to be paid therefor. This section is to be in addition to the general provisions to that effect contained in "The Municipal Act." row $100,000 of waterworks and sewerage addition to 39. Said Town of Portage la Prairie is hereby author- Power to borized and empowered to borrow, issue debentures and to for completion create a debt of one hundred thousand dollars for the completion of their waterworks and sewerage system in addi-system in tion to the two hundred thousand dollars which the town amount has already been authorized to borrow by section 35 of orized. chapter 34 of the Statutes of 1905, and the by-law providing for the borrowing of said sum of one hundred thousand dollars may provide for the repayment of said debentures at the expiration of forty years from the date of said by-law. already auth em- Power to borrow $15,000 for for public parks said purposes. la By-law No. 437 for that pur 11. Said corporation is hereby authorized and powered to borrow the sum of fifteen thousand dollars public parks purposes; and by-law No. 437 of the corporation, being a by-law of the Town of Portage Prairie to create a debt of fifteen thousand dollars for pub- pose legalized lic parks purposes, which by-law has been submitted to the ratepayers of said town, and has received the assent of the majority thereof as required by "The Municipal Act," is hereby legalized and confirmed, a copy of which by-law is schedule A to this Act. 12. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to. and confirmed. SCHEDULE A. BY-LAW No. 437. A By-law of the Town of Portage la Prairie to create a debt of fifteen thousand dollars for public parks purposes. Whereas the public parks board of the Town of Portage la Prairie has requested the corporation of the said town to raise, by a special issue of debentures, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for public parks purposes; And whereas the council of said corporation deems it expedient and advisable to comply with the said request of the said board; And whereas it will be necessary to raise by special rate, for the period of forty years, beginning with the year 1906, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars annually for the purpose of paying interest on the said debentures, at the rate of five per cent. per annum, and the further sum of one hundred and fifty-seven 86-100 dollars annually for creating a sinking fund, which, with interest computed at the rate of four per cent. per annum upon the investment thereof, will be sufficient to create a fund sufficient to pay off the proposed debt at its maturity, the said two annual rates making together nine hundred and seven 86-100 dollars, which shall be raised annually by yearly rate upon all the rateable property of the Town of Portage la Prairie liable for rating for that purpose, to provide for the repayment of principal and interest on said debt, said rates to be first levied in the year 1906 and in each year thereafter until the maturity of said debentures; Whereas the total amount of rateable property of the said Town of Portage la Prairie, according to the last revised assessment roll (that is 1905) is two millions two hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars; And whereas the total amount of the present existing indebtedness of the said corporation, not including the sum hereinafter provided for, and not including the debt created by a by-law authorizing the issue of debentures for two hundred thousand dollars for waterworks purposes, is the sum of one hundred and ninety-six thousand two hundred and forty dollars, exclusive of local improvement debts secured by special Acts and rates or assessments, none of which is overdue, and upon which there are no arrears of principal or interest, Now therefore the council of the corporation of the Town of Portage la Prairie, in session assembled, enacts as follows: 1. That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall be raised by the issue and sale of debentures of the said corporation for the purposes hereinbefore recited to be termed park fund debentures," which debentures shall be issued under the corporate seal of the said corporation, and shall be signed by the mayor and secretary-treasurer thereof, and the proceeds when realized shall be handed over to the public parks board to be expended by them for the purposes herein before referred to. 2. Said debentures shall be issued in the sum of one thousand dollars each, and shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, payable yearly, and attached to each of said debentures shall be forty coupons, one coupon being payable each year after the date of said debentures, and which coupon shall be for the sum of fifty dollars, being the interest, at five per cent. per annum, upon each debenture for the period of one year. Said coupons shall be deemed to have been properly executed by each one having printed or lithographed thereon the name of the mayor and the written signature of the secretary-treasurer, which coupon shall be numbered with the number of the debenture to which it is attached, and each debenture shall bear date the second day of January, A.D. 1906, and shall be made payable on the second day of January, A.D. 1946, and shall contain a promise to pay the principal of said debentures, and also the interest thereon, at the rate of five per cent. per annum, which payment shall be made by the payment of the respective coupons attached thereto. 3. The said debentures and coupons for interest shall be made payable at the Imperial Bank of Canada, in the City of Winnipeg, and that the same may be disposed of by sale for cash, and not otherwise. 4. There shall be raised annually during each year, beginning with the year 1906 and ending with the maturity of said debentures, by special rate sufficient therefor on all the ratable property of the Town of Portage la Prairie liable thereto, the sum of one hundred and fiftyseven and 86-100 dollars to provide for the sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said debentures, and the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars to provide for the interest upon said debentures, at five per cent. per annum as hereinbefore mentioned, all of which sums shall be raised by an annual special rate upon all the ratable property aforesaid. The said annual special rate shall be first imposed and levied as aforesaid in the year 1906, and thereafter each year until the maturity and payment of the said debentures. 