AN ACT to continue "An Act to authorise A.D. 1898. [7 September, 1898.] BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 In this Act the expression "the said Act" shall mean "An Act Interpretation. to authorise the Minister of Lands and Works to vary an Agreement 58 Vict. No. 18. entered into on the Twenty-second day of December, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, with The Mount Dundas and Zeehan Railway Company, Limited.' 2 It shall be lawful for the Minister of Lands and Works for the Minister may time being to exercise all the powers conferred upon him by the said vary Agreement. Act for such period between the day upon which this Act comes into force and the Twenty-second day of December, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, as the said Minister shall think proper. 3 All the powers conferred upon the said Minister by the said Act Further powers shall be deemed to have been conferred upon the said Minister from to Minister. the First day of January, One thousand eight hundred and ninety eight to the day when this Act comes into force. WILLIAM GRAHAME, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMANIA. AN ACT to further amend The Hobart A.D. 1898. [7 September, 1898.] WHEREAS it is expedient to further amend "The Hobart Cor- PREAMBLE. poration Act, 1893," in the manner hereinafter appearing : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as "The Hobart Corporation Act, 1898." Short title. 2 In this Act, the expression "the Principal Act" shall mean "The Interpretation. Hobart Corporation Act, 1893," and the word "Council" shall mean the Municipal Council of the City of Hobart. 3 Schedule (2.) of the Principal Act is hereby repealed, and the Boundaries of the boundaries of the City of Hobart shall hereafter be those described in City of Hobart. the Schedule (1.) to this Act, and shall so remain until altered by legislative authority. Health. 4 The area contained within the boundaries set forth in the Schedule Extension of the (2.) to this Act shall hereafter be subject to the jurisdiction of the Muni- jurisdiction of the cipal Council and the Local Board of Health for the City of Hobart for Local Board of the purposes of "The Police Regulation Act, 1865," and "The Public Health Act, 1884," and every Act amending either of those Acts, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the said area was included in the boundaries of the said City. A.D. 1898. Citizen may vote in respect of property for which Rates have been paid. Owner not liable to pay Rates in respect of any unoccupied property. Council may appropriate any unexpended balance of money borrowed for the erection of a Town Hall. By-laws. By-Laws validated. Council may grant gratuity to Hobart Corporation. 5 Notwithstanding anything contained in the Principal Act, every citizen who has paid all Municipal Rates due and payable by him or her up to the day on which any Election of Aldermen shall be held under that Act in respect of any property occupied by him or her, shall be entitled to vote at such election in respect of such property, although other Municipal Rates due and payable by him or her in respect of any other property shall not have been paid. 6 Nothing contained in the Principal Act shall be held or construed to make the owner of any property liable for the payment of any Municipal Rates in respect thereof for any period during which such property shall be unoccupied: Provided always that the word "property," as used in this Section, shall not include any piece of land the annual value whereof is assessed at a sum equal to Five per cent. of the capital value thereof, pursuant to the provision in that behalf contained in Section Eighty-five of the Principal Act. 7 It shall be lawful for the Council to transfer to "The Municipal Fund" mentioned in Section One hundred and sixty-one of the Principal Act, and to appropriate to any of the purposes mentioned in Section One hundred and sixty-three of the Principal Act, any unexpended balance of any sum of money borrowed by the Corporation under the authority of any Act which empowered the Corporation to borrow money for the purpose of erecting a Town Hall in the City of Hobart. 8 It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to make, publish, alter, modify, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of Section Two hundred and seventy-four of the Principal Act, all such By-laws as the Council shall deem proper in regard to any of the matters following; viz. 1. The pace at which horses and other animals and vehicles may be ridden, or driven, or drawn through the streets of the City of Hobart : II. The protection of persons from injury or danger from the use of animals, vehicles, or bicycles, tricycles, and like machines in the streets of the City of Hobart : III. The prevention of the disfigurement of public and private property within the City of Hobart : IV. The regulation of the sale of laths, shingles, and