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CHAPTER 13.

An Ordinance to Secure Compensation to Workmen.

THE

[Assented to May 4, 1900.]

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be known and cited as man's Compensation Ordinance.”

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action against

2. It shall not be a good defence in law to any action against Negligence of an employer or the successor or legal representative of an workman no employer for damages for the injury or death of an employee defence in of such employer that such injury or death resulted from the employer negligence of an employee engaged in a common employment with the injured employee any contract or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding.

Section 10 repealed

Benchers to

CHAPTER 14.

An Ordinance to amend Chapter 51 of The Consolidated Ordinances 1898, intituled "An Ordinance respecting the Legal Profession and the Law Society of the Territories."

[Assented to May 4, 1900]

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and

enacts as follows:

Assembly

1. Section 10 of The Legal Profession Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:

"10. The elected benchers shall hold office for three years hold office for from the first day of January following their election or until their successors are appointed."

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2. Section 11 of the said Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:

"11. Elections of benchers shall be held on the first Monday of November in the year 1900 and on the first Monday of November every third year thereafter."

1900

CHAPTER 15.

An Ordinance to amend Chapter 52 of The Consolidated Ordinances 1898, intituled "An Ordinance respecting the Medical Profession."

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[Assented to May 4, 1900,]

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

1. Clause (b) of section 29 of The Medical Profession Ordi- Clause (b) of nance is hereby amended by striking out all the words in said section 29 clause after the word "Territories" in the fifth line thereof.

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2. Clause (c) of said section 29 is hereby amended by Clause (c) of striking out the word "recognised" where it first occurs therein; section 29 and by inserting the words "recognised by the council of the "college of physicians and surgeons of the the North-West after the word "surgery" where it first occurs

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in the said clause.

Section 6 clause (c) amended

Section 2 chapter 9 of

CHAPTER 16.

An Ordinance to amend Chapter 53 of the Consolidated Ordinances 1898, intituled "An Ordinance respecting Dentistry."

THES

[Assented to May 4, 1900.]

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

1. Clause (c) of section 6 of The Dentistry Ordinance as amended by section 1 of chapter 9 of the Ordinances of 1899 is hereby amended by striking out all the words added by the said section 1.

2. The clause substituted by section 2 of said chapter 9 of 1899 repealed the Ordinances of 1899 for clause (d) of said section 6 is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor:

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"(d) Any person possessing a diploma from a foreign dental college or university and a certificate of having attended a three years' course of lectures and practice in a dental college or university:"

3. Any applicant for registration under section 6 of the said Ordinance whose application is refused may appeal to the Lieutenant Governor in Council; and the Lieutenant Governor in Council may hear such appeal and make such Order thereon as shall seem just; and the secretary-treasurer shall (if so directed by the said Order) register the said applicant.

CHAPTER 17.

An Ordinance to amend Chapter 61 of the Consolidated Ordinances 1898, intituled "An Ordinance respecting the Incorporation of Joint Stock Companies."

THEO

[Assented to May 4, 1900.]

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

1. Section 43 of The Companies Ordinance is hereby Section 43 repealed and the following new section substituted in lieu amended thereof:

"43. If authorised by bylaw passed by the directors and sanctioned by the votes of the shareholders representing not less than two-thirds in value of the subscribed stock of the company present in person or by proxy at a general meeting of the company duly called for considering the subject of such bylaw, the directors of the company may :

"(a) Borrow money on the credit of the company;
"(b) Limit or increase the amount to be borrowed;
"(c) Issue the bonds, debentures or other securities of the
company for the lawful purposes of the company and
no other; and may pledge or sell the same for such
sums and at such prices as may be deemed expedient
or be necessary; but no such bonds, debentures or

other securities shall be for a less sum than one
hundred dollars each; and

"(d) Hypothecate, mortgage or pledge all or any of the
real or personal property, rights and powers of the
company to secure any such bonds, debentures or
other securities and any indebtedness or sum or sums
so borrowed for the purposes of the company."

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