VII. The sum of Fifty Pounds, undrawn from the King's County Road appropriation 50% Road Horton in the Township of Horton, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-nine, shall be appropriated to defray the like amount drawn from the Casualty Vote for the same year. VIII. The sum of Five Pounds granted in the Session of One Thousand Eight Hun- 51 Road Cumberland dred and Forty-eight, on the Road from Black Rock to Diligent River Road, in the County of Cumberland, and remaining undrawn, shall be expended on the Coal Mine Road one mile past Delaney's. IX. The Central Board of Agriculture are hereby authorised to draw, during the Agricultural Grant present year, such portion of the Agricultural Grant placed at their disposal for One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, as may be necessary in addition to the grant for the present year, to carry out the views of the Committee on Agriculture, in reference to the Importation of Stock. cer's Wines X. The Board of Revenue shall allow a Drawback upon all Wines imported for, and Drawback on Officonsumed by, the Commissioned Officers of the Army, composing the several Regimental Messes of the Garrison at Halifax, or shall relinquish the Duties upon all such Wines, upon proof being made to the satisfaction of the Board that the Wines whereon Drawback or relinquishment of Duties is claimed, were imported for, or consumed by, such Officers of the Army,-provided the whole amount do not exceed the sum of Three Hundred Pounds in the year. XI. If any of the Bridges of the Main Post Roads of this Province shall be unex- Casualty Vote pectedly obstructed by any unforseen obstacle or accident, it shall be lawful for the Governor to order a Commissioner to rebuild or repair such Bridge, or to remove such obstructions; and it shall be lawful further for the Governor to draw Warrants on account and in favour of such Commissioner, provided the sum so to be drawn shall not exceed for the year the sum of One Thousand Pounds; and the respective sums so drawn shall he charged at the next Session of the Assembly, as against the several Counties in which the same shall be respectively expended. XII. The sum of One Pound per day is hereby granted to every Member of the Member's Pay. House of Assembly for his attendance in General Assembly for the present Session, to be paid on the Certificate of the Speaker; also the travelling charges as heretofore; provided that no Member shall receive pay for more than Forty days attendance. continued. XIII. The Ninth, Twelfth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth Sections of the Act passed in Sections of Acts the Forty-first year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the service of the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and One, and for appropriating such part of the supplies granted in this Session of the General Assembly as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province; also the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thir teenth Sections of the Act passed in the Fourth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four, and for appropriating such part of the supplies granted in this Session of the General Assembly as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province, are hereby continued, in as full and ample a manner as if herein repeated word for word, until the First day of April, which will be in the year of our Lord One •Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and no longer. Act 12, Vic. C. XI. except as amend CAP. II. An Act further to continue and amend certain Acts relating to the Colonial Revenue. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. .D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: 1. The Act passed in the Twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled, An Act ed, to be continued. to continue and amend certain Acts relating to the Colonial Revenue, and all Acts and clauses of Acts thereby continued, and which will respectively remain in force until the First day of April in the present year, are hereby, except as altered by this Act, further continued until the First day of April which will be in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and no longer. Steamers to pay II. Steam Vessels arriving within this Province, whether carrying Mails or not, except H. M.'War (excepting Her Majesty's War Steamers) shall be subject to the payment of Light Duty, at the same rate as other Vessels arriving and leaving the Province. Steamers. Recovery of Penal ties for Breach of Revenue Laws. Continuation of Act. III. All Penalties and Forfeitures hereafter incurred for breach of the Revenue Laws of this Province, may be recovered against any Ship, Vessel, or Boat, in or from which any Goods or Effects shall be illegally imported, or concealed, or landed, or thrown over; and on Judgment for the amount of the Penalty against the Master or any other person on board of such Ship, Vessel, or Boat, Execution may be issued against such Ship, Vessel, Boat, or Effects, and such Ship, Vessel or Boat shall also be liable to seizure in the first instance, and shall be forfeited in the same manner as if such Ship, Vessel or Boat had been detected hovering on the coast with prohibited Goods on board. But it shall be lawful for the Board of Revenue, on proof made to their satisfaction that the Owners and Master of such Ship, Vessel, or Boat were ignorant of such illegal importation or concealment, to relieve such Owners from such penalties and forfeitures, in whole or in part, and on such terms as to the Board may appear meet. IV. This Act shall come into operation on the First day of April in the present year, and remain in force until the first day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and no