5. This by-law shall be submitted to the electors qualified to vote thereon on the nineteenth day of December next, and for the purpose of taking votes thereon the polls shall be opened and remain open from the hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon till the hour of five o'clock in the afternoon of said day, in each of the following places in the Town of Portage la Prairie, and at each of the said places the following persons shall be the deputy returning officers to take the votes of the electors upon this by-law, namely: Polling Sub-division No. 1, West Ward, building owned by George C. Hall, situate on Saskatchewan avenue, on lots 5, 6, 7 and 8, plan 18, parish lot 63, and James L. Bowman shall be the deputy returning officer; Polling Sub-division No. 2, Centre Ward, in the Town Hall, and A. E. Ireland, shall be the deputy returning officer; Polling Sub-division No. 3, East Ward, at the office of Thos. W. Prout, situate on lots 17 and 18, plan 10, parish lot 67, and Enos A. Souch shall be the deputy returning officer. 6. And on the twentieth day of December, A.D. 1905, at his office in the town hall, at the Town of Portage la Prairie, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon, the town clerk of the Town of Portage la Prairie shall sum up the number of votes given for and against said by-law. 7. On the eighteenth day of December, A.D. 1905, at the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon, the mayor of the Town of Portage la Prairie shall attend at his office, in the town hall, for the purposes of appointing persons to attend at the various polling places, and also to attend at the official summing up of votes hereinbefore referred to by the town clerk, on behalf of the persons interested in this by-law, and promoting or opposing the passage thereof respectively. 8. This by-law shall take effect on the second day of January, A.D. 1906. Done and passed in open council, this eighth day of January, A.D. 1906. W. ARMSTRONG, Acting Mayor. F. A. WHITAKER. SEAL Cleansing and disinfecting houses by health officer HIS CHAPTER 69. An Act to amend "The Public Health Act." [Assented to March 16th, 1906.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 1. Section 55 of chapter 138 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, 1902, being "The Public Health Act," is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: 55. Where a health officer of an incorporated village or rural municipality is of opinion that the cleansing and at expense of disinfecting of any house, or part thereof, and of any municipality. articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or check infectious disease, it shall be the duty of such health officer to cleanse and disinfect such house, or part thereof, and articles therein, at the expense of the municipality, and such expense shall be treated as and deemed to be expenses incurred by a health officer under the provisions of this Act. By-laws for same purpose in cities and towns. Repeal. (a) In incorporated cities and towns the respective councils thereof may pass by-laws providing for the cleansing and disinfection of infected houses and articles therein, and by whom and in what manner the expenses consequent upon such cleansing and disinfection shall be paid. 2. Sections 56 and 57 of said Act are hereby repealed. 3. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to. HIS CHAPTER 70. An Act to amend "The Public Parks Act." [Assented to March 16th, 1906.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts follows: as 1. Section 39 of "The Public Parks Act," being chapter 141 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, 1902, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sub-sections: age la Prairie tion of land (a) In the event of the public parks board of the Town Regulating of Portage la Prairie taking proceedings to expropriate by the parks proceedings any land required by them in connection with the flooding board of Portof the slough, the provisions of "The Municipal Act," with for expropriareference to expropriation and arbitration in the case of required for cities, contained in sections 752 to 776, both inclusive, may slough. flooding the be followed and shall be held to be the appropriate proceedings under this section, and the said sections of "The Municipal Act" shall be read into this Act as applying directly to the said public parks board, and the said board shall have all the rights and powers of arbitration and expropriation which a city corporation would have under said sections; provided that any award made under said Award to be sections shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary appeal. provided for by section 768 of said Act, be subject to appeal as provided for by section 745 of said Act. may, with subject to may enter on work thereon prior to expro (b) The public parks board of said town, their en- Parks board gineers, surveyors, servants and workmen, from time to lands and do time and at such times as the board may see fit, or without the consent of the owner, enter into or upon the priation. land of any person, persons, bodies politic or corporate in the said Town of Portage la Prairie adjacent to the said slough, and which is subject to expropriation under the provisions hereinbefore contained, for the purpose of making surveys in connection with the flooding of the said slough, and for the purpose of digging ditches, and building dams and doing other work which may be necessary in order to maintain a lake or pond in the said slough, and the said board may take possession of all such land, and To be deemed from and after the taking of possession thereof shall be after taking deemed to be the owners thereof, subject to the provisions possession. to be owners |