CHAPTER 79 An Act to amend An Act to incorporate The [Assented to February 4, 1920.] H IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: 1. An Act to incorporate The Northern Saskatchewan Cooperative Stock Yards, Limited, being chapter 87 of the statutes of 1918-19, is amended in the manner hereinafter set forth. Amended 2. Section 12 is amended by striking out the words Section 12 "thirty-first day of July" in the second line and substituting therefor the words "thirtieth day of April.' 3. Section 16 is repealed and the following substituted New section therefor: 66 16 of surplus 16. If, after making due provision for all operative Disposition and maintenance charges, there remains at the end of the financial year a surplus arising from trading operations, the company may at its discretion pay out of such surplus to each shareholder a dividend of not more than eight per cent. upon the amount paid up on his shares." 4. Section 18 is repealed and the following substituted New rection therefor: company "18.-(1) At any time after the first general meeting Grant to of the company, the company may submit to the Lieutenant Governor in Council its plans for stock yard accommodation, and on approval of such plans, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may authorise the provincial treasurer to pay to the company, upon the authority of progressive estimates, one-third of the cost of constructing said stock yard accommodation, the payments by the provincial treasurer to be subject to the following conditions: "1. The company shall produce evidence that the whole of the cost of acquiring the land, upon which is to be constructed the said stock yard accommodation, has been provided out of its paid up capital; "2. The company, when submitting each progressive estimate, shall produce evidence that there is sufficient paid up capital of the company to cover two-thirds of the cost of the construction work as set out therein, in addition to the purchase price of the necessary land and the organisation expenses; "3. Payments by the provincial treasurer shall be made only upon requisition by the company in the form of progressive estimates certified as true and correct by a valuator appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council for that purpose; and such progressive estimates. shall set out the nature of the work, the estimated cost of the same, the proportion of said cost to be borne by the company, and the amount of the grant to be paid to the company by the provincial treasurer. "(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time make similar grants on the same conditions in aid of extension and new construction." CHAPTER 80 An Act to amend An Act to incorporate The [Assented to February 4, 1920.] HIS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows: 1. An Act to incorporate The Southern Saskatchewan Co-operative Stock Yards, Limited, being chapter 88 of the statutes of 1918-19, is amended in the manner hereinafter set forth. amended 2. Clause (a) of section 10 is amended by striking out Section 10 (a) the first line and substituting therefor the following: "(a) acquire by purchase or lease, and hold, real estate, build, purchase or lease buildings." amended 3. Section 12 is amended by striking out the words Section 12 "thirty-first day of July" in the second line and substituting therefor the words "thirtieth day of April." 4. Section 16 is repealed and the following substituted New section therefor: 16 of surplus "16. If, after making due provision for all operative Disposition and maintenance charges, there remains at the end of the financial year a surplus arising from trading operations, the company may at its discretion pay out of such surplus to each shareholder a dividend of not more than eight per cent. upon the amount paid up on his shares." 5. Section 18 is repealed and the following substituted New section therefor: 18 company “18.-(1) At any time after the first general meeting Grant to of the company, the company may submit to the Lieutenant Governor in Council its plans for stock yard accommodation, and on approval of such plans, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may authorise the provincial treasurer to pay to the company, upon the authority of progressive estimates, one-third of the cost of constructing said stock yard accommodation, the payments by the provincial treasurer to be subiect to the following conditions: "1. The company shall produce evidence that the whole of the cost of acquiring the land, upon which is to be constructed the said stock yard accommodation, has been provided out of its paid up capital; "2. The company, when submitting each progressive estimate, shall produce evidence that there is sufficient paid up capital of the company to cover two thirds of the cost of the construction work as set out therein, in addition to the purchase price of the necessary land and the organisation expense; "3. Payments by the provincial treasurer shall be made only upon requisition by the company in the form of progressive estimates certified as true and correct by a valuator appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council for that purpose; and such progressive estimates shall set out the nature of the work. the esti mated cost of the same, the proportion of said cost to be born by the company, and the amount of the grant to be paid to the company by the provincial treasurer. (2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time make similiar grants on the same conditions in aid of extension and new construction." CHAPTER 81 An Act respecting Absconding Debtors. [Assented to February 4, 1920.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Absconding Debtors Short Act, 1920." INTERPRETATION. title 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation the expression: Majesty's court of king's "Court" 1. "Court" means His Majesty's bench for Saskatchewan; 2. "Judge" means a judge of His Majesty's court of "Judge" king's bench for Saskatchewan. ATTACHMENT OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. of goods 3.—(1) After the commencement of any suit wherein Attachment a claim is made for the recovery of a debt of $50 or upwards, upon affidavit made by the plaintiff or one of several plaintiffs, his or their agent, having a personal knowledge of the matter, stating clearly and succinctly from what cause such debt arose and the amount thereof, and that he has good reason to believe (giving reasons therefor) that the defendant: (a) is about to abscond or has absconded from (b) has attempted to remove such personal prop- (c) keeps concealed to avoid service or process; and stating further: (d) that the deponent verily believes that without the benefit of the attachment the plaintiff will |