the calendar year next following and thereafter one-half the required number of councillors shall be elected annually and shall hold office for two years.'

7. Section 75: By adding thereto the following subsection: "(3) Any member of a council who spends or authorizes the expenditure of any funds of the municipality upon or with respect to any public work in the municipality or for the supplying of any material or labour for such work, unless he has first been empowered to do so by by-law or resolution of the said council, shall for every such offence, in addition to being liable for a civil action instituted against him by the municipality or any ratepayer thereof, be liable upon conviction to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs, and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months."

8. Section 86: By adding thereto the following:

(8) In addition the treasurer shall enter the name of the wife, husband, son or daughter of each person assessed, provided such wife, husband, son or daughter, as the case may be, is a resident of the municipality and of the full age of twenty-one years, with place of residence; all such names shall be arranged alphabetically."

9. Section 98: By striking out the words "two o'clock to four o'clock" in the said section and substituting therefor the words "twelve o'clock noon to two o'clock".

10. Section 100: By striking out the words "two o'clock to four o'clock" in the said section and substituting therefor the words "twelve o'clock noon to two o'clock".

11. Section 101: By striking out the word "four" in said section and substituting therefor the word "two". 12. Section 183: By adding thereto the following subsection:

"(3) Provided that in lieu of publication of the said abstract and report in a newspaper the treasurer may, before the first day of April in each year, mail a printed copy of said abstract and report to every elector of the municipality."

13. Section 191: By adding thereto the following clause: "(31) Make an annual or other grant to a duly licensed medical practitioner residing and practising in the municipality or to a duly licensed medical practitioner as an inducement for him to reside or practise his profession in the municipality, or guaranteeing the income or a portion of the income of such practitioner in consideration of such residence and practice; providing, however, that the amount paid in any one year under such guarantee shall not exceed $500.00."

14. Section 274: By striking out the words "the judge of" in the second and fifth lines thereof.

15. Section 305, subsection 1: By inserting after the word "chattels" in the first line thereof the words "found within the municipality".

16. Section 309, clause 1: By adding thereto the following:

"In case any revised assessment roll has been lost or destroyed in any way, the Minister may authorize the making of a tax enforcement return from any material or information at the disposal of the secretary-treasurer."

17. Section 315: By striking out the figures "213" in said section and substituting therefor the figures "313".

18. Section 316: By striking out the words "redemption fee" wherever they occur in the said section, and by striking out the word "hereinbefore" where it occurs in the sixteenth line thereof and substituting therefor the word "hereinafter", and by striking out the word "clause" in the sixth clause thereof and substituting therefor the word "notice".

19. Section 317: By striking out the words "and redemption fee" wherever they occur in said section.

20. Section 318: By striking out the words "and redemption fee" wherever they occur in said section.

HIS

1917

CHAPTER 27

An Act to amend An Act respecting Local

Improvements.

(Assented to April 5, 1917.)

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

1. The Local Improvement Act, being chapter 11 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1907, is amended as follows:

1. Section 2, subsection 5: By repealing same and substituting therefor the following:

"(5) 'Local Improvement District' means any district other than a large district as constituted under the provisions of this Act."

2. Section 8: By inserting therein as clause (a) thereof the following:

"(a) Constitute any territorial unit a local improvement district, assign a name and number thereto, divide the same into divisions as nearly as may be of uniform shape and area, and assign to each division a number."

3. Section 8 By adding thereto after clause (d) the following clauses:

"(e) Sever any portion of a local improvement district and annex the same to any adjoining local improvement district or rural municipality.

"(f) Annex to any local improvement district any outlying area hereafter adjacent to but not included within the limits of any local improvement district or rural municipality."

4. Section 8: By repealing subsection 2 thereof and substituting therefor the following:

"(2) Any order made under clause (a) of this section shall take effect only on, from and after the second Monday of December next following the date of such order; provided that the Minister may require that an order made prior to the first day of June in any year shall take effect as soon as made."

5. By inserting after section 8a of this Act the following new section:

"8b. Every local improvement district is hereby declared to be a body corporate, and the name of the body corporate shall be "Local Improvement District of....

No....

,

6. By repealing sections 90 and 91, and by substituting for said section 91 the following:

"91. During the month of January in each year there shall be prepared by the Department of Municipal Affairs a statement which shall be known as "Large District Tax Enforcement Return," verified by the solemn declaration of the officer preparing same, in such form as may by the Minister from time to time be prescribed, showing all lands in each large district upon which taxes have not been paid, together with the years for which such taxes are due, and a certified copy of this return for all purposes shall be prima facie evidence of the validity of the assessment and imposition of the taxes as shown therein and that all steps and formalities prescribed by this Act have been taken and observed."

7. By inserting as section 90 of the said Act the following new section:

"90. The provisions of sections 52, 53 and 54, and all of sections 225 to 248 (both inclusive) of The Rural Municipality Act, shall mutatis mutandis apply to and form part of this Act; provided that the power to borrow money on the security of a local improvement district by the issue and sale of debentures as provided for by section 227 of The Rura Municipality Act shall be limited to the amount the district may be required to raise for the purposes of The Municipal Hospitals Act."

8. By inserting after section 91 of this Act the following new section:

"91a. The provisions of sections 303 to 320, both inclusive, of The Rural Municipality Act, as to distress for taxes and proceedings for forfeiture of land for nonpayment of taxes shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to taxes levied under this Act."

9. Section 20: By adding thereto the following:

"Provided also that the wife, husband, son or daughter of each person assessed shall be entitled to vote if such wife, husband, son or daughter, as the case may be, is a resident of the district and of the full age of twentyone years."

10. "40a. The council may make an annual or other grant to a duly licensed medical practitioner residing and practising in the municipality or to a duly licensed medical practitioner as an inducement for him to reside or practice his profession in the municipality, or guaranteeing the income or a portion of the income of such practitioner in consideration of such residence and practice; providing, however, that the amount paid in any one year under such guarantee shall not exceed $500.00."

1917

CHAPTER 28.

An Act to amend The Drainage Act.

(Assented to April 5, 1917.)

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

The Drainage Act, being chapter 24 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1916, is hereby amended as follows:

1. By adding the following words to subsection 5 of section 2:

"And as regards vacant Dominion lands anyone qualified under the provisions of An Act respecting Drainage of such Lands."

2. By repealing section 3 and substituting therefor the following:

"3. Upon the petition of the resident owners of at least two-thirds of the area of the lands of resident owners within the area described in the petition the Minister may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the drainage work is required and the probable cost thereof, procure an engineer to make an examination of the area to be drained, the stream, creek or watercourse to be deepened, straightened, widened, cleared of obstructions or otherwise improved, or the lake or pond the waters of which are to be lowered according to the prayer of the petition.

"(2) Such petition shall be in form A in the schedule hereto, or to like effect.

"(3) Such petition shall be accompanied by a statement as shown in form B in the schedule hereto, setting forth the names of the resident owners of lands in the area desired to be drained described in the said petition and the lands respectively owned by them, the facts of which statement shall be verified by a statutory declaration made by at least two of the petitioners, and by abstracts of title, or extracts from the assessment roll of the municipality certified to as correct by the secretary-treasurer.

"(4) The Minister shall, before taking action on the petition, satisfy himself that the petitioners are owners of the lands set opposite their names on the petition."

3. Section 4: By striking out all the words after the word "affected" in the fourth line thereof.