SECTION V. Publication PUBLIC NOTICES. 722. All advertisements, notices and documents whatever, of notices, &c. which are required to be published, are published in the Quebec Official Gazette, unless any other mode of publication is prescribed by law. 31 V., c. 13, s. 3. SECTION VI. Tabular state &c., to be pre COMPILATION OF VITAL STATISTICS. 723. Upon receipt of the duplicate registers of civil status, ment of births the prothonotaries of the Superior Court shall annually prepared by pro- pare, in the form of tables approved by the Lieutenant-Goverthonotaries, nor in Council, a statement containing the number of births &c, annually and marriages set forth in each of the said registers, as also the number of burials and the cause of death of each person buried, if such be mentioned in the registers. 32 V., c. 26, s. 3; 50 V., c. 19, s. 1. When to be prepared and 724. The prothonotary of each district shall prepare the to whom to be said tables, within a delay of one month after receiving such forwarded. registers in his office, and shall transmit the same without delay to the Provincial Secretary. 32 V., c. 26, s. 3; 50 V., c. 19, s. 1. SECTION VII. Appointment. Branch of department of Provincial Secretary. Name of office. Duties of Queen's printer. PRINTING AND OFFICIAL GAZETTE. § 1.-Queen's Printer. 725. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council appoints by commission a Queen's printer for the Province. 31 V., c. 13, s. 1; 49-50 V., c. 100, s. 8. 726. The Queen's printer and his employees are attached to the department of the Provincial Secretary. They form a branch thereof called the "Office of the Queen's Printer." 40 V., c. 9, s. 1; 49-50 V., c. 100, s. 9. § 2. Duties of Queen's Printer. 727. The Queen's printer prints and publishes, or causes to be printed and published, for the Government: 1. The statutes of the Province; 2. An official gazette, known as the "Quebec Official Gazette;" 3. Such documents and announcements as the LieutenantGovernor in Council may require to be printed or published. 31 V., c. 13, s. 2.; 49-50 V., c. 100, s. 10. §3.-Miscellaneous. 728. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council prescribes the Quebec Ofconditions of the publication of the Quebec Official Gazette, ficial Gazette. and designates the public bodies, officers and persons to whom it shall be sent. He makes a tariff of the sums to be paid for the publication Tariff for pubof notices, advertisements and documents to be published in lication, &c. such Gazette, and the subscription price. 31 V., c. 13, s. 5; 49-50 V., c. 100, s. 11. of salary, &c., 729. The profits or the salary of the Queen's printer, the Regulation mode in which he receives the same, his accountability for sums of Queen's received for publications in the Quebec Official Gazette, and, printer, condigenerally, the conditions under which the printing and other tions of printing, &c. work required are to be performed, are, from time to time, regulated by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 31 V., c. 13, s 6; 49-50 V., c. 100, s. 12. 730. All publications in the Quebec Official Gazette, and Authenticity also copies of official documents, proclamations, and announce- tions in Que of publicaments, printed by the Queen's printer for the Government or bec Official purporting so to be, are authentic and make proof of their Gazette. contents, without any other evidence. 31 V., c. 13, s. 9; 31 V., c. 18, s. 2; 49-50 V., c. 100, s. 13. 731. The Provincial Secretary shall submit to the Legisla- Return to ture, within the first fifteen days of each session, copies of all Legislature. orders in council passed since the preceding session in virtue of this section. 31 V., c. 13, s. 7; 49-50 V., c. 100, s. 14. CHAPTER FIFTH. TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH. PART FIRST. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. SECTION I. Management of Treasury TREASURER AND HIS FUNCTIONS. 732. The Provincial Treasurer has the management and direction of the Treasury Department. B. N. A. Act, 1867, Department. ss. 134 and 135; 31 V., c. 9; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 1. Attributions of Provincial Treasurer. Functions Provincial Treasurer. 733. His attributions are the following: 1. He advises the Crown in financial matters, and specially upon the receipts and expenditure of the Government; 2. He is charged with the preparation of the budget and the proposing of ways and means. 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 2. 734. His functions, duties and powers are the following: and powers of 1. He has the superintendence, control and management of everything connected with the financial affairs, the revenue and expenditure, and the public accounts of the Province, and which is not, or in so far as it is not, by law or by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, assigned to another department of the Government. B. N. A. Act, 1867, ss. 134 and 135: 31 V., c. 9; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 3. 2. He has the functions, duties and powers which, at the time of the Union, were by law vested in or imposed upon the Minister of Finance and Receiver-General of the late Province of Canada, respectively, in so far as they are compatible with the division of powers established by the British North America Act, 1867, between the Government of Canada and that of this Province, and have not been since modified or affected. 31 V., c. 9, s. 19; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 3. 3. He has the control and direction of the general deposit office of the Province. 35 V., c. 5; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 3. 