“Dartmouth Tram and Power Company, Limited; Act to incorporate”, 1890 c189
1890s
Act to amend 1885 c52, incorporating a steam ferry company, limited, between Halifax and Dartmouth, 1890 c175
“Act to amend 1885 c52, incorporating a steam ferry company, limited, between Halifax and Dartmouth”, 1890 c175
Dartmouth Axe and Ladder Company, Act to incorporate, 1890 c174
“Dartmouth Axe and Ladder Company, Act to incorporate”, 1890 c174
Dartmouth Reading Room, Act to incorporate the Directors of, 1890 c173
“Dartmouth Reading Room, Act to incorporate the Directors of”, 1890 c173
Dartmouth Ferry Commission, Act to provide a Public Ferry between Dartmouth and Halifax, 1890 c83
“Dartmouth Ferry Commission, Act to provide a Public Ferry between Dartmouth and Halifax”, 1890 c83
To provide for the erection of New School Houses in the Town of Dartmouth and for other purposes, 1890 c82
(Passed the 15th day of April, A. D. 1890.)
SECTION.
Recitals.
1. Town Council authorized to borrow $12,000. Debentures.
2. Authorized to borrow $600.00 for surveys. Schedule.
Recitals
Whereas, at a meeting of rate-payers of Dartmouth, Recitals. held on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1890, the Town Council was authorized to apply to the Legislature for authority to borrow the sum of twelve thousand dollars for the purchase of land and the erection of school houses;
And whereas, a sum of six hundred dollars is required to defray the expense of surveys in connection with a water supply for the Town of Dartmouth;
And whereas, it is expedient to make provision for the payment of the sum last mentioned and for the borrowing of the said sum of twelve thousand dollars;
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:
Town council authorized to borrow $12,000, debentures:
1. The Town Council of the Town of Dartmouth is hereby authorized to borrow on debentures, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing land, and erecting and furnishing school houses in the town. Such debentures shall be issued under the hand Debentures. of the Mayor and seal of the town, and shall be countersigned by the town clerk, in the form in schedule to this Act, and shall be for one hundred dollars each, or some multiple thereof, and bear interest, at a rate to be determined by the Council, not exceeding five per centum per annum, and shall be redeemable in twenty years, and the same when issued shall be a charge on all the real and personal property of or situate within the town of Dartmouth, and shall be free from municipal taxation.
Authorized to borrow $600.00 for surveys:
2. The Town Council may also borrow on debentures, Authorized to as aforesaid, a sum, not exceeding six hundred dollars, to defray the expenses incurred in connection with surveys, and other charges incurred for the purpose of providing a water supply for said town of Dartmouth; or the Council may in their discretion provide for such sum in whole or in part in the annual assessment next after the passing of this Act. The debentures issued under this section shall be redeemable in five years, if the Council so determine, otherwise the same shall be redeemable in any period, not longer than twenty years, that the Council shall determine. The said debentures shall be as nearly as may be in the form in schedule hereto, but the same shall be entitled, “special loan.”
SCHEDULE
Schedule. No— Loan for construction of Schools.
$— Transferable.
L. S.
Under the authority of the Legislature of Nova Scotia.
The bearer hereof is entitled to receive from the town of Dartmouth, in the County of Halifax, Province of Nova Scotia, the sum of — hundred dollars of lawful money of Canada, in twenty years from the date hereof, and interest for the same at the rate of — per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, as per the interest warrants hereto annexed, payable at the office of the Town Clerk and Treasurer of said town of Dartmouth.
Dated at Dartmouth the – day of — , A. D.
18-
A. B.
Mayor.
C. D.
Town Clerk and Treasurer.
“To provide for the erection of New School Houses in the Town of Dartmouth and for other purposes”, 1890 c82
An Act further to amend the Act to provide a Water Supply and System of Sewerage for the Town of Dartmouth, 1890 c81
An Act further to amend the Act to provide a Water Supply and System of Sewerage for the Town of Dartmouth.
(Passed the 15th day of April, A. D. 1890.)
SECTION
1. Meeting of rate payers adjourned.
Notice, etc., etc., etc.
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:
Meeting of ratepayers adjourned:
1. The meeting of rate-payers of Dartmouth, held under the provisions of section 30 of the said Act, and adjourned for a twelve month, by the vote of the ratepayers present at said meeting, is hereby adjourned to the twenty-ninth day of April, in the present year, when the same shall be held, at an hour and place to be determined by the Town Council, whereof notice shall be given in the manner provided in and by section 30 of said Act, chapter 76, of the Acts of 1889.
“To amend the Act to provide a water Supply and System of Sewerage for the Town of Dartmouth, as to meeting of Ratepayers”, 1890 c81
To amend the Act to provide a Water Supply and System of Sewerage for the Town of Dartmouth, 1890 c80
An Act to amend the Act to provide a Water Supply and System of Sewerage for the Town of Dartmouth.
