The proposed amended text of the paragraph was therefore carried with the exception of the words not exceeding two (2) Kiukiang taels per foot per annum."
Carried with exception of above clause, Rule 5.—Qualification of Electors. To add to rule "Provided that no elector shall be entitled to'vote at the annual meeting in respect of any lot or dwelling-house unless, on or before the 31st of December then last past, the rates and taxes leviable under these regulations and by-laws on such land or dwelling house-for the current municipal year have been yid in full."
This proviso is intended to carry out the intention of the words proposed to be ruck out in the definition of " Householder" in Rule 2.
As originally worded by the Chairman, it had run "unless he shall, past, have paid in full the S. Municipal year." The alteration was proposed by the Chairman in person and approved by the meeting.
Carrie Rule 6.—Obligatory force of resolutions.
For persons thereby rendered liable to pay Rates, Taxes or other Duos," read taxpayers."
Carried.
Rule 8.—Powers of Council in respect: of Collection of Taxes.
To add to the rule a new rule or ule VIEIB as follows Remarks.
"Within to ea. Jendar months after the annual meeting in each year the Council shall present to every Taxpayer a memorandum of the amount due for the Municipal yearas his share of the Rates, Taxes or other dues voted atthe meeting; and unless the Coun: cil shall otherwise direct, the whole sum so demanded shall thereupon become due and be paid by the Taxpayer, but should the Taxpayer during the Municipal year* vacate Pine land, house or building in respect of which any Tax has been paid and should actually 0ecupied by another tit shall be com. petent for the Ca cil upon the applic tion of the To.xpayer to refund a portion of such tax proportionate to the number of complete calendar months still toelapse before the end of the year and to recover the sane from the As originally drafted words "cease to reside at Kiukiang and" occurred after These words not passed.
After the meeting Mr. Hughes suggested that this phrase he altered to *the Council shall upon the application of the Taxpayer refund."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.