Section 221 re the chief of police the further sum of ten dollars for costs; and any money paid to the chief of police under the subsection shall be subject to the order of the court or the stipendiary magistrate in chambers. Section 221. By repealing this section and substituting lowing substitut- the following: pealed and fol ed. Section 342 amended by adding section. Section 650 amended. 221. The pay of the police force shall be as follows; (a) Privates, four hundred dollars for the first year and five hundred and fifty dollars for every year thereafter. (b) Sergeants, six hundred dollars for the first year and six hundred and fifty dollars for every year thereafter. (c) Deputy chief of police, six hundred and forty dollars for the first year and eight hundred dollars for every year thereafter. In addition to the above mentioned sums the members of the force shall be provided with such suits of uniform as the police commission consider necessary. The amounts to be respectively paid by section 221 of the City Charter as amended by this Act shall be paid according to the proper and satisfactory discharge of the duties required of them by the police commission. If the discharge of such duties is not proper and satisfactory to the said commission, then the commission shall have power and authority to make such deduction in pay as is warranted by the dereliction of duty, subject, however, in all cases, to an appeal to the city council by the member of the police force affected. 66 Section 342. By adding the following to this section: An appeal shall lie and be brought in all cases from any assessment made with or without jurisdiction by the city assessors to the court of appeal on assessment for said city, who shall hear and determine the same and give such relief as justice requires. Section 650. By adding at the end of said section the words "and for that purpose an information or complaint may be laid in the name of the city of Halifax by its recorder, and costs on the conviction may be awarded by the judge, and in case there is no conviction the judge may award costs to the defendant." By adding the following section : "The powers vested in the police commission by the City Charter and its amendments are extended to include the making of rules and regulations for the proper government of the police force and the defining of their duties and the proper discharge and enforcement thereof, and all such regulations as the said commission deem necessary for the protection of the citizens and their property." By adding the following section : "Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act of the legislature or any ordinance, by-law or resolution of the city council relating to the city of Halifax, when any city official is required to give security for the performance of his duties or accounting for any money that may come into his hands, the city council may accept the bond or policy of any guarantee company approved of by them instead of or in addition to the bond or security required by the City Charter, and the form, terms and conditions of said bond shall be approved of by said council." The words "chief of police," or in his absence "any police officer present," shall be substituted for "city marshal" wherever the words occur in the rules of council passed by the city council on the 5th day of March, A. D., 1889, and approved by the Governor-in-Council on the 13th day of March, A. D., 1889. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are Inconsistent law hereby repealed. repealed. CHAPTER 56. An Act to amend Chapter 58 of the Acts of 1891, entitled Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Section 798 of city charter amended by adding section.] Section 4, chap. ter 44, repealed and section substituted. 1. Section 798 of the City Charter, chapter 58 of the Acts of 1891, is amended by adding thereto the following sub-section: (17) Licensing and regulating auctioneers, junk dealers and pedlers, and hawkers, and traders of goods who are not ratepayers within the city, with power to discriminate between those who are ratepayers and those who are not as to the amount of the license fee to be charged. 2. Section 4 of chapter 44 of the Acts of 1897 is. repealed, and the following section shall be substituted therefor, and shall be construed in respect to any pending or future election or candidature as if it had been originally part of said chapter 44. "Notwithstanding any provision of the City Charter or any amendment thereof any Alderman who with his written consent is nominated for Mayor shall thereby vacate his office as Alderman. Such written consent shall be filed with the City Clerk with the nomination paper. No such Alderman shall, however, be eligible for election as Mayor of the City unless otherwise qualified. "The election to fill the vacancy caused by such nomination for Mayor shall be held in the manner provided by the sections of the City Charter for the filling of any extraordinary vacancy in the office of Mayor or Alderman." CHAPTER 57. An Act relating to the Public Schools of the City of Halifax. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows; 1. The City of Halifax shall be one school section, and Board of Schooi Commissioners, there shall be twelve commissioners of schools for such powers of, etc. city, appointed, six by the Governor-in-Council, and six by the city council as in this Act provided; and the twelve commissioners thus appointed shall constitute a board of school commissioners for the City of Halifax, and such board shall be a body corporate, under the name of the Board of School Commissioners for the City of Halifax and, subject to the provisions of this Act, shall have all the powers and perform all the duties conferred and imposed upon trustees and commissioners of schools by the Education Act, chapter 52, the Revised Statutes, 1900. of commissioners Governor-in 2. The six commissioners appointed by the Governor- Tenure of office in-Council shall hold office during the period of three years, appointed by the two senior commissioners retiring on the first day of Council. November of each and every year; and the Governor-inCouncil shall appoint two persons to fill the places of the two retiring commissioners, who shall hold office for three years. of commissioners 3. The commissioners appointed by the city council Tenure of office shall likewise hold office during the period of three years, appointed by the two senior commissioners retiring on the first day of city. November in each and every year; and the city council on Re-appointment the first day of November of each year, or as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, shall appoint two persons to hold office for three years, to fill the places of the two retiring commissioners. 4. Any such commissioner, whether appointed by the of commissioners. Governor-in-Council or the city council, shall be eligible for re-appointment to the board for a second term of three years, but not for a third term until the expiration of twelve months from the time of his going out of office. Extraordinary vacancy, how filled. Commissioners, how to act in 5. Any extraordinary vacancy in the board caused by death, resignation, removal from the city, refusal or inability to act, or other causes, shall be filled by a person appointed by the body or authority who shall have appointed the person causing the vacancy, to hold office for the unexpired term of the person so causing such vacancy. 6. If from any cause all or any of the persons to be case of vacancy, appointed either by the Governor-in-Council or by the city council under the provisions of this chapter shall not have been appointed at the time fixed for such appointment, or having been appointed shall not act, it shall be lawful for the commissioners who may have been appointed and consented to act, to act until the vacancies so existing shall be · filled up. Election of chairman, etc. Notice of appointment. and providing dation, 7. At the first meeting of the board in November in each year they shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman, who shall, if they continue to be members of such board, remain in office until their successors are appointed. 8 Notice of the first appointment of the commissioners and of all subsequent appointments shall be published in the Royal Gazette, as soon as conveniently may be after such appointments. Apportionment 9. The board of commissioners shall have power, by school accommo- resolution or otherwise, to apportion to each and every school or department an area from which the pupils residing within such area may attend such school or department; and such board shall take all the necessary steps to provide sufficient school accommodation, and shall furnish annually to the Superintendent of Education a report of their proceedings under this Act, also returns of all schools subject to their control, and a statement of the appropriation of all moneys received and expended by them under the provisions of this Act and the Education Act. |