Repeals s. 6. Re-enacts s. 7. Amends s. 8. Enacts s. 8A. Enacts s. 8B. this Act in respect of such dog shall thereupon ipso facto be cancelled." 6. Section 6 of said chapter 230 is repealed. 7. Section 7 of said chapter 230 is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: "7. No dog shall be allowed to be at large at any time between sunset and sunrise, unless accompanied by or being within reasonable call of the owner or of some person having the charge or care thereof." 8. Section 8 of said chapter 230 is amended by adding thereto the following subsections: "(7.) In case it is found impossible to collect from the owner of the dog the amount of damages adjudged to the owner of the sheep or goat under the provisions of this section, the owner of such sheep or goat may within six months after the date of such judgment file with the Minister of Finance a claim for the amount of damages so adjudged. "(8.) When it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister of Finance that the owner of a dog that has killed any sheep or goat is unknown and after diligent inquiry cannot be found, the said Minister may authorize the owner of such sheep or goat so killed or injured to file with the said Minister a claim for the amount of damages sustained by him thereby. The amount of such damages shall be in the absolute discretion of the said Minister." 9. Said chapter 230 is amended by inserting therein the following as section 8A: "SA. (1.) All licence fees collected under the provisions of this Act and all fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, and the proceeds of all recognizances estreated in connection therewith, shall be paid to the Minister of Finance to the credit of a fund to be known as theDog-tax Fund.' "(2.) At the end of each calendar year, and not before, there shall be paid from and out of said fund the claims for damages filed with the said Minister under the provisions of section 8. event of the said fund for any year being insufficient to pay the full amount of all claims filed during that year, there shall be paid to each claimant a pro rata amount of his claim based on the proportion the amount of said fund for the year bears to the aggregate amount of claims filed during the year. Any surplus remaining in said fund after payment of the claims filed during any year shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund." 10. Said chapter 230 is amended by inserting therein the following as section 8B: "SB. Sections 5 and 7 and subsections (7) and (8) of section 8 shall not apply to dogs within any municipality in which a by-law has been passed for the licensing of dogs within the municipality." 11. Said chapter 230 is amended by inserting therein the follow- Enacts s. 8c. ing as section Sc:- "8c. (1.) A by-law may be passed by the Council of any munici pality providing for the licensing of all dogs within the municipality and fixing the amount of a licence fee of not less than one dollar for each male dog and not less than two dollars for each female dog so licensed. "(2.) Such by-law may provide that all licence fees collected within the municipality thereunder, and all fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act within the municipality, or for any infraction of the by-law, and the proceeds of all recognizances estreated in connection therewith, shall be paid into the municipal treasury to the credit of a fund to be known as the 'Municipal Dog-tax Fund,' and that from and after the passing of such by-law all claims for compensation by the owners of sheep or goats killed or injured within the munici pality by a dog or dogs shall be paid from and out of the said fund, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Council may see fit to impose." 12. Said chapter 230 is amended by adding thereto the following Enacts s. 12. as section 12:— "12. Every person who violates any, of the provisions of this Act or of any by-law passed by any Municipal Council under the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars." 13. Said chapter 230 is amended by adding thereto the following Enacts s. 13. as section 13:— "13. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by Order in Council declare that any area of the Province set out in such Order shall be exempt from the provisions of this Act." VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by CHARLES F. BANFIELD, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1925. An Act to amend the "Short Form of Mortgages Act." [Assented to 19th December, 1925.] H' 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 "Short Form of Mortgages Act Amendment Act, 1925." R.S.B.C. 1924, c. 235. Short title. 2. The Second Schedule to the "Short Form of Mortgages Act," Amends 2nd Sch. being chapter 235 of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1924," is amended by striking out the word "mortgage" at the end of the form of words contained in Column 1 of said Second Schedule, and distinguished by the number "2" therein, and substituting therefor the word "mortgagee." application. 3. The amendment enacted by section 2 shall be deemed to have Retrospective had effect from the third day of November, 1924, being the date on which the said "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1924," came into force. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by CHARLES F. BANFIELD, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1925. |