CHAPTER 55. An Act to Amend the Law as to the Qualification for (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and As-Sub-section sembly, as follows: 1. Section 15 of the Halifax City Charter of 1907 (Section 16 of the Charter of 1914) is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sub-section : "For the purposes of this section a person who, although his residence is out of the City, has a shop, store or office in the City and has carried on business in the City either singly or as a member of a firm for three years previous to any election, shall be deemed to reside in the City, and being otherwise qualified, to be eligible for Mayor or Alderman, and it shall not be necessary that such person has occupied the same shop, store or office during such period of three years.' added to Sec. 15, City Charter 1907; (Sec. 16, 1914). CHAPTER 56. An Act to Amend the Law Relating to the City of Halifax. (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D. 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Section 21 of Chapter 86 of the Acts of 1920 is Sec. 21, Chap. hereby repealed. 86, 1920, repealed. CHAPTER 57. Authority to borrow. Debentures. An Act to Enable the City of Sydney 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 Sydney is hereby empowered, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 223 of Chapter 174 of the Acts of 1903, to borrow on credit of the City, the following sums or any one or more or any part of any one or more of the same for the purposes mentioned, that is to say: (a) $15,000.00 for a Detention House and Juvenile Court; (b) $25,000.00 for sewers; (c) $25,000.00 for water. 2. Such sums or any of them or any part of any of them shall be borrowed in one sum at one time or in instalments at different times on debentures to be issued in the form in accordance with the Schedule to this Act, in sums of one hundred dollars each, or any multiple thereof, and in such manner as may be determined by the City Council, from time to time, or at one time, and in such manner as may be determined by resolution of the City Council, bearing interest at such rate, not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, and repayable at such time, not exceeding thirty years, and at such place or places as the Council shall determine, which debentures shall be issued by the Mayor, under the seal of the City, and signed by the Mayor and City Clerk. And to each of such debentures shall be attached coupons or warrants for the payment of the interest, which coupons shall be signed by the Mayor and City Clerk of the City of Sydney, or their names may be impressed on said coupons by machinery or stamps provided for that purpose, by and with the authority of the City Council of the said City. 3. Such debentures shall be sold for such sums as; Lien. may be obtained therefor, and shall be a charge on all the property, real and personal, of the City, and its inhabitants, and the proceeds of such debentures shall be placed to the credit of the City, and shall be used only for the purposes mentioned in this Act. 4. The City Council shall annually add to the Interest. amount to be assessed and levied on the real and personal property in the City, for general expenses, a sufficient sum to pay the annual interest on such debentures. 5. The City Council shall annually add to the gen- Sinking fund. eral assessment to be levied on the ratepayers of the said City, subject to assessment, such sums as may by resolution be determined by the City Council for the purpose of providing a sinking fund for such debentures; not, however, in any case, to be less than two per cent. of the amount borrowed under this Act, and such sums shall be rated and collected in the same manner and with the same remedies as other rates and taxes in the said City are rated and collected; and such sums, when collected, shall be deposited in some chartered bank, or trust company, in the Province of Nova Scotia, on deposit, bearing interest, and such sums and interest thereon shall be used for the payment of the debentures issued under the provisions of this Act, and for no other purpose. This section shall not apply in respect of twenty-five thousand dollars for sewers. 6. The money borrowed under this Act shall be Money, how paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the said City paid out. and shall be by him paid out as the City Council shall determine for the purposes mentioned in the first section of this Act, and for no other purpose. ratepayers 7. None of the sums mentioned in sub-sections Approval of "B" and "C" of Section 1 of this Act, and no part of quired. any of such sums shall be borrowed until the Council shall submit the question of the proposed borrowing to a vote of the ratepayers and shall obtain the approval of a majority of such ratepayers voting thereon; and the provisions of Section 87 of Chapter 174 of the re Certificate. Schedule. Acts of 1903, as amended shall mutatis mutandis apply. A certificate under the hand of the Mayor and City Clerk and under the corporate seal of the City, that such approval has been obtained, shall be conclusive evidence of that fact. SCHEDULE. No......... $. CITY OF SYDNEY DEBENTURES. Issued under the authority of Chapter 57, of the Acts of the Legislature of Nova Scotia, for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and in pursuance of a resolution passed at a meeting of the City Council, held on the day of A. D., 1922. The City of Sydney will pay, if unregistered, to the bearer hereof, or if registered, to the registered holder hereof, the sum of in lawful money of Canada, at in years from the date hereof, and interest on the said sum at the rate of per centum per annum, payable half-yearly upon the day of in each year at and on the presentation of the coupon hereto attached. Issued at Sydney, in the County of Cape Breton, this No. of Coupon. day of [FORM B]. A. D., 192 $... The City of Sydney will pay to the bearer, CHAPTER 58. An Act to Amend Chapter 174, Acts 1903, entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the City of Sydney," and Amending Acts. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D. 1922.) Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Chapter 174 of the Acts of 1903, entitled, “An Act to Incorporate the City of Sydney," is amended as follows: 1. Section 73 is amended by adding thereto the Sub-section following sub-section : added to Sec. 73. Chartered Ac (4) The Council may employ a Chartered Ac- May employ countant or other suitable person to make an audit of countant; the City accounts for such a period of years as the Audit. Council determines, and include in the estimates for the year 1922 a sum sufficient to pay the costs of such audit. amended. 2. Section 113 is amended by striking out the Sec. 113, figures 20 in the seventh line thereof, and substituting the figures 50; and the said Section 113 is further amended by striking out the following words and figures in the seventh and following lines of said section: "and shall in addition be rated as holding $100 of personal property for every twenty dollars of net annual income or profit derived from the business done by them in the City of Sydney." 3. Section 368 is amended by adding thereto the Sub-section following sub-section : (133) For regulating and controlling the interior arrangements of all restaurants and eating houses. added to Sec. 368. property. 4. The City Council shall, for the purpose of en- Rating of hotel couraging the erection of a suitable hotel or hotels in the City of Sydney, have power to enter into a contract with any person or corporation undertaking such |