(1) Any city, town or municipality within the Province, may from time to time contribute to any sanitarium established or proposed to be established within the Province, such sum of money as the council of such city, town or municipality determine.

(2) Any money so contributed

(a) May be given upon such terms and conditions as such council determine;

(b) Shall be voted by such council, along with the other yearly appropriations, and

(c) Shall be rated and collected along with and as part of the rates and taxes of such city, town or municipality for the current year.

(3) The council of any such city, town or municipality may also, by vote, exempt from all rates and other local taxation any property, real or personal, of any such sanitarium situated within the city, town or municipality, upon such terms and for such period as the council determines.

CHAPTER 21.

An Act to amend Chapter 100, Revised Statutes, 1900,

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1.

said Act amend

Section 168 of said Act is hereby amended by adding Section 168 of the following words, "and such magistrate shall also by statement in writing, made under his hand and seal, and filed in his court, declare that it has appeared to him in open court that such person, by excessive drinking of

Section 169 amended.

Provision respecting giving and serving notices.

liquor, misspends, wastes or lessens his estate, or greatly injures his health, or interrupts the peace and happiness of his family."

(2) Section 169 of said Act is amended as follows:

(a) By adding after the word line of said section, the words and filed by such magistrate, as preceding section."

"prohibited" in the second or such statement made provided for in the last

(b) By adding after the word "person" in the second line of said section the words, whether licensed or not."

(c) By adding after the word "prohibition" in the third line of said section the words, "or such statement having been made and filed by such magistrate as aforesaid."

(d) By adding after the word "liable" in the fifth line of said section the words "in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable under any of the provisions of this Act."

Sub-section of 4 section 4 amended.

(e) By adding to said section the words "and for a second and every subsequent offence he shall be liable to a penalty of forty dollars, and in addition thereto to imprisonment with hard labour for a period not exceeding two months, in addition to any term of imprisonment to which he may be liable in default of the penalty. Such penalty to be in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable under any of the provisions of this Act."

3. Any notice required to be given or served under the provisions of said sections 168 and 169 shall be deemed to be properly given or served if left at the last known place of abode of the person requiring to be notified under said. provisions.

4. (1) Sub-section 4 of section 4 of said Act shall not apply to the City of Halifax, but in that city the office of inspector shall be and be considered vacant immediately after the coming into force of this Act, and the present incumbent's tenure of office shall then cease, and the city council shall at the first regular meeting thereafter fill such office for the remainder of the current year, and thereafter the said council shall make the appointment of inspector and fill such office' annually, and the tenure of every such officer then appointed shall be for one year from appoint

ment.

Appointment and

other than that

(2) The appointment and tenure of office of every tenure of office of license inspector other than that for the City of Halifax license inspector, holding office and acting as such at the time of the passage for the city of of this Act, is hereby legalized and confirmed. This sub- Halifax. section is not to affect pending litigation.

(3) All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act or any of its sections are hereby repealed."

Inconsistent law repealed.

CHAPTER 22.

An act to amend the County Court Act, Chapter 156,
Revised Statutes, 1900.

(Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901).

SECTION 1. Section 12 of chapter 156, Revised Statutes, amended.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

156, Revised

Section 12 of the County Court Act, chapter 156, Revised Section 12 of cap. Statutes, 1900, is amended by adding thereto the following Statutes, words:

may

"And continue to act and exercise such powers in case of the death or resignation of the judge so requesting him until the appointment of his successor. But in case of

a vacancy in the office of judge for any district the Governor-in-Council may designate and appoint the judge of any other district to act during the whole or any portion of the period of such vacancy, on which designation or appointment the authority of a substitute under this section, if any shall have been made by the deceased or retiring judge, shall be superseded, except as to business already in process of hearing or determination before him."

amended.

CHAPTER 23.

An Act to amend Chapter 24, Revised Statutes, 1900, “Of
Crown Lands."

Provision re

specting leases of timber lands.

Grants to settlers

of lands under timber lease.

Refund to lessee of timber lands.

Grant to convey absolute title.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. All leases of timber lands issued under the provisions of sections 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes, shall contain a proviso that notwithstanding the issue of such lease the Governor-in-Council shall be at liberty at any time during the term of such lease to issue a grant, not exceeding in any one case two hundred acres, of the land suitable for farming embraced within such lease to any bona fide settler who proposes to erect a dwelling house thereon, and to cultivate and improve the lands so granted.

2. The Governor-in-Council may issue a grant to any person or persons who shall satisfy him of his or their bona fide intention to settle upon, erect a dwelling house thereon, or cultivate and improve such land, of any land at the time of such application under timber lease as provided in sections 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes; such grant shall be at the usual rate of forty cents an acre, and no grant shall be issued upon any single application whether made by one or more parties for a larger area than two hundred acres.

3. Upon the issue of any such grant to a bona fide settler the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall forthwith refund out of the provincial treasury to the lessee the the amount received from such lessee for the amount granted. The grantee shall in all such cases pay, in addition to the price of forty cents an acre, the necessary cost incurred for the survey of the lands so granted.

4. The grant of any portion of land under lease to any. person who shall have satisfied the Government that he is a bona fide settler shall convey an absolute title to the land so granted and vest such land absolutely in such grantee as fully and completely as if such lands had never been leased.

CHAPTER 24.

An Act to amend Chapter 45, of the Revised Statutes, 1900,
Of the Victoria General Hospital."

(Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901).

SECTION 1. Chapter 45, Revised Statutes, amended, by adding the following section.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

Statutes, amend

1. Chapter 45, of the Revised Statutes, 1900, entitled, Chapter 45, Rev. "Of the Victoria General Hospital," is amended by adding ed by adding fol thereto the following section.

1. (1) If the attending physician or surgeon reports to the superintendent that any patient has received all the benefit he can derive from treatment in the hospital, or that such patient is from any cause an unsuitable case for a longer stay in the hospital, the superintendent shall at once notify the patient or his relatives or friends that he must be removed from the hospital.

(2) If after a reasonable time such patient is not removed from the hospital the superintendent shall notify in writing the clerk of the city, town or municipality from which such patient came or was sent to the hospital, of such patient's condition, and requesting that the patient may be removed.

(3) If a reasonable time after such notice such patient is not removed the superintendent shall remove the patient to the poors' asylum, poor house or poor farm of such city, town or municipality, and the cost and charges of such removal shall be a charge upon such city, town or municipality, and may be recovered by the superintendent in an action at law in his own name as such superintendent The keeper of such poors' asylum, poor house or poor farm is hereby required to receive such patient, and any patient so received may be dealt with under the provisions of the Poor Relief Act.

lowing section.