Exchange for Tully property. Stayner's wharf, Islesville Workshops and stables. Night soil. (2) When the city has obtained the said property it may close up so much of the Campbell road as passes through the same, and divert the said road to pass to the south of the track of the Intercolonial Railway, and, if need be, expropriate any land required for such diversion. 34. The city may acquire the land requisite for the construction of buildings to be given to the Dominion government in exchange for the property and buildings known as the Fuel Yard, and for the land and buildings required to be taken for the extension south of Brunswick street, and may, on any land so acquired, erect buildings and transfer such land and buildings to the Dominion government in exchange for the said Fuel Yard, and for the land required for the extension of Brunswick street. 35. The city may purchase the property on Bedford Basin known as the "Tully property." 36. The city may purchase the property known as "Stayner's Wharf," and may thereafter lease the same, together with the dock and slip at present occupied by the Dartmouth Ferry Commission, and the wharf property to the south thereof, to the Dartmouth Ferry Commission for such period and for such rent and on such terms and conditions as the Council determines. 37. The city may sell the property known as the Islesville engine house, and the proceeds thereof shall be transferred to the general sinking fund. 38. The city may apply any moneys realized by the sale of the lands and buildings on Tower road, known as the old Exhibition Building, to the purchase of lands for erection of city work shops and stables, and to the construction of such workshops and stables thereon. 39. The City Health Board may yearly expend a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) in providing pits or receptacles for the deposit of night soil and other refuse matter, and such amount shall be, in addition to the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000), provided by section 790 to be paid to the board, and shall be included in the amount rated upon the inhabitants and property. The amount for the current civic year may be borrowed from a bank, and together with the interest paid thereon, included in the amount rated for the ensuing year. from rates, 40. Any premises occupied by the Seamen's Friendly Exemption Society as a Sailors' Home shall be exempt from rates and taxes, other than water rates, whether the same is or is not the property of that society, and such exemption is hereby declared to apply to the rates heretofore imposed upon any building while so occupied for such purposes. of Assessors. 41. (1) The Council may superannuate Stephen R. Superannuation Phelan, chief assessor, at a yearly allowance of eight hundred ($800.00) dollars; and may also superannuate John P. Cairns, assistant assessor, at a yearly allowance of six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents ($666.66), such allowances to be paid monthly, and the amounts thereof to be included in the amount rated upon the inhabitants and property. (2) If the Council exercises the power to make such superannuations before the next assessment and rating of the city, the amounts payable on such respective allowances may be borrowed from a bank, and together with the interest payable thereon, included in the amount rated for the ensuing civic year. (3) If the Council exercises the power to make such superannuations before the next assessment and rating, and other persons to be respectively chief assessor and assistant assessor, at salaries greater than are now paid to such officials respectively, the city may borrow from a bank the amount requisite to pay such increased salaries for the current civic year, and any amounts so borrowed, with any interest payable thereon, shall be included in the next year's assessment and rating. for revising 42. The city may, by a two-thirds vote of the Council, Compensation pay to Wallace Graham and F. H. Bell, revisors of the City City Charter. Charter, such additional compensation for their services in connection with the work of revision and for supervising the publication thereof, as the Council determines, and the amount required, together with the additional amount requisite to pay for the cost of publishing the said Charter, not to exceed in the whole the sum of two thousand dollars. may be borrowed from a bank, and together with interest thereon be included in the estimates for the next ensuing civic year. School of 43. In the event of the Government of Nova Scotia de- Free site for termining to establish a School of Technology in the city of Technology. Halifax, the Council may, by a two-thirds vote, resolve to Section 143 amended. Superannuation of Nicholas Power. Superannuation paid to widows certain cases. present to the government a suitable site for the establishment of such a school, and if need be, to purchase a site to be so presented, and the money requisite for such purpose may be borrowed by the city and debentures issued therefor under the terms of the Halifax City Consolidated Fund Act, 1905. 44. Section 143, sub-section (5), is amended by striking out the words "two thousand" in the first line of the said sub-section, and substituting therefor the words "twothousand five hundred." 1 45. The Council may, by a two-thirds vote, superannuate Nicholas Power, chief of police, and may pay him as a superannuation allowance a yearly amount equal to that paid to John O'Sullivan, formerly chief of police, and the difference between such yearly amount and the amount which the said Nicholas Power is entitled by law to receive from thePolice Superannuation Fund, shall be included in the amount yearly rated upon the inhabitants and property. 