(1) The By-law, if not for the purpose of creating a debt for the purchase of public works, shall name a day when the By-law is to take effect ;

(2) If not contractel for lighting, drainage or water works, or for purchase of public works, the whole of the debt and the obligations to be issued therefor shall be made payable in twenty years. at the furthest from the day on which the said By-law takes effect, and if the debt is contracted for lighting, drainage or water works the same shall in like manner be paid in thirty years at furthest from the day on which the By-law takes effect

(3) The By-law shall set forth a certain specific sum to be raised in each year during the currency of the debt, which annual sum shall be sufficient to discharge'the several instalments of principal and interest accruing due on such debt, as the said instalments and interest become respectively payable according to the terms of the By-law;

(4) No future increase of the rateable property within the Municipality, nor any extra income of any nature or interest whatsoever, from any work whatsoever, stock, share, or interest therein, shall be taken into account in estimating the rateable property; nevertheles, if by reason of the increase or decrease in the valuation of property in the Municipality, the annual rate as hereinbefore provided should require to be greater or less as the case may be, the rate may be increased or decreased accordingly;

(5) The By-law, unless it is for a work payable by local assessment, shall recite the amount and object of the debt, the amount to be raised annually, the value of the rateable property according to the last revised assessment roll, the amount of the existing debt. of the Municipality, the interest and principal separately, and how much, if any, of each is in arrear.

(6) Provided that all By-laws for contracting debts, which do not provide for the re-payment thereof within the financial year, shall receive the assent of of the X: at-Governor in Council after the final passing thereof be the Council of the Municipality.

195. All By-laws passed by any Wipality for creating debt, under the provisions of the North-West Municipal Ordinances of 1883 and 1884, are hereby held to be valid, and the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply thereto.

196. If the By-law is for work payable by local assessment, it shall recite:

(1) The amount of the debt which such By-law is intended to creat and the object for which it is to be created;

(2) The total amount required by this Ordinance to be raised an nually by special rate for paying the debt and interest under th By-law;

(3) The value of the whole real property rateable under the By-la
as finally determined as aforesaid;

(4) The annual special rate in the dollar, or in the case of town
and cities, on the foot frontage or otherwise, as the case may b
for paying the interest and creating a yearly sinking fund fo
paying the principal of the debt, or for discharging instalment
of principal, according to the provisions of this Ordinance; or i
case the debt is payable by instalments annually, for paying th
same, principal and interest, respectively, as they become due;
(5) That the debt is created on the security of the special rat
settled by the By-law, and on that security only.

197. In any case of passing a By-law for contracting a debt or bor rowing money for any purpose, the Council may in its discretion mak the principal of such debt repayable by annual instalments during th eurrency of the period, in no case to exceed thirty years, as herein befor provided, within which the debt is to be discharged, such instalments t be of such amount that the aggregate amount payable as principal an interest in any year shall be equal, as nearly as possible, to what is pay able for principal and interest during each of the other years of suc period, and may issue the debentures of the Municipal corporation fo the amounts and payable at the times corresponding with such insta ments together with interest, as may be provided in such By-law.

198. Such By-law shall set forth the annual special rate to be raise in each year during the currency of the debt, which shall be sufficien according to the amount of rateable property appearing by the last re vised assessment roll to discharge the several instalments of principa and interest accruing due on said debts as the said instalments becom respectively payable according to the terms of such By-law; and in case within this section it shall not be necessary that any provision be mad for the creation of a sinking fund.

199 No officer of any Municipality shall neglect or refuse to carry in to effect any By-law for paying a debt under cloak of a By-law illegall attempting to repeal such first By-law, or to alter the same so as to di minish the amount to be levied under it., ..

Corrupt Practices.

200. The following persons shall be guilty of corrupt practices :

201. Any person who, by himself or his agent, gives or lends or promises to give or lend any money or valuable consideration, or gives to any person intoxicating liquor to induce him to vote or refrain from voting, or who shall give, offer, or procure any office, place of employment to or for any voter, or on his behalf, in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting at any election under this Ordinance or at any voting on any By-law, or who shall advance, or pay, or cause to be advanced or paid, any money, any portion of which was or shall be employed in bribery at any election under this Ordinance or at any voting on any By-law shall be guilty of corrupt practices.

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202. Any person who shall before, during, or after any Municipal election or the voting on any By-law, either by himself or by any one n his behalf, directly or indirectly, receive, agree or contract for any money, gift, loan. consideration. employment or office, for himself or for ay other person, for voting or for refraining from voting, or for having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting at any Municipal election or on any By-law under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of corrupt practices.

