after another person has voted as such elector, the applicant, upon taking the above oath, and otherwise establishing his identity to the satisfaction of the returning officer, shall be entitled to vote in the same manner as any other elector; and a note to that effect shall be made in the poll book.

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16. The third section of the Act 39, Vict., chap. 52, is S 3 of 39 V. amended by adding after the words: "the bona fide rent of 52, such property," the following words: "or the interest of the actual or real value of such property, if they consider that such rent does not represent or is disproportionate to the value of such property," and it shall be the duty of the valuators or assessors, in case several tenants shall occupy a property, to establish the proportion which each such tenant or sub-tenant shall have to pay, on the total amount of the tax or assessment which shall be imposed upon such property.

V. c. 52, amended.

17. Section 171 of said act 37 Vict., chap. 51, is $ 171 of 37 amended by adding thereto the following paragraph: "And also of the right of abandoning the opening of any new street shown on the said plan, or of modifying and altering the new lines given to any street by the said plan, at the request of any of the parties interested owning one third in value of the portion of the street which it is proposed to discontinue, or of the street the new lines of which it is sought to modify and alter; such value to be established by the assessors of the said city, and upon the condition that the petitioners shall pay to the said corporation, the cost and expenses of such suppression or modification; but no such suppression or modification shall take place unless it be resolved upon by a majority of a meeting composed of two thirds of the said Council; and upon the petition of the said Corporation, any of the judges of the Superior Court may order that the said plan be modified accord." ingly."

18. Every immoveable property situated outside of the city limits and now possessed by the city or which it may hereafter acquire for public purposes, shall henceforth be valued at the same rate by the valuators of the neighbouring municipality in which such property is situate, as the adjoining lands and property are valued for municipal purposes therein.

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19 It shall be lawful for the Council of the said city Gratuity to to grant, out of the municipal funds, a gratuity of two w. L.Pento.

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thousand dollars to the widow and children of the late Frederick W. L. Penton, in his lifetime chief of police of the said city!

20. The market clerks in the said city, shall have full power and authority to enter into any yard or lane, for the purpose of levying or collecting therein market-. dues or tolls on cattle, grain or provisions brought to the said city for sale.

21. An expropriation shall take place every five years, the first whereof shall be held in the course of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, of the immoveable property or portions thereof belonging to proprietors who shall have erected permanent buildings upon the new line laid down on the plan made in virtue of section 169 of the said act 37 Vict., chap. 51, in the streets or public squares, subject to be opened or widened according to said plan; provided that such proprietors shall, before building, have obtained from the City Surveyor, a sketch of the new line, and that they shall, moreover, produce, after such building shall have been erected, a certificate from the said City Surveyor to the effect that they have complied with the said new line; provided also that the whole cost of all such improvements shall be borne and paid by the proprietors on each side of the street in which the improvement is made, by means of a special assessment to be levied as hereinafter provided.

22. The mode of procedure to be followed for the said expropriation and for the assessment and apportionment of the cost thereof, upon the parties interested, shall be the same as that prescribed for ordinary expropriations in the said act 37 Vict., chap. 51, save and except the changes and modifications hereinafter provided.

28. So soon as the report of the commissioners appointed to fix and determine the price or compensation ratification of for the pieces of land or real estate to be expropriated, their report shall have been confirmed and ratified by the Superior by S. C. Court, or by one of the judges thereof, as the case may be, in accordance with the said act, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to assess and apportion, in such manner as to them may appear most reasonable and just, the total cost of the improvement upon all and every the pieces of land or real estate situated in,or facing on both sides of the street or public square in which the improvement is made; and the said commissioners shall, for that purpose, base their valuation upon the actual value of the said pieces of land or real estate, irrespective of buildings

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thereon erected, taking into account the size of the said pieces of land or real estate respectively, and the benefit to be derived by them from the said improvement.

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24. The provisions contained in sub-sections 2, 3, 4 and §§ 2, 3, 4, 5 ot 5 of section 185 and in section 126 of the last cited act, and 186 of 37 V. in section 8 of this act, shall apply to the said commis- c. 51 and s. 8 sioners and to all and every the special rolls of assessment of this act, to to be made by them as aforesaid.

