40,078 75

Dominion Lands and Crown Timber Agents' salaries....
Salaries of Clerks in Outside Service, Forest Rangers and

Intelligence Officers.

Travelling expenses of Inspector of Agencies, Homestead
Inspectors and Superintendent of Mines, Land Board,
Dominion Lands and Crown Timber Agents and at Head
Office, removal expenses, etc., and stationery and print-
ing..

To pay members of the Board of Examiners of Dominion
Land Surveyors, stationery, rent of rooms and contingent
expenses of the Board (the authority required by the
Civil Service Act is hereby given for paying out of this
vote such sums as may be required to pay for services of
members of the Board who are also members of the Civil
Service).

To pay salaries of extra clerks at Head Office, Ottawa, advertising, copying, etc

To provide for the salary of one carpenter

Further amount required for contingencies, etc., etc.

30,466 25

DOMINION LANDS.

(Chargeable to Capital.)

To provide for the amount required for surveys, examination of survey returns, printing of plans, etc...

75, 00 00

Further amount required for surveys, examination of survey returns, printing of plans, etc...

16,500 00

91,500 00

Total......

14,633,167 18

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Excellent Majesty.

CHAP. 4.

An Act further to amend the Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons.

[Assented to 5th October, 1896.]

HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the

Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as

follows:

present ses

1. For the present session of Parliament, the deduction of Days of abeight dollars per day mentioned in section twenty-six of the sence during Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons, being chapter sion. eleven of the Revised Statutes, shall not be made for eight days in the case of a member who has been absent from sitting of the House of which he is a member, or of some committee thereof, during such number of days; but this provision Proviso shall not operate to extend the maximum amount mentioned in section twenty-five of the said Act, nor in the case of a member elected since the commencement of the present session shall it apply to days prior to his election.

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CHAP. 5.

An Act to amend the North-west Territories Representation Act by dispensing with the preparation of new Voters' Lists in certain cases.

HE

[Assented to 5th October, 1896.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

less than a

1. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall not be necessary New lists not to prepare new voters' lists for the purpose of any election to necessary if be held under The North-west Territories Representation Act, year between being chapter seven of the Revised Statutes, when there has elections. been in the same electoral district a previous election the voters' lists prepared for which are of record in the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and there is an interval of less than twelve months between the dates of the writs for the two elections.

2. In the event of such an election, it shall be the duty of Lists which the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery to forward to the return- shall be used. ing officer, with the writ for such election, three certified copies

of each of the voters' lists so of record in his office.

3. Such certified copies shall be delivered by the returning Duties of officer to the enumerator, to be appointed as in the said Act enumerator. provided, and the enumerator shall post up two of such copies of each list, retaining the third for revision, and shall revise and correct the list so retained, and otherwise deal with it in all respects as if such certified copies were voters' lists completed and signed by him as provided by section thirty of the said Act; and the copy so retained, as revised and certified and as received by the deputy returning officer from the enumerator, shall be the voters' list for the polling division to which it relates.

which no lists

4. Should there be in such electoral district any polling Case of polling divisions for which voters' lists are not of record in the office division for of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, lists for such polling are of record.

R.S.C., c. 7,

divisions shall for the purposes of such election be prepared in the manner provided in the said Act.

5. Section thirty-three of the said Act, as amended by secs. 33 amended. tion six of chapter fifteen of the Statutes of 1894, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the words subject to be further corrected on the polling day, as hereinafter provided."

New section 44.

Oath when voter's name

is not on the list.

Form L amended.

66

6. The said Act is hereby further amended by adding as section forty-four thereof in lieu of the section repealed by section fourteen of chapter fifteen of the Statutes of 1894, the following:

"44. The deputy returning officer shall, while the poll is open, if required by any person whose name is not on the voters' list, administer to such person oath number one in the said form P; and such oath having been taken, the deputy returning officer shall at once cause such person's name to be added to the voters' list with the word 'sworn' written thereafter."

7. The form substituted for form L in the schedule to the said first cited Act by section thirteen of chapter fifteen of the Statutes of 1894 is hereby amended by striking out the words "division containing" in the fourth paragraph thereof, and substituting therefor the words "white circular space opposite."

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