Section 265 of (2) Section 263 of said chapter 71 is amended by adding thereto the following sub-section: said chapter 71 amended. said chapter 71 amended. (77) The regulating and prohibiting of advertising in public places. Section 129 of (3) Section 129 of said chapter 71 is amended by striking out all the words after the word "revisers in the sixth line thereof and substituting therefor the words "And transmitted to the clerk of municipal district within the territorial limits of which such town is situate, and true copies of said lists, duly signed as aforesaid, shall be filed by the revisers with the town clerk." Section 116 of (4) Section 116 of said chapter 71 is repealed and repealed, the following substituted therefor: Said chapter 71 another substituted. Sub-section 2 section 191 116. The Governor-in-Council may appoint the town solicitor or the town clerk to be stipendiary magistrate, and the town council may appoint the town solicitor or the deputy town solicitor or the town clerk to be deputy stipendiary magistrate. (5) Sub-section two of section 191 of said chapter of said chapter 71 is amended by striking out the word "committee" 71 amended. in the second line thereof and substituting therefor the word "Council. " Section 17, ing Chapter 91, 6. Section 17 of chapter 1 of the acts of 1903–4, 1903-4, amend amending chapter 91, Revised Statutes, 1900, "Of the R. S., N. S., protection of Woods against Fires," is amended by inserting immediately after the word "ranger" whereever it occurs in the seventh line of said section, the words "or sub-ranger. " amended. added to Section 56 (A) 7. Chapter 102, Revised Statutes, 1900, “The Chapter 102, Public Health Act," is amended by adding the following section after section 56 of said act: R. S., N. S. "56. (A). It shall be the duty of every physician attending any person having a contagious or infectious disease, to give notice thereof to the local board for the district within which such disease exists. Such notice shall be given within twenty-four hours after the existence of such disease comes to the knowledge of such attending physician. A separate notice shall be given under this section in the case of every person having such disease, whether belonging to the household as a person previously reported, or not. added to 8. Section 134 of chapter 70, Revised Statutes, 1900, Sub-section "The Municipal Act" is amended by adding thereto Chapter 70 the following sub-section: (73) The regulating and prohibiting of advertising in public places. R. S., N. S., Section 80 of 9. Section 80 of said chapter 70 is repealed and said chapter 70 the following section substituted therefor: 80. There shall be two regular meetings of the council in each year; the first designated in this chapter, the annual meeting, shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, except in the municipality of the county of Inverness, in which the annual meeting shall be held on the third Tuesday of January, and except also in the municipality of Halifax, in which the annual meeting shall be held on the fourth Wednesday in February. repealed; another substituted. added to 6 10. Chapter 41 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, Section "The Constable Act," is amended by adding the Chapter 41. following section thereto after section 5 of said act: 6. (1) The warden and three councillors of any municipality shall have power, from time to time, to appoint constables to hold office until the first annual or semi-annual meeting thereafter of the municipal council, whom the warden shall swear into office, but any such appointment may be at any time revoked by said warden and councillors. (2) Every constable appointed, as provided in the next preceding paragraph, shall have the same authority and privileges and be subject to the same liability and performance of the same duties as if appointed by a municipal council under the provisions of the act hereby amended. R. S., N. S. Schedule to 11. The schedule to chapter 185, Revised Statutes, R. S.. N. S., 1900, is amended by adding to the fees to be taken at the Department of the Provincial Secretary the following: amended. Sub-sections (b) and (d) 1908, amend For commission for Provincial Constable $10.00. 12. Sub-sections (b) and (d) of section two of chapsection 2, Acts ter 23 of the acts of 1908, An Act to amend Chapter Chapter 164, Revised Statutes, 1900, The Barristers and SoliN. S., repealed. citors Act, are hereby repealed. 164, R. S., Chapter 41, R. S., N. S., amended. Section 131 A 13. Chapter 41, Revised Statutes, 1900, is amended as follows: (1) Sub-section two of section 19 of said chapter is repealed and the following substituted therefor: (2) "Every such constable may execute in any county any warrant or process issued in criminal proceedings by any stipendiary magistrate or justice within the province, and in all matters relating to criminal proceedings shall be a constable for every county in the province." (2) Said section 19 is further amended by adding thereto the following sub-section : (3) The person so appointed shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give a bond to His Majesty in the sum of five hundred dollars, with two sufficient sureties, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. 