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NO. 19 OF 1896.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 8 OF 1893, INTITULED "THE GAME 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:

1. Sub-section 2 of section 6 of The Game Ordinance is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words: "except in the Dominion electoral district of the east riding of Assiniboia, where no beaver shall be hunted, trapped or killed at any time until the first day of November one thousand nine hundred and one."

Sub-section 3 of section 2 repealed.

New

sub-section.

Section 15 amended.

Section 20 amended.

New section.

NO 20 OF 1896.

AN ORDINANCE TO FURTHER AMEND "THE
LIQUOR LICENSE ORDINANCE 1891-92."

[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. Sub-section 3 of section 2 of The Liquor License Ordinance 1891-92 and all amendments thereto are hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor:

(3) "Householder" shall mean :

(a) The owner or owners of any house or place of business not actually occupied by any other person under a lease for a year or any longer term;

(b) The tenant or tenants in actual occupation of any house or place of business under a lease for a year or any longer term. Husband and wife living together shall not be considered as separate householders, and the husband shall have the right to act in this respect.

2. Section 15 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by striking out the words "on or before the fifteenth day of April," and inserting after the word 'send" where it occurs therein the words "with his application."

3. Section 20 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting after the word "estimated where it occurs therein the words "for the expense of calling the board together and of advertising."

4. It shall not be necessary for any licensee applying for a renewal of his license for the same premises,

or for any person applying for a transfer of a license, to obtain said recommendation (Schedule 6), unless since obtaining such recommendation he has been convicted of an offence under this Ordinance.

5. The following sub-section is hereby added to Sub-section Section 39 of the said Ordinance :

added to section 39

sub-section.

(1) A license granted to any firm or partnership New shall without any formality enure to the benefit of the remaining partner or partners in the event of the withdrawal or removal of any of them by dissolution or any other determination of the partnership.

6. Section 43 of the said Ordinance is hereby section 43 amended by striking out the word "commissioners" amended. wherever it occurs therein and substituting therefor the words "chief license inspector," and by striking out all the words in the said section after the word 'allowed" to the end thereof.

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7. Section 59 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting after the word "inspector' where it occurs therein the words "and to the boards of their respective districts."

8. The following sub-section is hereby added to Sub-section Section 64 of the said Ordinance:

addea to section 64.

sub-section.

(3) Except as is herein otherwise provided no bar- New room, or room in which liquors are usually sold in a licensed hotel, shall be kept open at any time during the hours when the sale or other disposal of liquors is prohibited.

9. Section 79 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sub-section :

(1) No permit under this section shall be granted for the sale of ale or lager beer upon grounds, cccupied, or partly occupied, for the time being, of any agricultural society or any other society, association or corporation, for the purpose of holding any agricultural show or industrial exhibition.

10. Any contravention of any of the provisions of New section. this Ordinance by any servant, agent or employee of a

New section.

Bar room not to be connect

ed with hotel by more than

one door.

View into bar

obstructed

licensed person shall be presumed to be the act of such licensed person, but such presumption may be rebutted by proof of explicit instructions to the contrary by such licensed person. Any such servant, agent or employee contravening any of the provisions of this Ordinance and disobeying any such explicit instructions shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for not less than ten days or more than three months, without the option of a fine.

11. Any person to whom the sale of liquor has been prohibited under Sections 92 and 94 of this Ordinance who either directly or indirectly in any way procures or permits the sale, disposal, gift or delivery to him by any person of any intoxicating liquor shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than fifty dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for not more than one month. In any prosecution under this section, if intoxication on the part of the defendant, be proved, he shall be held to have been guilty of an infraction of the section, and in any such case it shall not be necessary in any proceedings to state the name of the person from whom the liquor has been procured, or by whom the sale, disposal, gift or delivery of liquor has been made.

12. In any licensed hotel there shall be no connection between the bar room and other portion of the premises by means of windows, wickets, elevators, chutes, openings of any kind, or sliding, folding or other kind of doors, except one door opening directly out of the bar room into a public hall or office of the licensed premises.

13.

In any licensed hotel full view of the interior room not to be of the bar room shall not, during prohibited hours, be during prohi- obstructed by means of screens, shades, blinds, or frosted, ground or coloured windows.

bited hours.

No billiard, etc., tables

permitted in bar room

14. No billiard, pool or other tables shall be permitted in the bar room of any licensed hotel. No liquor shall be sold or supplied in any room in any licensed premises set apart or used for such games.

regarding

15. No license shall be granted in respect of any Conditions premises which do not comply with the provisions of licensed the next three preceding sections.

premises.

of Date when

Ordinance

16. The provisions of sections 12, 13 and 14 this Ordinance shall not come into force until the first comes into day of July, A.D. 1897.

effect.

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