2. The Minister of Municipal Affairs shall give notice of the issuing of the letters patent by publishing them in the Gazette officielle du Québec.
From and after the date fixed for such purpose in the letters patent, the territory designated therein shall become a mining village municipality and the inhabitants and ratepayers of such municipality shall be incorporated under the name indicated in the letters patent.
R. S. 1964, c. 195, s. 2.