to low water mark of the river St. Lawrence, in front of the said City and Town, together with the bed of the river St. Charles, opposite the said City, adopted at high water mark of the northern side of the said river from the prolongation of the line from St. Ours street to the westerly line of the Nuns of the Hotel Dieu's Farm; thence, running southward along the said line about five hundred and fifty feet to the southern extremity of a pier erected on the said farm at low water; thence, running due east about eight hundred feet, to the intersection of the line limiting the beach grants of the Seigniory of Notre Dame des Anges, at low water, and finally thence, along the said beach line, running north, forty degrees east to the intersection of the prolongation of the Commissioners' line for the harbour of Quebec, and thence following the said Commissioners' line to the westerly line of the City-shall, from All the said and after the passing of this Act, constitute, be and be called tract to be the City of Quebec, and all wharves, piers and other erections City. made or to be made in the said river Saint Lawrence opposite to or adjoining the said City, though beyond low water mark of the said river, and extending as far as the said Commissioners' line and beyond the same, should it be hereafter extended, shall be held and considered to be within the limits of the said City. within the of bribery or 3. If any person who shall have or claim to have any right Penalty on to vote at any election of a Mayor or of a Councillor in the said persons guilty City, shall, after the passing of this Act, ask or take any money accepting or other reward by way of gift, loan or other device or agree or bribes at City contract for any money, gift or office, employment or other elections. reward whatsoever, to give or forbear to give his vote in any such election, or if any person, by himself, or by any person employed by him, shall, by any gift or reward, or by any promise, agreement or security for any gift or reward, corrupt or procure, or offer to corrupt or procure any person to give or forbear to give his vote in any such election, such person so offending in any of the cases aforesaid, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of ten pounds currency, to be recovered with costs by any one who shall sue for the same before the Recorder's Court for the said City. Councillors 4. It shall not be lawful for any candidate for the office of Candidates for Mayor or Councillor for the said City, at any election thereof, Mayor or directly or indirectly, to employ any means of corruption by forbidden to giving any sum of money, office, place, employment, gratuity, use certain reward or any bond, bill or note or conveyance of land, or any means of promise of the same, or to threaten any elector of losing any corruption. office, salary, income or advantage, either by himself or his authorized agent for that purpose, with the intent to corrupt or bribe any elector to vote for such candidate, or to keep back any elector from voting for any other candidate, or to open and support, or cause to be opened and supported at his costs and charges, any house of public entertainment for the accommodation of void. Election to be of the electors: And in case any such candidate for either of the said offices returned as duly elected, shall be proved guilty of using any of the above mentioned means to procure his election, before the proper tribunal, his election shall thereby be declared void. Section 8 of 18 V. c. 159, amended. Certain per sons not to be eligible as Mayor or Councillor. Penalty. Penalty on senting him certain period. Section 14 of amended. 5. The eighth section of the said Act shall be amended by adding thereto the following words: "And no person who shall directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in trust for him or for his use and benefit, or on his account, execute, hold or enjoy the whole or any part of any contract or agreement made or entered into with the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors and Citizens of Quebec, or have any interest therein or derive any benefit or emolument arising therefrom, or who shall, directly or indirectly be a surety for the due execution or fulfilment of any such contract or agreement shall be capable of being elected Mayor or Councillor of the said City of Quebec, and if elected, his seat as such Mayor or Councillor shall become and be vacant from the day of his having as aforesaid directly or indirectly by himself or by any person in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, commenced to execute, hold or enjoy, the whole or any part of any such contract or agreement so made or entered into with the said Corporation, or to have any interest therein, or to derive any benefit or emolument arising therefrom or of his having, directly or indirectly, become such surety as aforesaid; and any person who shall continue to act as such Mayor or Councillor as aforesaid, after such day as aforesaid, shall incur and pay a penalty of twenty-five pounds currency for each and every day during which he shall act as such Mayor or Councillor as aforesaid, which said penalty may be recovered by any one who shall sue for the same before the Recorder's Court of the said City; and if the Mayor of the said City of Quebec shall absent himself from the said City during more than three consecutive calendar months, or if any Councillor shall absent himself during more than six consecutive months (except in case of sickness or on public business), then and in that case such Mayor or Councillor shall cease to hold such office of Mayor or Councillor, and shall be liable to the penalty appointed for refusal to accept such office." 