Municipal clerk to give notice. Powers of board of revision and appeal. appointed at the last meeting of the council of such municipality under the provisions of "The Municipal Assessment Act, 1895," for the purpose of equalizing the assessment in said county and for hearing appeals from such assessment. 2. The municipal clerk shall give such notice of the said meeting as seems to him sufficient. 3. The board of revision and appeal at such meeting shall perform all the duties and exercise all the powers, with respect to the assessment upon which the rates and taxes for the year 1901 are based, which are imposed and conferred upon them by "The Assessment Act," chapter 73of the Revised Statutes, 1900, notwithstanding any irregularity in the time or manner of their appointment, and notwithstanding that such duties and powers have not been performed at the times and in the manner prescribed. by law. Section 2, cap. repealed, and CHAPTER 109. An Act to amend Chapter 82 of the Acts of 1900, entitled, Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Section 2 of chapter 82 of the Acts of 1900 and the 82, Acts of 1000, section thereby substituted for section 8 of chapter 83 of following sub the Acts of 1888, are hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor : stituted, 2. It shall not be necessary in appraising the damages for the lands taken for the said railway track and appurtenances in the county of Inverness to adopt the procedure in chapter 53, Revised Statutes, fifth series, or that in chapter 70, Revised Statutes, third series, but instead thereof the same shall be appraised and determined in the following manner :— (1) The municipal council of Inverness shall divide the whole line of railway from Port Hawkesbury to Cheticamp into appraisal districts of not less than ten miles in length. (2) The municipal council of Inverness shall appoint an arbitrator for the whole line of railway, the judge of the county court for district number six shall appoint another arbitrator, who shall not be a resident or taxpayer or otherwise interested in the said appraisement in the municipality of Inverness, for the whole line of railway, and the proprietors of land damaged in each appraisal district shall appoint an arbitrator for the damages in respect to that district, and the damages in respect to each district shall be appraised by the arbitrator for that district together with the two arbitrators for the whole line of railway, and the award in writing of any two of such arbitrators in any case shall be final and conclusive, and shall have effect to all intents and purposes as if made by arbitrators under and by virtue of the chapter of the Revised Statutes, " Of Railways." (3) The warden of the municipality of Inverness shall appoint a time and place within each appraisal district for the proprietors through whose land the line of railway has been laid out to meet for the purposes of this Act, at which meeting he shall preside, and such notice shall be given by handbills posted in the appraisal district for at least two weeks before the day of meeting, and the person chosen by the majority of the said proprietors present at such meeting either in person or by proxy, shall be the arbitrator for that appraisal district, and the warden shall sign a certificate to be filed with the clerk of the municipality of such appointment. cease to hold 2. Immediately upon the coming into force of this Act Arbitrators to the arbitrators appointed by the municipal council and by office. the judge of the county court under the section hereby repealed, shall cease to hold office, and all power and authority thereby conferred upon them shall cease and determine, but any arbitrator appointed for any appraisal section may continue to act as such notwithstanding such Provision in case repeal, and it shall not be necessary to re-divide the line of of arbitrator ap railway into appraisal districts or to re-appoint an arbi-pointed for ap praisal section. trator for any appraisal district unless the arbitrator heretofore appointed is dead or unable or unwilling longer to act. Validity of award 3. Nothing in this Act shall affect the validity of any not to be affect award in respect to which the compensation thereby ed. Provision respecting any awarded has been paid. But in any case in which the same has not been paid either the municipality or the proprietor of the land affected may apply to the arbitrators for a re-appraisement, and the arbitrators may make such re-appraisement, and if the amount of compensation awarded on such re-appraisement is different from that originally awarded, then the amount of such re-appraisement shall be the amount of compensation for damages in respect to such land. 4. Except as in this Act otherwise provided, nothing in this Act and in the repeal hereby effected shall affect anysuffered under thing done or suffered under the section hereby repealed. thing done or section repealed. Name of settle CHAPTER 110. An Act to change the name of a Settlement in the County of Inverness. (Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901). SECTION 1. Name of settlement changed. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. The settlement in the county of Inverness, hitherto ment changed. known as Victoria Line" shall hereafter be known as 66 66 Gladstone." CHAPTER 111. An Act to amend Chapter 86 of the Acts of 1900, entitled, (Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901). SECTION I. Section 2, chapter 86, Acts of 1900, amended. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 86, Acts of 1900, 1. Section 2 of chapter 86 of the Acts of 1900, is hereby Section 2, cap. amended by inserting between the words "appraiser" and amended. within in the seventeenth line thereof the words, on behalf of said owners, the town council shall appoint a second appraiser." CHAPTER 112. Au Ac to enable the Trustees of School Section Number 7, in the County of Inverness, to borrow Money. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Judique school 1. The trustees of Judique school section, No. 7, in the Trustees of county of Inverness, are hereby authorized to borrow on section authoriz debentures a sum not exceeding four hundred dollars, for building a new school house. ed to borrow. of, etc. 2. Such debentures shall be issued under the hands of Debentures, form the trustees of said school section, and shall be countersigned by the secretary of the trustees, and shall be in the form in the schedule A" to this Act, and shall be for forty dollars, and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and shall extend over a period not exceeding ten years, and the same when issued shall be a charge on all the real and personal property liable to be rated for school purposes for the said school section in said -county. Trustees author ized to assess. 3. The trustees for the time being of said school section shall, and they are hereby authorized so to do, assess upon said section in addition to the amount assessed upon said school section for school purposes each year, a sum sufficient to pay the interest on the principal, or such part thereof as may from year to year be still due and payable, and a yearly instalment for repayment of said principal of $40.00, which instalment shall be applied each year by said trustees towards the payment of said loan and for no other purpose. No... $... SCHEDULE A. Transferable. Under authority of an Act of the legislature of Nova Scotia The bearer hereof is entitled to receive from the Judique school section, No. 7, in the county of Inverness, province of Nova Scotia, the sum of forty dollars, of lawful money of Canada, in years from the date hereof, and interest for the same at the rate of per centum per annum, payable yearly at the office of the secretary of the school trustees for said section. Dated at Judique, in the county of Inverness and provinceaforesaid, this ... day of ... A. D., 1901 Secretary.. Trustees. Preambles CHAPTER 113. An Act to authorize the Municipal Council of Kings. Whereas, the municipality of the municipality of Kings county, by resolution passed at the January session of the said council for the year 1900, did authorize the committee of the said council on public property to sell or lease a lot of land at Canning, in the county of Kings, |