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CAP. VIII.

An Act to amend the "Registration of titles (Manitoba Act) and the Act amending the same being 38th Victoria, chapter 35.

[Assented to 25th June, 1879.]

WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to amend the Act 36 Victoria, chapter 18, and the amendment thereto, 38 Victoria, Chapter 35, therefore,

HER MAJESTY by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows;

follows.

I. Section forty-six of 36 Victoria, Chapter 18, is sec. 46, 36 Vic. hereby repealed and in lieu, and instead thereof shall repealed as be substituted the following section which shall take the place of the said section, "No Registrar or Deputy Registrar or Clerk in his office shall directly or indirectly act as the agent of any corporation, society, company, person or persons investing money and taking securities on real estate within this County, nor shall such Registrar, or Deputy Registrar, or Clerk in his office advise for fee or reward or otherwise upon titles of land.

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II. Sub-section one of the forty-ninth section of said Sub-sec. 1 of Act is hereby amended by striking out the words "two amended. dollars" in the sixth line of said sub-section and substituting therefor the words "one dollar" and also by striking out the words "twenty-five" in the seventh line of said sub-section, and substituting therefor the word "fifteen."

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III. Section one of the Act 38 Victoria, Chapter 35, Vic. cap. 35 is hereby amended by adding the words "without amended. actual notice" after the word "consideration" in the seventh and eighth line of said section.

IV. Section five of the same Act, 38 Victoria, Chap- Sec. 5 of same ter 35, is hereby repealed and in lieu, and instead Act repealed. thereof shall be substituted the following section

Return to be

eath.

which shall take the place of the said section, "Every Registrar shall keep a separate book in which he shall enter from day to day, all fees and emoluments received by him by virtue of his office, showing separately the made under sums received for registering each instrument, and for searches and for extracts of copies, and shall make up to, and including the thirty-first day of December of the previous year, a return under oath of such fees and emoluments so received, to the Lieutenant-Governor annually on the fifteenth day of January, and such fees, and emoluments shall be applied in the following

Registrar may retain fees up to $2500.

May retain 90 per cent.

may retain

80 per cent.

May retain

70 per cent.

May retain 60 per cent.

May retaln 50 per cent.

manner.

1. Each Registrar shall be entitled to retain to his own use in each year, all the fees and emoluments received by him in that year up to two-thousand fivehundred dollars.

2. Of the further fees and emoluments received by each Registrar in each year in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars, not exceeding three thousand dollars, he shall be entitled to retain to his own use ninety per cent and no more.

3. Of the further fees and emoluments received by each Registrar in each year in excess of three thousand dollars, not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars, he shall be entitled to retain to his own use eighty per cent and no more.

4. Of the further fees and emoluments received by each Registrar in each year, in excess of three thousand five hundred dollars, not exceeding four thousand dollars, he shall be entitled to retain to his own use seventy per cent and no more.

5. Of the further fees and emoluments received by each Registrar in each year, in excess of four thousand dollars not exceeding four thousand five hundred dollars, he shall be entitled to retain to his own use sixty per cent and no more.

6. Of the further fees and emoluments received by each Registrar, in cach year in excess of four thousand five hundred dollars, he shall be entitled to retain to his own use fifty per cent and no more.

7. On the fifteenth day of January in each year, each Pay to Registrar shall transmit to the Treasurer of the Pro- Treasurer. vince a duplicate of the return required by this Act, and shall also pay to such Treasurer for the public use of the Province, such proportion of the fees and emoluments received by him during the preceding year as under this Act, he is not entitled to retain to his own

use.

consolidated

V. Each Registrar shall be entitled to be paid out of Registrar to the Consolidated Fund of the Province for entering in be paid out of the abstract books as provided for in section one offund. chapter IX, 41 Victoria, all instruments registered by them prior to their receiving said abstract books, the sum of five (5) cents for each of such abstract entries.

CAP.

Preamble.

Duty of commissioners.

Printed roll.

Lieutenant-
Governor and
Clerk of
Legislative

CAP. IX.

An Act respecting the Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba.

[Assented to 25th June, 1879.]

WHEREAS in pursuance of 41 Victoria, Chapter 3, the Commissioners appointed thereunder, have reported the classification, revision and consolidation of the Statutes of a general and permanent character of this Province, and within the jurisdiction of the Legislature thereof; and whereas it is expedient to provide for the incorporation therewith of the public general Statutes passed during the present session, and for printing and giving the force of law to the said classified, revised and consolidated statutes, including any public sta tutes of the present session, under the name of the "Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba;" therefore,

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as fol

lows:

I. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners appointed under 41 Vict., cap. 3, to incorporate into the body cf the Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba the General Statutes passed during the present session.

II. A printed roll of the said Consolidated Statutes to be marked Z. and attested as the roll of the said Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba, under the signature of His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor and that of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, shall be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.

III. The said Commissioners shall cause the Roll of the Consolidated Statutes aforesaid to be printed and Assembly to to be marked Z, and to be attested as the roll aforesaid, sign printed roll-where to by the signature thereto or thereon of the Lieutenantbe deposited. Governor and that of the Clerk of the Legislative As

sembly; and when so printed, marked and attested as aforesaid, to be deposited in the office of the Clerk of

the

Said roll shal!

nal consoli

tes.

the Legislative Assembly, or elsewhere, as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may direct and appoint; and thenceforth and thereafter the said roll so printed, marked, attested and deposited as aforesaid, shall be and shall be held to be the original of the Consolidated be the origiStatutes of Manitoba: Provided always, that the mar- dated statuginal notes thereon, and the references to the Statutes at the foot of the several sections in the several chap- Proviso. ters thereof, and the headings indicating the subject matter of which the Statute treats, shall form no part of the said Consolidated Statutes, but shall be held to have been inserted for convenience only, and may be omitted or corrected, if erroneous by commission or omission.

attached to

IV. The said roll shall have attached to it a schedule Schedule lettered "A" which shall contain in chronological order, roll. a list of the several Acts which have been revised and which are contained in the Consolidated Statutes; and which, from and after the Consolidated Statutes shall come into force and operation, shall be and stand repealed; and the said Commissioners may attach to the said roll any other schedules which, in their judgment, may be advisable and expedient for reference elucidation or explanation.

tes shall have

V. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council, after such When statudeposit of the said roll, may, by proclamation, declare effect as law. the day, on, from and after which the said roll and Consolidated Statutes therein contained, shall come into force and have effect as law, by the designation of "The Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba."

schedule A

VI. On, from and after such day, the same shall, ac- Statutes in cordingly, come into force and effect as and by the repealed designation of "The Consolidated Statutes of Manito- except. ba," to all intents as though the same and every of them and every part thereof were and was expressly embodied in, enacted by, and formed part of this Act, and were and was by this Act directed to come into force and operation and to have effect on, from and after such day; and on, from and after the same day, all the enactments and statutes mentioned in schedule "A" to the said roll, enacted or passed by the Legislature of Manitoba, shall stand and be repealed, except the contrary thereof be expressed in the said schedule

"A."

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