Short title. H ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Provincial Secretary's Act." The Depart- Powers, Same powers, ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT. 2. There shall be a Department of the Civil Service of Manitoba, to be called "The Department of the Provincial Secretary," over which the Provincial Secretary of Manitoba for the time being, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor by commission under the Great Seal of the Province, shall preside; and the said Provincial Secretary shall have the management and direction of the Department, and shall hold office during pleasure. 48 V. c. 4, s. 1. 3. The powers, duties and functions of the Provincial Secretary are as follows:-- (a.) He has all the powers, duties and functions which are cial Secretar assigned by law or custom to Provincial Secretaries and ics of other Provinces. Registrars of the different Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, in so far as they or any of them may be applicable to the Province of Manitoba; Great Seal of (.) He is the keeper of the Great Seal of the Province, and Keeper of the shall issue all letters patent, commissions and other documents the Province. under the said Seal and countersign the same, with the exception of those which shall be countersigned by the Clerk of the Executive Council; and all commissions under the Great Seal shall run in her Majesty's name; registers, &c. (c.) He is the keeper of all registers and archives of the Keeper of all Province, and of all registers and archives of any Government' whatever that has had jurisdiction over the territory or any part of the territory constituting the Province of Manitoba. 48 V. c. 4, s. 2. Registrar of duties of. 4. The Provincial Secretary shall be the Provincial Regist- Provincial rar of Manitoba, and as such shall register all instruments of Manitoba and summons, commissions, letters patent, writs and other instruments and documents issued under the Great Seal of the Province; and his signature shall be proof of the fact that such registers, archives, instruments of summons, commissions, letters patent, writs and other instruments and documents exist and are lawfully in his possession; and any copy, signed by him, of any document shall be equivalent to the original instrument itself in any Court in this Province; and every document or copy of a document purporting to bear his signature shall be deemed so to do until proof of the contrary. 48 V. c. 4, s. 3; 51 V. c. 29, s. 22, part. of other 5. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may also appoint Appointment such other officers, clerks and servants as are requisite for the officers, &c. proper conduct of the business of the Department, all of whom shall hold office during pleasure. 48 V. c. 4, s. 7. FEES. 6. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, from time to Tariff of fees. time, make a tariff of fees which shall be paid for the issuing and registering of commissions, letters patent and other instruments and documents, and for the delivery of certified copies thereof or of certified extracts from the registers and archives in the Provincial Secretary's Department as hereinbefore mentioned; and the said Provincial Secretary shall account to the Provincial Treasurer for all moneys received in virtue of such tariff or of any Act in force in this Province, in such manner as may be prescribed by law or by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, as the case may be. 48 V. c. 4, s. 6. Short title. Interpretation. CHAPTER 123. An Act Respecting Public Buildings. SHORT TITLE. INTERPRETATION OF EXPRESSIONS "Public building," s-s. (a.) DOORS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. STAIRS PASSAGES..... Capacity of, s. 7. CONSTRUCTION Of theatre, s. 9. H ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Public Buildings Act." 47 V. c. 42, s. 1, part. INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, building." (a.) The expression "public building" means and includes Public every building used as a church or place of public worship, also every building used for purposes of public instruction, also every building used as a college, public hall, hospital, opera house, theatre, public concert room, public ball room, public lecture room, public exhibition room or hotel, or as a place of public resort or amusement, and whether any such building is now erected or hereafter to be erected; A part of a building may, for the purposes of this Act, be taken to be a separate public building; audience." (b.) The expression "largest audience" means the largest "Largest number of persons possible to be or intended to be contained or accommodated within any public building referred to or mentioned in the section or sub-section in which said words are contained; any room. (c.) The expression "audience room" means and includes "Audience room or apartment which in any public building is intended to accommodate or to be used for any public meeting or assemblage of persons: (d.) The expression "exit doors" means the doors by which "Exit doors.' persons can obtain egress directly and immediately from and beyond an audience room; (e.) The expression "outer doors" means the doors intended "Outer doors. to allow persons to obtain egress through and beyond the outside walls or structure of any public building after leaving any audience room therein; (f) The expression "council" means the municipal council "Council." of any city, town, village or rural municipality within Manitoba : "Court of summary (g.) The expression "court of summary jurisdiction" means the justice of the peace or police magistrate, as the case may jurisdiction.' be, to whom jurisdiction is given by this Act to hear and determine prosecutions under this Act: ity." (h.) The expression "municipality" means any incorporated Municipalcity, town, village or rural municipality existing in virtue of any law or the provisions of any statute in this Province. 47 V. c. 42, s. 2. DOORS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. outwards. 3. The outer doors, exit doors and gates of every public Doors to open building shall be constructed to open freely outwards; and, subject to the other provisions of this Act, the width, dimen Width of exit doors. On ground levels. On high levels. Numbering exit doors. Width of outer doors. Ground levels. High levels. sions and number of such doors and gates shall be such as to reasonably permit of the rapid and unobstructed egress from any such public building of the largest audience. 47 V. c. 42, s. 3. 4. The exit doors in any public building shall not in any case be less than four feet each in width, and the aggregate of such doors shall, (a.) In every public building where the main audience room is on the ground level or not more than ten feet therefrom, have one additional foot of width for every sixty of the largest number of persons intended to be accommodated or admitted within such audience room, and, (b.) In every public building where the main audience room is more than ten feet above the ground level, have one additional foot of width for every forty of said largest number of persons. 47 V. c. 42, s. 4. 5. In every city all exit doors in any theatre, opera house public concert room, public lecture room or public exhibition room shall be numbered differently; and the number of each such exit door shall be conspicuously painted thereon in such manner that said number shall be visible to any audience assembled in such theatre, opera house or room; and there shall, on and in every programme or bill of the play distributed to or among any such audience, be printed in conspicuous type and matter a plan or diagram, with explanations, showing each such exit door with its number. 47 V. c. 42, s. 11, part. 6. The outer doors in any public building shall in no case be of less than four feet each in width, and the aggregate of such outer doors shall, (a.) For every public building where the main audience room is on the ground level, or not more than ten feet therefrom, have not less than one additional foot in width for every sixty of the largest audience, and, (b.) In every public building where the main audience room is more than ten feet above the ground level, have not less than one additional foot for every forty of the largest audience. 47 V. c. 42, s. 5. Capacity 7. The stairs, stairways and passages in any public building shall, for the purpose of egress from such building be of |