14. Chapter 158 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, The Probate Act," is amended by adding thereto, after section 131, the following section: 131A. No writ of certiorari shall be granted, issued or allowed to remove any order, decree, decision, judgment, report, award, or other proceeding had or made by or before any judge, registrar, commissioner or other officer of the probate court unless such writ of certiorari be applied for within six calendar months next after such order, decree, decision, judgment, report, award, or other proceeding shall be had or made. section 3, 15. Paragraph two of clause (f) sub-section three Paragraph 2, clause (f), subof section three of chapter 4, Revised Statutes, 1900, as section 3 of amended by section one of chapter 23 acts of 1905 is Chapter 4 amended by striking out the word "Province" in the amended by sixth line of said paragraph as amended, and substitut-Chapter 23 ing therefor the word "County. R. S., N. S., as Acts 1905, further amend ed. 16. Chapter 91, Revised Statutes, 1900, is amended Section added by adding thereto the following section: 30. The Governor in Council may appoint a suitable person to be a provincial forest ranger. The person so appointed shall have general supervision over the work of the chief rangers and shall perform such other duties as are from time to time assigned to him by the Governor-in-Council, and shall be paidsuch salary as the Governor-in-Council determines. to Chapter 91, R. S N. S. amended. 17. Section 27 of chapter 151, Revised Statutes, Section 27, 1900, "The Trustee Act," is amended by inserting in R. S., N. S., sub-section (v) of said section 27, after the word "dead," in the sixth line, the words, "or where the heirs or personal representatives of such last mentioned trustee are out of the jurisdiction of the court." 15, Chapter 95, amended. Section 15 of chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes, Section 1900, "Of the conveying of timber and lumber on R. S., N. S. rivers and the removal of obstructions therefrom, is amended by adding thereto the following:- "Provided that upon any river or stream upon which any hydraulic company or company established among other things for the storage of water has or maintains any dam or reservoir for the storing of water, no person driving, floating or transmitting any saw logs, logs or other timber of any kind, except during spring and autumn freshets, shall be entitled or have the right to the use of any more than the natural flow of such river or stream during such driving, floating or transmitting, except with the consent of such company in writing expressed." Section, when This section shall not come into effect until it is to be in force. proclaimed by the Governor-in-Council. CHAPTER 11. Sections 33, 34, and 35 added to Chapter 10, R. S., N. S. An Act to amend Chapter 10, Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Public Service Act," as amended by SECTION 1. Chapter 9, Acts of 1907. (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D. 1909.) Sections 33, 34, and 35 added to Chapter 10, R. S., N. S. Be it enacetd by the Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:— 1. Chapter 10 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Public Service Act," as amended by chapter 9 of the acts of 1907, is further amended by adding thereto the following sections: 33. (1) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Industries and Immigration, under the instructions of the Provincial Secretary, to distribute such schedules and instructions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor-in-Council for the collection of facts and statistics relating to the agricultural, fishing, lumbering, milling, mining, quarrying, manufacturing and other interests and resources of the province, containing among other things the values of the products thereof and of the plant and real estate, and the number of persons employed therein, and the wages paid; and every owner or manager of any such industry shall be required to fill up and return such schedules. (2) Every person who wilfully or without lawful excuse refuses or neglects to fill up, to the best of his knowledge and belief, any such schedule which he has been required to return to the Secretary of Industries and Immigratoin, or refuses or neglects to sign and deliver up or otherwise return the same when and as required, or makes, signs, delivers or returns or causes to be made, signed, delivered or returned, any wilfully false answer or statement as to any matter specified in such schedule, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars and not less than ten dollars. |