3. The sum of dollars, being the total sum paid by said applicants towards the funds of the proposed day of A.D. 1 application was made. to the Commissioner of Agriculture for the North-West Territories by (here set out names and addresses of applicants) for the formation of an agricultural society under the provisions of The Agricultural Societies Ordinance, to be known as The Agricultural Society and to have its chief place of business at in the said Territories and the requirements of the said Ordinance as to matters preliminary having been complied with it is hereby declared that the said agricultural society has been this day organized under the name of The Agricultural Society and having its chief place of business as aforesaid and subject in all respects to the provisions of the said Ordinance. Dated at Regina this A.D. 1 day of Commissioner of Agriculture. 1903, c. 17, form B. Short title CHAPTER 70. An Ordinance respecting Municipalities. THE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Municipal Ordinance." C.O., c. 70, s. 1. INTERPRETATION. Interpretation clauses 2. Unless otherwise declared or indicated by the context, whenever any of the following expressions occur in this Ordinance the meaning hereinafter expressed shall attach to the same, namely: "Municipality" 1. "Municipality" means any locality the inhabitants of which are incorporated a rural municipality or town; "Council" "Mayor" "Reeve" "Land," etc. "Personal estate," etc. "Elector" "Owner" "Proprietor" "Householder" 2. "Council" means the municipal council; 3. "Mayor" means the head of the council of a town municipality and "reeve" means the head of the council of a rural municipality or the person filling for the time being the position of mayor or reeve; 4. "Land," "real property" and "real estate" respectively shall include all buildings or other things erected upon or affixed to the land and all machinery or other things so fixed to any building as to form in law part of the realty and all mines, minerals, quarries, fossils in and under the same except mines belonging to Her Majesty; 5. "Personal estate" and "personal property" include all goods, chattels, shares in incorporated companies, interest on mortgages, dividends from bank stock, income and all other property except land and real estate and real property as above defined and except property herein expressly exempted; 6. "Elector" means any person entitled for the time being to vote at any municipal election or in respect of any by-law in the municipality or polling subdivision as the case may be; 7. "Owner" or "proprietor" means any person who has the ownership or use of any taxable property or has an agreement for purchase of the same; 8. "Householder" means the occupier of a house but shall not mean or include any person who is a mere lodger or boarder in a house; 9. "Occupant" means a person who possesses, holds or "Occupant occupies any land under any title whatsoever or even without title or is occupying lands of the Crown under any style of location, agreement or tenure whatever; 10. "Lot" means one of the subdivisions into which a piece "Lot" or parcel of land has been divided into smaller parcels for purposes of sale including the buildings and other improvements thereon; assessment 11. "Revised assessment roll" means the assessment roll as "Revised finally passed by the court of revision and certified by the roll clerk notwithstanding that an appeal to a judge in respect thereof may be pending and after the decision of any such appeal the said expression shall mean the said roll with any amendments made thereto by the judge; 12. "Taxable person" means (a) Any person receiving an annual income or the owner "Taxable person" 13. "Judge" means a judge of the Supreme Court of the "Judge” North-West Territories; 15. "Drainage" shall be held to include and to have always "Highway way, road or bridge respectively; "Road" 15. "Drainage" shall be held to include and to have always 'Drainage" included sewerage and sewage; 16. "Resident" shall mean a person residing within the limits "Resident of the municipality. C.O., c. 70, s. 2. General rights and obligations PART I. Municipal Organization. THE BODY CORPORATE. 3. Every municipality in the North-West Territories is of municipalities hereby declared a body corporate and subject to all the liabilities of a corporation with full power to acquire, hold and alienate both real and personal estate for all municipal purposes and by the same name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession and shall have power to sue and be liable to be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all courts and in all actions, causes and suits at law and in equity whatsoever; and they shall have a common seal with power to alter and modify the same at their pleasure; and they shall be in law capable of receiving by donation, acquiring, holding, disposing of and conveying any property real or movable for the use of said municipality and of becoming parties to any contracts or agreements in the management of the affairs of the said municipality. C.O., c. 70, s. 3. Existing council, officers, etc., continued hereunder Town 4. The head and members of the council and the officers, by-law, contracts, property, assets and liabilities of every municipal corporation when this Ordinance takes effect shall be deemed the head and members of the council and all bylaws, contracts, property, assets and liabilities of such council or municipal corporation shall be subject to the provisions of this Ordinance. C.O., c. 70, s. 4. 5. In the case of towns the name of the body corporate municipalities shall be "The Town of (naming the same)." C.O., c. 70, s. 5. Rural municipalities Town councils Rural municipal councils 6. In the case of rural municipalities the name of the body corporate shall be "The municipality of (naming the same)." C.O., c. 70, s. 6. 7. The council of every town shall consist of the mayor, who shall be the head thereof, and six councillors. C.O., c. 70, s. 7. 8. The council of every rural municipality shall consist of a reeve and four councillors. (2) Should for any reason any municipality be or become insufficiently represented as required respectively by this Ordinance the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make such appointments for office as shall fill the requirements of sections 7 and 8 of this Ordinance. C.O., c. 70, s. 8. ELECTIONS. of mayors, councillors 9. The persons eligible for election as mayors, reeves and Qualifications councillors shall be natural born or naturalized subjects of reeves, Her Majesty and males of the full age of twenty-one years able to read and write, not subject to any disqualification under this Ordinance and qualified as follows: (a) In towns, being residents within the municipality or within two miles of the limits of the municipality, the owner at the time of the election of freehold, leasehold or partly freehold and partly leasehold real estate rated in their own names on the last revised assessment roll of the municipality to at least the value following, over and above all charges, liens, and encumbrances affecting the same: freehold $500, leasehold $1,500. (b) In rural municipalities, being resident within the municipality and the owner at the time of the election of real estate of not less than $400 within the municipality rated in their own names on the last revised assessment roll of the municipality. [(2) In the case of an election held before the preparation and revision of an assessment roll the provisions of this section requiring the candidates for election to be rated on the assessment roll shall not apply.] C.O., c. 70, s. 9; 1903, 1st session, c. 19, s. 1. disqualified 10. No judge of any court of civil jurisdiction, no gaoler Persons or keeper of any house of correction, no constable in any town, for councillors no assessor, secretary-treasurer or other paid official of the municipality, no bailiff, no inspector of licenses, no person having by himself or his partner an interest in any contract with or on behalf of the corporation or being indebted to the municipality, and no surety for an officer or an employee of the municipality, and no person who shall have been convicted of treason or an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for more than five years in any court of law within Her Majesty's dominions, shall be qualified to be a member of the council of any municipality. not (2) No person shall be held to be disqualified from being Shareholders elected a member of the council of any municipality by reason disqualified of his being a shareholder in any incorporated company having dealings or contracts with the council of such munici-pality or by having a lease of twenty-one years or upwards of any property from the municipality; but no such leaseholder shall vote in the council on any question affecting any lease from the municipality and no such shareholder on any question affecting the company. C.O., c. 70, s. 10, 1900, c. 23, s. 1. 11. The secretary treasurer shall on or before the first day Voters' list of September in each year prepare a voters' list which shall |