Examinations.

How present employees may come

under this Act.

Annual leave of absence.

Additional

leave, or bonus.

1898, c. 17.

Appointment

Superintendent.

5. Candidates for appointment shall be subject to such previous examinations as are from time to time prescribed by the Governor in Council.

6. Any person heretofore appointed to and filling any of the positions mentioned in section 1, and desiring to occupy a corresponding position under this Act, may elect to accept the provisions of this Act instead of the provisions of The Civil Service Act, by signifying such election in writing, signed by him, and delivered or transmitted by registered letter, addressed to the Secretary of the Post Office Department, within three months after the passing of this Act; and thereupon this Act, instead of The Civil Service Act, shall apply to him, subject to the following conditions :-

First, Such election shall not affect his rights or position under The Civil Service Superannuation Act or The Civil Service Retirement Act, 1898;

Secondly, Any one who, at the time of his election, is serving a probationary period, shall be classed in grade "A"; any one who has been or shall be confirmed in his position shall, if duly recommended, be classed in grade "B," unless more than two years and less than four years have elapsed since such confirmation, in which event he shall, if so recommended, be classed in grade "C"; and if more than four years have elapsed since such confirmation, he shall, if so recommended, be classed in grade "D," subject to reduction as mentioned in section 4.

He may

7. Every person mentioned in section 1 shall be entitled. each year to two weeks' leave of absence with pay. also, on account of satisfactory service, be granted additional leave of absence with pay, for a period not exceeding ten days in each year, or a bonus at the rate of two dollars for each day of such additional leave, and in that case he shall have his option between the said additional leave and the said bonus.

8. Any person hereafter appointed to any of the positions mentioned in section 1 shall be subject to The Civil Service Retirement Act, 1898.

9. A Chief Post Office Superintendent may be appointed, at of Post Office a salary not exceeding three thousand dollars a year, whose duty it shall be from time to time to inspect the city post offices and such other post offices as the Postmaster General from time to time indicates, to examine into their management and efficiency, and to advise and instruct the various staffs with a view to promoting the efficiency of the service.

Qualification.

10. No person shall be eligible for appointment as Chief Post Office Superintendent unless he has been a clerk, or officer of higher rank, in a city post office for at least ten years. His May combine appointment as such superintendent shall not, unless and until

so determined by the Governor in Council, have the effect of removing him from the position held by him in the service at the time of his appointment as superintendent, provided that Proviso: limit his total salary shall not exceed three thousand dollars per as to salary.

annum.

for certain

11. No person over thirty years of age, other than those at Age limit present temporarily in the Post Office service, shall be eligible positions. for appointment as railway mail clerk or as stamper and sorter.

12. Appointments, promotions, reductions in grade and Appointdismissals under this Act shall be made by the Governor in ments, etc... Council.

by Governor in Council.

13. Section 8 of chapter 20 of the statutes of 1889, and Repeal. section 1 of chapter 54 of the statutes of 1894, are repealed.

s. 9 amended.

14. The paragraph substituted by section 1 of chapter 26 R.S.C., c. 35, of the statutes of 1897 for paragraph (r) of subsection 1 of section 9 of The Post Office Act, chapter 35 of the Revised Statutes, is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor :

Regulations

"(r.) make regulations for security being given by any by Postmaster person or body corporate to His Majesty for the due perfor- General. mance of his duties in any matter relative to the Post Office of Canada by any officer, employee, clerk or servant employed by or under the Postmaster General, or by any one employed in the Canada Post Office, or by any one performing, whether with or without authority, any business of the Post Office of Canada; and also for the establishment and maintenance of a fund derived or to be derived from moneys received from officers, employees, clerks and servants employed by or under the Postmaster General, wherewith to make good losses arising from the malfeasance, misfeasance or failure to duly discharge his duties in any matter relating to the Post Office of any such officer, employee, clerk or servant, or of any one performing any business of the Post Office, and for the indemnification of His Majesty and others sustaining such losses, by payments out of the fund; but nothing herein or in any such regulation shall create any liability on the part of His Majesty or the Postmaster General to indemnify any person for any such loss.

schedule B

15. So much of schedule B to The Civil Service Act as re- R.S.C., c. 17. lates to clerks in city post offices is repealed, and the following amended. is substituted therefor :

"Clerks in City Post Offices.

"4th Class, on appointment, $400, by annual increase of $50 to $600; any stamper and sorter may be promoted to the 4th class, and on such promotion his initial salary as such 4th class clerk

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clerk shall be equal to his salary as such stamper and sorter at
the time of such promotion;

"3rd Class, $600, by annual increase of $40 to $800;
"2nd Class, $900, by annual increase of $50 to $1,200;

"1st Class-Specific duties in each case with fixed salaries to be determined by the Postmaster General; no salary to be less than $1,200 or more than $1,500;

"Superintendent of letter carriers, not to exceed $800;

"Mail transfer agents, $400, with an annual increase of $40 to a maximum of $600;

"Letter carriers, sorters and stampers, messengers, box collectors and porters, $360 to $600 by annual increase of $30."

16. The Postmaster General may make regulations for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act.

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CHAP. 29.

An Act to amend the Railway Act.

[Assented to 15th May, 1902.]

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

1. Section 114 of The Railway Act is repealed and the fol lowing is substituted therefor :

pits, water

"114. Whenever any stone, gravel, earth, sand or water, Branch lines, so required, is situate at a distance from the line of the rail- etc., to ballast way, the Company may, for the purposes of construction or supply, etc. maintenance of the railway, lay down the necessary tracks, spurs or branch lines, water pipes or conduits, over or through any lands intervening between the railway and the land on which such material or water is found, or any other place to which the said stone, gravel, earth or sand may be brought, whatever is the distance; and all the provisions of this Act, except such as relate to the filing of plans and publication of notice, shall apply, and the powers thereby granted may be used and exercised to obtain the right of way from the railway to the land on which such materials are situated, or to which as aforesaid they may be brought; and such right may be acquired for a term of years or permanently, as the company thinks proper; and the powers in this and the next preceding section contained may, at all times, be exercised and used in all respects, after the railway is constructed, for the purpose of repairing and maintaining the railway."

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