1913 CHAPTER 26. An Act to further amend Ordinance No. 43 of the Ordinances of 1901, intituled "An Ordinance to Incorporate the Town of Cardston." HIS (Assented to March 25, 1913) IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. Subsection (2) of section 1 of Ordinance No. 43 of 1901, as enacted by chapter 72 of the Statutes of Alberta, of 1906, intituled "An Act to amend Ordinance No. 43 of the Ordinances of 1901, intituled "An Ordinance to Incorporate the Town of Cardston," is hereby repealed, and the following subsections substituted therefor: "(2) Those portions of the east half of section (8) and of the north-west quarter of section 10, in township 3, in range 25, west of the fourth meridian, lying south of the road allowance along the southern boundary of the Blood Indian Reservation; that part of the right-of-way of the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company's railway across the Blood Indian Reservation commencing at the north boundary of the road allowance on the south boundary of the Blood Indian Reservation, and extending along and including the whole of said right-of-way for a distance of 1,650 feet in a north-easterly direction, and bounded on the north by a line parallel with the said road allowance are hereby included and incorporated in the said Town of Cardston, and the assessment of the property added to the said Town of Cardston by this subsection may be included in the assessment of the said town for the year 1913. "(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in The Municipal Ordinance, the said Town of Cardston shall have power to pass by-laws for contracting debts or otherwise and for levying rates for the payment of such debts on the rateable property of the town for any purpose within the jurisdiction of the town or for roads, bridges, waterworks or drainage works outside the limits of the town; provided, that said town shall not have power to pass such by-laws to a greater extent than twenty (20%) percent. of the rateable property in the town." 1913 CHAPTER 27. An Act to amend the Acts and Ordinances relating to the City of Calgary and to validate certain By-laws of the said City. (Assented to March 25, 1913) WHEREAS the City of Calgary has prayed for certain amendments to Ordinance 33 of 1893 of the NorthWest Territories and the amendments thereto and to validate certain by-laws of the said city; And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. Section 7 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by striking out the word "five" in the last line but one thereof and substituting therefor the word "eight." 2. Section 9 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding after subsection 10 the following subsection: "10a. Every elector qualified to vote on the election of mayor or who wishes to vote must record his vote at the poll for that portion of the ward in which he resides." 3. Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding after subsection 13 of section 9 thereof the following: "13a. The ballot provided for in the preceding two subsections shall be in the following form altered as the circumstances may require: THE CITY OF CALGARY "You must vote for.. names on this Ballot or it will not be counted. names on this Ballot or it will not be counted. 4. Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding to section 30 thereof the following: "30a. If at any time it appears to the treasurer, commissioners or other officers of the city that land liable to assessment has not been assessed for the current year or for either or both of the next two preceding years he shall report the same to the treasurer, or if the omission to assess comes to the knowledge of the treasurer in any other manner he shall enter such land on the next collector's roll as well for the arrears of the preceding year or years, if any, as for the taxes of the current year and the value of the land shall be the average of the three previous years if assessed for the said three years, but if not so assessed the treasurer shall require the assessor for the current year to value the land and it shall be the duty of the assessor to do so when required and to certify the valuation in writing to the city clerk and the owner of the land shall have the right to appeal the whole as provided in the said Ordinance and amendments thereto.' 5. Ordinance 33 of 1893 is hereby amended by striking out the words "and income" wherever they appear in sections 27, 37 and 42 of the said Ordinance and striking out the words "and income" in the first line of section 38 and by striking out the words "the first" in subsection 9 of section 38 of the said Ordinance and by repealing section 34 of the said Ordinance as amended by Ordinance 26 of 1899, NorthWest Territories. 6. Section 40 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection: "(4) The council may at any time amend the roll by correcting any palpable errors therein." 7. Section 41 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding after the word" Calgary" in the fourth line thereof the following words: "And his decision shall be final and conclusive on all matters adjudicated upon," and by striking out subsection 6 of the said section 41. 8. Section 47 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by striking out all the words after the word "him" in the 14th line of said section down to and including the word "assessment" in the 18th line thereof. 9. Section 91 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by striking out the schedule referred to therein and substituting therefor the following schedule: 10. Section 108 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding at the end of subsection 1 the following: "Provided, however, that where it is necessary in the opinion of the council, before the said roll is finally revised and the said list is prepared as aforesaid, to submit any bylaw to the ratepayers for their approval, the list of the preceding year, may be used." 11. Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding after section 115a the following section: "115b. Council may appropriate to the payment of any debt the surplus income arising from any city work or from any share or interest therein after paying the annual expenses thereof including the sinking fund and interest on any debentures issued for the city work; or may so appropriate any unappropriated money in the treasury or any money raised by general rate, and any money so appropriated shall be carried to the credit of the sinking fund of the debt or reserve fund as the case may be, or may be applied in payment of any instalment thereof accruing due; or the council may from time to time appropriate a fund to be known as a reserve or depreciation fund any surplus income arising from any civic work for the purpose of meeting contingencies which in the opinion of the council may be thought likely to arise in connection therewith; or the council may appropriate from time to time any surplus to the improvement or better equipment of any such work. 12. Subsection 1 of section 109 of Ordinance 33 of 1893. North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "Provided, however, that by-laws for the purchase of land and the erection of brick, stone or concrete buildings or other concrete structures may be made payable in fifty years at the furthest thereafter." 13. Subsection 56 of section 117 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding after the word "elevators" the word "hospitals. 14. Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby further amended by striking out subsection 61b, of section 117 as added by section 19, chapter 32, Statutes of Alberta, 1907. 15. Section 117 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, North-West Territories, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsection: |