Section 4 repealed. Section 5 repealed. Marriage licenses to be signed and sealed by officer appointed for that purpose. Section 10 amended. Section 12 amended. NO. 6 OF 1896. AN ORDINANCE TO FURTHER AMEND "THE [Assented to October 30, 1896.] The Lieutenant-Governor, by and with the advice. and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows: 1. Section 4 of The Marriage Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: 4. Marriage licenses shall be in form A at the end of this Ordinance, and shall be supplied from the office of the Executive Committee to such persons as may be appointed from time to time by the LieutenantGovernor in Council to issue the same to applicants for such licenses. 2. Section 5 of the said Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: 5. Every license shall be signed and sealed with the seal of the Territories by an officer appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and shall be and remain valid notwithstanding that the officer who has signed the same has ceased to hold office before the time of its issue. 3. Section 10 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by striking out the words LieutenantGovernor" therein, and substituting therefor the words: "the officer mentioned in section 5 of this Ordinance." 4. Section 12 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by striking out the words "LieutenantGovernor" therein, and substituting therefor the words: "the officer mentioned in Section 5 of this Ordinance." amended. 5. Section 13 of the said Ordinance is hereby Section 18 amended by striking out the words "LieutenantGovernor" therein, and substituting therefor the words: "Executive Committee." Ordinance. 6. This Ordinance shall not come into force until Operation of the 1st day of January, A.D. 1897. NO. 7 OF 1896. AN ORDINANCE TO EXEMPT CERTAIN PROPERTY FROM DISTRESS FOR RENT. [Assented to October 30, 1896.] The Lieutenant-Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows: 1. A landlord shall not distrain for rent on the goods and chattels the property of any person except the tenant or person who is liable for the rent, although the same are found on the premises; but this restriction shall not apply in favour of a person claiming title under or by virtue of an execution against the tenant, or in favour of any person whose title is derived by purchase, gift, transfer, or assignment from the tenant, whether absolute or in trust, or by way of mortgage or otherwise, nor to the interest of the tenant in any goods on the premises in the possession of the tenant under a contract for purchase or by which he may or is to become the owner thereof upon performance of any condition, nor where goods have been exchanged between two tenants or persons by the one borrowing or hiring from the other for the purpose of defeating the claim of or the right of distress by the landlord, nor shall the restriction apply where the property is claimed by the wife, husband, daughter, son, daughterin-law, or son-in-law of the tenant, or by any other relative of his, in case such other relative lives on the premises as a member of the tenant's family. NO. 8 OF 1896. AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 18 OF 1892 INTITULED "THE HOSPITALS ORDINANCE." [Assented to October 30, 1896]. The Lieutenant-Governor, by and with the advice. and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows: schedule. 1. The Hospitals Ordinance is hereby amended by Addition to adding to list of hospitals named in the schedule thereto The Edmonton General Hospital and The Saltcoats Cottage Hospital. Definitions. NO. 9 OF 1896. FACT AN ORDINANCE RESPECTING FACTORS AND AGENTS. [Assented to October 30, 1896.] The Lieutenant-Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows: 1. For the purposes of this Ordinance : (1) The expression "Mercantile Agent" shall mean a mercantile agent having, in the customary course of his business as such agent, authority either to sell goods, or to consign goods for the purpose of sale, or to buy goods, or to raise money on the security of goods; (2) A person shall be deemed to be in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods, where the goods or documents are in his actual custody or are held by any other person subject to his control or for him or on his behalf; (3) The expression "Goods" shall include wares and merchandise; (4) The expression "Document of Title" shall include any bill of lading, dock warrant, warehouse-keeper's certificate, and warrant or order for the delivery of goods, and any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by endorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented; (5) The expression "Pledge" shall include any contract pledging, or giving a lien or security on, goods, whether in consideration of an original advance or of |