appellate tising until such sum shall have been paid. Provided that the benchers, instead of dealing with the report of the investigating committee as aforesaid, may refer the said report, the evidence and the record of proceedings before the investigating committee to the Appellate Division of the Reference to Supreme Court to be dealt with by the said Court at the division then next sittings thereof. In the event of such reference being made to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court notice of such reference shall forthwith be given to the member complained against by the secretary of the society by enclosing the same in a sealed prepaid and registered envelope addressed and mailed to such member at his last post office address on the books of the society. The Appellate Division shall deal with such reference as if it had been made by a judge of the Supreme Court under the provisions of section 52 of this Act. "(11) When the benchers have ordered that the name of any member shall be struck off the rolls of the society the name of such member shall not again be entered upon the rolls of the society except by an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. "(12) An investigating committee, as well as the bench- Counsel ers, may for the purpose of the execution of their respective duties under this Act, employ at the expense of the society legal or other assistance and the member complained against shall have the right to appear in person or by counsel or agent before such committee and before the benchers. Appellate "(13) Any member whose name has been ordered to be Appeal to struck from the rolls or who has been suspended or who Division may be subject to suspension by order of the benchers under the powers conferred upon the benchers by this section, may appeal from the order of the benchers to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court at any time within thirty days after the date of the order complained of and the said Court may upon hearing the said appeal make such order, either confirming the order appealed from or modifying or reversing the same or directing that further proceedings be taken by the investigating committee or may make such other order, including such order as to costs, as to the said Court may seem meet. "(14) Notice of appeal by a member complained against Notice of shall be served upon the secretary of the society within the appeal time limited for appeal as provided by the next preceding subsection of this section. The appeal shall be founded upon a copy of the evidence and the record of the proceedings before the investigating committee, the report of such committee and the order of the benchers, certified by the secretary of the society, who shall furnish a copy of the same to the member complained against or his solicitor or agent on request, on being paid the costs of the preparation thereof. Persons convicted of criminal offences Coming into force "33. The benchers may suspend from practice or strike off the rolls any member of the society who has been convicted of a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment for a term of five years or more upon proof of such conviction." 3. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 1924 CHAPTER 20. An Act to amend The Agricultural Department Act. (Assented to March 10, 1924.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Agricultural Depart- Short title ment Act Amendment Act, 1924." amended 2. Section 8 of The Agricultural Department Act, being Section 8 chapter 15 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is amended as to subsection (1) thereof (a) by adding after the words "for purchasing or marketing" where they occur therein the words "or grading"; (b) by striking out clause (b) thereof, and substituting therefor the following: “(b) butter and cream; or"; (c) by adding as paragraph (d) thereof the following: "(d) cattle, for feeding and re-sale"; (d) by striking out the words "one hundred thousand" where they occur in the proviso to the said subsection, and substituting therefor the words "two hundred and fifty thousand dollars." 3. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Coming into it is assented to. force 1924 CHAPTER 21. An Act for the Prevention and Treatment of (Assented to March 10, 1924.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Bee Diseases Act, 1924." Short title 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- Interpretation (a) "Department" shall mean the Department of "Department" Agriculture; (b) "Inspector" shall mean an inspector appointed "Inspector" under the provisions of this Act; (c) "Minister" shall mean the Minister of Agricul- "Minister" ture. of keeping 3. Every keeper of bees within the Province shall notify Notification the Minister of that fact before the expiry of one month bees from the passing of this Act, or from his beginning to keep bees. 4.-(1) Any inspector may enter upon any premises Entry by where bees, bee products, supplies or appliances used in inspector apiaries are kept. (2) In making any such entry the inspector shall, if requested so to do, produce a document appointing him inspector under the provisions of this Act under the hand of the Minister. where disease 5. Whenever an inspector finds that foul brood in a Action by virulent or malignant type exists in any colony of bees, he inspector shall immediately order the destruction by fire of such exists colony and the hive occupied by it, the contents of the same and all appurtenances thereof which cannot be disinfected, and may direct that such destruction is to take place there and then, under his personal direction. 6. Any inspector, when he suspects the existence of Quarantine any infectious or contagious disease in any colony of bees or apiary, may order in writing that the bees thereof |