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concurring in deceptive statements.

Approving or 85. Every director, auditor, manager or other officer of the company, and every auditor and inspector who negligently prepares, signs, approves or concurs in any account, statement, return, report or document respecting the affairs of the company containing any false or deceptive statement, is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.

Refusal or

neglect to pro

86. Every director, officer and servant of the comduce books, etc. pany who, on the application of any shareholder or creditor, his attorney or agent, refuses or neglects to produce the books of the company within his power or control containing the names of the persons who are or have been shareholders, or who refuses or neglects to produce the books of account of the company within his power or control, or who refuses or neglects to allow any such books to be inspected and extracts to be taken therefrom during reasonable business hours of any juridical day, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and costs.

Refusal to pro

duce books, etc.

87.

Every director, officer and servant of the comfor inspection pany who refuses to produce for examination to an inspector appointed under this Act to investigate the affairs and management of the company, all books and documents in his custody or control, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and costs.

Neglect to transmit

ment.

88. Every company which neglects to prepare and transmit to the Minister on or before the first day of annual state March in each year a statement verified as required by this Act and setting forth the particulars as to capital stock, assets and liabilities and such other details as is by this Act required, shall incur a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every day during which such neglect continues.

Penalties recoverable.

89. (1) The amount of the penalties imposed upon a company or person for any violation of this Act shall, unless otherwise provided by this Act, be recoverable and enforceable with costs at the suit of His Majesty instituted by the Attorney-General of Nova

Scotia or by the Minister, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

penalties.

(2) Such penalties shall, unless otherwise provided Disposition of by this Act, belong to the Crown for the public uses of Nova Scotia; provided that the Governor-in-Council, on the report of the Minister, may direct that any portion of any penalty be remitted.

SCHEDULE "A."

MODEL BILL.

For Incorporation of a Loan Company.

An Act to Incorporate The (State the Name of Company).

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. (Insert names of the persons applying for incorporation), together with such persons as become shareholders in the company, are incorporated under the name of (state name of company) hereinafter called "the company."

2. The persons named in Section 1 of this Act (or as the case may be) shall be the provisional directors of the company. (The name, address and description of each director must be given).

3. The capital stock of the company shall be... dollars, which may be increased to........dollars.

4. The head office of the company shall be in the .in the Province of...

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5. The company shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities conferred by and be subject to all the limitations, liabilities and provisions of The Loan Companies Act, 1922.

Schedule A.

Jury panels legalized.

Assessment rolls and revisers' lists legalized.

CHAPTER 5.

An Act to Legalise Jury Panels, Assessment Rolls and
Revisers' Lists for 1922.

(Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922).

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. All jury panels and jury lists now made or to be made for use in the year 1922, whether grand or petit, drawn from the jury lists at the terms of the Supreme Court at which the same are usually drawn, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid.

2. The assessment rolls for the present year and the revisers' lists of electors completed this year are hereby legalized and confirmed.

Retiring allowance.

CHAPTER 6.

An Act to Provide for the Superannuation of the
Deputy Minister of Public Works and

Mines.

(Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922).

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and As sembly, as follows:

1. The Governor-in-Council is authorized to pay Hiram Donkin, Deputy Minister of Public Works and Mines and Inspector of Mines, after his retirement from said office a sum not exceeding $3,000.00 a year during the period of his natural life.

CHAPTER 7.

An Act to Provide a Retiring Allowance to W. Wallace Kenney.

(Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922).

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

allowance.

1. After the retirement of W. Wallace Kenney Retiring from the service of the Province, as Superintendent of the Victoria General Hospital, at any time after he has held the said office of Superintendent for the period of twenty-five years, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid annually to him out of the consolidated revenue fund of the Province of Nova Scotia during his lifetime.

CHAPTER 8.

An Act to Amend Chapter 2, Revised Statutes of Nova
Scotia, 1900, "Of the Constitutional Powers

and Privileges of the Houses."

(Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922).

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. Chapter 2 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Sections added. Scotia, 1900, "Of the Constitution Powers and Privileges of the Houses," is amended by inserting between Section 29 and Section 30 thereof the following:

INDEMNITY.

allowance.

29A. For every session of the Legislature there Sessional shall be payable out of any unappropriated moneys forming part of the consolidated revenue fund of Nova Scotia to each member of the Legislative Council and of the House of Assembly attending at such session a sessional allowance of one thousand dollars.

When member

transfers to other House.

Travelling expenses.

Regulations governing attendance.

29B. A member of either House for a part only of a session who becomes during the session a member of the other House shall not be entitled to more than one thousand dollars for the session.

29C. (1) For each session of the Legislature there shall be allowed to each member of the Legislative Council and of the House of Assembly his actual reasonable travelling expenses and reasonable living expenses while on the journey between his place of residence and the City of Halifax, going and coming once each way.

(2) No allowance shall be made for travel outside of Nova Scotia.

(3) It shall be competent and lawful for either the Legislative Council or the House of Assembly by legislation to adopt regulations governing the minimum number of days attendance in any session required of its members to entitle them to full sessional allowance and to fix penalties for non-attendance, the terms of such resolution to control the payment of such sessional allowance.

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