of all officers employed on and private proprietors of any public market, within the whole extent of the municipality." 34 V., c. 68, s. 626; 51-52 V., c. 30, s. 5.

6133. Article 635 shall read as follows:

"635. To determine whether articles brought into or produced in the municipality, to which no provision of the law applies, must be sold by weight or measure." 34 V., c. 68, s. 635; 39 V., c. 29, s. 9.

6134. Article 637 shall read as follows:

637. To provide for the establishment, protection and management of aqueducts, public wells or reservoirs, and to prevent the same from being fouled or wasted.

To grant, for a fixed number of years to any company. person, or firm of persons, who undertakes to construct an aqueduct public well, or reservoirs, or who assumes the management thereof, an exclusive privilege of laying pipes to supply water within the limits of the municipality, or in any part of the municipality, and to enter into a contract for such supply of water for one or more years but for a period not exceeding twenty-five years.' 34 V., c. 68, s. 637; 41-42 V., c. 10, s. 23; 44-45 V., c. 22, s. 1; 51-52 V., c. 30, s. 6.

6135. The following articles are added after article 637 :

"637a. To provide, over and above any tax, for the establishment or for the maintenance of aqueducts, public wells or reservoirs, for the payment of a compensation for the water, according to such tariff as it deems meet, by every proprietor, tenant or occupant of any house, shop or like building, whether or not the latter avail themselves of the water, provided always that the council cause a notice to be served on them to the effect that it is prepared to conduct the water, at its own expense, into or near their houses, shops or buildings.

Every by-law to compel proprietors, tenants, or occupants to pay such compensation for water, before having force and effect, must be approved by the majority of the electors being proprietors of real estate in the municipality who vote on such by-law, and by the LieutenantGovernor in Council; provided always, that the number of those who vote in favor of such by-law is at least onethird of the total number of electors being proprietors.

In the case of part of a municipality, a by-law may be passed for that purpose, when required by petition signed by two-thirds of the electors who are proprietors in the territory affected by such by-law, without its being necessary to submit the by-law to the approval of the municipal electors.

Every proprietor, having one or more tenants, sub-tenants

or occupants, is liable for the payment of such compensation in the event of his refusing or neglecting to furnish a distinct and separate supply pipe to each such tenant, sub-tenant or occupant. 41-42 V., c. 10, s. 23; 44-45 V., c. 22, s. 2; 51-52 V., c. 30, s. 7.

“367b. To provide for the payment of an annual subsidy to any company, person or firm of persons undertaking the construction of an aqueduct, public well or reservoir, during such period as may be agreed upon.

Every by-law passed in virtue of the present article must, before having force and effect, be approved by the majority of the proprietors of real estate in the municipality, who vote on such by-law, and by the LieutenantGovernor in Council; provided always, that the number of those who vote in favor of such by-law is at least one-third of the total number of proprietors." 41-42 V., c. 10, s. 24; 44-45 V., c. 22, s. 3; 51-52 V., c. 30, s. 8.

6136. Article 639 shall read as follows:

"639. To compel the owners or occupants of lands, situated as well in the municipality as in the neighboring municipalities not more than thirty miles distant, to permit and allow all works, undertaken for the purpose of providing the inhabitants of the municipality with water or light, to be carried on, and the taking possession, for the purpose of supplying and feeding such water-works and other hydraulic constructions, of the lakes, non-navigable rivers, ponds, springs and water-courses, having their source or flowing on private property; without, however, prejudicing the rights of the riparian proprietors to make use thereof, as well under the common law, as under the law respecting the improvement of water-courses, subject to the indemnity to be determined by the arbitration to that effect made under articles 640a, 640b, 640c, 640d, 640e, 640ƒ, 640g, and 640h." 47 V., c. 18, s. 4.

6137. Article 640 shall read as follows:

“640. To transfer its rights and powers, respecting the supplying of water, to any company, person or firm of persons who wishes to take charge thereof, provided that such company, person or firm does not exact, for the supplying of the water, higher rates than those fixed and approved of by the by-laws of the council; and the council may take stock in such company, or lend money to such company, person or firm of persons.

Every by-law passed under this article is subject to the provisions of article 482." 41 V., c. 18, s. 24.

6138. The following articles are added after article 640:

"640ɑ. If the municipal council, or the company, per

son or firm of persons in the rights of the council, cannot agree with the proprietors or owners of the lands upon the amount of the indemnity, the expropriation is proceeded with in the manner mentioned in the following articles. 47 V., c. 18, s. 5..

6406. A disinterested person is appointed by the municipality, the company, person or firm of persons in the rights of the municipality, and another is appointed by the proprietor or the possessor of the land damaged, which two persons appoint a third, and all three shall act as arbitrators in the matter in dispute between the parties. 47 V., c. 18, s. 5.

"640c. The delay to appoint such arbitrators is eight. days, counting from the service of a notice given for such purpose by one of the parties to the other. 47 V., c. 18, s. 5..

