TABLE OF CONTENTS PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. 1. An Act for granting to His Majesty Certain Sums of Money for the Public Service of the Fiscal Years ending respectively the Thirty-first day of December, 1916, and the Thirty-first day of December, 1917, and from the First day of January, 1918, up to the date of final passage of the Estimates for the Fiscal Year ending the Thirty-first day of December, 2. An Act for Raising Money on the Credit of the General Revenue of Alberta. 3. An Act to amend The Statute Law. 4. An Act respecting the Police Force of the Province of Alberta. An Act to provide for Protection of Electrical Workers. 8. An Act respecting Advances for the Purchase of Seed Grain and the Securities An Act to Encourage the Increased Raising of Stock in the Province of Alberta. 10. An Act to Foster and Encourage Agricultural Development by means of Standard Forms of Investment upon Farm Mortgages and the Equali- 19. An Act to provide for an Administrator of the Estates of Infants and an Official Guardian of said Estates. 20. An Act for the Protection of Persons employed in Factories, Shops and Office 21. An Act to provide for the Guarantee of Certain Borrowings of the Hail Insur- 37. An Act to amend an Act respecting the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. 38. An Act amending The Election Act respecting Members of the Legislative 42. An Act to amend The Municipal Co-operative Hail Insurance Act. 43. An Act to amend The School Ordinance, and The School Assessment Ordinance. 44. An Act to amend An Act to provide for the Taxation of Theatre-Goers. 45. An Act to amend the Acts and Ordinances constituting the Charter of the City of Calgary, and to validate certain by-laws of the said city. 46. An Act to amend The Edmonton Charter and to validate and confirm certain by-laws of the City of Edmonton. 47. An Act to amend the Lethbridge City Charter. 48. An Act to incorporate The Alberta Guarantee and Fidelity Company. 49. An Act to incorporate the Farmers' Fire and Hail Insurance Company. 50. An Act to incorporate the Merchants and Traders Assurance Company. 51. An Act to amend Chapter 31 of the Statutes of 1911-12, being an Act to incor- porate the Athabasca Valley Railway Company. 52. An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Brule Lake Railway Company, as amended by Chapter 35 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1915. 53. An Act respecting the Central Canada Railway Company. 54. An Act to incorporate The Crows' Nest and Tent Mountain Railway Company. 55. An Act to amend Chapter 51 of the Statutes of 1910 (Second Session), being An Act to incorporate High River and Hudson Bay Railway Company. 56. An Act to incorporate The Red Deer Valley Railway Company. 1917 CHAPTER 1. An Act for Granting to His Majesty Certain Sums of Money for the Public Service of the Fiscal Years ending respectively the Thirty-first day of December, 1916, and the Thirty-first day of December, 1917, and from the First day of January, 1918, up to the date of final passage of the Estimates for the Fiscal Year ending the Thirty-first day of December, 1918. Most Gracious Sovereign: (Assented to March 29, 1917.) WHEREAS it appears by Messages from His Honour Robert George Brett, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Alberta, and the Estimates accompanying the said Messages, that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the Public Service of Alberta not otherwise provided for during the financial periods ending respectively the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes relating thereto: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Appropriation Act, 1917." 2. From and out of the General Revenue Fund there may be paid and applied a sum not exceeding in the whole one hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars and twelve cents towards defraying the several charges and expenses of the Public Service from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen not otherwise provided for and set forth in schedule A to this Act. 3. From and out of the General Revenue Fund there may be paid and applied a sum not exceeding in the whole eight million seven hundred and twenty-seven thousand YHAI five hundred and thirty-five dollars and no cents towards defraying the several charges and expenses of the Public Service from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen not otherwise provided for and set forth in schedule B to this Act. 4. From and out of the General Revenue Fund there may be paid and applied a sum not exceeding in the whole two million two hundred and thirty-seven thousand and sixty-five dollars and no cents towards defraying the several charges and expenses of the Public Service from the first day of January, 1918, up to the date of final passage of the Estimates for the fiscal year ending the thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen not otherwise provided for and set forth in schedule C to this Act. 5. The due application of all moneys expended under this Act shall be accounted for. SCHEDULE A. Sums granted to His Majesty by this Act for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1916, and the purposes for which they are granted. |