CAP. L Preamble. 34 V., c. 39, ss. 93, 94, 95, replaced with exception. Taxes: On lands; Exception; On certain movables; An act to amend the act to incorporate the city of [Assented to 28th December,. 1876.] HEREAS it is expedient to amend the act to incorporate the city of St.. Hyacinthe, 34 Vict., cap. 39, (1870); Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, I enacts as follows: 1. Sections ninety-three, ninety-four and ninety-five of the said act are hereby repealed, except the eighth. sub-section of the ninety-third section, and the following are substituted for the same : "93. In order to raise the necessary funds to meet the expenses of the city council, and to effect the several necessary public improvements in the said city, the said city council shall have power to levy annually upon persons and upon movable and immovable property in the said city, the taxes hereinafter set forth, that is to say: on every piece of land, town lot or part of a town lot, whether there be or be not buildings thereon, a sum not exceeding three fourths of a cent in. the dollar, on their full real value, as entered in the valuation roll of the said city; but no land under cultivation or leased as a farm within the limits of the said city, shall be taxed by virtue of this act, except the lot on which the buildings shall be erected, which shall be valued together with such buildings; and the said city council shall have power to cause to be added to the valuation roll, at any time, any part of such land under cultivation, which shall have been detached from it as a town lot, and shall thus have. become liable to assessment, after the closing of the valuation roll, and, to exact the tax, as on other pieces of land entered on the said roll." "2. On every proprietor or possessor of the following movable property, a sum not exceeding one cent in the dollar, according to the value hereinafter specified: Every stallion shall be rated at four hundred dollars; Every horse above the age of three years, and kept for the ordinary purposes of any house, at one hundred dollars; Every covered carriage with four wheels and two seats, at two hundred dollars; Every open carriage with four wheels and two seats, at one hundred dollars; Every gig or light waggon with one seat, at fifty dollars; Every two horses sleigh, at one hundred dollars; Every winter or summer vehicle-used solely for drawing Exemptions. loads, and all vehicles commonly called draught or work vehicles, as well as all farm stock, and all implements used for agricultural purposes, shall be exempt from any tax whatever ;. 3. On every stock in trade or on all goods kept by mer- Stock in chants or traders, and exposed for sale on shelves in tride. shops, or kept in store-houses, hangards or yards, a tax of fifty cents on every hundred dollars of the estimated average value of such stock in trade or goods; 4. On each tenant paying rent in the said city, an Tenants. annual sum equivalent to five cents in the dollar on. the amount of his rent; 5. On each male inhabitant of the age of twenty-one Personal. years or upwards, who shall have resided in the said city for six months, and not being a proprietor, nor tenant, nor student, nor apprentice, nor a domestic servant, an annual sum of one dollar; 6. On every person, having or keeping a dog or dogs in the said city, an annual sum of two dollars for each dog; Dogs. 7. On every person, having or keeping a bitch or Bitches. bitches.in the said city, an annual sum of five dollars for each bitch." 94. The workmen of all arts, mechanics and trades Division of exercised in the said city shall be divided into two workmen, classes; the first shall comprise all the shop-masters employing four hands or more, and contractors and undertakers, and the second all other workmen. Those of the first class shall be taxed annually at five dollars, and those of the second class, at one dollar." iiberal professions. "95. Any person keeping an office in the said city and Taxes on practising as an advocate, or physician, or land surveyor, or notary, or dentist, or surgeon, or oculist, or any other liberal profession, shall be taxed at the sum of five dollars annually." 2. Section ninety-one of the said act is amended 34 V., c. 39, s. by adding after the world "loan," in the second line, the 91, amended. following words: "nor engage the liability of the ratepayers for any sum exceeding eight thousand dollars." 3. The following paragraph is added to section s. 47, amendforty-seven of the said act: ed. council. "No member of the council shall take part in the discus- Interested sion of any question in which he has a personal interest. member of The council in case of dispute shall decide whether the member has or has not a personal interest in the question ; and such member has no right to vote on the ques tion of his interest. This paragraph shall not apply to the appointment of the head of the council, nor to the naming of committees." 4. Section eleven of the said act is repealed, and the following substituted therefor: "11. The following persons shall not be appointed to, nor occupy municipal offices : 1. Minors; 2 Persons in religious orders and ministers of any religious denomination; 3. Members of the Privy Council; 4. The Judges of the Supreme Court, the Court of Queen's Bench, the Superior and Vice-Admiralty Courts, district or police magistrates and sheriffs; 5. Officers of Her Majesty's army or navy on full pay, and the officers and men of the provincial or local police; 6. Keepers of taverns, hotels or houses of public entertainment, or persons who have acted as such, within the preceding. twelve months; 7. Persons responsible for city funds; 8. The. deputies or clerks employed at any election under this act, when they shall be thus employed; 9. Whosoever shall not have his domicile or place of business within the limits of the said city, shall be incapable of exercising any municipal office in the city; 10. Whoever shall receive any money or other consideration from the corporation for his services, or 'shall have directly or indirectly, by himself or