and sufficient system of street lighting by electricity and do all things necessary to regulate and maintain the system so provided. ratepayers. 7. (1) The amount of money, not exceeding three Meeting of hundred and twenty-five dollars ($325.00), required for providing and maintaining such street lighting system, shall be annually determined by said commissioners and shall be assessed by them upon all property within the district on the same basis as assessments are made for county purposes. Before this amount of three hundred and twenty-five dollars can be increased, the commissioners shall convene a public meeting of the ratepayers of the district, to which such proposed increase shall be submitted, and the same shall be approved by a majority of the ratepayers at such meeting. (2) Such meeting shall be called by a public notice conspicuously posted in the district for ten days prior to such meeting. 8. The commissioners shall prepare a rate roll, Rate Roll to be showing the assessment made for the purposes of this prepared. Act, and shall furnish the same to the Clerk of the above-named Municipality on or before the first day of March in each year, and amounts rated therein upon each ratepayer for lighting purposes, and shall be collected as a part of the municipal rates and taxes with the same remedies for non-payment. expended. 9. The moneys so collected shall be paid over by Moneys, how the Treasurer of the Municipality to the SecretaryTreasurer of the commissioners on or before the first day of December in each year, and shall be expended by the commissioners in providing and maintaining street lights within the district as aforesaid. The commissioners shall render an account of the expenditure of said moneys, accompanied with proper vouchers therefor, to the Treasurer of said Municipality, as least one week before the annual meeting of said Council. 10. The said commissioners may make, alter or By-laws. amend such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the control and management of the said corporation, and are not inconsistent with the laws of the Province or Municipality, but such bylaws, rules and regulations, and all amendments thereto, shall be subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council. Preamble. CHAPTER 137. An Act to Confirm Certain Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Poor Asylum of the Munici WHEREAS, the management of the Poor Asylum and Poor Farm of the Municipality of Lunenburg has been carried on by a board of poor asylum commissioners for some years; And whereas, by reason of certain by-laws and regulations of said poor asylum commissioners not having been approved of by the Governor-in-Council, some doubt has arisen as to the legality of certain contracts made and entered into by said commissioners with divers people; And whereas, a certain contract to build a barn on said poor farm was entered into by said poor asylum commissioners in the year 1912, which contract was not signed by the Warden of the Municipality, but was approved of by the Municipal Council; And whereas, said barn has been built and moneys paid by the Clerk of the Municipality of Lunenburg for the price of said barn, by direction of a majority of the Municipal Council, notwithstanding any irregularity or defect in the making of or entering into said contract; And whereas, said commissioners have entered into other contracts and incurred expense in connection with said poor aslyum and poor farm and obligations in the nature of contracts are now substiting. And whereas, the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Lunenburg did resolve at its regular January, 1913, session to approve of and confirm all acts and proceedings of said commissioners and to pay all bills contracted by said commissioners, and requested that an Act of the Legislature be procured to validate the same, and the same resolution so confirming such Acts and proceedings; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: confirmed. 1. All acts and doings and proceedings of said Proceedings. board of poor commissioners are hereby ratified and confirmed. of Poor Farm 2. The proceedings of said commissioners with Management respect to the management and control of buildings legalized. connected with said poor farm are hereby legalized and confirmed. confirmed. 3. The resolution of the Municipal Council of Resolution the Municipality of Lunenburg, passed at its January, 1913, session, respecting said acts and doings and proceedings of said commissioners is hereby confirmed and declared to be valid and sufficient. pay debts. 4. The Municipal Clerk of the Municipality of Authority to Lunenburg is hereby authorized to pay out of the general funds of the municipality all moneys necessary to liquidate and pay all debts contracted by said poor asylum commissioners, and any payments heretofore made are hereby declared to be valid and sufficient. CHAPTER 138. An Act to Amend Chapter 150, Acts of 1903, "The (Passed the 13th day of May, A. D., 1913). Section. 1. Chapter 150, Acts 1903, amend- Section. (52) Assessors to prepare tax list. Chapter 150, Acts 1903, amended. Ratepayers to pay a lighting tax. Assessors to prepare tax list. Residents defined. (51) Ratepayers to pay a (53) Residents defined. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Chapter 150 of the Acts of 1903, "An Act to enable the inhabitants of Mahone Bay to supply themselves with sewerage, electric lighting and water for domestic, fire and other purposes," is amended by adding thereto the following sections; 51. Every male person twenty-one years of age and upwards, and every female ratepayer residing within the town on the 1st day of January in each year, shall (in addition to other rates and taxes payable under this Act) annually pay to the commissioners the sum of one dollar. Such tax shall be known as the Street Lighting Tax, and the amount realized therefrom shall be used by the commissioners to provide street lighting for the town, and for no other purpose. 52. The assessors appointed under this Act shall prepare a list of the persons liable to pay the street lighting tax, and the same shall be collected in the same way as other rates and taxes imposed by this Act. 53. "Resident" within the meaning of this Act includes persons temporarily absent from the town in the carrying on of any kind of business or employment or temporarily absent for any other cause, but who usually reside in the town or whose families reside within the town. CHAPTER 139. An Act to Enable the Municipality of the County of Debentures. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: borrow. 1. The Municipality of the County of Queens, in Authority to the Province of Nova Scotia, is hereby authorized to borrow, upon the credit of the said municipality, a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand three hundred dollars, for the purpose of redeeming or retiring certain debentures issued by the said municipality under the authority of Chapter 125 of the Acts of 1893, entitled, "An Act to enable the Municipality of Queens County to borrow money to pay existing claims," and falling due on or about the first day of May, 1913, and for the payment of any discounts, commissions or other expenses which may be incurred by the said municipality in disposing of the debentures hereby authorized. 2. For the purpose of effecting said loan, the said Debentures. municipality is hereby empowered to make and issue, from time to time, or at any one time, debentures bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, and redeemable at a period or periods not exceeding twenty years from the date of issue thereof, and for an amount in the whole not exceeding said sum of three thousand three hundred dollars. 3. Such debentures shall be for sums of one hun- Lien. dred dollars each, or for any multiple of one hundred dollars, and the provisions of "The Municipal Debentures Act," (1902) and the amendments thereto, shall apply to said debentures, and to such loan, and the said debentures, when issued, and the money bor |