buildings

22. No association incorporated under the provisions of Erection of this Act shall erect any building for the purpose of manufacturing butter or cheese until the site, plans and specifications of such building or buildings have been approved by the minister.

commissioner

23. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint a Dairy dairy commissioner, fix his remuneration and define his duties.

24. The minister out of the moneys appropriated for the Loans Legislature in that behalf may authorize the making of a loan to any association incorporated under the provisions of this Act and determine the amounts and conditions upon which such loans may be made and repaid:

Provided however that no such loan shall exceed the sum of $1,500.

business of

25. The minister may with the consent of any association Operation of incorporated under the provisions of this Act undertake and association continue in whole or in part the management and operation of the business of any such association upon such conditions and for such period as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may deem expedient.

26. All associations incorporated under the provisions of Old associations. chapter 65 of The Consolidated Ordinances 1898 are hereby continued as butter and cheese manufacturing associations. under and subject to the provisions of this Act.

27. Chapter 65 of The Consolidated Ordinances of 1898 is Repeal hereby repealed.

SCHEDULE.

FORM A.

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

Province of Alberta,

To Wit:

The corporate name of the Association shall be

which the Association is to be formed are:

of

and the objects for

The capital stock of the association is to consist of shares each, and the number of shares shall be limited

only as provided by the rules of the association.

has been appointed pro

visional secretary of the association and his post office address is

The name of the place where the operations of the said association are to be carried on is

We, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, hereby certify that we desire to form an association pursuant to the provisions of part 1 of The Dairymen's Act 1907 and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital stock of the association as set opposite our respective names.

day of

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before me ap

On the peared the persons signing the foregoing declaration and they severally before me signed the same and acknowledged that they signed it for the purposes therein mentioned.

A. B.

(Signature of Officer before whom declaration was made.)

CHAPTER 17.

An Act to Provide for the Establishment of Public Libraries.

Receipt by and payment by treasurer on municipality or order of board, s. 35

Grant to libraries for purchase of books, magazines and newspapers, s. 34
Limit of grant, s. 34

On neglect to keep open for two years, council may apply to judge for order to dissolve, s. 35

MUNICIPAL AND SPECIAL ACTS....

Municipal and special Acts subject to modification, s. 35

(Assented to March 15, 1907.)

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts

as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as

"The Public Libraries Act."

Interpretation

Establishment

Reading room in connection

Assent of electors necessary

When by-law

by council

ESTABLISHMENT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-
1. The expression "municipality" means:

(a) Any locality the inhabitants of which are incorpor
ated a town;

(b) Any locality the inhabitants of which are incorporated a city under any Ordinance of the North-West Territories, or who may be so incorporated by any Act of the province;

2. The expression "council" means the council, municipal council or other chief governing body as the case may be of any municipality;

3. The expression "board" means the board of management of any public library established under the provisions hereof.

3. A free public library may be established in any municipality in manner hereinafter provided.

4. Where such library is so established there may without any proceedings for the purpose under this Act be connected with the library a free reading room.

5. Upon receipt of a petition praying for the establishment of a public library under this Act and signed by at least onetenth of the resident electors of the municipality, the council may pass a by-law giving effect to such petition; but such by-law shall not be finally passed by the council until it receives the assent of the electors and for the purpose of obtaining such assent the by-law shall be submitted to the electors in the same manner and with the like proceedings as are required in the case of any other by-law which requires to receive the assent of the electors of such municipality:

Provided that the by-law shall not be deemed to have received the assent of the electors unless at least three-fifths of the qualified electors who actually vote thereon are found to have voted in favour of the by-law.

6. A by-law under this Act which has been assented to by may be passed the electors may be passed at the first or any subsequent meeting of the municipal council after such assent has been given.

Council to pass

by-law without

7. After a by-law has been assented to it shall be the duty of the council for the time being to pass the same without delay unnecessary delay whether such council is or is not the same council which submitted the by-law to the electors.

electors by-law

8. In case the vote of the electors is adverse to the by-law If defeated by no new by-law for the same purpose shall afterwards be pass not to be ed by the council to be submitted to the electors within the same year same municipal year.

resubmitted in

management

9. Whenever a public library is established under this Act Board of the general management, regulation and control of the library shall be vested in and exercised by a board of management, which board shall be a body politic and corporate and shall be known as "The (name of town or city) Library Board."

(2) The board shall be composed of five members as fol lows: The mayor or other head official of the municipality shall be ex officio a member of the board during his term of office and the council shall appoint from among the resident electors of the municipality the remaining four members of the board, two of whom shall hold office until the date of the first meeting of the council in January of the year following their appointment, and the other two shall hold office until the date of the first meeting of the council in January of the second year following their appointment.

(3) Except as herein provided every person appointed a member of the board shall hold office for two years.

10. Not more than one member of a council at a time in addition to the mayor or other head official shall be qualified to be a member of the board.

office

11. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein con- Continuance in tained, every member of the board shall continue in office. until his successor is appointed.

valid although

12. No resolution, by-law, proceeding or action of any Proceedings kind of the board shall be invalid or set aside by reason of election of memany person whose election has been annulled or declared ille- ber annulled gal, having acted as a member of said board.

13. If any member of the board of any public library is When office of convicted of any offence against the criminal laws of the board to become Dominion of Canada or becomes insane or absents himself vacant from the meetings of the board for three consecutive meetings without being authorized by resolution entered upon its minutes or ceases to be a resident within the municipality for which he is a member, such member shall ipso facto vacate his seat, and the remaining members shall declare his seat vacated forthwith and notify the council having authority to appoint such member accordingly.