6. (1) The said town council shall annually add to the Sinking fund. general assessment of said town such sum as said council may determine, not, however, in any case to be less than -one per cent. of the amount borrowed under this Act, and such sum shall be rated annually upon the property within said town of the ratepayers of the town liable to taxation, and shall be rated, levied and collected in the same manner and with the same remedies as other or ordinary town rates and taxes. (2) Such sums, when so collected, shall be deposited in some chartered bank in the province of Nova Scotia, or in some agency of such bank, to the credit of an account to be called "Town of Liverpool Public Square and Town Building Sinking Fund Account," on deposit, bearing interest, and shall, with interest thereon, be used towards paying off the debentures issued under this Act, and for no other purpose. (3) Any member of said town council who shall move, second, put or support by his vote any motion, resolution or proposal under or in pursuance of which any portion or the whole of the moneys so directed to be held as a sinking fund, shall be diverted to any other object, shall forfeit his seat in the council and shall be liable to a penalty of four hundred dollars, to be collected at the instance of any ratepayer who may sue therefor, and one-half of said penalty shall be for the benefit of the person so prosecuting, and the other half shall be paid into the treasury of the said town. Under authority of Acts of the legislature of Nova Scotia, chapter 125, A. D., 1901. The bearer hereof is entitled to receive from the town of Liverpool, in the county of Queens, province of Nova Scotia, the sum of .dollars, lawful money of Canada, in years from the date hereof, and interest for the same from same date, at the rate of per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, at the office of the town clerk and treasurer of the said town of Liverpool, as per the interest warrants or coupons hereto attached. Dated at Liverpool, N. S., the [L. S.] .... day of... Mayor. Town cour. cil authorized to CHAPTER 126. An Act respecting the town of Liverpool in reference to its (Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901). SECTION 1. Town council authorized to issue further debentures for completion of Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. In addition to the debenture issue authorized by issue further de. chapter 117 of the Acts of 1889, as amended by chapter bentures for com- 100 of the Acts of 1900, and in addition also to pletion of electric light system. the debenture issue authorized by chapter 101 of the Acts of 1900, (in all not to exceed nineteen thousand dollars) the town council of the town of Liverpool may issue a further debenture or further debentures of the town over and above the said amount, in all, of nineteen thousand dollars, under the provisions of and for the purposes contemplated in said chapter 117, in respect to or for the purpose of completing the electric light system of said town of Liverpool, or for paying for any lands or rights acquired or proposed to be acquired for the purpose of completing said system, or for other expenditures or liabilities in any way made, incurred or required with a view to the completing of said electric light system, to an amount not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, when and in case such further expenditure and issue (not to exceed fifteen hundred) shall have been approved by a majority of the ratepayers at a public meeting of the ratepayers of the town of Liverpool convened under or as provided by The Towns' Incorporation Act, and section 143 (1), (2) and (3), and section 144 thereof. CHAPTER 127. An Act to establish an additional Polling District in the Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: No. 14 estab. 1. That portion of polling district No. 4, in the county Polling district of Richmond, described as follows: Beginning at the outlet lished. of Little River, and following the said river to the main road leading from Port Richmond to Cleveland; thence following the said road to the Sydney post road at Cleveland, and continuing to the Inverness county line, west of the residence of John C. McLeod; thence westerly by the said county line to the waters of the harbor of Hawkesbury; thence by the waters of the said harbor, the waters of the Strait of Canso, the waters of Port Malcolm, and Port Richmond, to the place of beginning; is hereby constituted a separate polling district, and shall be described as polling district No. 14. councillor. 2. The said polling district shall return a municipal Election of councillor at and after the next general election of councillors for the municipality of Richmond, and the polling place Polling place. shall be at or near Robert J. Proctor's, Port Malcolm. district 4 to re 3. The remainder of said district No. 4 shall be a polling Remainder of district known as polling district No. 4, and shall return a turn a councillor. municipal councillor for the municipality of Richmond county as heretofore returned by district No. 4 as existing previous to the passage of this Act. electors. 4. As soon as convenient after the passing of this Act, Municipal clerk the clerk of the municipality of Richmond shall prepare to prepare lists of from the last revisers' list of electors for the polling district hereby divided, one separate list for each of the polling districts hereby created, the list for each such district to contain the names of the electors residing in each district at the time of the passing of this Act. The names of non resident electors shall be placed in the list for the district. in which their property is situate. After such lists are prepared, and on or before the first day of September next,. the said clerk shall post a copy of each list in one public place in each district hereby created and file another copy in his office, and the said clerk shall have power to correct any mistake in said list at any time before the first day of October next. The lists so prepared shall be for all purposes the lists of voters for the said districts. Appointment of 5. The municipal council at the May meeting shall presiding officer. appoint a presiding officer for the polling district hereby created, and such presiding officer shall have all the rights and powers as if appointed at the January meeting of said council. Polling district No. 14 to be a 6. The said district number 14 shall be a polling district pelling district at for the purpose of the election of members for the House of bers of House of Assembly, and for all municipal purposes. election of mem Assembly and municipal pur poses. CHAPTER 128. Section of cap. An Act to amend Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1899, entitled,. SECTION. (Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901). I. Section of chapter 122, Acts of 1899, SECTION. 2. Force and effect of amendment. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Section 1 of chapter 122 of the Acts of 1899 is 122, Acts of 1899 amended by adding thereto the following clause: amended. "Provided further that no such compensation shall be dueor payable to the owners of any of such lands unless and until a petition, signed by at least twenty freeholders of the said town, has been presented to the said council, praying that such lands be taken for the purpose of a street or streets, and the commissioners of streets for the said town, acting under a resolution of the said, council, have actually taken such lands for such purpose and laid out according to the said plan a street or streets, including said lands within the lines thereof." of amendment. 2. This amendment shall have the same force and effect Force and effect as if passed at the time of the said Act, Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1899, and shall in all respects be considered a part of said Act, provided that no action now pending shall be affected thereby. CHAPTER 129. An Act to Consolidate School Sections Nos. 10, 101⁄2 and 36, District of Argyle, and to provide a Board of Trustees for the School Section so created. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: district of Argyle, 1. The following school sections, that is to say, North School sections Belleville, number 10; Middle Belleville, number 36; and 36 and 10/2, South Belleville, number 10, all in the district of Argyle, consolidated. are hereby united and consolidated into one school section under the name of Belleville school section, number 10, in the district of Argyle. meeting. 2. The first annual school meeting of the said section First annual shall be held in the school house in Middle Belleville, and shall be called by the inspector in accordance with the provisions of "The Education Act" The inspector shall be chairman of such first annual meeting. first annual 3. (1.) At such first annual meeting three trustees shall Proceedings at be elected, one of whom shall be a ratepayer residing within meeting. the boundaries of the former school section of North Belleville, and shall be elected by the ratepayers residing within such boundaries; one a ratepayer residing within the boundaries of the former school section of Middle Belleville |