Penalty

Secretary
neglecting to

such secretary then to the commissioner or to such person as he may name all documents, books, money and other property of such disorganized local improvement district and such property shall be disposed of as the commissioner may direct [and any overseer neglecting or refusing to so hand over on deniand therefor all documents, books, moneys and other properties of the district in his possession in addition to any civil liability which he may thereby incur shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding $50.00.] 1903, 2nd session, c. 24. s. 96; 1904, c. 8, s. 9.

[96a. Any secretary of a district who neglects to discharge discharge duties the duties of his office or who neglects or refuses to render true and correct returns when required to do so under the provisions of any Ordinance of the North-West Territories or who refuses or neglects to hand over to his successor on demand therefor all moneys, books, papers and other property of the district in his possession in addition to any civil liability which he may thereby incur shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding $50.00.] 1904, c. 8, s. 10.

Penalty

The undersigned severally declare each for himself that he is a ratepayer in the above named division over eighteen years of age and votes in respect of the land set opposite his name hereto and that he votes for the person whose name is set opposite his name hereto.

Name

Land voted upon

Person voted for

A.B., Returning Officer.

and promise to perform the duties of such office to the best of my ability.

hereby declare that I accept to which I was

day of

19

(Give full description of the area included in division.)

Public notice is hereby given that a meeting of the electors of the division aforesaid will be held at

(description of place) on Monday the

day of January

19 at 10 a.m., when a poll shall be opened for the election of a councillor for said division for the current year.

Take notice that you have been assessed under the provisions of The Local Improvement Ordinance for the undermentioned lands in the above district and that taxes are now due and payable to the undersigned as follows:

.....quarter of Section......in Township......Range......west

of the......Meridian.

Taxes for year 190...on....acres at......per acre

$..........

In case a rebate is granted as provided in section 45 subsection 11 the notice should be amended accordingly.

Short title

CHAPTER 74.

An Ordinance respecting Irrigation Districts.

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 Irrigation District Ordinance." C.O., c. 74, s. 1.

Interpretation

Act

Board

District

Owner

Works

Voter

Commissioner

Engineer

Arable

INTERPRETATION.

2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires 1. The expression "Act" means the Act of the Parliament of Canada known as The North-West Irrigation Act 1898 and shall include any amendments thereto which may hereafter be passed;

2. The expression "board" means the board of trustees of any district created under the provisions hereof;

3. The expression "district" means any irrigation district created under the provisions hereof;

4. The expression "owner" means and includes any person who by any right, title or estate whatsoever is or is entitled to be in possession of any land in a district or in any area proposed to be erected into a district under the provisions hereof;

5. The expression "works" shall for the purposes of this Ordinance mean and include any dykes, dams, weirs, floodgates, breakwaters, drains, ditches, basins, reservoirs, canals, tunnels, bridges, culverts, cribs, embankments, headworks, flumes, aqueducts, pipes, pumps and any contrivance for carrying or conducting water or other works which are authorized to be constructed under the provisions of the Act;

6. The expression "voter" means any person duly qualified under the provisions hereof to vote at any election or upon the taking of any vote under the provisions hereof;

7. The expression "commissioner" means the commissioner of public works for the Territories;

8. The expression "engineer" means the engineer appointed by the board under the provisions of section 26 hereof;

9. The expression "arable" means any land which is capable of being cultivated without the necessity of first removing therefrom any live timber, scrub or stones.