Municipal Institutions Act 1895 Amendment Act 1898 (WA)

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No. XXVI.

AN ACT to further amend the Municipal

Institutions Act, 1895.

[Assented to, 2,qth October, 46'98.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this 'present Parlia- BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled. and by the authority of the same, as follows?---

1895, Amendment Act, 1898, and shall be read as one with the Short title. 1. '11418 Act may be cited as the Municipal Institutions Act,

Municipal Institutions Act, 1895 (hereinafter called " the Principal

Act "), and shall come into force on the passing hereof.

2. SECTION one hundred and eighty-five of the principal Act New m

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years of the existence of such Municipality, to an amount not exceeding the net estimated ordinary annual income of the Munici- pality for such two years; such estimate to be made by the Council."

is hereby amended by adding the words following :—" Provided that may borrow money.

in the case of any new Municipality, money may be borrowed by the

62° VICTORTIE, No. 26.

Municipal Institutions Act—Amendment.

Amendment of 50 3. SECTION one hundred and thirty-four of the principal Act

Viet., No. 10, see.

is hereby amended by adding the following words thereto:-

134.

" Provided, notwithstanding anything contained in Section one hunched and twenty of the Municipal Institutions Act of 1895, that the Council, with the consent of the Governor, shall have power to dedicate to the public use any surveyed private street on which allotments have been laid out and sold, not less than twenty-five feet in width, which shall have been in unrestricted public use with vehicular traffic for twelve months; and after publication of notice thereof in the Government Gazette, such dedication shall be deemed to be valid and complete, and such street shall thereupon become a public thoroughfare, and shall be noticed and recorded in the Office of Titles, and the Council shall have full power and authority over such street, and may expend money upon it in the same manner as on any other public street."

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Governor's Deputy.

By Authority : A. CURTIS, Acting Government Printer, Perth.