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1876 :
FRIN I'EU BY ROBERT McCONNELL,
New (jlasgow, N. S.

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IUI>LAWS AND ORDINANCES.

It is ordained by the Warden and Councillors of the Town of
New (ilasgow in Council assembled, that that the following Bye-
Laws and Ordinances shall be in force within th Town;

I.
THE TOWN SEAL.

I. —Til'.' Co nmon Seal of the Town shall be made of suitable
metal, and have engraved on it such device as the Council may
may order.

2. — ■ The Town Seal shall be kept by the Town Clerk.

3. — All deeds or documents where the Town is a party, and
when a Seal is retiuisite, shall be authenticated by the Town Seal,
ami the Warden and Town Clerk shall sign the same, and affix
'.hereto the Town Seal when authorized by any law, bye-law or or-
dinance ot' the Town, or by direction or resolution of the Town
Council.

4.- The Warden may affix the Seal to any certificate or docu-
ment, at the re(juest of any person desiring it.

5. — Any person requiring the Town Seal to be affixed to any
rertilicate or do^ undent for the purpose of authentication, or other'
w se shall pas' to the Town the following fees:

For a'^'fixing the Seal to any document to be used out of the
J'rovinces $2.50

If to be used within the Province only 1.50

l\ to be used williin the Town i.oo

J''or the Seal to any certificate 1.50

TOWN COUNCIL.

I. —Written notices fo: the quarterly and other meetings of the
Coiru:il shall be sent to the Warden and each Councillor two days

})re\ ious to the meeting.

2G'^ooe

Emergency meetings may he called by the Warden or I'residiiig
Councillor when necessary, at a shorter notice. Notices shall
Stat" place and time of meeting and shall he left at the dwelling or
place of business of the ]>arty notified.

2. — Four Councillors with the Warden or ['residing Officer shall
copstitute a (juorum.

3.— The meeting shall stand adjourned to the next da) at the
same place and hour (not being Sunday or n holiday in which
event it shall stand adjourned to th.. day following) if within one
half hour from the time appointed for the meeting a (luorum shall
not appear.

4. — As soon as the Chair is taken and the meeting f)j)ened. the
minutes of the previous meeting shall he rend h) the (Merk when
any mistakes therein may be corrected by the C'ouncil. after which
or in the event of no mistakes being found they shall be marked
approved.

5. — Every motion or resolution must be presented in writing.
moved and seconded, before it can be debated. ,

6. — A motion or resolution moved :ind seconded, can only be
withdrawn by leave of the Coun'il.

7.— All questions sliall be decided by .1 majority of votes : in
case of equality the Warden or presiding officer shall have the
casting vote but shall not otherwise vote.

8. — The Warden or Presiding Councillor shall preserve order
and decorum, and shall decide all ])oints of order, subject to an
api)eal to the Council, provided sut h appeal be regularly ; oved
and seconded.

9. — Every member who speaks in Council shall address the
Chair standing.

10. — The member who introduces a resolution or motion, shall
have the privilege ot closing the debate.

II. — All resolutions moved and seconded, shall be laid on the
table as a notice, and shall be discussed at a subsecpient meeting,
and no resolution shall be discussed and voted at the same sitting
in which it is moved, unless the C'ouncil shall by vote determine
it expedient so to do.

12. — ^When a (piestion is regular!)' luuler <lebate, no other (jues-
tion or motion shall be entertained until it bo di-cided, imless it
be:

rst. — A motion in amendment to the original resohuion.
2nd. — A motion to refer the ipiestion to a Special Committee.
3rd. — A motion to postpone tlie consideration to some future
day or time to be named.

4th.—'*
to

5th. — i
oth.-

7th.— q

I3.--Afte|
resolution,
have the sai|

14.— No
ous questioi|
debate.

i5.--Kve

discussion,

tating langu

16.— Eve

it, unless e>

17.— No

business,

cillor.
18.— An;

at once, bu

19.— Th.

make out a

requisite to

shall be tei

the table f(

the hands

20.-T1-

be, subjeci

as the exit

ist.-

2nJ.-

3rd.-

4th.-

5th.
6th.
7th.

8th.

'v i'rcsitfiii^
Notices shall
dwelling or

>fii(ersli.Tll

3}' at file
ly in which

ithin oiu-
lonini shall

JH-ncd. the-
:ierk \vhf?i
iftt-r which
><-• marked

"1 writing.

" only he

f votes ; in
Iiave the

^•rvo order
jt'ct to an
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on. shall

i on the
meeting.
K' sitting-
"termine

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t-' fi:ture

4th. — A motion to postpone the question indertnitely, that is

to lay it upon the table.
5th. — A motion that the question be now put.
Oth. — A motion to adjourn.
7th. — Or the previous question.
13.— After the division has been taken up on any (ptestion oi*
resolution, any member may call for the names on the division and
have the same recorded.

14. — No debate shall be allowed upon any motion of the previ-
ous question, or upon any motion of adjournment made during a
debate.

15. — Every member shall confine himself to the (juestion under
discussion, and shall abstain from all personal rejections and irri-
tating language.

16. — Every member present when a vote is taken shall vote u])on ^
it, unless excused by the C!ouncil upon some good grounds stated.
17. — No member shall leave the room during the- transaction of
business, without the permission of the Warden or Presiding Coun-
cillor.

18.— Any member called to order b^ the Chair, shall sii down
at once, but may by leave of the Chair at'terwards rise to explain.
19. — The Town Clerk shall under the direction of the Warden,
make out an arranged list of the business matters which it a])])ears
retpiisite to lay before the Council for their consideration, the list
shall be termed the order of the day, a coi)y of it shall be laid on
the table for the ins])ection of the members, and another ])lace(l in
the hands of the Warden or Presiding Councillor.

20. — The following shall be the order of the day, as near as may
be, subject, however, to alterations by the Council at any meeting
as the exigency of business may re(]aire :

ist. — Reading minutes of previous meeting.
2nd. — ^Motion to amend the minutes.

3rd. — Motion to reconsider or rescind an) resolution coU'
tained in tlie minutes, notice of the rescinding or re-
considering of which had been given on the dav the
resolution passed, before adjournment.
4th. — Receiving the report of any select or deneral Com-
mittee.
5th. — 'Receiving any petitions.
6th. — Ordering the payments of accounts.
7th. — -Discussing any resolution, of which notice had been

given on a previous day in the regular (jrder.
8th.— -Reading and discussing the report of Select or Ceneral
Committees, together with re])ort of the minutes if any.

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9th. — Discussing any petition,
loth. — Miscellaneous business.

COMMITTEES.

21. — Standing Committees shall be appointed as soon after the
election in January as jjracticable, as follows :

I. --Committees on I'ublic Account and I'inances.
Tenders and I'ublic Property.
Schools.
] licenses.

Roads and Streets.
Auditing.
Police.
22. -Special or Select Committees may l)e api)ointedon motion
tluly made, seconded, and passed.

23.- The re]X)rt of the Special Committee shall be in writing,
and signed !>y the Chairman, when unanimous, but when there is
a diflerence of opinioii, the report shall be signed by all who con-
cur in it; the minoril} may alio rcjiort their views in writing to the
Council if they see fit, wiiich report shall be signed by all concur-
ring ill it.

24. Any byc-hiw, regulation, or ordinance may be suspended
wholly or in part, by the unanimous consent of all the mer.ibers
of the (.Council present.

lif,. — N(4ices for res-jinding or reconsidering any resolution
passed must be given on the (.lay of the resolution being passed be-
fore ;;iljoui'nment, and no resolution jtassed shall be rescinded or
reconsidered when such notice has not been given, and no such
notice Nhall have the effect of delaying or im]jedi«g the action ne-
cessary to gi\e effe(t to an) resolution unless the Council shall
otherwise order.

III.
AESSMENT.

I.- The Council shall annually assess on the inhabitants and
on ilie property v.ithin the town such sums as may be necessary
to defray the exj^enses of the municiimlity.

2. — The objects to be i-rovided for by the assessments shall in-
clude the salaries and comj.ensation to the officers of the 'I'own,
County rates, the support ol the Poor, the support ol the Schools,
the expenses of the Fire Dej^artment, the Town Court, civil and
criminal ; making, repairing, and improving the roads, streets, lanes
and bridges of the town, the repairs of the town buildings and ])ro-
perty, the expense of the Police, extra Constables and Night-

Watch, anc

tures issi' -dl

penses reciiJ

trusts vt'stej

( )fficers.

3. Ihe^
meml)er ol
office from

4. -The!
Ward to bJ

5.— The
their elet ti
fied \)y the
the Warde
to perf(jrn
and impar
6.- T'hc
tive contir
their servi^
7.— An:
attend to
pay a fine
8. — fc-vt
years and
9.- All
to taxatio

10.—
to inck
the Ian
ing as

soon after the

lances.
Pperty,

ited on motion

'•<-' in uriting,

^vhcM there is

•i" who von-

'"riling to the

''> all concur-

>i-' siisjK-nded
tJie nier.i|)ers

'IV reso'iition
"gj'as.std be-
i<->i(indtd or
"id no such
'I-' action ne-
L'oiincil shall

i^itants and
)e necessary

Its shall in-
the 'I'own,
le Schools,
■f* civil and
reets, lanes
?s and j)ro-
»id Night-

;;

Watch, and the interest money retjuircd to be raised on all deben-
tures issr_d by the Council on l)ehalt«)l()r for the Town, andall ex-
penses reciuired in the due execution oJ the dirferent powers a';d
trusts vested by law in the Corporation, its Warden, C.'ouniil and
( )fficers.

3. The Council shall elect one suitable jjerson not bein^' a
member of the Council to be 'I'own Appraiser, to continue in
office from year to year till removed by a vote of the Council.

4.-— 'I'he Council shall annually appoint a Kate-l'ayer fruni eai !i
Ward to be called Ward Assessor within his respetaive Waiti.

5. — The Town and Ward .Appraisers shall within one week from
their election attend at such time ami plac,- as lliey shall be noti-
fied by the 'I'own Clerk, and subscribe an oath in the presenc c of
the Warden, .Stipendiary Magistrate, or some Councillor, failhlully
to perform tlie duties of their respective otitiies, and make a fair
and impartial assessment of tiie Town, and oi the respective Wards.
6. The 'i'own and Ward .Assessors shall, during their res[jei -
tive continuance in office, receive such annual compensation for
their services as the Council may api)oint.

7. — Any Town or Ward Assessor who shall neglect or refuse lo
attend to be sworn in, or shall be guilty of neglect of duty shall
pay a fine of not less than ten or more than fifty dollars. -

8. — Every male resident of the Town of the age of twcnty-onc
years and u[)wards shall pay an annual poll tax of two dollars.

9. — All real and personal property in the Town shall be liable
to taxation, subject to the following exemptions :

I St. — All estate and pro])erty belonging to or vested in Her

Majesty, Her heirs and successors.
2nd. — Every place of worship and church, or burying
ground, and Young Men's Christian Association Build-
ings and pro])erty, all public property held by the
Town, all Provincial Debentures and Debentures 01
the Town of New (Glasgow.
3rd. — The real and personal estate of any Manuflicturing
Company for such period as the same shall be relieved
from taxation by order of the Council.
4th. — The nett personal property of individuals under fitt)

dollars in value.
5th. — All property declared free of ta.xation by any act of
the Province.
10. — The terms, land, real estate or real property, shall be held
to include all buildings or other things erected upon or affixed to
the land, and all machinery or other things so fixed to any b».ild-
ing as to form in law part of the realty.

ii.~'rhe term personal property and purHonnl estate shall be
held to include all household furniture, goods, chattels, wares,
horses, cattle, farming stock and impltiiMiUH of trade, and one-
half of the value of all ships and vesHuls and rihares in ships and
vessels owned by parties doing business in thu town, whether the
same be at home or abroad, and all other property except land ;
and the term property shall include both real and personal pro-
perty.

1 2.- Real and personal property shall be appraised and esti-
mated at its full cash value.

13. — All lands shall be assessed in the nainu of and against the
occupant, and in the case of occui)ied lands owned by a party
known or residing, or doing business in thu town, but occupied by
another party, shall be assessed in the nana' of and against both
the owner an I occupant inserting the nnmu of both in the roll with
the word "owner" or "occupant" as the lane iniiy be and notify-
ing both as hereinafter provided, and the taxes thereon may be
recovered from either, or from any future owner or occupant, sav-
ing his or their recourse against any other party under any agree-
ment between the owner and the occuiiani, imd the recourse of a
future owner or occupant against a prior owner or occupant, and
if land be owned or occupied by niore than ont' [mrty, then any
one of them may be deemed the owner or owners, occupant or oc-
cupants, and shall be liable accordingly, snviiig hi,s or their re-
course against the others.

14. -The real estate and personal estate of all incorporated or
joint stock companies shall be assessed against iheni in the same
manner as the real and personal property of individuals is assessed,
and the owner or holder of stock in any incorporated or joint stock
company so taxed, shall not be assessed as m individual for such
stock.

F5. The real and personal propeity o( any partnership shall
be assessed against it under the name of Mtu firm, and notice to
either party, or the agent of the firm shall be valid and sufficient.

16. -All real and personal property under th«^ control of any
person or persons as administrators or trustee?!, guardians or agents,
the separate property of married women, and of minors shall be
valued and assessed in the names of the parties exercising control
over them, but .such rating and as.sessment xhull be kejJt distinct
from the rating and assessment of real and personal property held
by them in their own rights.

17. — The Town Assessor assisted by the Ward Assessor in their
respecti\e Wards shall prepare an asseisment roll of each Ward,
wherein t^hall be set in separate columng the nameo and surtiatnes,

as far at tl

Ward, distj
gather witlf
sessablc
mentionedl

same signC
the respe(
after makil
18.— E>f
in his owi
or agent,
nager of
(quired by
in writing
agent, coi
sable aga
are requir
refusing
knowingl)
ten or n
the Towri
of such SI
shall be I
period nc

19.— ^

from th<
quiry m
withstam
amount,
20.-^'
or whetl
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amount
or oth<
any jud
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by virti
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signmt
or the
shall
goods
andtl

J estate shall be |

». chattels, wares, f

f 'fade, and one- i

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rty except land ; i

in personal pro- I

"ist'd and esti-

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vned by a party I
Hit occupied by
' against both
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I'f and notify,
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"<'tupant, and f
irty, then any i
JW'Upantoroc- k
liw or their re- i

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111 the same
lis is assessed.
Of joint stock
liial for such

"i^rnhip shall
I'lfi notice to
111 sufficient,
itrol of any
lis or agents,
lors shall be
sing control
^'Vt distinct
operty held

»sor in their
.ach Ward,
1 suriian^ps,

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as far at the same can be ascertained, of all taxable parties in said
Ward, distinguishing residents of the town from non-residents, tO'
gether with the description and extent r amount of property as-
sessable against each, and in a separate column all the particulars
mentioned in the Appendix — Schedule A — and shall deliver the
same signed by the Town Assessor ?,nd also by Ward Assessor for
the respective Wards to the Town Clerk as soon as practicable,
after making the assessment.

1 8. — Every party holding assessable property in the town, either
in his own right or as executor, administrator, trustee, guardian,
or agent, the agent or any partner of a firm, the secretary or ma-
nager of any incorporated joint stock Company, shall when re-
quired by the Town or Ward Assessor, deliver to them a statement
in writing, signed by such party, or in case of his absence, by his
agent, containing all the particulars respecting the property as.ses-
sable against such i^arty in his private or official capacity which
are required in the assessment roll, and any such assessable party
refusing or neglecting to give such statement when so required, or
knowingly giving a false statement, shall forfeit a sum not less than
ten or more than thirty dollars, to be recovered in the name of
the Town, and for the use of the Town, and in default of jjayment
of such sum together with the costs of the prosecution, the |)arty
shall be liable to imprisonment in the lock-up or county jail for a
period not exceeding ten days.

19. — No such statement shall bind the assessors ftirther than
from their own personal knowledge and inspection, and due en-
quiry made, they believe the information to be correct, and not-
withstanding such statement, they may assess such jiarty for such
amount, as they may believe to be just and correct.

