Notice of Amount Assessed not requisite. XIX. The Notice of Assessment hereafter to be given to the persons assessed, or their Agents, or to the President, Secretary, Manager, Cashier, or Agent of the Com→ pany or Corporate Body assessed, shall not be required to specify the amount which each Person, Company, or Corporate Body has been assessed, but merely the total amount on which the Assessment of such Person, Company, or Corporate Body is to be levied, and such Notice may be given at any time after the amount shall have been determined by the Assessors, without waiting till the whole Assessment shall be completed, and the form thereof shall be as nearly as the case will admit, as follows: Name. Value of Value of Total amount on which Period allowed par ties to furnish account of Property. We hereby give you notice that the foregoing Statement contains an account of the Total Amount of your Property on which the Assessment for the current year is to be levied, according to the best of our judgment and discretion, and should you have any objection thereto, you are hereby notified to furnish us, or either of us, within Ten days from this date, with an Account in Writing, duly made and attested, according to the form herewith served upon you.. City Assessors. XX. After service of the Notice, Ten Days shall be allowed to the parties assessed, or their authorized Agents, to furnish the Assessors with an Account in Writing, setting forth the value of their Real and Personal Estate respectively within the city, and no deduction shall be made in any such Account for Debts due by the parties assessed, except such as are due to persons within the city, and the form of the Account and of the Affidavit verifying the same, duly signed and sworn to, except in the case of Joint Stock Companies or Corporate Bodies, shall be as follows: Statement of Real and Personal Property of within the City of Halifax, liable to Assessment. Value of Real Estate, Value of Personal Estate, viz : Household Furniture, Monies, Goods, Chattels, Wares and Merchandize, or abroad, owned within the city, Debts of the City of Halifax, maketh Oath and saith that the above Account is in all respects just, and true, and that Sworn to this day of Before me. A. D. is Form of Affidavit. Public or Private And the form of the Account and of the Affidavit verifying the same, duly signed, Form of Account for and sworn to in the case of Public or Private Banking Companies, and of Water, Gas, or Marine, or Life, or Fire Insurance Companies, or other Joint Stock Companies or Bodies Corporate, shall be as follows: Statement of the Real and Personal Property of doing Business within the City of Halifax, liable to Assessment. Value of Real Estate, Value of Personal Estate, viz: Household Furniture, Goods and Chattels, Debts secured by Mortgage, City Certificates, Provincial Securities, Net Profits or Income derived from Business done within the City, HALIFAX, SS. of the City of Halifax, £ maketh Oath and saith, that the above Account is in all respects just and true, and Sworn to this day of A. D. } Form of Affidavit in do. Assessment Books. XXI. The City Council shall have power to extend the time for making up and Time of making up returning the Assessment Books to any period (though beyond Forty-five days) which they may deem expedient. added on refusal to pay. XXII. Upon the refusal or neglect of any Person, Firm, Company, or Corporate Ten per cent to be Body to pay the amount of Assessment made upon him or them respectively, it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer before issuing his Warrant for the Collection thereof, to add Ten per cent. to the amount assessed. XXIII. The Clerk of the Licence shall hereafter, Once in every Month, or oftener Clerk of Licence to if required by the City Council, pay over to the City Treasurer the amount of Licence pay over Monies every Month. Duty Penalties on Licenced Houses. Provision for Hospi tal in City, Purchase of Rock £4000 for Market House. out New Roads, Duty collected by him, and shall immediately thereafter produce and file with the City Clerk a particular account of the Monies so received by him, and also the Receipt of the City Treasurer for the same; and he shall further be liable to all the provisions of the Fifty-third Section of the Act hereby amended, and of such Sections of the present Act as relate to the same in as full and ample a manner as if he had been specially named therein. XXIV. In all Bye Laws or Ordinances which the City Council may deem it necessary to make under the Act hereby amended for the management of Licensed Houses within the City, they shall have power to impose such Fine or Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, and such imprisonment not exceeding Six Months, as they may deem proper for enforcing the same. XXV. It shall be lawful for the City Council from time to time, as they may deem expedient, to appropriate from the general Funds of the City, or to borrow, if necessary, and to place under the Management and Control of the Local Board of Health, such