Remaining sum of $100,000, how appropriated.

appointed.

fitted with plant adequate for equipping such hulls with engines, boilers and machinery, and such sum may be paid to any person, firm or corporation constructing and establishing such yard, plant and shop upon the completion of such yard and shop to the satisfaction of the city council.

3. The remaining one hundred thousand dollars of such sum shall be expended by the city council as a subsidy to encourage the building and equipment within the limits of the city of Halifax of the hulls and machinery of steel or iron ships, by fraying to the builders or contractors of each iron or steel sailing ship completed and launched in the harbor of Halifax the sum of two dollars per ton, and to the builders or contractors of each iron or steel steamship completed and launched in the harbor of Halifax the sum of five dollars per gross ton for each ton fully completed and equipped with engines and machinery manufactured in the city of Halifax, provided that such expenditure shall not exceed the total sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for any one year.

Commission, how 4. A commission of seven members shall be appointed, consisting of the mayor, three members to be appointed by the city council and three members appointed by the council of the board of trade for the city, who shall have authority to negotiate with any persons, companies or corporation wishing to undertake the construction, erection and maintenance of said respective works, and to prepare terms and conditions upon which the said subsidies may be granted, and submit the same to the city council for their approval and confirmation. And any site selected for the establishment of such yard and shop shall be subject to the approval of the commission.

Act, when to come into force.

Proclamation not to be made until

5. This Act shall not come into force until a proclamation declaring the same to be in force has been made by the Governor-in-Council and published in the Royal Gazette.

6. Such proclamation shall not be made until fiveafter vote taken, eighths of the electors of Halifax who vote upon the questions hereby submitted to them have expressed themselves in favor of the Act in the manner hereby provided.

Voting to be by ballot.

7. The voting upon such questions shall be by ballot at the election for mayor and aldermen for the city of Halifax to be held on the last Wednesday of April, 1901, and every elector entitled to vote at such election shall be entitled to vote upon such questions.

taking vote

held.

8. If in any ward of the city no election for mayor or Provision for alderman is held at such date, the city of Halifax shall where no election provide a suitable place in such ward in which the vote upon such questions may be taken, and appoint one or more officials to receive and conduct the voting in such place, and any official so appointed shall be entitled to the same remuneration as that paid to the corresponding official in the case of an election for mayor or alderman, and be possessed of the like powers and privileges.

9. No person shall vote more than once on the said Person shall only questions.

10. The ballot papers for the voting upon such questions shall be in the form "A" in the schedule to this Act, and shall be furnished by the city of Halifax to the presiding officer appointed for the said election or under this Act.

vote once.

Ballot papers.

ing officer.

11. It shall be the duty of every such presiding officer to Duty of presid ask every elector voting at his polling station for mayor or alderman if he wishes for vote upon such questions and to tender him a ballot paper for that purpose.

specting polling

12. Every polling station at such election shall be pro- Provision revided with a place screened from observation, in which the stations, voter may mark his ballot paper, and with pencils for that purpose.

when to mark

13. The presiding officer shall, upon the request of any Presiding officer, voter, explain to such voter the mode of marking his ballot ballot paper. paper.

Provision as to

votes by illiterate

14. Any voter who is unable, through blindness or illiteracy, or other cause, may, upon making oath to such persons, etc. inability, which oath may be in the form "B" in the schedule, have his ballot paper marked for him by the presiding officer.

void.

15. If any voter places on the ballot paper more than Ballots, when one mark, or any mark by which he may be identified, his ballot paper shall be void and shall not be counted.

16. The city of Halifax shall furnish each presiding Ballot boxes. officer with a separate ballot box, in which the ballots cast upon the questions hereby submitted to a voter shall be deposited.

Duty of presid

ing officer at close of poll.

City clerk to

make return.

Publication of

17. At the close of the poll the presiding officer shall count the ballots cast, and the number marked in the affirmative for each of the questions submitted, and the number marked in the negative for each of such questions, and the ballots when counted shall be placed in the ballot box and returned to the city clerk of the city of Halifax.

18. Immediately upon such vote having been taken the city clerk shall make a return to the Provincial Secretary shewing

(a) The total number of ballots cast;

(b) The number who have voted upon each question in the affirmative, and

(c) The number who have voted on each question in the negative.

19. If it appears from such return that five-eighths of whole Act being the voters who have voted have answered both of the

proclamation of

in force.

Proclamation de

claring part of Act only in

force.

questions in the affirmative the Provincial Secretary shall forthwith make and publish in the Royal Gazette a proclamation declaring the whole Act to be in force.

20. If it appears from such return that five-eighths of the voters who have voted have answered one of the questions in the affirmative, and the other in the negative, the Provincial Secretary shall forthwith make and publish in the Royal Gazette a proclamation declaring so much of the Act to be in force as authorizes the city of Halifax to borrow the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to be applied

(a) If the question answered in the affirmative is the one marked I. in the form of ballot paper, to the establishment within the city of a ship-building plant in the manner specified in this Act; or

(b) If the question so answered is the one marked II. in the ballot paper, to a subsidy to steel ships and steamers built in the said city of the amounts and in the manner specified in this Act.

If in favor, mark a cross X" in the column "Yes,' if against, in the column "No."

I.... of the city of Halifax, make oath and say that I am unable through (blindness, inability to read and write, or other cause, as the case may be,) to mark my own ballot, and require the assistance of the presiding officer for that purpose. So help me God.

CHAPTER 60.

An Act to enable the City of Halifax to Borrow Money.

City of Halifax

authorized to

and issue debentures.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. (1) The city of Halifax may borrow on the credit borrow $25,000, of the city the sum of $25,000, to be applied to the extension of the water service, and the sum so borrowed shall form part of the consolidated fund of the city of Halifax, in addition to the amount mentioned in chapter 24 of the Acts of the legislature of Nova Scotia of 1880, and any Act in amendment thereof, and debentures shall be issued by the city, and shall form a lien and be a charge on the real estate, revenue and property of the city of Halifax, and shall not be liable to any city rates or taxation.

City of Halifax authorized to

fire

(2) A sum sufficient to pay the interest on the money so borrowed shall be added to and included in the general rates and taxes of the city, and shall be rated annually on the property of the ratepayers liable to taxation, and be levied and collected at the same time, in the same manner, and with the same remedies, as the other rates and taxes of the city of Halifax.

2. The city of Halifax may also borrow on the credit of borrow $2,200.00 the city the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, for for purchase of the purpose of purchasing fire hose for the fire department. The sum so borrowed shall be repaid with interest in four annual instalments, and a sum sufficient to pay such annual instalment and interest shall be added to and included in the general rates and taxes of the city for the year 1902 and the three succeeding years, and shall be rated on the property of the ratepayers liable to assessment, and be levied and collected at the same time, in the same manner, and with the same remedies, as the other rates and taxes of the city of Halifax.

Purchase of steam roller

3. The balance remaining of the money borrowed by the city of Halifax for the purchase of a steam roller may be expended by the city in repairs to such roller.