20.— The personal property of all persons, or in their possession,
or whether held by them in their own right or in any represent i-
tive capacity assessed for rates, shall be liable to pay the full
amount of rates dufe, notwithstanding any bill of sale assignment,
or other conveyance made by the owner of such property, or of
any judgment entered against the owner thereof, or any execution
issued to bind the property.

21. — No property real or personal, shall be liable to be taken
by virtue of any assignment, or mortgage, or execution, or under
any warrant of distress for rent, unless the party who holds the as-
signment or mortgage, or at whose suit the execution is issued out,
or the landlord at whose instance the warrant of distress is levied,
shall before taking into possession the property or removing the
goods, pay the rates for the then current year against the same,
and the Sheriff or his Deputy or other officers is required to levy

and pay to the Town Treasurer such rate or assessment, or the as-
signee, mortgage, or judgment creditor, who takes the property of
any debtor or party, if he do not pay over such rates within three
days after taking possession, shall be liable to an action for the
amount in the name of the Town of New Glasgow, or the goods
so taken may be distrained upon by the Treasurer of the Town
for such rates or costs.

2 2.— The Sheriff, his Deputy, or other officers, or any con table
or bailiff, who shall execute any deed or conveyance of real estate,
or pay over the proceeds of any sale of personal property after no-
tice from the Town Clerk of the amount due on such real or per-
sonal property for rates or assessments, without first receiving such
amounts from the purchaser or deducting the same from the pro-
ceeds in his hands, shall be held to be personally responsible for
the amount of such rates and assessments, and may be sued for
the same in the name of the Town.

23. — The Town Clerk shall upon receiving the assessment roll,
leave for every ])arty resident or doing business in the Town, or
the representatives of any party who shall have died before the roll
for that year shall have been fixed and adjusted and shall transmit
by post to every non-resident named in said roll, a notice of the
actual or yearly value at which his real property, and the sum at
which his personal property shall have been assessed by them.

24. — The Town Clerk shall on the receipt of the assessment roll
of each War# from the Assessors make a true copy thereof, arrang-
ed in the alphabetical order of the surnames, and shall j)ost such
coj)y in his office for a period of fourteen days, for the inspection of
any rate-i)ayer of the town; and any rate-payer firm or company,
who shall deem himself or themselves not legally entitled to be
rated, or that he or they are overcharged on said roll, may within
such fourteen days, but not after, give notice in writing to the
Town Clerk that he appeals from such rate either in whole or in
part, and shall in such notice state the grounds of his objection to
said rate.

25. — The subject matter of such appeal shall be tried by a court,
to be composed of three members of the Council, (to be;ippoi)ited
by the Council) and the Stipendiary Magistrate, who, after hearing
the complaint, and the assessor and nssessors, and any witnesses
adduced by or on behalf of either of them under oath, shall deter-
mine the matter and either confirm, modify or amend the roll ac-
cordingly, and if the j^arty appealing shall fail to appear, such court
shall proceed ex parte ; and if any elector of the town shall deem
that any party has been assessed too low or has been omitted from
said roll, the Clerk shall at the request of the elector, in writing,

nent, ortheas-
he property of
-« W'ithin three
action for the
or the goods
r of the Town

any con table
of real estate,
perty after no-
h real or per-
I'eceiving such
rom the pro-
sponsible for
be sued for

iessment roll,
the 7 own, or
before the roll
'hall transmit
'otice of the
! the sum at
by theni.
sessment roll
"reof arrang-
." l^ost such
inspection of
-'i" '-oinpan}-,
1 titled to he
'nay within
'■'ting to the
^vhole or in
objection to

by a court,
^^i])pointed
ter hearing

witnesses
'hall deter-
he roll ac-
5Uch court
hall deem
itted from
I writing,

give notice to the party, and to the Assessor or Assessors of the
time when the matter will be tried by the said Court, and the
matter shall be decided in the same manner as complaints by a
party assessed, and the roll as finally j)assed by the court and cer-
tified by the clerk as so passed, shall be valid, and shall bind all
parties concerned notwithstanding any defect or error committed
in or in regard to said roll.

26. — The Clerk shall post up in the Town Hall or his ofifice, or
such other i>lace in the Town as the Warden shall direct, a list of
all comijlainants on their own l)chalf against the Assessor's return,
and of all complaints on account of the assessment of other par-
ties, stating the name of each with a concise description of the
matter com]jlained against, together with the time when the court
will be held to hear such complaint, which list may be in the form
given in the Appendix -Schedule B. Notice as per form in the
Ap])endix -h'chedule C —shall be left at the place of residence or
business of the com]jlainant, if resident of the town, and if any
non-resident mailed to their address or left on the premises as-
sessed at least five days before the meeting of said court ; like no-
tices shall also be delivered to or left ;it the ])lace of business or
abode of the Assessors.

27. The roll shall l)e made up and delivered in not later than
the first day of February in each year, or at such other time as the
Couiu;il shall by resolution nominate and appoint.

28. -The Court of A[)ijeal and Revision shall be held whenever
[practicable before the first day of March in each year.

29. When the roll is com|)leled, it shall be handed to the Town
Clerk and laid before the Council, who shall thereupon make esti-
mates of all sums which may be re(|uire(l for the lawful purposes
of the town for the ensuing year, making due allowance in such
estimates for the abatement, losses and e\]jenses which may occur
in the collection of the taxes and of the ta.\ on non-residents, and
for taxes which may not be colK 1 ted, and the (.'ouncil shall autho-
rize the levying and colle(-:tion of a rale or rates of so much on the
dollar on the assessed \alue of the property thereon, as in the
judgment oi' the ('oun( il shall be sufficient to raise the sum or
sums recpiired on such estimate (^r estimates..

;^o. i'he Town Clerk shall procure a book for each Ward, to

be called the Assessment Jiot)k for Ward as the case may be,

in which he shall set down and enter the names in full of each
party assessed in their respective Wards, and the correct assessed
value of the real and per.sonal property of each party, and the va-
lues so set down shall be taken from the assessment roll after the
same shall have been finally settled and revised by the Court of

Appeal and Revision, and he shall also calculate, and set down the
amount of the rate for which each party is chargeable, which said
Assessment book and rates shall be revised and approved of by the
Council or a Committee of their number for that purposeappointed.

31. — As soon as the said assessment roll shall be approved of
by the Council or a Committee thereof, the Treasurer of the Town
shall cause each person or company so rated, or his or their agent,
to be served with a notice in the form in the Appendix — Schedule
,D — and in the case of non-rgsidents the same shall be mailed to
their address or left on the property assessed.

3». — If any persons rated or assessed, shall not pay the amount
within thirty days after service of the notice, or in case of non-resi-
dents after the same has been mailed to their address or left on
the assessed property, or within such other period r s shall be li-
mited for the payment of the same by the Council, the Clerk shall,
without del^y levy the same together with ten per cent, additional,
and the costs and expenses of the collection thereof, by distress
and .sale of the goods and chattels of the party, or the Company
who ought to pay the same, or of any goods and chattels in his
possession wherever the same may be found within the Town, and
may also make distress of any goods and chattels which he may
find upon any of the land of non-residents upon which the taxes
have not been paid, and the property distrained may be removed
to a place of safe keeping, provided that any person paying to the
Town Treasurer the amount of his taxes, within fourteen days from
the receipt by him of his notice shall be entitled to a deduction of
five per cent, from the amount of his taxes.

33.— If said property so distrained is not redeemed within five
days after such distraint, the same shall be sold at auction to pay
the rates, per centage and costs and expenses of sale after three
days notice of such sale, posted in three conspicuous places of the
Town, and the balance, if any, shall be paid over to the party le-
gally entitled to the same.

34, —If any party assessed shall be a non-resident of the Town,,
or shall have removed therefrom after such assessment, and before
the rate shall have been collected, or any balance shall remain due
after such distress and sale, the Town Treasurer shall sue for the
amount inclusive of the ten per cent, costs and exjienses in the
name of the Town as in case of any common debt, and the produc-
tion of the roll and assessment book of the Ward shall be prima
fade evidence of the debt.

35. — In any case of non-payment of the rate by either resident
or non-resident, the Treasurer shall at his option sue therefor in
the first instance and levy for any balance uncollected, or shall is-

•I

sue and le

the sale

by the To<

shall, whi

against w|

36. — -^
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be mailed to

)ay the amount

:ase of non-resi-

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•'^^ shall be li-

fhe Clerk shall,

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the Town, and

^hich he may

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ction to pay
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sue and levy the distress and Hue for any balancR remaining after
the sale of the distress. A certiAcate of an^ jud^ent obtained
by the Town for taxes under the hand of the Stipendiary Magistrate,
shall, when recorded, be a lien on the real estate of the party
against whom judgment has passed.

36. — Any person absent from the Province, and any Company
whose effects are not to be found or are insufficient to levy upon
by way of distress, may be proceeded against for rates due the
Town, according to the provinions of the absent and absconding
debtors' Act.

37. — ^In case a i)arty, or a firm, or company, whose taxes are in
arrears and unpaid, shall make an assignment or become bankrupt
or be unable to pay said taxes in full, the Town Treasurer shall,
with the approbation of the Warden, join in any compromise, or
accept any dividend or part payment of the same, as may appear
for the interests of the Town,

IV.

MUNICIPAL COURT.

1. — ^There shall be a Mui\icipal Court, to be presided over by
the Stipendiary and Police Magislrate, or .i» hereinafter provided
by the Warden, or one Councillor, and the Town Clerk shall act as
Clerk thereof

2. — The Council shall appoint a suitable person to fill the Office
of Stipendiary and Police Magistrate, who shall be a Justice of the
Peace, and well versed in magisterial business, and who shall in
addition act as Recorder of the Town,

3. —All fines, fees and coHts shall go to form a fund, out ot
which the salary of the Stipendiary Magistrate, and the expenses
of the Court shall be defrayed, any deficiency to be paid out of
the Ceneral Fund of tiie Town, and any balance remaining over
after defraying the above charges shall be paid into the General
Fund.

4. — ^The Municipal Court shall have jurisdiction, cognizance
and power to try and deteruiine in a summary way without a jury
all civil actions or dealing, ex coiitmctUs in which the whole cause
of action shall have arisen within the Town of New Glasgow, and
in which the cause of action doe>4 not exccvd Fighty Dollars, and
for all balances not exceeJing K/ighty t/ollars, upon accounts
stated and settled previmis to suit, and all such civil contracts
where the amount originally due has been reduced to Eighty Dol-
lars or less, by payment of casl!; and when the defendant shall
pros'e an offset of greater amount than the plaintiff has proved,

II !

may give judgment in favor of the defendant for the balance due
him ; and shall also try in a summar) way, w'thout a jury, all ac- |
tions ex delicto, including actions in the nature of replevin, assault |
and battery, slander in word or writing, trespass to land or build-
ing, or other real estate in which the title or right oi possession is
not the object of controversy, i>rovided the cause of such action
originated within the limits of the Town, and the damages claimed
in any such case do not exceed Sixty Dollars. No civil suit for
any debt or dealing in which the whole cause of action shall have
arisen in the municipality, shall be brought to any other Court ex-
cept by way of appeal to the Supreme Court. Provided that if
the plaintiff or defendant in such suit does not reside within the
I'own of New Clasgow, the samt may be sued, defended, or tried
in any court having jurisdiction.

5. — The Municipal Court shall have and exercise nithin the
bounds of the Municipality, all the })owers and jurisdiction in cri-
minal matters conferred u|)on one or more Justices of tb.e Peace,
or Stipendiary or Police ^lagistrate, by any act of the Province,
or of the Dominion of Canada, or hitherto exercisable or held by
him or tiicm ; and shall have jurisdiction, cognizance and power to
try and determine in a summary \,r'y without Jury, criminal cases
or offences, either at common law or by statute, including offences,
and charges for larcenies, receiving stolen goods, common assaults,
assaults and battery, trespass, using violent and abusive language,
disturbing or l)reaking the i)eace, being intoxicated, drunk or dis-
orderly, offences against the Sabbath which have been committed
within the municipality, and any offence against, or disobedience
of, any bye-law or ordinance of the town ; not to extend to any
charge of treason, liomicide, burglary or arson, and to convict,
sentence, acfjuit, dismiss and generally adjudicate on all such cases,
charges, and oflences. and to impose such punishment by impri-
soimienl in the County Jail, the lock-up' of the 'I'own or such other
l)lace as shall he provided for the i)urpose with or without hard
labor ; or such fuie or distress, or one or more of the same, or the
alternative of imprisonment for the non-payment of the fine, as
su.h Stipendiary Magistrate or as said Warden and Councillor,
when presiding as hereinafter provided for. shall think proper, pro-
vided no su( h fmc shall amount to more than eighty dollars, and
no such imprisonuiLUt shall exceed the term of three months. —
The Municipal Court .shall be holden for the trial of civil cases
every day if occasion re([uire, commencing at 10 o'clock, A M.,
and may sit by adjournment from day to day until all the causes,
in the list for trial are called.

6. — I'he Municipal Court for the trial of criminal matters shall

:s\t every da
[and shall '
that the StI
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and timej
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punishme
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^'it balance due
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replevin, assault
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' damages claimed
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'■tion shall have
other Court ex ^
{Provided that if j

f^side within the .;

-'t'nded, or tried ^

<'«e n-ithin the ^
risdiction in cri- ■
-■^ of the Peace,
>^ the Province
'^l^ie or held hy
Xt' and j;ower to
'Criminal cases
■ludmg offences,
>mmon assaults,
"•"^'/■c^ language,
. orunk or dis-
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^ disobedience
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md to convict,
'■^JJ such cases,'
lent by impr,-..

' or such other
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same, or the
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d Councillor,
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dollars, and
-e nionths. —
^f civil cas«:c
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latters shall

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jsit every day if occasion require, commencing at lo o'clock, A. M.,
[and shall continue until all the cases are disposed of, provided
that the Stipendiary Magistrnte or person presiding, may continue
any complaint for such time as may be necessary. The party suc-
ceeding in all civil cases shall be entitled to costs.

(he Stipendiary Magistrate shall, until otherwise directed by the
the Council, frame and make all rules, orders and regulations re-
specting the practice in the Municipal Court, both civil and cri
niinal, and shall make, order and declare, adopt, and from time to
vary and alter the various writs, processes and forms to be used
by the Municipal Court, together with the tariff of costs, charges
and fees. .Ml writs and other proceedings shall be issued by the
Town Clerk, and shall be directed to the Police or other Constable.

8. -The administration of Police within the Town, and all the
Executive powers of the Corporation are vested in the Warden and
Councillors and Stii)en(liary Magistrate. The \V'arden and the
Councillors in Rotation, according to a Rostjr to be by the Coun-
cil ])repared, may attend at the Police Office at some suitable time
and times to be named, and may perform every act appertaining
to the Office of p «tice of the J^eace, or Stipendiary or Police Ma-
gistrate, necessary for the apj)rehension, committal, conviction and
punishment of criminal offenders, and for carrying into effect the
laws in fori:e and the bye-laws of the 'Pown, and may have and ex-
ercise all and every the jjowers vested in the criminal side of the
Municipal Court, jirovided that the Warden oi Councillor may at
all times have the power of calling to his assistance the Stipendiary
Magistrate, and that nothing herein shall be deemed to abridge the
power of che Stijjendiary Magistrate who shall exerci.se within the
Town, both in civil and criminal matters, all the powers enjoyed
l)y two I ustices of the Peace, as well as power to try and deter-
mine all actions heretofore within the jurisdiction of the Stii)rn-
<liary Magistrate. All ])ersons violating the Sabbath by carrying
on any game, play or ])astime to the annoyance of their neighbors
or the public, common l)eggars, gamblers, habitual drunkards, per-
sons breaking windows or damaging the property of others wilfully
and maliciously, lewd persons, vagabonds, runaways, stubborn and
refractory apprentices, and all i>ersons who may have been fmnd
drunk and disorderly on the streets, or committing any assault, or
breaking the peace in any manner whatsoever; and all persons im-
becile in mind, and incapable of taking care of themselves, may
be sent to the County Jail or the Town Pock-up, or other place
provided by the Stipendiary Magistrate, or the Warden, or any
Councillor, for a period not to exceed twenty days for the first of-
fence, and may on any subsequent conviction be imprisoned by

the same authority for a period not exceeding three months, and
in the case cf inebriate persons or vagabonds, for a period not ex-
ceeding one year, and the Stipendiary Magistrate or the Warden
or any Councillor may, in lieu of imprisonment, impose a fine not
exceeding forty dollarv in any such case.

