HIS CHAP. 53. An Act to amend the Post Office Act. [Assented to 20th July, 1908.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Section 48 of The Post Office Act is amended by striking R.S., c. 66, out all the words after "letters" in the fifth line thereof.. 8. 48. amended. 2. Section 13 of the said Act is amended by striking s. 13 out all the words after the word "been" in the second line there- amended. of, and substituting the following:-"an officer in the postal service for at least five years." superin 3. A financial superintendent may be appointed by the Appointment Governor in Council, whose duty it shall be from time to time of financial to examine the accounts of city or staff offices, semi-staff tendent. offices, and such other post offices as the Postmaster General from time to time indicates. 2. The salary of the financial superintendent shall, on appoint- Salary. ment, be three thousand dollars a year and he shall be a member of the Inside Service. 3. No person shall be eligible for appointment as financial Qualification. superintendent unless he has been a clerk or an officer of higher rank in one of the financial branches of the postal service. amended. 4. Subsection 2 of section 53 of the said Act is hereby amended S. 53 by substituting the word "forty" for the word "twenty" in the Transmission second line thereof, and the word "eighty" for the word "forty" of in the fourth line thereof. newspapers. 5. Subsection 3 of section 53 of the said Act is hereby amended Same. by substituting in the fifth line thereof the word "one-quarter" for "one-half" and by striking out all the words after "directs" in the eighth line thereof. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 54. An Act to authorize the construction of a branch line of the Prince Edward Island Railway from Harmony, on the Souris branch, to Elmira. HIS [Assented to 20th July, 1908.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: railway 1. The Minister of Railways and Canals may, with the Government authority of the Governor in Council, construct a branch line of authorized railway from Harmony, on the Souris Branch of the Prince in P.E.I. Edward Island Railway, to Elmira, in King's county. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 55. An Act to amend the Prisons and Reformatories Act, in so far as the same affects the Province of Nova Scotia. HIS [Assented to 20th July, 1908.] [IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Subsection 5 of section 29 of chapter 148 of the Revised R.S., c. 148, Statutes, 1906, is repealed. 8. 29 amended. 2. Section 90 of the said Act is repealed and the following New s. 90. section is substituted therefor: Protestant Halifax "90. Whenever any boy, who is a Protestant and apparently Power to under the age of sixteen years, is convicted in Nova Scotia of sentence any offence, for which by law he is liable to imprisonment, the boy to judge, stipendiary magistrate, justice or justices by whom he is Industrial so convicted may sentence such boy to be detained in the Halifax School. Industrial School for any term not exceeding five years and not Term. less than two years. receiving "2. The superintendent of the Industrial School may at any Notice to time notify the mayor, warden or other chief magistrate of any authorities municipal municipality that no prisoners, beyond those already under as to sentence in the school, will be received therein; and, after such boys so notification, no boy shall be sentenced in such municipality to be sentenced. detained in the Industrial School until notice has been received by such mayor, warden or chief magistrate, from the superintendent, that prisoners will again be received in the school. release on "3. If any boy so sentenced and detained in the Industrial Conditional School has in the opinion of the board of directors so conducted license. himself during a term of six consecutive months by good behaviour, diligence and industry as to warrant his being set at large and no longer detained in the school, the Minister of of Justice, or such person as he appoints to issue such licenses, may issue a license to such boy to be at large in the province of Nova Scotia, or in such part thereof as is specified in the license. |