203. Any person who shall hire any teams, horses, carriages, or other vehicles for the purposes of conveying electors to or from any polls for voting at a Municipal election or upon any By-law under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of corrupt practices.

204. Any person who shall directly or indirectly, either by himself or his agent, make or use or threaten any force, violence or restraint, or threaten the infliction by himself or through his agent, or through any other person, of any injury, damage or loss, or in any way, manner or practice intimidate or threaten intimidation upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting or who shall in any way prevent or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the franchise of any voter, shall be guilty of corrupt practices.

205. Any candidate elected at any Municipal election who shall be found guilty by the Stipendiary Magistrate of corrupt practices shall forfeit his seat, and shall be rendered ineligible as a candidate at any Municipal election for two years thereafter. The vote of every person found guilty upon any trial or inquiry as to the validity of an election or a By-law shall be void, and any person so found guilty shall be disqualified from voting at any Municipal election or upon any By-law for the next succeeding two years.

206. In addition to the penalties hereinbefore imposed, any person found guilty of corrupt practices shall incur a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.

207. Any trial or inquiry on a charge of corrupt practices under this

Ordinance shall be had on petition before the Stipendiary Magistrate in manner similar to proceedings to be taken to quash a By-law, and proceedings must be commence within thirty days after the offence has been committed.

Towns.

208. Whenever a town is incorporated by Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, all the powers conferred upon Municipalities by this Ordinance shall extend thereto, and such town shall have power to pass By-laws :

(1) To establish a fire department, to appoint the officers thereof, regulate and provide their remuneration, and prescribe their duties;

(2) To provide protection from fire by the purchase of engines and
equipment for the extinguishment and suppression of fires;

(3) To compel the inhabitants to assist and aid in the extinguish-
ment of fires; to pull down and raze buildings in the vicinity of
fires, for the purpose of preventing the spreading of the same;
(4) To regulate fire districts;

(5) To make fire limits within which wooden buildings may not be
erected;

(6) Generally to establish such measures as the safety and welfare of the town may require for the prevention and extinguishing of fires;

(7) To purchase, control, erect or build parks and cemeteries;

(8) To control and build sewers, drains, ditches and water courses ; (9) To build and repair sidewalks;

(10) To prevent the incumbering of streets or other public places by buggies, vehicles, wagons, agricultural implements, lumber. and other articles:

(11) To regulate the rate or pace of driving within the Town;

(12) To compel the removal of dirt, filth, dust or rubbish off the streets, lanes, alleys or by-ways by the party depositing the same, or by the owner or occupant before whose property it is, or in default, to order the same at his expense;

(13) To compel the removal of anything deemed dangerous to the lives of the inhabitants;

(14) To license porters, water dealers, or carriers, or common carriers, draymen, hackmen, omnibus drivers and guides, and regulate the same:

(15) To establish markets and restrain selling on the streets;

(16) To license or prohibit shows, circuses, theatres or caravans;

(17) To create a Board of Health, and to define and regulate their, duties;

(18) To license livery stables, sale stables, refreshment houses hotels and places of public resort or accommodation;

(19) To build waterworks and regulate the same, but not to grant exclusive privileges for the same;

(20) To erect lamp posts and lamps, and provide for lighting the town;

(21) To appoint policemen, watchmen and patrols, and regulate and define the duties for the same;

(22) To make and regulate the use of public wells, cisterns and reservoirs ;

(23) For regulating the assize of bread, and preventing the use of deleterious materials in making bread, and for providing for the seizure and forfeiture of bread made contrary to By-law;

(24) For restraining and regulating the running at large of dogs, and for imposing a tax on the owners, possessors, or harbourers of dogs;

(25) For killing dogs running at large contrary to the By-laws; (26) And generally to make and establish all such By-laws and regulations for the government and good order of the Town, the suppression of vice and immorality, the protection of property, and the promotion of health, not inconsistent with the Ordinances of the North-West Territories, as it shall be deemed expedient.

209. The Council shall be a Board of Health, and as such may provide hospitals and regulate the burial of the dead; may remove or cause to be removed any unwholesome or nauseous thing; may regulate the location and management of slaughter houses, subject to any Ordinance of the North-West Territories; may require the owners or occupants of lands to remove dead animals, stagnant water or other unwholesome thing, and prevent the putting of anything into any stream or pond, or