relating to any breach of the rules of the gaol, or any matter affecting the interests thereof, and may by the same or like order compel the production of books, papers, and writings before him; and any person who neglects or refuses to appear at the time and place specified in the order, having been duly served with a copy thereof, or refuses to give evidence or to produce the books, papers, or writings demanded of him, may be taken into custody by virtue of a warrant under the hand of the Superintendent in that behalf, and may, upon the order of any Justice, summarily made upon complaint of the Superintendent, be imprisoned in the gaol as for contempt, for a period not exceeding fourteen days. R.S. 1911, c. 180, s. 12.

Superintendent

26. The Superintendent may summarily suspend any warden, Powers of gaoler, guard, officer, or servant of any gaol for misconduct (of over officers which suspension the Attorney-General shall at once be notified) of gaols. until the circumstances of the case have been decided upon by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council; and the Superintendent may, until such decision has been intimated to him, cause any person so suspended to be removed beyond the precincts of the gaol; and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to recommend the removal of any of the wardens, gaolers, guards, officers, or servants whom he finds incapable, inefficient, or negligent in the execution of duty, or whose presence in the gaol he considers injurious to the interests thereof. R.S. 1911, c. 180, s. 11 (redrawn).

Superintendent.

27. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to prepare and Annual report of forward to the Attorney-General an annual report, on or before the first day of November in each year, to be laid before the Legislative Assembly, which report shall contain a full and accurate statement of the condition and management of the several gaols in the Province, together with such suggestions for the improvement thereof as the Superintendent may consider necessary, accompanied by the monthly reports of the wardens or officers in charge of the respective gaols, and by such financial and statistical information as may be useful, and such report shall comprise the following particulars in respect of the year ended the thirty-first day of March then last past, namely:

(a.) A return of the names, ages, country, calling, and crimes
of the prisoners received into each gaol during the year, and
the city, municipality, or district from which each came:
(b.) A return of the names, ages, calling, and crimes of the
prisoners who died in each gaol during the year, and the
city, municipality, or district from which each came:
(c.) A similar return of the prisoners liberated during the
year by the expiration of the term for which they were
sentenced:

(d.) A similar return of the prisoners pardoned during the

year:

Power of

Lieut.-Governor in

employment of

prisoners outside of gaols.

(e.) A statement showing the average number of prisoners con-
fined in the different gaols during the year, the number
discharged, and the number then in confinement:
(f.) A statement of the expenditure for the year for the sup-
port and maintenance of each gaol, and of the amount paid
on all other accounts during the year, which statement
shall also show, separately, the sums paid for food, bed-
ding, clothing, and hospital stores for the prisoners; the
salaries and pay of the officers and servants; the expendi-
tures for fuel and light, for the erection of new buildings
and repairs, and for all other items of expenditure; also
the cash on hand at the close of the year:

(g.) An inventory and valuation of all the property, estate, and
effects of each gaol, distinguishing the estimated value
of the several descriptions of property; a statement of the
cost of each prisoner to the Province in the several gaols;
and an account of the tenders received for supplies. R.S.
1911, c. 180, s. 15 (altered).

28. (1.) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to Council to authorize time direct or authorize the employment upon any specific work or duty, beyond the limits of any common gaol, of any prisoner who, after a prior sentence of imprisonment for any breach of any law of the Dominion or of any Province of the Dominion, is sentenced to be imprisoned with hard labour in such gaol under the authority of any Statute of British Columbia, or for the breach of the by-law of any municipal corporation in this Province.

Supervision.

Prisoners to

be subject to
discipline of gaol
and regulations of
Lieut.-Governor
in Council.

Place of work to be deemed part of gaol.

Use of liquors
or tobacco
in gaols.

(2.) No such prisoner shall be so employed, save under the strictest care and supervision of officers appointed to that duty. R.S. 1911, c. 180, ss. 16, 18.

29. Every such prisoner shall, during such employment, be subject to all the rules, regulations, and discipline of the gaol, so far as applicable, and to any regulations made by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council for the purpose of preventing escapes and preserving discipline in the case of prisoners employed beyond the limits of the gaol. R.S. 1911, c. 180, s. 17.

30. Every street, highway, or public thoroughfare of any kind along or across which prisoners pass in going to or returning from their work, and every place where they are employed under this Act, shall, while so used, be considered as a portion of the gaol for the purposes of this Act, so far as the legislative authority of this Province extends in this behalf. R.S. 1911, c. 180, s. 19.

31. No spirituous or fermented liquors shall, on any pretence whatsoever, be brought into any gaol for the use of any officer or person in the gaol, or for the use of any prisoner confined therein (except under the rules regulating the gaol); and any person giving

any spirituous or fermented liquors or tobacco, snuff, or narcotic drug to any prisoner (except under the rules regulating the gaol), or conveying the same to any such prisoner, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. R.S. 1911, c. 180, s. 13.

32. Every Justice shall have power to direct that any person com- Commitments. mitted to prison by him shall be imprisoned in any of the gaols of the Province, and the Attorney-General shall from time to time instruct Justices as to which gaol prisoners shall be committed. R.S. 1911, c. 180, s. 20.

prisoners.

33. The Attorney-General may from time to time direct that Removal of prisoners confined in one gaol be removed to some other gaol. R.S. 1911, c. 180, s. 21.

34. The "Police and Prisons Regulation Act," being chapter 180 Repeal. of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is repealed. (New.)

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1923.

An Act respecting Probate Duty.

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows::

1. This Act may be cited as the "Probate Duty Act." 1911, c. 183, s. 1.

R.S. Short title.

2. On every probate and on every letters of administration there Probate duty. shall be collected by way of duty, for the raising of a revenue for Provincial purposes, a charge of one per centum on the value of an estate to father, mother, husband, brother, sister, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law of deceased; and in case of all other legatees, or next of kin, except wife and children and grandchildren, five per centum on the value of the estate shall be charged. R.S. 1911, c. 183, s. 2; 1914, c. 57, s. 2 (part); 1921 (2nd Sess.), c. 40, s. 2 (redrawn).

within the

3. Every gift by any will or testamentary instrument of any Gifts included person which by virtue of any such will or testamentary instrument meaning of estate. is payable, or has effect or is satisfied out of the personal or movable estate or effects of such person, or out of any personal or movable estate or effects which such person had power to dispose of, or which gift is payable or has effect or is satisfied out of or is charged or rendered a burden upon the real or heritable estate of such person, or any real or heritable estate, or the rents or profits thereof, which such person had any right or power to charge, burden, or affect with the payment of money, or out of or upon any moneys to arise by the sale, burden, mortgage, or other disposition of any such real or heritable estate or any part thereof, whether such gift is by way of annuity or in any other form, and also every gift which has effect as a donation mortis causa, shall be