CHAP. 4. Preamble. Four per cent. stock author ized. An Act to amend the Act respecting the Public Debt, and the raising of Loans authorized by Parliament. [Assented to 8th April, 1875.] and wit Commons of Canada, enacts as ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the HER follows: 1. The Governor in Council may authorize the creation, issue and sale of Dominion Stock, bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, under the same provisions under which he may authorize the creation, issue and sale of such stock bearing interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; and wherever in the Act, thirty-fifth Victoria, chapter six, cited in the title of this Act, the words. "five per cent. Dominion Stock," or the words "five per cent. c. 6, amended. Stock," occur, the words "four per cent. Dominion Stock, or or "four per cent. Stock, or" shall be understood as inserted before them respectively, and the provisions of the said Act shall apply equally to Dominion Stock bearing either rate of interest. Act 35 V., Preamble. Amount of gold to be held for CHAP. 5. An Act further to amend the Acts regulating the Issue of Dominion Notes. [Assented to 8th April, 1875.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: H 1. Whenever the amount of Dominion Notes issued and outstanding shall at any time exceed twelve millions of redemption of dollars, the Receiver General shall hold specie to the full Dominion Notes. Inconsistent enactments of amount of such excess, for the redemption of such notes; and of any amount of the said Notes below twelve millions of dollars, and exceeding nine millions of dollars, the Receiver General shall hold in specie not less than fifty per cent. of the amount of such Notes above nine millions of dollars, for the redemption of such Notes. 2. So much of the Act passed in the thirty-fifth year of 35 V., c. 7, Her Majesty's reign and intituled, "An Act to amend the &c., repealed. Act regulating the issue of Dominion Notes," or of any other Act as may be inconsistent with the above enactment, is hereby repealed. CHAP. CHAP. 6. An Act to amend the Act providing for the organization of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada. [Assented to 8th April, 1875.] HER of ER Majesty, by and with the advice of the Senate and Preamble. แ 4 of 31 V., 1. The following words are hereby added to, and shall Addition form part of the fourth section of the said Act, passed in the made to sec. thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter forty-two, c. 42. that is to say : Deputy avail in cer "And the Deputy Registrar-General of Canada from time Signature of "to time appointed under the second section of this Act, may Registrar sign and certify the registration of all instruments and do- General of "cuments required to be registered, and all such copies of Canada to "the same, or of any records in the custody of the Registrar tain cases. "General as may be required to be certified or authenti"cated as being copies of any instruments or documents as "aforesaid." CHAP. 7. An Act to amend and consolidate the Statute Law for the regulation of the Postal Service. [Assented to 8th April, 1875.] N amendment of the Act passed in the thirty-first year of Preamble: lation of the Postal Service:" and for consolidating the Statute Law touching the said service, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: PRELIMINARY-INTERPRETATION. 31 V., c. 10. 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as "The Post Short Title. Office Act, 1875"; and the following terms and expressions Interpretatherein shall be held to have the meaning hereinafter assigned tion. to them, unless such meaning be repugnant to the subject or inconsistent with the context : The term "Letter" includes Packets of Letters; Letter. The Postage. Foreign Foreign Canadian Postage. Mail. British Packet Employed in the Canada Post Office. Post Letter. Mailable Post Letter The term "Postage" means the duty or sum chargeable for the conveyance of Post Letters, Packets and other things by Post; The term "Foreign Country" means any country not included in the dominions of Her Majesty ; The term "Foreign Postage" means the postage on the conveyance of Letters, Packets or other things, within any Foreign Country or payable to any Foreign Government; The term "Canada Postage" means the postage_on_the conveyance of Letters, Packets and other things, by Post within the Dominion of Canada or by Canada Mail Packet; The term "Mail" includes every conveyance by which Post Letters are carried, whether it be by land or by water; The term "British Packet Postage" means the postage due on the conveyance of letters by British Packet Boats, between the United Kingdom and British North America :—And the term "British Postage" includes all Postage not being Foreign, Colonial or Canadian ; The expression "employed in the Canada Post Office" applies to any person employed in any business of the Post Office of Canada; The term "Post Letter" means any letter transmitted or deposifed in any Post Office to be transmitted by the Post or delivered through the Post, or deposited in any letter box put up anywhere under the authority of the Post Master General to be transmitted or delivered through the Post-And a letter shall be deemed a Post Letter from the time of its being so deposited or delivered at a Post Office, to the time of its being delivered to the party to whom it is addressed; and a delivery to any person authorized to receive letters for the Post shall be deemed a delivery at the Post Office; and a delivery of any letter or other mailable matter at the house or office of the person to whom the letter is addressed, or to him, or to his servant or agent, or other person considered to be authorized to receive the letter or other mailable matter, according to the usual manner of delivering that person's letters, shall be a delivery to the person addressed; The term "Mailable Matter" includes any letter, packet, parcel, newspaper, book or other thing which by this Act or by any regulation made in pursuance of it, may be sent by Post; The term "Post Letter Bag" includes a Mail Bag or Box, or Packet or Parcel, or other envelope or covering in which mailable mailable matter is conveyed, whether it does or does not actually contain mailable matter; The term "any Post Office" means any building, room, Any Post street letter box, receiving box or other receptacle, or place Office. where Post Letters or other mailable matter are received or delivered, sorted, made up or dispatched; The term "Valuable Security" includes the whole or any Valuable part of any tally, order or other security or document what- Security. soever entitling or evidencing the title of any party to any share or interest in any Public Stock or Fund, whether of Canada, or of the United Kingdom, or of any British Colony or Possession, or of any Foreign Country, or in any fund or stock of any body corporate, company or society in Canada or elsewhere, or to any deposit in any Savings Bank, or the whole or any part of any debenture, deed, bond, Post Office Money Order, bank note, bill, note, cheque, warrant or order or other security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or transfer of any goods, chattels or valuable thing, whether in Canada or elsewhere; And the term "between" when used with reference to the Between. transmission of letters or other things, applies equally to such transmission from either place to the other. Laws. 2. All laws in force in the Provinces of Canada, Nova Repeal of Scotia or New Brunswick, at the Union thereof on the first of Provincial July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in respect to the Postal Service, and continued in force by "The British North America Act, 1867," and all laws in force in the Provinces of British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba, and the North-West Territories respectively, when they respectively became part of the Dominion of Canada, have been and are hereby declared to be repealed, except as to any act done or performed in virtue of Saving clause the same and except in respect of any postage duties which as to things may have become payable under the same or any proceed- under reings for the recovery of such duties, and except also as to any offence committed against the provisions of the said Law's hereby declared to have been and to be repealed, and any fine or penalty incurred by reason of any such offence, or any proceeding for the recovery of any such fine or penalty or for the punishment of any offender. done, &c., pealed laws. 3. Except in so far as it may be otherwise provided in any Provisional case by the proper authority under this Act, or any other Act continuance of existing of the Parliament of Canada,-all Post Offices and Postal Post Office Divisions, Stations, Districts and Establishments in Canada, arrangements and all commissions or appointments of any officers or per- and appointsons employed in managing the said Posts and Post Com- ments. munications, or in collecting or accounting for Postage Commissions |