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Notary's certificate.

to be carried on is (or are) (insert name of place or places where the operations of the said association are to be carried on).

Dated the

day of

(Signatures.)

day of

On the A. D. 188 before me personally appeared (insert names of subscribers to the certificate), to me known to be the individuals described in the foregoing certificate, and they severally before me signed the said certificate and acknowledged that they signed the same for the purposes therein mentioned.

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Sub-sec. D of

sec. 10

amended.

To what cases Act shall apply.

An Act to amend Chapter 20 of the Statutes of this
Province, passed in the Forty-Seventh Year of Her
Majesty's reign.

[Assented to 10th June, 1887.]

ER MAJESTY by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba enacts as fol

lows:

1. Sub-section (d) of section ten, of chapter twenty of the Statutes of Manitoba, passed in the forty-seventh year of Her Majesty's reign, is hereby amended by striking out the words "and of the nature," in the first and second lines thereof.

2. This Act shall only apply in cases where the lands ordered by the plan or part of the plan are wholly vested in one party.

CAP. XIV.

Feed and sale stables to be cleansed annually.

An Act to Amend the "Agriculture, Statistics and
Health Act."

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[Assented to 10th June, 1887.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:-

1. The keeper of every feed or sale stable in this province shall in each and every year in the month of April and in the month of October thoroughly cleanse all the stalls,

mangers and feed boxes in such stable by thoroughly washing the same with hot water and afterwards white-washing them with fresh lime.

case of default.

(1.) The keeper of any such stable who shall fail during Penalty in each of the months aforesaid in any year to cause such cleansing and white-washing, to be done in a manner satisfactory to the District Veterinarian, shall for such default or omission on conviction before any justice of the peace be liable for the first offence to a fine of not more than five dollars and to a penalty of not more than twenty-five dollars for every subsequent offence, and in default of immediate payment of such fine to imprisonment in the common jail of the district for any term not exceeding thirty days, and in all prosecutions under this Act the provisions of the Summary Convictions Act shall apply.

ters and

births, etc.,

authentic and

official.

2. The registers and copies of records kept by the Roman Certain regisCatholic, Anglican and Presbyterian, Methodist or other records of in the territory declared to be clergy in the Province of Manitoba or now comprising the said province prior to the passage of the statute of this province, chaptered 13 of the Acts passed in the thirty-sixth year of Her Majesty's reign, and from the passage of the said Act up to the time of the passing of chapter 8 of the statutes of this province of the 44th year of Her Majesty's reign, and intituled "An Act respecting the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths," which said registers and copies of records are at present or may hereafter be deposited among the records of the Department of Agriculture, Statistics and Health, and have been duly examined and sworn to as correct, are hereby declared to be authentic and official registers of births, deaths, and marriages, and the same shall be preserved and remain in the custody of and among the records of the said depart

ment.

3. None of the original registers or books containing copies of records as aforesaid shall be subject to be produced under any summons or process in any court in this province in any action, suit or matter pending therein, but copies of any such registers or books attested under the signature of the head or deputy head or chief clerk of the said department, or any extract therefrom, duly certified to be correct under the signature of such head, deputy head or chief clerk, shall be competent evidence in all cases in which the original records, books or registers could be evidence.

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4. Section 58 of "The Agriculture, Statistics and Health Sec. 58, what Act, 1883," shall apply to the registers or copies of records herein before mentioned.

5. With the approval of the Minister of Agriculture and in the manner by law provided for the organization of agri

Formation of cultural

second agri

society,

Proviso.

Board of Agriculture and council to

cease. When.

Disposition of its property, etc.

Successor and his powers.

Sec. 68 amended.

Proviso.

Sec. 69

amend' d.

Sec. 88 amended.

Glandered horses, quarantine

and destruction of.

cultural societies, a second agricultural society may be formed in each of the Electoral Divisions of Shoal Lake, Dennis and Norfolk and in the Municipality of Gimli, in the Electoral Division of Rockwood: Provided, however, that every division for which any such second agricultural society may be formed under this section, shall comprise not less than the area of or equivalent to twelve townships of the Dominion Government

survey.

6. At the hour of noon on the third Wednesday of July in the present year (A.D. 1887), the Board of Agriculture and the council thereof shall cease to exist, and at, from and after that time all the property real and personal of whatsoever nature of the said board shall be vested in the Minister of Agriculture who shall pay and discharge all debts and liabilities of the said board, and thereafter the said Minister shall have and possess all the powers, rights and privileges of the said board and of the said council thereof, and shall do and perform and thereafter continue to do and perform all the duties and functions thereof as the successor and representative of the said board and council in the same manner as if the said board and council had always been and acted as a public officer to whom the said Minister should have succeeded, and the method in which he shall so do, perform and continue the functions of the said board and council shall as nearly as possible correspond with the method in which they now are empowered to discharge the same.

