duly qualified ratepayers voting thereon in the manner hereinafter mentioned. 5. The bylaw shall recite— 1. The amount of the debt which the bylaw is intended 2. The time or times for repayment (whether by instal- 3. (a) The amount of the whole ratable property in the (b) The amount of the whole ratable property, according 4. (a) The total amount of the existing debt of the (b) The total amount of any existing debt payable by Contents of by law Date of effect (2.) The bylaw shall state a day not more than three months from the day on which the voting is to take place when the of bylaw bylaw shall take effect, and the whole of the obligations to be issued for the debt authorised shall be dated as of the day on Date of which the bylaw takes effect. obligations 6. The provisions of sections 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, Provisions to 225, 227, 228, 229 and 230 of The Municipal Ordinance shall be followed apply to any such bylaw and to the voting thereon except that for the purposes of such vote the word "municipality shall be deemed to be struck out of section 227 and the words "the portion of the municipality of consisting of (describing the portion in question)" substituted, and the figures $400" shall be deemed to be struck out and "$100" substituted. rote 7. There shall be entitled to vote on any such bylaw every Persons ratepayer being a man, unmarried woman or widow who at entitled to the time of tendering the vote is of the full age of twenty-one years and is named on the last voters' list of the municipality and who has neither directly or indirectly received nor is in expectation of receiving any reward or gift for the vote which he tenders and who is at the time of the tender a freeholder in his own right or whose wife is a freeholder of real property within the portion of the municipality composing such townsite and is rated on the last revised assessment roll as such freeholder for not less than $100. 8. In the event of judgment being obtained against the Execution municipality for the principal or interest due oa any debenture rate limited issued under any such bylaw and execution issued thereon, the Exemption how granted rate to be levied to pay such execution shall be limited to the ratable property in such townsite. 9. No exemption from any rate for payment of such debenture shall be granted for more than one year except by the vote of the ratepayers in the portion of the municipality affected thereby. CHAPTER 16 An Ordinance to amend Chapter 72 of the Consolidated Ordinances 1898 intituled "An Ordinance respecting Villages." THE [Assented to April 29, 1899.] HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: 1. Section 3 of The Village Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: "3. Whenever the commissioner of public works is satisfied by Establishment such proof as he may require that any portion of the Territories of villages comprising an area not greater than six hundred and forty acres (no part of which is within the limits of a municipality) contains not less than fifteen dwelling houses, he may cause notices to be posted up in three conspicuous places within such area (one of which shall be the post office therein) that it is proposed to establish the same as a village after the expiration of thirty days from the date of such posting." 2. Section 4 of the said Ordinance is amended by striking S. 4 amended out the words "unless a majority of the voters within the area aforesaid by petition addressed to him object" where they occur in said section. 3. Clause 3 of section 43 of the said Ordinance is amended S. 43 amended by adding at the end thereof the words "in which a fire is ever kindled." 4. Clause 4 of section 43 of the said Ordinance is amended S. 43 amended by striking therefrom the word "two" and substituting therefor the word "one" and by adding at the end of the said clause the words "in which a fire is ever kindled." 5. For the encouragement of tree planting the voters in any Tree planting village may at any meeting, duly called, make regulations providing for a rebate of taxes in consideration of the planting of trees in the village 6. No travelling theatre, concert or amusement company, Licensing entertainer or showman shall hold any performance or exhibi- showmen, etc. tion in any village without having previously paid to the overseer thereof for the benefit of the village a license fee of Billiard licenses Land assessment system $5 for which fee the overseer shall give a written receipt, and if such company, entertainer or showman proceeds to hold any performance or exhibition without having paid such fee the same may be levied by the overseer or any person authorised by him, by distress and sale of any goods in possession of such company, entertainer or showman. 7. No person shall have set up in any public room or hall in a village any billiard or pool table without having paid to the overseer for the use of the village the license fee following, that is to say: For a single billiard or pool table, $15, and for every additional table $10, and any person guilty of an infraction of this section shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding $25. 8. If three-fourths of the total number of voters in any village petition the commissioner of public works therefor the commissioner may order that the assessment in the village shall after a date to be named by him be limited to a rate based upon the actual value of all lands (without improvements) in the village. (2) Such petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit of two voters proving the signatures to the petition and that the persons who signed the same constitute two-thirds of such total number of voters. (3) The fact of such an order having been made shall be conclusive evidence that a proper and duly verified petition was presented therefor. 4. In case such an order is made the rate to be struck by the overseer under section 25 of the said Ordinance shall not in any year after the date so to be named by the commissioner, exceed two cents on the dollar of the assessment. CHAPTER 17. An Ordinance to amend Chapter 73 of The Consolidated Ordinances 1898, intituled "An Ordinance respecting Local Improvement." [Assented to April 29, 1899.] THE HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: 1. Section 2 of The Local Improvement Ordinance is hereby section 2 amended by striking out clause 1 thereof and substituting amended therefor the following: 1. The expression "ratepayer" means any owner or occupant, over eighteen years of age, of land in the area established or proposed to be established as a local improvement district. 60 resident 2. The said Ordinance is hereby amended by striking out "Ratepayer" the words "resident" and "residents" wherever they occur substituted for therein and substituting therefor respectively the words. "ratepayer" and " ratepayers." 3. Section 6 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by Section 6 striking therefrom the words "who has actually resided in the amended district for the period of one month immediately prior to the election" where they occur in said section. amended 4. Section 11 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by Section 11 adding the words "subject to the proviso contained in section 22 hereof" after the word "that" where it occurs in the third line of said section. 5. Subsection (2) of section 13 of the said Ordinance is Section 13 hereby amended by prefixing thereto the following words: "The overseer shall appoint a ratepayer to be chairman of the meeting but in the absence of such an appointment or in case the person appointed does not act." amended 6. Section 15 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by Section 15 adding thereto the following proviso: "Provided that in any case in which the area of any lot or lots, parcel or parcels of land so owned or occupied does not exceed in the aggregate ten acres the rate shall be 25 cents per acre or fraction thereof." amended |