Municipal Amendment Bill.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4232, 25 July 1882, Page 3

Municipal Amendment Bill.

' .' [By TiqjEaßPH.] ' „- • (FBOM . OTJBOWN COEEBPONDENT.) . • • - Wellington, This day. Mr_Hutc*»So. n's " MuDcipal Act, 1876, Amendment Bill" exterds the power of ! the Council to makeot repeal bye laws. ■It gifes powers to the Councils of ! 'Boroughs to proride for the lighting of ' the streets and public places of Boroughs

by.means' of electricity or any other artificial, light which the Council shall think fit to use. Clause 6 makes every person, body,, or company, carrying on the business of Fire Insurance within the

limits of any Borough supplied with water by means of waterworks constructed by and at the expense of such Borough, and

available for the extinction or prevention of fire, to delifer or cause to bo delivered to the Clerk of-the Council an-account

showing the amount, of premiums receivable by such company in respect of fire insurance within such Borough for the

year, and eveiy such person, body, or company which-shall'fail to deliver or cause to be delivered such account shall

be liable to pay to the Council of such Borough the sum off 500, to be recoveredby the Treasurer of such Borough in any Court of competent jurisdiction. The manager has to prepare accounts, and render to the Council the percentage

payable to the Council. The Council may lease, by Clause 10, land or buildings, the property of the Corporation, for a term of years not exceeding, for an agricultural lease, twerity-one years, but renewable in perpetuity for a mining lease or a lease of water; a way leave,

water-leave, or other right or leasement, forty years ;. for a building' lease, ninetynine years; and for a repairing lease, sixty years.