case the commissioners shall reduce such rate for such current year from the said amount of one penny half-penny in the pound to such an amount as will in the opinion of the commissioners be adequate to meet the estimated expenditure for such current year. No. 19--1863. 20. All the necessary costs, charges, and expenses attending Costs of Act. the procuring of this Act and carrying the provisions thereof into effect shall be paid out of the money authorised to be received by the commissioners under the provisions of this Act. baths and washing 21. The commissioners are hereby empowered, with the consent Erection of public of the resident householders present at any annual or special places. meeting, to erect and construct public baths and washing-places, and to make such regulations touching the same as the commissioners shall think proper and necessary. res pecting water supply 22. The commissioners are hereby empowered from time to time Regulations to make such regulations touching the water to be supplied to the inhabitants and the time and times at which such supply is to be received as shall be proper and necessary; and also touching the most expedient mode of preventing any waste of water within the said municipality. 23. Every person who shall bathe or wash himself in any Penalties. reservoir belonging to the commissioners, or in any stream flowing into such reservoir, or who shall wash, throw, or cause to enter therein any dog or other animal, or who shall throw any rubbish, dirt, filth, or other noisome thing into any such reservoir or stream, or wash or cleanse therein any cloth, wool, leather, or skin of any animal, or any clothes or other thing, shall for every such offence, upon being convicted thereof upon the prosecution of the commissioners, forfeit to the use of the commissioners a sum not exceeding five pounds nor less than one pound: in failure of the payment of such fine the party convicted shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding fourteen days. recovered. 24. In all cases in which the occupier of immovable property Rates how to be assessed to the water rate imposed by section twelve shall not be the owner, the owner shall in the first instance be liable to pay to the commissioners the full amount of such rate and to recover from the tenant or occupier for the time being one-half of the amount of such rate: Provided that the tenant or occupier may if he think proper pay such rate and deduct and retain from the rent payable to the landlord one-half of the amount so paid. How notices under this Act to be pro 25. All public notices required by this Act shall be deemed to be sufficiently given by affixing a copy thereof on the Town-house mulgated. and at the office of the Resident Magistrate for the district of George, and at such other places, if any, as the resident householders present at any annual meeting shall from time to time .direct. No. 19-1863. THE SCHEDULE BEFORE REFERRED TO. No. 1. the IN THE MATTER OF THE GEORGE TOWN WATER ACT, 1863. Notice is hereby given that the plans, specifications, and estimate of the works proposed to be constructed by the commissioners of the municipality under the authority of the above Act have been this day placed in the Town-house in George Town for the free inspection of the inhabitants, and that the same may be inspected on any day (Sundays excepted) up to and including day of (next or instant), between the hours of ten a.m. and four p.m. Any ratepayer objecting to such plans, specification, or estimate, or to any matter of detail therein, may at any time within twenty-one days from this date leave with the secretary of the commissioners a statement in writing, setting forth clearly and concisely his objections to the same, in order that such objections may accompany the plans, specification, and estimate, and be laid with them before the Governor for his consideration. Dated this day of 186-.. No. 2. IN THE MATTER OF THE GEORGE TOWN WATER ACT, 1863. Notice is hereby given that the commissioners of the municipality of George Town, in pursuance of the above Act, intend to make application to the Governor of the Colony for his consent to their borrowing and taking up at interest under the provisions of the above Act a sum of money not exceeding £- on the security of the waterrate. Any party liable to such rate objecting to the raising of such money must, within the period of fourteen days from this date, leave with the secretary of the commissioners a notice in writing, setting forth clearly and concisely the nature and grounds of his objections and the evidence to be adduced in support of such objections, in order that such notice may accompany the application to the Governor and be laid before him for his consideration. We, the undersigned, being commissioners of the municipality of George Town, in consideration of the sum of pounds sterling, lent and advanced to us for the purposes of the George Town Water Act, 1863, by- do hereby, in pursuance of the powers contained in the said Act. authorising us in this behalf, charge the water-rate of one penny half-penny in the pound imposed by the said Act with the repayment of the said his executors, administrators, or assigns, of the said sum of by