7. Section 68 of the "Agriculture, Statistics and Health Act, 1883," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to persons having in their possession the eggs of wild birds for the purposes of hatching and breeding or the birds raised therefrom, or to any person keeping for the purpose of domestication any wild animal or any of the animals mentioned in sub-section (a)."

8. Section 69 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "Provided that all veterinary surgeons upon being made aware that any animal is affected with a contagious disease shall at once quarantine the said animal and notify the district veterinarian of the district of the action he has taken."

9. Section 88 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "In case the owner, upon being notified of the decision of the district veterinarian that a horse is glandered, objects to such decision, the district veterinarian shall on being notified of such objection quarantine such horse upon the premises and at the expense of the owner, who shall immediately cause an examination of the horse to be made by another qualified veterinary surgeon who shall within ten days of such examination by the district

veterinarian, give his opinion in writing by service by himself or by the owner, upon said district veterinarian, and should such opinion coincide with that of the district veterinarian the horse shall forthwith be destroyed, but if the said opinions do not coincide, the horse shall remain in quarantine until both parties are satisfied.

amended.

10. Section 91 of the said Act is hereby amended by add- Sec. 91 ing thereto the following words: "Any qualified practitioner present at the death of any animal shall have the privilege of Post mortem making a post-mortem examination: Provided, however, that examination. any such examination shall be made within three hours after the death of such animal."

11. This Act shall come into force on the day on which it Act to come is assented to.

into force.

CAP. XV.

An Act to amend Chapter 51 of the Consolidated
Statutes of Manitoba.

(Assented to, 10th June, 1887.

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ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

1. Section 5 of Chap. 51 of the Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor :

Sec. 5, Cap 51. pealed.

C. S. M. re

turns by J. P.

5. Every justice of the peace, before whom any trial or hear- New section. ing is held, under any law giving jurisdiction in the premises and who convicts and imposes any fine, forfeiture, penalty or damages, or otherwise disposes thereof, shall make a return in Quarterly rewriting, under his hand and seal, quarterly, on or before the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth day of June, the thirtieth day of September and the thirty-first day of December, in each and every year, to the treasurer of the Province, showing the amounts received by him for fines, forfeitures, penalties or damages as aforesaid, and of the receipt and application by him of monies received from any person so convicted.

two J. P.'s.

(1) In case of any conviction or other disposition made as Returns by aforesaid before two or more justices, such justices being present and joining therein, shall forthwith make a return thereof in the manner aforesaid.

(2.) Any Justice or Justices of the Peace obliged to make returns as mentioned in the previous part of this section who

Penalty in case refusal.

of neglect or

Defaulters' names to be published in Gazette.

And erased from Commission of peace.

Form of returns.

shall refuse or neglect to make such returns in the manner and at the times above provided within thirty days from the time when such returns ought to be made as aforesaid may be required by a written notice from the Provincial Treasurer (which notice may be forwarded to the usual or last known post office address of the said Justice or Justices by post prepaid and registered or delivered to the said Justice or Justices in person,) requiring such Justice or Justices forthwith to make such returns as aforesaid, and after the expiration of thirty days from the posting or delivery of such notice, should the said Justice or Justices still refuse or neglect to make such returns as aforesaid, then the Provincial Treasurer shall report such refusal, neglect or omission to the Provincial Secretary, who shall cause the names of the Justice or Justices so making default to be published in the Manitoba Gazette during two successive issues thereof, with the notice stating that in default of returns as required by this section being duly made by the Justices therein named within thirty days from the first publication of such notice that the name of such Justice or Justices so making default should be erased from the Commission of the Peace. The Provincial Secretary shall, on the expiration of thirty days from the date of the first publication in the Manitoba Gazette, erase from the Commission of the Peace the name of every Justice of the Peace still in default, and upon such erasure such Justice or Justices of the Peace shall be and become deprived of all power and authority and jurisdiction as Justice of the Peace, and shall not thereafter be eligible for re-appointment as a Justice of the Peace in any part of the Province.

(3) The returns required by this section may be made in the form following, or in any form in the like effect :

RETURN of convictions and other dispositions made by me (or us as the case may be) from the

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A. B., convicting justice (or A. B. and C. D., convicting

justices, as the case may be).

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