CHAP. 18. An Act to amend the Militia Act. [Assented to 18th July, 1900.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: 1. Section 41 of The Militia Act, chapter 41 of the Revised R.S.C., o. 41, Statutes, is repealed and the following is substituted therefor : new s. 41. districts. "41. In and for each of the twelve military districts here- Command inbefore mentioned there shall be appointed an officer, who of military shall have rank not below that of lieutenant-colonel, and who shall command the militia in his district, and he shall be paid at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum. "2. There shall also be appointed in each of the military Staff and districts aforesaid such staff officers and such other officers as other officers. are necessary, and the salaries of such staff officers shall be fixed by the Governor in Council. "3. If any two or more districts are amalgamated for admi- As to nistrative purposes, one such officer only shall be appointed to amalgamated command the militia in the districts so amalgamated. districts. "4. Her Majesty may adopt such designation or name of Change of designation. office as Her Majesty thinks proper for the officer who commands the militia in any district, and may, from time to time, change such designation or name of office." 2. Section 45 of the said Act is repealed and the following New s. 45. is substituted therefor : "45. Officers holding commissions in the militia may be Officers on placed on the retired list with honorary rank not exceeding that retired list. of colonel, or without honorary rank, and officers now on the retired list holding commissions as lieutenant-colonel may be promoted to the rank of colonel, under regulations approved by the Governor in Council. ment. "2. Officers from the retired list may be reappointed to the Reappointactive list or such other list as is from time to time authorized; but no officer so reappointed shall be compelled to serve in a lower rank than that with which he retired." New s. 47. What shall be the highest rank. 3. Section 47 of the said Act is repealed and the following is substituted therefor : "47. In time of peace no person except the officer commanding the militia shall hold higher rank in the militia than that of colonel; but Her Majesty may, whenever the militia is called out for active service in the field, appoint therein other officers of rank superior to that of colonel, but not higher in any case than that of major general." OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 19. An Act respecting the Members of the North-west [Assented to 7th May, 1900.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Notwithstanding anything in The Civil Service Superan- R.S.C., o. 18; nuation Act, chapter 18 of the Revised Statutes, or in The 1889, o. 26. Mounted Police Pension Act, 1889, all members of the Northwest Mounted Police Force on active service with the Cana- Reckoning of dian volunteers in South Africa, shall, for the purposes of the service in said Acts, be entitled to have such active service counted as service in the said force. South Africa. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 20. An Act to amend the Dominion Lands Act. [Assented to 7th May, 1900.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Sub-clause 1 of clause 38 of The Dominion Lands Act, R.S.C., c. 54, chapter 54 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by section 4 of 8. 38 amended. chapter 31 of the statutes of 1898, and by section 2 of chapter 16 of the statutes of 1899, is amended by adding at the end thereof the words "except in the case of the death of a settler who, though he had completed the conditions of his entry for his homestead, died prior to the issue of the patent therefor and whose legal representatives are citizens of a foreign country, and except as hereinafter provided." 2. Sub-clause 9 of the said clause 38 of the said Act, as Section 38 enacted by section 6 of chapter 31 of the statutes of 1898, is amended. amended by adding thereto the following paragraph : patent. "(b.) If the settler has his permanent residence upon farm- Residence for ing land owned by him in the vicinity of his homestead, the purpose of requirements of this Act as to residence may be satisfied by residence upon the said land." amended. 3. Sub-clause 5 of clause 44 of the said Act is amended by Section 44 adding at the end thereof the words, "in which case the patent may issue in the name of the settler even if he is not a British subject." volunteer on 4. Notwithstanding anything in the said Act or in any Act Reckoning of amending it, the time during which a settler is absent from residence of his homestead while he is a member of a military force en- active service rolled under the authority of the Minister of Militia, and engaged as a member of such force in the suppression of an outbreak or insurrection in any part of Canada, or in the defence of Canada against a foreign power, or as a member of a company or contingent of Canadian volunteers enrolled |