You, the said C. D., are therefore hereby required to be and appear before me at my chambers in

on the

day of

o'clock in the

noon,

the hour of
and then and there have with you and produce before me the
assessment roll for 18 for the said inunicipality and any
documents in your custody, power or control relating to the
assessment roll or to the list of electors aforesaid, and then
and there submit yourself for examination on oath as may be
required of you. Herein fail not at your peril.

Dated this

day of

County Court Judge.

53 V. c. 54, s. 51.

Penalty incurred by

clerk for

54. If any clerk of a municipality improperly omit, neglect or refuse to complete the list of electors or to perform any of omissions, &c. the duties herein before required of him for his municipality, such clerk, for each omission, neglect or refusal, shall incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars. 53 V. c. 54, s. 52.

Punishment for falsification of lists.

Fraudulent qualification.

Penalty.

Recovery of penalties.

55. If any clerk of a municipality or any other person wilfully make any alteration, omission or insertion in or from, or in any way wilfully falsify, any such certified list or copy, or permit the same to be done, every such person shall incur a penalty not exceeding two thousand dollars or, in default of payment, shall be imprisoned in the common gaol of the Judicial District for a period not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the Court. 53 V. c. 54, s. 53.

56. No person shall make, execute, accept or become a party to, any lease, deed or other instrument, or become a party to any verbal arrangement, whereby a colorable interest in any house, land or tenement is conferred in order to qualify any person to vote at an election; and any person violating the provisions of this section, besides being liable to any other penalty prescribed in that behalf, shall incur a penalty of one hundred dollars; and any person who induces, or attempts to induce, another to commit an offence under this section shall incur a like penalty. 53 V. c. 54, s. 54.

57. The penalties mentioned in the three last preceding sections may be recoverable, with costs of suit, by any person suing for the same in any Court of competent jurisdiction. 53 V. c. 54, s. 55.

assessor.

58. To prevent the creation of false votes, where any Inquiries by person claims to be assessed, or claims that any other person should be assessed, as owner or occupant of any parcel of land, and the assessor has reason to suspect that the person so claiming, or for whom the claim is made, has not a just right to be so assessed, it shall be the duty of the assessor to make reasonable inquiries before assessing such person. 53 V. c. 54, s. 56.

Penalties for

59. Any person who wilfully and improperly inserts any illegal prac name in the assessment roll, or assesses any person at too tices. high an amount, with intent in either case to give any person not entitled thereto an apparent right of voting at any election, or who wilfully inserts any fictitious name in the assessment roll, or who wilfully and improperly omits any name from the assessment roll or assesses any person at too low an amount, with intent in either case to deprive any person of his right to vote, shall, upon conviction thereof before a Court of competent jurisdiction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and, in default of payment, to imprisonment in the common gaol of the Judicial District for a period not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the Court. 53 V. c. 54, s. 57.

may be had on

60. In case any person shall in any year deem it advisable Extra copies to obtain a greater number of copies of the said list of electors application. of any municipality than he is entitled to receive gratis under this Act, he may notify the clerk of that municipality that he will require an extra number of copies of said list, stating how many; and it shall be the duty of any such municipal clerk to cause a sufficient number of copies to be made to meet this extra demand. 53 V. c. 54, s. 58.

(H.); free

tenant (T.)

61. The words householder (H.), freeholder (F.), and tenant Householder (T.), appearing on the assessment roll pursuant to the pro- holder (F.); visions of "The Assessment Act," shall, for the purpose of said provisions relating to lists of electors, be held also to mean respectively occupant (Oc.), owner (O.) or tenant (T.) and shall be so entered in the list of electors by the clerk of the municipality. 53 V. c. 54, s. 59.

62. In carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, the Use of forms. forms given in this Act may be used; and the same, or forms

to the like effect, shall, respectively, be deemed sufficient for the purposes mentioned in this Act. 53 V. c. 54, s. 60.

cipality being

63. In case a municipality be situate in more than one Case of muniJudicial Division, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may in more than provide in which Division such municipality shall for the one Judicial purposes of this Act be considered to be situate. 53 V. c. 54,

s. 61.

Division.

Recovery and enforcement

64. Every fine and penalty imposed by, or under the of penalties. authority of this Act may, unless where other provision is specially made therefor, be recovered and enforced, with costs, by summary conviction, before any justice of the peace, and in default of payment the offender may be comImprisonment mitted to the common gaol, house of correction or lock-up house, there to be imprisoned for any time, in the discretion of the convicting justice, not exceeding (unless where other provision is specially made) thirty days, and with or without hard labor, unless such fine and penalty and costs are sooner paid. 53 V. c. 54, s. 62.

in default of payment.

Fines, how applied.

65. Unless otherwise provided, when the pecuniary penalty has been levied under this Act, one moiety thereof shall go to the informer or prosecutor, and the other moiety to the municipal corporation, unless the prosecution be brought in the name of the corporation, in which case the whole of the pecuniary penalty shall be paid to the corporation. 53 V. c. 54, s. 63.

CHAPTER 105.

An Act Respecting the Incorporation of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies.

GENERAL POWERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Short title.

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:--

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Mutual Fire Insurance Act." C. S. M. c. 9, Div. 1, s. 72, part; 49 V. c. 3, s. 4, part.

INTERPRETATION.

Interpreta. tion.

"Company."

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

(a.) The expression "Company" means a company incorporated under any former statute of this Province relating to mutual fire insurance companies or under this Act.