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25. Within twenty days after each assessment roll Deposit in shall be completed as aforesaid, the Corporation of the hands of prosaid city shall make, in the hands of the Prothonotary of compensation the said Superior Court, whose duty it shall be to grant for immoto the said Corporation a written acknowledgment there- veables exof, a deposit and consignment of the price or indemnity settled and determined in and by the said report of appraisement for all and every the pieces of land or real estate expropriated, after deducting therefrom the amount of assessment charged to each of the proprietors expropriated in the said assessment roll, which the said Corporation is hereby authorized to retain in settlement of the respective contribution of the said proprietors towards the cost of the improvement; and such deposit shall have the same effect a provided in section 178 of the last cited act.

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26. The right of veto conferred upon the parties in- Right of vete terested in the improvement by sub-sections 9, 10 and 11 by parties of section 176 of the said act, shall not apply to expropriations made in virtue of the foregoing sections.

27. Section 94 of the said act 37 Vict., chap. is hereby repealed and the following substituted in stead:

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94. Whenever two years of assessments on any real property, in the said city, shall have become due and payable at the time of the passing of the present act, or whenever any assessments, annual or special, shall have become due and payable more than two years before the passing of this act, upon the said real property, such real Sale of proproperty, or such part thereof as may suffice, if sus- perty for ceptible of being divided, may be sold for the non-pay- taxes. ment and recovery of the arrears of assessment and interest due on such real property; and the sheriff of the district of Montreal, upon the issue of a warrant or order to that effect by the Superior Court or the Recorder's Court, is hereby authorized to sell and alienate such real property, in the usual manner and form, after Formalities notice by him given to that effect during four months in for sale.

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the "Quebec Official Gazette," to meet the payment of such assessment and interest; and the proceeds of the said sale of the said real property so sold as aforesaid shall, in all cases, be returned by the said sheriff into the Superior Court sitting in the district of Montreal, to be by he said Proceeds of court adjudged upon, distributed and ordered to be paid according to law; provided however, that the balance or amount of moneys to be so levied as aforesaid, by the said sheriff and remaining in the hands of the said sheriff, after the judgment shall have been rendered and distribution ordered by the said court, shall, within fifteen days. thereafter, be paid over by the said sheriff to the Treasurer of the province, to remain deposited in his hands at an interest of six per cent per annum, until demanded and claimed by the party having the right to demand and claim the same;

Notice by sheriff.

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2. The notice to be given by the sheriff as aforesaid, shall be in the form of the schedule hereunto annexed; it shall comprise as many real properties, at one and the same time, as the sheriff shall have been required to seize and sell for the payment of the said assessments and interest, and such notice shall moreover, be posted on each of the real properties therein specified, and also in the portico of the City Hall of the said city, one month at least, before the day fixed for the sale of the said real properties;

3. The provisions contained in articles 1022 and 1025 of 1025 M. C,to the municipal code of the province of Quebec, shall have force and effect within the limits of the city of Montreal."

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Public notice is hereby given that the undermentioned immoveable properties have been seized and shall be sold at the time and place hereinafter specified; All persons who have to exercise as regards the same, any claims which the registrar is not held to mention in his certificate by virtue of article 700 of the Code of Civil Procedure, are hereby required to make known the same according to law. Every opposition to the sale, except in case of venditioni exponas, shall have to be deposited in the office of the undersigned, before the fifteen days immediately preceding the day of the sale; oppositions afin de conserver may be deposited at any time within six days after the return of the writ.

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9, s. 123, amended.

28. The said act is amended by the addition of the 37 V. c. 51 § following sub-section after sub-section 9 of section 123: "9a. To punish any person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of Her Majesty's subjects.

29. The said act is hereby amended by the insertion Posting of of the following paragraph at the end of sub-section 3 bills and of section 123:

"To regulate and license the posting of bills and placards to prevent the posting up, or the making or writing of indecent or offensive placards, paintings, drawings words or inscriptions upon houses, walls or fences, or other public or private property, or on any street or public place in the said city, or in any store or any place visible from such street or public place;

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To regulate awnings, signs, signboards, show-bills or Awnings, show-boards, and for preventing the pulling down sig s &c. or defacing of the same, or the pulling down or defacing of printed or writen notices lawfully posted up, or the defacing of private or other property by printed or other notices posted thereon;