CHAP. 8. An Act further to amend the Act respecting Ocean HER [Assented to 23rd July, 1894.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Section three of chapter two of the Statutes of 1889, inti- 1889, c. 2, s. 3 tuled An Act relating to Ocean Steamship Subsidies, is hereby repealed. repealed and the following substituted therefor : vice between dom. "3. The Governor in Council may enter into a contract for Steamship sera term not exceeding ten years with any individual or com- Canada and pany, for the performance of a fast weekly steamship service United Kingbetween Canada and the United Kingdom, making connection with a French port, on such terms and conditions as to the carriage of mails and otherwise as the Governor in Council deems expedient, for a subsidy not exceeding the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year." OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 9. An Act to provide for the payment of Bounties on [Assented to 23rd July, 1894.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: iron and steel Canadian ore. 1. The Governor in Council may authorize the payment of Bounty on a bounty of two dollars per ton on all pig iron made in Canada made in Canfrom Canadian ore, a bounty of two dollars per ton on all iron ada from puddled bars made in Canada from Canadian pig iron manufactured from Canadian ore, and a bounty of two dollars per ton on all steel billets manufactured in Canada from pig iron (made in Canada from Canadian ore) and such other ingredients as are necessary and usual in the manufacture of such steel billets, the proportion of such ingredients to be regulated by order of the Governor in Council: Provided, that in computing the Proviso. bounty no payment shall be made with respect to foreign ores used in the products herein mentioned. 2. In the case of the products of furnaces now in operation During what the said bounties shall be applicable only to such products periods. manufactured therein between the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, both days included; and in the case of the products of any furnace which commences operations hereafter, but prior to the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the said bounties shall be applicable to such products manufactured therein during a period of five years from the date of commencing operations. 3. The Governor in Council may make regulations in rela- Regulations. tion to the bounties hereinabove mentioned in order to prevent fraud and to ensure the good effect of this Act. 4. The said regulations shall be laid before Parliament Yearly report within the first fifteen days of each session, with a statement to Parliament. "Steel Lillet " defined. of the moneys expended in payment of the said bounties, and of the persons to whom they have been paid, and the places at which the pig iron with respect to which they have been paid was manufactured, and such other particulars as tend to show the effect of the said bounties. 5. For the purposes of this Act, a steel billet shall mean the product of a steel ingot re-heated or rolled or hammered into flat slabs or square billets of any size. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 10. An Act further to amend the Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons. [Assented to 23rd July, 1894] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: present ses 1. For the present session of Parliament, the deduction of Days of abeight dollars per day mentioned in section twenty-six of the sence during Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons, being chapter sion. eleven of the Revised Statutes, shall not be made for twelve days in the case of a member who has been absent from a sitting of the House of which he is a member, or of some committee thereof, during such number of days; but this provision Proviso. shall not operate to extend the maximum amount mentioned in section twenty-five of the said Act, nor in the case of a member elected since the commencement of the present session shall it apply to days prior to his election. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. |