9. — The Police ('onstables shall arrest any such persons and
bring them before the Stipendiary Magistrate, or the Warden, or
any Councillor. If the arrest occurs after three o'clock in the af-
ternoon, or upon Sunday or any holiday, or the afternoon preced-
ing either of these days, the prisoner may be kept in the Lock-up
house until the hour of eleven o'clock of the subsequent day, such
subsequent day not being Sunday or a holiday, in which case he
shall be tried upon the day following. And the Warden, Coun-
cillor, or Stipendiary Magistrate p'.esiding, on being satisfied on in-
spection, confession or proof, that the |)erson or persons so arrest-
ed are guilty of the offences and crimes charged against them, or
ought whether for their own benefit or that of others not to be at
large, may sentence them to such imprisonment, or impose such
fine as is provided in the last preceding section. No conviction
before the Stipendiary Magistrate, or the Warden, or any Council-
lor, shall be quashed for want of form, and no warrant of Commit-
ment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, so as it
be therein alleged that the i)arty has been convicted ot some of-
fence named theiein.

10. — Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Stipendiary
Magistrate, the Warden, or any Councillor from committing per-
sons charged with offencus for trial in the Supreme Court, or bind
them under lecogni/.ance with sureties to appear and answer in
the Supreme Court.

II. — All persons shall be bound on reiiuest to obey the Stipen-
diary Magistrate, the Warden, or any Councillor, and to assist the
Policeman and Constables in any duty oi arrest ; and any one re-
fusing shall be fined not less than three dollars nor more than
twenty by the Stipendiary Magistrate, the Warden or any Council-
lor, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned not less than
seven nor more than fifty days.

12. — In all undefended civil cases, in the Municipal Court,
where the defendant fails to appear at the time and place named
in the summons for his ap|)earance, the Court shall be ac liberty
to give judgment for the plaintiff, without his appe
ing oath to the justness of his claim.

13. — Nothing herein contained shall be construed to conflict
with the Criminal Law of Canada, or to oust the Supreme Court
of its jurisdiction,

appearing and male-

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i^ persons and
^^^ Warden, or
-'ock in the af-
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yhich case he
^^den, Coun-
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impose such
vo conviction
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POLICE FORCE.

I. — The Council shall as often as occasion shall require select
a Policeman or Policemen, who shall act as day and night watch
of the Town of New Glasgow, and in the event of more than one
Policeman being appointed, shall select one of the number to be
Chief ot the Police.

2. — The Policeman and aU special and extra Constables to be
ajjpointed as hereinafter prov: 'ed, shall be under the authority,
direction, and control of a Committee of Police, to be composed
of the Warden, the Stipendiary Magistrate, and the members of
the Council.

3. — The Policeman shall be prompt to obey and carry out all
the orders and directions from time to time given him, or such
number of them as the Council shall select and shall serve all pro-
cesses civil and criminal, and make all arrests within the Town,
and under tue direction of the Committee of Police, shall have all
the power and authority in all matters criminal, and in case of
breach of the peace, and for preserving quietand good order which
Sheriffs and Constables possess within their jurisdiction, and shall
immediately report to the Town Clerk or some member of the
Committee of Police, any violation or infraction of the Act of In-
corporation, or of any bye-law or ordinance of the Town, any case
of breach of the peace, or o^ vjuiet and good order, and any crimi-
nal matter Avithin the municipality that shall come to their know-
ledge or under their notice.

4. — The Committee of Police shall cause to be entered in a
book, any s])ecial order or direction in regard to Police matters,
whi( h book shall be in the custody of the Town Clerk, and shall
be at all times open to the inspection and guidance of the Police-
men in the discharge ot their duties, and which they shall be bound
at once to obev and carry out.

5. — The Council shall from time to time fix and appoint the
fees, salary and emoluments t"> be paid to the policemen.

6. — The Chief of Police or any Policeman told off to serve civil
processes and execute writs for the civil Court, shall before enter-
ing on that duty give security in such sum as the Council shall
direct, for the due and faithful accounting for and paying over any
moneys that may be collected by him, or come into his possession
Oi under his control.

[•"V

SPEv^xAL CONSTABLES.

7.— In case of riot, tumult, disturbance, or illegal act of any
kind, accompanied with force and violence within the precinct of
tl:e municipality, or a just apprehension thereof, the Warden, Sti-
pendiary Magistrate, or any one or more of the Councillors, may,
by writing under their hands, appoint any number of Special Con-
stables, to assist in preserving peace and order.

8, — Such Special Constables shall be under the direction and
control of the Committee of Police.

9. — The Warden or any member of the Committee of Police,
may swear in such special Constables to the faithful discharge of
their duties.

10. — The appointmens of such special Constables shall continue
in force for the space of seven days from the date of such appoint-
ment, unless sooner revoked by the Committee on Police.

1 1. — In case any disorder or disturbance shall occur at any pub-
lic meeting or assemblage of persons, the Warden, Stipendiary or
any Councillor of the Town, upon the request of the Chairman of
such meeting, or three or more freeholders, may verbally appoint
and swear in special Constables, who shall aid in restoring and pre-
serving order and peace at such meeting or assembly, and who
shall be under the control and direction of the Warden, Stipendiary
Magistrate, or any member of the Council.

1 2. — Any person appointed a Special Constable who shall refuse
to act and be sworn in, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
Ten Dollars.

13. — The Warden may from time to time appoint such number
ot extra Constables as he may deem necessary, and for such period
not exceeding one year, as he shall deem requisite.

14. — Each extra Constable shall be sworn in before the Warden,
Stipendiary Magistrate, or any of the Councillors, to the faithful
discharge of his duties, while he shall continue to be an extra Con-
stable.

15. — The (Council may compensate any extra Constable for loss
of time when called out for special duty, but in no other case.

16. — The extra Constables shall be under the direction and con-
trol of the Committee of Police, they shall assist the Police Con-
stables in any of their duties.

16. — On the request of the Warden, Stipendiary Magistrate, or
Committee of Police, they shall serve any summons, or execute
any warrant emanating tiom the Police or Court of the Town, or

perform anj

do.

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arrest wror
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the To^
of bail
liable t
lars, ic
meal
jail foi

I.—

mittei

cessa

amin

be c(

Coui

legal act of any
ne precinct of
- Warden, Sti-
JnciJJors, may,
'^ i>pecia] Con-
direction and

ee of PoJice,
discharge of

shall continue
such appoint-
olice.

uratanypub-
t'pendiary or
Chairman of
^'Jy appoint
^ringandpre-
Dly, and who
. Stipendiary

J shall refuse
'^ exceeding

Jch number
such period

^e Warden,
he faithful
extra Con-

5Je for loss
r case.

1 and con-
hce Con-

strate, or
»■ execute
''own, or

perform any other duty that a Police Constable has authority to
do.

In case of an actual breach of the peace occurring in their pre-
sence, they shall interfere to preserve order, and if necessary shall
arrest wrong-doers and convey them to the lock-up.

In casess of larceny or alleged larceny, the extra Constables
shall have power to act in prevention or otherwise, and in cases of
violent removal of goods, or violence as to property in houses or
the possession thereof, shall have power to keep the peace.

In case any jjcrsons are found by the Police or extra Constable
in the act of defacing, injuring or destroying any bridge or public
properly, or any trees on any street, lane, or publi<', or open place,
or in the from of any house or building whi<h have been growing
or placed there for shade, ornament or other i)urpose. or discovered
digging up or remtjving iiny of the soil of the Common, or defac-
ing or injuring the e.xterior of any house, building or fence, or the
shutters or ajjpendages thereof, or in writing any obscene or pro-
fane words on an)- lence or l)uil<ling, the Police or extra Constables
shall arrest such trespassers if tliey are unknown persons, and take
them to the lock-up and tletain tliem there in order to ascertain
their names, giving immediate notice to the Warden, Stipendiary
Magistrate, or Committee of Police, and if the parties so caught
are known, shall report the tact with the names and residences of
the parties to the \Vardcn, Stipendiary Magistrate, or Committee
of Police, without making any arrest.

i8.- The names of parties a[)[)ointed as extra C'onst .hies shall
be posted up inside the Town Hall or Police Office, and shall be
published in handltills posted in conspicuous places in the Town,
within one month of such appointment and being sworn in.

19. —Any extra Constable so appointed who shall not attend at
tlie Town Hall at such time as he shall be notified for the ]»urpose
of being sworn in, or who shall refuse to take the oath, shall i)e
liable to a penalty of not less than Ten or more th.in Forty Dol-
lars, to be recovered in the Town as a debt, and in default of jxiy-
ment shall be subject to imprisonment in the lock-up or county
jail for a jjeriod of not less than T..1" or m.)re than .Sixty days.

LOCKUP.

I. — -Any person or persons charged on oath with ha\ing com
mitted any criminal offence, and whom it shall be lawt'ul and ne
cessary to detain, in order that such person or persons may be ex
amined previous to ce mmitment to jail for trial or dismissed, shall
be confined in the lock-up, and all persons convicted by the Police
Court of the Town for violation of any bye-law or ordinance of the

Town shall be sentenced to confinement in the lock-up or County
Jail.

2. — All persons found in the streets or public places of the Town
in a state of intoxication, all persons found injuring, defacing, or
destroying any bridge, trees, or other public property of the town,
and whom it is lawful to arrest on view, and generally all persons
convicted on view of the \Vardcn, Stipendiary Magistrate, any
Councillor, the Police, Special or extra Constables, or on the oath
of one or more i:redible witnesses, and shall be detained and con
fined in the lock-up.

PROSECUTIONS.

I.- -All fines and penalties incurred undei the statute concern
ing the Town of New (ilasgow, or any act in ainentlment of or in
addition thereto hereafter to be |)assed, or under any bye-law or
ordinance of the Town, or for any breach of any provision of any
act of the Province, now or hereafter to be in force respecting the
sale of intoxicating liipiors. may be enforced in tlie ("ivil or Police
Court of the Town, at the prosecution of the Town, and all fines
and penalties when recovered shall form part of the general fund
of the Pown.

2. --When any rent shall be due to the Town, and in arrear, the
Warden or any member of the Commiltee of Public Property, shall
have full power to issue a warrant of distress for ^hv same, under
his hand and seal diiected to any Police Constable of the Town;
or the same may be sued for in the name of the Town as a com-
mon debt.

3. — In cases when al the suit of the Town, or by any other jjer-
son, a summons is issued for the violation of any bye-law or ordi-
nance, or of any provisions of the present or any amended Act of
Incorporation of the Town, and the same is disobeyed, it shall be
lawful to issue a warrant against the party so refusing or neglecting
to obey such summons, or a warrant may be issued in the first in
stance.

POUND AND POUND KEEPERS.

Suitable jjounds shall be erected, one at each end of the Town,
or any other loc:aIity deemed advisable by the Council.

The Council shall annually api)oint a keeper for each pound.

Whenever any animal is impounded for the breach of any bye-
law or ordinance of the Town, the pound keeper in case the owner
of such animal is known to him, shall give him notice of such im-
pounding as soon as practicable, and if within two days after said
notice, or within five days after the impounding of the animal,

^he owner is
»nd removel

■k

1. Ho
be aViowcc

2. 'Hi
any hi>''^'-
\ane, or (

at large,
each anc
for the I
and for
first oft
half of
Constal
. remaim
Police
have b
4.—
party,

5-'
the St

mal

day f

ously

Ick-up or County

ks of the Town
"«:• defacing, or
ftyofthe town,
F"y .all ,,crsons
[Magistrate, any
I or on the oath
[tamed and con

atdtf concern
'"^■nt of or in
"y he-law (),•
ovision of any
r^is/jectin^r th^.
'^■''or fohVe
*^"<' all fines
K<^'neral fund

, '" •I'-rear, the
'■^^Pt'rty. shall
''''"If, under
^ tilt-' Toun :
'^ ''"^ a roni-

1} other jjer-
lan- or ordi-
''t^''! Act of
• 't shall he
'■"t-^^lecting
^^^ first in-

•lie 7V

^he owner is unknown, the owner of said animal does not reclaim
^jiBnd remove it, and pay the forfeiture incurred, the Warden shall
iissue an order for the sale at aution of such animal, and in such
lease the balance, if any, after detlucting the forfeiture and expenses
■of sale, shall he paid to the owner if applied for within three months
^froiii day of sale, and if'not so a|)plied for shall go to the use of
I tile Town.

'u Before any animal impounded for the breach of any bye-law,
1 siiall be released, the owner thereof or party applying for the re-
J lease, shall |)ay the following fcjrfeiture, vi/ :

■ For notices when given $0.50

S Keeper unlocking |)ound 0.25

J Keeper releasing the animal 0,25

i. For providing provender for the aiiiiual while in the

pound, if a horse, coll, ox, cow or calf each day i.oo

If a [)ig. goat, or goose each day 0.25

RELATIVE TO HORSES, COWS. SWINE,
COLTS, OXEN, CALVES, GEESE AND

DOGS.

1. Horses, oxen, cows, swine, colts, goals, and geese shall not
be allowed to go at large within the Town of New (llasgow.

2. The rolice ('onstable or any other person may impound
any horses, cows, swine, gojits or geese found at large in any street
lane, or other place within the Town.

3. — The owner (W';iny horse, o\, cow, ,/ig. goat, or goose going
at large, shall forfeit and pay the following amount, viz. : —For
each and every liorse, ox, cow, goat or pig, the sum of one dollar
for the first offence and two dollars for every subsecpient offence ;
and for each and e\ery goose the sum of twenlyfive cents for the
first offenct;, and fifty cents for every sul)se(|ucnt offence. (,)ne-
half of the above to go to the other i)arty other than the Police
Constable, who shall inform against, and convict the offender, the
remainder to the use of the Town; tliis fine to be recovered in the
Police Court in the name of the lown, whether the animal shall
have been impounded or not,

4. — The Stipendiary Magistrate shall, on the application of a
party, issue a warrant to bring the i)arty before him for trial.

5. — If the offender on conviction does not pay the fine imposed,
the Stipendiary Magistrate or Officer ])residing shall order the ani-
mal so found going at large to b^sold at Public Auction on the
day following such conviction, unless the owner shall have previ-
ously paid the fine imposed, together with all expenses consequent

. .„d ton of the animal -, a;d J *'^„,";;;,;i! of £

at large, or cong^^g^; ^^ ^f ^he same. j ^ ^y ^nnuaUy

^.enalties tor the b cach^ ^.^thm the 1 own sha I y ^^^

I'ne owner ocnvner^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^.

a tax ot one doUar tor ; ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ,;, he owner <>« ^very
tn his or th;^^ Pos ess on ^^^^^ y^,,.. and » ;'^\,,. ^^ ,,,j ,^

nrst day of _ Ma^ - -\„ ,, Placed aroun^^^^ J- ., ^^^ ,,,,

^ his or the^^ V>°^ ^ each and every year; ^^.^^ of .aid c ^

^-^ n ou^^ -^^-^" ^^^ ^^^^^h^riber oHnn -K^^^^y, and
doe shall cause '.v tUprem, ana tnc nui. j ,

tl the owner, nam;; «- '^.ed, shah o, a ^J^^^^ ,,

dollar; such tax ana I ^^^.^^_ . ^^^,^. ( „-

Municipal court o^^-^.^^^ duty ^V^^'fol^ll.^ Vy.^aw, and lo

6._.lt sh^dl ^^^j;\7^uend to and ^".^^ "^' i.^u... Warden.

or goose gomg at lar^- ^TBEETS. . „

,ortheT^^^-->-::S..-^^^^

be placed under^^ °^ ^^^ annually c:l--^^^,,awni of SUccts
,,nc from ^^yn a'"-^; of Streets, and lae ^^^ ; ' \;,,,,,,ilt..-o.
called 'he ^,^^^"'f '\1-,eetion and control ot ^^^ -^ ^ of Streets,
shall be under the dcctio ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^.'■^'^'''^ ' ;, ,1 vcu.oved.

