8. The following sections shall be added to the Act: Section 99. Any person applying for a certificate of service or competency under this Act shall appear in person before the board and undergo an oral examination if the board deem it necessary. Examination for competing. application. Section 100. Any person applying for a certificate of Statements in service or competency shall affirm or swear to the correctness of his statement in his application as to the length of the periods of time he has been employed. in certain cases. Section 101. None of the provisions of this Act shall Act not to apply apply to persons working mechanical haulage engines underground whose power is furnished by compressed air. CHAPTER 14. An Act to amend Chapter 19, Revised Statutes, 1900, “The Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: sion board of 1. An additional division shall be added to the Board Additional diviof Examiners appointed under Section 10 of Chapter 19, of examiners. the Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Coal Mines Regulation Act," for an additional district to consist of the County of Inverness. 2. Said additional division shall consist of three mem- Members added bers appointed from said district and added to the Board to the board. as appointed in 1905. apply to new 3. All the provisions of the said chapter as to the dis- Chapter 19 to tricts of Cumberland, Pictou and Cape Breton, and as to division. the divisions appointed therefrom shall apply to the district of the County of Inverness and the division appointed therefrom. Agreement to exchange areas. Investigation by commission. Leases upon same tenure. CHAPTER 15. An Act to amend Chapter 18, Revised Statutes 1900, "Of Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows: Chapter 18, Revised Statutes, 1900, of mines and minerals is amended by adding thereto the following section: 1. (1). Lessees of coal mining areas who have agreed to exchange with each other portions of their areas for the better or more convenient working or winning coal from their respective areas, may file a copy of such agreement, accompanied by plans of the portions proposed to be exchanged, signed by all the parties, with the Commissioner of Public Works and Mines, and may apply to the Governorin-Council for an order that such agreement shall be carried into effect. (2). Before any such order is made the Commissioner of Public Works and Mines shall hold an investigation of the matter of such application in the manner prescribed by the Mines Act for other investigations, and upon the report of the Commissioner of Public Works and Mines the Governorin-Council may make the order applied for, upon such terms and conditions as are deemed expedient. (3). In the event of the Governor-in-Council making such order, each portion exchanged by such agreement and order shall become a part of the area of the person, firm or corporation receiving the same as if it had been a part of the area originally leased to such person, firm or corporation, and shall be held upon the same tenure and subject to the same terms, conditions and covenants upon which the area to which it is added was held by such person, firm or corporation, and barriers shall be left on the boundary of the areas as newly formed instead of on the boundary of the areas as originally leased. CHAPTER 16. An Act to amend Chapter 16, Acts of 1903-4, entitled, " An Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows 1. Section 3 of Chapter 16 of the Acts of 1903-4, is Section 6 amended by adding thereto the following: "2. The sittings of the court for the trial or disposal of criminal causes, appointed to be held at Sydney on the third Tuesday of February, in the year one thousand nine hundred and five is hereby adjourned until the first Tuesday of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and five, when the grand jury and all the officers and other persons whose duty it usually is to attend the sittings of the Supreme Court in connection with criminal business shall attend thereat, and all writs, subpoenas. notices and other processes returnable at the said term appointed to be held at Sydney on the third Tuesday of February, one thousand nine hundred and five, shall be enlarged to and be returnable at the term as hereby adjourned to all intents and purposes as if such writs, subpoenas, notices and other processes had originally been returnable thereat." amended. court legalized. 2. The action of the sheriff of the county of Cape Breton Adjournment of in adjourning the said sittings of the Supreme Court at Sydney for the trial of criminal causes, until the first Tuesday of March, is hereby confirmed and declared to have been legal and effective notwithstanding any limitation upon his power to do so. Section 37 amended. Section 38 added to. Section 65 added to. Section 5 amended. CHAPTER 17. An Act to amend Chapter 162, Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Jury Act." Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Section thirty-seven of Chapter 162, Revised Statutes, 1900, The Jury Act," is amended by inserting the words. "and Cape Breton after the word "Halifax," in the said section. 2. Section thirty-eight of said Act is amended by adding thereto the following sub-section, that is to say: (4) In the County of Cape Breton a panel of petit jurors when required for service at any sittings, civil or criminal, including a midsummer sittings, shall be drawn at any preceding sittings, civil or criminal, or may be drawn under any other provision of the said chapter. 3. Section sixty-five of said Act is amended by adding thereto the following sub-section, that is to say: (3) "In drawing the names of the grand and petit jurors "to be summoned for service at the sittings in the County "of Hants, the prescribed number shall be made up in the "following proportions, that is to say, one-half consisting of persons residing in the district of East Hants and onehalf of persons residing in the district of West Hants. "After the number required from either district is obtained "the names of persons residing in that district subsequently "drawn shall be returned to the jury box until the number "required from the other district is completed." 1. Section five of said Act is amended by striking out the word "sixty" in sub-section thirty-one thereof, and substituting therefor the words "sixty-five." CHAPTER 18. An Act to legalize Jury Panels, Assessment Rolls and SECTION. (Passed the 7th day of April, A. D., 1905.) 1. Jury panels legalized. SECTION. 2. Assesment rolls and revisers' lists legal. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly as follows: 1. All jury panels now made for use in 1905, whether Jury panels grand or petit, drawn from jury lists at the terms of the legalized. Supreme Court at which the same are usually drawn, shall be and the same are delared to be legal and valid, notwithstanding any defect in the preparation of the lists from which the same are drawn, or any informalities or irregularities that may have occurred in the making up of such lists, or as to the time at which the same were made up, and notwithstanding that such jury lists have not been published as required by the Juries' Act, and notwithstanding that the name of any Justice of the Peace may have been drawn from any such lists, and notwithstanding any error, omission or irregularity whatsoever in the preparation of such lists, the drawing of such panels or anything connected therewith. 2. The assessment rolls for the present year and the Assessment rolls revisers' lists of electors are legalized and confirmed, not- lists legalized. withstanding any irregularities in the appointment of assessors or revisers, or that the assessors were not appointed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4 of Revised Statutes, 1900, and notwithstanding that such rolls or lists may not have been completed within the time limited therefor under Chapter 5 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, " Of Municipal Assessments" or any other statute in that behalf, and notwithstanding that the revisers may not have met on the proper day in March, and notwithstanding any errors, omissions or irregularities in the preparation of such rolls or lists, or in any proceeding in connection therewith or in certification thereof, and notwithstanding any irregularity in the appointment of revisers of assessment rolls or any omissions or irregularities in their proceedings. |