(Passed the 15th day of April, A. D. 1890)
SECTION.
1. Section 1, chap. 76, Acts 1889, amended.
2. Section 3 said chap. amended.
3. Section 3 further amended.
4. Section 3 further amended.
5. Section 3 further amended.
6. Section 3 further amended.
7. Section 3 further amended.
8. Section 3 further amended.
9. Section 3 further amended.
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:
Section 1 chapter 76 Acts 1889 amended:
1. Section 1 of chapter 76, of the Acts of 1889, is hereby amended by striking out the word “twenty,” in the eleventh line, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words,” a period not exceeding forty.”
Sec. 3 said chapter amended:
2. Section 3 of chapter 76, of the Acts of 1889, is hereby amended, by striking out the words between the word “and,” in the fifth line, and the word “members,” in the ninth line, and the following words inserted in lieu thereof: ‘two members of the Town Council, to be elected by the Council, at the first regular meeting after the Act shall be brought into force, together with the persons to be appointed by the Governor-in-Council, the persons 90 appointed from among the.” Said section 3 is also amended by striking out the words,” thirty-first day of December,” in the thirteenth line of the third paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words ” municipal elections.”
Sec. 3, further amended:
3. Said section 3 is also amended by striking out the word “herein,” in the first line of the second paragraph, being the nineteenth line of the section, also by striking out the figures 1890, in line 3 of said paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof, the figures 1891, also by striking out the figures 1891, in line 9, of suid paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof, the figures 1892.
Sec. 3, further amended:
4. Said section 3 of said Act, is also amended by striking out the words “four” and “three,” in the twentieth and twenty-first lines of the third paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words ” three” and “two” respectively.
Sec. 7 amended:
5. Section 7 of the said Act, is hereby amended, by inserting after the word “lakes,” in line 5, the words, or any other lake or lakes, in the county of Halifax.”
Sec. 9 amended:
6. Section 8 of said Act is hereby amended, by inserting after the word “lake,” in line 5, the words, or any other lake upon the lands surrounding, which the Board of Commissioners shall have entered under the provisions of the next preceding section.”
Sec. 9 Amended:
7. Section 9 of said Act is hereby amended, by inserting after the word “lake” in line 3, the words,” or any other lake upon the lands surrounding which the Board of Commissioners shall have entered, as in section 7 provided, also by inserting after the word “lake” in line 10, the words, “or such other lake as aforesaid.”
Qualification of voters:
8. The qualifications of voters at the adjourned meeting of rate-payers, provided for by section 30 of said Act, shall be as provided in said section, save that the said section shall be read as if the figures 1889, were substituted for 1888 wherever they occur therein.
Schedule A chap. 76 amended:
9. Schedule “A” to the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the word “twenty,” in line five.
To amend the Act to provide a Water Supply and System of Sewerage for the Town of Dartmouth, 1890 c80
To amend the Act to incorporate the Town of Dartmouth, and legalize assessment, 1890 c79
An Act to amend the Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Town of Dartmouth.
(Passed the 15th day of April, A. D. 1890.)
SECTION.
1. Section 30, chap. 40, Acts of 1877, repealed.
2. Assessment legalized.
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:
Sec. 30, chapter 40 Acts of 1887 repealed:
1. Section 30 of chapter 40, of the Acts of 1877, entitled an Act to amend the Act entitled An Act to incorporate the Town of Dartmouth, is hereby repealed.
Assessment legalized.
Assessment legalized:
2. The assessment made by the town Council of the Town of Dartmouth, for the present year, is hereby declared to be legal and valid, notwithstanding the same may be in excess of the sum limited by the said section 30 of chapter 40 of the Acts of 1877.
“To amend the Act to incorporate the Town of Dartmouth, and legalize assessment”, 1890 c79
The Annex
Remember that time Dartmouthians got so fed up with the substandard ferry service, they charted their own course, and organized a committee to start their own ferry service?
A ferry service that became so popular, the previous operators were abandoned in favor of the people’s service? This group even organized a ferry boat buying expedition to New York, in order to purchase a boat “formerly on the Pennsylvania Annex running from Brooklyn to Jersey City”.
From The Story of Dartmouth, by John P. Martin:
“The struggle between the citizens and the Steamboat Company lasted about three months. In April 1890, legislation was obtained to organize the Dartmouth Ferry Commission. This body took over the liabilities of the Citizens’ Ferry Committee. Delegates were next sent to the United States to negotiate for the purchase of a secondhand ferryboat named the “Annex”. Meantime the small steamer “Arcadia” kept running in opposition to the Company, transporting people for two cents, and later for one cent. Nearly everyone boycotted the regular ferry. By midsummer the Steamboat Company felt obliged to capitulate. Then all the property of the 75-year-old Halifax and Dartmouth Steam Ferry Company was acquired by the new Dartmouth Ferry Commission. The makeshift landing and ticket booth at Campbell’s wharf were abandoned.”