.,__;Vhe ^'^'''"^^f'-y^^.soxh^ apponucd. " !^ ,.i„j,ndent
to hold othce -^^;Z^. of the ^;'--:.; ^^ ^^^ mhtul dis-
'- be 'removed a^dK^P'^.^^,^,, ,,- , ( ouncdK^ o^ ^_^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^_

pensation tor his se ^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^.^.^

i„„, .leaninn and "•"^" V , „„VinB. '■■|.an"'K' ■',',' .„„| side-
of any nuisance, obstru

of the

going
iiupo«f

miuiitny
.r kci't
on tilt*
»r every
lid (It)g
istry. itti<l
n ol one
il in tlie

.li(e Ct'ti-
\\\, and I"
Warden.

I,, vef'U'ain

a're«»n< '-'liall
t'oundlloi's.

mineil. U' 1'*^
I'M ol St feels

littee.

iiU of Streets.

Uil retndved,

.iperintendent

t' laiUitul tlis

'ive HUeli com

„ unie t.) time

iuk-r Uu' diret •
thr 'i'owii. to
iiirs. the sweep-
;,\vay tlie snow
,d improving ot
milts and side-
lliUe'M.f Streets

iM'eon.

4. — The Superintendent shall keep such accounts and records
of his proceeding, as shall be ordered by the Council or Commit-
tee of Streets, and furnish accounts properly vouched, whenever
required so to do, by the Council or Committee of Streets

5. — The Committee of Streets shall have power to make con-
tracts for the supply of labor and materials for the streets, and for
the use of such horses and carts as shall be required for the pur-
pose of the street service.

6.— The Committee of Streets shall have power under the direc-
tion of the Council, at any time to enter into a private contract
with any person or persons to keep the streets of the town or any
portion of them in good order and repair, or to put that service
up to public competition.

7. — No such contract or letting shall be for a period of over one
year, and the contractor, whether by private agreement or public
competition, shall give bonds with good and sufficient sureties in
such sum as the Council may name for the faithful performance
of the work.

8. — The Council may from time to time in tiieir discretion, pay
the contractor such proportionate part of the contract price as
they may deem just and prudent, but no money shall be jjaid ex-
cept on a certificate of the amount of work done, and that the
same has been well and faithfully performed, signed by the Super-
intendent, and countersigned by the Chairman or two of the Com-
mittee of Streets.

9. — All sums recjuired for the street service within the 'I'ov.n of
New (Glasgow shall be borne by and taken from the general reve-
nues of the Town.

10. — Every male resident of the Town between the ages of
eighteen and sixty, except firemen, engine men, axe nen, ministers
in charge of congregations, school teachers, shall annually pay a
road tax of two dollars; and the balance of the sum refjuired fcr
street purposes, shall be raised by an equal rateable assessment on
the real and personal estate ol the citizens, in the same manner
as the other revenues of the 'I own are raised by assessment, and
the sum so raised together with the sum realized from the road
tax, shall be paid into the Town Treasury, and become part of the
general revenues of the Town, provided that the sum of four dol-
lars be deducted annually from the rates to be levied on all mem-
bers of the fire department, in lieu of their present exemption from
statute labor.

II. — No person shall pile, deposit, or place on any road, street,
lane or other public place of the Town, any manure, compost,
wood, lumber, or other substance or material whatsoever, under a

penalty of three dollars for each offence, and every twenty-four
hours that such manure, compost, earth, wood, lumber, or other
substance or material shall remain piled, deposited or placed on
any road, street, lane, or other public place within the limits of
the Town, shall be held to be and shall be a separate offence.

12. — No person shall slack, riddle, mix with sand or otherwise
prepare lime in any of the roads, streets or lanes of the Town, un-
less by written permission from the Committee of Streets, under
penalty of Two Dollars tor each offence.

13. — The occupiers, owners or persons in charge of houses,
stores, lots and pieces of land, shall be bound after every fall of
snow to clear away the snow from the sidewalks and gutters of
their respective premises, within two hours after it shall haveceased
to fall, under a penalty of not less than one or more than five dol-
lars on each person who neglects to do so, unless excused by the
Superintendent of Streets.

14.--N0 person shall encumber or obstruct a free passage through
any street, lane, or sidewalk, or path of the 'I'own, by exposing for
sale, unpacking or suffering to remain u])on any road, street, lane,
or alley, or upon the sidewalk or footpath thereof, any lumber, iron,
coal, trunk, bale, crate, cask, package or other articles, or anything
for more than two hours, or leave any such articles at night on the
road, street, lane or sidewalk after six o'clock, under a penalty of
not less than one dollar; and the continuance of any such obstruc-
tion for one hour after notice given by the Police or other Con-
stable to remove the same, shall be deemed a new offence, and for
every hour it is continued, he shall be liable to an additional fine
of fifty cents.

15. — The ("ouncil shall have power to lay out, locate, and build
any new bridge, or to alter the location of any bridge; and to lay
out any new street, road, lane, or highway, to improve, enlarge,
make straight, and widen, any bridge, road, street, lane, passage,
or public place within the Town, and for that purpose to remo\e
when necessary any building, jjrojection, wall or fences, or portion
thereof, to direct a survey to be made, and unless a satisfactory
private arrangement be made, shall appoint one competent person,
and ihe projjrietor of the jMoperty so sought, to be taken as afore-
said, shall appoint one other competent person, and they •^■.o shall
appoint a third, none of whom shall be interested in said road,
street, lane, or bridge in the land to be occupied by any new bridge,
but who may be residents of the Town, and who shall be compen-
sated for their labor out of the Town funds to appraise the dama
ges to be paid to those whose lands may be taken to form the
road, street, or lane, or the site of any bridge, or whose building.

wall, or erections may be removed or destroyed in whole or in
part for the improvement of any street, lane or public passage.

1 6. — The appraisers shall notify the parties interested, and hear
them if required, and the appraisement being made by the three
appraisers or any two of them, notice shall be given to each per-
son whose land is taken, or whose buildings are to be removed in
whole or in part, or to his agent ten days at least before the meet-
ing of Council at which it is to be confirmed. The Council shall
give, any party objecting to the appraisement an opportunity of
being heard and of proving their objection by testimony. If the
expense and damage appear to the Council to be excessive when
compared with the utility of the work, they may suspend or aban-
don the undertaking at any period, compensating for any damage
actually done.

17. — Hereafter no pro^irietor or possessor of land shall open for
public use or dedicate to the public any new road or street over
and on his property of less than sixty feet wide, and the Commit-
tee of Streets are authorized in their discretion, wholly or partially,
to close up and obstruct any road, street, lane, or thoroughfare of
less than sixty feet in width, which may be hereafter laid out or
opened, or which may have been so laid out and opened contrary
to law.

iS. — The Council shall not accept the dedication of any road,
street, or lane to the Town, of a less width than sixty feet, nor
shall any public monies or revenues be paid out or expended on
any road, street or lane of less width than sixty feet, except the
roads, streets or lanes in which at the time of the incorporation of
the Town, statute labor had actually been done or public monies
expended.

19. — Persons intending to build upon or close to the line of a
street, shall before digging the foundation or commencing the
building, apply to the Committee of Streets to cause the line of
the street to be defined, and laid out, and shall defray the expense
of a Surveyor if necessary to employ one, and shall dig the foun-
dation, and erect the building within the line. And if any person
shall erect a building on the line of said street, or without making
such application, and having the line so ascertained, he shall for-
feit the sum of not less than forty dollars or more than eighty dol-
lars, and shall also remove the encroachment, or otherwise the
Council or their Committee of Streets, may cause the same to be
removed or take the steps allowed by law in case of nuisances.

20. — When the Committee of Streets or their Superintendent
shall have proceeded to ascertain the line of street on application
of any party about to build thereon, and he shall be satisfied with

the line pointed out by the Committee or their Superintendent, a
Judge of the Supreme Court shall upon application of either party
issue a precept to the Sheriff or Deputy to summon a Jury of six
disinterested freeholders to meet on some convenient day therein
named, to view and lay out the line, and the Jurj' shall be sworn
by the Sheriff or his deputy well and truly to lay out and establish
the line of streets according to their best judgment, and the wit-
nesses tendered shall be sworn by the Sheriff or his Deputy, and
if vhe Jurors or either party require it, a new survey of the line
shall be made, and the Sheriff shall make a return forthwith under
the hands of himself and the Jurors to a Judge, who, if he shall
approve thereof shall confirm the return, and the same shall be
filled in the Prothonotary's Office at Pictou; but if the Judge shall
not approve of the return, a new i)recept shall be issued, and pro-
ceedings had thereon in manner prescribed as to the first precept,
and so on until a return be confirmed, and the Judge shall direct
how and by whom the expenses of the proceedings shall be paid,
and the same shall he taxed by the Judge not exceeding sixty
dollars.

31. -Any person who shall designedly and unnecessarily drive
any carriage or cart, or ride on a sidepath, or roll or place heavj'
articles on the same to the injury or obstruction of the sidewalk,
shall for every offence forfeit not less than one dollar nor more
than ten.

2 2. — No persons shall stand in a group or near each other on
any sidewalk or bridge so as to obstruct a free passage for foot
passengers under a penalty of not less than or more than two dol-
lars ; and any person or persons refusing or neglecting after the re-
quest of the VVarden. any Councillor, or any of the Town Officers,
Policemen, or Watchman, to remove and not obstruct such side-
path or bridge, shall be deemed to have committed the above of-
fence, and shall be liable to the penalty.

23. - Any person who shall on any street, lane, bridge, or tho-
rcMghfare or sidewalk, use oi)enly any profane, obscene, lewd, or
lascivious language, or be guilty of any obscene, lewd, or lascivious
conduct or behaviour, or who. being on the street, lane, sidewalk
or bridge, shall openly challenge any one to fight, or shall use abu-
sive or provoking language, or shall make any noise or disturbance
thereon, or shall obstruct any person or persons in their shops or
houses, or proceeding to their lawful business, or who shall appear
to be on any street, lane, sidewalk, or bridge, in a drunken or in-
toxicated state, may be forthwith arrested and taken into custody
by day or night by the Warden, the Stipendiary Magistrate, or any
Councillor, or by any Police or other Constable, or any Watchman,

and taken
and shall
than ten
ceeding si

25.— nI

Committe
days notic
next alter
and every
lou.

i.-ri

of the
ten years
period e.N
nor ;n C

?..' -Al

l,y vile \N

3, -A

inii. any

11^) or rei

public p

streets, 1

iront ot

there lb

Ji j)enalt

default

up or JJ

days.

re)Uo;hr;i
sha'ii bi
dollars,
..!■ jail

I.-

the ( )i
goods
C'oum
n^ittc(
signc*

lendent, a
ither party
iry of six
ty therein
be sworn
establish
d the wit-
puty, and
'f the line
ith under
■r he shall
e shall be
Lidge shall
and pro-
precept,
all direct
be paid,
ding sixty

■ily drive
ce heav)'
sidewalk,
nor more

other on
s for foot
two dol-
:r the re-
Oflficers,
ich side-
bove of-

or tho-
lewd, or
•scivious
sidewalk
use abu-
urbance
flops or
I appear
» or in-
custody
, or any
chman,

and taken to the Police Office, and there detained until identified,
and shall be subject to a fine not le»H than one dollar nor more
than ten dollars, and on non-payment, to an imprisonment not ex-
ceeding sixty days.

25. — No action shall be commentetl againHt the Town, or their

Committee on streets, or persons acting under them, until twenty

days notice in writing shall be given to them, nor after six months

next alter the act committed for which the action shall be brought

iiul every such action shall be laid and tried in the County of Pic-

toii.

PUBLIC PROPERTY.

I. — The Council shall have full power to manage the real estate
of ihe I'own, and to lease the same for any term not exceeding
ten years, and on such conditiouK u» they nhall see fit, and tor any
pcnod exceeding ten years, by and with the consent of the Gover-
nor Ml Council.

.? -AH leases and deeds shall be under the Town Seal, signed
l«y lUc Warden and countersigned by the Town Clerk.

3. -Any person or persons found dentroying, injuring, or defac-
liijj;. .uiy bridge or other public property ol the Town, or digging
\][i ur removing any of the soils or stones on the Common or other
l^iii']i( property, or injuring or destnjying any tree^ planted in the
streets, lanes, common, or other public places of the Town, or in
front ot any house or building whii h have been growing or placed
there for shade, or ornament, or other purposes, shall be liable to
•I penalty of not less than two or mure than forty dollars, and in
ilL'fault of payment shall be sentenced to confinement in the lock-
up or jail for a period of not less tli.' :\ three or more than thirty
days.

4. Any person closing up or obnirucling any street, lane, tho-
roughfare or other public place, pr depositing any nuisance thereon,
hiial! be liable to a penalty of not ie«<s than two or more than forty
iloliars, and in default of payment shall be confined in the lock-up
"1 jail for a period of not less than three or more than thirty days.

AUCTIONEERS' LICENSE.

I.- -No person shall within the I'own of New (ilasgow, exercise
the Office of Auctioneer, or sell at public vendue, any real estate,
goods or chattels whatever, without being licensed thereto by the
Council, which licen.se shall be granted on application to the Com-
nuttce of Licenses, and be in thi* form in the Appendix, and be
signed by the Warden and Town Clerk,

2. — The Fee for such licenne shall be fifty dollars, subject to be

from time to time altered as the Council shall determine, to be
paid at the time of applying for the same, and if any person with-
out such license shall sell any real estate, goods or chattels at pub-
lic vendue or Auction, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceed-
ing fifty dollars for each offence, to be sued for and recovered in
the name of the Town, and for the use of the Town. Nothing
herein contained shall extend or apjily to Sheriffs or Officers of
Justice selling under process of law or by direction of any Court,
3. — Every transient merchant, trader, or pedlar of any kind or
description, coming into the Town, and offering goods, wares, or
merchandize of any kind for sale, shall pay a sum not exceeding
twenty-five dollars for the first month or any part of a month, and
for each succeeding month or part of a month that he shall after-
wards continue in the Town, and carry on such business as afore-
said up to the period of six months, shall pay in addition thereto
the sum of not exceeding four dollars; any person violating any of
the three last mentioned. sections, shall be liable to a fine not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars, and in default of payment may be imprisoned
for a period not exceeding three months,

LIQUOR LICENSE.

I. — The Warden and members of the License Committee or a
majority of them shall have full power to grant general or special
license to hotel and Inn keepers. Victuallers, Retailers, and Con-
fectioners, within the limits of tht Municipality, for the sale of
liquors within such limits, subject nevertheless in all respects to
the acts now in force, or that may hereafter be enacted within the
Province of Nova Scotia relative to the sale of intoxicating- liquors,
but no license to sell liquor shall be granted to any person who
keeps a house of ill fame, and all licenses whenever granted shall
expire on the fifteenth day of February in each year.

The Warden and License Committee or a majority of them may
annex to the License such reasonabfe conditions in regard to time
and place, and other circumstances under which such license shall
be acted upon, as in their judgment the peace and good order of
the Town may require.

3. — The Council shall fix the duty to be paid by each class of
license, and the fees to be paid for issuing the same.

4. — Bonds shall be given by all persons so licensed in reason-
able suras and in sufficient sureties to be approved of by the War-
den and Committee ot Licenses, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the terms of said License, and of the Laws, Bye Laws
and Regulations, now and hereafter to be in force respecting the
same.

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5- — The Warden and License Committee or a majority of them
shall have power to revoke or suspend any such license, if in their
judgment the order and welfare ot the Town require it.

6. —Any person who shall presume to sell by retail intoxicating
liquors, without having first obtained a license therefor, or in any
manner contrary to the terms of said license, or after the same
shall have been revoked or suspended, shall be liable to the penalty
and forfeitures which by any bye-law or ordinance of the Town or
by any act of the Province now in force or hereafter to be in force,
shall be imposed on the sale of liquors without license, and shall
be taken and deemed to have forfeited their bonds, upon which
suit may be instituted against them or their sureties, at the discre-
tion of the Warden, presiding officer, or License Committee.

7. — Any person to whom a license shall be granted, shall before
receiving the same pay the whole duties and fees to the Clerk of
License, and shall enter into a bond with two sureties in the form
in Schedule F., which bond shall when executed be filed with the
Town Clerk.

