CHAPTER 51. An Act in Relation to Certain Moneys Collected by the City of Halifax for the Canadian Patriotic Fund. (Passed the 18th day of April, A. D. 1922.) WHEREAS, the City of Halifax was authorized to bor- Preamble. row $25,000 and to contribute the same to the Canadian Patriotic Fund if the same was required, and to collect in the general assessment the money required to repay the money so borrowed in yearly instalments of $5,000 each; And Whereas, the City has not borrowed any money in that behalf, but has collected with a view to such borrowings the sum of $10,000, which it now has in hand; And Whereas, the said money is no longer required for the Canadian Patriotic Fund, but is urgently needed to furnish employment and relief for persons out of work; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: civic unem mittee. 1. The City of Halifax shall not be required to con- Payment to tribute the sum of $10,000 mentioned in the preamble ed comhereto, to the Canadian Patriotic Fund, but shall pay the same to the treasurer of the Civic Unemployment Committee of the City of Halifax, to be used by that committee for the furnishing of work or relief of persons out of work, as in the judgment of that committee is deemed best. CHAPTER 52. Terms of loan. Provision to retire loan 1931. An Act to Enable the City of Halifax to Borrow Money. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D. 1922.) Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. The City of Halifax is hereby authorized to borrow the sums set out in the Schedule hereto for the purposes specified for each amount respectively, and no other. Provided, however, that the sums authorized to be borrowed in said Schedule shall be subject to have deducted therefrom, and there shall be first deducted therefrom, respectively, any available unexpended balances in the various services as of the 6th day of April, 1922. 2. The sums to be borrowed may be borrowed from time to time and in such amounts as the Council of the City determines, shall be in addition to the amount authorized to be borrowed by the Halifax City Consolidated Fund Act, 1905, and amendments thereto, shall form part of that fund, and shall be secured by stock or debentures to be issued in conformity with provisions of that Act, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, and the dates on which * the same shall be made payable shall be determined by the Council. 3. In respect to the loan for $350,000, contracted $350.000 due by the City on the 1st day of July, 1921, repayable on the 1st day of July, 1931, it shall not be necessary to each year place in the estimates of expenditure of the City a sum sufficient to produce at the said date of maturity of the loan an amount sufficient with the accumulations thereof to pay and discharge the said loan at that date, but it being the intention of the City to refund such loan at the maturity thereof, it shall be sufficient to place in the estimates each year in respect to the said loan a sum sufficient with the accumulations thereof and the amounts contributed by the owners of abutting properties to retire the said loan on the 1st day of July, 1952. An Act to Ratify the Estimates and Rating of the City of Halifax for the Civic Year 1922-1923. (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: rating 1. The estimates of expenditure of the City of Hal- Estimates and ifax approved by the Council at a meeting held on the confirmed. 11th day of March, 1922, and confirmed at a meeting held on the 16th day of March, 1922, and every item thereof are hereby ratified and confirmed and declared to be the true and proper estimates of the City for the civic year 1922-23, and the amount thereof, $1,875,102.05, enforceable and collectable from the inhabitants and property liable to assessment and taxation, and the rate fixed by the Assessor to produce that amount and the amounts so rated are ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding the same were not finally passed until the 16th day of March, 1922, and also that the same contain items not authorized by law or in excess of the amounts so authorized; provided that this Act shall not apply to any property of the Crown. CHAPTER 54. Interpretation. Clause (w), An Act to Amend the Law Relating to the City of Halifax. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. In this Act the expression "City" means the City of Halifax, the expression "Council" means the City Council of that City, and any committee or official herein mentioned by name means the committee or official of that name of the said Council or City, the expression "City Charter" means the Halifax City Charter of 1907 or the Halifax City Charter of 1914, according to the sections of those Charters respectively as defined and now in force under and by virtue of Chapter 80 of the Acts of 1919, and sections referred to by number without other reference are the sections of the said charters now in force under the said Chapter, and this Act shall relate exclusively to the City of Halifax and the said charters thereof. 2. Clause (w) of Section 336 is hereby repealed Dealed; substi-and the following substituted: tuted. Clause E, Sec. amended. (w) the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), for the Victoria School of Art. 2A. Section 336, Clause E, is further amended by 336, further increasing the yearly amount for the Sir Sandford Fleming Park to eighteen hundred dollars. Sec. 23, Chap. 3. Section 23 of Chapter 77 of the Acts of 1921 repealed; sub-is hereby repealed and the following substituted there 77, Acts 1921, . stituted. Salvation for: (1) In consideration of the grant of $25,000 by the nity Hospital. City of Halifax to aid in the construction of a Maternity Hospital by the Salvation Army, the said Salvation Army shall in perpetuity provide accommodation, maintenance and attention free of charge for such maternity cases, not exceeding thirty-five in any |