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hereinafter provided, within one year after the passing of this Ordinance:

(4) All persons who hereafter become actual residents of the NorthWest Territories, and who possess any medical degree or diploma from any university or college in Her Majesty's Dominions, which is empowered by law to grant medical or surgical degrees, whereby such person is authorized to practice physic, surgery of midwifery, or any license from any Board or Corporate Body in Her Majesty's Dominions empowered by law to grant licenses to practice physic, surgery or midwifery.

2. Such examination shall be held by any two medical practitioners registered under this Ordinance, to be appointed from time to time by the Lieutenant-Governor, and such examination shall be upon the following subjects:-Anatomy, Chemistry, Physiology, and Materia Medica, the principles and practice of Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery. each of such Examiners shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars to be paid by the Applicant, and upon being satisfied that the Applicant is entitled thereto, shall give such Applicant a certificate, signed by both of them, to the effect, that he is entitled to be registered, and has passed the examination prescribed by sub-section three of section One of this Ordinance.

3. The persons referred to in Sub-sections One and Two of Section one shall be entitled to become registered on producing to the LieutenantGovernor the document conferring or evidencing the qualification or each of the qualifications in respect whereof he seeks to be so registered, and satisfying the said Lieutenant-Governor that he is entitled to be so registered, and paying a fee of five Dollars.

4. The persons referred to in sub-section (3) of section One of this Ordinance, shall be entitled to be registered by the Lieutenant-Governor on producing the certificate mentioned in section Two of this Ordinance and paying a fee of twenty-five dollars.

5. The persons referred to in Sub-section Four of Section one of this Ordinance shall be entitled to be registered by the Lieutenant-Governor on satisfying him, that they possess the qualification, or each of the qualifications, in respect whereof they seek to be registered, and paying a fee of Fifty Dollars.

6. All such fees shall be paid in to the General Revenue Fund of the Territories.

7. The Lieutenant-Governor shall keep or cause to be kept, a book or register, in which shall be entered the names of every person, so satisfying him of his right to be registered under this Ordinance, the date of such registry, and a minute of the degree, diploma, license, or certificate

produced by such person, and shall deliver to such person a certificate in the form or to the effect following, under his hand and the seal of the North-West Territories;

"Certificate to practice physic, surgery and midwifery in the North-West Territories.

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8. The production of such certificate, purporting to be signed by the Lieutenant-Governor shall be prima facie evidence that the holder is entitled to the rights and privileges therein mentioned.

9. It shall not be lawful for any person not registered to practice physic, surgery or midwifery in the North-West Territories for hire, gain or hope of reward, and if any person not registered shall for hire, gain or hope of reward, practice, or profess to practice, physic, surgery or midwifery, or advertise to give advice in physic, surgery or midwifery in the Territories, he shall upon a summary conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace for any and every such offence penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.

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10. Any person not registered, who shall take or use any name, title, addition or description implying, or calculated to lead people to infer that he is registered, or that he is recognized by law as a Physician, Surgeon, Accoucheur, or a Licentiate in Medicine, Surgery or Midwifery shall be liable upon a summary conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, to pay any penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.

11. In any such prosecution and trial, the burden of proof as to regis tration shall be upon the person charged.

12. All penalties hereby provided shall, when recovered, form part of the general Revenue fund of the Territories.

13. Any registered medical practitioner, who has been convicted of felony in any Court, shall thereby forfeit his right to registration, and the Lieutenant-Governor shall cause the name of such practitioner to be struck off the list: and in case a person known to have been convicted of felony, presents himself for registration, the said Lieutenant-Governor shall have power to refuse such registration.

14. No penalties under this Ordinance shall be incurred before the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

No. 12 of 1885,

An Ordinance Respecting Poisons.

Passed 18th December, 1885.

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, in Council, as follows:

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to put out strychnine or other poison within one mile of any public trail, or within two miles of any dwelling house or camp;

Or in any other place in the Territories, unless he obtains a license from a justice of the peace. as hereinafter provided, and in accordance with the terms of such license.

