REGULATIONS, The following is the text of the new nnd amended Land Regulations and Byolaws (as revised by the Land Regulations Committee and approved by the Counc), to be submitted to the Ratepayers at the forthcoming Special Mestin; Provosep Reaviatioy VIA.
Land for Public Roads.—It being expedient that the Ratepayers should have fuller power than they at present possess for acquiring land for now roads, extension and widening of existing roads, ion of lands already occupied by publ ud for purposes of sanitation, it is hereby agreed that they shall have the following powers in addition to, and not in substitution for, those by them under re ion Viand the powers shal bbe exercised in the manner follow:
In case the land required for auch public purposes shall have been acquired by foreign enters before the publication of notice that the plan referred to in that Regulation is open to inspection or shall remain in the hands of the native owners the proprietors all for three months after the publication of such notice have the right to protest in writing and, in person or by proxy, to appear and to bring evidence before the Municipal Council to show cause why such proposed roads extension and widening of roads or extension of the public works or establishment of sanitary buildings or works should not be made or undertaken, and the Council shall hear and decide the matter.
After the said period of three months from such publication and in case such protest be over-ruled and in case such foreign renters or native owners as the case may be are unwilling to surrender to such public uses the land 80 required, than the Municipal Council may after the expiry of four months and wi one year from the publication of noti such plan apply to the Land Comm sioners, to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned, and the said Land Commissioners shall after hearing the parties, and calling for evidence determine the compensation (if any) to be paid or given for the lend so required and for the buildings (if any) thereon and in respect of any tenancy of the said land and buildings respectively, taking into account the increase or decrease in value of the remainder of the property, and surrender of the land (notwithstanding the restrictive words contained in Regulation VI) on the terms of the award and finding of the Land Com. missioners, shall in case of need, be enforced by the Court or Courts having Jurisdiction over the owners and occupiers of the land.
The Land Commissioners shall be three in number and shall be appointed; one by the Council not later that the 15th January in each year. And one by the Registered owners of land in the Settlement who pay taxes of Tls. 10 per annum or upwards, and who shall vote by ballot at the Council Office on the same days as those appointed for the election of Members of Council. Any two Isnd owners qualified to vote being entitled to nominate candidates the position by sending the names to the Council one wesk before the election takes place, and the Council shall cause the names of all'such nominees to be exhibited in the Office on the day of the poll. If only one ame be suggested then that person shall be the Commissioner without a pol The third Commissioner shall be elected by resolution of @ meeting of Ratepayers. Any two Ratepayers qualified to vote being entitled to nominate candidates for the position by sending in the names to the Council one week before any Meeting of Ratepayers and the Council shall cause the names of all auch Candidates to be published with the notices of motions for the Meeting. Should no name be duly sent in any qualified candidate may be proposed, seconded and elected at the Meeting.
All three Commissioners shall go into office on the day after the Annual Meeting of Ratepayers and go out of office on the day after the next Annual Meeting, except as to matters then pending before them which they shall have power to complete, fo one who is salaried official of the Council shall be eligible as a Commissioner.
Vacancies occurring during the year shall be filled by appointment or election by the party who appointed the Commissioner where jlaco shall have become vacant—a special fecting of Ratepayers being called if necessary.
Zhe Commissioners shall make their award within a month from the time they are appli~ ed to or within such timeas they ora majority of them may extend it to.
The expenses of the Land Commissioners shall be defrayed out of the Public Funds, the fees of the Commissioners being either re gulared by the Municipal Council in accordance with the time engaged on the duties, or fixed beforehand.
PRoposep neauLATION VI
Failways,—In the event of the Imperial Railway Administration or any other duly authorised person or corporation desiring to wire land by compulsory purchase in the Settlement for the purpose of constructing railway the said Administration, person oF corporation shall deliver to the Munici Council a plan of the lino showing the land Public Roads are to be dealt. with, and muired and showing the manner in which
whether they are to be crossed by bridges or on the level, and giving such other information as will enable the Council to see how Rtanicipal Council signify their approval of public rights will be affected and if the
the scheme the said Administration person or ation shall be entitled to acquire the land in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as those under which the Municipal Council acquire land, for public purposes. Provided that the compensation swarded shall be the fair market value of the robert i to ascertaine the Coumbsaioners with an addition of 25 per cent. for compulsory sale and such further sums as the Court may determine to be the amount, of damage (if any) caused to the remainder of the property by severance or otherwise andthe amount of the damage (if any) sustained by the owner or occupier for loss of business, expenses of removal or other like causes.
PROPOSED REGULATION Xxx, Buildings.—The Council may from time to time make Rules with respect to the structure of walls foundations roofs and chine new buildings for securing stability and the prevention of fires, and for purposes of health, with respect to the sufficiency of the space about buildings to secure o free circulation of and witl respect to the ventilation of hi ings, with ct to the i of buildings, to waterclosets earthclosets privies ashpits and cesspools in connection with build-closing of buildings or parts of buildings unfit ings, and to the temporary or permanent for human habitation, and to prohibition of their use for habitation. "And they may further provide for the observance of such Bules by enseting therein provisions as to notices, as to the deposit of plans and sections by persons intending to construct buildings, and as to inspection by the Council and' the Counc may remove alter or pull down any work begun or done in contravention
Gil. The Council may also fix the fees to be of such Rule or of any Bye-lay of the Coun-for charged to the persons who submit plans and
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