4. He is charged with superintending the execution of the laws respecting mutual fire insurance companies; and he has the control and direction of the inspection of insurance companies. 45 V., cc. 49 and 51; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 3. 5. He has further the other functions, duties and powers, not repugnant to any law of the Province, which may be, from time to time, assigned to him by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 31 V., c. 9, s. 19; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 3. SECTION II. BUDGET. 735. The estimates submitted to the Legislature shall be Estimates. for the services to be paid for during the fiscal year or during such other term as such estimates expressly purport to cover. 31 V., c. 9, s. 26; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 4. 736. The estimates shall contain, in one column, the statu- Contents of tory appropriations which do not require to be voted by the estimates. Legislature, year by year, and, in another column, the respective amounts required for any service in addition to such statutory appropriations or otherwise, as the case may be, and for which a vote of the Legislature is required to authorize the expenditure thereof. 36 V., c. 6, s. 1; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 5. SECTION III. STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT. 737. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council appoints, by Appointment commission, an assistant-treasurer. 31 V., c. 9, s. 20; 49-50 V., of assistant c. 101 s. 6. "treasurer 738. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council appoints the Appointment officers and clerks necessary for the administration of the of officers and affairs of the department. clerks. Their respective duties, in all matters not expressly regu- Their duties. lated by law, are such as may, from time to time, be assigned to them by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, or subsidiarily by the Treasurer. 31 V., c. 9, s. 20; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 7. SECTION IV. REVENUE OF THE PROVINCE. 1.-Consolidated Revenue Fund. of consolidat 739. All revenue from whatever source arising or received, Composition over which the Legislature has power of appropriation, forms ed revenue one consolidated revenue fund appropriated for the public ser- fund. vice of the Province. 31 V., c. 9, s. 3; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 8. with costs, 740. The consolidated revenue fund is permanently charged Fund charged with all the charges and expenses incident to the collection, &c., of mannagement and receipt thereof. agement. Such charges and expenses are subject nevertheless to audit Subject to and to the control of the Legislature. 31 V., c. 9, s. 4; 49-50 audit. V., c. 101, s. 9. Fund charged Investment of of fund as may not be presently required. 741. The consolidated revenue fund is likewise charged with all loans and other debts heretofore contracted or which may be contracted under any act of the Legislature by the Government of the Province, by means of the issue of provincial debentures or otherwise, as also with the interest on such debentures, loans or debts, and with the sinking funds established for their extinction. 40 V., c. 5, s. 1; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 10. 742. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, from time such portion to time, if such course be deemed advisable, direct the Treasurer to invest, in public securities of the Government of Canada, any portion of the consolidated revenue fund, not presently required for expenditure, and may afterwards, whenever requisite to meet expenditure, direct him to dispose thereof to that end, in such manner, on such terms and to such amount as may be deemed most for the public advantage. 31 V., c. 9, s. 27; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 11. Temporary loans for certain purposes authorized. Proviso. Meaning of nue officer." 743. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, from time. to time, in case of exigency arising out of failure of the revenue from unforeseen causes, direct the Treasurer to effect any needed temporary loans, chargeable to the consolidated revenue fund, in such manner and form, in such amounts, payable at such periods and bearing such rates of interest, not exceeding six per cent per annum, as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may authorize; but such loans shall not exceed the amount of the deficiencies in the consolidated revenue fund to meet the charges placed thereon by law, and shall not be applied to any other purpose whatever. 31 V., c. 9, s. 27 ; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 12. § 2. Collection of the Revenue. 744. The words " revenue officer" mean any person emwords "reve- ployed in collecting, managing or accounting for revenue, or in carrying into effect any laws relating thereto or in preventing any contravention of such laws; and, so far as regards accounting for and paying over such revenue, such words include any person who has received or been entrusted with any public money, whether such person was or was not regularly employed for such purpose. 31 V., c. 9, s. 2, 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 13. Power of what officers are required, fix their salary, &c. 745. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council determines what revenue officers it is necessary to employ, and assigns their names of office, fixes their salaries or emoluments, and appoints the time and manner in which the same shall be paid; but no such officer shall receive a higher salary than is allowed in a similar case by any act, nor shall any such salary be paid unless voted. 31 V., c. 9, s. 6; 49-50 V., c. 101, s. 14. |