6. The fourteenth section of the said Act shall be and is 18 V. c. 159, hereby amended as follows; After the words " and has not before voted at such election," the following shall be added, "and has not received, directly or indirectly, any money, promissory note, promise, place or employment, to induce him to vote for any of the candidates at this election." Section 16 of amended. 7. The sixteenth section of the said Act is hereby amend18 V. c. 159, ed as follows: after the words "and the said certificates may be deposited in the City Hall," the following shall be added, "or any other place fixed upon by the Council of the said City"; Provided always that the said Council shall appoint but one place for the deposit of such certificates. amended. S. The seventeenth section of the said Act is hereby so Section 17 of amended as to read as follows: "The election of Councillors 18 V. c. 159, aforesaid shall annually take place, and be held in manner following, to wit: The Corporation of the said City shall cause Form of votbooks to be prepared in which shall annually be entered and ing tickets. recorded the names of all persons who, being qualified to vote at the said elections, shall produce and deposit their certificates of qualification in the City Hall of the said City, or at any other place fixed upon by the Council, at any time between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, from the fifteenth day of the month of December until the twenty-first day of the month of December, in each year, both days inclusive; the said certificate shall be prepared and made out on a sheet of paper having two leaves thereto, on the inner one of which shall be printed or stamped blank lines followed by the words "For Councillor in the Ward," printed and stamped as follows, to wit: For Councillor in the For Councillor in the For Councillor in the Ward. Ward. Ward. The party entitled to the said certificate, and desirous of voting, How to be shall fill up the said blanks, or if unable to write himself, shall filled up. cause the same to be filled up in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, with the names of those persons for whom he may desire to vote and whom he may wish to have elected Councillor or Councillors, as the case may be, for the ward in which he is entitled to vote; the holder of the said certificate being the party named therein, may produce the same to the City Clerk of the said City in the City Hall thereof, or at any other place fixed upon by the Council under the seventh section of this Act, at any time within the hours and periods hereinaf ter specified, and after entry made by the City Clerk of the name of the said voter and the date of the production of the said certificate, the holder thereof, being the party named as aforesaid, may deposit the said certificate in a suitable and Deposit in the closed box in the said City Hall, or at any other place fixed ballot box. upon by the Council, labelled with the name of the ward in which the said party may be entitled to vote; of which description of box, appropriately labelled, the said Corporation shall furnish, one for each ward of the said City; at the time of producing and depositing the said certificate, the said voter shall be under no necessity of declaring or making known for whom he may vote as Councillor, and no entry or record of the party or parties voted for shall be made by the City Clerk, but only an entry of the name of the party voting, and of the date when he shall produce and deposit as aforesaid his said certificate and vote; it shall be lawful for the Mayor or any Councillor of Mayor or the said City to administer the oath prescribed in the fourteenth Councillors section of the Act passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's ter certain reign, 8 may adminis oaths to voters. False swearing to be perjury. declaration of candidates elected. reign, chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, as amended by this Act, to every party producing a certificate of qualification and claiming the right to deposit the same and vote at the said election, and it shall be imperative on the said Mayor and on each and every Councillor of the said City, to administer the said oath upon requisition to that effect, of any duly qualified voter in the said City; and likewise in all cases where doubts are or may be entertained of the identity of the party desirous of voting; and any person who shall swear falsely, upon the said oaths being administered to him shall be guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall be liable to all the penalties of the said offence; the said eight boxes (one for each ward) shall severally be locked with five locks each; each lock shall be different from the others, and shall be opened with a key of a different construction from the keys of any other of the said locks, so that no two of the said locks may be opened with the same key; and the keys of the said locks shall be given in custody to the Board of Revisors appointed by the Council, each of whom shall keep one key, so that the said boxes