8. — The Warden or any Councillor or the Stipendiary Magistrate
shall have full power and authority upon view, or upon complaint
made upon oath of any riotous or disorderly conduct in any tavern
or other place where liquor is sold, to arrest, or order, or issue a
warrant for the arrest of the party or parties, and take them to the
Jail, and thereon the Warden or Presiding Officer shall enquire
summarily into the matter of such complaint, and shall investigate
the same and shall dismiss the same with costs to be paid by the
complainant, or shall convict the keeper of such Inn or Tavern or
other place where intoxicating liquors are sold, of having a riotous,
disorderly house or shop, and shall abrogate the license for keep-
ing the same, or shall suspend the benefit of the same for any pe-
riod not exceeding sixty days with or without costs, as in his dis-
cretion may seem just, and during the period of such suspension,
the keeper of such Inn, Tavern, or other place where intoxicating
liquor is sold, shall lose all the privileges, power and protection
that would otherwise have been affi)rded him by this said license.

9. — All Shops, Houses, or other places except hotels, taverns
and inns where intoxicating liquors are sold, shall be closed every
evening at Ten of the clock and shall not be opened before sun-
rise.

10. — No bar shall be kept open in any hotel, tavern or inn, or
intoxicating liquors furnished for pay or otherwise, to any person
or persons except parties actually and bona fide boarding in his
house, by any hotel, tavern or inn-keeper after Ten o'clock in the

evening of any day, nor shall ;i I)ar be opened or intoxicating
liquors furnished before sunrise.

II.— No intoxicating liquors shall be furnished for pay or other-
wise, by any hot^l, tavern, or inn-keeper on the Sabbath day to
any person or persons whomsoever.

12.— No shop where intoxicating liquors are sold shall be opened
on the Sabbath day, nor shall any intoxicating liquors be famished
for pay or otherwise, to any person or persons on any pretence
whatever.

13.— The Warden, Councillor, Stipendiary Magistrate, or Police
Constable shall have full power to enter at all times by day or by
night, all places within the Town where intoxicating liquors are
licensed to be sold, for the i)urpo.se of seeing that the provisions
of the act regarding the sale of intoxicating liquors, or any acts in
amendment thereof, and any bye-law or ordinance of the Town
are complied with and for the purpose ol putting down any riotous,
disorderly, gambling, imlei iiU (onduct, and if necessary to arrest
the party or parties so guilty of viohiting the law, bye-law or ordi-
nance of the Town, and all minors and apprentices found therein,
and to take them to the jail for examinaiion.

14. — Any person wliu .>>liuli infiiuge or disubey the license: law
of this Province, or the provisions of this bye-law or ordinance
or any other bye-law or ordinaiici' hereafter to be made by the
Town respecting or regulating the sale of intoxicating or fermented
liquors, or the government and maiiagetm-nt of the shops, tavtrns,
hotels or other places where intoxicating or fermentcil licjuors arc
sold, or shall he guilty of y.L'lliug or furnishing intoxicating liquors
to Indians, minors or apprentices, or shall forcibly opijose the
Warden, (Councillors, .Stiijcndiary Magistrate, Clerk of License, or
Pi lice Constable in their inspe( tion of the promises, or in exercis-
ing their duty under this bye law or ordinance, or shall suffer any
card-playing or gaming lo !)e carried on therein, shall, for every
offence be liable to a jienalt) of not more than twenty dollars for
every offence, and in default of payment of su( h fine with ( osts
forthwith shall be subject to imprisonment in the County Jail for
a period, in the case of sale to minors and Indians not exceeding
twenty days, and in other ( ases enumerated for a ])eriod not ex-
ceeding ninety days, or until the fine and c(;sts are paid, and in
caseof any party convicted as<'con(l time for any such offence, his
license may he revoked or suspended by the Warden and License
Committee, or a majority of them,

15. — It shall be the duty of the Police Constable and any other
{■erson appointed by the ( 'oun<il for that purpose, on view, or when
thereto ordered by the Warden, Stipendiary Magistrate, or any

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any Councillor to arrest all persons found in the streets or public
places of the Town in a state of intoxication, and detain them in
the jail for examination, and the Warden, Stipendiary Magistrate,
or any Councillor shall inflict such fine or imprisonment, as by the
laws of rile L^ominion of Canada is in such case ordered and pro-
vided.

i6, — If in such examination such person shaH disclose the place
where he obtained and the party who furnished him with intoxi-
cating liquors, and if the party whose name is disclosed have no
license to sell intoxicating liquors, the Warden, Stipendiary Magi-
strate, or presiding Councillor shall issue a summons against the
person whose name has been so disclosed as aforesaid and the pro-
prietor of the place where the liquor was obtained, who shall there-
upon be prosecuted for selling liquor without license.

1 7, — If the proprietor of the place where the intoxicating liquors
has been obtained holds a license for the sale of intoxicating liquors
in force when the said liquor was lurnishcd, the Warden shall
cause to be served on said proprietor a notice requiring him not
to sell or furnish intoxicating liquor to the party so intoxicated as
aforesaid, for a period of six months from the date of said notice,
and if the said proprietor shall furnish liquor to the said party, at
any time within the said period, he shall be liable to a fine of not
less than twenty or more than fifty dollars for each offence with
costs, and to be confined in the lock-up or County Jail until such
fine and costs aie paid.

1 8. — Any person or persons who shall sell or barter any intoxi-
cating or fermented liquors in quantities less than ten gallons to
be delivered at one and the same time, without having first ob-
tained a license therefor, or after the said license shall have ex-
pired or been revoked or suspended, shall be liable to the following
forfeitures and penalties -.—For the first offence, ten dollars or im-
prisonment in the lock-up or County Jail for a term not exceeding
twenty days in the event of immediate non-payment of fine. For
the second offence, twenty dollars or imprisonment as aforesaid
for a term not exceeding forty days; and for a third offence forty
dollars or eighty days imprisonment, and for every subsecjuent of-
fence eighty dollars or three months imprisonment.

19. — No Councillor of the Town or Justice of the Peace shall
hold a license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, or be directly or
indirectly interested in the sale thereof by retail.

20. — Penalties under this chapter shall be recovered in the name
of the Town of New Glasgow, and shall be sued for in the Muni-
cipal Court in the same manner and with the like costs as a private
debt, and all penalties recovered shall be paid to the Town Trea-

surer, to become part of the funds of the I'own.

2 1.— The Warden, Councillors, Stipendiarj' Magistrate, Clerk of
License, or any person acting under written authority from the
Clerk of License, is hereby empowered to enter into or upon the
premises, or into the shop, store, dwelling house, or other building
of any person who (whether holding a license or unlicensed) is ge-
nerally reputed and suspected of violating any law respecting the
sale of intoxicating liquors, or of violating the license law, or of
selling liquor without license; and any person so suspected shall
upon being required by any such officers or persons so authorized
as aforesaid immediately open his premises and grant free admis-
sion to the same; and any person who shall refuse admission to
his premises, shop, store, dwelling house or other building, or who
shall not open the same and grant free access thereto, and who
shall not permit any of the said officers or peisons to so enter, or
who shall obstruct any officer or person in the performance of his
duty, shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of twenty dollars
for every such offence, to be prosecuted in the name of the Crown
or of any person who shall prosecute therefor before the Munici-
pal Court of said lown, and in the event of such fine not being
paid, the party convicted shall be imprisoned in the County Jail
or lock-up for a term of not less than twenty days or more than
ninety days.

TRUCKMEN'S REGULATIONS.

I. — No person shall drive any truck, cart, sled, or carriage for
the transportation of goods, wares and merchandize, or other things
whatsoever, within the Town of New Glasgow, for hire or wages,
unless he shall be licensed as a truckman, under a penalty of five
dollars for each oftence, and no person shall be entitled to receive
a license who shall not produce a written recommendation signed
by parties willrng to be sureties. License to be granted on appli-
cation to the Warden and Committee of License, such license to
stand in force until the first day of March then ensuing.

a. — On granting such license the person obtaining the same
shall execute a bond to the Town of New Glasgow, in the sum of
eighty dollars and two good sureties each in -the amount ol forty
dollars conditioned for his orderly driving, and the security and
safe conveyance of such articles as he may be required to trans-
port, and also for the strict and due observance of this ordinance
or bye-law, such bond to be furnished by the Town Clerk.

3. — Such bond shall be drawn to stand in force for one year, or
such proportionate part thereof as the license shall be in force.

4. — The sum of two dollars and fifty cents shall be the license

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and shall be paid annually. Licenses shall expire on the first day
of March in each year.

5. — Every box cart used by a licensed truckman shall be ca-
[)able of holding half a chaldron of coals without being heaped up,
and shall be provided with such boards at the end and side.- as
shall perfectly protect that quantity of coal, viz., half a chaldron,
from falling out.

6. — Every licensed truckman shall cause the initial letter ol his
christian name and his surname in full length, and also the nuni
ber of his license to be painted in large and legible characters upon
each side ot his cart or sled, and so continue the same under the
penalty of one dollar for every day that he shall drive his cart,
truck orsled,without having his name and number so painted thereon,

7. — The Warden or Committee on Licenses on the granting o)
each license shall appoint the stand for the persons so to be licensed,
and all trucks, carts or sleds when not employed must be placed
and kept during working hours, at the several stands allotud to
their respective proprietors in such a way and order as may be
directed, and any truckman taking up any other stand than that to
which he shall be appointed or deviating from the order prescribed,
shall be considered as violating this clause.

8. — No licensed truckman being on his stand shall refuse or ne-
glect to cart, truck, or employ his horse and cart, truck, or sled for
any person within the Town of New Glasgow when so requested.

9. — No person under the age of sixteen years shall be i)erniitted
to drive a truck, cart, or sled for hire, and the licensed holder ot
every truck, cart or sled, shall be answerable and accountable for
the good conduct and behavior of such driver as he may employ,
and of the observance of all the regulations made or to be made
relative to truckmen, and any driver of such cart, truck or sled,
who may be guilty of drunkenness, shall be dismissed by the War
den or any one of the Committee, and also forfeit and pay the
sum of one dollar, and the license of such *ruck, cart, or sled shall
be suspended or forfeited by the Warden or any one of the Com
mittee, according to the nature of the offence of such driver.

10. — No licensed truckman or driver hhall drive his horse faster
than a slow or easy trot in or through any part of the Town.

II. — No truckman shall refuse or neglect immediately to obey
any call for any public duty to be made on him by the Warden ov
any of the Councillors, Stipendiary Magistrate, or Police Constable;
and upon his refusal or neglect so to obey his license shall be su.s
pended for such time as the Warden or (Councillors shall ihini-.
proper for such offence.

12. If any licensed truckman shall neglec:t to occupy his stand
or cease to truck tor the s|)ac'e of one month, he shall be considerecJ
as having resigned his stand, and shall not be entitled thereto un
less prevented by sickness or other unavoidable accident, but may
apply for and obtain a new stand.

13. No truc:kmun siiall leave his hearse and cart, truck or sled
without a driver, or shall feed his horse (except from a noo.se bag)
in any one of the public- streets or lanes of this Town.

14. -No truckman, whose license shall have been taken away
or suspended, shall drixc any carl, true k. or sled within the Town
for hiie without obtaining permission or 4. new license therefor.

15. - Kvery licensed truckman shall have affixed to the harness
used for the innpose of drawing his sled or sleigh at least four
good o|)en bells or six round bells, such as are continually usetl
on sleighs.

16. Kver)' truckman in driving his cart or slfd shall lea\e the
lenlre of the sireet on hi> right hand.

17. — When the dri\er of any cart, truck, or .sled attempts to
|>ass another can. truck or sled, or any < arria^e having its head in
the same direction, such driver shall take care to i)ass on the right
hand side of suc-h truck, or sled, or carriage which he is about tv)
pass.

18. Whenever aii\' t ^rt. truck or sled, shall at any time st;)p,
whether loading or imloadi.i^f on any of the 'i'own streets, the .same
shall not be placed ncirer t^ the c-entre nf the street than eighteen
inches.

19. in remining the finiiituri of a liouse, the rate shall be
settl 'd by agieenKiit cf the |)artie'^: it not so -ittlcd, l\\enty-f'i\e
centi l)er load per hall mile shall be < hargcd and paid.

20. If any licensLcl truckmen shall ask. demancl or receive from
any person, any greater rates or fares tl an is allowed and prescribed,
or may hereafter bi' allowed and prescribed, shall forfeit hislicen.sc
and pay the sum ol not less than one dollar nor over live dollars.

21. -'I'he licciiMcl trut kman or hi> (iri\er in charmrof his truck,
cart or sled, shall br jiouiid 10 load and unload, and to assist in
so doing on all o( casion- uii< n iniploved. as far as such truckman
or driver is capable.

22. -Ever) licensed truckman shall be furnished b) the Clerk
of License wi'.ii co]jie> of this ()rclinan(e. and with cards contain-
ing the rates and table of distances, .md the persons in charge o(
a'ly such licensed truck, i art or sled, shall be bound on retjuest of
.my person employing the same to jjroduec and exhibit to him such
card of rates, distances and lo.ads. under penalty of fifty cents for
such refusal, and such refusal shall justify the employers in with-

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23. The Clerk of License shall make out and is.sue all li( enses
for truckmen, and the bonds connected therewith.

24. -AH fines and penalties under this ordinance may be re-
<:overed in the I'olice C'ourt in the name ot the Town.

25. The limits of the truckmen of the 'lown of New (ilasgow
shall be the town limits, and in which the following rates shall be
chargeable for undermentioned services, and other articles not
mentioned at proportionate rates for any distance less than one
mile, and fifty per cent in addition if over one mile and within the
town limits: —

r. For one barrel or any parcel under 100 lbs $0.10

2. 7 barrels Flour, Oatmeal, .'\pples, Onions, Bread,

35 bus, Oats, 25 bus. Wheat, 12 bus. Sand, 10
(Quintals bound Codfish. 5 barrels Herring, and
( leneral ( loods 15

3. 4 barrels Kerosene or any li(iuid under 50 gallons

4 of each, 15 bus. Coal, 15 bus. Potatoes, 2
hhds. .Salt, 5 M. Shingles, 3 M. Laths, Crates 20

4. I hhd. Sugar, Molasses. Rum, 10 t|uintals loose

Codfish, 300 lirick, 500 ft. I,uml)er, removal
household furniture, pas.senger baggage 25

5. Iron and Pressed Hay per ton 30

6. .Safes each 50

7. Powder per 1000 llis i.oo

8. Water 50

HAGKNEY CARRIAGES.

r. — No person sliall keep or drive in the Town any Carnage.
Waggon, Chaise, Sleigh, or conveyance for the carriage of i)assen-
ger.s for hire, or to ply as a Hackney Carriage, Cab or Omnibus in
the streets or la.ies of the Town, unless under a license for that
purpose previously obtained from the W^irden and License Com-
mittee.

2.— Carriages so licensed for conveying persons from jjlace to
place within the Town for hire shall be numbered.

3. --A Committee of three of the Town Council shall be annu-
ally appointed, who .shall have supervision of the owners and dri-
vers of said carriages and their conduct.

4. — The Committee shall cause the number of each carriage to
be i)ainted or fixed in some conspicuous part or parts thereof, and
together with the (jwners name be registered in a book to be kept
at the Town Office for that purpose.

5. — All applications for such licenses shall be made in writing

to the Warden and two of the Committee of J/icense for the time
being, and no such application shall be received but from the bona
fide owner of the horse or horses, carriages and harness to l)e used,
nor unless the applicant shall be recommended by at leftst three
respectable householders, and shall execute a bond to the Town
with two sufficient securities in the sum of one hundred dollars for
the faithful performance of his duty, and for the safe conveyance
of property placed in his charge.

6. — The fees for such License shall be the sum of one dollar to
keep and drive for hire as aforesaid one horse, and fifty cents for
each additional horse. The Town Clerk shall furnish the person
obtaining such license with a copy of the Table of Fares and Dis-
tances to be produced to any person employing the said carriage
who may demand an inspection thereof.

7. — All persons whether owners or drivers of carriages, who
offend against this ordinance, shall, on conviction in tne Police
Court be subject to a fine not exceeding Ten Dollars and costs.

EXHIBITIONS.

