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MUNICIPAL LAW. 11
or by reason of his property Iiavino; l)i'on exempted from taxation, if he lias
sufficient other property liable to taxation in the nnniicipality to ([ualify
him for the office.
'Z'i- Exemptions. All persons over sixty years of a<fe, members and
officers of the Ontario Leijjislature, Dominion Senate or House of Connnons,
persons in the civil service, judjifes (not (]is(|uaiitieil by Section 21),
coroners, priests, cler<.fymen, ministers, members of the l^aw Society,
whether barristers or students or solicitors in actual practice, officers of
courts of justice, members of the medical profession, professors, masters,
teachers and members of any Ontario university, collegi", or school, and
officers and servants thrreof, millers and firemen are exempt from being
elected as mendjers of the Council or appointed to any other municipal
office.
'Zli. City Councils shall consist of the mayor, who is the head thereof,
anil three aldermen for each ward, uidess varied by special legislation.
For (|ualification, see Section 20. '
By an amendment of \H\)7 it is provided that cities having a popula-
tion of not more than 15,000, may, by by-law, decide that the said
Council shall consist of a mayor and one alderman for each one thou.sand
inhabitants, to bi- elected by a general vote. Such by-law must ha\ o the
assent of a majority of the electors voting thereon, unless a vote of the
electors has within one year been taken substantial!} or; the .same (|uestion,
in which case it woii'd not be necessary to submit the bj'-law, unless the
Council determined otherwi.se.
*i4- Town Councils shall consi.st of the Mayor, who shall be the head
thereof, and three aldermen for each wai'd where there are less than five
wards, or two foi- each ward if thei'e are five or more wards.
If the town has not withdrawn from the county then a reeve shall be
adiled, and if the town had on the last revis<d Voters' List five hundred
persons entitled to vote at nuiniri])al electiims, then a deputy reeve shall
beailded,and for (!very additional tive hundred names an additional deputy
reeve shall be added.
The Council of every town where there are less than tive wards may,
upon a petition of one hundred nnuiicipal electors, pass a bj'-law reducing
tlu^ nund)er of councillors for each ward to two. The by-law must I'eeeive
the assent of the electors.
After two annual municipal elections have been held the Council may,
upon ])etition of one hundred resident nnuiicipal electors, pass and submit
a by-law for the i-epeal of the by-law which reduced the number of
councillors for each ward to two.
By an amendment of 1(S!)(S it is provided that the Council of towns
having a population of not more than 5,000 inhaliitants, shall consist of a
mayor and six councillors, to be elected by a general vote.
After two annual eluetions have been held, the Council, upon a petition
of twenty per cent, of the electors, shall, at the time of holding the annual
elections, submit a by-law for rlividing the town into wards, which having,
received the as9(!ut of a majority of the electors voting, one councillor shall