July, and October every year, for the purpose of making visitations to ascertain the state or condition of the streets, roads, bridges, footpaths, and drains, and of hearing complaints or receiving informations respecting the same, and determining in regard thereto; but the Town Board may meet at other times for such purposes; and the Town Board having so met quarterly, or at other times, may from time to time adjourn to meet at such place and time as the members present shall appoint.

10. Notice of the time and place of such quarterly meetings and other meetings for the purposes aforesaid (but not of adjourned meetings, unless the Board shall otherwise direct,) shall be given by advertisements in a newspaper, or by handbills posted at public places in Dunedin, ten days before the day of meeting; and such notice shall specify the purposes of the meeting.

11. It shall be lawful for the Town Board from time to time to cause to be made Maps or Plans and Specifications of any intended alteration or improvement in the town of Dunedin, and every person being an owner or occupier of any lands or tenements within the town of Dunedin shall at all seasonable times have access to the said Maps, Plans, and Specifications, and shall be entitled to examine and make extracts from or copies of the same, or to request the Clerk of the Town Board to make extracts or copies, and in that case paying to such Clerk after the rate of sixpence for every one hundred words of such copies or extracts, over and above the Surveyor’s fees for any copy of Maps or Plans; such fees to be regulated by a scale to be fixed by the Town Board.

12. For liquidating the expense of all works authorised by this Ordinance, and resolved to be executed by the Town Board (including a sum to cover the charges of Surveyors, Overseers, Collectors, and other officers, and other necessary charges and expenses), the said Board shall from time to time levy upon lands, buildings, and hereditaments, situated within the town of Dunedin, and not hereby exempted from assessment, a Rate not exceeding in any one year two shillings and sixpence in the pound of the nett annual value of such lands, buildings, and hereditaments, according to an estimate of the nett annual value thereof from time to time to be made by such person or persons as the Town Board from time to time shall appoint to be assessor or assessors, who shall, within thirty days after the delivery to him or them of the warrant of his or their appointment, return to the Town Board an assessment, in which shall be specified in different columns the names of the respective owners and occupiers of all lands, buildings, and hereditaments comprised in such assessment, a description of the respective subjects, the full and fair annual value of the same, whether occupied or unoccupied, and the amount of Rate chargeable thereon respectively; provided always that it shall be lawful for the Town Board from time to time to regulate the mode of assessment and the duties of such assessors in such other manner as the said Board shall think fit.

13. Every such assessment shall be taken into consideration at a General Meeting of the Town Board convened for the purpose, whereof public notice shall have been given by two several advertisements in a newspaper, or otherwise, as the Town Board shall direct; and the assessment shall be altered or amended as the Town Board shall think fit, and thereafter shall be signed by three members of the Board or their chairman.

14. Every person whose property shall have been assessed by the Town Board shall have notice, to be left at his place of abode, or posted on a conspicuous part of the property assessed, of the nature and amount of the assessment; and it shall be lawful to any person objecting to any determination of the Town Board fixing the yearly value of any lands, buildings, or hereditaments, to state the grounds of his objections in writing within ten days from the service of such notice, and thereupon he shall be heard in support of his objections at a subsequent meeting to be convened, whereof public notice shall be given as aforesaid, or at any adjourned meeting; and the Board shall order the assessment to be amended, or repel the objections, or give such other decision as they may consider just.

15. The assessment from time to time so made shall be payable in one or more payments, and at such times and places as the Town Board shall determine, and may be levied either from the owners or other persons having right to the rents of such lands, buildings, and hereditaments, or from the occupiers or tenants thereof; and if from the occupiers or tenants, they shall be entitled to deduct the same from the rent payable to the owners or other parties