But such pamphlets shall be deemed to be printed for convenience only, and nothing contained therein shall prevail against the regularly promulgated versions of the law or the meaning or construction thereof. 21. This act shall come into force upon the day of the Coming into sanction thereof. CAP. IV. An Act to establish special provisions respecting the [Assented to 28th January, 1874.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of 1. From and after the coming into force of this act, member of the senate or of the commons of Canada, be elected a member of the legislative assembly of said province. force of this act. no A senator or shall member the not be a mom federal can-, ber of the pro- A member of the leg. assembly, who 2. Any member of the legislative assembly of this vince, who shall hereafter consent to come forward as a candidate at any election for the house of commons, or who shall accept the office of senator, shall ipso facto cease fors, or to be a member of such legislative assembly. comes forward for the com accepts the office of senator, disqua 3. No person declared by this act incapable of serving tified. as a member of the legislative assembly, shall sit in such Penalty for legislative assembly, or vote therein, under a penalty of one sitting or thousand dollars for each day upon which he shall have so spite of such sat or voted. voting, in de disqualifica tion. CAP. V. f An Act to amend the Act respecting the Department of [Assented to 28th January, 1874.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of 1. The 41st section of the act respecting the department of Addition to Agriculture and Public Works, (32 Victoria, chap. 15,) is sect. 41, 32 amended, by adding thereto the following: Vict., ch. 15, Amount of the "The amount of the annual subscription to become a subscription. member of an Agricultural society shall be determined by the directors of each society; but the amount necessary to become a member should not in any case exceed the sum of two dollars." Paragraphs added to sec. 2. Section 44 of the said act, is amended, by adding 44 of same act. thereto the following paragraphs: Choice of a permanent site for the exhibitions. Approval of the county council; its by-law. "2. Whenever the board of officers and directors of an Agricultural society of a county, or part of a county, shall determine to establish a permanent place for the exhibitions of such society, it shall be its duty to call together a special meeting of the members of the society by giving fifteen days notice, stating the object of the meeting, and the said meeting so called, shall make choice of the place, which in the opinion of such meeting is the most central and most convenient in such county or part of county, on which to erect permanent buildings in which future exhibitions shall be held." "3. The proceedings of the said meeting shall be submitted to the municipal council of such county, for its approval, at its first general meeting after the receipt of the said proceedings. If the choice made by the said Agricultural society is approved, the said county council shall pass a by-law ordering that in future all exhibitions of such county or part of county, shall be held at the place so chosen. Nevertheless, if after such approval, should twenty members of the society disapprove the choice so made, they may, within thirty days following the passing of the said Appeal to the municipal by-law, appeal to the commissioner of Agriculture by petition, signed by at least twenty members of the said society, setting forth their complaints; and the decision of the commissioner shall be final." commissioner. Uniting unorganized societies to others. Sec. 45 of this "4. Whenever there are one or more Agricultural societies in a county, and that one or any of them shall not have been organized for the space of two years or more, the council of Agriculture in case it is deemed suitable, shall have the right to unite the said societies in one county society." act replaced. the following: 3. Section 45, of the said act is repealed, and replaced by When and how more than one formed in a county. "45. On a petition or petitions from different parts of a agricultural county, of which one or all shall be signed by forty persons society can be representing to the council of Agriculture, that it would be difficult for farmers from the section in which the petitioners reside, to attend the exhibitions of the county society, in consequence of the distance, and that they, the forty petitioners, consent to subscribe the amount necessary to the organization of a second Agricultural society in the said county, in conformity with the provisions of this act, the said council shall examine such petition, and should it be of opinion that it is desirable to have a second agricul tural society in the said county, it may authorize its organi zation, and fix the limits or the section of the county over which its operations shall extend, and in this case the operations of the first society shall be limited to the remainder of the county." 4. Section 52 of the said act, 32 Vict., chap. 15, is repeal- Sec. 52 reed and replaced, by the following: placed. ciety, how "52. It shall be lawful for the county agricultural District sosocieties comprised in each of the judicial districts of the formed. province, together to form a district agricultural society, by adopting resolutions to that end, either collectively or separately, and transmitting them to the commissioner; and whenever all the societies of a district or three at least of them have resolved to constitute themselves into a district agricultural society, and shall for this object have appropriated a sum of at least one hundred dollars each, the commissioner, if he approve their proceedings, shall give notice in the Quebec Official Gazette of the formation of such society, and from thence the agricultural societies of such district which had resolved to constitute themselves into a district society shall be a legal corporation under the name of, "The Agricultural society of the district of ," and shall have the right to acquire and hold real estate and buildings in which to hold their exhibitions Its powers. and meetings, or therein to maintain a school of agriculture; and shall have power to