Rates of inspection.

"Shipping grade, shall be hay in good condition, pressed, sound and well cured.

"4. The rates for the inspection of hay shall be as follows :— "For every ton, twenty cents."

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CHAP. 37.

An Act in restraint of Fraudulent Sale or Marking.

[Assented to 23rd July, 1894.]

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

schedule A.

1. No person shall mark, brand or label any article or any Articles ir package containing any article mentioned in the first column of schedule A to this Act, with the word "pure," "genuine," or any word equivalent thereto, or sell, or offer or expose for sale, any such article or package so marked, branded, stamped or labelled, unless such article or the contents of such package are pure within the meaning of the second column of the said schedule.

schedule B.

2. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any article Articles in or any substance for domestic use under the name or designation contained in the first column of schedule B to this Act, unless such article or substance is free from adulteration or admixture of foreign matter and unless it possesses the composition and distinguishing characteristics stated in the second column of the said schedule.

fraudulent

3. Every person who violates any of the provisions of Penalty for section one or section two of this Act shall, for every violation, marking, etc. be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, a moiety of which penalty shall belong to the prosecutor, and the other moiety to the Crown.

penalty.

2. The penalty hereby imposed may be recovered and Recovery of enforced in the manner provided by The Inland Revenue Act with respect to penalties incurred under it, and as if imposed

by it.

3. The penalty hereby imposed shall not apply as respects Special provithe second article mentioned in schedule B until the first day of son as to October in the present year, one thousand eight hundred and

vinegar.

ninety-four.

schedules by Governor in Council.

Alterations in 4. The Governor in Council may add any articles to the schedules to this Act, and determine the standard of purity therefor, and may remove any articles from the said schedules; and the Order in Council in that behalf shall be published in four successive issues of the Canada Gazette, after which it shall have like effect as if such articles had been included in the said original schedules.

Limitation.

Obtaining of samples.

2. Any Order in Council made under the provisions of this section shall have effect only until the end of the next succeeding session of Parliament.

5. The Minister of Inland Revenue may order any officer of inland revenue or customs to obtain samples of any of the articles or substances mentioned in the said schedules; but in such case the manner of obtaining such samples shall be that prescribed with respect to the obtaining of samples under the R.S.C., c. 107. Act respecting the Adulteration of Food, Drugs and Agricul

Repeal of 1891, c. 32.

tural Fertilizers, and the provisions of sections six to thirteen of the said Act, both inclusive, shall, so far as they are applicable and are not inconsistent with this Act, be held to have force and effect in relation to such articles as though such articles were articles of food within the meaning of the said Act.

6. Chapter thirty-two of the Statutes of 1891, intituled An Act in restraint of Fraudulent Marking, is hereby repealed.

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CHAP. 38.

An Act respecting the Units of Electrical Measure.

HE

[Assented to 23rd July, 1894.]

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

1. This Act may be cited as The Electrical Units Act.

Short title.

lished.

2. The units of electrical measure for Canada shall be the Units estabfollowing:(a.) As a unit of resistance, the ohm, which is based upon Ohm. the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the centimetregramme-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury, at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106-3 centimetres.

(b.) As a unit of current, the ampere, which is one-tenth Ampere. of the unit of current of the centimetre-gramme-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, and in accordance with the specification contained in schedule one to this Act, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second.

(c.) As a unit of electro-motive force, the volt, which is Volt. the electro-motive force that, steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm, will produce a current of one ampere, and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by 19% of the electro-motive force between the poles or electrodes of the voltaic cell known as Clark's cell, at a temperature of 15° centigrade and prepared in accordance with the specification contained in schedule two to this Act.

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(d.) As a unit of quantity, the coulomb, which is the Coulomb. quantity of electricity transferred by a current of one ampere in one second.

(e.) As a unit of capacity, the farad, which is the capacity Farad. of a condenser charged to a potential of one volt by one coulomb.

Joule.

Watt.

Henry.

Units and apparatus to be in Department of In

(f.) As a unit of work, the joule, which is equal to 107 units of work in the centimetre-gramme-second system, and is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the energy expended in one second by one ampere in one ohm.

(g.) As a unit of power, the watt, which is equal to 107 units of power in the centimetre-gramme-second system, and is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the work done at the rate of one joule per second.

(h.) As the unit of induction, the henry, which is the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in that circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere per second.

3. The units of electrical measure described in the next preceding section, or such standard apparatus as is necessary to produce them, shall be deposited in the Department of Inland land Revenue. Revenue and shall form part of the system of standards of measure and weight established by The Weights and Measures Act.

SCHEDULE ONE.

In the following specification, the term silver voltameter means the arrangement of apparatus by means of which an electric current is passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water. The silver voltameter measures the total electrical quantity which has passed during the time of the experiment; and by noting this time, the time-average of the current, or, if the current has been kept constant, the current itself, can be deduced.

In employing the silver voltameter to measure currents of about one ampere, the following arrangements should be adopted. The cathode on which the silver is to be deposited should take the form of a platinum bowl not less than 10 centimetres in diameter and from 4 to 5 centimetres in depth. The anode should be a plate of pure silver 30 square centimeters in area and 2 or 3 millemetres in thickness. This is supported horizontally in the liquid near the top of the solution by a platinum wire passed through holes in the plate at opposite corners. To prevent the disintegrated silver which is formed on the anode from falling on to the cathode, the anode should be wrapped round with pure filter paper, secured at the back with sealing wax.

The liquid should consist of a neutral solution of pure silver nitrate, containing about 15 parts by weight of the nitrate to 85 parts of water.

The resistance of the voltameter changes somewhat as the current passes. To prevent these changes having too great an effect on the current, some resistance besides that of the voltameter should be inserted in the circuit. The total metallic resistance of the circuit should not be less than 10 ohms.