CHAP. 5. An Act to amend the Act respecting the manufacture of Binder Twine in Canada. HIS [Assented to 27th April, 1907.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Act respecting the manufacture of binder twine in 1903, c. 5, Canada, chapter 5 of the statutes of 1903, is amended by insert- amended. ing the following section immediately after section 1: manufactured "1A. The Governor in Council may authorize the payment Bounty on to any corporation, firm, or person, manufacturing cordage in cordage Canada from manila fibre, of a bounty equal to the amount on and after paid as export duty in the Philippine Islands on manila fibre Jan 1, 1907. produced on those islands and used in the manufacture of cordage in Canada,-the said bounty to be payable only in respect of manila cordage manufactured in Canada on and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven: Provided, however, that the bounty shall not exceed threeeighths of one cent per pound on the manila fibre so used in the manufacture of cordage." Limitation. amended. 2. The title of the said Act is repealed and the following is Title substituted therefor: An Act respecting Bounties on manufactures from Manila Fibre in Canada. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 6. An Act to encourage the establishment of Cold Storage [Assented to 22nd March, 1907.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Cold Storage Act. Short title. cold storage 2. The Governor in Council may enter into contracts with Contracts for any persons for the construction, equipment and maintenance warehouses. in good and efficient working order, of public cold storage warehouses equipped with mechanical refrigeration, in Canada, and suitable for the preservation of all food products. subject to 3. The location, plans and specification of every such ware- Details house, its equipment, and the amount to be expended thereon, approval. shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council. 4. The Governor in Council may, out of any moneys appro- Subsidy priated by Parliament for the purpose, grant towards the con- payable. struction and equipment of any such warehouse a subsidy not exceeding in the whole thirty per cent of the amount expended or approved of in such construction and equipment, and payable in instalments as follows: upon the warehouse being completed and cold storage at suitable temperatures being provided therein, all to the satisfaction of the Minister of Agriculture, a sum not exceeding fifteen per cent of the amount so expended; and at the end of the first year thereafter seven per cent of the said amount, at the end of the second year thereafter four per cent of the said amount, and at the end of each of the two next succeeding years two per cent of the said amount: provided the warehouse is maintained and operated to the satisfaction of the Minister of Agriculture. Withholding of subsidy if warehouse not satisfactory. Inspection. Rates and tolls. Inspectors. Regulations by Governor in Council. 1897, c. 7 repealed. 5. The Minister of Agriculture may refuse to pay any part of the said subsidy if, in his opinion, the operation of the warehouse has not been of such a character as to provide for the proper preservation of such products as may be stored therein. 6. The Minister of Agriculture may order, and cause to be maintained, an inspection and supervision of the sanitary conditions, maintenance and operation of such warehouses, and may regulate and control the temperatures to be maintained therein in accordance with the regulations to be made as hereinafter provided. 7. The rates and tolls to be charged for storage in such warehouses shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council. 8. For the effective carrying out of the provisions of this Act the Minister of Agriculture may appoint inspectors, who shall have access to all parts of such warehouses at all times. 9. The Governor in Council may make such regulations as he considers necessary in order to secure the efficient enforcement and operation of this Act; and he may by such regulations impose penalties not exceeding fifty dollars on any person offending against them; and the regulations so made shall be in force from the date of their publication in The Canada Gazette, or from such other date as is specified in the proclamation in that behalf. 10. Chapter 7 of the statutes of 1897, intituled An Act respecting Cold Storage on Steamships from Canada to the United Kingdom and in certain cities in Canada, is repealed. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. HI CHAP. 7. An Act to amend the Criminal Code. [Assented to 22nd March, 1907.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: amended 1. Subsection 1 of section 432 of The Criminal Code is R. S., c. 146. amended by adding thereto, under the marks appropriated for s. 432 use on stores the property of His Majesty in the right of his Government of Canada, the following:-"Militia stores, the broad Mark on arrow within the letter C." militia stores. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. |