ACTS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, PASSED IN THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, AND IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRD PARLIAMENT, Begun and holden at Ottawa, on the fourth day of February, and closed by Prorogation on the eighth day of April, 1875. HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONORABLE, SIR FREDERICK TEMPLE, EARL OF DUFFERIN, GOVERNOR GENERAL. VOL. I. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. OTTAWA: PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN, LAW PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, ANNO DOMINI, 1875. 38 VICTORIA. CHAP. I. An Act to amend "The Interpretation Act," as respects the printing and distribution of the Statutes, and the territorial application of Acts amending previous Acts. [Assented to 8th April, 1875.] WHEREAS the publication and distribution of the Public Preamble. General Acts passed in each session of Parliament is greatly delayed by the publication of the Local and Private Acts of the same session in the same volume, and it is expedient that Acts of the Imperial Parliament, Orders in Council, and Proclamations of a public general nature should be published and distributed with the Public General Statutes: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: for sections 1. Sections ten and eleven of the Act known as " The In- New sections terpretation Act," being chapter one of the Acts passed in substituted the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, are hereby 10 and 11 of repealed, and the following are substituted for them, and 31 Vic., c. 1. shall be read as the tenth and eleventh sections of the said Act: what each "10. The Acts of the Parliament of Canada passed in the Acts to be present or any future session thereof, shall be printed in two printed in two separate separate volumes, the first of which shall contain such of the volumes: said Acts and such Orders in Council and Proclamations or shall contain. other documents, and such Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as the Governor in Council may deem to be of a public and general nature or interest in Canada, and may direct to be inserted in the said volume; and the second volume shall contain the remaining Acts of the session and shall be printed after the first volume. Copies of the said volumes Copies of shall be printed in the English and French languages to be printed respectively each volume and French in the English respectively, by the Queen's Printer, who shall, as soon after the close of each session as may be practicable, deliver, or languages respectively. send by post, or otherwise, in the most economical manner, the proper number of copies to the parties hereinafter mentioned, respectively, and in either or both languages as he may be directed; that is to say : Distribution of copies. Proviso as to Bills assented to during a session. Duties of the Secretary of Sub-section of 31 V., c. 1, amended. Expression "Superior Courts," what to include. "To the members of the two Houses of Parliament respectively, such number of copies each as may, from time to time, be directed by joint resolution of the said Houses, or, in default of such resolution, in such numbers as shall be directed by Order of the Governor in Council,-and to such public departments, administrative bodies and officers throughout Canada, (including justices of the peace in the distribution of the first but not of the second volume) as may be specified in any order to be for that purpose made from time to time by the Governor in Council: "Provided that when any Bill receives the Royal Assent during and before the termination of any session of Parliament, the Queen's Printer shall, if so directed by the Secretary of State of Canada, cause distribution of such Act to be made, to the same parties and in like manner and numbers as hereinbefore provided with respect to the Acts of any session; or such Act may, by order of the Governor, be published in the Canada Gazette, and printed afterwards in the proper volume of the Statutes." "11. The Secretary of State of Canada shall within fifteen days after the close of each session of Parliament, transmit to the Queen's Printer a list of the public departments, administrative bodies and officers to whom the first and second volumes respectively, of the Statutes of such session are to be transmitted as aforesaid, and shall also as occasion requires, furnish him with copies of all Orders in Council made under the provisions of this Act." 2. And for amendment of the eighteenth sub-section of 18 of section 7 the seventh section of the said Act, it is enacted, that the following words shall be added to and read as part of the sub-section, that is to say :-" In the Province of Manitoba the said words shall denote the Court of Queen's Bench for the said Province; in the Province of British Columbia the said words shall denote the Supreme Court of British Columbia; and in the Province of Prince Edward Island the said words shall denote the Supreme Court of Judicature of the said Province," and in the Province of Ontario the said words shall denote the Court of Error and Appeal in Ontario as well as the other courts in that Province. Territorial 3. And for the avoidance of doubt as to the effect of Acts Acts amendamending previous Acts which do not apply to the wl ole application of Dominion |