in the same manner and in all respects as other sums required for the ordinary lawful purposes of the said Municipality, the City of Sydney, and the incorporated towns within the County of Cape Breton, are raised, levied and collected. 4. Such debentures shall be payable in fifteen Debentures. years from the date thereof and shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum. bentures. 5. For the purpose of raising the said sum the War- Terms of deden and Clerk of the said Municipality are authorized and empowered to make and issue debentures of the said Municipality in sums of $500.00 each, or some multiple thereof, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of six thousand dollars, and the said debentures shall bear interest at and after the rate of 5 per centum per annum, payable half yearly, at the office of the Municipal Treasurer of the said Municipality in Sydney, and the said debentures may be issued by the said warden and clerk, and the sale shall be legal, valid and binding without any further resolution of Council authorizing the issuing of said debentures or the fixing of the amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon. CHAPTER 96. An Act to Amend an Act of the Present Session, en- Section added Terms of debentures. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 5. For the purpose of raising the said sum the Warden and Clerk of the said Municipality are authorized and empowered to make and issue debentures of the said Municipality in sums of $500.00 each, or some multiple thereof, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and the said debentures shall bear interest at and after the rate of 5 per centum per annum, payable half yearly, at the office of the Municipal Treasurer of the said Municipality in Sydney, and the said debentures may be issued by the said Warden and Clerk, and the sale shall be legal, valid and binding without any further resolution of Council authorizing the issuing of said debentures or the fixing of the amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon. CHAPTER 97. An Act to Amend Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1919, Relating to District No. 12, in the Municipality of Cape Breton. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Section 1 of Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1919 is Section 1, rehereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: pealed; sub 1. The Municipal Council of the Municipality of the County of Cape Breton is hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special yearly tax, not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) on the inhabitants of the village of Birch Grove, being a portion of Municipal District No. 12, in the said Municipality, for the purpose of defraying the expense of providing electric light for the said village of Birch Grove. The said tax shall be rated as follows: (a) the sum of one dollar on every poll taxpayer between the ages of eighteen and sixty years residing within the said village; (b) the balance of said sum shall be rated as a district charge upon all the real and personal property of all ratepayers within the said village. stituted. Special yearly tax; how rated. CHAPTER 98. Report of commissioner ratified. Chapter 136, Acts 1917, repealed. Act to amend Chap. 122, An Act to Ratify and Confirm the Report of the Com- to Inquire into the Valuation of Rate- Cape Breton for the Pur pose of Joint Expen diture of the said County." (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. The report and findings of the Commissioner appointed under Chapter 154 of the Acts of 1920 is hereby ratified and confirmed and declared to be legal, valid and binding in all respects as if the same had been filed with the Warden of the Municipality of Cape Breton, the Mayor of the City of Sydney and the several incorporated towns in the County of Cape Breton, on or before the first day of December, 1921. 2. Chapter 136 of the Acts of 1917, authorizing the levying of a special Poll Tax in the Municipality of Cape Breton, is hereby repealed. 3. An Act of the present session, entitled, "An Act 1919, amended. to Amend Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1919, Relating to District No. 12, in the Municipality of Cape Breton, is hereby amended by striking out sub-sections (a) and (b) in said Act and substituting therefor the following: (a) the sum of thirty cents on every one hundred dollars of the municipal assessment shall be rated and levied on the real and personal property of the Dominion Coal Company within said area; (b) the balance of the said sum shall be levied as a special Poll Tax upon the male inhabitants of the said area between the ages of 18 and 60 years. CHAPTER 99. An Act to Ratify and Confirm an Expenditure Authorized by the Cape Breton Joint Expenditure Board for the Year 1922. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). WHEREAS, the Cape Breton Joint Expenditure Preamble. Board agreed to grant the Children's Aid Society of Cape Breton the sum of three thousand dollars for the year 1922; Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Children's Aid 1. The said grant of three thousand dollars to the Grant to Children's Aid Society of Cape Breton is hereby de- Society. clared to be an expenditure for the joint benefits of the Municipality of Cape Breton, the City of Sydney, and the several incorporated towns within the County of Cape Breton, and the same is hereby legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed, and is declared to be as effectual and binding upon the Municipality of the County of Cape Breton, the City of Sydney, and the several incorporated towns within the County of Cape Breton, and to have the same force and effect as if the same had been determined as an object of Municipal expenditure for the joint benefit of the said Municipality, City and Towns in accordance with Section 1 of Chapter 154 of the Acts of 1920, and included in the report made under the provisions of Section 3 of the said Act. |