county exlevied by and collected 16. On receipt of the statement or certificate showing the District and sum duly so apportioned upon or required from any munici- penses to be pality in each year by the Municipal Commissioner, it shall special rate be the duty of the clerk of such municipality to cause a rate with other to be entered upon the tax roll of the municipality for such taxes, &c. year sufficient to produce the amount or amounts mentioned in such statement or certificate; and the council of each respective municipality shall cause the amounts so given in each statement or certificate to be levied and raised in such year with the other sums required for municipal purposes, and the same shall be levied and collected in the manner in which other taxes are collected or levied within the municipality; and it shall be the duty of the said several municipalities and of their respective treasurers to pay over to the Provincial Treasurer the said sums between the first and tenth days of February in each year; and in case of the failure of any municipality to levy and raise the sum or sums required by the Municipal Commissioner for the purposes of this Act or any other Act, or to pay the same to the Provincial Treasurer on or before the tenth day of February, in addition to any other remedy, the same may be collected from the municipality by the Municipal Commissioner in an action of debt as upon an account stated; and in such action a duplicate or certified copy of such certificate under the hand and seal of the Municipal Commissioner shall be conclusive proof of his right to recover the sum or sums therein stated; and such sums, when paid to the Provincial Treasurer, shall be expended for the purposes above mentioned. 53 V. c. 51, s. 465. GENERAL PROVISIONS. Judicial Dis 17. All the assets of the late Judicial District Boards shall Assets of continue to be vested in and may be recovered by the Muni- tricts Boards. cipal Commissioner in trust for the municipalities entitled thereto. 53 V. c. 51, s. 466. kept by Treasurer. 18. All moneys levied by the Municipal Commissioner Moneys to be shall be payable to the Provincial Treasurer, who shall advise Provincial the Municipal Commissioner of the receipt of all such moneys. The Provincial Treasurer shall keep a separate account of moneys received on account of the Municipal Commissioner and shall pay all vouchers passed by the Municipal Commissioner out of such moneys. The Provincial Treasurer shall have the right to invest such moneys in the same way as the public moneys of the Province. On the coming into force of this Act, the Municipal Commissioner shall pay over to the Provincial Treasurer all moneys on hand. 53 V. c. 15, s. 467. REVISION OF LISTS ..... By County Judge, s. 15. Duties of head of council, s. 19. Appointment for hearing appeals, s. 20. Judge to fix time and place, s. 21. Clerk to notify assessor, s. 22. Adding subsequent purchasers, s. 23. Form of notice, s. 24. Clerk's notices, forms of, s. 25. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Constable, his duties and fees, s. 38. Where Court of Revision to be held, s. 40. Judge's fees and expenses, s. 41. Reporting fraudulent practices, s. 43. When officer to pay costs, s. 45. S. 1. . S. 2. "Lieutenant Governor," s-s. (c.) Time, s-s. (d.) .....SS. 3-14. Posting lists, s. 9. Printing, s. 10. Blank for certificate, s. 11. Clerk's certificate-Form, s. 12. Addresses on posted copy, s. 13. Sale of copies, s. 14. Liability of clerk for omission, s. 54. Falsification of lists, s. 55. Fraudulent qualification, s. 56. Recovery of penalties, s. 57. Inquiries by assessor, s. 58. Illegal practices, penalties for, s. 59. Obtaining additional copies, s. 60. Meaning of letters "H," "F" and "T," s. 61. Use of forms, s. 62. Municipalities in more than one Division, s. 63. Recovery, &c., of penalties, s. 64. H ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Municipal Electors Act." Short title. INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation. voters. (a.) The expression "electors" or "voters," mean the "Electors," persons entitled for the time being to vote at any municipal election, or in respect of any by-law, in the municipality, ward or polling sub-division, as the case may be; (b.) The expression "next day" shall not apply to or "Next day." include Sunday or other holiday as defined by "The Manitoba Interpretation Act"; (c.) The expression "Lieutenant Governor" includes Lieutenant Governor in Council; means and "Lieutenant Governor." (d.) The time mentioned in this Act shall be the time used Time. by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and known as Central Standard time, and being the time of the ninetieth meridian of longitude. 53 V. c. 54, s. 1, part. PREPARATION OF LISTS. lists. 3. The clerk of every municipality shall, immediately after Clerk to make the final revision and correction of the assessment roll in every year, make a correct alphabetical list of all persons being of the full age of twenty-one years, and subjects of Her Majesty by birth or naturalization, and appearing by the assessment roll to be entitled to vote in the municipality at elections therefor, prefixing to the name of each person his number upon the roll. 53 V. c. 54, s. 2. 4. The said list shall give the names of the electors in Form of list. each polling sub-division or ward in the municipality separately, and shall be in the following form as nearly as may be: LIST OF ELECTORS, 18 City (Town, Village or Rural Municipality, as the case may be) of Polling Sub-Division No. 1, comprising, &c. (giving limits or name of ward, &c.) Polling Sub-Division No. 2, (giring limits, &c.) 53 V. c. 54, s. 3. form. 5. The form of said list may be changed to suit the Alteration of description of property of voters in villages, towns and cities. 53 V. c. 54, s. 4. 6. Where a municipality is divided into polling sub-divi- Separate lists. sions, the list shall be made for each of such sub-divisions. real estate 7. The clerk shall, opposite the name of the person, insert Entry of in the proper column of the list, the number of the lot or qualification. other proper description of the real property in respect of which such person is qualified. 53 V. c. 54, s. 6. 8. An assessment roll shall be understood to be finally revised and corrected when it has been so revised and corrected by the Court of Revision for the municipality, or by a Judge of the County Court, in case of an appeal, as provided in "The Assessment Act," or when the time during which such appeal may be made has elapsed, and not before. 53 V. C. 54, s. 7. When roll is finally revised. lists. 9. Immediately after the clerk has made the said alpha- Posting up betical list, and within thirty days after the final revision and correction of the assessment roll, the clerk shall forthwith cause a copy of said list to be posted up, and to be kept posted up, in a conspicuous place in his own office, and deliver or transmit by post, by letter or by parcel or book post, four of such copies to a Judge of the County Court of the Judicial Division to which the municipality or some part belongs, and two of said copies to the mayor or reeve and each alderman or councillor, and to each defeated candidate at the last election for mayor, reeve, alderman or councillor, and one of said copies to each school teacher and postmaster in the municipality, who shall post up the same in the school or postoffice as the case may be. 53 V. c. 54, s. 8. 10. The list of electors for any municipality shall be Printing lists. printed, unless otherwise directed by resolution of the council. 53 V. c. 54, s. 9. certificate or 11. A blank page shall be left at the end of said list for Blank for the purpose of having written thereon, or attached thereto, statenient. any certificate and statement that may be required to be appended or attached to the list upon or after the revision thereof. 53 V. c. 54, s. 10. 12. Upon all copies of said list shall be a certificate over Clerk's certifi the name of the clerk in the following form, or to the like cate. effect : 25--A |