by his partner, any contract or an interest in any contract, with the corporation, cannot be appointed a member of the council of such corporation nor act as such. Nevertheless a shareholder in any incorporated company which shall have any contract or agreement with the corporation, shall not be incapable of acting as a member of the council of such corporation. The word "contract" in this section shall not apply to the lease, sale or purchase of lands, nor to any loan of money, nor any agreement connected with any of these acts." 5. The thirteenth section of the said act is amended by striking out, in the second and third lines thereof, the words "male inhabitants, freeholders, residing in the said city," and substituting therefor the words:" male proprietors," and also by striking out in the seventh line thereof the words: " reside and. " 6. The fourteenth section of the said act is repealed and the following is substituted therefor: "14. Electors shall not vote except at the poll of the ward in which they are qualified as such; If an elector is qualified to vote in more than one ward, he may vote for the election of councillors in each ward in which he is thus qualified. .If any one is in possession as proprietor in the city, of lands situated in different wards and insufficient separately to qualify him to vote in any particular ward,he may vote for the election of mayor, and for the election of councillors in the ward in which he shall reside; provided that the total value of such lands united, shall be sufficient to qualify him as a municipal elector according to the requirements of this act. 7. Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the city Preferential council of the city of St. Hyacinthe may, in contracting debentures. any loan in conformity with sections 89, 90 and 91 of the act of this province 34 Vict., chapter 39, issue for such purpose, on the credit of the corporation, preferential debentures for an amount.not exceeding thirty thousand Limited in dollars, the capital, interest and sinking fund whereof amount. shall be payable out of the revenues of the corporation, before those of any other debenture now issued by the council of the said city and not yet redeemed;. And all such preferential debentures together with the coupons thereto annexed, shall contain, in addition to the statements required by the sections hereinabove cited, a notice of their priority in rank over all other debentures previously issued. Such debentures shall be redeemable in thirty years, Sinking fund, and a sinking fund of one per centum per annum shall be established, to effect and secure their redemption. 8. This act shall come into force on the day of the Act in force. sanction thereof. CAP. LI. An act to amend the act incorporating the city of [Assented to 28th December, 1876.]. THEREAS it is desirable to amend the act of the Preamble. W Legislature of Quebec, passed in the thirty-eighth year of Her Majesty's reign and intituled: "an act to amend and consolidate the act of incorporation of the city of Three Rivers, and the various acts which amend the same; "Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 38 V., c 76, s. 8, amended. Poll clerk. Deputy. pre and poll 1. The following words are added to section eight of the act hereby amended; that is to say: "and each such deputy of the officer presiding over the elections, shall immediately by a commission under his hand and seal according to form A, appoint a competent person as a poll clerk to assist him in the execution of his duties; which clerk, before acting as such, shall take and subscribe before the officer presiding over the election or the deputy who has appointed him, or before a justice of the peace, the oath set forth in form B, and each such clerk shall be held and obliged to aid and assist the deputy presiding officer and obey his orders." 2. If any deputy of the officer presiding over the elections siding officers or clerks of the said deputies should die, or if he be preclerks incom- vented from fulfilling the duties of his office by sickness, petent to act absence or other cause, or should he refuse to accept such 8. 14, amended. office or to fulfil the duties thereof, the officer presiding over the elections shall immediately appoint another doputy or the deputy shall appoint another clerk to replace the deputy or clerk in default. 3. Section 14 of the said act hereby amended is repealed and annulled and the municipal elections in the said city shall be in future held as follows: on the last Tuesday in June in each year, or on the following day.if such Tuesday is not a juridical day, at least twenty-five municipal electors, duly qualified, shall deposit in the hands of the Municipal secretary-treasurer of the said city in his office, before four elections; of the clock in the afternoon, a nomination in writing date; nomination. signed by them, of the person whom they intend to propose as a candidate at the said election for mayor, and at least fifteen municipal electors duly qualified to vote in any ward of the said city, shall also, before four of the clock in the afternoon, deposit in the hands of the said secretary-treasurer a nomination in writing signed by them, of two, persons whom they intend to propose to be candidates respectively, at the said election for alderman and councillor for the said ward, in the case in which it shall in that year be necessary to elect both an alderman and councillor for such ward; and the said se-Receipt and cretary-treasurer shall be obliged to give over a receipt for notice of sec.- each nomination paper, and shall notify the officer presiding over the election of the names and surnames of the persons who have thus been nominated, and if there has been Acclamation, only one candidate nominated for the office of mayor, the said officer presiding over the election shall proclaim him duly elected, on the first Monday of July following, at nine of the clock in the morning, at the door of the cityhall; and if several candidates for the mayoralty have been nominated, polling shall be opened; in each treas. |