Overseer.

26. The Overseer shall, on or before the first day of Accounts of September in each year, make up an account in writing containing the information required by the subsections to this Section. He shall allow any residents who wish to inspect the said account to do so, and to make a copy or extracts thereof on any day, except Sundays or statutory holidays, from the said first day of September till the 14th day of the same month, between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the afternoon. He shall then send the said account, not later than the first mail day after the 14th day of September, to the Lieutenant-Governor-inCouncil:

(1) The names of all persons assessed on the highways and roads, and for fire district purposes, in his district;

(2) The names of all persons who have actually worked on the highways and roads, or on fire district work, with the number of days they have worked;

(3) The names of all those who have been fined, and the sums in which they have been fined, together with the names of the convicting Justice, and the various amounts collected;

(4) The names of all those who have commuted, and the manner in which the moneys arising from the fines and commutations have been expended;

(5) A list of taxes unpaid by non-residents, together with the number of each lot or parcel of land, whose owner is either non-resident or unknown, and upon which taxes were not collected :

(6) The names of all persons and residents, who have not done, or commuted for, statute and fire district labor, and upon whose land the said tax is due and remains unpaid, which account shall be verified as correct by the oath of the Overseer, in the Forms C, D and E of the Appendix to this Ordinance.

Moneys

Overseer's

hands.

27. The Overseer shall, with his return, pay the remaining in Lieutenant-Governor all moneys remaining in his hands, to be by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council held to the credit of the said district, until the accumulations are required for making and improving roads, bridges, or for fire district purposes.

Unpaid taxes

Land may be Bold for arrears of

taxes.

Overseer to hand over Property on vacancy of office.

Penalty for neglect by Overseer.

28. The amount of taxes returned by the Overseer as unpaid may be collected from the defaulters, after such taxes have remained unpaid for not less than two years, by an action at Law in the name of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council.

(a) When any part of the taxes assessed against any land, under the provisions of this Ordinance, remain unpaid for two full years after becoming due, the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council shall proceed to sell such lands or a part thereof for such arrears of taxes. And the provisions of the Ordinance respecting Municipalities, and amendments thereto, as they exist at the time at which the proceedings for the sale of such lands are commenced, in so far as they are applicable, and with such changes as may be necessary, shall be held to be applicable to this Ordinance for the purpose of such sale. The expenses of the sale shall be deducted from the proceeds.

29. At the expiration of the term of any Overseer, or on the position becoming vacant from death, resignation or otherwise, the rolls, district moneys, and other property of such District, held by him in virtue of his position as Overseer, shall be handed over by him or his personal representatives to his successor, and a receipt for the same shall be inscribed in the book referred to in Section 25.

30. Any Overseer who refuses or neglects to discharge his duties, after having first accepted the office, or who neglects or refuses to render a true and correct accout as required by this Ordinance, or who refuses or neglects to pay any balance of public money, which then may be due from him, shall for each and every offence incur a penalty not exceeding $100, to be re

covered, together with the balance of the moneys remaining in his hand, at the suit of the LieutenantGovernor-in-Council before any Court of competent.) jurisdiction.

sum

neglect by

31. Any person liable to perform work or any-duty Penalty for under the provisions of this Ordinance, who wilfully assessed neglects or refuses to perform the same, when and person. where directed by the Overseer, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and be liable on mary conviction before a Justice of the Peace, to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, with costs of prosecution, and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any time not exceeding three months and such fine when recovered shall be paid to the Overseer for the use of the District.

32. All Overseers shall be ex officio fire guardians Overseers ex-officio fire under the provisions of" The Prairie Fire Ordinance, guardians. 1893," and amendments thereto.

Weeds.

33. It shall be the duty of all Overseers to enforce Noxious the provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of 1893 respecting Noxious Weeds and to see that all Noxious Weeds are destroyed in the Statute Labor and Fire Districts for which they are respectively elected.

repealed.

34. Ordinance No. 12 of 1893 and Ordinance No. 15 Ordinances of 1894 are hereby repealed.

We, the undersigned, severally declare, each for himself, that he is a resident and occupant f ands in the above-named Disirit, and votes.up the land set opposite his name hereto, and that he votes for the person set opposite his name hereto :

NAME.

Land. Voted Upon. Person Voted For.

FORM B

(Vide Section 9.)

Statute Labor and Fire District No.

I, A. B., Returning Officer for Statute Labor and Fire District No. hereby dec are on cath that the record of votes annexed, signed by me, is a true record of votes voted upon on

day of

the
duly elected Overseer for the above district.
Sworn before me at

this

day of

was