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Incorporation.

The Grange and Henley Beach Railway Act.-1898.

6. "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act," "The Railway Clauses Consolidation Act," "The Railway Clauses Act, 1876," "The South Australian Railways Commissioners Act, 1887," and all Acts amending the said Acts, or any of them, shall, so far as applicable to this Act, be incorporated therewith.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to
this Bill.
S. J. WAY, Lieutenant-Governor.

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

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No. 699.

An Act relating to Standard Time.

[Assented to, December 23rd, 1898.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Standard Time Act, 1898."

Short title.

2. This Act shall come into operation on a day to be appointed Commencement of by the Governor, by Proclamation published in the Government Act.

Gazette.

3. The mean time of the meridian of longitude one hundred and Standard time. forty-two and a half degrees east of Greenwich shall be deemed, and is hereby declared to be, standard time throughout South Australia.

4. Whenever any expression of time occurs in any Act, Order in Council, rule, regulation, or by-law, or deed, or in any instrument whatsoever, and whenever the doing or not doing anything at a certain time of day or night, or during a certain part of the day or the night, has an effect in law, such time shall, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, be held to be standard time throughout South Australia, as declared by this Act.

5. The "Standard Time Act, 1894," is hereby repealed.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to
this Bill.
S. J. WAY, Lieutenant-Governor.

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

Time mentioned in
Acts, rules, &c., to

mean standard time.

Repeal.

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An Act to establish Free Libraries in Corporate Towns and District Councils.

BE

[Assented to, December 23rd, 1898.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of
the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Free Libraries Act, 1898."

Short title.

2. For the purposes of this Act Municipal Corporations and Power to establish District Councils shall have the following powers, namely:

1. To establish Free Libraries within their Municipalities or Districts, and, if thought fit, for that purpose to purchase or take over from any persons able and willing to sell or transfer the same any existing Institute or Library:

II. To borrow money on debentures:

II. To declare an annual rate to provide funds:

IV. To expend any portion of their revenues in the maintenance of Free Libraries:

v. To make rules for the management of Free Libraries, and for the appointment of committees and officers in connection therewith:

VI. To accept gifts and donations.

Free Libraries.

3. No Free Library shall be established witouth the consent of Consent of ratepayers. the ratepayers obtained at a public meeting called for the purpose,

of which at least fourteen days' notice has been given by advertise

ment

Poll may be demanded.

Proceedings in case of loans.

Polls, how taken.

Free Libraries rate.

The Free Libraries Act.-1898.

ment in some newspaper circulating in the district. At such meeting the chairman shall take a show of hands for every proposition and amendment touching the object of the meeting, and shall declare that proposition carried for which in his opinion the largest show of hands appears.

4. Immediately after the chairman shall have declared the result of the show of hands at any such meeting, he shall publicly inquire from the meeting whether any ratepayers demand a poll, and thereupon any six ratepayers may demand a poll by giving notice in writing of such demand to the chairman of the meeting, and such chairman shall thereupon appoint a day, not later than fourteen days thereafter, to take a poll of ratepayers on the subject.

5. No money shall be borrowed pursuant to this Act to an amount which would exceed ten times the amount which at the time of borrowing would result from a rate of Three Pence in the Pound on the assessed value of all ratable property in the Municipality or District, and without the consent of the ratepayers obtained in the manner following:

(a) A notice stating the amount of money proposed to be borrowed, and the proposed expenditure of the money shall be published in the Government Gazette, and twice in some newspaper circulating in the Municipality or District, and posted up at the office of the council:

(b) If within one month after the last publication of the notice twenty ratepayers by writing under their hands, delivered at the office of the council, demand that a poll shall be taken, a poll shall be taken accordingly:

(c) If no such demand is made within such time the ratepayers shall be deemed to consent to the loan, and no poll shall be necessary.

6. Polls shall be taken as follows:

1. In Municipalities, in the manner provided by "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1890":

II. In District Councils, in the manner provided by Part I. of "The Land Value Assessment Act, 1893":

III. The scale of voting prescribed by section 251 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1890," and section 5 of “The Land Value Assessment Act, 1893," shall respectively apply to such polls.

7. No rate declared for the purposes of this Act shall exceed Three Pence in the Pound on the assessed value of the ratable property in the Municipality or District, and the moneys arising from such rate shall be expended in the establishment or maintenance of Free Libraries, or in payment of the principal and interest of any loan raised under the authority of this Act.

8. Free

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