I. --No theatrical exhibition, public show or exhibition to which
admission is obtained by the payment of money, shall be offered
to view, set up, maintained, carried on, or published within the
Town without a license first had therefor, which license shall be
granted by the Warden on the payment of a fee or sum of not less
than two dollars nor more than ten dollars, the amount to be fined
by the Warden and expressed in said license; every license shall
express the number of days it is to continue in force, and an addi-
tional sunf of one dollar shall be demanded for every day beyond
the number stated in the License such theatrical exhil)ition, public
show, or exhibition is continued; such License may be renewed on
terms to be fixed by the W^arden.

2. — All such exhibitions shall be closed at night by the hour of
eleven o'clock. Any person who shall offer to view, shall set up,
set on foot, maintain, carry on, or shall publish or otherwise assist
in any theatrical exhibition, public show, or exhibition of whatso-
ever name or nature, to which admission is obtained on payment
of money without a license previously obtained from the Warden
agreeable to this ordinance, shall torfeit and pay to the Town for
every offence a fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, and in default of
payment shall be liable to be imprisoned in the County jail or
I ,ock-up for a term not exceeding thirty days,

3, -Any person having charge of such an exhibition, who shall
Bveep the same open at night beyond the hour herein prescribed,
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or Lock-up of the Town for a period not exceeding fifteen days.

4. — The Warden may withdraw the license and order the exhi-
bition to be at once closed, if it appears to him that it is immoral,
profane or indecent.

ANNUAL MEETING.

I.- The annual meeting shall, unless otherwise ordered by the
Council, be held in the Court House, on the second Tuesday of
Jani^ry in each and every year, at the hour of three in the after-
noon, of which meeting five days notice shall be given by bills
posted in three conspicuous places in each Ward.

2. — Whenever at such meeting it is contemplated to recommend
any sum required to meet any extraordinary service or improve-
ment, the Warden or Chairman shall at the commencement of the
meeting, announce the hour when the vote shall be taken, and on
the arrival of the hour other business shall be suspended, and the
voting proceeded with, after which the suspended business may be
proceeded with, or new business entered on, provided that no busi
ness shall be transacted at such m.eeting except such as is provided
in the fifty-sixth Section of the Act incorporating the Town of New
( Masgow.

3. — The Town Clerk shall provide a separate sheet for any ser
vice or improvement recommended by the Council — the heading
of which shall designate the service or improvement recommended,
said sheet shall contain three columns, in one of which shall be
printed or written in alphabetical order the surnames, the name of
every ratepayer of the Town entitled to vote at such meeting, and
the others shall be headed respectively "Aye" and "Nay,"' and may
be in the form in Schedule.

4. — The finding of the names of the ratepayers on the same
sheet, or the production of his receipt for the taxes of the preced
ing year, shall determine the right of any person to vote at such
meeting.

5. — In taking the vole the Town Clerk shall call out the names
of the ratepayers on his list, when each ratepayer if present shall
give his vote "Aye" or '"Nay," and the Town Clerk shall immedi-
ately record the same under the respective coiamn, according to
the vote given.

6.- - Any ratepayer whose name shall have been omitted from the
list, .shall be entitled to have his name entered on the list, and to
vote in like manner, on production of his tax receipt for tht^ pre
cef'ing year.

7. If more than one service or improvement shall be recom-

mended by the Council, the ratepayers shall vote on each separate-
1 y, but at one and the -ame time. The lists after every meeting
shall be endorsed and carefully filed away to serve as records.

TO SUPPLY VACANCIES.

I. — Upon any vacancy occurring within the year in the Office
of Warden or Councillor, the Warden — or if it be a vacancy in the
Office of Warden, the presiding Councillor shall declare the Office
vacant, and the voters shall thereupon elect a (jualified person to
fill the vacant Office.

2. — The election for a vacancy shall be conducted as to nomi-
nations and in all other respects in the same manner as ordinary
elections under the Act of Incorporation of the Town ol New Glas-
gow, and amendments thereto.

3.-— The W^arden or Presiding Councillor shall on declaring the
Office vacant, declare the day on which the election to fill the va-
cancy shall be held.

4. — If at any election of Councillor, any person .shall be elected
for more than one ward, he shall within one week after, make his
election for which ward he will sit, and communicate su".h his de-
cision to the Warden or presiding Officer, and in default of his
doing so the Warden or presiding Officer shall make the election
and declare the ward or other wards vacant, and anohter election
shall be had in the vacant ward or wards in manner aforesaid.

5. —A Councillor may resign office — if within one year from his
election by the payment of Forty Dollars to the Town — or at any
time by a vote of four of the Councillors concurring in such resig-
nation; after twelve months' service any Councillor may re.sign on
giving two months" notice of such his intention to the Warden or
presiding Councillor.

6. — All resolutions and notices under tins byolaw shall be in
writing and signed by the party resigning.

7.— Any Warden or Councillor, bankrupt, insolvent or compound-
ing with his creditors by a general deed of Assignment, or who
shall be found guilty of any indictable offence shall become discjua-
lified, and the Warden or presiding Offi<-er shall thereupon declare
the office vacant.

8.— Any Warden or Councillor who shall absent himself from
the Town, or shall neglect his duty for the space of two months,
unless in case of serious illness incapacitating him, or by leave ob-
tained by vote of the Council, shall forfeit and pay the sum of
twenty dollars for each month he shall so absent or neglect his
duty to the use of the town, to be recovered in the Town Court.

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resaid.

ar from his
-or at any
such resig-
resign on
\Varden or

hall be in

:ompound-
nt, or who
me discpia-
>oh declare

mself from
c months,
^ leave ob-
the sum of
neglect his
n Court.

OF HEALTH WARDENS.

I. — The Town Council shall annually appoint six ratei)ayers —
two out of each Ward — to be Health Wardens or Inspectors.

2. — The said Health Wardens or Inspectors sLall within the
litnits of the Town of New Cilasgow, have all the powers given to
Health Wardens and Insjjcctors in the City of Halilax and else-
where, under C'hajiters 29 and 30 of the l<c\ ised Statutes, Fourth
Series.

3.— The Town Council shall have and exert ise all the jjowers
conferred u])on the ('ounty Cenerai and S|)f<ial Sessions under
said Chapter.

4.— All i)enalties for breach of any ol the provisions of said
Chapters shall be sued, enforced, and colkt ted in the name of the
'J'own of New (llasgow by said Town lor ils own licnciit, in the
Municipal Court of said 'J own.

5. — The Town Council shall i)ay out of ilie liinds ol dn Town
all expenses incurred by their dirfilioii.s or autliority in < arrying
out the objects expressed in said C!haptcr.

DUTIES OP COMMITTEES.

1. — It shall be the duty of the (oiiimiucc on *' l'ul)iic .\( counts
and Finance" to examine accounts referred to tlienj bv the ('(mn-
cil and to rejjort on them; to jtrepare esliinales and submit ])io-
posals for the raising of mone) by assessment. I<);ins. bonds or
otherwise.

2. — It shall be the duty of the ('ommiltee on "Tenders and
Public Pr(jperty" to examine and report on ;ill tenders leieived for
tlie i^erformance of any publii' work. ;md ;ilso have control over
the purchase, sale, lease, and management ol public properiw

3. — It shall be the duly of the Connniliee on •" fire 1 )e|)artment.
Pumps and Wells" to provicle the dillerenl ap|iaralns necessary loi
the efficient protection of the touti Ironi lires. and to recommend
the number and report a list of nominations loi- a fire ( 'ompan\ :
to have supreme control over the apparaiiis. tanks and wells: to
leport when further means of ijroteclion arc n) their judgment re
cjuired; and to report in the most econonmal manner of sui)p!ying
such want; c;rd to rejJort at least one e a \ear the (|nanlit\ and
state of the various engines, hooks, ladders, hose, biic kels, pumi)s,
wells, tanks, <S:c., under their control,

4. — It shall be the duty of the "Fin Wards" upon the breaking
out of a fire to repair forlhwith to the spot, and use dieir utmost
endeavors to extinguish and pre\e!U the spreading of the lire, and
to preserve and secure the properly of the inhabitants, antl the\
can command the assistance of the inliabiianis therein, and con-

1^!
1

i:h

Irol the exertions of the firemen in placing and removing of fire
engines, and in removing property out of any building actually on
fire or in imminent danger thereof, to appoint guards and direct
the Fire Constables besides other duties; to suppress tumult and
disorder and to presei"ve property; and for any disobedience of
their orders, information thereof shall be given to the Clerk of the
('ouncil, and the offender shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
Eighty Dollars, and they shall have the powers conferred on Fire
Wards by Chap. 62, Sections 21 and 22 of the Revised Statutes,
(Fourth Series) of Nova Scotia. The Fire Wards shaH also meet
and appoint a Chairman, and certain of their own numbers to over-
look and discharge the various duties assigned to them.

5.— It shall be the duty of the "Auditing Committee" to exa-
mine the various accounts of the Town as kept by the Clerk as
often as required and to report to the Council.

MISCELLANEOUS,

».— Every Officer appointed by the Council shall within one
week of being notified of his appointment take and subscribe on
oath that he shall faithfully perform the duties of his office to the
best of his ability, which oath shall be administered by the Warden
or a Councillor.

a.— Any officer appointed by the Council who shall refuse or
neglect to qualify himself for such office, or who shall refuse or
neglect to perform the duties of such office or shall be guilty of
any neglect or violation of duty in such office, shall for every such
offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fwenty Dollars, and
may also on conviction of such ofifence be suspended or superseded
by the Council, and another appointed in his stead.

3. — In the event of the Stipendiary Magistrate being unable to
discharge his duties, in consequence of illness or absence or any
other unavoidable cause, the Warden or a Councilior shall act in
his stead.

4, — All assessments and rates for the collection of which no spe-
cial provision is made in these Bye-laws, shall be collected in the
manner and under the provision prescribed bj' Chap. 21 of the
Revised Statutes, Fourth Edition, of County Assessments.

5. -—When the term Town or 1 own of New Glasgow is used in
the foregoing Bye- Laws and Ordinances, it shall be taken to mean
the incorporated limits, unless otherwise particularly described.

6 -—No repeal, alteration or amendment, or any bye law adopted
by the Council, shall be made unless two week's notice in writing
shall have first been given to the Council of such intended repeil,
alteration or amendment.

7-
feiture

Act of

the Co

debt b'

briefly

Culuiu

A.l
C.I
(i.

L.]

■iOII lit

appeal
To

You
the 8H
andtt
firom
costs I

To.

ing oi' fire
ictually on
and direct
imult and
•edience of
lerk of the
; exceeding
:d on Fire
i Statutes,
also meet
ers to over-

e" to exa-
»e Clerk as

within one
bscribe on
ice to the
le Warden

refuse or
II refuse or
e guilty of
every such
sUars, and
uperseded

unable to
ce or any
act in

lall

ch no spe-
ed in the
21 of the
ts.

s used in
1 to mean
c'ribed.
w adopted
in writing
L'd repeil.

7. — Where no particular giode af re( overing any jjenalt), for
feiture or fine, to which any person may become liable under the
Act of Incorporation or by these bye-'awH, or by the regulation of
the Council is prescribed the same way be recovered as a common
debt by the Clerk on behalf of the Town, and the summons shall
briefly state the cause of action.

Ai?r*E]vr>ix.

ASSESSMENTS.

SCHKDUI-K A.

Culuiuii 1.— Name of taxable property.
" 2.— Name ot ward and street In wh'flt. ili? fpal propirty lies.

'* 3.~UeBaription of real property, wlictlter Uounv, land, fcc.

4.— Quantity of land.
'• 5.— Actual value of real property of tb« parly aKneised.

«.— Total value of peraonal property of party «iti>ei<8*d.
" 7.— Total ralue ot real and perituiMI prop«rtf HtnanKed.

«.— Remarks.

Appelant.

A.B.
CD.
(i.ll.
L.M.
&0.

SCHKDUI-K H.

Ratptcting loluMn ,

Halt.

E.F.

.I.K.

M.O.

fco.

Matter ComftUiinfd of.
Overcliurgr vn !iind.
Name omitted.
Itiiderc-liiirKf on land.
ItndercliHrKe on personal
property, lic.

SCHEI)lJl,F, r. •

KIK,— Take notice that you are requHnted tu atN'lid llic Court ot Appeal and Uevi-

aioii lit on tbe day of •It) the mutter ot the loUowinf;

appeal Appellant .,•.... Habject .

Town Clei'tty 'J'rmsurer,

SCHKDUIJ-: I).

NKW 0I,AI<I0<MV, IS

You are hereby notitied that you are rated and aNiieKMed for the current year la

the sum of dollars and cunt* for tnwi.. county and poor ruteti,

and that unless the amount be paid at tha oHlee of thp I'uwn </'l«rk within titty days
fh>m the date hereof five per cent, will be added thereto, besides all charges, and
cost! of collectlnK and a warrant of distress will be Ifvled.

To , - „

SCHKDULK K.

HfhercHS... i« indebtfd t<t the town of New (ilasjtow In the

fum of. for rntes for the year Id iinU hun liiiled to pay thesKme.you

are hereby required immediately to destraln the goodi iind chattels of the Kair*

for tlie i>aid sum, and Ave per cent, iidditional, and

lor collection, and if need be to remove them to Nonii' place for safe l(eeping, and If

within days after distresii made the property lo distrained ie not redeemed

by the payment of the said sum with the ten per cent, thereon besldss the cost of
collecdon. and any nicesaary additionul char^t'^ >>e not paid, you shall sell tViegoodf
and chatteU so di»traini'd upon to satisfy the samr.

Town Clerk (f Treamtrer.

New Glasgow is

SCHKDILK r.

Dominion ur' Canaiin, *

ProiHiive of Nora Scotia, i

lowH of Neir (Jfasf/otr.

PicTiir OdrNTV. N. S.

Knmp all men by these prenents. That we

arc lield, and fiimlv bonud unto our ;<overeijfn Lady

the Queen, her heirs and succes.soii*, in the sum ot'Two llundrt'd Dollars, ot lawful
money of Canada, to which payment we jointly and .xcvirMily bind ourselve.«, our
lieirs,' executors and admit' istrators. by tbi'se pri>i-iits.

Dated at New (ilasgow. the .'day f in the vixr of our Konl

one thousand eijjbt hundred and

Whereas the above boiinden has been granted a Licinsc tor I lit- Mile, by ntnil. of

intoxicating liijuors. in the kept bv the said '.

on Now the condition of thi- oblifriUioii is >ii<'li that if the said

shall in all respects i-onfirni to the l!.\e-I,ii" ."anil I.MWsin force

respecting -the retail of intoxicaiinfr li(in(»r». and lOinu'cted wiili such liceniie. thin
this obligation shall be void, but otherwise (duill remain in tiill < fTcct .

.signed, sealed and delivered in presence of

LICENSES.

JVo.

^ ((jeiieral form of License to hv adopted to Miit.

LicKXsh;.

Oi-FICK okClehk ok Li<i:x.si:.

TtlWN OK Nkw (il.ASCOW

.18.

License is hereby granted to

to (stale for wliat liceusc in granted)

This License is subject to the Act incorporating the Town of New (ilasjfow. and all

Bye Laws, Rules and Ordinances of the said Town . Ijcen.se Fee pa id t his day. $

(jlren under our hand and seal thi-> day of A. U

ITard^M.

'J'inon Clerk.

Names of Sureties. <

Approved '.! trnrdtn.

lasfiow in tin*
the same, you
the Hai(^

eping, and if
not redpcnied
08 the cost of
sell ihegoodii

Treas-urer.

(NTY. N. S.

i-erei^fn Larly
rs. of lawful
urselves, our

r i)f our Lord

li.v retail, of

lit if the siiid
.Mwsiii forct'
license, tliiik

18..

■ ic granted)
>row. and all

••"y-f

L D

. . Warden,
mn Clerk.

. (Varden.

(iENKRAi, FORM OF BOND.

Know all men by these presents that we cn*Qie of party)

of the Town of New (ilasgow, and and

(sureties) are held, and firmly bound to the fown of New Glasgow in the (penal if

necesHarv) snin of dollaio (or each separately in separate sums if required)

lawful money of the Dominion of ( aiiadn, for which paynient well and truly to be
made, we bind ourseltcs and each of us, and any two of us. jointly and JCTerally. by
these presents.

Sealed with our seals and dated at the day of

A I)., 18....

The conditions of this oblipition are such that if the above bounden

sliall well and truly (Here ctate the condition of license)

then the above obligation to be null and void, other wise to remain in full force and
virtue.

