1917 CHAPTER 45. An Act to amend the Acts and Ordinances constituting the Charter of the City of Calgary, and to validate Certain By-laws of the said city. (Assented to April 5, 1917.) WHEREAS a petition has been presented by the City of Calgary, praying for the amendment of The Calgary Charter; And whereas it is reasonable that the prayer of the said petition should be granted; Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. Ordinance 33 of 1893 of N.W.T. and amendments thereto is hereby amended by adding the following as section 57a thereto: "57a. 1. For the purposes of this section all taxes and assessments levied or assessed on real property by the City of Calgary, prior to the passing of this Act, and remaining unpaid, are declared to be and to have been delinquent since the first day of January, 1916, and all taxes and assessments hereafter assessed or levied on real property shall be deemed to be and to have become delinquent on the first day of January of the year in which such taxes are levied and assessed. "2. As soon as can be after the passing of this Act, and every year hereafter, as soon as can be after the first day of July of such year, the tax collector shall prepare and deliver to the mayor a complete list in duplicate of lands on which taxes or assessments have been delinquent for eighteen months or more, such list to show the total amount or amounts of all taxes and assessments, with interest and costs due and owing on each lot, parcel, or tract of land, or the total amount for each number of lots, parcels or tracts of land assessed together in one assessment, as the case may be, and the years for which such taxes were levied or assessed, and the mayor shall sign and attach the corporate seal of the city to each such list and deliver one copy thereof to the city clerk and the other copy to the city treasurer, and the city treasurer is hereby authorized on receipt of such list to issue and sell certificates of delinquency as provided by this Act. "3. The treasurer shall cause such list to be printed, and shall publish in at least two newspapers published in the City of Calgary daily for four weeks, and also in such periodicals or newspapers published elsewhere as in the discretion of the council may be advisable, a notice in the form below: "SALE OF TAX CERTIFICATES. "Notice is hereby given that the treasurer of the City of Calgary, at his office at the city hall, Calgary, on or after (insert a date four weeks after first publication of notice exclusive of the date of first publication) will sell to the first applicant certificates of delinquency for unpaid taxes levied or assessed prior to the 1st day of January, 19...., on the lands included in a list-printed copies of which may be had on personal or written application to the treasurer, or city clerk, city hall, Calgary-if such taxes with interest and costs are not sooner paid. 19. "Dated at Calgary, Alberta, the.....day of........ "Such notice may contain any additional information the treasurer may deem advisable as an inducement to purchase such certificates. "4. Any day after the expiration of the four weeks required for advertisement, which period shall be exclusive of the day such notice appears, the said treasurer shall have the right and it shall be his duty upon application therefor, and on payment to him of the taxes and assessments with interest and costs, including the amount which in the opinion of the city treasurer is the proper proportionate cost of publishing such notice, and of printing and mailing such lists, to make out and issue a certificate of delinquency against the real property comprised in each assessment as shown by such list, or by the assessor's and collector's roll or rolls, if any error appears in such list, and such certificate or certificates shall be numbered and have a stub, which shall be a summary of the certificate and shall contain a statement of: "1. The name and residence of the person to whom issued; "2. Description of the property assessed; "3. The year or years for which assessed; "4. The total amount of taxes and interest due to the date of the issue of the certificate, showing the amount for each year, and the costs above provided for; "5. The name of the person to whom last assessed, or if assessed as nonresident property, a statement to this effect; "6. The rate of interest the certificate shall bear; "7. The time when a sale or deed may be had if not sooner redeemed; |