2. A justice of the peace, when he is satisfied that it is advisable to put out poison forthe destruction of wolves or other wild animals, may grant to any person a license to put out such poison, and shall in such license limit the number of places, at which it shall be put out, and the said license shall not extend beyond the limits of the judicial district, as defined in the Civil Justice Ordinance, in which the said justice resides: nor for a longer period than six months.

3. The said license, for issuing which any justice of the Peace shall be entitled to charge one dollar, may be in the following form:

"A. B., who resides at

is hereby permitted to set

out strychnine, or other poison within the limits of the Judicial district for the purpose of destroying wolves and other wild animals at different places, being at least one mile from any public road, or trail, and two miles from any dwelling place, or camp, for a term not exceeding six months from the date of this license. Given under my hand at

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4. Every person convicted of an infraction of any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, with costs of prosecution, and in default of payment to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months.

5. Prosecutions under this Ordinance may take place in a summary way before a justice of the peace; and in prosecutions upon information, whereby conviction is secured and a fine paid or collected, the informer shall be entitled to receive one half of the said fine.

6. Ordinance No. 14 of 1878, intitled "An Ordinance respecting poisons" is hereby repealed.

No. 13 of 1885,

An Ordinance to Legalize a Certain By-Law of the Municipal Council of the Town of Regina.

Passed 18 December, 1885.

Whereas the Mayor and Council of the town of Regina have by their petition represented that a By-law to raise by way of loan the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of making certain public improvements in said town of Regina, was on the seventeenth day of November 1884 duly submitted to a vote of the ratepapers of said town of Regina, and upon said vote, a majority of votes having been cast in favor of said By-law, the same was duly passed by the Municipal Council of said town on the twenty-fourth day of November 1884, and intituled "Bylaw No. 10 of the Corporation of the town of Regina to raise by way of loan the sum of ten thousand dollars;" That the said Mayor and Council have sold a portion of the debentures authorized to be issued thereunder and have contracted for the sale of the remainder thereof, and have proceeded to complete certain of the improvements specified in said by-law

and have incurred liabilities in respect thereof to nearly the full amount of the proceeds arising from the sale of such remaining debentures; That doubts have recently arisen as to the validity of said By-law, and owing to the existence of such doubts the purchaser refuses to complete his contract for the purchase of said debentures.

Wherefore the said Mayor and Council pray that an Ordinance may be passed legalizing the said debentures;

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of said petition; Therefore be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of the NorthWest Territories, in Council, as follows:

1. The said By-law of the town of Regina intituled "By-law No. 10 of the Corporation of the town of Regina to raise by way of loan the sum of ten thousand dollars," and all the debentures now issued, or that may hereafter be issued under and in pursuance of said By-law are and the same are hereby declared to be legal, valid, and binding upon the said corporation of the Town of Regina, any law, statute or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding, and notwithstanding any omission or defect in point of form, or otherwise, in the said by-law, or in the passing thereof, or in the said debentures, or any of them.

2. Notwithstanding anything in said by-law contained, the Municipal Council of the said Town of Regina, shall raise, levy and collect in each year hereafter during the continuance of said by-law upon the rateable property in said Town of Regina a sum sufficient to pay the interest upon said loan, and the sinking fund provided by said By-law.

No. 14 of 1885.

An Ordinance to Legalize a Certain By-Law of the Munipality of South Qu'Appelle.

Passed 18th December, 1885.

Whereas by a certain by-law duly passed by the said corporation intituled "By-law No. 11."

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By-law for levying rates, taxes and impositions for the year 1884:

"It is enacted a by-law of the Municipal Council of the Municipality of South Qu'Appelle, in Council, assembled: That there be "rated, taxed, levied and imposed on all the rateable property of the Municipality of South Qu'Appelle, for the current year, the rate of

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