L. S.

L.S.

Signed, scaled and delivered ;
in presence of ) .

AN ACT
To Incorporate the Town of New Glasgow.

[Passed the (ith day of May. A. D. 18'*, and ameudfd April 187«.]

Be it enacted by the (ioxernor. ("ouiicil and Assenibly, as
f bllow.s ; -

1. The inhabitants of the 'I'own of New (ilasi^ow as hereinafter
described and their successors shall be and are hereby declared to
be a body cor])orate and politic by the name of the 'I'own of New
( Glasgow.

2. They as a corporation shall have i)erpetual succession and a
c;>mmon seal changeable at pleasure, and shall be cai)able of sueing
and being sued in all C'ourts of justice, and of accjuiring. holding
and conveying any description of j)roperty. real, personal and
mixed, and shall have all the other rights usually had and enjoyed
by corijorations.

3. The boundaries and limits of the said Town ol NewCilasgow
shall be the following, to wit : On the south the southern line of
lianiel iMc Donald's j^roperty continued westwardly and eastwardly
until it meets the eastern and western boundaries hereinafter men-
tioned. On the north the northern line of David Roses projjerty
continued eastwardly and westwardly until it meet.s such eastern
and western boundaries. On the east and west lines running i)a-
rallel to the course of East River at a distance of one mile from
such river in each direction.

I)'

4. 'I'he '• Town of New (ilasgow" shall be divided into three
wards, as follows :-

Ward Number One roniprising all that part of such Town as
described lying on the east side of the Kast River and to the south
of McL.ean street.

Ward Number Iwo comprising all that i)art of such Town on
the east side of the Kast River and to the north of McLean street
-and

Ward Number Three comjtrising all that part of such Town on
the west side ot the Kast River.

5. The Town shall be a corporation and shall be governed by a
Council to consist of a Warden and six (!ouncillors residents of the
Town to be elected by the rate|)ayers thereof, such Warden and
Councillors shall be rx ojjido Justices of trhe I'eace within the limits
of the I'owii.

6. The elections shall be hehl on the third Tuesday in January,
in the year cmc thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and of
each succeeding year.

7. Two Councillors to hold ot^( e for two years shall be elected
by ea( h ward, and a Warden to hoKl oftlie for one year by all the
wards.

8. The Warden and one C«)un( ilh^r for'each ward shall go out
of ottice at the end of ea<h year biU shall be eligible for re-election.

9. At the close of the first Near the Warden shall draw lots to
(lelermine which of the C.!oiiiuillors for each ward shall retire from
office, and. in succeeding years the senior councillor tor each ward
shall retire.

10. Any person elei tetl as Warden or Councillor refusing to
ser\c shall forfeit the sum of I'orty Dollars to the use of the Town.
:)ri)\ided thac no Wanlen or Count illor who shall have served for
one term shall be subject to fmc for non-acceptance of office on
reelection until the expiration of three years from the date ol his
first election.

11. A Warden for su( h Town and two Councillors for each
ward shall be elected as hereinafter jirovided, and such Warden
and Councillors for the time being shall form the Council of the
Town, and sha'.! be designated as such, and shal! represent for all
l)urposes whatsoever the lorporation of the Town of New (ilasgow.

12. No perso.i shall be lajnible of being elected Warden or
Councillor of the lown of New (Ilasgow unless he shall havebttn
a resident househokler within such 'I'own for one year before such
election, nor unless he be a natural born or a naturalized subject
of Her Majesty of the age of twenty-one years and possessed of
real and personal pn>[)erty to the amount of one thousand dollars.

pel
bin

;d into three

•

ich Town as
i to the south

ch Town on
cLean street

ch Town on

overned by a
sidents of the
Warden and
hin the limits

y in January,

ty-six, and of

11 be electeil
ar by all the

shall go out
T re-election,
draw lots to

I retire from
r each ward

refusing to

f the Town.

e served for

of office on

date ot his

)rs for each
uch Warden
incil of I he
sent for all

w (Glasgow.

Warden or

II have tttn
before such
zed subject
(ossessed of
and dollars.

1,5. I'he person^ entitled to vote at the Municipal elections of
such Town shall be a native born i)r naturalized male subject of
Her Majesty of the full age of twenty-one years, and shall have re-
sided in the Town of New (ilasgow for one year [>revious to the
election, and shall have been assessed for the sum of one hundred
and tifty dollars real estate, or three hundred dollars personal pro-
perty, or three hundred dollars of real and personal property com-
bined within the corporation for the year previous, and shall have
paid all taxes levied on him within such town, and whose name is
on the revised electoral roll for his ward, i)rovided that a resident
uitliout the 'I'own who shall own real estate therein ot the value
of three hundred dollars, and shall have paiil the rates assessed
thereon during the year pre\ious to the election shall be e. vitled
to vote.

14. I'Aery elector shall vote in the ward wiierein he resides, or,
if a resident without the Town and assessed upon property of the
requireil value, shall vote in the ward where such ])roperty is situ-
ate."

15. .\ny person offering to \ole at any election shall, if required
by the presiding officer or other person i|ualified to vote, make
oath (to be modified when necessary, so as to be applicable toper-
sons residing without the lown and owning property within the
same) that he is qualitied to vote at such election, and that he has
l)aid all rates and taxes for the year previous. The oath shall be
as follows: -••], A. H. do swear that 1 am a native born (or natu-
ralized) male subject of Her Majesty : that 1 have resided in the.

i'own of New (Ilasgow lor one year now next preceding, (or that I
reside without the Town of New Ola.sgow. as the case may be) ;
that I am of the age of twenty-one years or upwards; that at the
assessment for the year 18- -, I w.is rated in this ward for the amount
reijuired by law to entitle me to vote: and that I have paid all rates
and taxes imjjosed on me during the said year; and that I have not
soted at this or any other election vvhich is at this time being held
for this or any other ward, so help nie Ciod."'

16. The first election shall be held and conducted by a presid-
ing officer to be ap|)ointed by the (Governor in Council and such
l)residing offic:er shall ajtpoint a deputy presiding officer and In-
spector and Foil clerk for each ward.

1 7. Succeeding elections shall be conducted by presiding offi-
cers and inspectors lo be named by the 'i'own Council, together
with a poll clerk for each ward.

18. Before proceeding to the holding of any election under this
Act the presiding officer, dejiuty presiding officer, inspector and
\)o\\ clerk shall take the following oath which any Councillor or

any Justice of the Peace residing in such 'lown is hereby cmi)0\v-

cred to administer, to wit:— I, do solemnly swear that

1 will to the best of iny judgment and ability faithfully and impar-
tially perform the duties of (as the case may be) at the election
about to be held of a person (or jjcrsons) to serve me (as the case
may be) for the Tctwn of New (Ilasgow. So help me (iod.

\ij. Notice of the time and place of holding an election shall be
posted up in the case of the first election shall be posted up in the
case of the first election by the presiding officer and of sui:ceeding
elections by the Council, in two of the most public places in each
ward of the Town for eight days previous to the holding of any
su( li election.

20. All candidates for the ofliies of Warden and Councillor shall
be proposed in writing by two rate-jjayers, the Councillors l)y rate
payers residents of the ward for which the Councillors are to be
elected, and the names shall be given in at the first election to the
jifesidrng officer ap]>ointed by the Covernor in Council, and in suc-
ceeding elections to the Town Clerk at least three days pre\ious to
the holding of any such election, and the presiding officer and
Town Clerk shall post uj) the names of the «:andidates in one con-
spiiiious place outside and one inside Where the saiil election shall
be held and shall alsi) furnish the names of candidates for Warden
and Councillors f<»r the several wards to any rate-payers desiring
the same.

21. The polls shall be opcneif at nine o'clock in the forenoon
• ;';ul < hvsed at [\>\\'. o'clotk in the afternoon.

22. The votes shall be given at the election by ballot.

23. The ball'its shall be paper tickets, on eaCu of which shall be

■ rinted cr written the name of a candidate for whom the elector is
entitled to vote. Kach elector shall only deposit as many ballots
as there are candidates to be elected, and the ballot or ballots shall
be enelosed in an envelope which shall be provided by the presid-
ing officer. All such envelopes shall be ot the same size, shape
and color.

24. Kach voter shall deliver his ballot or ballots enclosed in the
e .velope to the Inspector who shall dei)Osit the same in the ballot
box.

25. There shall be provided at the expense of the Town one
ballot box for each ward, to contain the ballots for Warden and
C!ouncillor, or for Warden, ( "ouncillor or Councillors as the case
may be.

26. Any envelope containing more names than there are candi-
dates for whom the elector is entitled to vote in the ward or con-
taining the name of any candidate more than once, shall be rejected.

insj:|
vott
vicel
fere I
inbt
or ol
a sul
in til
loml

that

box.

inuil

shall

other

there

ing.

)y cmpow-
swear that
ind iinpar-
ic election
s the case
)d.

Dn shall be
i up in the
,iicceeiling
^s in each
ng ot" any

cillor shall
irs by rate-
are to be
tion to the
and in sut -
previous lo
officer and
n one con-
(tion shall
or Warden
rs desiring

forenoon

■h shall be

elector is

Iny ballots

Jillots shall

(he presid-

l/.e, shape

sed in the
Ithe ballot

lown one
Irden and
the case

lire candi-
or con-
rejected.

27. No officer presiding at any election nor any poll clerk or
inspector or officer ot the Town present thereat shall give to any
voter any ballot to vote with or give or offer to give him any ad
vice as to the person for whom he should vote or otherwise inter-
fere with the voter in the exercise of his franchise, except as here
inbefore i)rovided. Any such presiding officer, poll clerk, inspector,
or officer offending against this section shall forfeit for every offence
a sui'. not exceeding twenty dollars to be recovered by any person
in the Police Court or imposed as n fine in the Police Court upon
comi)laint and proof by any person present at such election.

28. '''he presiding officer imined utely befcic the opening of the
])oll, shiill show the ballot box to the candidates or their agents or
any such persons as may be jjreseni within the polling place, so
that they may see that it is empty. He shall then lock the ballot-
box, place it in his view for th.e receijJt of ballots, and keep it locked
until liie pull is closed. Dining the holding of the poll, no person
shall be entitled or permitted tn be i.aeseiil in a:;y polling jjlace.
other than lav oiHcers. candidates or aj^ents authorized to attend
therein, and any \oter for t'ae lime biding acuially engaged in vot-
ing, proside 1 that 11 shall be iawml for the presiding officer to have
present or to summon t« his aid in such polling place, any police
constable or peace officer, for the purpose of maintaining order or
preserving the public ])eace or removing .uiy jierson who may, in
the opirio'i n*" the presiding ofilrcr. b ■ obstriii 'ling tlu: jj^'Iin;:; or
violating any uf the provisions of this Act.

29. The name of each elect(jr voting at such election shall be
written in a poll list to be kept at such election by the poll clerk,
and imuiediately after the close of the |)oll all the votes given in
each v.ard being sorted and counted and |)ul)li(ly declared by the
presiding (officer ami inspectors shall be recorded b\- the poll clerk,
and in making such (lei;laration and record the wh(jle number of
ballots given in shall be distinctly stated together with the name
of every person voted for and the number of votes given for each
peiaon rc.ijje'tivLlv. and the jiresiding officer shall proceed publicly
to declare the candidate fir thj office of councillor iiaving the ma-
jority of votes in his fasor to be duly eleclcil, and in the case of
an election for W.irden shall declare the number of votes for each
candidate.

30. If there shall be at the close of the poll an equal number
of votes polled for two or more perso ^.s. the presiding officer shall
give a voce for one or other of the j)ersoii.s having such equality of
votes, in order to give a majjrity Lj oUv; of theai, but nothing here-
in contai'ied shall be construed to prevent a presiding officer from
voting previously to the close of the poll, in the same manner as

other citizens may vole, and in case of his l)einj< entitli<i to vote
in any ward other than that in which he shall l)e appoinied to pre-
side, he may give such vote by |)ro\y, such proxy being in writing,
antl signed and having the receipt for taxes of the jiresiding officer
so voting by proxy annexed thereto.

31. The j)residing officer may at any time gi\e public noti( i' that
unless some voter shall come forth to poll within an hour the ])oll
will beclosed, and if no voter <i)me forward within the hour the
poll shall then be finally closed.

32. Any person knowingly and wilfullv voting at any election
held under this Act when not entitled so to vote: any person vot-
ing in a ward in which he is not entitleil to vote: any person frau-
dulently putting in more than one ballot when voting, and any
person who shall vote in more than one ward at atiy such election
shall for every such offence forfeit and |;ay to the Town .1 sum not
less than eight nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered in
the name of the Town of New (llasgow in the Folic e Court, and in
default of payment on conviction shall be committed to the county
or district gaol for a term of not less than thirty days nor more
than six months.

33. If any ])erson .at any election shall Note falsely under the
assumed name and character of any voter he shall forfeit and pay
to the Town not less than eight nor more than forty dollars, and
in default of payment shall be imprisoned for not less than one
month nor more than six months, and in every such ( ase shall be
incapable of voting or holding office in the Town for ['\v<: years
after the offence.

34. The presiding officer at any election shall on or before the
next day make a return in the case of the first election to the per-
son appointed by the ( iovernor in Council as herein-before men-
tioned and of subse<iuent elections to the Town Clerk of the name
of persons having the majority of votes and declared by him
elected, and when an election of Warden takes place, a return also
of the names of the candidates and the number of votes for each.

35. In the first election of Warden the presiding officer appoint-
ed by the Oovernor in Council as aforesaid, and in succeeding
elections the 'I'own Council, shall, on the day of election, or the
day following, cause the returns to be publicly read and the votes
for each candidate to be summed up, and the person who has the
greatest number of votes in his favor shall be declared to be U'ar-
den. In case of an equality of votes for Warden at the first elec-
tion, the presiding officer appointed as afore.said. at succeeding
elections — the officer presiding in Council- -shall, by his casting
vote, decide which of the candidates shall be Warden.

, 3^ ■'

(.louncilj
papers

37- '1

the dutil
scribing!

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fore thel

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'«! to \()tf
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e V\ar-
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ted ing
casting

36. The result of every election respeciiveiN ol W'arde!) anl
(.!ouncillors shall be published in the next issue ot the local new.*
papers after the election.

37. The Warden and Councillors shall, before entering upon
the duties of their ottices. respet lively be sworn l)v talsingand sub
scribing the oath of allegiance and the oath of uHtuw

38. These oaths shall be administered to the Warden elect be
fore the Custos of the (.'ounty, or in his absence Iteforu two jus-
tices of the Peace for the County.

39. The C'ouncillors shall be sworn to their oaths by the Wank a
or presiding Councillor. A certificate of such oaths having been
taken shall be entered by the Town Clerk in the minutes.

40. The oath of office shall be as follows: " I. .\. |{.. do swta'

that I am dulycjualifiedas required by law f- r the office of ;

that I am seized or possessed as owner in my own right and I'nr
my own use and benefit of real and personal property in tbi Tow 1
of New Glasgow of the value of one thou.sand dollars, and that I
have not obtained the same l.>y fraud or cf)llusi(jn to ipialify mysell
for office, and I swear that I will fiithfully perform the duties 01
while I hold the office. o help me Cod. '

41. Four members shall constitute a tiuorum of the Coiuk il.

42. The expenses of the elections shall be defrayed out (»f tiie
funds of the corporation.

43. The gaoler of the townships of Kgerton and Maxwehnn
shall be bound and is hereby enjoined and emiiowercd to receive
anu safely keep ontil they shall be duly discharged all persons com-
mitted to his custody by the Town Council or by the returning'
officer or deputy returning officer acting at municipal elections ;r.
such Town.

44. The Warden shall be the head of the Council antl the chii. t
executive officer of the corporation, and it shall be his duty to be
vigilant and active at all times in causing the laws for the govern-
ment of the Town to be duly executed and put in force, to inspe< t
the conduct of all subordinate officers in the government thereof,
and, as far as may be in his power, to cause all negligence, care-
lessness, and positive violation of duty to be duly prosecuted and
punished, and to communicate from time to time to the Council
all such information and recommend all such measures as may
tend to the improvement of the finances, the police, health, secu-
rity, cleanliness, comfort and appearance of the 1 own.

