3. Wherever the word "herein" is used in any section of this Act it shall be understood to relate to the whole Act and not to that section only.

4. Where anything is required to be done on a day which falls on any holiday such thing may be done on the next judicial day, but nothing in this section contained shall extend or apply to the days fixed by this Act for the nomination or election of candidates for the offices of mayor or commissioners.

5. Where forms are prescribed, deviations therefrom not affecting the substance nor calculated to mislead shall not vitiate the same, and forms to the like effect shall suffice.

6. Where power to make by-laws, regulations, rules or orders is conferred, it shall include the power to alter or revoke the same from time to time and to make others.

7. All Ordinances inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed in so far as they relate to the City of Lethbridge; and where any matter or thing is provided for by this Act the provisions of any other Act or Ordinance in relation thereto shall be deemed to be superseded so far as they relate to the said city.

8. The Municipal Ordinance of the North-West Terriritories and any amendments thereto in force on the first day of September, 1905, shall no longer apply to the City of Lethbridge; nor shall any municipal legislation of the Province of Alberta apply to the said city unless it is specially mentioned therein and whenever any Ordinance of the North-West Territories is referred to herein, such reference shall be deemed to include any Act of the Province of Alberta amending or superseding such Ordinance.

9. Chapter 64 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1906, being an Act to incorporate the City of Lethbridge with any amendments made thereto, is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not be held to take away or affect any rights to which any person or corporation other than the City of Lethbridge would have been entitled had the same continued in force.

TITLE II.

INCORPORATION, ANNEXATION.

1. The inhabitants of the locality described as follows, that is to say:

All of sections twenty-eight (28), twenty-nine (29), thirty-one (31), and thirty-two (32); that portion of section thirty (30) lying east of the Belly River, the west half of section thirty-three (33); and that portion of the east half of section thirty-three (33) lying to the south and west of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's line from Lethbridge to Coutts, all in township eight (8) range twenty-one (21) west of the fourth meridian.

That portion of sections twenty-five (25) and thirty-six (36) lying to the east of the Belly River in township eight (8), range twenty-two (22), west of the fourth meridian.

The south-west quarter of section four (4), all of sections five (5) and eight (8), and all of section six (6) saving and excepting thereout legal subdivision thirteen (13) and the west half of legal subdivision fourteen (14), save and except the most easterly sixty-six (66) feet throughout of the most northerly sixty six (66) feet of the west half of said legal subdivision fourteen (14), all in township nine (9), range twenty-one (21), west of the fourth meridian.

And that portion of the south half of section one (1), township nine (9), range twenty-two (22), west of the fourth meridian lying to the east of the Belly River.

And all of the east half of section seven (7), and the east half of legal subdivision three (3) and six (6) of said section seven (7), in township nine (9), range twenty-one (21), west of the fourth initial meridian.

The most easterly sixty-six (66) feet throughout of the west halves of legal subdivisions three (3) and six (6), in section seven (7), township nine (9), range twenty-one (21), west of the fourth meridian.

Together with all lands surveyed as Government road allowances bounding and abutting on such sections.

2. The powers of the said corporation shall be exercised by the council of the city, which shall be deemed and considered to be always continuing notwithstanding any annual or other election of the members composing it; and after any such election and the organization of the council for the next year, such council may take up and carry on to completion all proceedings commenced but not completed by the last year's council.

3. Until a new council is elected under this Act the mayor and members of the council of the existing City of Lethbridge shall be deemed and taken for all purposes to be the mayor and members of the council of the corporation hereby created and until altered under the authority of this Act all by-laws, contracts, property, assets, rights and liabilities of the existing City of Lethbridge shall be deemed and taken for all purposes to be the by-laws, contracts, property, assets, rights and liabilities of the City of Lethbridge.

4. Whenever one-half of the owners of any territory adjacent to the city whose names appear on the last revised school assessment roll, whether public or separate, desire annexation thereto, they may present a petition to the council to that effect and if the council agree the said territory may be made part of the city by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council on such date and on such terms and conditions as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may think fit.

5. By the name of the "City of Lethbridge," the city(a) Shall have perpetual succession, and shall own, possess and hold all property, real and personal, theretofore owned, possessed, or held by the said City of Lethbridge, and shall assume, manage, and dispose of all trusts, in any way connected therewith;

(b) Shall succeed to all the rights and liabilities, and shall acquire all enefits, and shall assume and pay all bonds, obligations and indebtedness of said City of Lethbridge;

(c) May sue and defend, plead and be impleaded, in all courts and places, and in all matters and proceedings; (d) May have and use a common seal and alter t'e same at pleasure;

(e) May purchase, receive, hold and enjoy, or sell and dispose of, real and personal property.

