SCHEDULE A.

By-law No. 192-"City of North Vancouver Eighth Street Macadamizing Local Improvement Debenture By-law, 1922."

By-law No. 193-" The City of North Vancouver Ridgeway Avenue Macadamizing Local Improvement Debenture By-law, 1922."

By-law No. 194-" The City of North Vancouver Fourth Street Macadamizing Local Improvement Debenture By-law, 1922."

By-law No. 195-"City of North Vancouver Tenth Street Macadamizing Local Improvement Debenture By-law, 1922."

By-law No. 197-" The City of North Vancouver Twelfth Street Macadamizing Local Improvement Debenture By-law, 1922."

SCHEDULE B.

By-law No. 486-“Corporation of the City of North Vancouver Twentyseventh Street Macadamizing Local Improvement Construction By-law, 1921.” By-law No. 487-" Corporation of the City of North Vancouver St. George's Avenue Macadamizing Local Improvement Construction By-law, 1921." By-law No. 489-" Corporation of the City of North Vancouver Nineteenth Street Macadamizing Local Improvement Construction By-law, 1921." By-law No. 187-" The Corporation of the City of North Vancouver Esplanade Macadamizing Local Improvement Construction By-law, 1918."

By-law No. 186-"The Corporation of the City of North Vancouver St. George's Avenue Macadamizing Local Improvement Construction By-law, 1918."

SCHEDULE C.

By-law No. 196-"City of North Vancouver Mahon Avenue Macadamizing Local Improvement Debentures By-law, 1922."

By-law No. 198-" City of North Vancouver Thirteenth Street Macadamizing Local Improvement Debenture By-law, 1922."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

An Act to validate and amend By-law No. 403 of the
City of Prince Rupert.

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

W

HEREAS a petition has been presented by the Municipal Cor- Preamble.
poration of the City of Prince Rupert, asking for the passage

of an Act to:-
(1.) Validate By-law No. 403 of the Corporation, being a by-law
to provide for borrowing one hundred and fifty-five thou
sand dollars upon debentures to pay for the construction
of a local improvement--namely, the surfacing of certain
roadways with broken stone and the finishing and binding
of same by use of water and asphalt:

(2.) Authorize the Council to assess and collect such assess-
ments for the cost of the work provided for under said
by-law:

(3.) Amend the special assessment roll confirmed by the Court
of Revision of the Council of the City of Prince Rupert
on the twenty-sixth day of December, 1922, pursuant to
the "Local Improvement Act," being chapter 49 of the
Statutes of the Province of British Columbia, 1913, and
amendments thereto, and all assessment notices and tax
notices made and sent pursuant thereto:

(4.) Amend the aforesaid by-law so that the interest payable
on the debentures issued thereunder shall be payable on
the first day of August and the first day of February in
each and every year during the currency of the said deben-
tures, and that the first payment of interest shall be due
on the first day of August, 1924; and so as to make the
payment of principal dated from five years from the first
day of February, 1924:

(5.) Alter the rate of interest payable on the debentures to be issued under the said by-law from seven per centum per annum to six per centum per annum:

And whereas the Council of the City of Prince Rupert, by By-law No. 375 as amended by By-law No. 400, passed pursuant to the provisions of the "Local Improvement Act," undertook the following works of local improvement, that is to say:

The surfacing of certain roadways with four inches to six inches of broken stone, and finishing and binding same by use of water and asphalt as shown in the following schedule of roadways:—

SCHEDULE.

(a.) Asphalt spray coat, Second Avenue, from E.P.L. of Sixth Street to E.P.L. of McBride Street:

(b.) Asphalt spray coat, McBride Street, from N.P.L. of Second Avenue to S.P.L. of Third Avenue:

(c.) Asphalt penetration coat, Second Avenue, from W.P.L. of Eighth Street to E.P.L. of Sixth Street:

(d.) Asphalt penetration coat, Third Avenue, from W.P.L. of Eighth Street to W.P.L. of McBride Street, and from E.P.L. of McBride Street to W.P.L. of Government Road at Cameron Cove, commonly called Cow Bay: Provided that Third Avenue from E.P.L. of McBride Street to Cow Bay shall be surfaced for a width of thirty (30) feet only, and being fifteen (15) feet on either side of and contiguous to the centre line of the said avenue, as shown on plan filed in the office of the City Engineer:

(e.) Asphalt penetration coat, McBride Street, from S.P.L. of Third Avenue to N.P.L. of Fifth Avenue, as shown on plans filed in the office of the City Engineer:

(f.) Asphalt penetration coat, Fulton Street, from S.P.L. of Third Avenue to N.P.L. of Fifth Avenue:

(9.) Asphalt penetration coat, Sixth Street, from S.P.L. of Second Avenue to N.P.L. of Third Avenue:

(h.) Asphalt penetration coat, Second Street, from S.P.L. of Second Avenue to N.P.L. of Third Avenue:

(i.) Asphalt penetration coat. Second Street, from N.P.L. of Second Avenue to N.P.L. of First Avenue:

(j.) Water-bound macadam, Eighth Street, from N.P.L. of Third Avenue to S.P.L. of Second Avenue:

(k.) Water-bound Macadam, Manson Way, from Centre line of First Avenue to N.S. of lane in Block 17, Section 1:

And whereas the said by-laws fail to comply with the provisions of section 8 of the "Local Improvement Act" in so far as said by-laws are not for one distinct and separate work:

And whereas the said Council also passed a by-law, No. 403, to provide for the borrowing of one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars to pay for the construction of the works undertaken pursuant to said By-laws No. 375 and 400 and to impose an assessment roll in respect thereof:

And whereas it is desirable that the several works herein before mentioned be considered and dealt with as distinct and separate

works, notwithstanding the fact that they are included in one. by-law:

And whereas it is deemed expedient to grant the prayer of the said petitioner to the extent hereinafter set out:

Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "City of Prince Rupert Local Short title. Improvement Validation Act, 1923."

2. In the construction of this Act the following expressions, Interpretation. wherever used, shall have the following meanings respectively,

unless the context otherwise requires:

"Corporation" shall mean the Municipal Corporation of the City of Prince Rupert:

"Council" shall mean the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the City of Prince Rupert:

"Local Improvement Act" shall be deemed to refer to and include chapter 49 of the Statutes of the Province of British Columbia, 1913, and all amendments thereto : Owner" shall include any person holding an estate for life or in inheritance (in possession) in lands or real property within the corporate limits of the municipality:

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"The municipality" shall mean the Corporation of the Municipality of the City of Prince Rupert:

"By-law" or "the said by-law" shall mean By-law No. 403 of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Prince Rupert: "The determining by-laws" shall mean By-laws Nos. 375 and 400, known and cited for all purposes respectively as "City of Prince Rupert Surfacing Local Improvement Construction By-law" and "City of Prince Rupert Local Improvement Determining, Corporation's Share, and Construction By-laws Amendment By-law."

In defining any word or expression used in this Act not by this section expressly defined, reference may be had to the interpretation section of the "Municipal Act."

3. The provisions of subsection (2) of section 8 of the "Local Improvement Act," in so far as they require that every by-law shall be for a distinct and separate work, shall not apply to the determining by-laws and the said by-law as defined in the preceding section.

4. The several works mentioned in (a) to (k) of the preamble shall, for all purposes of the "Local Improvement Act," be deemed respectively to be distinct and separate works.

S. 8. subsec. (2),

c. 49. 1913, not

applicable.

5. The determining by-laws and the said by-law shall not be held validated. to be invalid or set aside or held to be defective by reason of the