the instalments and in manner following: the principal sum of £on the day of and the like principal sum of £ on the day of in each and every subsequent year until the whole of the said principal sum of £ shall have been paid and discharged; and also with the payment of interest the As witness our hands this day of one thousand eight hundred and -. No. 4. FORM OF TRANSFER. in the year of our Lord in consideration of the sum of sterling his executors, 18-, under the I, the undersigned, money paid to me by do hereby assign unto administrators, and assigns, all principal moneys and interest secured by a certain deed bearing date the day of hands of commissioners of the municipality of George Town, with power for the said , executors, administrators, and assigns, or his or their substitute or substitutes, in the name or names of the said executors or administrators, to sue for, receive, and give IN THE MATTER OE THE GEORGE TOWN WATER ACT, 1863. Account of all Moneys received and paid by the commissioners of the municipality of George Town under or by virtue of this Act, between the 1st day of January, 18-, and the 31st day of December, 18-, both inclusive. No. 19-1863. By amount expended on works Summary of Receipts and Expenditure on Capital Account up to the 31st day of December, 18—. To amount realized on sale of lands.. To amount taken up on loan.. To amount received from rates after payment of interest and working expenses as under : No. 19-1863. Statement of Liabilities and Assets on the 31st December, 18-. To amount due on loans outstanding accounts to cash balance Arrears of rate Cash Balance Liabilities. Assets. Preamble. ACT For incorporating the Eastern Province Guardian Loan and Investment Company, and enabling them to sue and be sued in the name of their Secretary. WHEREAS, by a deed bearing date at Graham's Town, the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, certain persons did become co-partners together in a certain joint-stock company, called the Eastern Province Guardian Loan and Investment Company, for the purpose of carrying on a business to consist of and to be confined to the following objects, that is to say: 1. The investment of the capital stock of the said company and all such other stock, capital, or funds as may hereafter be added to the said stock, or belong to the said company, or be under the administration of the said company, upon mortgages of immovable property, of capital stock in any joint-stock company, or of Government debentures, or upon such other security, as by the directors for the time being may be deemed safe and advantageous. 2. The borrowing and taking up upon the security of the N20–1863, capital stock, funds, and assets of the said company of such moneys, in the Colony or elsewhere, as the directors for the time being shall deem it to be for the advantage of the said company to borrow and take up, for the purpose of investing the said moneys for the benefit of the said company, in the manner herein before in the last preceding clause mentioned. 3. The administration and management of such estates and other property as the said company shall be duly appointed to administer or manage as executors, tutors, guardians, curators, trustees, assignees, or agents, either under and by virtue of a decree or order of any competent Court, or by directions of the Master for the time being of the Supreme Court of this Colony, in his official capacity, or by the last will or testament, or any valid act or deed of any person or persons whomsoever, or by virtue of any marriage settlement, power of attorney, or otherwise; but such administration shall in no whatsoever be extended to the conduct and management of any mercantile speculation or trade whatsoever, with the capital stock or funds of the said company. And whereas in and by the said deed it was stipulated and agreed that the capital of the said company should be two hundred thousand pounds sterling (£200,000) divided into twenty thousand (20,000) shares of ten pounds sterling (£10) each, whereof four thousand (4,000) shares in the said company have been allotted, and upon which the sum of nine pounds has been paid by the holders thereof, as and for part of the capital stock of the said company, and the remaining sixteen thousand (16,000) shares have been reserved for the benefit of the shareholders of the said company. And whereas the directors of the said company, acting for and on behalf of the said shareholders and being duly authorised by them in that behalf, have applied for an Act to incorporate the said company as constituted under the said deed, and in order the better to enable them to carry into effect the object of the said company: 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Style of company the Cape of Good Hope, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly thereof, that it shall and may be lawful for the said persons and such others as may become entitled to the privileges of this Act, under the provisions of the said deed, to be and continue joint-stock proprietors of the said capital sum of two hundred thousand pounds sterling (£200,000), and of all such other sum or sums of money as they may hereafter acquire under the provisions of the said |