13. The authority of any such inspecting engineer or engineers Authority of shall be sufficiently evidenced by instructions in writing signed evidenced. engineers, how by the Chairman of the Railway Committee, and countersigned by the Secretary thereof. 14. No inspection had under this Act, nor anything in this Inspection not Act contained, or done or ordered or omitted to be done or to relieve comordered, under or by virtue of the provisions of this Act, shall any from liability. relieve or be construed to relieve any bridge company of or from any liability or responsibility resting upon it by law, either towards Her Majesty or towards any person, or the wife or husband, parent or child, executor or administrator, tutor or curator, heir or other personal representative of any person for anything done or omitted to be done by such company, or for any wrongful act, neglect or default, misfeasance, malfeasance or non-feasance, of such company, or in any manner or way to lessen such liability or responsibility, or in any way to weaken. or diminish the liability or responsibility of any such company under the laws in force in the Province in which such liability or responsibility arises. mittee, how 15. All orders of the Railway Committee shall be considered Orders of as sufficiently made known to the bridge company by a notice Railway Comthereof signed by the Chairman and countersigned by the Sec- notified. retary of the Committee, and delivered to the President, VicePresident, Managing Director, Secretary or Superintendent of the company, or at the office of the company, and orders of the inspecting engineer or engineers shall be deemed to be made known to the bridge company by a notice thereof signed by the engineer or engineers, and delivered as above mentioned. dents. 16. Every bridge company shall, as soon as possible, and within Company to at least forty-eight hours after the recurrence upon the bridge be- report accilonging to such company of any accident attended with serious personal injury to any person using the same, or whereby their bridge has been broken or so damaged as to render the bridge impassable or unsafe or unfit for immediate use, give notice thereof to the Railway Committee, and if any company wilfully omits to give such notice, such company shall forfeit to Her Majesty the sum of two hundred dollars for every day during which the omission to give the same continues. made twice a 17. Every bridge company shall, within one month after the Return of acfirst days of January and July in each and every year, make cidents to be to the Railway Committee, under the oath of the President, Secretary or Superintendent of the company, a true and particular return of all accidents and casualties (whether to life or property) which have occurred on the bridge of the company during the half year next preceding each of the said periods respectively, setting forth 1. The causes and natures of such accidents and casualties; Railway Committee may prescribe form of return. Penalty if company makes default. Returns privileged. 2. Whether they occurred by night or by day; 3. The full extent thereof, and all the particulars of the same; and, 4. Shall also at the same time return a true copy of the existing by-laws of the company, and of their rules and regulations for the management of the company and of their bridge. 18. The Railway Committee may order and direct, from time to t me, the form in which such returns shall be made up, and may order and direct any bridge company to make up and deliver to them from time to time, in addition to the said periodical returns, returns of serious accidents occurring in the course of the public traffic upon the bridge belonging to such company, whether attended with personal injury or not, in such form and manner as the Committee deem necessary and require for their information, with a view to the public safety. 19. If such returns so verified be not delivered within the respective times herein prescribed, or within fourteen days after the same have been so required by the Committee, every company making default shall forfeit to Her Majesty the sum of one hundred dollars for every day during which the company neglects to deliver the same. 20. All such returns shall be privileged communications, and shall not be evidence in any Court whatsoever. 7. DEPARTMENT OF THE 36 VICT. CAP. 4. An Act to provide for the establishment of "The [Assented to 3rd May, 1873.] Preamble. Department of the Interior. HER ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the 1. There shall be a Department of the Civil Service of Canada to be called the "Department of the Interior," over which the Minister of the Interior, for the time being, appointed by the 2. The Minister of the Interior shall have the control and Minister to management of the affairs of the North West Territories. manage the North West Territories. 3. The Minister of the Interior shall be the Superintendent The Indians in General of Indian affairs, and shall, as such, have the control Canada. and management of the lands and property of the Indians in Canada. lic Lands. 4. The Minister of the Interior shall have the control and The Ordnance management of all Crown Lands being the property of the and other PubDominion, including those known as Ordnance and Admiralty Lands, and all other public lands not specially under the control of the Public Works Department, or of that of Militia and Defence (and excepting also Marine Hospitals and Light Houses Exception. and land connected therewith, and St. Paul's, Sable and Portage Islands), and he is hereby substituted for the former Commis- Substituted for sioner of Crown Lands, as regards Ordnance and Admiralty missioner, Lands transferred to the late Province of Canada, and lying in Ontario and Quebec.. former Com State of 5. The Minister of the Interior is hereby substituted for the And for the Secretary of State of Canada in all the powers, attributes, func- Secretary of tions, restrictions and duties laid down and prescribed in the Canada in the "Dominion Lands Act, 1872;" and wherever the words "Secre- cases named. tary of State are used in that Act, the words "Minister of the Interior" shall be deemed to be substituted therefor; and wherever the words "Department of the Secretary of State" are used, the words "Department of the Interior" shall be deemed to be substituted therefor; and all the provisions of the said Act shall