1903

CHAPTER 2

An Ordinance for granting to the Lieutenant Governor certain Sums of Money for the Public Service for the Financial Year ending the Thirty-first day of December, 1903.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR:

[Assented to June 19, 1903.]

HEREAS it appears by Message from His Honour Amedée Preamble
Emmanuel Forget, the Lieutenant Governor of the North-

West Territories, and the estimates accompanying the said
Message, that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to
defray certain expenses of the public service of the Territories not
otherwise provided for during the financial year ending the
thirty-first day of December one thousand nine hundred and
three, and for other purposes relating thereto: May it there-
fore please Your Honour that it may be enacted and be it
enacted by the Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories as
follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Appropriation short Title Ordinance 1903,"

granted for

2. From and out of the general revenue fund there may $711,843,50 be paid and applied a sum not exceeding in the whole seven year 1903 hundred and eleven thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents towards defraying the several charges and expenses of the public service of the Territories for the financial year ending the thirty-first day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three not otherwise provided for and set forth in schedule A to this Ordinance and also for the other purposes in the said schedule mentioned.

3. The due application of all moneys expended under this Application Ordinance shall be accounted for.

to be accounted for.

SCHEDULE A.

SUMS granted to the Lieutenant Governor by this Ordinance for the financial year ending December 31, 1903, and the purposes for which they are granted :

CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

$ c.

$ c.

President of Council..

3 Members of Council each at $3,000.00

Clerk of Council and Government Printer (also Assistant
Treasurer)

Clerk

Clerk, stenographer and typewriter.

500 00

9,000 00

300 00

720 00

600 00

Clerk, telegrapher and stenographer to President of Council

(9 months at $45.00)....

405 00

Translator to Public Service (which may be paid to any member of the Public Service notwithstanding anything contained in The Public Service Ordinance).

240 00

Messenger....

Government Printer.

Clerk, assistant to Government Printer.

General expenses of Executive Council and Government
Printer's Office...

600 00

840 00

3,000 00

16,205 00

6,500 00

TERRITORIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT

Assistant Secretary

1,500 00

Clerk, stenographer and typewriter, 1, 5 months at $50.00 and 1, 7 months at $30.00.

460 00

General expenses of Territorial Secretary's Department including offices of the Legislative Assembly.

Clerk in charge of administration of well boring, road
work, etc.
Clerks, stenographers and assistants: 1 at $80 for 4 months;
4 at $50; 1 at $50 for 2 months; 4 at $45; 1 at $45
for 5 months; 1 at $40; 2 at $40 for 7 months.
General expenses of Public Works Department..

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

Deputy Speaker's allowance (sessional).
Mr. Speaker's allowance (sessional)..

Indemnity to members, including travelling expenses at

times of opening, adjournment, reopening and prorogation...

Clerk of the Legislative Assembly

100 00

500 00

20,000 00

400 00

50 00
75.00

750 00

250 00

250 00

22,375 00

Tools and implements:.

4.000 00

Aid to local improvement districts and rural municipalities...

17,000 00

Taxes on land forfeited under provisions of Territorial
Ordinances

1,500 00

Improvement of roads.

60,000 00

Survey of roads, drains, reservoirs and other lands required for public works and purchase of right of way

To provide for examination into the affairs and works of the Springbank irrigation district..

Contingencies...

45,000 00

750 00 1,000 00

308,250 00

General expenses of normal schools and teachers' institutes..

1,500 00

Inspection of schools

Inspectors (4 at $1,400 and 3 at $1,400 for 9 months in 1903)
Travelling expenses and subsistence..

8,750 00

3,700 00

Expenses of meetings of educational council.
Examinations....

500 00

2,100 00

Education, maintenance and transportation of deaf mutes
Remuneration and expenses of persons appointed under
clauses 1, 2 and 3 of section 7 of The School Ordinance..
Contingencies.

5,000 00

500 00
150 00

216,300 00

AGRICULTURE AND STATISTICS.

Expenditure under The Agricultural Societies Ordinance..
To provide for expenses of judges at exhibitions..
To promote and encourage the importation and to develop
the production and interchange of improved stock
within the Territories.

5,000 00
600 00

2,000 00

To conduct experimental work in the Territories.
Destruction of gray or timber wolves. (To be expended

1,500 00

under regulations established by Order in Council) Destruction of noxious weeds

2,500 00

6,000 00

To provide for the preparation and publication of official brand book...............

To promote the work of agricultural and live stock institutes and associations.

HOSPITALS, CHARITIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

Expenditure under The Hospitals Ordinance.
Care of incurables
Contingencies..

MISCELLANEOUS.

Government Printer's advance (to provide for payment of all printing and binding done and stationery or office supplies purchased for the use of the Legislative Assembly or any Department of the Public Service).. To provide for payment of interest upon overdrafts at the Union Bank during 1902 and 1903

Expenditure under The Elections Ordinance

To provide for guarantee bonds upon Public Service.
To provide for payment of relief and assistance rendered
to the residents of Frank and other expenditures made
on account of the recent rockslide at Turtle Mountain
To pay Arthur Onslow out of the proceeds of the estate of
Frank E. Statham, deceased, the sum of $512.50.
To reimburse G. W. A. McNeice the amount paid by him
for an estray animal which was afterwards recovered
by the original owner, the net proceeds of the sale
having been paid into the Revenue
Grant to Territorial Rifle Association

Refunds.....

Unforeseen and unprovided for (to be expended under
Order in Council).