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thereof and the amounts contributed by the owners of abutting properties to retire the said loan on the 1st day of July, 1952.

SCHEDULE.

For the construction of new sewers, not

exceeding..

$150,000

For the extension and improvement of the water service, not exceeding.

150,000

For street paving, not exceeding

151,000

For the installation of new street lighting,

not exceeding.

150,000

Schedule.

CHAPTER 53.

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),
Sec. 336, re-

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 pealed; 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
Army Mater-

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

one year, as have previously been provided for by the City in the City Home.

(2) The City, if it so desires and the accommodations of the Hospital permits, may also send to the Hospital other such maternity cases in addition to the thirty-five aforesaid, and the City shall pay for each such additional case a sum not exceeding the amount charged by the Hospital for an unmarried mother who is a paying patient, not in any case exceeding thirtyfive dollars, and the City may pay the Hospital for any patient so admitted, notwithstanding Section 942 of the Halifax City Charter.

(3) The Mayor of the City of Halifax shall be always ex officio a member of the Advisory Board of the Hospital.

(4) No maternity case shall be admitted to the Hospital under this section until an enquiry as to the settlement of the patient has been made, by or on behalf of the Superintendent of the City Home and a certificate has been given by the Superintendent authorizing the admission of the patient to the Hospital as a city case.

4. Section 506 is repealed and the following sub- Sec. 506, restituted therefor:

pealed; substituted.

moval, etc., of

(1) Every person who without having been au- Penalty for rethorized in that behalf by the Department of Works, meters. removes any meter from the place in which it has been installed, or injures or tampers with any meter in any way, shall be liable to a penalty not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not less than ten days or more than three months, and in addition thereto the cost of the meter if lost or destroyed or of repairing the same may be directed to be paid to the City by the person removing or injuring the meter.

sponsible for

(2) The occupant of any premises shall be respon- Occupant resible for the care of any meter installed in the same meter. and the value of any such meter lost, removed or destroyed or the cost of repairing any injury thereto may be recovered from him by the City.

Occupant described.

Sec. 511, amended.

Sec. 677, re

(3) For the purposes of the section the expression "occupant" shall include:

(a) the owner of any building residing in the City;

(b) the agent of any owner not so residing;

(c) the person actually occupying the premises or portion thereof in which such meter is placed.

5. Section 511 is amended by striking out from the second line the words "other than meter rates.'

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6. Section 677 is repealed and the following subpealed; sub- stituted therefor:

stituted.

Appointments.

Residence letter boxes.

Sub-section added to Sec. 616.

(1) The Council shall determine at the time of passing the yearly estimates what other officials and men shall be appointed for the department, and the amounts to be paid them respectively. The appointments of such officials and men shall be made by the committee of firewards on the recommendation of the chief officer, and that committee may dismiss any official or man appointed by it.

7. Every house hereafter erected shall have a box for the reception of letters on the street door with an opening thereto in such door, and every person erecting a house and failing to plan such box and opening shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars.

8. Section 616 is amended by adding thereto the following sub-section :

(3) The City may borrow from any Bank or fund available an amount not exceeding the amount estimated to become due from the owners of abutting properties and apply the same to defraying the proportion of the cost to be borne by such owners, and the amounts so borrowed, with interest, shall be repaid in not less than six years, and any money collected from such owners may be applied to such repayment. The borrowing of any amount in that behalf heretofore

made is hereby legalized and declared to be binding on the City and repayable as aforesaid.

Special rate

for water.

9. In the case of any property in respect to which agreement the Council fixes a special rate for the supply of water, the Engineer may require the owner to enter into an agreement to pay such special rate before turning on the water for such property, and if such property is sold, a supply of water thereto may be refused and the water turned off until the new owner has entered into such agreement.

10. A supply of water may be refused in respect Plumbing to to any building under construction or repair, until the conform to law. plumbing in such building has been made to conform

to law, and if the water has been turned on such building for building purposes, it may be turned off until the plumbing has been satisfactorily completed.

etc., in public

11. No person shall attempt to catch any fish Fishing in lake, from any lake or pond in any public park. Every park. person so attempting shall be liable, for each offence, to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month.

street names

12. The committee on works may place a stand- Signs with ard for a light or a post on any street and place thereon and directions. signs with the name of a street or a direction to the public as to the use of any street, or other public notice or information.

13. Section 502 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 502,
repealed.

Sec. 646,

14. Section 646, sub-section (2), is amended by Sub-section (2), striking out from the fourth line thereof, the words amended. "twenty-five" and substituting therefor the word "fifty.'

tion amended.

15. The definition of the expression "storey" in Storey; defini Section 37 of Chapter 86 of the Acts of 1920 is amended by adding at the end thereof the words "or in the case of an attic storey between such floor surface and the roof."

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