HIGHWAY BOARDS AMENDMENT ACT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 324, 13 November 1875, Page 2

HIGHWAY BOARDS AMENDMENT ACT.

A short Act, entitled the “ Highway Boards Empowering Aet (No. 2.) 1875,’’ was passed during the last session of Parliament, for the purpose of enabling Highway Boards to levy special rates for fighting streets. The third section—which contains the gist of the Aet—is as follow s:— “At any meeting which shall be duly assembled within any highway district, it shall be lawful for the duly qualified persons present, after providing for the general road rate, to levy a special rate not exceeding one farthing in the pound on the value to sell, or threepence in the pound on the annual value to let, for the purpose of raising funds to be applied to lighting of the several streets and roads of the district with gas or other illuminating material. Such special rate shall thereupon be added to the general road rate of the district, aud shall be collected as if it were part thereof, but the proceeds of such special rate shall be kept to a separate account in the books of the governing body of such district, and shall only be applied to and for the purposes for which the said special rate is hereby authorised to be levied. The general road rate shall not be in any way invalidated or open to objection ou thaground that, with the addition of the* special lighting rate, such general road rate may and shall exceed the total allowed to be levied as a general road rate under the existing laws, but the notices of the making aud final settlement of such general rate shall state that a special lighting rate (naming the amount) is included in and forms part of such general road rate."