longer. Act 12, Vic. C. X. to be continued. CAP. III. An Act to continue and amend the Act for granting (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Govornor, Council and Assembly, as follows: I. The Act passed in the Twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled, An Act except as amended for granting Duties of Impost for the support of Her Majesty's Government within this Province, which Act will remain in operation until the First day of April in the present year, is, except as altered by this Act, hereby further continued until the first day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and no longer. A Sheathing, &c. II. A Duty of Two and a Half per cent. ad valorem, shall be imposed, paid, levied, Duty on Zine and collected on the Article known as Zinc Sheathing, of a size forty-eight inches long, by fourteen inches wide, intended for, and to be used as Sheathing for Vessels, and Zinc Sheathing Nails imported into this Province in like manner as if the same Articles had been originally inserted among the Articles which are charged with a Duty of Two and a Half per cent. in the Schedule of Duties annexed to the Act hereby amended. III. There shall be imposed, paid, levied, and collected, a Duty, at the rate of One Duty on Flour. Shilling sterling on every Barrel of Wheaten Flour imported into this Province, in like manner as if the Articles of Wheaten Flour had been inserted in such Table of Duties, and therein had been charged with Duty at the above rate, instead of being inclued in the Table of Exemptions. IV. This Act shall come into operation on the First day of April in this present Continuation of Act. year, and shall continue in force until the First day of April, which will be in the Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and no longer. year CAP. IV. An Act to alter the Halifax Incorporation Act. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: Vic. C. XIV. repealed. 1. The Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Sections, and so much of the Thirty-ninth 37, 38, Sec. Act 12, Section as relates to Scrutinies, of an Act passed in the Twelfth year of Her present Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Consolidate the Acts respecting the Incorporation of the City of Halifax," are hereby repealed. 11. Hereafter at the time of the Annual Election of Aldermen, the Mayor shall be Election of Meyor. elected from the Aldermen of the City, or from such persons as have theretofore served as City Councillors or Aldermen, for a period of One Year, by the Citizens who are by Law qualified to Vote for Aldermen; and the Election of Mayor shall be held and conducted in the several Wards in the same manner as Elections for Aldermen are now held and conducted. &c. III. The Officers appointed by the City Council shall hereafter be Elected by Open Election of Officers Vote; and no person shall be considered duly Elected to Office unless he receive the Votes of more than one half of the Members of the Council present at the Election, or in case any Two Persons, Candidates for the same Office, shall each receive the Votes of One half the Members present, it shall be the duty of the Mayor or Chairman presiding to give the Casting Vote; and any such Election may take place at a Meeting regularly convened therefor under the said Act, when at least Twelve Members of the Council, exclusive of the Mayor or Chairman presiding, shall be present, but not otherwise; and the Mayor or Chairman presiding shall not in any case Vote, except to give the Casting Vote. IV. If such Election shall not be determined on the day appointed by the Act there- Council may ajourn. for, the Council shall have power to adjourn, from day to day, until it be determined, or it may take place at any Special Meeting of the Council duly convened therefor, as other Special Meetings are now convened under the Act. men, &c.-how ascertained. V. If any person shall be Elected as Alderman or Assessor of the City, who is de- Eligibility of Alderclared to be incapable of being elected by the Twentieth and Twenty-first Sections of the said Act, so soon as the Presiding Officer shall make return of his election, the Council shall proceed to inquire into and determine his eligibility, and if the Council shall In absence of Mayor Inspectors of Elections refusing to serve liable to be fined. Receipt of Rates at Nomination of Off shall adjudge him to be ineligible, in consequence of any of the causes of disqualification mentioned in such Sections, a new Election shall take place, in the manner directed by said Act for Special Elections, until a person duly qualified to serve shall be regularly elected. VI. In case of the absence of the Mayor, or of Vacancy in his Office, the Alderman in rotation who is now required to hold a Police Court in the absence of the Mayor, shail discharge for the time being all the duties that might heretofore devolve upon the Senior Alderman, and all other duties that appertain to the Office of Mayor, whether at the Police Court, Mayor's Court, or otherwise, except that of presiding at the Meetings of the City Council. VII. Every Inspector of Elections in the City shall, 'within Five Days after notice of his appointment to office, accept the same by taking the Oath prescribed for Inspectors, before the Mayor, or one of the Aldermen of the City, and in default thereof shall be liable to pay a Fine of Five Pounds, and the Office shall thereupon be deemed to be vacant, and be filled up by a new appointment: and no such Oath shall hereafter be required to be taken before the Presiding Officer at any Election, nor the Certificate thereof to be entered in the Record or Journal of the Poll Clerk: Provided always that no person shall be liable to such Fine who is exempted therefrom by the