Bill 7 (Legislature 4, Session 3)

L4 S3 9639

Alberta — Bills

:BIJ.L No. of 1920. AN AOT TO AMEND THE MEDIOINE HAT OHARTER. (A~eented to 1920. ) RIS MAJESTY, by and with the advioe and ooneent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta. enacts as follows: 1. The Medioine Hat Ovharter, being ohapter 63 of ~e statutes of Alberta, 1906. and amendments thereto, is hereby further amended as follows:

(1) Title it by adding the following as seotion 16: "25. For the purpose of enabling every railway employee, , oommeroial traveller or other person (who is a qualified eleotor or burgess of the Oity, whose employment oroall~g is such as to neoessitate his absenoe from time to time from his plaoe of residenoe on the day fixed for eleotion or for the voting upon any by-law or other question affeoting suoh eleotor or burgess) to exeroise his vote at any eleotion or Toting, the returninl offioer shall establish a speoial polling booth whioh shall be oentrally looated so as to suit the oonvenienoe of suoh persons. "

(1) Exoept as herein provided the poll so held s1»111 be oonduoted in the same manner as provided for the oonduot of other polls at suoh eleotion or voting. "

(2) The poll at suoh polling booth shall be open between the hours of 2 and 8 in the afternoon on the three days, exolusive of Sunday, immediately preoeding the day fixed for eleotion or voting.

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(3) Every person applying to vote at suoh polling booth before being permitted to vote shall be required b1 the deputy returning offioer in oharge of the poll to make and subsoribe before him 'he following deolaration. whioh shall be kept by the said deputy returning offioer with 'he other reoords of the poll: I, A.B. of the City of Medicine Hat, Alberta, do solemnly and sinoerely deo1are that I am the person whose name appears on the voters' list now shown to me; that I am ... at present employed as (nature of 'employment) and I believe I will in the oourse of my said employment be absent from the City of'Medioine Ha.t during the whole of the eleotion or voting whioh oomes on the day of and unless I am allowed to oast my vote before the said date I will be unable to exeroise my privilege as suoh eleotor or burgess.

And I make this solemn deolaration oonsoientiously believing it to be true and knowing it to be of the same foroe and effeot as if made under oath by virtue of The Canada Evidenoe Ao'. Deolared before me at K edioine Rat, Alberta, this day of 19 • Returning Officer (or deputy returning Dffioer) • "

(4) Any person signing suoh deolaration knowing that any statement therein is false shall be liable on summar, oonviotion to a penalty 'of not less than 125.00 and not more tha.n $100.00. n(6) The returning ~floer shall supply the depnt1 returning offioer at suoh speolal booth with two oopies of the voters' list. The deputy returning officer shall insert on eaoh of suoh lists oppOsite the name of eaoh perlon who' has voted at suoh ,,101&1 polling booth the words "T01.d &t speoial bo,oth" and one of suoh 11sts shall be returned to

the returning offioe·r who- shall oause suoh words to be inserted in their respeotive plaoes on a.ll the other voters' lists before their delivery to the deputy returning offioers for use at all other booths of the City in the said eleotion or voting." 2. Title XXll,by repealing seotions 2 and 3 thereof and substituting the following therefor: 1t2. In oaloulating the amount of the debenture debt of the oity at any time outstanding there may be deduoted from the gross total thereof: (

a) The amount of any funds or seourities held by the Oity to the oredit of the sinking fund of the oity; (

b) The amount of any debentures issued for gas, water or eleotrioal utilities of the oity; ft :b:i: DB: 3. Title XXlll, by repealing seotion 16 thereof and substituting the following therefor: "16. The polls shall be kept open from 9 o'olookr in the forenoon until 8 o'olock in the evening of the same day. provided that any person within the provisions of seotion 26, of Title V, may exercise the right of voting as in the said seotion provided." 4. By repealing ,section B of Ohapter 69 of the Statutes of Alberta,l9l9, and substituting the following therefor: "3.

The council is hereby authorized and empowered without the assent of the burgesses to issue debentures on the credit of the City of Medioine Hat at large to the extent of not more than one hundred thousand dollars per ,ear during eaoh of the years 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923. the prooeeds of the said debentures to be used only for the purpose of paying o·ff and disoharging the debenture prinoipal matured or maturing during eaoh' of the said years under

By-laws numbered 35, 47. 48, 62. 63, 'I, 76, 8a, 89, 90, 92, 94, 101, 102, 103, 119, 120, 121, 124, 134, 163, 1'2 and 1'15 of the said oitl'. and under By-laws numbered 4, 6, 6, '. 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18. 19, 22, 23, 26 and 26 of Medioine Hat Sohoo1 Distriot No.76, or for liquidating in whole or in part any sinking fund payments due from revenue aooount of the oity on any Ey-law heretofore passed. The said debentures may bear suoh interest. be repayable and be in any form authorized by the Medioine Hat Oharter." 6.

Whereas doubt has arisen as to the legality of oertain debentures issued under and by the authority of By-laws numbered 343, 346. 482, 483, 485, 48'1, 488, 489, 490 and 491 of the Oity of Medioine Hat, whioh debentures remained in the oustody of the treasurer of the oity for a period of more than four years from the date of the final passing of the said respeotive By-laws without having heen sold, mortgaged, pledged or hJpotheoated, and for 'he purpose of removing suoh doubt it is hereby deolared that eaoh and every of the said debentures so issued and whioh hsve remained in the oustOdy of the treasurer of the oity a8 aforesaid is good, valt.d and legal and binding upon the City of Medioine Hat.

(1) Wherever the word 'issue' or 'issued' or any relatiVE term thereto is used in Titles 22 or 26, of The Medioine Hat Oharter, in oonneotion with debentures issued or to be issued under the authority of any By-law heretofore or whioh may here~fter be passed in aooordanoe with the provisions of the said:Titles, suoh word or term shall b. interpreted as relating only to the exeoution of the debentures on behalf of .'bihe Oity of Medioine Hat and not to the sale, mortgaging I ' :' p'le4ging or hypotheoation thereof unless the oon1iext , " ., otherwise requires.

The following By-laws of the City of Medioine Hat, assented to by the burgesses of the oity on the 29th day of Ootober 1918. and whiah were finally passed by the aounoil on the 16th day of February 1920, are hereby deolared legal, valid and binding upon the said City notwithstanding any informalities, irregu.larities or defeats therein either in substanoe or in form, and the City of Medioine Hat is hereby authorized and. empowered to do all neoessary aots for the full and proper oarrying out of the objeots of the said By-laws: No.570 - .38.200.00 for bridge oonstruotion; No.671 - $ 8.300.00 for oreek embankments; NO.671 - • 4,700.00 for muniotpal buildIng; No.673 - $10,000.00 for eleotric light extensions.

Title: 1920 (4th, 3rd) Bill 7,

An Act to amend The Medicine Hat Charter

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L4 S3 9639
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L4 S3 9639
Language	en
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Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	36a096ac81edcf042bfb948011824a546d7a5da9

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