45. It shall be the duty of the Council to assist the Warden in
the discharge of his duties, and to appoint one or more of the' r
members to be a committee to oversee the different public servi( e<;

of the Town, who shall at each ([uarterly niLxtiiif; rt'|MH'| tlu- istiito
of the services committed to their charge.

46. The Council shall have power and it shall be ilu'ir ihity to
control the making, maintaining, improving, widtning and altering
the roads, streets, s^^wers, sub-drains anil wiiter-t ourM'N of tlu' Town,
and the laying out and constructing of new ones if nece'Hsai'y. In
direct and enforce the performarne of thestntutL labor mid ItMon
trol the expenditure of the commutation nionc), aiul lo iiiiinage.
control antl protect all the property of the Town. They shall also
have power and it shall be their dut)- to rcgidaie and proviilc for
the support of the jjoor. licensing the sale of iniosit aiing li<|iiors.
fixing the rate of license and regulating applii alioii?. du'icloi. ihc
enforcement and fixing rates of license for aiit lionctM^, ueigliers
and measurers {)> ;lour and grain, measurers of sail and « oal. gau
gers. surveyors o; bark, and inspei tors and ^iur\e)(trs of liiiiibcr and
shingles, tru^'r- hack, and exi)ressinen, ihe levying and iixing rates
of license for theatres. ( ircuses, i)ubli( shows, and foiugn plays and
cont-erts of all kinds, gianting and fixing the r.iies of license to
transitory traders, regulating the assessments, < olkn im^ ilu* a^sess-
ments, ])reparing and revising lists ni" persons ipuilified lo sole at
the municipal elections in ih,e se\eial wards, calling special meet-
ings to vote unforseen or extrai>rdinary ex])eiiditiiies, llv making
of all contracts relative to matters uncler their <oniro|, whir h con-
tracts, after having b> en diii) ; (jiisidered In ilir C'oiiiuil, ^lialj be
signed l>y the Waulen and <H)untersigiHd b;, ihe Seci'ilai'v and
Treasurer, the prov'fling of a lax t'or dogs and the lixingul ihc
amount to be |)aid a..n.,a!ly l;y tl'c owners ihcreot", the appoiiuiiig
of all subordinate officers in the ujviii, fixing the amount o| their
remuneration and the tiivie and mode of j'aying them, Ihe returns
of assessors. They siiall vote, assess, colleet. rectau, appropriate,
and pay whatever monies are leipiired for poor rates, and all other
rates and taxes, fees, moneys, and assessments, and shall have
within the town all the p'.wers relating theie'to sesti'd in the ,Ses
.sion, Cirand Jury, .School Meetings and Town Meetings, ,uid shall
have and exercise within the Town all the |)ouers and authority
which within the district previous lo the passing of this At I of in-
corporxtion were exercised by the Sessions, (irand jury. Town or
Schoc 1 Meetings, or trustees of schools, of all kinds. They 'dial!
also aave the power to enforce due observance of the I .ord's 1 )ay,
of preventing vice, drunkenness, profane swearing, obsceiU' liin-
gnage, and every other species of immuraiii) in th'- j uhlic streets
and roads, and all places within the bounds of «uch ' own, mm\ of
preserving pi ace and good order in such streets and roiids, luvernH.
and other places, and of preventing the sale of intoxicating li(|U()rs

to Indiai

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disorderl

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to Indians, minors, ami .ii)prcnticcs. and of restraining and punish-
ing all vagabonds and drunkards, and all persons found drunk or
disorilerl)- in any street, road, or public highway in the 'I'own, the
imposing of fines on the owners of cattle, horses, swine, geese and
poultry, .and other riiiimals going at large within the limits of the
i'own. and the providing of pounds for keeping the same. They
shall also have ])Ower to pro\ide for any purpose, matter or thing
speciall) subjected to the control of the Council by anylaworbye-
Uiw of the Town, but no bye-law shall impose any penalty exceed-
ing cigluy dollars, and the (Council may by a bye-law im]jose a
term of imprisonmoin not exceeding six months in default of pa
ment of such l"me.

47. There shall be held every year four i[uarterly meeting of the
(oUiicil. d\)<.\ special meetings to be called by the Warden as often
as necessary. The Warden, when present, shall preside at all
meetings, and in his absenc-e the ('ouncillorssha.il elect a j)residing
officer tor the time being from among themselves.

48. The proceedings at each of the regular and special meetings
of the I'oun ( 'ounci! shall be correctly entered and recorded in a
book which shall be kept for tl^at purpose, and which shall be
called tiic Minute l'>ook of the Town Council of New (Glasgow, and
such book shall be open to inspection or search by any jierson
(jualified to vote ai the municipal elections of the Town on pay-
ment »)f the sum of twenty cents to the Secretary, Treasurer, or
other person who shall ha\ e the custody of such book, and all ex-
tracts from the said Minute Hook, or from any records or ])apers
of tlu Town Council, shall be delivered by the Secretary, Trea-
surer or Clerk, who shall be entitled to receive for such extracts
the sum often (xnls for every one hundred vvords, and they sha!!
be prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein.

49. The Council shall a,niuially appoint a Secretary, Treasurer,
(.)r Town Clerk. Police Magistrate, Assessors. Overseers of Poor,
liealth Officers, ( 'leik of License, SuiicriiUendent of Streets and
Commons, (,'olleclors of Poor and other Rates and Assessments.
l"'ire Wards and Kirc Constables. Police Constables, Measurers and
Weighers, and every other officer from time to time deemed neces-
sary t(» the i\\\i; performance and carrying on the l)usiness of the
town and the preser\ation of order.

50. The Secretarv, Treasurer, or Town Clerk shall perform the
duties ai.pert.'ining to the office of 'I'reasurer, Clerk of Overseers
of Pf)()r, Clerk oi" License. Collector of Pool and other rates and
assessments and all other duties that may be from time to time re-
<|uired of him by the Council. Lor the due jjerformance of these
(bities he shall t'urni-^h two sureties, whose names shall be approved

by a resolution of Council before they shall be admitted as such;
all such sureties sliall be jointly and severally bound with the Se-
cretary, Treasurer, or Clerk in such amount as the Town Council
may determine, and their obligation shall extend to the payment
of all sums ot money to which such Secretary, Treasurer or Town
C!lerk may at any time be accountable to the corporation, includ-
ing principal, interest and costs ; and his books of account, vouch-
cr.>, and all other papers relating to the corporation shall be open
at all liiries as well to the C ouncil as to each niember thereof.

■51. The duties of the various officers shall be specially set out
in the bye-laws of the Town.

52. 'llw I'own Council .shall also have power to make and from
•imc to lime alter and repeal all such bye-laws, rules and regula-
tions as may be necessary for the conduct and good order of their
|ir(K ceilings, the direction of the Secretary, Treasurer, or Clerk,
Mild all other officers, and touching all matters within their autho-
rit), including the altering, limiting or modifying the mode in
\\hi< h the labor on the streets and roads shall be performe*.!, or of
■iibsiituting a.ssessments in lieu thereof, of the performance of
labor on streets and roads as they may judge proper, and shall
make all rules necessary for the creating and for the conduct, ma-
!i;)ucinent. and regulation of the police and Municipal Court of the
r<i\\n, and for the regulating the mode of assessment and levying
;Ik- same, and generally tor all purposes connected with or affect-
\\\v; the- iiilernal management or government of the Town. The
'. Oiiin il shall also make all regulations necessary for holding elec-
i i')ii> to supply vacancies occurring within the year in the office of
Wild, n or Councillors. All bye-laws and regulations made by the
lown ( Ouncil in accordance with the provisions of this Act, when
.i|i|tro\f.ci of liy the Clovernor in Council,' shall have the force of
law.

5;,. All property, real and personal, which at the passing of this
\(i >h;!!l he ]tub!i» property, or shall have been held in trust in
,iny w;i\ lor the Town of Xew ( ilasgow. shall on. the passing of
•hi-> \(i. ve t ill and become the jjroperty of the Town.

54. i'iie Council shall annually appoint two .Auditors; no one
'-.iM> ilurin;; the ])re( eding year shall have been a member of the
( (HiiK il. or eontrai t(»r, or otificer appointed by the Council, (ex-
cept .in .\iuiitor). shall be eligil>le. The Auditors shall examine
:in(l nport u])on all accounts affectinL^ the Town or relating to any
trailer under its control or within its jurisdii lion for the year pre-
< edin;^- iheir appointmeni. The Auditors shall prep.irean abst.act
I t the leieipUs, expenditures and liabilities of ihe Town, and also
.t (li.;.uled statement of | articiihirs in such torni as the Council

J I

[as such;
the Se-
Council
I payment
I or Town
includ-
|t, vouch-
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set out

md from

I reguJa-
of their

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autho-

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or oi

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nd shall
Jct, ma-
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levying
r affect
1. The
ig elec-
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i by the
t, when
5rce of

of this
ust in
'ing of

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also
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slvill direct, and shall report in duplicate upon all accounts audited
l<y tlicm. and shall file such report in the office of the Secretary,
Treasurer, or Clerk of the Council within one month after their
appointment, and thereafter one copy shall be open to the inspec-
tion ot any ratepayer at all seasonable hours, and he may, by him-
self or his agent, at his own expense, take a copy thereof or extract
therefrom.

55. The Town Council shall, in each year, convene a public
meeting of the ratepayers of the Town, to be holden at such time
not later than one week previous to the annual election of Coun-
cillors, and at such place as the bye-law may designate, at which
meeting the accounts of the year*^s audited shall be produced, and
the Council, through the Warden, shall report to the meeting the
state and (X)ndition of the Town and the efficiency of the several
departments, and shall recomniend to the meeting any proposed
improvements and alterations, and shall furnish an approximate
estimate of the expenses ot all kinds required to be incurred for
tlie current year (including the county rates of the Town for the
incoming year), and the amount recjuired to be raised to defray
the same, for which sum the incoming (Jouncil shall assess, and
shall also lecomtnend any additional sum required to meet any
( ontemplated extraordinary services or improvements; and the
ratepayers may. by a vote of a majority present, affirm such expen-
diture, and the Council shall, at their next ensuing meeting, pass
a bye-law or resolution imposing a rate to meet such extraordinary
expenditure so athrmed, or shall raise the ref|uired amount by the
issue of debetuures of the Town, and by assessment make provi-
sion for meeting the interest.

56. The Council shall, upon the report of the Auditors, finally
pass and allow the accounts of the Secretary, Treasur^T, and Col-
lectors, and all accounts chargeable against the corporation, and
in cases of charges not regulated l)y law or bye-laws, the Council
shall allow what is reasonable.

57. The Secretary. Treasurer, or Clerk shall print and publish
the Auditors abstract, and shall also publish the detailed statement
in such lonn as the Council shall direct.

58. The Council sliall have the regulating and ordering of all
moneys to bi' |>ai<l out of the funds in the hands of the Secretary,
Treasurer or Clerk.

59. It shall be lawlul for the Town Council to appoint, remove
aiul rephu e when iiie\ shall think proper all such officers as are
appointed b) them, and to reciuire trom stich i)ersons employed
b\ them in any capac it'es whatsoever such securities as to them
shall seem meet to ensure the due execution of their duties.

54:

bo. I'Ik" Council shall be authorized and empowered ujjon ;i
vote of the majority of the ratepayers present at the annual meet-
ing to isHUe debentures to the extent of five thousand dollars, un
iler the hand of the Warden and any two or more of tht C'ouncil-
loi'f .-..d under the Seal of the Town, and countersigned by the
Scretary, Treasurer, or ('lerk, for the purpose of raising the neces-
sary funds for the purchase of any property or the erection of any
building for the lown, or the carrying out of any mun ipal work
or improvement.

6 1. Such debentures shall bear interest at the rate of six dollars
pur centum ]ier annum, payable half-yearly, and shall be redeem
il'/le at periods to be expressed*in such debentures, not less than
'en years, and not more than twenty years from the date of issuing
ihc same, and shall not be issued for a less sum than one hundred
dollars each. The ilebentures shall be made payable to the re-
'^ptM live holders thereof, and the Town shall be at liberty to jjay
and redeem any or all of such debentures, after the expiration of
five yenrs from the date thereof, on giving the hoUlers six months
notKC of their intention so to do. .Such debentures shall be free
from municipid taxation.

63, The (Council shall, on the request of a majority of the rate-
payers iit .iny annual meeting after the issue of any bonds or de-
!)entiires. make provision for t;reating a sinking fund, lorpiuingofl'
••Mrh bonds or debentures.

S.M.ARIES.

(1,1,. J'he salary of the Stipendiary Magistrate shall be three iuiii-
drufl dollars, and the sahry of the Secretary. Treasurer or Town
( 'k-rk shall be five hundred dollars. The ratepayers at any annual
nU'Cling tn;iy ;ilter these or add any other .salaries they m.iy ron-
:>i(l«'r just iind necessary.

O4, rile s;iliiries aTul remuneration of all other officers or per-
►.(Mis .(ppuinted or em[)loyed by the ('ouncil shall be fixed and jiaid
,is the Count il shall order and direct.

65, he TCoimcil shall carry out all contracts, engagements and
;i|4rfemenls heretofore made bona fuU and shall provide for the |)ay-
inent of all liabilities heretofore incurred and entered into on l)e-^
halt of the Town by as.sessment or by the issue of debentures.

Ui), Should the first election of Warden and Councillors not be
iield oil the third Tuesday of January, A. D., 1876, as pro\ ided
i»y the Hi'vcnth section of this Act. the same may be held upon
any <la) not later than the third Tuesday ot January, .\. U.. 1878.
(o be fixed by the (lovernor in Council, and of which fourteen
• lays nolic e shall be given by the presiding officer ajjpointed In

ihe Ciove
t'tn Chro
of New C
such thii
thereaftt
from an(

67.
on the t
and inc

be held

and oth

come il

i'lrst mv

68. ;

with til
;it"tcr ll
69.
by a 11
called
of mal
least e

folic
I
Coi
juvi
■pic

upon .J
|al iiieet-
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!^'ouncil-
I)y the-
be neces-
y of any
]>al \\ork

dolJars
[redeem
;s.s than
issuing
undred
the re-
t" pac-
tion o(
months
l)e frci-

'he mte-
i or df-
ivingolT

ee hufi-

Towii

annual

y ron-

r pt-r-
(I paid

>> and
e pay-
n i)i.-

the (loverno. in Council, by adverlisumunl published in the Eus/-
fni Chronicle newspaper and by hand-bills posted up in the Town
of New (ilasgow. If such election shall not be held on or before
such third Tuesday of January, A. 0,, 1878, it shall not he held
thereafter, and this Act shall in such cijs*' cuase and deterniine
from and after such day.

67. The financial year of the Town of New (ilasgow shall k:\\<\
on the thirty-first day of December in tvich and every >ear after
and including the year in which the fir>)i muni* ipal elections shal!
be belli under this Act, and this A<t furall (nir|»(;ses of tlie finance
and otiier affairs of the Town s!;uli he (lecinc'l and held lo have
come into ojjeration on tlie fir>< day ol flu- month in whicii such
first municipal electicms sh;',ll be held,

68. 80 much of tl existii.g law (,r of iuy bye-law, regulation,
or order of the Sessions of the ('oi;,]ty of I'ictou as is inionsistent
with this Act shall be re]jealed and cejise to have force from \\w\
after the (lay on which this Act shall com<' ijlfo o[)eration.

69. This Act shall n(;t come into o[»eralioii unless apiiroved of
by a majority of the ratejiayers of Nc'W (ilrif^gow at a meeting to ix-
called in such 'I'own by the Stipendiary Magisiratt- for the juirposL-
of making such approval, of which public notice ^hall be given at
least one week before the time of sutll meeting,

CTIATPKK 45,

.Vn Act further to amend the .\ci lo in- orp(.'rate the Town of

New Olasgow,
[I'a»si!d tlie Jitli duy of Mfty, A, l>, \r,h.\ *

Be it enacteil by the (iovernor, Comicil and Assembly, as
follows: —

I. The Stipendiary or Police Magistrate appointed by the Town
Council of New Cdasgow shall, in all civil matters, have the lame
jurisdiction within such Town, and in all parts (jf the County of
Pictou. as is now contened upon two Justices (jf the I'e.ice.

')t hv
n'ded
upon
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