An Act respecting Stockyards and Live-stock Exchanges. [Assented to 21st December, 1923.] HIS 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 "Live Stock and Live-stock Short title. Products Act (British Columbia)." 2. If and in so far as any provision of "The Live Stock and Live Stock Products Act, 1917," of the Dominion, and the amendments thereof and the regulations thereunder heretofore enacted or made, is within the legislative authority of the Province and outside that of the Dominion, such provision shall have the force of law in the Province, until the same is repealed by the Parliament of the Dominion or revoked by the Governor-General in Council, as the case may be, or until the same is repealed or revoked pursuant to section 4 of this Act. Dominion enact ments given force of law Columbia. in British amendments to Act. 3. The Lieutenant-Governor may by Proclamation put into force Power to proclaim in the Province any amendment to the said Act or regulations which may hereafter be enacted by the Parliament of the Dominion or made by the Governor-General in Council, and which is within the legislative authority of the Province and outside that of the Dominion, whereupon such amendment shall have the force of law in the Province, until the same is repealed by the Parliament of the Dominion or revoked by the Governor-General in Council, as the case may be, or until the same is repealed or revoked pursuant to section 4 of this Act. 4. The Legislature, by any resolution or Act in that behalf, or Repeal and the Lieutenant-Governor, by Proclamation, may from time to time revocation. enact or direct that any provision or amendment which is given the force of law in the Province by virtue of this Act shall cease to have the force of law in the Province, and that provision or amendment shall cease to have the force of law accordingly. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. An Act to amend the "Rural Street-lighting Act." [Assented to 21st December, 1923.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the enacts as follows: 1915, c. 54. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Rural Street-lighting Act Short title. Amendment Act, 1923." 2. Section 8 of the "Rural Street-lighting Act," being chapter Amends s. 8. 54 of the Statutes of 1915, is amended by adding thereto the follow ing subsection: "(2.) The order abolishing a district as herein provided may direct that the assets of the district, including all rights under contract or agreement, be vested either in the Crown in right of the Province, or in a city, district, or village municipality within the limits of which the district is comprised. Where the assets become vested in the Crown, all taxes levied by the Commissioners and remaining unpaid shall continue to be a charge upon the lands in respect of which they were levied, and may be collected by the Provincial Collector of Taxes as Provincial taxes. Where the assets become vested in a city, district, or village municipality, all taxes levied by the Commissioners and remaining unpaid shall continue to be a charge upon the lands in respect of which they were levied, and may be collected by the Municipal Collector of Taxes in the manner set out in the Municipal Act' or in the Village Municipalities Act,' as the case may be." VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1923. H1 CHAPTER 65. An Act to amend the "Succession Duty Act." [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: R.S.B.C. 1911, c. 60; 1918, c. 86; 1921, c. 58; 1921 1. This Act may be cited as the "Succession Duty Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1923." 2. Section 4 of the "Succession Duty Act," being chapter 217 of Amends s. 4. the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is amended by adding thereto the following: "(3.) To any property devised or bequeathed by any person dying after the first day of January, 1922, for religious, charitable, or educational purposes to be carried out in the Province, or by a person resident in the Province, or on the amount of any unpaid subscription for any like purpose made by any person so dying to any person mentioned in this clause for which his estate is liable." 3. Said chapter 217 is amended by inserting therein the following Enacts s. 20A. as section 20A: succession duty. "20A. In any case where security pursuant to this Act for the Remission of payment of succession duty has heretofore or may hereafter be given or accepted, and in the opinion of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to enforce such security would work hardship or injustice upon any person or corporation beneficially entitled to the estate in respect of which such succession duty is payable or liable on such security, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council whenever he deems it right so to do may remit the said succession duty imposed by this Act, and such remission may be made by any general regulation or by any special order in any particular case and may be total or partial, unconditional or conditional, and if conditional, and the condition be not per |