CHAP. 9. An Act to amend the Boards of Trade Act. [Assented to 20th July, 1908.] HIS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Section 4 of The Boards of Trade Act, chapter 124 of the R.S., c. 124, Revised Statutes, 1906, is hereby amended by adding thereto the s. 4 following subsection: amended. formation of "2. Where the district is situate wholly or partly within a Certificate of district for which there is an existing board of trade, the certifi- board of cate shall be accompanied by a statutory declaration of two or trade. more of the persons signing the same as to the facts in that regard and in regard to the population of the existing district, as well as that of the proposed new district and of the existing district as diminished by the proposed change, and as to any facts or considerations which made the establishment of the new board expedient." amended. 2. Section 5 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding s. 5 thereto the following subsection:— "2. In cases falling within subsection 2 of the next preceding Proceedings section"(a) the existing board of trade shall be afforded an opportunity to show cause against the proposed change; State for "(b) the certificate shall be recorded only with the sanction registration. and authority of the Governor in Council." when certificate is forwarded to Secretary of change 3. Upon application by the board of trade for any district Procedure to under its corporate seal, signed by the president and secretary, boundaries and duly authorized by by-law of the corporation, the Governor of districts. in Council may change the boundaries of such district. Dissolution of 4. Upon its being made to appear that a board of trade has corporation. become incapable of exercising or has ceased to exercise its franchises, the Governor in Council may, upon and subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks just and proper, dissolve the board as a corporation. New 8. 3. Persons who may form a board of trade. 5. Section 3 of the said Act is repealed and the following is substituted therefor: "3. Any number of persons, not less than thirty, who are merchants, traders, brokers, mechanics, manufacturers, managers of banks or insurance agents, carrying on business in, or resident in any district which has a population of not less than two thousand five hundred, or in the province of British Columbia or in the Yukon Territory not less than one thousand five hundred, may associate themselves together as a board of trade and appoint a secretary." OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 10. An Act respecting the Court of Appeal of British Assented to 20th July, 1908.] HT IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: DISFRANCHISING ACT. 1. Paragraph (c) of section 26 of The Disfranchising Act, R.S., c. 9, chapter 9 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, is repealed and the s. 26 following paragraphs are substituted therefor: amended. "(c) in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Court of Prince Edward Island, to the Supreme Court in banc; WINDING-UP ACT. Appeal. new s. 102. 2. Section 102 of The Winding-up Act, chapter 144 of the R.S., c. 144, Revised Statutes, 1906, as the said section is amended by chapter 74 of the statutes of 1908, is repealed and the following 1908. c. 74, is substituted therefor: "102. Such appeal shall lie, (a) in Ontario, to the Court of Appeal; (b) in Quebec, to the Court of King's Bench; (c) in Manitoba, to the Court of Appeal; (d) in British Columbia, to the Court of Appeal; and, (e) in any of the other provinces or the Yukon Territory, to a Superior Court in banc." s. 1, repealed. Court of R.S., o. 138, 8. 12 amended. Salaries of Columbia judges. JUDGES' ACT. 3. Section 12 of The Judges' Act, chapter 138 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor: "12. The salaries of the judges of the Court of Appeal and of the Supreme Court in the province of British Columbia shall be as follows: R.S., c. 146, CRIMINAL CODE. 4. Paragraph (7) of section 2 of The Criminal Code, chapter 146 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, is amended by repealing subparagraph (c) thereof and substituting therefor the following subparagraphs: "(c) in the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the Supreme Court in banc; "(c) in the province of British Columbia, the Court of Appeal." Commencement of Act. COMMENCEMENT OF ACT, 5. This Act shall not come into force until the Act of the Legislature of the province of British Columbia passed in the session thereof held in the seventh year of the reign of His Majesty, chaptered 10, and intituled "An Act constituting a Court of Appeal and declaring its jurisdiction," has been brought into force; and thereupon this Act shall come into force upon a day to be named by proclamation of the Governor in Council. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. II. An Act respecting certain aid for the extension of the HIS with [Assented to 20th July, 1908.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: guarantee 1. The Government of Canada may aid and assist the con- Government struction of the lines of railway, set out in the schedule hereto, of bonds. of the Canadian Northern Railway Company, hereinafter called "the Company," by guaranteeing the principal and interest of the bonds, debentures, debenture stock or other securities, hereinafter called "securities," of the said company, to the extent of thirteen thousand dollars per mile of the said lines of railway so aided, respectively, interest on the said securities to be at the rate of three and one-half per cent per annum, payable half yearly, and the principal to be payable in fifty years from the passing of this Act. first lien on 2. The said securities so guaranteed shall be secured by one Security by or more deeds of trust, by way of mortgage or charge, to a trustee lines aided. or trustees, approved of by the Governor in Council, and such deed or deeds of trust shall respectively grant a first mortgage or charge upon the line or lines of railway included therein, and the rights of way, station grounds and other real estate and interests therein, buildings and other structures and improvements, rolling stock and equipment, plant, machinery, tools, supplies, materials and other personal properties, present and future, acquired for the purposes of the said lines so aided, and in connection with operating, repairing and maintaining them, and the tolls, incomes, and revenues of the Company arising and to arise from the said lines and the rights, privileges, franchises and powers of the Company now or hereafter held with respect |