and payable at the time of such sale; but he shall not be liable for any instalment becoming payable after such sale; but the owner of the land at the time such subsequent instalment becomes payable shall be liable therefor. (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the lien of the city upon the property, which shall continue, and may be enforced, notwithstanding any such sale. extinguished. 18. The owner of any land liable for the laying of any lien, how pavement may, at any time, pay the full amount of such liability, with interest actually accrued, to the collector, who shall give a receipt therefor, and upon the same being countersigned by the Mayor, the lien for the same shall be extinguished, and an entry to that effect shall be made in the books of the collector. Council. 19. The collector shall keep a separate account of all Report to moneys due for the laying of pavement, and shall annually report to the Council (a) The owners of properties liable therefor, and the (b) The amount due in respect to each property; and (c) The amount paid in respect to each property. 20. The Council may direct that any street, or any por-Street, how tion of any street, may be paved, either under the provisions paved, of the City Charter, sections 574 to 576, or under the provisions of chapter 60 of the Acts of 1906, notwithstanding that no petition has been presented to the Council praying that such paving may be done, and all the other provisions of the said Acts respectively shall apply to any paving so done. 21. (1) Upon the presentation to the Council of a Opening streets. petition signed by the persons owning not less than twothirds of the property fronting on any street, which, though opened and in use, has not been accepted by the Council, praying that such street may be accepted as a street by the Council, and that the same may be graded by the city at the cost of the owners of the properties fronting thereon, the Council may refer the matter of the petition to the engineer for report thereon. Street vested. Money, how borrowed. Plan. (2) The engineer shall report to the Council (a) Whether, in his opinion, it is desirable that such streets shall be accepted by the city; and (b) The cost of grading the same. (3) The Council, on consideration of such report, shall decide whether or not to accept the street, or any part thereof, and to grade the same at the cost of the owners of the properties fronting thereon. 22. If the Council decides to accept the street, or any part thereof, and to grade the same, at the cost of such owners, the said street, or part thereof, shall thereupon vest in the city in fee simple, without further conveyance or dedication, and the committee on works shall thereupon execute the work of grading the same. 23. The money requisite to defray the cost of any such grading may be borrowed by the treasurer from a bank, on the request of the committee on works, and the amount so spent, with interest thereon, shall be repaid to the city by the owners of properties fronting on the street, or portion so graded in proportion to their respective frontages thereon. 24. (1) Upon the completion of the work of grading, the city engineer shall make a plan of the street, or part thereof, so graded, showing the frontage thereon of each property, and the name of the owner of each property. He shall also make a list of the owners of such properties, with the frontage of each property, and the amount due in respect to each property, and shall file such plan and list in his office. (2) Upon such plan and list being completed, and filed, the same shall, in any action or proceedings, be conclusive evidence of the liability to the city of every person named therein, in respect to each property of which he is stated to be the owner, for the amount stated in respect to each such property. (3) Any such plan or list may be amended from time to time by the city engineer, and any such amendment shall in like manner be conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein. (4) The engineer shall furnish the city collector and the city assessors with copies of every such list or amendment thereof, with the date of filing in the office of the city engineer, endorsed thereon. property. 25. The amount specified in any such list as payable in Lien on respect to any property, shall, from the date of the filing of the plan and list, constitute and be a lien on such property, prior to any lien or encumbrance thereon, except those by law created in favor of the city, and the same shall become due and payable at the expiry of one month from the date of such filing, and, together with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, may be enforced and collected in the same manner, and with the same rights and remedies, as the rates and taxes upon real property. Acts of 1906, amended. 26. (1) Sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 10 of chap- Chapter 65, ter 65 of the Acts of 1906 are hereby repealed, and the following substituted : (1) The total amount for which any person is liable, (2) To the first of such instalments shall be added (2) The repeal of the said sub-sections shall not relieve any person or property from any liability already accrued or accruing due. 27. (1) Sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 604 are Section 604 hereby repealed, and the following substituted : (1) The total amount for which any person is liable amended. Sum for advertising city. "City Home.' Right-of-way for firemen. by the engineer, and one on each succeeding thirtyfirst day of May, after the first so succeeding, until the whole is paid. (2) To the first of such instalments shall be added the interest at six per cent. on the amount due, in respect to the property, from the date of the filing of the engineer's plan and list, and to each succeeding instalment shall be added the interest at six per cent. on the amount of principal then remaining unpaid. (2) The repeal of the said sub-sections shall not relieve any person or property from any liability already accrued or accruing due. 28. (1) The Council may expend a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) a year in diffusing information respecting the advantages of the city as a manufacturing and residential centre, and the amount proposed to be so expended shall be included in the amount rated upon the inhabitants, and collected therewith. (2) The Council may, by a two-thirds vote, expend an amount not exceeding the further sum of five hundred dollars in aiding a steamboat to ply on Halifax harbor and adjoining waters during the summer months for the accommodation of tourists and other passengers, such aid to be given on such conditions as the Council determines. 29. The building and property heretofore known and designated as the "City Poors' Asylum," shall hereafter be known and designated as the "City Home," and any enactment, ordinance, or regulation made in respect to the said building and property, by the name of the "City Poors' Asylum," shall continue to apply thereto under the name of the "City Home." 30. The officers and men of the fire department of the city, when going to any fire with the engines or other apparatus, shall have the right-of-way on any street, and any person who wilfully or negligently obstructs or retards the passage of any such engine or apparatus shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, and in default of payment, to imprisonment for a period not to exceed three months. 31. (1) The Citizens' Free Library shall be managed Free library. by a board of nine commissioners, to be known and designated as the library commission instead of the library committee, as heretofore. (2) The board shall be composed of six aldermen, to be appointed annually by the Council, and three ratepayers of the city, not members of the Council, who shall be appointed by the Council and shall hold office for three years and shall be eligible for re-appointment. (3) Any vacancy occurring on the commission shall be filled by the Council for the unexpired term. (4) The commission shall elect its own chairman, (5) The mayor, the chairman of the finance committee and the auditor shall be a board of trustees, to hold in trust any funds or property bequeathed or presented for the maintenance or improvement of the library. (6) At the next ensuing time for the appointment of civic officials the mayor shall nominate, for the approval of the Council, the six aldermen who are to be members of the commission, and also the three members not members of the Council, one for the term of three years, one for two years and one for one year; and thereafter the three members not aldermen shall be appointed for the term of three years each. to Edward 32. The treasurer may pay out of any funds available Compensation the sum of one hundred ($100.00) dollars to Edward Bren- Brennan. nan, in full compensation and discharge for the loss and damage sustained by him by reason of the overflow of a sewer into the cellar of his property on Birmingham street, and the said amount, with any interest paid thereon by the city, shall be included in the amount rated upon the inhabitants in the ensuing fiscal year and collected therewith. land. 33. (1) The city may purchase or expropriate, in the May expropriate manner provided in the City Charter, the property situated on Bedford Basin, and described as follows: "Bounded on the northeast by Gottingen street, on the southeast and southwest by the property of the city, and on the northwest by Bedford Basin, excepting therefrom so much thereof as is occupied by Campbell road, the Intercolonial Railway and the Halifax and South Western Railway." |