CHAP. 3. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the public service for the financial year ending the 30th June, 1897, and other purposes relating to the public service. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE [Assented to 5th October, 1896.] HEREAS it appears by a Message from His Excellency Preamble. the Right Honourable Sir John Campbell HamiltonGordon, Earl of Aberdeen, Governor General of Canada, and the estimates accompanying the same, that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the public service of Canada, not otherwise provided for, for the financial year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes connected with the public service; May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, that : 1. This Act may be cited as The Appropriation Act (No. 3) Short title. 1896, Second Session. 2. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of $14,633,167.18 Canada there shall and may be paid and applied a sum not granted for financial year exceeding in the whole fourteen million six hundred and thirty- 1896-97. three thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighteen cents, towards defraying the several charges and expenses of the public service of Canada, from the first day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to the thirtieth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, not otherwise provided for, and set forth in the schedule to this Act, and also for the other purposes in the said schedule mentioned. As to private secretaries. Special provision as to N..W. T. Declaratory as as to certain loans authorized but not raised. Such suis may be raised c. 29. 3. If the private secretary of the Head of a department is not a member of the permanent civil service, there may be paid to him, out of the amount granted by this Act for the contingencies of the department, a salary not exceeding six hundred dollars a year, in addition to the salary payable to a private secretary under The Civil Service Act or any other Act. 4. The amounts granted by this Act for the Government of the North-west Territories shall not be deemed to have lapsed if not expended within the year for which they are granted. 5. And whereas, there remained on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, unborrowed and negotiable, of the loans authorized by Parliament for the construction of public works, and for general purposes, the following sums: Authorized and guaranteed by the Imperial Parliament for the Intercolonial Railway..$ 1,946,666 67 For public works and general purposes....... 6,665,086 29 $ 8,611,752 96 Therefore it is declared and enacted, that the Governor in under R.S.C., Council may authorize the raising of the several sums above mentioned, as they are required for the purposes aforesaid, respectively, under the provisions of The Consolidated Revenue and Audit Act, and the sums so raised shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, out of which like sums Application of shall be applicable to the several purposes aforesaid, under the Acts and provisions thereunto relating respectively. such sums. SCHEDULE. SUMS granted to Her Majesty by this Act for the Financial Year ending 30th June, 1897, and the purposes for which they are granted. To provide for the salary of one second class clerk........ Department of the Geological Survey Additional amount required to provide for the salary of messenger... 1,800 00 700 00 1,100 00 200 00 Department of the Secretary of State To pay A. E. Blount, for clerical assistance to the late Salary of an additional County Judge in Manitoba.. Supreme Court of Canada--Further amount required for contingencies... 2,000 00 3,500 00 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. DOMINION POLICE. To pay a gratuity of two months' salary to the widow of the late Constable To provide for a retiring allowance to Constable Prudhomme PENITENTIARIES. Commissions for investigating the affairs of the penitentiaries of Canada. LEGISLATION. To pay to the widow or family of the late Hon. Senator mileage Leather trunks ordered last session. Carried forward.. 100 65 539 90 3,000 00 Permanent Buildings for Experimental Farm exhibits at Three Rivers... Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa-For repairs and apparatus necessary for carrying on the temporary work of the laboratory which was destroyed by fire 5,000 00 1,000 00 General Statistics.. 1,758 00 Manitoba Census. 1,700 00 Statistical Year Book-Balance due on 1894, French edition$ 1,939 16 1,650 00 3,589 16 To promote the establishment and maintenance of Creameries in the 15,000 00 To enable the Agricultural and Dairy Commissioner to promote dairying interests by advances for milk and cream, and for making butter in creameries in the North-west Territories, to be recouped out of the proceeds of sales of such butter to be placed to the credit of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.. Two months' gratuity to Mrs. W. McNaughton Jones, widow of the late Dr. W. McNaughton Jones, General Superintendent of Quarantines in British Columbia (salary $2,500)... Cattle quarantine... Towards providing for cold storage and carriage of Canadian perishable food products, and to secure recognition of the quality of such products in the markets of Great Britain in an undeteriorated condition... Carried forward... |