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ble, recoverable, and applicable in like manner as rates imposed under this Ordinance, and the imposition thereof shall be published together with the aforesaid statement or list of Ratepayers, and the payment thereof shall exempt the persons paying the same, and all claiming under them, from all penalties which might otherwise during the period for which the same shall be paid, have been incurred by reason of the encroachments in respect of which the same are paid. Provided that any person may relieve himself from the payment of any such occupation rent by forthwith upon publication thereof relinquishing possession of the Land in respect whereof the same is imposed.

26. The Superintendent shall twice in every year publish and cause to be posted up in some conspicuous place or places within the district to which the same shall relate, a statement of every sum in arrear for rates, and of the Land in respect of which the same shall be due.

27. The said Boards of Commissioners shall have power to construct and maintain roads, streets, causeys, bridges, landing places, jetties, sea walls, drains, culverts, sewers, and other like works within the limits of, or subservient to, their respective districts, and for that purpose to contract with and employ such persons as they think fit.

28. —It shall not be lawful for any Commissioner directly or indirectly to undertake, wholly or in part, any contract on account of the Board of which he is a member, unless such contract shall have been submitted to and approved of by the Superintendent.

29. It shall be lawful for every Board of Commissioners to allow to each member of the Board, for attendance at the Meetings of the Board, at the rate of not exceeding ten shillings for every attendance at any such Meeting—so that the total amount to be so allowed to the Commissioners of any district during their year of office do not exceed five per cent on the amount expended under their supervision.

30. The Superintendent shall from time to time issue to the said boards of Commissioners for the several districts, his Warrants authorising the payment by the Treasurer of the Province to them or to such persons as they shall name in that behalf, out of the moneys in the hands of the said Treasurer arising from rates levied within their respective districts of such sums of money as the said Boards shall from time to time require. And the said moneys shall not be otherwise applied than in defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the exercise of the powers of such Boards of Commissioners.

31. For the purpose of ensuring the equitable application of the funds at the disposal of the Boards of Commissioners, proposals for the expenditure thereof shall be submitted to the Superintendent, and no expenditure shall take place until the same shall have received the approval of the Superintendent.

32. All moneys appropriated by any Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council to the construction or maintenance of Roads or Public Works, other than moneys specifically appropriated to particular Roads or Public Works, shall, unless the contrary be declared or implied by the Ordinance appropriating such moneys, be distributed amongst the several districts, or amongst such as shall make a rate, in proportion to the gross amount made levable within the same districts respectively for rates by the General Meeting next following the commencement of the period for which such appropriation is made, in aid and augmentation of the rate, and shall be applicable accordingly.

33. It shall also be lawful for the Superintendent if he shall think fit from time to time to commit to the Boards of Commissioners for the several districts, the expenditure of any moneys specifically appropriated to the construction and maintenance of Roads and other Public Works within their respective districts, and to pay over the same moneys to the Boards accordingly.

34. It shall be lawful for the Boards of