Preamble.

fire chamber cooking range, and hot air and vapour generator," and also of the manner in which the cold air is introduced.

No. 244.-23rd June, 1848. The invention of the true philosophical principles upon which buildings may be ventilated, and also of machinery by which the ventilating air may be warmed, designated the "Canadian Ventilator."

No. 311.-31st January, 1851. The invention of a machine called a "ventilating stove," and also of the means by which the ventilating air may be made to circulate under a floor and between the joists.

CAP. XXIV.

An Act to amend the Law regulating the Inspection of Flour and Meal.

[Assented to 24th July, 1858.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act of the Legislature of this Province passed in the Session thereof held in the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty's 19, 20 V. c. 87. Reign, intituled, An Act for the Inspection of Flour, Indian Meal and Oatmeal: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

Sect. 15 a spector to

mended-In weigh at least ten per cent.

1. In amendment of the fifteenth section of the said Act, it is hereby enacted, that it shall be the duty of each Inspector or Assistant Inspector, appointed under the said Act, to weigh such proportion of every lot of Flour or Meal offered for Inspection (being not less than ten per cent. of each lot) as shall be neces sary to verify whether the contents come up to the weight required by Law; and should such lot, or any part thereof, any deficiency be deficient in legal weight, then he shall make or cause the

of all flour inspected;

And cause

to be made

good.

Penalty for default.

Boards of Examiners in

deficiency to be made good by or at the expense of the owner thereof, so that each and every barrel shall contain the weight required by Law, and the Inspector or Assistant Inspector, shall, when required, certify the cost and expense thereby incurred; and every Inspector or Assistant Inspector who shall neglect to examine and weigh such Flour or Meal, and to cause the casks to be weighed in the manner required by this Act, shall, for every such neglect or refusal, forfeit the sum of Twenty Pounds currency, and shall be liable to make good all damages which any buyer or seller of such Flour or Meal may suffer in consequence of such refusal or neglect.

2. And in amendment of the third section of the said Act, it is hereby enacted, that

1. Hereafter, the Boards of Examiners of Applicants for the office of Inspector of Flour and Meal, in each of the Cities of Quebec,

Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton, respect- certain cities, ively, shall consist of five fit, proper and skilful persons, resi- how constident in or in the immediate vicinity of the City for which they tuted hereare respectively to act;

after.

2. The members of the present Board of Examiners for each Present memof the said Cities, shall go out of office on the passing of this bers to retire. Act;

3. Within thirty days after the passing of this Act, the Coun- Boards of cil of the Board of Trade for each of the said Cities shall Trade to apappoint five persons, qualified as aforesaid, to be the Board of point others. Examiners as aforesaid, for the City for which such Board of Trade is appointed; and the persons so appointed shall respectively take the oath of office prescribed by the said third section before the President or Vice President of such Board of Trade, who shall administer the same;

4. The Examiners so appointed shall hold their office until Term of office the thirtieth day of April next after their appointment, and shall then go out of office, but shall be eligible for re-appoint

ment;

of examiners.

5. On or so soon as may be after the tenth day of April, Annual apand before the twenty-fifth day of the same month, in each pointment year, the Council of the Board of Trade, in each of the said Cities, shall appoint five persons to constitute the Board of Examiners for the City, for the year commencing on the first day of May then next, and ending on the thirtieth of April, in the then next year; and such Examiners shall take the said Oath of office. oath of office before the President or Vice President of such Board of Trade;

filled.

6. The said Examiners shall not be removeable by the Coun- Not to be recil of the Board of Trade by which they are appointed, but in moveable. case of vacancy by the death or the removal of any Examiner Vacancies beyond the immediate vicinity of the City for which he is ap- how to be pointed, the Council of the Board of Trade for such City may appoint another in his stead, to hold office until the thirtieth day of April then next, and the person so appointed shall take the oath of office before the President or Vice President of such Board of Trade and in the event of the temporary absence Temporary or inability of any such Examiner, from sickness or interest absence, &c. in any matter in which an Examiner is required to act, the Council of the Board of Trade may appoint another to hold office and act during such absence only, and he shall take the oath of office before the President or Vice President of the said Board of Trade.

