STATUTES

OF THE

PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

PASSED IN THE

SESSION HELD IN THE TENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS MAJESTY

KING EDWARD VII.,

BEING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWELFTH PARLIAMENT OF
BRITISH COLUMBIA,

BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT VICTORIA ON THE 20TH JANUARY, 1910, AND ENDING ON
THE 10TH MARCH,

1910.

THE GOVERNMENT OF

THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

HIS HONOUR

THE HONOURABLE THOMAS W. PATERSON,

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

VICTORIA, B.C.

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1910

L12376

DEC 3 1936

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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2.

PUBLIC ACTS.

An Act to exempt from Seizure and Attachment Annuities issued under

Chapter 5 of the Dominion Statutes for the Year 1908 ..

An Act to amend the "Steam Boilers Inspection Act, 1901 "....

An Act to ratify an Agreement bearing Date the Seventeenth Day of

January, A. D. 1910, between His Majesty the King and the

Canadian Northern Railway Company

4. An Act to Incorporate the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway Company...

An Act to amend the "Children's Protection Act of British Columbia'

6. An Act to repeal the "Commercial Travellers' Licences Act, 1907"

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8.

An Act to revise and consolidate the "Companies Act, 1897," and amending

Acts

An Act to amend the "Coroners Act"

9. An Act to amend the "County Courts Act"

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177

179

10. An Act to provide for the Establishment of Juvenile Courts

181

11. An Act to amend the "Supreme Court Act"

183

12. An Act respecting Crown Costs

185

13. An Act to amend the "Dyking Assessments Adjustment Act, 1905"

187

14. An Act to amend the "Municipal Elections Act"

195

15.

197

An Act to amend the " Provincial Elections Act"

16. An Act to provide for the Inspection of Premises, Works, Wires, and Appli-

ances generating, transmitting, or supplying Electrical Energy.. 199

17. An Act to ratify an Agreement between His Majesty the King and the

Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company, bearing Date the

Twenty-first Day of October, 1909.

21. An Act for preserving Purchasers of Stock from Losses by Forged Transfers 217

26. An Act to ratify an Agreement bearing Date the Twenty-eighth Day of

February, 1910, between His Majesty the King and the Kettle

River Valley Railway Company.

29. An Act to amend the "Extra-Municipal Trade Licences Act, 1907”.

30. An Act respecting Liquor Licences and the Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors.. 243

31. An Act respecting Liens of Mechanics, Wage-earners, and Others

32. An Act to amend the "Midway and Vernon Railway Aid Act, 1902".