Expenditures by Public 3. Expenditures by any public utility operating Utility may be any tramway which have been occasioned by reason capital expen- of the provisions of this Act and which have been necditure. essarily made by such public utility, if in the opinion treated as of the Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities reasonable and proper, may be charged by such public utility to capital account and may for all purposes be treated as a capital expenditure. Section 14, amended. CHAPTER 15. An Act to Amend Chapter 45, Acts of 1905, entitled, (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. That Section 14 of Chapter 45, Acts 1905, be amended by striking out the word "five," in the third line, and substituting therefor the word "fifteen." CHAPTER 16. An Act to Amend the Probate Act, Chapter 158, Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1900. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: amended. 1. Sub-section 8 of Section 6 of The Probate Act, s. 8. 8, Sec. 6,as enacted by Chapter 158 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, Chap. 28, 1918, 1900, as said sub-section is enacted by Chapter 28 of the Acts of 1913, is amended by adding thereto the following: Deputy 8A. The Registrar for the Probate District of the Additional County of Halifax may, subject to the approval of the Registrar. Governor-in-Council, appoint a person to be additional deputy registrar who may perform any of the duties of the registrar and for whose acts the registrar and his sureties shall be responsible. CHAPTER 17. An Act to Amend Chapter 158, Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Probate Act." (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: added to 1. Section 6 of Chapter 158 of the Revised Sta- Sub-section tutes, 1900, The Probate Act, is amended by adding Section 6. thereto the following: (8) A woman shall be eligible for appointment as Women registrar of probate, deputy registrar of probate or eligible. acting registrar of probate. CHAPTER 18. 8. 8. (c) Sec. 6 as amended by An Act to Amend Chapter 182, Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Collection Act." (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Sub-section (c) of Section 6 of Chapter 182 of Chap. 35, 1921, the Revised Statutes, 1900, as that sub-section is amended by Chapter 35 of the Acts of 1921, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: repealed; substituted. as amended by (c) if the judgment was obtained in the court of or before a stipendiary magistrate, such stipendiary magistrate or such commissioner shall be the examiner. B. 8. (d) Sec. 6, 2. Sub-section (d) of Section 6 of Chapter 182 of Chap. 35, 1921, the Revised Statutes, 1900, as that sub-section is amended by Chapter 35 of the Acts of 1921, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: repealed; substituted. (d) if the judgment was obtained in the court of, or before, a justice or justices of the peace, any justice of the peace for the county in which the debtor resides at the date of the application, or if he does not reside in the Province, any justice of the peace for the county in which the judgment was obtained, shall be the examiner. CHAPTER 19. An Act to Amend Chapter 33, Acts of 1908, entitled, (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: amended. 1. Chapter 33 of the Acts of 1908, as amended, is Chap. 38, 1908, hereby amended by inserting after the words "Registrar of Joint Stock Companies," the words, “or in his absence the Deputy Registrar of Joint Stock Companies," and after the word, "Registrar," the words, "or in his absence the Deputy Registrar," wherever the words "Registrar of Joint Stock Companies" and the word "Registrar" appears in the said Act. CHAPTER 20. An Act to Amend the Nova Scotia Elections Act, (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: First Schedule 1. Paragraph 6, Form "T", of the first Schedule to Paragraph 6, the Nova Scotia Elections Act, Chapter 6, Acts of Form 1909, as amended, is repealed and the following sub-repealed; stituted therefor: (6) That I was not on the first day of January next before the last meeting of the revisers receiving public charitable support or care in a city, town or municipal poor house and that I did not in each of the two years immediately preceding the first day of January next before the last meeting of the revisers receive aid as a pauper under any law of the Province of Nova Scotia. substituted. CHAPTER 21. Sub-section added to Sec. 4. Local branches. Sections added The Register. Registered nurses. Qualifications An Act to Amend Chapter 141, Acts of 1910, "An Act to Incorporate the Graduate Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia." (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Chapter 141 of the Acts of 1910 is hereby amended by adding to Section 4 of the said Chapter the following sub-section : (d) the power to establish local branches of the Association in any city or town in the Province and to appropriate any money for the use of such association and to regulate by by-law the powers of such local branch. The said Chapter is further amended by adding thereto the following clauses: 9. The association shall cause to be kept by the registrar, a book or register to be known as "The Nova Scotia Nurses' Register," in this Act referred to as "the Register," in which shall be entered the name of every member of the association. 10. Only those persons whose names are entered in the register as members of the association shall be deemed to be qualified to hold themselves out to the public as registered nurses. 11. Every person, male or female, who is a memfor member- ber of the Graduate Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia at the time of the passing of this Act, and every person, male or female, who (a) resides in and practises, or proposes to practise, the profession of nursing in the Province; and (b) is a graduate of an approved training school; and |