best endeavors to secure your Eleotion: — James Corse Robert Edwards Robert Kidd William Grant Thomas Henry Carpenter William Henry Whetter James Guthrie John M'Cormick William Goodail John Wilson John S. Burnes John Marsh William Keaa James Uossar Thomas Marsh John]Fraser J. W. Thompson John Hetherinton PatrickfKelly G. W. Goodyer Michael Sharkey C.Thomas Isaac W. Escott „ July, 1806. To the Electors of the Municipality of Cromwell. Gentlemen, I have received with the greatest pleasure jour numerously signed requisisiou to come forward as a Candidate for the Mayorship if the Municipality of Cromwell. It becomes my duty, Gentlemen, to ;o thank you for the very honor which fou have conferred upon me, and to signify ny intention to comply with your request. Should I have the honor to be returned ,s your Mayor, I pledge myself, to use my test endeavors to furthei the interests of ny fellow Citizens, the Township, and the )istrict generally. 1 have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, WILLIAM J. BARRY. Jromwcll, 11th. July, 18G6. '0 THE ELECTORS OF THE INCORPORATED 'OWN OF CROMWELL. Gentlemen, —Being one of the Candidates lominated for the Mayoralty of our Munici>ality, I feel it my bounden duty to give 70U an exposition of my views ,for placing .he same upon a firm and lasting basis. I eonsider it advisable that oppressive .axation should be avoided, and the Corporaion be as self-supporting as possible; to jffect which, a correspondence should be pened with the Government, on the first nesting of the Council, relative to giving up the Cromwell Bridge to the Corporation, as is provided for, in xux section oi the Ot&go Municipal Corporation's Ordinance, and for .be endowment of a Municipal Estate, say Mveu milea in circumference. That a Market be established by the irporatiou,—the fame to be the Municipal iroperty—f L r the sale by auction of Produce,
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Dunstan Times, Issue 221, 20 July 1866, Page 2
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