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other securities in respect of which the Legislature
of Nova Scotia has authority in this behalf, and
no entry made on any such book or register of any
such transfer or assignment or devolution shall be
valid or effectual unless and until all Succession
Duty thereon is paid.

This clause (c) shall not be read or construed so as to restrict the generality of the terms of the foregoing clauses of this section and shall not apply to any transfers or assignments or devolutions which were validly and effectually registered on such book or register before the enactment of said clause.

3. Section 9 of the said Act is amended by adding Sub-section thereto the following:

(4) Where any property subject to Duty passes on the death of any person but is not subject to Duty under any of the foregoing provisions of this section then such property shall be subject to Duty as follows:

If the aggregate value of the property passing on the death of such person,

(a) exceeds five thousand dollars but does not exceed fifty thousand dollars to a duty at the rate of ten dollars for every one hundred dollars of the dutiable value;

(b) exceeds fifty thousand dollars but does not exceed one million dollars to a duty at the rate of fifteen dollars for every one hundred dollars of the dutiable value;

(c) exceeds one million dollars to a duty at the rate of twenty dollars for every one hundred dollars of the dutiable value.

added to Sec. 9.

4. Section 12 of the said Act is repealed and the Sec. 12, refollowing substituted therefor:

12. If any corporation incorporated by or under an Act of the Legislature of Nova Scotia or any other corporation allows, permits or suffers a transfer or an assignment or a devolution by will, intestacy or other

pealed; substituted.

Sub-sectons (3) and (4), Sec 2 repealed; substituted.

wise to be registered or an entry of any transfer or any assignment or any devolution to be made on any register or book kept for the purpose, of any shares, stocks, bonds, debentures or other securities issued or made by it on which Succession Duty is payable under this Act but has not been paid, such corporation shall be liable to a penalty equal to twice the amount of the Duty payable on such shares, stocks, bonds, debentures or other securities and the penalty shall be recoverable with full costs from the corporation in any court of competent jurisdiction by an action brought by the treasurer in his name of office and the action may be continued by his successor in office as if no change had occurred.

5. Sub-sections (3) and (4) of Section 20 of the said Act are repealed and the following substituted therefor:

(3) (a) His Majesty's Attorney-General on behalf of His Majesty shall have the right to bring and maintain an action in the Superme Court of Nova Scotia for any of the purposes of this Act including the enforcement of any lien under this Act by the sale of the property to satisfy the same;

(b) such action may be brought and maintained whether or not the treasurer has taken any other proceedings authorized or prescribed by this Act and whether or not the time for the payment of the Duty has arrived subject however to the discretion of the Supreme Court as to costs;

(c) service out of the jurisdiction of the writ of summons or notice of the writ of summons in such action may be allowed under the provisions of the rules of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, by that Court or a Judge thereof where any defendant is out of the jurisdiction.

(4) The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia shall have jurisdiction to determine what property is liable to Duty, the amount of such Duty, the time or times when and the person or persons by whom the same is payable and all other matters whatsoever relating to Duty, and in addition to all other powers it has it shall have and may exercise either itself or through any referee

the powers conferred and which are authorized to be conferred on any court officer or person by any of the provisions of this Act.

CHAPTER 31.

An Act to Amend Chapter 7, Acts of 1917, “An Act
Respecting the Nova Scotia Sanatorium."

(Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922).

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

Sub-sections

1. Section 7 of Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1917 is amended by adding thereto the following sub-sections; added to Sec. 7.

unable to pay

(4) Where any person is unable to pay for his own where person maintenance at the Sanatorium and where any other for maintenperson or persons bound by law to provide such main- ance. tenance is or are unable to do so, then such person may be admitted to the Sanatorium on the request of the mayor and clerk of the city or town or the warden and clerk of the municipality in which such person has a settlement; and for the purpose of this and the next succeeding sub-section, such settlement shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 50, R. S. 1900 "The Poor Relief Act."

(5) The expense of maintaining any such person Expense, how admitted under the provisions of the last preceding borne. sub-section shall be borne by the city, town or municipality in which such person has a settlement and every. city, town and municipality shall have the power to vote, collect, receive, appropriate and pay all sums of money required for the purpose of this Act.

made.

(6) Notwithstanding anything in this Chapter to Payment, how the contrary, in the case of any patient admitted under the provisions of Sub-section 4, of this section, payment of the expense of the maintenance of such patient shall be made monthly instead of weekly, and no bond for the payment of such expense shall re required.

CHAPTER 32.

Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c),

An Act to Amend the Nova Scotia Franchise Act, being Chapter 2 of the Acts of 1918 as Amended.

(Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922).

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

1. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Section 3 of the Sec. 3, repealed; Nova Scotia Franchise Act, Chapter 2, of the Acts of 1918, are repealed and the following substituted therefor:-

substituted.

Sub-section 3,
Sec. 25, re-

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(a) is of the full age of 21 years and is not by this Act or by any law of the Province of Nova Scotia disqualified or prevented from voting and was not on the first day of January next before the meeting of the revisers receiving public charitable support or care in a city, town or municipal poor house, and did not in each of the two years immediately preceding the first day of January next before the meeting of the revisers receive aid as a pauper under any law of the Province of Nova Scotia;

(b) is a British subject;

(c) is a resident of the county of which the polling district in which he or she claim to vote forms a part and has been such resident for six months next before the first day of January preceding the meeting of the revisers.

2. Section 25, Sub-section 3, of said Chapter 2, of pealed; sub- the Acts of 1918, is repealed and the following substituted therefor:

stituted.

25. (3) The appeal shall be in the first instance to the sheriff of the county in which the polling district in respect to which such appeal arises is situate and there shall be a further appeal from the decision of the sheriff as is hereinafter provided.

3. The following sections are inserted after Section Sections added. 28 of said Chapter 27 of the Acts of 1918:-

29. (1) Any person who under the foregoing pro- Notice of visions of this Act is entitled to attend the meeting of appeal. revisers and sustain or oppose any objection or application and who is dissatisfied with the decision of the sheriff may give to the revisers, the sheriff and to the person, if any, in whose favor such decision was given, on the day of such decision or within seven days thereafter, notice in writing of his intention to appeal from the decision of the sheriff to the County Court.

(2) Such notice may be in the Form H in the Service of schedule to this Chapter, and shall be served on the notice. revisers by delivery to one of them personally or by registered letter addressed to one of said revisers at his last known post office address and on the sheriff and on such person, if any, either personally or by mailing the same in a registered letter addressed to the last known post office address of such sheriff or person or by leaving it with some adult person at the place of abode of such sheriff or person.

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Judge.

(3) Such appeal shall be to the Judge of the County Court for the district in which the polling f district in respect to which such appeal arises is situate.

Court

(4) Such appeal shall be taken at a sittings of the where appeal County Court in the county wherein said polling shall be taken. district is situate.

to be made.

(5) If the decision of the sheriff is made more than when appeal twenty days before the sittings of a court to which an appeal is given such appeal shall be made to that sittings, but if the decision of the sheriff is made within twenty days of the sittings the appeal shall be made to the second sittings next after such decision.

in more than

(6) Where there is more than one place in the when sittings county fixed for sittings of the court the appeal shall of Court held be to the sittings held in the place nearest by the usual one place. route of travel to the place of residence of the appel

lant.

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