cannot be opened unless in the presence of all the members of the said Board: Examination On the twenty-sixth day of December, or if that day be a Sunof books, and day or statutory holiday (féte d'obligation) on the twentyseventh day of December in each year, the Board of Revisors shall meet in the City Hall, shall open the said boxes, and shall cause the entries and record of the City Clerk in the said books to be perfected, by entering and recording in the said books the names of the persons for whom each voter shall or may vote to be elected Councillor or Councillors as aforesaid; and the Board of Revisors shall ascertain and report to the Council of the said City at its next meeting the total number of votes given for the Candidates for the office of Councillor, and for whom the greatest number of votes shall have been given in each of the said several wards; and the said Council shall, after examination of the said books, certificates, and report of the said committee, thereupon declare the parties having the greatest number of votes to be elected councillors of the said city, and in case of an equality of votes, the said council shall determine which of the parties Proviso as to having the said equality shall be elected to office: Provided that order of swear the newly elected members, respecting whose election there ing in Councillors, &c. is no question, shall, if present, be first sworn in, that they may vote in the said cases of equality of votes, if desirous of so doing; and the councillors going out of office, whom the newly elected councillors thus sworn shall subsequently replace, shall not vote in case of an equality of votes as aforesaid, and the said councillors elect shall afterwards respectively take the oaths prescribed by the Act passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, as amended by this Act; and the said books with the names of the said voters, and the names of the parties for whom they have respectively voted, together with the certificates produced and deposited by the said voters, shall remain in the office of the Certain oath to be taken. cillors shall city clerk, where they shall be open to inspection by any elector on payment of one shilling: Provided always, that the new- Proviso: when ly elected councillors as aforesaid shall not enter upon the the new Coun duties of their office and shall not enjoy any of the rights and begin to act privileges, nor be liable to any of the duties and responsibilities as such. of councillors as aforesaid, until from and after the third Monday in January in each year. poration. 9. The financial year, as regards all accounts of the corpo- Financial ration of the said city shall commence on the first day of Janu- year as reary and end on the thirty-first day of December in each year, gards the Corboth days inclusive; any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: And all rates of assessment or taxes imposed Tax year. and levied during the course of any one year shall be taken to be for the year commenced upon the first day of the month of January then next preceding, and ending on the thirty-first day of the ensuing month of December. examination 10. The forty-third section of the said Act shall be and is Section 43 of hereby repealed, and it is enacted that the treasurer of the said 18 V. c. 159, repealed, and city, shall, in books to be kept for that purpose, enter true ac- new provision counts of all sums of money by him received or paid as such made as to treasurer, and the several matters for which such sums shall municipal achave been received or paid; and the books containing the said counts, their accounts shall, at all reasonable times, be open to the inspection and audit, &c. of the mayor or of any of the councillors of the said city; and all the accounts of the said treasurer, with all vouchers and papers relating thereto, shall be made up to and closed on the thirtyfirst day of December in each year, and shall, on the first day of February then next ensuing, be submitted by such treasurer to the auditors elected for the said city, and such members of the said council, as the mayor of the said city shall name, and the said books of accounts, accounts, and all vouchers and papers relating thereto, shall from the first to the last day of February inclusively, in each and every year, be open to the inspection and examination of the said auditors and councillors to be named by the mayor, for the purpose of the said books and accounts being examined and audited for the year preceding such annual examination, and if the said accounts shall be found to be correct, the auditors shall certify the same to be so, and after the said accounts shall have been so examined and Abstract to be audited in the month of February in every year, the treasurer made and published; and be shall make out in writing and cause to be printed a full abstract of his accounts for the year, and a copy thereof shall be open rate-payers, to the inspection of all the rate-payers of the said city, and copies thereof shall be delivered to all rate-payers of the said city applying for the same, on payment of a reasonable price for each copy. open to all 11. Notwithstanding any thing in the said Act, or in any Exclusive juother Act or law to the contrary, the Recorder's Court for the risdiction of the Recorder's said city shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases of 8* complaint |