be and continue obligatory upon the Minister of the Interior; and all the officers appointed under the said Act shall become and continue to be officers of the Department of the Interior. Minister of 6. The Governor may appoint, and at his pleasure remove, a Deputy of the "Deputy of the Minister of the Interior," who shall be charged, the Interior. under the Minister of the Interior, with the performance of the Departmental duties of the Minister of the Interior, and with His duties. the control and management of the Officers, Agents, Clerks and Servants of the Department, and with such other powers and duties as may be assigned to him by the Minister of the Interior; 31 Vict. c. 34, and the fourteenth section of "The Canada Civil Service Act, Application of 1868," shall apply to the Deputy of the Minister of the Interior, to such as if the Department of the Interior were mentioned in schedule Deputy. A to that Act; and t e words "Deputy of the Minister of the Interior" shall be deemed to be substituted for the words "Under Secretary of State for the Provinces " in that Schedule. Departmental and other officers may appointed. Former Act to remain in force and apply. be 7. The Governor may also appoint, subject to the "Civil Service Act, 1868," and at his pleasure remove such Departmental Officers, agents, clerks and servants as may be requisite for the proper conduct of the business of the Department at Ottawa, and also such agents, officers, clerks and servants as may be necessary for the same purpose in the North West Territories, and amongst the Indians, and elsewhere in the Dominion. 8. The several clauses of chapter forty-two of the Statutes passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act providing for the organization of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada, and for the management of Indian and Ordnance Lands," relating to the management of Indian affairs and lands, and of Ordnance lands, shall govern Subject to the the Minister of the Interior in the several matters to which they substitution of relate; and wherever the words " Secretary of State" or partment of the Secretary of State occur in those clauses, the words "Minister of the Interior" and "Department of the Interior" shall be deemed to be substituted therefor. certain words. Indians may from the operation of this Aot. "De 9. The Governor in Council may, by proclamation, from time be exempted to time, exempt from the operation of this Act, and of the said Act, chapter forty-two of the Statutes passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, or of any one or more of the clauses thereof, the Indians, or any tribe of them, or the Indian Lands, or any portion of them, in the North West Territories, or in the Province of Manitoba, or in the Province of British Columbia, and may again, by like proclamation, from time to time, remove such exemption. Geological Yearly report 10. The Geological Survey of Canada as now existing shall be attached to the Department of the Interior. 11. The Minister of the Interior shall annually lay before to Parliament. Parliament, within fifteen days after the meeting thereof, a report of the proceedings, transactions and affairs of the Department during the year then next preceding. Secretary of nada to have 12. The Secretary of State of Canada shall have charge of the State Correspondence with the Governments of the several charge of State Provinces included, or which may be hereafter included, within the Dominion of Canada. correspond ence. Other duties of State for Stationery Queen's Printer. 13. The remaining duties hitherto discharged by the Secretary of State for the Provinces, as regards matters other than those relating to the subjects by this Act transferred to the Department of the Interior, shall devolve upon and be discharged by the Secretary of State of Canada, to whom also is transferred the duty of supplying the stationery required by the several Departments of the Government, and the charge of that branch of the public service; and the Queen's Printer shall be held to be an officer of this Department. 14. The Office of Secretary of State for the Provinces is and Certain office stands abolished. abolished. shall come in 15. This Act shall only come into force after the expiration When this Aet of one month from the publication in the Canada Gazette of a force. Proclamation to that effect under an order of the Governor in Council. consistent 16. So much of any Act or law as may be inconsistent with Repeal of inthis Act, or as males any provision in any matter provided for enactments. by this Act, other than such as is hereby made, is repealed, excepting as to things done, obligations contracted or penalties incurred before the coming into force of this Act. C. S. CAN. CAP. 23. An Act respecting the sale and management of Timber on Public Lands.* H ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: LICENSES TO CUT TIMBER ON PUBLIC LANDS. censes to cut 1. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, or any officer or Commissioner agent under him authorized to that effect, may grant licenses ofCrown Lands to cut Timber on the ungranted Lands of the Crown, at such may grant lirates, and subject to such conditions, regulations and restric- timber on pubtions as may from time to time be established by the Governor in Council, and of which notice shall be given in the Canada Gazette: lic lands. 2. No license shall be so granted for a longer period than Period of twelve months from the date thereof; and if, in consequence of license. any incorrectness of survey or other error, or cause whatsoever, a license is found to comprise lands included in a license of a prior date, the license last granted shall be void in so far as it interferes with the one previously issued, and the holder or pro- As to interferprietor of the license so rendered void shall have no claim upon ing licenses. the Government for indemnity or compensation by reason of such avoidance. 2. The said licenses shall describe the lands upon which the Form of Timber may be cut, and shall confer for the time being on the license and its nominee, the right to take and keep exclusive possession of the lands so described, subject to such regulations and restrictions By 36 V. c. 4, sec. 4, page 545, ante the control and management of all Crown Lands, being the property of the Dominion, is assigned to the Minister of the Interior. legal effect. |