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CHAPTER 8.

[12th March, 1909.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

R. S., 1897, c. 44.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Companies Act, 1897, Amend- short title. ment Act, 1909."

2. Section 161 of chapter 44 of the Revised Statutes, 1897, being Repeals s. 161. Free miner's licence the "Companies Act, 1897," is hereby repealed. to companies.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, 1.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1909.

An Act to amend the "Court of Appeal Act, 1907." 1907, c. 10.

[12th March, 1909.]

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IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Court of Appeal Act, 1907, Short title. Amendment Act, 1909."

Order 72.

2. Section 28 of chapter 10 of the Statutes of 1907, being the Amends s. 28. "Court of Appeal Act, 1907," is hereby amended by inserting before Application of the word "Order," in the first line thereof, the words "Sub-sections (1) and (2) of ".

Judge of Supreme
Court to sit in
Court of Appeal.

3. From time to time within twelve months after the coming into Chief Justice of Court of Appeal force of this Act, in order to obtain a quorum to hear any appeal may request any or appeals, the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal may request any Judge of the Supreme Court to sit in the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court Judge so sitting shall have all the powers and jurisdiction of a Judge of the Court of Appeal with regard to the appeal or appeals argued before him.

4. This Act shall come into force at the same time as the Act Commencement. hereby amended.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

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

1909.

1903-04, c. 15.

[19th February, 1909.]

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IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Supreme Court Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1909."

Repeals s. 67, which provides that trials not to take place after opening sittings of Full Court, except on order.

2. Section 67 of chapter 15 of the Statutes of 1903-4, being the within two weeks "Supreme Court Act," is hereby repealed.

3. Section 69 of said chapter 15 is hereby amended by adding Amends s. 69. thereto the following sub-section :

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"(2.) In all matters before any District Registrar or Special Continued presence Examiner, where the evidence is taken down by an official required. stenographer or his deputy, the said District Registrar or Special Examiner shall attend and administer the necessary oath, and thereafter the taking of said testimony and the whole proceedings shall continue to be a judicial proceeding, notwithstanding the absence of the District Registrar or Special Examiner. The provisions of this subsection shall extend to similar proceedings in County Courts."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

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

1909.