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CHAPTER 92.

An Act to enable The Inverness Railway and Coal
Company to Grant to the Town of Inverness a
Site for a Town Building.

(Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D. 1909.)

SECTION.

| SECTION.

1. Company empowered to
grant a site.

2. Description of site.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

empowered

1. The Inverness Railway and Coal Company is Company hereby authorized and empowered to grant and convey to grant to the town of Inverness a free site for the erection a site. of a town. building, to be used for the purposes of a town hall, lock up, fire department and the holding, if required, of sessions of the Supreme and County Courts.

of site.

2. Said free site shall be that lot of land in the town Description of Inverness, situate on the corner of Railway Street and Central Avenue, bounded and described as follows:-Beginning at an iron post on the western corner of Railway Street and Central Avenue; thence running north thirty-one degrees and twenty minutes west fifty feet along the western boundary of Railway Street; thence south fifty-eight degrees and forty minutes west one hundred feet to an iron post; thence south thirty-one degrees and twenty minutes east sixty feet to the northern side of Central Avenue; thence north fifty-two degrees and thirty minutes east along the northern side of Central Avenue one hundred feet and one-half of one foot, to the place of beginning, containing one-eighth of one acre.

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CHAPTER 93.

Municipality

empowered to

An Act to Amend Chapter 111, Acts of 1908, entitled, "An Act to Amend Chapter 99, Acts of 1905, entitled, 'An Act to Provide Aid for the Construction of a Railway in the

County of Inverness.

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(Passed the 23rd day of Aprl, A. D. 1909.)

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Municipality empowered to enter into an agreement with Margaree
Coal and Railway Company.

WHEREAS, the time for completing that portion of the undertakings of the Margaree Coal and Railway Company, Limited, mentioned in the said act, was, by resolution of the municipal council of the county of Inverness, dated the 21st day of January, A. D. 1908, enlarged and extended until the 31st day of December, A. D. 1909;

And whereas, such resolution was ratified, confirmed, and made binding on both the said company and the said municipality of Inverness by chapter 11 of the acts of 1908;

And whereas, it is expedient that said time for the completion of said company's said undertakings should be further extended under the contract of said company with said municipality;

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. The municipality of the said county of Inverenter into an ness is hereby authorized and empowered, through with Margaree its warden and clerk, to enter into an agreement with Railway the said Margaree Coal and Railway Company, Limit

agreement

Coal and

Company.

ed, to extend the time granted to the said Railway Company for completing that portion of the company's undertakings mentioned in the resolution hereinbefore in part recited, provided the municipal council of said municipality of Inverness, at a general or duly called special meeting thereof, shall by resolution authorize and empower the said warden and

clerk to enter into such agreement as may by such resolution be specified, and that said agreement when entered unto under the terms of this act shall be as binding on both the parties thereto as if the same had been ratified, confirmed and legalized by a special act.

CHAPTER 94.

An Act to Amend Chapter 146 of the Acts of 1906,
entitled "An Act to Amend Chapter 117 of the
Acts of 1899, entitled 'An Act for Supply-
ing the Town of Liverpool with
Electric Light.""

(Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D. 1909.)

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SECTION

SECTION.

Preamble.

1. Section added.

WHEREAS, the lands in chapter 146 of the acts of Preamble. 1906 mentioned or referred to, are severally of but little value and consist in part of a number of small parcels or parts of various lots, and have been acquired by the town of Liverpool by expropriation, purchase or otherwise, in various titles and from various owners, and the said town has had for several years undisputed ownership or possession of the same;

And whereas, it is desirable that the said town on the sale of said or any of said lands should be able to give a deed of conveyance thereof with the usual covenants;

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And whereas, the said lands are situate in the township of Liverpool, and the facts set out in the preamble to chapter 126 of the acts of 1908 apply and affect the title thereto, and owing to the considerable number of said lands acquired from several and distinct owners, the cost and difficulty of obtaining certificate or certificates of title under the provisions of said chapter 126 would be excessive, and greatly out of proportion to the value of said lands, either severally or in the aggregate;

Section added.

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. Chapter 146 of the acts of 1906, entitled "An Act to amend Chapter 117 of the Acts of 1899, entitled 'An Act to provide for supplying the town of Liverpool with Electric Light, is amended by adding thereto the following section:

2. The title of said town of Liverpool to any and all lands and premises acquired by the said town by expropriation, purchase or otherwise, for the purposes of its electric light system or plant, or under any of the provisions of chapter 117 of the acts of 1899, entitled, "An Act to provide for supplying the town of Liverpool with electric light," or any amendment thereof, shall be, and is hereby declared to be, as good, valid and legal to all intents and purposes as if full power and authority had been conferred upon and continued in the proprietors' committee of the township of Liverpool to make all allotments, and take all proceedings recorded in the proprietors' record of said township; provided that this section shall not apply to any land or premises in respect to which any claim, or proceedings to recover damages, compensation, value or possession have been instituted or are pending at the coming into operation of this section.

CHAPTER 95.

An Act to Enable the Town of Louisburg to Borrow

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Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assem

bly, as follows:

borrow.

1. The town of Louisburg is authorized to borrow Power to on the credit of the town a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars for the purpose of paying the balance due by the said town to the municipality of the County of Cape Breton as its proportion of the joint expenditure account for the years 1907 and 1908, and the balance due to the Royal Bank of Canada by said town on account of money borrowed from time to time from said bank, which borrowing from said bank is hereby ratified and confirmed.

2. For the purpose of effecting the loans authorized Debentures. by this act, the town council of said town is empowered to make and issue, subject to the provisions of "The Municipal Debentures Act, 1902" (in so far as the same are not inconsistent with this act), from time to time as the council may deem expedient, the town debentures, each in the sum of one hundred dollars or multiples thereof, bearing interest at such rate as the council may determine, not exceeding five per cent. per annum, said debentures to be redeemable within thirty years from the date thereof.

3. Such debentures shall form a lien upon and be a charge against the property liable to taxation within the town of Louisburg, and all the revenues of the town.

Lien of
Debentures.

whom paid.

4. The money so borrowed under the provisions Money, to of this act shall be paid into the hands of the treasurer of the town of Louisburg, and shall be by him paid out for the purposes mentioned in section one of this act, and for no other purpose.

provided.

5. The town council shall annually add to the Interest, how amount to be rated and levied upon the real and personal property of the town for general purposes a sum sufficient to pay said interest and the expenses of collecting and disbursing the same, and shall also provide for the payment of said debentures as herein provided.

(6) (1) In order to provide a sinking fund for the Sinking fund. payment of the debentures authorized to be issued

under this act, the town council shall annually add

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