Director to ascertain population in case of dispute Maximum grants to municipal councils Grants restricted if hotels licensed Grants payable by director of municipal councils (2) In case of any dispute regarding the population of any town or village the director shall have power to take such steps as he may deem advisable to ascertain what the population may be and the decision of the director as regards the population of any town or village shall be final. 37. The maximum grants payable to any such municipal council for the last six months of the year 1915 shall be: for towns $300 and for villages $375 and for each succeeding six month period such maximum grants shall be respectively $60 and $75 less than for each preceding six month period. 38. If as a result of any provincial referendum hotels are licensed to sell intoxicating liquors by retail none of the grants herein provided for shall be payable for any period after the first day of January next following the date upon which such referendum is held. 39. All grants payable hereunder shall be paid by the on requisition director on the requisition of municipal councils which requisition shall be in such form and furnish such information and particulars as shall be required by regulations to be approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. Grants payable quarterly Director to of grants (2) All grants shall be payable by the director quarterly or at such other time as may be fixed by regulation approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 40. Before making payment of any grant the director to application shall satisfy himself that such grant is necessary and is to be expended solely for the purposes of this Act and he may require from the respective municipal councils concerned such evidence of the necessity and payment as he may deem Legislative appropriation of loan advisable. 41. For the purpose of providing for any legislative raised by way appropriation made for the payment of such grants the Lieutenant Governor in Council may authorise the provincial treasurer to raise by way of loan upon the credit of the province such sum or sums of money as may be required for this purpose. Term of loan, rate of interest, etc. Loans may be secured (2) The aforesaid sums may be borrowed for such period of years at such rate of interest and upon 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 thereon. (3) Every loan made under this Act may be secured by such bonds, debentures, inscribed stock or other securities and in such form as may be approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and every security shall be free from all provincial taxes, succession duty charges and impositions whatso ever. subject to (4) Any loan made under this Act shall be subject to the Loans to be provisions of The Saskatchewan Loans Act, being chapter 33 The Saskatche of The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan 1909, except in so far as such provisions are inconsistent herewith. wan Loans Act Grants may be advanced 42. The provincial treasurer may advance from the general revenue fund of the province such sum or sums of money from general as are necessary to provide for the said grants. revenue fund or advanced to repaid from store system profits of 43. Any sum or sums of money borrowed or advanced as Sums borrowed provided by the next two preceding sections for the purpose be of paying the said grants shall be repaid or refunded at such times and in such amounts out of the net profits of the store system established under The Sales of Liquor Act as may be determined by the provincial treasurer. accommodation submitted 44. The provincial treasurer shall annually submit to the Municipal Legislative Assembly within the first fifteen days of its sitting account to be a statement showing the standing of the municipal accommo- annually to dation account and a detailed statement of all grants paid Assembly under this Act. USE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOrs. Legislative displayed in etc. 45. There shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in Notice to be the main office or public room of every public hotel or other public hotels, place of public accommodation licensed as such under the provisions of this Act a notice bearing in plain characters that may be easily read the following words: "The keeping or consuming of intoxicating liquors on any part of these premises is prohibited by law." noncompliance (2) The proprietor or manager of any such licensed Penalty for public hotel or other place of public accommodation who fails or neglects to have and to keep the said notice displayed as provided by this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty of $50 and in default of payment to imprisonment for thirty days. ANNUAL REPORT. submit annual Executive 46. The director shall submit to the Executive Council Director to annually a report on the operations of his office during the report to year and he shall include therein such statistics and infor- Council mation as he may deem advisable with regard to the public accommodation provided throughout the province. Report to be tabled Annual report by treasurer (2) Such report shall be tabled in the Legislative Assembly within the first fifteen days of each session. 47. The provincial treasurer shall make an annual report to be incorporated in the public accounts and laid before the Legislature which report shall show the standing of the municipal accommodation account and a detailed statement of all accounts paid under this Act. FORM A. PUBLIC HOTEL LICENSE. The council of (name of city, town or village) hereby grants to (name of licensee) this license to conduct as a public hotel under the provisions of The Hotel Act the premises known as situated on lots in block HIS 1915 CHAPTER 41 An Act to amend The Special Surveys Act. [Assented to June 24, 1915.] [IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts as follows: amended 1. Section 14 of The Special Surveys Act, being chapter Section 14 24 of the statutes of Saskatchewan 1912-13, is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: the master "14. Any decision, order or direction of the master of Decision of titles given or made under the last two preceding sections of titles final shall be final excepting as to the amount of compensation to be allowed to a complainant which shall be subject to an appeal to the supreme court of Saskatchewan sitting en banc, which court shall decide the amount of compensation as it may consider just and equitable upon the evidence before them and such decision of the said court shall be final. On such appeal the said court may award such costs to any of the parties as it may deem proper: "Provided, however, that on any appeal under this section no evidence or other matter shall be adduced or heard other than such as was before the master of titles when the decision as to compensation appealed from was given or made. certified copy of such decision on appeal shall be registered with the decision, order or direction of the master of titles." A 2. Section 19 of the said Act is hereby repealed and the section 19 following substituted therefor: amended "19. Notice of each order of the master of titles approv- Notice to ing of a plan of special survey or affecting the same shall be in the Gazette be published published in The Saskatchewan Gazette, and the order of the master of titles shall take effect at the expiration of four weeks from the date of such publication unless appealed from on the question of compensation to be allowed a complainant, and if appealed from then on the registration of the certified copy of the final judgment given on such appeal and upon proof to the registrar's satisfaction of the payment to the proper parties of any compensation directed to be paid. "(2) Such notice when so published shall be conclusive evidence of the order of the master of titles and of the regularity of all proceedings leading up to such order and of the Section 21 amended Order of the master of titles not to be registered before judgment of court of appeal approval of the survey and plan; and excepting in so far ast the order of the master of titles may be set aside or varied in the matter of compensation to be allowed a complainant under the provisions of this Act, such order of the master of titles shall not be set aside on any ground whatever, and such survey and plan shall be thenceforth held to be approved and shall be final and binding on all parties whomsoever." 3. Section 21 of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Act" in the twenty-first line thereof the following: "Provided that in case of an appeal being taken to the supreme court en banc on the question of the amount of compensation to be allowed to any complainant, the order of the master of titles shall not be registered until the registration of the certified copy of the final judgment on the matter of compensation given by the supreme court en banc and provided also that in no case shall the order of the master of titles be registered until the registrar has proof to his satisfaction of the payment to the proper person or persons of the compensation directed to be paid to any complainant in the decision, order or direction of the master of titles or in the final judg ment on appeal, as the case may be." |