Yale and Towns, villages, &c., not mentioned. Interpretation. Commence. ment of Act. (c.) The electoral districts of Yale and Cariboo shall together form one electoral district, which shall be known as the electoral district of Yale and Cariboo. 3. Every town, village, township or place lying within the territorial limits of any electoral district, and not specifically included in any other electoral district by this Act, shall be and be taken to be part of the electoral district in which it is so locally situate. 4. Wherever in this Act any word or expression is used to denote the name of any territorial division, such word or expression shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as indicating such territorial division as it exists and is bounded at the date of the passing of this Act. 5. This Act shall take effect only upon the dissolution of the present Parliament. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 12. An Act respecting the Voters' Lists of 1891. [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] HEREAS the duplicate copies of the lists of voters for Preamble. certain electoral districts for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one were not forwarded to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery on or before the thirty-first day of December in that year, as required by subsection six of section twenty-one of The Electoral Franchise Act, but many R.S.C., c. 5. of them have been forwarded since that day and all of them may be expected to be so forwarded before the end of the present session of Parliament; and whereas it is expedient to remove any doubt as to the validity of such lists which might arise by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the said section; and whereas it is expedient that there should be no revision of voters' lists during the present year: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: certain lists. 1. It shall not be taken or held to affect the validity of Validity of any such list of voters as aforesaid that it was not finally revised and certified, or that a duplicate copy thereof was not forwarded to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, on or before the thirty-first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, but such list shall for all purposes be taken and held to have been duly brought into force, notwithstanding such non-compliance with the said Act: Pro- Proviso. vided that such list shall have been finally revised and certified, and a duplicate copy thereof forwarded to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, before the end of this present session of Parliament. 2. There shall be no revision during the present year, one No revision in thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, of the lists of voters 1892. as last finally revised. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 13. An Act to amend the Act respecting the Senate and [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] Days of ab present ses sion. HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows:- 1. For the present session of Parliament, the deduction of sence during eight dollars per day mentioned in section twenty-six of the Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons, being chapter cleven of the Revised Statutes, shall not be made for twelve days in the case of a member who has been absent from a sitting of the House of which he is a member, or of some committee thereof, during such number of days; but this provision shall not operate to extend the maximum amount mentioned in section twenty-five of the said Act, nor in the case of a member elected since the commencement of the present session shall it apply to days prior to his election. Proviso. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 14. An Act to amend the Acts respecting the Civil Service. [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] HER ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and Ilouse of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: appointed or mination. 1. Any person who, on the first day of July, one thousand Who may be eight hundred and eighty-two, was in the service or employ- promoted ment of the Government of Canada, or of any department without exathereof, and who has since been continuously engaged therein, may, notwithstanding anything in The Civil Service Act, be R.S.C., c. 17. appointed to any position in the public service, without regard to age and without being required to pass the preliminary or qualifying examination provided for by the said Act, subject however to such regulations as are made by the Governor in Council, or by the head of a department, prescribing examinations for appointment or promotion in the Civil Service; and any such person may also, notwithstanding anything in the said Act, be temporarily continued in the public service: 2. All appointments of such persons, and all payments of Retroaction. salaries to them, heretofore made, are hereby legalized and con firmed: 3. No appointment or promotion shall be made under the Time limited. provisions of this section after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four. 2. Section fifteen of chapter twelve of the Statutes of 1888 Section 15 of is hereby repealed. c. 12 of 1888 repealed. OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. R.S.C., c. 54, clause 17 repealed. Clause 21 repealed. As to laying out and describing certain lands. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 15. An Act further to amend the Dominion Lands Act. [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as fol lows: 1. Clause seventeen of The Dominion Lands Act, chapter fifty-four of the Revised Statutes, is hereby repealed. 2. Clause twenty-one of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor : "21. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the land upon the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, surrendered by the Indians to the late Earl of Selkirk, from being laid out in such manner as is necessary in order to carry out the provisions of section two of the Act respecting certain Claims to Lands in R.S.C., c. 48. the Province of Manitoba,.or to prevent fractional sections or lands bordering on any river, or lake, or other watercourse, or on a public road, from being laid out and divided into lots of any certain frontage or depth, in such manner as appears desirable, or to prevent the subdivision of sections or other legal subdivisions into wood lots as hereinafter provided, or the describing of the said lands upon the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, or such subdivisions of fractional sections or lands bordering as above, or other lots, or wood lots, for patent, by numbers according to a plan of record, or by metes and bounds, or by both, as seems expedient, or to prevent any Dominion lands in the mountainous regions of Manitoba, the North-west Territories and British Columbia, where the ordinary mode of survey is impracticable, from being laid out into townships, sections, quarter sections or legal subdivisions by fixing the corners of such townships, sections, quarter sections, or legal subdivisions by reference to points determined by astronomical observation or by triangulation or other geodetic process, in such manner as the Minister directs, and the describing of such townships, sections, quarter sections or legal subdivisions for patent by metes and bounds according to a plan of record." |