1913 CHAPTER 21. An Act for Raising Money on the Credit of the General Revenue Fund of Alberta. (Assented to March 25, 1913.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor in Council from time to time to authorize the Provincial Treasurer to raise by way of loan upon the credit of the province, such sum or sums of money not to exceed in the whole Five Million Dollars for all or any of the purposes following, that is to say: (a) For the extension of the Provincial Telephone System, Two Million Dollars; (b) For the carrying on of Public Works authorized by the Legislature, Three Million Dollars. 2. The aforesaid sums of money may be borrowed for any term or terms not exceeding fifty years at a rate not exceeding four per cent. per annum, and shall be raised upon the credit of the General Revenue Fund of Alberta, and shall be chargeable thereon. 1913 CHAPTER 22. An Act to incorporate the City of Lethbridge. (Assented to March 25, 1913.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: TITLE I. PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Lethbridge Charter." 2. In this Act the word 1. "Elector" means a person entitled to vote at municipal and school elections in the said city; 2. "Council" means the municipal council of the said city; 3. "Burgess" means an elector who is qualified in respect of freehold property to vote on money by-laws; 4. "Felony" means any indictable offence which since the passing of The Criminal Code of Canada, 1892, is punishable with death or imprisonment for a period of five years or over, and "misdemeanor" any offence for which under the said Code the extreme penalty is imprisonment for a term less than five years and two years or over; 5. "Income" means the profit or gain, whether ascertained and capable of computation as being wages, salary or other fixed amount or unascertained as being fees or emoluments or profits from a trade or commercial or financial or other business or calling, directly or indirectly received by a person from any office or employment or from any profession or calling or from any trade, manufacture, or business, and includes the interest, dividends or profits directly or indirectly received from money at interest upon any security or without security or from stocks or from any other investment and also profit or gain from any other source whatever; 6. "Business" shall include any trade, profession, calling, occupation or employment; 7. "Special franchise" shall mean every right, authority or permission to construct, maintain or operate within the city, in, under, above, on or through any highway, road, street, lane, public place or public water within the jurisdiction of the city any poles, wires, tracks, pipes, conduits, buildings, erections, structures, or other things for the purpose of bridges, railways, tramways, or for the purpose of conducting steam, heat, water, gas, oil, electricity or any property, substance or product capable of being transported, transmitted or conveyed for the supply of water, heat, light, power, transportation, telegraphic, telephonic or other service; 8. "Judge" shall mean any judge of the District Court of the District of Lethbridge or any judge acting in his place; 9. "Land" includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and any estate or interest therein or right or easement affecting the same, and— (a) Land covered with water; (b) Mines, minerals, gas, oil, salt quarries and fossils in and under land; and (c) In case of special franchises, machinery, fixtures, buildings, structures, and other thing existing, erected, or placed upon, in, over, under, or affixed to land or any highway, road, street, lane or public place or water, but not the rolling stock of any railways or street railway; 10. "Municipality" or "City" means the City of Lethbridge as herein incorporated; 11. "Person" includes a corporation or partnership; 12. "Resident" means a person residing within the limits of the City of Lethbridge; 13. "Revised Assessment Roll" means the assessment roll of the city or any part thereof as finally adopted by the council; 14. "Tenant" is one who holds, uses or enjoys the property of another with his consent or by his permission or letting; 15. "Occupant' means the person or corporation in actual occupation of any land or premises within the city, either being the owner or tenant thereof, for a year or any longer term. Husband and wife living together shall not be considered separate occupants, but the husband shall be considered the occupant; 16. "City Clerk" means the city clerk of the City of Lethbridge; 17. "Treasurer" means the treasurer of the City of Lethbridge. |