An Act to Regulate Travelling on Public Highways and Bridges.

[23rd April, 1892.]

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

1. This Act may be cited as the "Highway Traffic Act, 1892."

Short title.

2. In case a person travelling or being upon a highway in charge of Vehicles meeting to turn to the left. a vehicle drawn by one or more horses, or one or more other animals, meets another vehicle drawn as aforesaid, he shall turn out to the left from the centre of the road, allowing to the vehicle so met one-half of the road.

taken to turn to the

3. In case a person travelling or being upon a highway in charge of Vehicle being overa vehicle as aforesaid, or on horseback, is overtaken by any vehicle or left. horseman travelling at a greater speed, the person so overtaken shall quietly turn out to the left and allow the said vehicle or horseman to pass.

vehicle to turn to

passes.

4 In the case of one vehicle being met or overtaken by another, if If impracticable for by reason of the extreme weight of the load on either of the vehicles left same must be so meeting or on the vehicle so overtaken the driver finds it imprac- stopped while other ticable to turn out as aforesaid, he shall immediately stop, and if necessary for the safety of the other vehicle, and if required so to do, he shall assist the person in charge thereof to pass without damage. 5. No person shall race with or drive furiously any horse or other animal upon any highway.

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Furious racing or driving prohibited on highways.

Penalties.

6. Every person contravening the provisions of this Act shall incur a penalty of not less than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered with costs upon conviction thereof in a summary manner, in accordance with the provisions of the "Summary Convictions Act, 1889."

VICTORIA, B. C. :

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty

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[23rd April, 1892.]

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

1. This Act may by cited as the "Horticultural Board Act, 1892."

Short title.

2. There is hereby created a Provincial Board of Horticulture, to Creates Board of six. consist of six members who shall be appointed by the LieutenantGovernor in Council, one from the Province at large, and one from

each of the horticultural districts which are hereby created, to wit:

1. The First District shall comprise the Electoral Districts of Vic- Horticultural distoria, Victoria City, Esquimalt, Cowichan, and The Islands:

2. The Second District shall comprise the remaining Electoral Districts of Vancouver Island:

3. The Third District shall comprise all of New Westminster Electoral District south of the Fraser River:

4. The Fourth District shall comprise all of New Westminster Electoral District north of the Fraser River, and the Electoral District of Cassiar:

5. The Fifth District shall comprise all the rest of the Mainland of British Columbia.

tricts.

tion.

3. The members shall reside in the districts for which they are Residence of memappointed; they shall be selected with reference to their study of and bers and their selecpractical experience in horticulture, and the industries dependent. thereon; they shall hold office for a term of four years, and until their Term of office. successors are appointed and qualified: Provided, however, that three

Vacancies.

of the Board first appointed (to be determined by lot) shall retire at the expiration of two years. All vacancies in the Board shall be filled by appointment of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and shall be for the unexpired term

Lt. Governor may 4. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint a Secretary, appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer who prescribe his duties, and may also appoint a Treasurer, who shall give shall give a bond. a bond to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council in the sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties. The Secretary and Treasurer shall hold their appointments at the pleasure Members to take of the Lieutenant-Governor n Council. Before entering upon the oath of allegiance which must be filed. discharge of his duties, each member of the Board shall take and subscribe to an oath of allegiance, and to faithfully discharge the duties of his office, which said bath shall be filed with the Provincial Secretary.

Duties of Board.

Meetings.

Lectures.

Location, etc., of office of Board.

Regulations for protection of fruits and fruit trees.

5. The Board shall receive, manage, use, and hold donations and bequests of money and property for promoting the subjects of its formation; it shall meet in the months of April and October of each year, and as much oftener as it may leem expedient, for the consultation on and for the adoption of those measures that will best promote the horticultural industry of the Province; it may, but without expense to the Province, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture in each of the districts named in section 2 of this Act, for the purpose of encouraging and improving practical horticulture, and imparting instruction in the best methods of treating the diseases of fruits and fruit trees, cleaning orchards, and exterminating orchard pests.

6. The office of the Board shall be located at such a place as the majority thereof may determine; it shall be kept open to the public, subject to the rules of the Board, every day excepting Sundays and public holidays, and shall be in charge of the Secretary during the absence of the Board.

7. For the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious diseases among fruits and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation of fruit pests and the diseases of fruits and fruit trees, and for the disinfection of grafts, scions, or orchard débris, empty fruit boxes or packages, and other suspected material or transportable articles dangerous to orchards, fruits, and fruit trees, said Board may suggest regulations for the inspection and disinfection thereof, which Regulations to be regulations shall be circulated in printed form by the Board among circulated and pub the fruit growers and fruit dealers of the Province, and shall be published at least ten days in two daily papers of general circulation in the Province, and shall be posted in three conspicuous places in each district, one of which shall be at the County Court House thereof.

lished.

Pests' to be ap

8. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall appoint, from the Inspector of Fruit number of the Board or from without their number, to hold office at pointed. the pleasure of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, a competent person especially qualified by practical experience in horticulture, who shall be known as "Inspector of Fruit Pests." It shall be the duty of His duty. said Inspector to visit the horticultural districts of the Province to see that all the regulations of said Board to prevent the spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees and plants injurious to the horticultural interests of the Province, and for the disinfection of fruit, trees, plants, grafts, scions, nursery stock of all description, orchard débris, empty fruit boxes and packages, and other material, be made known to the people of the Province; he shall, whenever required, and under the direction of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council and of the Board, and may also upon his own motion, and upon complaint of interested parties, inspect orchards, nurseries, and other places suspected or believed to be infested with fruit pests, or infected with contagious diseases injurious to trees, plants, or fruits, and he shall report the facts to the Board. The Inspector shall, from time to time and whenever required by said Board, report to it such information as he may secure from observation, experience, and otherwise, as to the best method of diminishing and eradicating fruit pests and diseases from orchards, and also suggestions as to practical horticulture, the adoption of produce suitable to soil, climate, and markets, and such other facts and information as shall be calculated to advance the horticultural interests of the Province.

premises or property noxious insects, etc.

9. Whenever a complaint is made to any member of the Board that Proceedings against any person has an orchard, trees, or nursery of trees, or a fruit packing person whose house, store room, sales room, or any other place in this Province are infected with infected with any noxious insects, or the eggs or larvæ of any such insects, or that any packages of trees, plants, or fruit arriving in this Province, or in this Province about to be disseminated, which are known or suspected to be from localities that are infected with any disease or pest injurious, or that may become injurious, to the fruit interests of the Province, such member shall inspect, or cause to be inspersed the premises or property to which such complaint relates, arif the same be found to be infected as aforesaid, such member shall nonify in writing, the person having charge of such premises and property to appear before him at such time and place as specified in sort notice, to be heard in reference to the infection of such premises or property aforesaid If such member, after hearing the person in charge of men premises or property, shall be of the opinion that such premises or property, or any of the same, are infected as aforesaid, he stal andy, in writing the person in charge of the same, within a time to be preverited in wach notice, to treat and disinfect said premises, or property in the manner presented in sail notice, and if the person so