CHAP. 6. An Act respecting the bounty on Beet-root Sugar. HER [Assented to 22nd July, 1895.] [ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: sugar pro 1. The Governor in Council may authorize the payment Bounty on out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, under such beet-root regulations and restrictions as are made by Order in Council, duced in Canto the producers of any raw beet-root sugar produced in Canada ada. wholly from beets grown therein, between the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, of a bounty of seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds, and, in addition thereto, one cent per one hundred pounds for each degree or fraction of a degree over seventy degrees shown by the polariscope test,-such bounty in no case, however, to exceed in the aggregate one dollar per one hundred pounds. 2. The cost of customs supervision in connection with the Cost of cus carrying out of the provisions of this Act shall be paid by the toms superproducers above mentioned. vision. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. VOL. I-4 49 CHAP. CHAP. 7. An Act to encourage Silver-lead Smelting. [Assented to 22nd July, 1895.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: smelted in 1. To encourage silver-lead smelting and the smelting of Bounty on other ores of silver and gold in Canada the Governor in Council certain ores may, subject to the following provisions, authorize the pay- Canada. ment of a bounty not exceeding fifty cents per ton, and not exceeding in all one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, on Canadian silver-lead ore and other ores of silver and gold smelted in During what Canada between the first day of July, one thousand eight period. hundred and ninety-five, and the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred. 2. The said bounty shall not for any one year exceed the Amount paysum of thirty thousand dollars: Provided, that the said sum able each year. if unexpended, or any balance thereof unexpended, may be carried forward from year to year and may be paid for any year in addition to the sum of thirty thousand dollars authorized as above for such year. certam case. 3. If in any year the quantity of ore smelted is greater than Reduction of will allow of the payment, out of the sum available for that rate per ton in year, of fifty cents per ton, then the bounty per ton for that year shall be reduced proportionately. be established 4. The said bounty shall not be paid on any ores smelted Works must in smelting works which are not established and in operation before Janu before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred ary 1, 1897. and ninety-seven. 5. The payment of the said bounty shall be under the direc- Administration of the Minister of Trade and Commerce, subject to such tion. regulations as are made by the Governor in Council. VOL. I-41 51 6. Regulations. Report to 6. The Governor in Council may make regulations in relation to the said bounty in order to prevent fraud and to ensure the good effect of this Act. 7. The said regulations shall be laid before Parliament within the first fifteen days of each session, with a statement of the money expended in payment of the said bounty, and of the persons to whom they were paid, and the places where the ore with respect to which they were paid was smelted, and such other particulars as tend to show the effect of the said bounty. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 8. An Act respecting the Winnipeg Great Northern W [Assented to 22nd July, 1895.] 1891, c. 81. HEREAS the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway Com- Preamble. pany (formerly the Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Řailway Company), hereinafter called "the Company," is empowered by chapter eighty-one of the Statutes of 1887, hereinafter called 1887, c. 81; the Special Act, to build a railway from Winnipeg to Hudson's Bay; and whereas, by chapter eighty-one of the Statutes of 1891, hereinafter called the Aid Act, certain aid was granted to the Company; and whereas, in pursuance of the Aid Act, a contract, which bears date the eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, was entered into between the Governor in Council and the Company; and whereas it is expedient to amend the Aid Act, and to authorize and empower the Governor in Council to alter and amend the said contract, as hereinafter provided: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: transport may 1. Section one of the Aid Act is repealed, and the following 1891, c. 81, is substituted therefor: s. 1 repealed. "1. In order to enable the Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Contract for Railway Company to construct so much of their railway to be made with Hudson's Bay as reaches from the city of Winnipeg to the Sas- the Company. katchewan River, the Governor in Council may enter into a contract with the Company for the transport of men, supplies, materials and mails, for a term of twenty years, and may pay to the Company for such services during the said term eighty thousand dollars per annum in manner following, that is to say one-half of the said sum of eighty thousand dollars to be How considerpaid annually, commencing from the date of the completion by ation may be the Company of one-half of their line to be constructed between Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan River; and the remaining one-half of the said sum of eighty thousand dollars to be paid annually, commencing from the date of the completion of the remaining half of their line to be constructed paid. |