3. And in amendment of the twenty-fourth section of the Sect. 24 of 19, said Act, Be it enacted, That whenever any of the samples of 20 V. c. 87, the several qualities of Flour and Meal referred to in the said amended.

section,

by Board of Examiners, &c.

section, and provided by the Inspector at any one of the Cities New samples aforesaid, shall require to be renewed, the new sample or samas standards ples to be provided by the Inspector and referred to by him for to be approved his government in inspecting Flour and Meal, shall be such and such only as shall be approved by a majority of the Board of Examiners of the City, as truly representing the standard approved by the Board of Trade for the same; and the Board of Trade for any of the said Cities shall not renew the samples of any quality of Flour or Meal, except only between the tain periods. fifteenth day of August and the fifteenth day of September in any

Samples removeable, only at cer

Sect. 17 of 19, 20 V. c. 87, amended.

Provision for

settlement of disputes between the

and the In

spector.

year.

4. And in amendment of the seventeenth section of the said Act, Be it enacted, That if any dispute shall arise between the Inspector or Assistant Inspector for any of the said Cities and the proprietor or possessor of Flour or Meal, with regard to the quality or condition thereof or relating in any respect to the same, such dispute shall not be decided in the manner provided owner of Flour by the said section, but, upon application by either of the parties in difference, to the Secretary of the Board of Trade for the City where the dispute has arisen, the said Secretary shall forthwith summon a meeting of the Board of Examiners for the said City, who, or not less than three of them, shall immediately examine such Flour or Meal and report their opinion of the quality and condition thereof, and their determination, or that of a majority of them, made in writing, shall be final and conclusive, whether approving or disapproving the judgment of the Inspector or Assistant Inspector, who shall immediately attend and conform himself thereto, and shall brand or paint, or cause to be branded or painted, each and every barrel or half-barrel, of the quality and condition directed by the determination aforesaid; And if the opinion of the Inspector or Assistant Inspector be thereby confirmed, the reasonable costs and charges of re-examination, according to the rates allowed by the Board of Trade for the City, shall be taxed by the Secretary of the Board of Trade and paid by the proprietor or possessor of such Flour or Meal, and, if otherwise, by the Board of Trade Inspector, with all damages; And the Council of the Board of Trade for each of the said Cities shall, from time to time, make a Tariff of the fees and charges allowed for such reexamination and all services and matters connected therewith, Regulations. and may also establish rules and regulations for the government of the Board of Examiners.

Costs.

to make a

Tariff, and

Bill of Inspection to contain certain particulars.

5. The Certificate or Bill of Inspection furnished by the Inspector, in accordance with the fourteenth section of the said Act, shall specify, in addition to the matters thereby required, the gross quantity of Flour or Meal taken by the instrument used for the purpose of inspection from the lot in respect of which such Inspection Bill is given.

sureties are

6. Nothing in this Act shall affect any security Bond given Security bond by any Inspector or Assistant Inspector, or the liability of the not to be afparties signing such Bonds, or any of them, unless such parties fected, unless give notice in writing to the person having the custody of the withdrawn respective Bonds, within fifteen days after this Act comes into within a cerforce, of his or their intention to withdraw; and in that case the tain time after the passing Inspector or Assistant Inspector whose surety or sureties are so of this Act. withdrawn, shall be bound, forthwith, to furnish other good and sufficient sureties in lieu of those so withdrawing; and all the Provisions of provisions of the said Act hereby amended relating to providing the said Act to apply. security, or regulating the nature, execution, form, effect and custody of the security, or which prohibit the Inspector or Assistant Inspector from acting before giving security, or any of the said provisions which may otherwise apply to the security, are, in the case of withdrawal provided for by this section, declared to apply to the new security which is hereby authorized to be given.

