Amount of grants to be societies not work. CHAPTER 2. An Act to further amend "An Act respecting H1 [Assented to July 5th, 1900.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 1. Section 26 of Chapter 2 of the Act passed in the 55th year of Her Majesty's reign, being "The Agricultural Societies Act," is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following sub-section: (f) From and after the year one thousand nine hundred withheld from the sum of fifty dollars of the grant or apportionment prodoing institute vided to be paid to each society under the provisions of this section shall be withheld by the Minister from those societies not engaging in Farmers Institute work within the meaning and interpretation of such rules and regulations governing such institutes as may from time to time be framed and adopted by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council. Formation of Grants. FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 2. The formation of Farmers' Institutes, other than Agricultural Societies for the purpose of disseminating information in regard to agriculture, shall be permitted under said Chapter 2 of 55 Victoria and any amending Act or Acts, and the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may, upon the recommendation of the Minister or the Acting-Minister of Agriculture and Immigration, make and adopt rules and regulations for the general guidance and direction of such institutes. 3. Every such Farmers' Institute shall be entitled to receive a grant not to exceed fifty cents for each paid-up member of an institute up to one hundred members out of the grant to Agricultural Societies and Farmers' Institute work. 4 to. 4. Chapter 58 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, being Repeal. The Farners' Institute Act," is hereby repealed. 5. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented Transactions having effect to be void, ing pressure by creditor. H' CHAPTER 3. An Act to amend "The Assignments Act." [Assented to July 5th, 1900.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 1. Section 33 of Cap. 7 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, being The Assignments Act," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sub-section : (2) If such transaction with or for a creditor has the effect of preference of giving that creditor a preference over other creditors of the notwithstand debtor or over one or more of them it shall in and with respect to any action or proceeding which within sixty days thereafter is brought, had or taken to impeach or set aside such transaction or if the debtor within the same period after the transaction makes an assignment for the benefit of his creditors be presumed prima facie to have been made with the intent aforesaid and to be a preference within the meaning of this section and no pressure on the part of the creditor will be sufficient to support the transaction or to rebut the presumption of preference. to. 2. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented CHAPTER 4. An Act respecting a certain Agreement between the Government of Manitoba and the Canadian Northern Railway Company. [Assented to July 5th, 1900.] HEREAS the Canadian Northern Railway Company is Schedule to this Act mentioned; between Government AND WHEREAS the Government of Manitoba agreed by and Agreement under the agreement in the Schedule to this Act set forth Company and upon the terms and conditions therein mentioned, to aid and recited. assist the construction of a line of railway from a point on the said Company's line of railway as then constructed at or near the Village of Dauphin and proceeding in a westerly direction through the Gilbert Plains, not exceeding twenty-eight miles, by guaranteeing the principal and interest of the first mortgage bonds of the Company to the amount of eight thousand dollars ($8,000.00) per mile of such railway, bearing interest at four per centum per annum, payable half-yearly for a term of thirty years from the date of the issue of such bonds and by exempting the said Company, its property and franchises, so far as the same might be connected with the railway thereby aided, from all taxation during the period of such guarantee; AND WHEREAS the said agreement was entered into subject to the approval and ratification of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, and it is expedient to provide for carrying the said agreement into effect, THEREFORE Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows: out by 1. The agreement set forth in the Schedule to this Act is To be carried hereby approved and ratified, and the Government of Mani- Government. Provincial axes levied. toba is hereby authorized to perform and carry out the conditions thereof according to their purport. 2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the said agreement the said railway company shall be liable to the Province of Manitoba for any taxes levied or imposed by the said Province. to. 3. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented SCHEDULE. AGREEMENT MADE THIS THIRTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1899, BETWEEN Her Majesty the Queen, hereinafter called the Government and herein represented and acting by The Honourable Thomas Greenway, Railway Commissioner for the Province of Manitoba, AND Of the First Part, The Canadian Northern Railway Company, hereinafter called AND William Mackenzie, of the City of Toronto, in the Province of WHEREAS the Company have the right under their Act of Incorporation and Acts amending the same to construct the railway in the Province of Manitoba hereinafter referred to, AND WHEREAS the Government of the Province of Manitoba deems it expedient and in the interest of the territory affected that a line of railway should be constructed as hereinafter mentioned, and in order to aid the Company in such construction the Government has agreed, subject to the terms hereof, to guarantee the payment of bonds of the Company and interest thereon, AND WHEREAS the Company has assigned, transferred and directed delivery over to the Contractors of the said bonds to be guaranteed by the Government, and this agreement is made in order to declare the rights and position of the parties in the premises, |