“640d. If, within the delay of eight days, one of the parties makes default to appoint his arbitrator, such arbitrator may be appointed by a judge of the Superior Court in the district in which the land to be expropriated is situated, upon petition presented in chambers on the eighth day counting from the service of a notice to that effect upon the party in default. 47 V., c. 18, s. 5.

640e. The delay to appoint the third arbitrator is three days counting from the acceptance of the arbitrators. 47 V.. c. 18, s. 5.

"640f. If, within such three days, the arbitrators make default to appoint such third arbitrator, he may be appointed by any judge of the Superior Court in the district in which the land to be expropriated is situated, upon a petition presented in chambers, on the eighth day after notice to that effect given by either of the parties interested to the other. 47 V., c. 18, s. 5.

640g. The service of the notice and of the petition must be either personal or at the domicile of the parties interested by a bailiff of the Superior Court; and if the party interested is absent, the bailiff entrusted with making such service must in his return certify such

absence.

Notice must be given to the absent party according to article 68 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and such notice is considered sufficient for all the purposes of the expropriation.

All other notices, petitions and proceedings that require to be served upon the absent party for the purposes of the expropriation may be served in the office of the prothonotary of the Superior Court for the district in which the property to be expropriated is situated, which is held

to be the domicile of the absent party for the purposes of the expropriation. 47 V., c. 18, s. 5.

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640h. The award rendered by the arbitrators in the cases provided for by the preceding articles is final and without appeal." 47 V., c. 18, s. 5.

6139. Article 641 shall read as follows:

641. To cause the removal, at the expense of the owners or occupants, of any door-steps, stairs, porches, railings, balconies, buildings or other erections which project beyond the line of the public road, or obstruct public communication; and to compel the latter to require the running of the line of the public highway before building." 34 V., c. 68, s. 641; 45 V., c. 35, s. 18.

6140. Article 654 shall read as follows:

"654. To oblige owners or occupants of houses or other buildings to provide themselves with a fixed number of fire-buckets, or with any other apparatus suitable for preventing accidents by fire, and to have ladders from the ground to the roofs of their houses, and thence to the ridge of the roof.

To order that such houses or buildings be not covered with shingles, unless a coat of cement or adhesive mortar, at least one-half inch in thickness, be placed upon the boarded roof, underneath the shingles, and between both, under a penalty for each contravention of a fine, the amount whereof is fixed in the by-law." 34 V., c. 68, s. 654; 45 V., c. 35, s. 19.

6141. Article 656 shall read as follows:

"656. To prevent any person from lighting or having any fire in any out-house, pig-sty, barn, shed or other building, unless such fire be placed in a chimney or in a metal stove connecting with a chimney." 34 V., c. 68, s. 656; 41 V., c. 18, s. 25.

6142. Article 675 shall read as follows:

"675. A certified copy of the by-law submitted for the approval of the municipal electors must be posted up, at least fifteen days before the holding of the meeting, in the places where municipal by-laws are ordinarily published, and it must be inserted twice at full length in one or more newspapers before such meeting, subject to the application of articles 243 and 244." 34 V., c. 68, s. 675; 36 V., c. 21, s. 16.

6143. The following article is added after article 678:

'678a. The presiding officer, after opening the meeting and reading the by-law, is bound to open the poll without

delay and to proceed to the registration of the votes." 38 V., c. 25, s. 2.

6144. Article 707 shall read as follows:

"707. Such responsibility is nevertheless incurred only in the case where the petition for annulment has been served at the office of the council within thirty days after the by-law has come into force." 34 V., c. 68, s. 707; 41 V., c. 18, s. 26.

6145. Article 708 shall read as follows:

"708. The right of demanding the annulment of any by-law is prescribed by thirty days from the date of the coming into force of such by-law." 34 V., c. 68, s. 708; 39 V., c. 29, s. 2.

SECTION VII.

AMENDMENTS TO TITLE SECOND OF BOOK SECOND.

OF THE VALUATION OF TAXABLE PROPERTY.

6146. Article 712 shall read as follows:

"712. The following property is not taxable :

1. Property belonging to Her Majesty, or held in trust for her use; property owned or occupied by the corporation of the municipality in which it is situated, and the buildings in which are held the Circuit Courts and registry offices;

2. Property owned or occupied by the Federal or Provincial Government;

3. Property belonging to Fabriques, or to religious, charitable, or educational institutions or corporations, or occupied by such Fabriques, institutions or corporations for the ends for which they were established, and not possessed solely by them to derive a revenue therefrom; 4. Burial-grounds, bishops' palaces, parsonage houses, and their dependencies;

5. All property belonging to iron and wooden railway companies to which a grant from the Provincial Government has been or may be made, for the period of twenty years from the date of the first payment on account of the grant;

6. All educational institutions receiving no grant from the corporation or municipality in which they are situated, and the land on which they are erected, and its dependencies." 34 V., c. 68, s. 712; 36 V., c. 21, s. 18; 41 V., c. 6, s. 26; 41-42 V., c. 10, s. 25; 48 V., c. 28, s. 13.

6147. Article 715 shall read as follows:

"715. The Provincial Registrar shall transmit, during