Twenty-fourth Section of said Act. VIII. At the Election of Mayor, Aldermen, or Ward Assessors, no Receipt produced at the time of Voting shall be received as evidence of payment of Poor and City Rates, to entitle the person producing the same to Vote, unless it be subscribed by the City Treasurer or by his Agent, first duly recognized by the City Council. IX. The Presiding Officers at any Election of Mayor, Aldermen or Ward Assessors, cers at Elections. shall at the time appointed for holding the same, or at any time during the progress thereof, receive the names of such persons as shall be nominated to fill the Office of Mayor, Aldermen, or Ward Assessors, and cause the names to be entered in the Record or Journal ofthe Poll Clerk, and all Votes given in for any person not duly nominated, shall, in sorting the Votes, be treated by the Presiding Officers and Inspectors as thrown away: Provided always, That no nomination shall be received by the Presiding Officers unless made by a person duly qualified to vote at the Election, of which qualification the same evidence shall be required as in the case of giving a Vote. Regulation of Votes. Accounts and vouch ing out of office. X. If in sorting the Votes it shall be found that two or more Ballots are enclosed in one cover, or if the name of the same person be more than once entered in the same Ballot, or if any Ballot shall contain a greater number of names of persons as designated to any Office than there are persons to be elected, all such Ballots shall be rejected and destroyed. XI. All Accounts, or Vouchers relating thereto, and all Monies required to be deers of Officers go-livered or paid by the Clerk, Treasurer, and other Officers of the City, after ceasing to be in Office, by the Fifty-third Section of the said Act, shall be construed as required to be delivered and paid in such manner and at such times, before the expiration of Three months after ceasing to be in Office, as the Council shall direct: and if any Officer shall refuse or wilfully neglect to deliver his Accounts or Vouchers, or to make payment when required by the Council, he shall be liable to be proceeded against as prescribed by the said Section in the case of refusal or wilful neglect during his continuance in Office, and no Conviction had in either of these cases, or in any case before Justices of the Peace by virtue of the said Section, shall be quashed for want of form, and no Warrant of Commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, so as it be therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there has been a good and valid conviction in point of fact to authorize the same: but no proceedings against any Officer under this Section, or the Section herein before referred to, shall be commenced except within Three months after the Offence was committed. XH Аввеввед. XII. All Partners in Trade, or in any Business transacted within the City, shall be Partnerships to be liable to Assessment, in the same manner as Individuals; and the Name of the Firm shall be used in all Entries in the Invoice, or Valuation and Assessment Books, and the Notices to be served on the Firm shall be directed to them under the Partnership Name, and served on any Member thereof, or their Agent and in all other respects they shall be treated and proceeded against as Individuals. Estate. XIII. In making the Assessment on Real Estate, it shall be the duty of the Asses- Assessment on Real sors to ascertain by the best means in their power, what is a fair Annual Rent therefor, and to determine the value of the Real Estate by calculating such Rent as equivalent to one-tenth of the whole value. Assessment. XIV. All Debts owing to the parties assessed, except such as are secured to be paid Debts excluded from by Mortgages, City Certificates, or Provincial Securities, shall hereafter be excluded from Assessment, and no Debts owing by the parties assessed, except Debts owing by them to persons within the City, shall be allowed to be deducted from the value of their Personal Property in ascertaining the amount on which the Assessment is to be levied. XV. All Property whether Real or Personal within the City, belonging to the Pro- Property exempt vince, County, City, or Imperial Government, and all Personal Property belonging to the Officers or Soldiers of the Army or Navy, residing in Barracks or Government Property shall be exempt from Taxation. from Assessment. &c. liable to Assessment. XVI. All Estates of Minors, Married Women, or of deceased persons, not in Estates of Minors, the occupation of Annual Tenants, shall be assessed as the Property and in the Name of such Persons as have the custody, charge, management, or control of the same for the time being, and the Assessors shall keep an account of the same separate from the assessment made upon such parties in their own right, and mentioning the names of persons assessed for such Estates in the Assessment Books, Notices, and other Proceedings, shall designate them by such description as shall denote the capacity in which they are assessed. to be corrected. XVII. Whenever it shall be found by the Assessors previous to the final making up Error in Assessment and Return of the Ward Assessment Books, that the Assessment in respect of any pro perty has been entered in the name of any party not liable to be assessed therefor, it shall be the duty of the Assessors to enter the same in the name of the party really' liable to be assessed for the Property, who shall be treated and proceeded against for the amount of the Tax, in the same way as if entered correctly in the first instance. XVIII. The Blanks to be used by the City Assessors for Invoice or Valuation Books shall hereafter be in the following form: Value of Names. Real Estate. Value of Total amount on which Forms. |