Hugging the Meridian

loaned up to $10,000 a year to municipalities for this purpose. Although the debentures could be issued for any term not exceeding five years and paid back in installments, farmers were encouraged to repay the loan at the end of the crop year. Sometimes they could not pay. An. auditor’s report mentions how Maodonald attempted to alleviate the farmers’ plight, passing “a resolution appropriating $500 for road work in Twp 9, range 1 and 2B. This resolution appears to have been passed to give the parties, owing for seed grain a chance to work out their indebted- 11635.”?

Statute labor also included ridding ditches of noxious weeds. Records reveal Council had appointed a noxious weed inspector each year since 1887 —-— six years after incorporation. Still, Macdonald was in the forefront. The Western Municipal News; of July 1910 gives an account of the first convention of municipal noxious weeds inspectors, held at the Agriculture College in Winnipeg

it appears that there are 87 municipalities in the Province of Manitoba liable to

prosecution and conviction for not appointing weed inspectors...“ further

appeared that a clause in the Act had been overlooked in the amendment. for the municipality is not held responsible for weeds on the highways. in such

John Wilson, c 1897 Ambrose Wison, c 1912 —Mrs. H. Guckin

Two df Thomas Wilson's sons sewed as reeve of the municipality. John was reeve in 1890. and Ambrose acted as reeve1903-04. ‘ ‘

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