TITLE IIA.

1. The council of the city shall consist of three commissioners; the mayor who shall be commissioner of finance and public safety, whose department shall include the property of the city, health and relief license and police, fire department, publicity and immigration; a commissioner of public works whose department shall include the general work of the city done under the engineering department, and public buildings; a commissioner of public utilities which shall include all income bearing municipally owned utilities of the city; who shall all be elected by the electors in the manner hereinafter provided and the number of commissioners or their salary may be from time to time increased or decreased by the electors in accordance with the provisions of title initiative and the salaries of the commissioners shall be as follows: Mayor, four thousand ($4,000) dollars; commissioner of public works, three thousand five hundred ($3,500) dollars; commissioner of public utilities, three thousand five hundred ($3,500) dollars per annum.

(a) All residuary powers shall be exercised by the council.

2. All commissioners shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of their election except at the first election when the mayor shall be elected for four (4) years, the commissioner of public works for three (3) years, and the commissioner of public utilities for two (2) years.

3. In the event of any vacancy occuring in the office of commissioner his place shall be filled by another commissioner elected according to the procedure herein for the election of commissioners provided.

4. No person shall be eligible for election as commissioner unless he is a natural born or naturalized subject of His Majesty, is a male of the full age of twenty-one years, is able to read and write, and is not subject to any disqualification under this Act.

5. No judge of any court of civil jurisdiction, sheriff, no gaoler or keeper of any house of correction, no constable, assessor, secretary-treasurer, auditor or other paid official of the city, no bailiff, no inspector of licenses, no person having by himself or his partner an interest in any contract with or on behalf of the city or being indebted to the city, no surety for an officer or an employee of the city, and no person who has been convicted of treason, felony or of an offence punishable with death or with imprisonment for more than five years, shall be qualified to be a member of the council.

6. No person shall be disqualified from being elected a commissioner by reason of his being a shareholder in any incorporated company having dealings or contracts with the city or by his having a lease of twenty-one years or upwards of any property from the city; but no such leaseholder shall vote in the council on any question affecting any lease from the city and no such shareholder on any question affecting the company.

TITLE III.

VOTERS' LIST.

1. The persons qualified to vote at elections shall be all persons both male and female of the full age of twentyone years and whose name appears on the last revised voters' list.

2. The city clerk shall on or before the first day of September in each year prepare a voters' list in alphabetical form. He shall place thereon

(a) The names of all persons both male and female of the full age of twenty-one years who are assessed in their own right on the last revised assessment roll for real property or for income or personal property of the value of $200 or upwards. Where the real property is owned by two or more persons and is assessed in their names, each shall be entitled to a vote if the total assessed value of the property is sufficient when divided to give each person a rating of $200 or upwards; if otherwise none of such persons shall be entitled to vote;

(b) The names of all banks, incorporated companies and corporations assessed on the last revised assessment roll, and the vote of such bank, company or corporation may be given by the chief officer thereof present in the city at the time of voting;

(c) The names of all persons who have and during one month prior to the first day of December in the previous year has been a resident of the city and a tenant of real property of the assessed value of at least $400, and when more tenants than one occupy separate portions of the same building or of different buildings on the same property, each shall be entitled to vote if the total assessed value of the property so occupied is sufficient when divided to give each occupant a rating of $400; if otherwise, none of such occupants shall be entitled to vote.

3. The city clerk shall on or before the first day of September in each year and every year prepare a voters' list which shall be an alphabetical list of electors and shall comprise the names of those qualified to vote at municipal elections in the city, and he shall post the same in a conspicuous place in his office. The list shall contain opposite the name of each elector a short description of the property in respect of which he is entitled to vote.

4. Any tenant who has been a resident in the city one month prior to the first day of December in the previous year, and any other person who has been resident in the city in the then current year prior to the first day of July and continuously since and who is otherwise duly qualified but whose name does not appear on the voters' list or who by error is not assessed on the roll high enough to be qualified as a voter, or whose name is put down in error, or whose name has been omitted from the last revised assessment roll, provided that the year's taxes have first been paid on the property in respect of which he claims a vote,