other split or sawn timber indigenous to Tasmania: And to impose for the breach or infringement of any By-law made under the authority of this Act, such penalty as is authorised by Section Two hundred and seventy-four of the Principal Act. 9 Any rule or regulation heretofore purported to be made by the Council as a By-law in regard to any of the matters as to which the Council is by this Act authorised to make By-laws, shall have the same force and effect as if such rule or regulation had purported to be made under the authority of this Act and the Principal Act. 10 It shall be lawful for the Council to grant to the widow or children of any deceased officer of the Corporation such gratuity as the Council shall think proper, not exceeding a sum equal to the annual salary paid to such officer previous to his death. Hobart Corporation. establish Pro 11 It shall be lawful for the Council to establish a Provident Fund A.D. 1898. for the purpose of securing the payment of a sum of money to any Council may officer or other person in the employment of the Corporation upon his retirement from the service of the Corporation, and to appropriate to such fund such portion, not exceeding One-half, as the Council shall think fit, of all fines and penalties payable to the Council upon summary convictions within the city. vident Fund and appropriate Onehalf of all fines and penalties. 12 The twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth lines of Section Two hundred Repeal. and twenty-five of the Principal Act are hereby repealed. 13 This Act and the Principal Act and all other Acts amending the Acts to be read Principal Act shall be read and construed together as one Act. together. SCHEDULE. (1.) CITY OF HOBART. Commencing at the south-east angle of a grant to George Frankland on the Wellington or Sandy Bay Rivulet, and bounded by that rivulet to its confluence with the River Derwent, by that river and by Sullivan's Cove to the northern side of the Hobart Rivulet, thence by the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of an allotment of 2a. 2r. 30p. now vested in the Municipal Council of Hobart for sanitary purposes, thence by a continued north-westerly line to the east angle of the Slaughter Yards, thence north-westerly by the north-eastern boundary of the said Slaughter Yards to the north angle thereof, thence in a south-westerly direction by the north-western boundary of the said Slaughter Yards to the public road leading to the Slaughter Yards and continuing the same line across that road to the north-eastern boundary of the Royal Engineers' Yard, thence in a southeasterly direction along that said boundary to the north-east angle of the said Royal Engineers' Yard, thence south-westerly by the south-eastern boundary of the Royal Engineers' Yard to the northern boundary of land in the occupation of the Hobart Gas Company, thence north-westerly along that said boundary to the northern angle of the said land in the occupation of the Hobart Gas Company, thence north-easterly by a straight line across the entrance of the road leading from Macquarie-street to the Royal Engineers' Yard to the south-western angle of land formerly in the occupation of the Territorial Police, from thence to the angle of intersection formed by the northern building-line of Park-street with the road leading to the Queen's Domain from Macquarie-street, thence along the north and north-eastern building-line of Park-street (crossing Liverpool-street) to a point on the south-western boundary of the Queen's Domain at Park-street and directly opposite the south-east building-line of Clara or Ryde-street, from thence south-westerly along the said south-eastern building-line of Clara or Ryde-street (crossing Park-street and Letitia-street) to the eastern side of Argyle-street, thence by a continuation of that line across Argyle-street to the eastern angle of a grant to James Milne Wilson, thence by the south-eastern side of this grant to the eastern side of Commercial Road, thence by a continuation of that line across Commercial Road to the south-eastern angle of a grant to John Dunn, thence by the south-eastern boundary of that grant to the New Town Road, thence by a continuation of that line across the New Town Road to the north angle of a grant to Janet M'Tavish, thence by the north-west boundary of that grant to a point on the northern side of the Elphinstone Road, thence in a south-easterly direction crossing Elphinstone Road and across Mount Stuart Road to the west angle of a grant to John Swan, thence by the south-western boundary of that grant and also by the south-western boundary of a grant to John Dunn to the north-western side of Arthur-street, thence by the north-western building-line of Arthur-street in a south-westerly direction to the south-western side of Kuocklofty Terrace, thence by the south-western side thereof to Poet's Road and (crossing the same) to an allotment granted to William Harris, thence |