CHAPTER 11. An Act to Legalize Jury Panels, Assessment Rolls and Revisers' Lists for 1925. (Passed the 7th day of May, A. D., 1925). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Jury Panels and 1. All jury panels and jury lists now made or to be made for use in the year A. D., 1925, whether grand Lists legalized. or petit, drawn from jury lists at the terms of the Supreme Court at which the same are usually drawn, shall be and the same are hereby declared tɔ be legal and valid. Rolls and Re legalized and 2. The assessment rolls for the present year, and Assessment the revisers' lists of electors completed this year, are visers' Lists hereby legalized and confirmed; provided that this confirmed. section so far as respects assessment rolls shall not affect any proceedings now pending nor any proceedings hereafter instituted in respect of any matter or thing which is the subject-matter of or is involved in any proceedings now pending. CHAPTER 12. An Act Respecting the Superannuation of John (Passed the 7th day of May, A. D., 1925) Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: lowance. 1. After the retirement of John MacAloney, an Retiring Al official in the Department of the Provincial Treasurer, from the service of the province, the sum of twentyfive hundred dollars shall be paid annually to him out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Province of Nova Scotia during his lifetime. Retiring allowance. CHAPTER 13. An Act to Provide a Retiring Allowance to Hugh P. MacKay. (Passed the 7th day of May, A. D., 1925). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. After the retirement of Hugh P. MacKay from the service of the province, as caretaker of the Provincial Normal School and Science Building, at Truro, N. S., at any time after he has held the said office as caretaker for a period of twenty-five years, the sum of five hundred dollars shall be paid annually to him out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Province of Nova Scotia during his lifetime. Retiring allowance. CHAPTER 14 An Act to Provide for the Supernanuation of Samuel (Passed the 7th day of May, A. D., 1925). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. The Governor-in-Council is authorized to pay Samuel F. Morrison, Chief Clerk in Vital Statistics Department, after retirement from said office, a sum not exceeding $600.00 a year out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Province of Nova Scotia during his lifetime. CHAPTER 15. An Act to Amend Chapter 2, Revised Statutes, 1923, "Of the Constitution, Powers and Privileges of the Houses." (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1925). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: position of. 1. Section 4 of Chapter 2 of the Revised Statutes, House, com1923, is repealed and the following substituted there for: tricts in Cape Richmond. 2. (1) The House shall be composed of forty- Electoral disthree members, of whom five shall be elected by the Breton and County of Halifax; three by each of the Counties of Pictou and Cumberland; two by each of the electoral districts of Cape Breton East, Cape Breton Centre and Richmond-West Cape Breton as hereinafter described; and two by each of the other Counties of the Province of Nova Scotia. (2) The Counties of Cape Breton and Richmond shall be divided into three electoral districts as hereinafter named and described and each of which districts shall elect two members: (a) Cape Breton East consisting of that portion of the County of Cape Breton contained in polling districts Number One (Resetve), Number Eleven (Dominion No. 6), Number Twelve (Port Morien), Number Twenty (Lingan) and Number Four (Little Bras d'Or), and including the towns of Glace Bay, New Waterford, Dominion and Sydney Mines; (b) Cape Breton Centre consisting of that portion of the County of Cape Breton contained in polling distructs Number Two (Coxheath), Number Nine (Beaver Cove), Number Fourteen (Grand Narrows), Number Nineteen (East Bay North), Number Eighteen (Sydney Forks), Numbet Ten (Boularderie), Number Twenty-two (French Vale), Number Three (Hillside), and Limitation. Number Twenty-three (Georges River), and including the City of Sydney and the Town of North Sydney; (c) Richmond-West Cape Breton consisting of the County of Richmond and the remaining polling districts in the County of Cape Breton not included in the electoral districts of Cape Breton East and Cape Breton Centre herein described. (3) It is expressly provided that the above mentioned division of the Counties of Cape Breton and Richmond into electoral districts is solely for the purpose of and in relation to the election of members of the House, and for all other purposes the said Counties shall continue to exist as heretofore. R. S., c. 2, s. 2, amended. Tenure of members hereafter appointed. CHAPTER 16. An Act to amend Chapter 2, Revised Statutes, 1923, "Of the Constitution, Powers and Privileges of the Houses." (Passed the 7th day of May, A. D., 1925). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Section 2 of Chapter 2, Revised Statutes, 1923 "Of the Constitution, Powers and Privileges of the Houses," is amended by adding thereto the following sub-section: (2) Every member of the Council hereafter appointed shall hold his seat in the Council for the term of ten years from the date of his appointment; provided that where any such member attains the age of seyenty-five years, his seat in the Council shall thereupon be and become vacant. to R. S., C. 2. 2. Said Chapter 2 is amended by inserting the Sections added following sections between Section 18 and 19 thereof: Public Bills of rence of Coun 18A. (1) If any Public Bill other than a Bill Enactment dealing with the Constitution, Powers and Privileges without concurof the Houses or either of them or a Money Bill is cil. passed by the House in three successive sessions (whether of the same Legislature or not), and having been sent up to the Council at least one month before the end of the session, is rejected by the Council in each of those sessions, that Bill shall, on its rejection for the third time by the Council, unless the House direct to the contrary, be presented to the LieutenantGovernor and become an Act of the Legislature on his assent being signified thereto notwithstanding that the Council have not consented to the Bill; provided that this sub-section shall not take effect unless two years have elapsed between the date of the second reading in the first of those sessions of the Bill in the House and the date on which it passes the House in the third of those sessions. (2) When a Bill is presented to the LieutenantGovernor in pursuance of the provisions of this section, there shall be endorsed on the Bill the certificate of the Speaker of the House signed by him that the provisions of this section have been duly complied with; provided that the Speaker shall not so certify any Bill dealing with the constitution, powers and privileges of the Houses or either of them or any Money Bill, particularly any Public Bill which contains only provisions dealing with all or any of the following subjects, namely, the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration, of regulation of taxation; the imposition for the payment of debt or other financial purposes of charges on the Consolidated Revenue Fund, or on money provided by the Legislature, or the variation or repeal of any such charges; supply; the appropriation, receipt, custody, issue or audit of accounts of public money; the raising or guarantee of any loan or the repayment thereof; or subordinate matters incidental to those subjects or any of them. In this sub-section the expression "taxation," "public money," and "loan" respectively does not include any taxation, money, or loan raised by local authorities or bodies for local purposes. |