Sleeping places not to be in bake shops. Fire escapes. Persons affected with certain diseases not to work in bake shops. Working time limited. Penalties. A. The sleeping place or places of the employees of every bake shop shall be entirely separate from the bake shop, and no person shall be allowed to sleep in such bake shop. R.S.M. c. 10, s. 4. 5. Every bake shop shall be provided with proper means and facilities of escape in case of fire, such means or facilities to be to the satisfaction of the inspector empowered by this Act to inspect such bake shops. R.S.M. c. 10, s. 5. 6. No employer shall knowingly require, permit or suffer to work in his bake shop any person who is affected with consumption of the lungs, or with scrofula, or with any venereal disease, or with any communicable skin disease; and every employer is hereby required to maintain himself and his employees in a clean and healthy condition while engaged in the manufacture, handling or sale of such food products. R.S.M. c. 10, s. 6. Prosecutions. 7. No employer shall require, permit or suffer any employee in any bake shop to work more than twelve hours in any one day, or more than sixty hours in any one week, except by permission of the inspector, given in writing, to the employer; and a copy of such permission shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the bake shop. R.S.M. c. 10, s. 7. PENALTIES. 8. Any employer who violates any provision of this Act, or who refuses the inspector admittance to his bake shop, or who neglects or refuses to comply with any lawful requirement of the inspector in connection with the enforcement of this Act, shall, for the first offence, be liable to a penalty of not less than ten dollars and not more than twenty dollars, and, for the second offence, to a penalty of not less than twentyfive dollars and not more than fifty dollars, and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding thirty days with hard labor, and, for the third or subsequent offence, such person shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months, to be kept at hard labor in the discretion of the convicting magistrate or justices. R.S.M. c. 10, s. 8. 9. All prosecutions under this Act shall be brought by the inspector, and shall be heard before any two of His Majesty's justices of the peace or a police magistrate. R.S.M. c. 10, s. 9. CHAPTER 16. An Act respecting Billiard and Pool Rooms. HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 18 not to be licensed 1. Every keeper of a licensed billiard, pool or bagatelle Boys under room who admits a minor under the age of eighteen years allowed in thereto, or allows him to remain therein, without the consent pool rooms. of his parent or guardian, shall, on conviction before a justice of the peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for the 'first, and not exceeding fifty dollars for each subsequent offence, one-half of which fine shall go to the informant; provided always that this Act shall not apply to a minor who is a member of the family of the keeper, or his servant, or who does not go to the billiard, pool or bagatelle room for the purpose of loitering or to play billiards, pool or bagatelle therein; nor shall this Act apply to any case where the keeper, in the opinion of the justice, had reasonable cause to believe that such consent had been given by the parent or guardian, or that such minor was not under the age of eighteen, the onus of proving which, however, shall be upon such keeper. 6-7 Ed. 7, c. 2, s. 1. Penalty for permitting conduct. 2. If the keeper of a licensed billiard, pool or bagatelle room knowingly permits gambling, drunkenness or any disorderly violent, quarrelsome, riotous or disorderly conduct to take place on his premises, or permits or suffers persons of notoriously bad character to assemble or meet on his premises, he shall, in addition to other punishment provided by law, be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than fifty dollars, and, in default of payment, to not less than one month or more than two months' imprisonment, and, in addition, to the forfeiture of his license. 6-7 Ed. 7, c. 2, s. 2. Arrest on 3. Any keeper of any such billiard, pool or bagatelle view. room who is guilty of any breach of the last preceding section of this Act, and any person found in any such room committing any of the offences mentioned in said section, shall Duties and rights of officers in enforcing this Act. be liable to be arrested on view and brought before any justice of the peace and prosecuted according to law. 6-7 Ed. 7, c. 2, s. 3. 4. It shall be the duty of all police officers and provincial constables to aid in enforcing the provisions of this Act, and in detecting and preventing any violation of such provisions, and every police officer and provincial constable shall, for any such purpose as aforesaid, have the right to enter into any and every part of any building in which there is a licensed billiard, pool or bagatelle room and the premises connected therewith, and to make searches in every part thereof. 6-7 Ed. 7, c. 2, s. 4. CHAPTER 17. An Act respecting Mortgages and Sales of Personal HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be Chattel Mortgage Act." SHORT TITLE. cited as "The Bills of Sale and Short title. R.S.M. c. 11, s. 1. INTERPRETATION. tion. continued 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpreta(a) the expression "actual and continued change of pos- "Actual and session" shall be taken to be such change of possession as is change of open and reasonably sufficient to afford public notice thereof; (b) the expression "clerk of the County Court" or "clerk" includes a deputy clerk or acting clerk; possession." "County Court clerk." division." (c) the expression "judicial division" includes such "Judicial territory as by any provision in any statute or order-incouncil is now assigned to any County Court, or that shall hereafter by any Act or by order-in-council be assigned to any County Court; (d) the expression "creditors" extends to and includes "Creditors." any assignee for the general benefit of creditors of the mortgagor or bargainor. R.S.M. c. 11, s. 2. SALES. not attended to be regis 3. Every sale made of goods and chattels, situated in the Sale of goods Province of Manitoba, not accompanied by an immediate with delivery delivery, followed by an actual and continued change of tered. possession, of the goods and chattels sold, shall be in writing, and such writing shall be a conveyance under the provisions of this Act, and shall be accompanied by an affidavit of a subscribing witness thereto of the due execution thereof, and an affidavit by the bargainee or his agent that the sale is bona fide and for good or valuable consideration, as set forth in the said conveyance, and not for the purpose of holding or Agreement goods to be Mortgage to be filed with affidavits. enabling the bargainee to hold the goods mentioned therein against the creditors of the bargainor, and the conveyance and affidavits shall be registered, as by this Act provided, within twenty days from the date thereof, otherwise the sale shall be absolutely null and void as against the creditors of the bargainor and as against subsequent purchasers or mortgagees in good faith for good or valuable consideration. R.S.M. c. 11, s. 3. 4. Every covenant, promise or agreement for the sale of goods and chattels, in whatsoever words the same may be expressed, shall be deemed to be a sale of goods and chattels within the meaning of this Act, and, unless accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession, of the said goods and chattels, shall be in writing, and such writing, accompanied by affidavits of execution and bona fides, shall be registered within the time and in the manner prescribed in the next preceding section, otherwise the said covenant, promise or agreement shall be absolutely void as against creditors of the bargainor and as against subsequent purchasers or mortgagees in good faith for good or valuable consideration. R.S.M. c. 11, s. 4. MORTGAGES. 5. Every mortgage, or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage, of goods and chattels situate in the Province of Manitoba, which is not accompanied by immediate delivery and an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be registered, as by this Act provided, within twenty days from the date thereof, together with an affidavit of a subscribing witness thereto of the due execution of such mortgage or conveyance, and with an affidavit of the mortgagee or his agent that the mortgagor therein named is justly and truly indebted to the mortgagee in the sum mentioned in the mortgage, that it was executed in good faith, and for the express purpose of securing the payment of money justly due or accruing due, and not for the purpose of protecting the goods and chattels mentioned therein against the creditors of the mortgagor or of preventing the creditors of such mortgagor from obtaining payment of any claim against Otherwise to him, otherwise such mortgage or conveyance shall be absolutely null and void as against the creditors of the mortgagor and as against subsequent purchasers or mortgagees in good faith for good or valuable consideration. R.S.M. c. 11, s. 5. be void. Agreement for future advances. 6. Where an agreement is made for future advances for the purpose of enabling the borrower to enter into and carry on business with such advances, the time of repayment thereof |