7. This Act shall be construed as one Act with the Act Interpretation hereby amended, all the provisions whereof, as to the recovery of this Act. and application of penalties or forfeitures incurred under it, shall apply to those imposed by this Act.

CAP. XXV.

An Act to consolidate the laws relating to the Inspection of Fish and Oil in Upper and Lower Canada.

W

[Assented to 24th July, 1858.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend and consolidate the Preamble. laws relative to the Inspection of Fish and Oil, and for the better regulating the curing and packing of Fish: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. The Act of the Legislature of Lower Canada, second Certain Acts Victoria, chapter sixty-five,---the Act of the Legislature of this repealed. Province, thirteenth and fourteenth Victoria, chapter forty-three, 2 V. c. 65and the Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, third Vic- 13, 14 V, c. toria, chapter twenty-four, are hereby repealed.

43,--3 V. c. 24.

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to appoint Appointment Inspectors of Fish and Oil in the Districts of Quebec and Mont- of Inspectors; and making real, in the Counties of Gaspé and Bonaventure and in the regulations. Magdalen Islands, respectively, and also in such Counties, Districts and localities respectively, in Upper and Lower Canada, as may be deemed most conducive to the interests and wants of each section of the Province; and to make from time to time all and every regulation that may be necessary, for better carrying out the provisions of this Act: and every such regulation, Regulations to

be published

in Canada Gazette.

Inspector to

and take an oath of office.

being published in the Canada Gazette, shall, so far as it may not be inconsistent with this Act or with law, have the same effect as if it were inserted in this Act.

3. Each person so appointed an Inspector of Fish and Oil, give security, shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give security to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, in the sum of one hundred pounds currency, for the due performance of his said duties, and shall take and subscribe the following oath before one of the justices of the peace for the district or county in which he may have been appointed to act

The oath.

Where to be kept. Certificate and fee.

Inspector to

"I, A. B., Inspector of Fish and Oil, in and for the City or "County (or as the case may be) of do solemnly swear, that to the best of my judgment, skill and understanding, I will faithfully, honestly and impartially fulfil, execute "and perform the office and duty of such Inspector, according "to the true intent and meaning of the Act, &c." (insert the title of this Act.)

And the Magistrate shall cause the said oath to be filed with and kept by the Clerk of the Peace for the District or County where the Inspector may have been appointed, and the Clerk of the Peace, if so required, shall furnish a certificate thereof to the Inspector taking the same, on payment of two shillings and six pence, currency.

4. Each Inspector appointed under the authority of this have branding Act, shall provide himself with sufficient branding irons, for the purpose of branding such casks and boxes as may by him be inspected in pursuance of this Act.

irons, &c.

What quality of fish only shall be branded as

5. It shall be the duty of each such Inspector to see that all Salmon, Mackerel, Shad, Herring, and all kinds of split, whole, dried, pickled or salted fish, of any kind, intended for barrelling merchantable. and submitted to him for inspection, have been well struck with salt or pickle, in the first instance, and preserved sweet, free from taint, rust, oil and damage of every kind; and no other fish shall be branded by him as inspected and merchantable.

6. No fish of the description hereinabove mentioned, intended for exportation, shall be branded as inspected and merchantable, unless it be well and properly packed in good, tight and substantial tierces, half tierces, barrels or half barrels; nor shall any pickled or salted Salmon be so branded, except in tierces containing three hundred pounds, exclusive of salt and pickle, or in half tierces containing one hundred and fifty pounds, exclusive of salt and pickle, or in barrels containing two hundred pounds, exclusive of salt and pickle, or in half barrels containing one hundred pounds, exclusive of salt and pickle, avoir-du-poise weight, nor shall any other pickled or salted fish be so branded, if packed in barrels containing less than twenty-eight gallons or in half barrels less than fourteen gallons wine measure.