46. (1) If any person in receipt of a pension or superand children in annuation allowance from the Police Superannuation Fund dies while in the receipt of such pension or allowance, leaving a widow or any child under the age of sixteen years, such widow or child shall be entitled to receive from the trustees of the fund the difference, without interest, between the amount contributed to such fund by the deceased person and the amount drawn by him previous to his death. Permission to remove or erect dwellings. (2) The trustees of the said fund shall pay to the widows. of William Collins, Thomas Condon and William Mont, formerly members of the police force, or to any child of such deceased officers, under the age of sixteen years, the amounts, without interest, contributed by such deceased officers respectively to that fund, less such amounts as have been already paid from that fund to such deceased officers. or their widows respectively. 47. (1) No person shall erect any building intended to be used as a dwelling house, or remove from any place any building intended, after such removal, to be used as a dwelling house, or convert into a dwelling house, any building not previously used as a dwelling house (a) On or upon any land which cannot be conveniently connected with any sewer; or (b) Which will not, when so erected or removed, front on a public street; without first obtaining a permit therefor from the City Health Board; and the City Health Board may refuse to grant a permit therefor if, in the opinion of the Board, such building, when so erected, or removed, will be in an unsanitary condition or locality. (2) The application for a permit for any such erection or removal shall be made to the City Health Board within ten days before beginning any work thereon, and the provisions of the City Charter, sections 707 to 710, shall apply thereto, the secretary of the Board being, for the purposes of such permit, substituted for the inspector of buildings. (3) The erection or removal of any such building without such permit, shall be deemed a violation of the provisions of the City Charter in relation to buildings, and the provisions of the said Charter, sections 752 to 757, shall be applicable thereto. buildings. 48. (1) Whenever it appears to the City Health Board that Unsanitary any building, or part of any building, is in such an unsanitary condition as not to be fit to be used as a dwelling house, the Board may require an inspector, or other official of the Board, to report on the same in writing, (2) Any such report shall be transmitted by the Board to the city engineer, who shall further report to the Board the causes of such unsanitary condition and the manner in which the same may be remedied, and whether the same can be remedied by any alteration or improvement in the building, or whether the building, or any part of the same, should be removed or destroyed. Upon the receipt of such report from the city engineer, the Board may appoint a time and place for the consideration of the same, and shall give the owner or agent of the building not less than ten days' notice of the time and place so appointed, furnishing him, at the same time, with copies of the reports of the inspector and engineer; and at the time and place so appointed such owner or agent may appear and be heard respecting the matter of such reports. (3) If no owner or agent of any such building resides within the city, the Board may cause a notice of the intention to consider the unsanitary condition of the building at a time and place therein stated, to be posted on such building, and also publish the same, for not less than two weeks, in a newspaper published in the city of Halifax, by not less than two insertions in each week, and at the expiry of two weeks from the first day of such posting or such publication (whichever happens last), any proceeding in respect to the unsanitary condition of such building may be had and taken ex parte. (4) Upon consideration of the said reports the Board may make such order, in respect to the sanitary condition of the building, as it deems proper, and may order that any alterations or improvements shall be made therein by the owner or agent, and in such case shall furnish the owner or agent with a plan and specification of the repairs or improvements so ordered to be made. (5) If the Board is of opinion that the building cannot be so repaired or altered as to be put into a sanitary condition, it may direct that the owner or agent of the property shall remove or destroy the same. (6) A copy of any order made by the Board directing the repairs, alterations, improvements, removal or destruction of any building in the city of Halifax, shall be served upon the owner or agent, if resident in the city, or mailed to him if not so resident, and his address is known to the Board. (7) If the owner or agent of the building fails to comply with any order of the Board requiring him to repair or alter any such building, for one month after the same has been made, the Board may cause the said building to be vacated and closed, and may compel the removal of any person therefrom, and cause such building to remain vacant until the order of the Board is complied with, and such owner or agent shall also, for each day on which such failure to comply continues, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month. (8) If the owner or agent of any building which the Board has ordered to be removed or destroyed, fails to comply with such order for one month, the Board may remove or destroy the same, and any such building or the material thereof, may be sold and the proceeds applied to defray the expenses of removal or destruction, and any balance of such expense remaining shall be a lein on the property on which such building stood, and shall be added to the next yearly |