Statutes of the Province of Saskatchewan

exceed forty

2. The aforesaid sum or sums of money may be borrowed Term not to for any period or periods not exceeding forty years, at years such rate of interest and on such terms as may be fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and shall be raised upon the credit of the general revenue fund of Saskatchewan, and shall be chargeable thereupon.

to be in excess

hitherto

3. The power hereby conferred upon the Lieutenant Above power Governor in Council to authorise the raising of money for of powers any of the purposes mentioned in section 1 of this Act shall granted be deemed to be in excess of any similar power conferred upon him by any Act of the Legislature enacted previously hereto, and the said power shall not be subject to any limitation as to the amounts to be borrowed for any of the aforesaid purposes which may be contained in any such previous

enactment.

4. All Acts and parts of Acts hitherto passed by the Legis- Repeal of lature of Saskatchewan conferring upon the Lieutenant previous acts Governor in Council power to authorise the raising of money by way of loan are hereby repealed, with the exception of The Agricultural Aids Act, being chapter 57 of the statutes of 1913, and The Patriotic Aids Act, being chapter 3 of the statutes of 1914; but nothing herein contained shall affect loans already made under the authority of such enactments or the securities issued or to be issued therefor.

Loans Act to

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5. Any loan made under this Act shall be subject to the Saskatchewan provisions of The Saskatchewan Loans Act, being chapter 33 of The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan 1909, except in so far as such provisions are inconsistent herewith, and the said Saskatchewan Loans Act shall notwithstanding anything in this Act contained continue and remain in full force and effect.

1915

CHAPTER 4

An Act relating to Certain Expenditures made under Special Warrants ordered by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

[Assented to June 24, 1915.]

HEREAS by “An Act for Raising Money on the Credit of the General Revenue Fund of Saskatchewan," being chapter 5 of the statutes of 1912, it was provided that the Lieutenant Governor in Council might authorise the provincial treasurer to raise by way of loan upon the credit of the province such sum or sums of money not to exceed in the whole five million dollars, for the purpose of providing for the construction and improvement of public highways as might be approved by the Legislature, and for that purpose to issue bonds, debentures, inscribed stock or other securities of the province from time to time as the exigencies of the public service might require, and to dispose thereof upon the conditions which he might deem most favourable;

And whereas in accordance with such provisions the Legislature, by An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Sums of Money for the Public Service of the fiscal periods ending respectively the thirtieth day of April one thousand nine hundred and fourteen and the thirtieth day of April one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, approved of the grant of a sum of $1,500,000 for public improvements, chargeable to capital, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen;

And whereas by reason of the distress caused by an unusual drought over a wide area of the province it became necessary to expend a sum of money in providing work for the inhabitants in excess of the amount thus provided by the Legislature;

And whereas it is provided by The Treasury Department Act that on any occasion when any expenditure not foreseen or provided for or insufficiently provided for by the Legislature is urgently and immediately required for the public good, then on the report of the treasurer that there is no legislative provision or (if any), that the amount is insufficient, and of the head of the department having charge of the service in question, that the necessity is urgent, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may order a special warrant

to be prepared to be signed by the Lieutenant Governor himself authorising the expenditure of the amount estimated to be required, upon which cheques may issue from time to time in the usual form as they may be required;

And whereas the Lieutenant Governor in Council, under the provisions of the said Act, did order special warrants to be prepared, and the Lieutenant Governor signed the same, authorising the expenditure of the sum of $250,000 for the construction and improvements of public highways, such sum being in excess of the amount appropriated for the purpose by the Legislature;

And whereas the Lieutenant Governor in Council has, in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, authorised the provincial treasurer to borrow the sums of money required to meet the expenditures authorised by an appropriation of the Legislature for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of April one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and the expenditures authorised by special warrants of the Lieutenant Governor in Council in excess of the said appropriation, and the provincial treasurer has accordingly borrowed such sums;

And whereas it is expedient to ratify the action of the Lieutenant Governor in Council in authorising the said expenditure of $250,000, and everything done in pursuance of said authority:

Now therefore his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts as follows:

1. The action of the Lieutenant Governor in authorising the provincial treasurer to borrow the sum of $250,000 in excess of the legislative appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of April one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, for the purpose of providing for the construction and improvement of public highways, the authority of the board of highway commissioners to expend the said sum of $250,000, and all Orders in Council and special warrants made for the purposes aforesaid are hereby approved, ratified and confirmed.

1915

CHAPTER 5

An Act to ratify a Sale to The Equitable Trust Company of New York City of $2,500,000 of Debentures.

[Assented to June 24, 1915.]

WHEREAS for the purpose of providing funds to pay a

loan of $2,000,000 contracted with the Union Bank of Canada pursuant to an Order in Council dated November 16, 1914, to pay treasury bills amounting in the aggregate to $2,433,333.33, issued pursuant to an Order in Council dated March 19, 1914, and to provide funds for various purposes, the Lieutenant Governor in Council, by an order made March 30, 1915, authorised the provincial treasurer to sell to The Equitable Trust Company of New York City $2,500,000 par value Province of Saskatchewan three year five per cent. debentures, and, in the event that certain options were exercised, to sell to the said Equitable Trust Company an additional $4,000,000 par value of said debentures;

And whereas the provincial treasurer did, pursuant to the said authority, sell to the said Equitable Trust Company of New York City the said $2,500,000 three year five per cent. debentures;

And whereas the said options were not exercised and have accordingly lapsed:

Now therefore his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts follows:

1. (a) The action of the Lieutenant Governor in Council authorising the provincial treasurer to sell said debentures and giving said options;

(b) The Order in Council made March 30, 1915; and (c) The delivery of $2,500,000 par value of said debentures to the said Equitable Trust Company of New York City;

are ratified, approved and confirmed.

2. All bonds or debentures issued or sold under the authority of this Act shall be free from all provincial taxes, succession duties, charges and impositions whatsoever.

1915

CHAPTER 6

An Act to amend The Public Health Act.

[Assented to June 24, 1915.]

HIS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts as follows:

section 55

1. Section 55 of The Public Health Act, being chapter 16 New of The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan 1909, is hereby substituted repealed and the following substituted therefor:

"55. Whenever a householder has reason to believe that Posting notices by householder.anyone in his household is infected with smallpox, diphtheria, quarantine scarlet fever, chickenpox (until the diagnosis is positive), typhus, rabies, leprosy or plague (bubonic), he shall forthwith affix, and during the whole period of infection keep affixed to the outside of every outer door of such house, a written notice or placard, of a size not less than eight inches in width by six inches in depth, bearing the name of the disease and in addition the word 'quarantine,' all in conspicuous letters.

"(2) Householders shall forthwith notify the medical health officer of the date when the person or persons fell ill, the nature of the disease from which they are suffering, and that the house is placarded in accordance with the law."

section 55a

2. The said Act is amended by inserting therein immedi- New ately after section 55 the following as section 55a:

by householder

"55a. Whenever a householder has reason to believe that Posting notices anyone in his household is infected with typhoid fever, isolation chickenpox (after positive diagnosis), measles or German measles, whooping cough or mumps, he shall forthwith affix and during the whole period of infection keep affixed to the outside of every outer door of such house a written notice or placard of a size not less than eight inches in width by six inches in depth, bearing the name of the disease, and in addition the word 'isolation,' all in conspicuous letters.

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