sell and to lease the said real estate or otherwise to dispose of them; provided always, Proviso: that they do not at any time hold more than three hundred acres, and the societies in the district which are not united to, and do not form part, of the district society, shall continue to remain separate. And all or each county agri- County socultural society belonging to adjoining districts, shall have ciety in the power to annex itself to the agricultural society of such trict can adjoining district, by appropriating at least a sum of one unite with a hundred dollars for this object, and such society, so united, society. shall be for all agricultural purposes considered as forming part of the district to which it shall be so annexed." another dis district 5. Sections one and two of the act 31 Vict., chap. 3, Ss. 1 and 2, amending the act 32 Vict., chap. 15, shall be repealed and of 34 Vict., ch. 3, replaced. replaced by the following: tural and 1. To organize jointly with a committee of seven mem- Organization bers of the council of arts and manufactures, composed of of the agriculdelegates of the said council, agricultural and industrial industrial exexhibitions, which will be opened to such competitors as they hibitions. shall determine to admit, once at least in three years; and five days' notice shall be given by the president or the se Aid may be granted for each 25 miles of road completed. The Quebec and New Brunswick railway comronounce its grant of lands. pany must The St. Francis and Me gantic International rail way co. must renounce its grant of lands. The Bay of Chaleurs rail renounce its grant of lands. 3. Notwithstanding any provision contained in the Colonization railway aid act of 1869, the lieutenant-governor in council, if he thinks proper, may nevertheless, when it is established that any one of such companies is actively engaged in the construction of its works, grant to it for each twenty-five miles or more of road completed or one continuous half of the whole line, a portion of such provincial aid, proportionate in amount to such length of road. 4. The Quebec and New Brunswick railway company shall not be entitled to any aid under this act unless it shall have, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, signified in writing unto the secretary of the province, the abandonment by it of any claim to the grant of land specified in the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh sections of the act of this province, thirty-fourth Victoria, chapter twenty-one, and the acceptance by it of the subsidy or aid accorded by this act; in the event of the company determining to accept such aid or subsidy, and so signifying its intention, it shall be deemed to have forfeited, and shall forfeit all claim to the grant of lands mentioned in the said act. 5. The St. Francis and Megantic International railway company shall not be entitled to any aid under this act, unless it shall have, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, signified, in writing, unto the secretary of the province, the abandonment by it of any claim to the grant of land specified in sections two, three, and four of the act of this province, thirty-fifth Victoria, chapter twenty-three, and the acceptance by it of the subsidy or aid accorded by this act; in the event of the company determining to accept such aid or subsidy, and signifying its intention to that effect, it shall be deemed to have forfeited, and shall forfeit all claim to the grant of lands mentioned in the said act. 6. The Bay of Chaleurs railway company shall not be way co. must entitled to any aid under this act, unless it shall have, on or and seventy-five, signified in writing, unto the secretary of before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred the province, the abandonment by it of any claim to the grant of land specified in sections one and two of the act of this province, thirty-sixth Victoria, chapter forty-two, and the acceptance by it of the subsidy or aid accorded by this act; in the event of the company determining to accept such aid or subsidy, and signifying its intention to that effect, it shall be deemed to have forfeited, and shall forfeit all claim to the grant of lands mentioned in the said act. John railway grant of lands. 7. The Quebec and Lake St. John railway company shall The Quebec not be entitled to any aid under this act, unless it shall and Lake St. have, on or before the first day of January, one thousand co. must reeight hundred and seventy-five, signified in writing unto ounce its the secretary of the province, the abandonment by it of any claim to the grant of land specified in sections five and six of the act of this province, thirty-fifth Victoria, chapter twenty-three, and the acceptance by it of the subsidy or aid accorded by this act; in the event of the company determining to accept such aid or subsidy, and signifying its intention to that effert, it shall be deemed to have forfeited, and shall forfeit all claim to the grant of lands mentioned in the said act. road ready to Nov., 1874. 8. If any company mentioned in the first section of this Certain omact, with the exception of the Quebec and New Brunswick panies must be railway, the St. Francis and Megantic International rail-organized, and way, the Bay of Chaleurs railway, and the Quebec and Lake 10 miles of St. John railway, to which four companies the provisions of receive rails this section shall in no manner apply, is not upon the first before 1st day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventyfour, fully and in good faith, organized under the charter thereof, and has not on such day, at least ten miles of road graded and in perfect readiness for rails to be laid down thereon, such company shall not be entitled to any grant under the first section of this act, but, on the contrary, in so far as relates to any such railway company, the grant mentioned therein shall be entirely inoperative and of no effect. be ma le for the Montreal to 9. The lieutenant-governor in council may, subject to the A loan of pose authorized. 10. The said last mentioned company shall be entitled to Conditions. 1. The whole of the said railway shall have been com- Delay. 2. The said railway shall connect with the North Shore Connection Shore railway, |