(9.) In any such action where an application for the appointment of assessors has been filed, the Court or Judge may, at any time prior to the trial thereof, nominate one or more additional persons to act as assessors in the action. Where no application for assessors has been made, the Court or Judge may appoint any one or more persons to act as assessor or assessors in the action before or on the trial of the action: (10.) If, at the time and place appointed for the trial, all or any of the assessors appointed shall not attend, the Court or Judge may either proceed to try the action with the assistance of such of the assessors, if any, as shall attend, or may adjourn the trial generally, or upon any terms which the Court or Judge may think fit, or may appoint any person who may be available and who is willing to act, and who is not objected to, or who, if objected to, is objected to on some insufficient ground, or the Court or Judge may try the action without assessors:

(11.) Every person requiring the Court or Judge to be assisted by assessors shall, at the time of filing his application, deposit therewith the sum of five dollars for each assessor proposed, and such payments. shall be considered as costs in the action, unless otherwise ordered by the Court or Judge: Provided, that where a person proposed as an assessor shall have in writing agreed and consented that he will not require his remuneration to be so deposited, no deposit in respect of such person shall be required:

(12.) Where an action shall be tried by the Court or Judge with the assistance of any assessors in addition to or independently of any assessors proposed by the parties, the remuneration of such assessors shall be borne by the parties, or either of them, as the Court or Judge shall direct:

(13.) If after an assessor has been appointed the action shall not be tried, the Court or Judge shall have power to make an allowance to him in respect of any expense or trouble which he may have incurred by reason of his appointment, and direct the payment to be made out of any sum deposited for his remuneration:

(14.) The assessors shall sit with and assist the Court or Judge when required with their opinion and special knowledge for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of compensation, if any, which the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover.

actions.

18.—(1.) Where several actions shall be brought under this Act Consolidation of against a defendant in the same Court in respect of the same negligence, act, or omission, the defendant shall be at liberty to apply to the Judge that the said actions shall be consolidated:

(2.) Applications for consolidation of actions shall be made upon notice to the plaintiffs affected by such consolidation:

(3.) In case several actions shall be brought under this Act against a defendant in the same Court in respect of the same negligence, act, or

omission, the defendant may, on filing an undertaking to be bound so far as his liability for such negligence, act, or omission is concerned by the decision in such one of the said actions as may be selected by the Court or Judge, apply to the Court or Judge for an order to stay the proceedings in the actions other than in the one so selected, until judgment is given in such selected action:

(4.) Applications for stay of proceedings shall be made upon notice to the plaintiffs affected by stay of proceedings or ex parte:

(5.) Upon the hearing of any application for consolidation of actions or for stay of proceedings, the Court or Judge shall have power to impose such terms and conditions and make such order in the matter as may be just:

(6.) If any order shall be made by a Court or Judge upon an ex parte application to stay proceedings, it shall be competent to the plaintiffs affected by such order to apply to the Court or Judge (as the case may be), upon notice or ex parte, to vary or discharge the order so made, and upon such last mentioned application such order shall be made as the Court or Judge shall think fit, and the Court or Judge shall have power to dispose of the costs occasioned by such order or orders as may be deemed right:

(7.) In case a verdict in the selected action shall be given against the defendant, the plaintiffs in the actions stayed shall be at liberty to proceed for the purpose of ascertaining and recovering their damages and costs:

(8.) A defendant may, by notice to the opposite party to be given or served at least six days before the day appointed for the trial of the action, admit the truth of any statement of his liability for any alleged negligence, act, or omission as set forth or contained in the plaintiff's statement or particulars of claim in the action, and after such notice given the plaintiff shall not be allowed any expense thereafter incurred for the purpose of proving the matters so admitted:

(9.) Where two or more persons are joined as plaintiffs under subsection (1) of this section, and the negligence, act, or omission which is the cause of action shall be proved, the judgment shall be for all the plaintiffs, but the amount of compensation, if any, that each plaintiff is entitled to shall be separately found and set forth in the judgment, and the amount of costs awarded in the action shall be ordered to be paid to such person and in such manner as the Court or Judge may think fit. Should the defendant fail to pay the several amounts of compensation and the costs awarded in the action, execution may issue as in an ordinary action, and should the proceeds of the execution be insufficient, after deducting all costs, to pay the whole of the amounts awarded, a dividend shall be paid to each plaintiff, calculated upon the proportion of the amount which shall have been awarded to the

respective plaintiffs to the total amount realized after the deduction of

all the costs of the action as aforesaid.

19. Where the time for doing any act, taking any proceeding, or Expiration of time on a Sunday. giving any notice under or required by this Act, expires on a Sunday, such act, or proceeding, or notice shall, so far as regards the time of doing, taking, or giving the same, be held to be duly and sufficiently done, taken, or given, if done, taken, or given on the day next following such Sunday.

20. In any action brought in any Court to recover compensation Rules of Court to under this Act, the forms and methods, and the rules and orders in prevail. force in Court shall, subject to and save as otherwise provided by the terms and provisions of this Act, apply to and regulate all matters of pleading, practice, and procedure in such action, and notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, the forms and method, and the pleadings, practice, and procedure in any such action shall conform to and be regulated by any rules or orders in that behalf hereafter lawfully and duly made or prescribed with respect to actions brought in any such Court.

21. This Act shall not come into operation until the first day of Date of commence July next after the passing hereof, which date is in this Act referred ment of Act. to as the commencement of this Act.

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1890."

[20th April, 1891.]

HER

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. Section 7 of the " Game Protection Amendment Act, 1890," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection:

"(a.) Provided always, that it shall be lawful for any person holding Permits licensea license under this Act, as hereinafter mentioned, to export or holders to take their trophies out cause to be exported or carried out of this Province the heads, of the Province. horns, or skins of such of the animals mentioned in section 10

of this Act as shall have been legally killed by such license
holder."

2. This Act may be cited as the "Game Protection Amendment Short title. Act, 1891,"

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