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 (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. for mainten (4) Where any person is unable to pay for his own where person maintenance at the Sanatorium and where any other unable to pay person 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 Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Section 3 of the Sec. 3, repealed; Nova Scotia Franchise Act, Chapter 2, of the Acts of 1918, are repealed and the following substituted therefor:- substituted. Sub-section 3, Sec. 25, repealed; substituted. (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 the Acts of 1918, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: 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. Appeal to Judge. (3) Such appeal shall be to the Judge of the County Court for the district in which the polling County Court district in respect to which such appeal arises is situate. (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. (5) If the decision of the sheriff is made more than when appeal twenty days before the sittings of a court to which an to be made. 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. Sheriff to tor ward papers to (7) The sheriff on notice of appeal to the County Clerk of Court. Court Judge being served on him shall forthwith mail by registered letter postage prepaid to the clerk of the County Court for the county wherein is situate the polling district in respect to which such appeal arises all of the original papers in connection with the application to add or strike off the name which forms the subject of the appeal as the same were before them. List of voters to be delivered to clerk. Persons affected may appear. Judge may strike off or hearing evi dence. (8) At least five days before the first day of the sittings of the County Court at which the appeal is to be heard, the clerk for every municipal district shall deliver to the clerk of the County Court the list of voters for every polling district in such municipal district in respect to which there are appeals and the list of voters for every incorporated town transmitted to such clerk in respect to which there are appeals. (9) Every person who has given notice of appeal or who has been served with notice of appeal, or whose right to vote may be affected by an appeal, may appear in person or by counsel at any sittings of the County Court hearing such appeal, in support of or in opposition to any appeal arising under this Act. 30. If the Judge is satisfied from the evidence beadd name after fore him that the name of any person has been improperly registered or has been improperly omitted from the list of voters, he may strike off or add such name, provided proper notice of appeal in respect to such name is proved to have been duly given. Sec. 31, repealed; substituted. Judge to sign and deliver lists. 4. Section 31 of said Chapter 2 is repealed and the following substituted therefor: 31. (1) In cases where there is an appeal to a final approved Judge of the County Court the Judge shall sign the list or lists as finally approved by him and deliver the same either personally or by registered mail to the clerk of the municipal district to whom they were originally transmitted and such list or lists shall thenceforth be the list or lists of voters for the polling district or polling districts to which they relate. When no ap peal has been taken. (2) In cases where no appeal is taken from the decision of the revisers or from the decision of the sheriff the lists shall be made out, signed by the sheriff and deposited on or before tenth day of April in each year with the clerk of the municipal district to whom they were originally transmitted, and such lists shall thenceforth be the lists of voters for the several polling districts to which they relate. pealed; sub 5. Form D of the schedule to said Chapter 2 of Form D rethe Acts of 1918 is repealed and the following substi-stituted. tuted therefor: I, [FORM D]. (Section 15). solemnly swear,- (1) That I am (or he or she is) a British subject, of the full age of twenty-one years. (2) That I am (or he or she is), a resident of the County of and have been (or he or she has been), such resident for at least six months next before the first day of January preceding the meeting of the revisers to be held in the month of March next. (3) That I fully believe I have (or he or she has) a legal right, under the Nova Scotia Franchise Act, to have my (or his or her) name on the list of voters for Polling District Number......, in the County of 6. Form H of the schedule to said Chapter 2, Acts of 1918 is repealed and the following substituted therefor: |