sums of Money as may be necessary for providing an Hospital and suitable accommodations for sick Inhabitants of the City in case of the introduction or spreading of any Infectious or Contagious Disease, and all such sums of money may be included in the next General or other Assessment thereafter to be made upon the City, but no more than Five Hundred Pounds shall be assessed hereunder in any one year. XXVI. It shall be lawful for the City Council to include in the next General or any other subsequent Assessment to be made upon the City, such sum of money, not exceeding Two Hundred Pounds Currency, as will enable them to purchase for the City in fee simple a Lot of Land or Farm called Rock Head, containing Forty Acres, more or less, and situate in Ward Number Six of the City. XXVII. The City Council shall have power to borrow the sum of Four Thousand Pounds, for the purpose of erecting a Brick or Stone Market House on the Lot of Land on which the present Meat Market stands, in front of the City Court House, or elsewhere, and in security for the payment thereof to issue Certificates or Debentures under the hands of the Mayor and any two Aldermen, and under the City Seal, countersigned by the City Clerk, as nearly as may be in the form heretofore used by the City, payable to the persons from whom such monies shall be borrowed, or their Endorsees or Assigns, in Ten years from the date of issuing, with Interest thereon, to be paid semi-annually, at a rate not exceeding Six per cent. per annum, which Certificates or Debentures shall be expressed as chargeable upon the Funds and Property. of the City generally, XXVIII. In laying out any new Road or Highway, or altering any old one within Appraisement for Damages in laying the City, the City Council shall have power to direct three competent persons to make a just and equitable valuation and appraisement, according to the circumstances of the case, of the damages to be paid each person through whose land such Road or Highway or alteration shall run, specifying particularly and separately what is to be paid to each Proprietor for damage to soil for Improvements and for Fencing, and the Return of such three persons shall be made to the City Council, and shall be modified as they shall think fit, and be finally determined by them after notice of Twenty Days at the least to the parties interested, or their Agents, and they and their Witnesses, if any, shall have been heard thereon, or made default in attending on the day appointed for such hearing. Continuation of Act. XXIX. This Act shall continue in operation until the First day of April, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and no longer. CAP. V. An Act to divide the County of Halifax into Townships, and to confer certain Municipal Privileges upon the Inhabitants thereof. (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: appointed. I. The Governor in Council shall forthwith appoint Three Commissioners to lay off Commissioners to be and subdivide the County of Halifax into Townships of moderate area, having due regard to the relative extent of territory and amount of population to be included within the same, the natural boundaries presented by the indentations of the Sea Coast, the course of Rivers and Inland Waters, the homogenous character of Settlements already formed, and the facilities of communication afforded by Main and Cross Roads. port proceedings. II. The Commissioners having completed their work, shall within six months after Commissioners to retheir appointment report their proceedings to the Governor, which Report shall contain the names of the Townships, their Boundaries, the number and names of Settlements to be included therein, with the aggregate amount of Population, as nearly as it can be ascertained in each Township. ed. III. The Report shall be forthwith published in at least Four of the Halifax News- Report to be publishpapers, and circulated in Hand Bills throughout the County for at least One Month after it shall have been laid before the Governor, and during the Month all Parties who may take exceptions to it shall be heard either by Petition or otherwise, before the Governor in Council, who shall have power to alter or amend it, as may appear meet, after hearing objections made, or evidence, if any, shall be produced before them. IV. On receipt of the Report so amended or otherwise, with the sanction and ap- Survey to be made. proval of the Governor in Council, marked thereon, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to define the Boundaries of each Township by actual Survey, and to set up Marks in convenient places, by which the same may be generally indicated and known. published. V. The Report of the final proceedings of the Commissioners, which shall include Final Report to be the Names and Boundaries of each Township, shall be published in manner as directed with regard to their first Report; and upon the expiration of the Month, the functions of the Commissioners shall determine, and the Rate-payers residing within each Township respectively, shall thenceforth