On Sheriffs, etc., taking money as a bribe

On Sheriffs, etc., summoning jurors on shorter notice than authorized.

On Sheriffs, etc., making any

tion in jury list,

etc., or neglecting to

perform duties im

posed by this Act.

officer of any of the Courts aforesaid wilfully records the appearance of any man so summoned and returned who has not really appeared, in every such case the Court shall, upon examination in a summary way, inflict upon such Sheriff, Registrar, Clerk, or other officer contravening the provisions of this Act such penalty as the Court thinks meet. R.S. 1911, c. 121, s. 88.

65. No Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, Coroner, or bailiff, or other officer or person whatsoever, shall directly or indirectly take or receive any money or other reward, or promise of money or reward, to excuse any man from serving or being summoned to serve on juries, or under any such colour or pretence; and no bailiff or other officer appointed by any Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, or Coroner to summon juries shall summon or pretend to summon any man to serve thereon other than those whose names are specified in a warrant or mandate signed by the Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, or Coroner, and directed to such bailiff or other officer. R.S. 1911, c. 121, s. 89.

66. If any Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, Coroner, bailiff, or other officer wilfully transgresses in any of the cases aforesaid, or summons any of the jurors, not being a special juror, less than four days before the day on which he is required to attend, or summons any special juror less than three days before the day on which he is to attend, except in the cases herein before excepted, any Judge of Assize or any Judge of the Supreme Court may, on examination and proof of any such infraction of this section, in a summary way, impose such penalty upon the person so transgressing as such Judge thinks meet. R.S. 1911, c. 121, s. 90.

67. (1.) If any Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff makes or causes to be unauthorized altera- made any alteration whatever in any of the jury lists or panels, or in the certified copies thereof in their official custody respectively, except in compliance with the directions contained in this Act, or neglects or refuses to prepare the ballots necessary for drafting the panels, striking special juries, or neglects or omits to perform any other duty required of him by this Act, or wilfully does anything inconsistent with the provisions of this Act:

On Registrar or Government Agent altering lists, etc.

On Selectors of Jurors, for wilful dereliction of duty.

(2.) Or if any Registrar or Government Agent makes any alteration whatever in the lists or panels in any jurors' book, or in any copy thereof deposited in his office, or wilfully certifies as true any copy of any jurors' book, list, or panel therein, which is not a true copy thereof:

(3.) Or if any Selector of Jurors for any district wilfully selects, as qualified and liable to serve as a Grand or Petit Juror, any person who, according to the provisions of this Act, ought not to be so selected, or takes any money or other reward for so selecting or omitting to select any person, or wilfully inserts in any jurors' book or list a wrong descrip

tion of the name, place of abode, or addition of any one
so selected, or neglects or omits to make or complete his

selection, jurors' book, or list, and to deposit the same in

the proper office,

In all such cases, every such person so transgressing shall, for Amount of penalty. every such contravention of this Act, be liable, upon summary con

viction, to a penalty not less than twenty-five and not exceeding

fifty dollars. R.S. 1911, c. 121, s. 91.

Powers of Courts conserved.

on authority of

68. Nothing in this Act shall alter, abridge, or affect any power Effect of this Act or authority which any Court or Judge has when this Act takes Court or Judge. effect, or any practice or form in regard to trials by jury, jury process, juries, or jurors, except in cases where such power or authority is expressly altered by or is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. R.S. 1911, c. 121, s. 80.

69. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may prescribe the forms Forms. to be used under this Act.

70. This Act shall come into force on the first day of July, 1913, Commencement. and the "Jurors Act," being chapter 121 of the "Revised Statutes

of British Columbia, 1911," is repealed as on and from said date: Repeal.
Provided, however, that the Selectors of Jurors shall hold their meet-
ings at the time fixed by this Act, and all powers may be exercised
at any time after the passing of this Act so far as may be necessary
or expedient for the purpose of making the Act effective at the date
of the commencement thereof.

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1913.

H

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Land Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1913."

2. Section 10 of said chapter 129 is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:

of surveyed lands.

"10. The Minister, or the Commissioner when authorized to do so, Pre-emption records may grant records of pre-emption of Crown lands which have been surveyed. The maximum acreage to be included in such pre-emption records shall be such as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to time establish in respect to particular localities.

"All the other provisions of this Act with respect to the preemption of lands, where not inconsistent with the foregoing, shall apply to lands taken up under this section :

"Provided that the Minister may, when advisable, for the encour Small holdings. agement of immigration or settlement by colonists, cause surveys to

be made of suitable tracts of land into small holdings to be acquired

and held under the provisions of this section."

3. Section 18 of said chapter 129 is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:

for pre-emptors.

"18. Every person pre-empting surveyed or unsurveyed Crown Special provision land after the thirty-first day of March, 1913, shall, after the issuance of a certificate of improvement as provided in section 28 of said chapter 129, be entitled to a free grant of such land upon payment of a Crown grant fee of ten dollars."

Certificate of preemption record.

Certificate of improvement.

Amends s. 66, c. 129.

4. Section 19 of said chapter 129 is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:

"19. Upon the compliance by the applicant with the provisions herein before contained, and upon payment by him of the sum of two dollars to the Commissioner, and provided there is no valid objection, the Commissioner may record such land in his favour as a pre-emption claim, and give him a certificate of such pre-emption record, in the Form No. 3 in the Schedule hereto; and such record shall be made by the Commissioner in triplicate, the original to be handed to the pre-emptor, a duplicate to be retained by the Commissioner for local reference, and the triplicate to be forwarded forthwith to the head office of the Department of Lands to be there examined, and if found in all respects in accordance with the provisions of this Act (or, if necessary, after having been amended by the Minister) to be finally entered in the Land Office register. The pre-emptor shall be notified of any alterations that are made in the description of his claim, and it shall be his duty to alter his stakes so as to agree with the amended description:

"Provided, however, that the Minister shall have power to refuse any application for a pre-emption record the granting of which he does not consider to be in the public interest."

5. The first subsection of section 28 of said chapter 129, as the said section is amended by section 12 of chapter 16 of the Statutes of 1912, is hereby repealed, and the following is substi tuted therefor :

"28. A pre-emptor of surveyed land, or of unsurveyed land when the survey thereof is effected, who has been in occupation of his pre-emption claim for not less than three years from the date of its record, shall be entitled to receive from the Commissioner a certifi cate, to be called a 'certificate of improvement,' in the Form No. 4 in the Schedule hereto, upon his proving to the Commissioner, by the declarations in writing of himself and two other persons, or in such other manner as the Commissioner may require, that he has been in occupation of his pre-emption claim from the date of the record thereof, and has made permanent improvements thereon to the value of five dollars per acre, including the clearing and bringing under cultivation of at least five acres. Such declaration shall be in the Form No. 5 in the Schedule hereto. Such certificate shall be in triplicate, one part to be handed to the pre-emptor, another part retained by the Commissioner for local reference, and the third part transmitted forthwith to the Department of Lands; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner to note the issue of such certificate on the duplicate pre-emption record thereof retained in the Commissioner's office."

6. Section 66 of said chapter 129 is hereby amended by striking out the words "in or near any city or townsite" in the third line thereof.