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1917

CHAPTER 34.

An Act to amend The Wolf Bounty Act.

(Assented to April 5, 1917.)

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

The Wolf Bounty Act, being chapter 13 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1909, is amended as follows:

1. By repealing section 3 and substituting therefor the following:

"3. There shall be paid out of the general revenue of the province, on the presentation of a warrant or warrants in form approved of by the Minister, and issued by a duly appointed inspector, a bounty on adult male timberwolves of $10.00 per head; a bounty on adult female timberwolves of $20.00 per head; a bounty on pups of the timberwolf of $1.00 per head; and a bounty on adult female prairie wolves of $2.00 per head when killed between the first day of May and the first day of September in any year."

1917

CHAPTER 35.

An Act to amend The Game Act, being Chapter 14 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1907, as amended.

HIS

(Assented to April 5, 1917.)

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

The Game Act, being chapter 14 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1907, as amended, is amended as follows:

1. Section 4, subsection 4: By striking out the figures “1917” and substituting therefor the figures "1925".

2. Section 5, subsection 1: By repealing same and substituting therefor the following:

"1. Any bird of those species of the family Anatidae, commonly known as ducks and geese, between the 15th day of December and the first day of September in the following year.

"2. And in any event not more than 30 ducks shall be killed by any one person in any one day, nor more than 200 by any one person in one season."

3. Section 5, subsection 2: By repealing same.

4. Section 5, subsection 4: By repealing same and substituting therefor the following:

"4. Any bird of the families Scolopacidae and Charadriidae, commonly known as black-bellied plover (Squatarola squatarola), American golden plover (Charadius dominicus), Wilson snipe (Gallinago Delicata), greater yellow-legs (Totanus melanoleucus) and yellow-legs (Totanus flavipes), between the 15th day of December and the first day of September in the following year."

5. Section 5, subsection 5: By repealing same and substituting therefor the following:

"5. Any bird of the family Tetraonidae, commonly known as grouse, partridge, pheasant, ptarmigan and prairie-chicken before the first day of October, 1918."

6. Section 19: By inserting after section 19c the following new section:

"19d. Every person authorized by the Minister to issue licenses under this Act shall on or before the 31st day of December in each year forward to the Minister a statement in form prescribed by the Minister showing the disposition of the forms supplied him for issue; he shall at the same time forward all moneys received by him for licenses issued, also all unissued licenses. If such return is found correct the Minister shall thereupon cause to be remitted to such person such remuneration, if any, as may be found due to him by virtue of the provisions of section 196 hereof. Failure to make such return or to forward such moneys and unissued licenses shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than double the issue value of the licenses supplied him and unaccounted for, and any penalties so collected shall be credited against his account for any such licenses."

7. Section 21: By striking out the words "wild geese" where the same appear therein.

1917

CHAPTER 36.

An Act to amend The Trustee Ordinance.

(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. That The Trustee Ordinance, being chapter 11 of the Ordinances of the North-West Territories, 1903 (Second Session), be amended as follows:

1. By striking out all that part of section 3 thereof after the word "proper" in the eleventh line of the said section and substituting therefor the following:

"Any such trustee shall also be at liberty to deposit with or to invest in terminable debentures or debenture stock of the societies and companies hereafter in this section mentioned, and trust funds in his hands, provided that such deposits or investment is in other respects reasonable and proper and that the debentures are registered and are transferable only on the books of the society or company, in his name as the trustee for the particular trust estate for which they are held and that the deposit account in the society's or company's ledger is in the name of the trustees for the particular trust estate for which it is held and the deposit, receipt or pass book is not transferable by indorsement or otherwise."

2. By adding thereto the following subsection:

"(3) Any incorporated society or company which has been or shall hereafter be authorized by any lawful authority to lend money upon mortgages on real estate or for that purpose and other purposes, such society or company having a 'capitalized, fixed, paid up and permanent stock not liable to be withdrawn therefrom amounting to at least $500,000 and having a reserve fund amounting to not less than 25 per cent. of its paid up capital and its stock having a market value of not less than seven per cent. premium shall be a society or company within the meaning and intent of subsection 1 of this section."

3. By adding thereto the following subsection: "(4) No deposits or investments shall be made under the authority of this Act with or in the debentures or debenture stock of any such society or company which has not obtained the order of the Lieutenant Governor in

Council approving of deposits with or investments in the debentures or debenture stock thereof, and such approval shall not be granted to any society or company which does not appear to the satisfaction of the Lieutenant Governor in Council to have kept strictly within its legal powers in relation to borrowing and investment."

4. By adding thereto the following subsection:

'(5) The Lieutenant Governor in Council, if he deems it expedient, may at any time revoke any order in council previously made approving of deposits with or investments in the debentures or debenture stock of any society or company and such revocation shall not affect the propriety of deposits or investments made before such revocation."

5. By adding thereto the following subsection:

"(6) Such trustees shall also be at liberty, at their discretion, to call in any trust funds invested in any other securities than those authorized by this section, and to invest the same in any such stock, debentures, or securities aforesaid, and also from time to time at their discretion to vary any such investments as aforesaid, for others of the same nature; and any such moneys already invested in any such stock, debentures or securities as aforesaid shall be held and taken to have been lawfully and properly invested."