enjoy all the privileges and exercise all the rights in respect of Local Affairs now possessed and exercised by the Freeholders or Inhabitants of other Townships within this Province. VI. The expenses attending the execution of the Commission shall form a County Expenses of Report. charge, and be presented, conformed, assessed, levied, and collected, as by Law directed in reference to other Monies raised for County purposes. and Councillors. VII. In addition to the powers now conferred by Law, the Rate-payers of such Election of Wardens Townships at their Town Meetings, on the First Monday of November in every year, shall select a Warden and Four Councillors, who shall be respectively chosen by a majority of Votes, and continue in office until the next Annual Meeting in November, during which time they shall have the general over-sight and care of the Township, and shall possess all the powers now exercised by Justices of the Peace; the Warden to preside at all Township Meetings held during the year after his appointment, including the one at which he shall go out of Office, and to be the Organ of Official Communication with the Representatives of the County and the Executive Government. VIII. Rate Payers shall at their Annual Meeting in November, elect all Township Officers, whether such as are now appointed by the Sessions, such as are appointed at Town Meetings, or such others as they may consider necessary, and in addition to 6 other Rate-payers to elect To be a Body Corporate. Wardens to report proceedings. Powers of Justices of the Peace to cease. Wardens Court. Power of Warden and Councillors. Not to extend to Halifax. other powers conferred by Law, may assess themselves for the building of Town Houses, the Support of Schools, the Improvement of Roads and Bridges, the Deepening of Water Courses and Harbors, the Erection of Breakwaters, and generally for any other Public Objects by which the Interests of the luhabitants may be promoted and advanced. IX. Over the Funds so raised, the Rate Payers, their Officers and Representatives shall have exclusive Control, and Public Property thereby accumulated, shall vest in the Warden and Councillors for the time being, who shall form a perpetual trust and a Body Corporate, under the name of "The Warden and Councillors for the Township of ," and as such, may have a Common Seal, and sue and be sued. X. The Warden in each Township shall report the Proceedings, under this Act, at the close of the year, to the Provincial Secretary, for the information of the Legislature. XI. Immediately upon the appointment of Wardens and Councillors hereunder, all the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace for the County of Halifax, shall cease, except in respect of Proceedings already commenced before them, for the final determination and execution of which, their functions shall continue. XII. In carrying out the Provisions of the Act for the Summary Trial of Actions before Justices of the Peace, the following changes are made: "shall be A Court to be called "the Warden's Court for the Township of held at some central and convenient place in each Township, on the First Monday in every Month, when the Warden and Councillors shall attend and form the Court, and any three of them shall be a quorum. Parties shall be summoned and bound to appear under Process issued by one or two of such Justices according to the amount of the Claim at the Warden's Court, the particular place of holding which shall be stated in the Process, and the Court shall determine Suits in the same manner, and shall have like powers in relation thereto, as are now exercised by One or Two Justices of the Peace, and Execution and further Proceedings, shall be had in the name of the Court, and be issued and had by any one or two of the Justices for the Township, for the time being, according to the amount. The Fees for issuing Writs shall be paid to the Justice issuing the same, or where there are two Justices divided equally between them, and the Fees on Judgment shall be divided equally between the Justices present. XIII. The Warden and Councillors, as respects Criminal Proceedings, and the General Regulation and Management of County Affairs, shall be Justices of the Peace for the whole County, and shall compose the Court of General Sessions of the Peace therefor. XIV. Nothing herein contained shall extend to the City of Halifax. 5th Clause of former Act repealed except as amended. CAP. VI. An Act to amend the Act to regulate the Inspection of (Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.) BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows : I. The Fifth Clause of the Act to regulate Inspection of Pickled Fish is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the time of Inspecting Barrels, and it shall be lawful for the Inspectors and their Deputies to Brand good Barrels, Half Barrels, Quarter Barrels and Tierces, in which Pickled Fish shall be packed, until the First day of December, in this year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty, and no longer, after |