FORM C. (Section 9.) CERTIFICATE. I hereby certify that the ballot contained in this envelope was marked in my presence by (here insert name, rank and corps in which voter is serving or has served), and according to the best information at my disposal I believe that the statements made in the affidavit hereon are true. You swear (or solemnly affirm) that you are unable to read or understand the ballot paper so as to mark it, (or) that you are incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause (as the case may be), from voting without assistance. So help you God. Deputy Returning Officer. 1917 CHAPTER 13 An Act to provide for the Borrowing of Certain Moneys by means of Savings Certificates or other Securities. (Assented to April 5, 1917.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Savings Certificates Act." 2. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, from time to time, raise by way of loan by the issue of savings certificates or other securities, in such form, executed in such manner, at such rate of interest, not exceeding five per centum per annum, for such amounts and payable at such place or places as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may determine, but the total amount of certificates or other securities so issued and outstanding at any one time shall not exceed the amount due the province and outstanding on account of current revenue, computed as at the thirty-first day of December next preceding the date of issue. (2) Such computation when approved and confirmed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council shall for the purpose of this Act constitute the maximum amount authorized to be borrowed hereunder during the then current year. 3. The aforesaid revenue, as received from time to time, may be applied to the redemption of such certificates or securities then outstanding, and any such outstanding certificates or securities may also, from time to time, be redeemed out of the general revenue fund; provided that such certificates or securities shall not be redeemed without the consent of the holder thereof before the expiration of three years from the date of issue. (2) Such certificates or other securities shall be terminable at the option of the Provincial Treasurer at any time after the expiration of three years from the date of issue thereof; provided that until so terminated such certificates or securities shall continue in force and be payable on demand of the holder. 4. No such certificate or other security shall be sold for a price less than the face value thereof. 5. Where in any Act authority is given to the Lieutenant Governor in Council to raise by way of loan any sum of money, such sum may in the discretion of the Lieutenant Governor in Council be raised in whole or in part by means of savings certificates or other securities provided for in this Act, or securities of the kind mentioned in section 4 of The Provincial Loans Act, in such form, executed in such manner, and at such rate of interest not exceeding five per centum per annum, as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may determine; provided, however, that no such certificates shall be sold for a price less than the face value thereof. (2) All savings certificates or other securities issued pursuant to this section shall with respect to the redemption thereof be subject to the provisions of sections 3 and 4 of this Act. 6. The provisions of An Act respecting the_Legislative Assembly of Alberta, being chapter 2 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1909, shall not apply to or affect the purchaser or holder of any certificates or securities issued under this Act, or any other loan Act of the province. 7. Any sum of money borrowed under the provisions of this Act shall be raised upon the credit of the general revenue of the Province of Alberta and shall be chargeable thereon. 1917 CHAPTER 14. The Dower Act. (Assented to April 5, 1917.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Dower Act." 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requiresThe expression "homestead" shall mean (a) Land in a city, town or village, consisting of not (b) Lands, other than referred to in clause (a) of this 3. Every disposition by act inter vivos of the homestead of any married man whereby the interest of such married man shall or may vest in any other person at any time during the life of such married man or during the life of such married man's wife living at the date of such disposition, shall be null and void unless made with the consent in writing of the wife aforesaid. 4. Every disposition by will of such married man and every devolution upon his death intestate shall, as regards the homestead of such married man, be subject and postponed to an estate for the life of such married man's wife hereby declared to be vested in the wife so surviving. 5. The residence of a married man shall not be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been changed unless such change of residence is consented to in writing by the wife of such married man. 6. Any consent required for the disposition inter vivos of such homestead, or for the purpose of establishing a change of residence under this Act shall, whenever any instrument by which such disposition is effected is produced for registration under the provisions of The Land Titles Act, be produced and registered therewith. Such consent may be embodied in or endorsed upon the instrument effecting such disposition. 7. When a wife executes any instrument concerning any disposition or consent under this Act she shall acknowledge the same, apart from her husband, to have been executed by her of her own free will and accord and without any compulsion on the part of her husband. (2) Such instrument may be made before any person authorized to take proof of the execution of instruments under section 102 or 103 of The Land Titles Act, and a certificate thereof in form A to this Act shall be endorsed on or attached to the instrument so executed by her. 8. The Married Women's Home Protection Act, being chapter 4, Statutes of Alberta, 1915, is hereby repealed. 9. This Act will not apply to any disposition of property already provided for by agreement in writing. 10. This Act shall come into force on the first day of May, 1917. FORM A. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF WIFE. This document was acknowledged before me by. apart from her husband, to have been voluntarily executed by her, and she has further acknowledged that she was aware at the time of such execution of the nature of the contents thereof. Dated at... this........day of. in the Province of... (Title of Officiating Officer.) |