Respecting inspection.

Rates and tolls to be subject to approval.

Governor in Council may make rules.

such plant, store or warehouse being completed, and cold storage at suitable temperatures being provided therein, all to the satisfaction of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, a sum not exceeding fifteen per cent of the amount so expended; and at the end of the first year thereafter, the balance of the said thirty per cent., provided the plant, store or warehouse is maintained and operated to the satisfaction of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.

6. The Minister of Marine and Fisheries may order and cause to be maintained an inspection and supervision of the sanitary conditions, maintenauce and operation of such plant; store or warehouse, and may regulate and control the temperatures to be maintained therein, in accordance with the regulations to be made as hereinafter provided.

7. The rates and tolls to be charged in such plant, store or warehouse, shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council.

8. The Governor in Council may make such regulations as he considers necessary in order to secure the sufficient enforcement and operation of this Act, and he may by such regulations impose penalties not exceeding fifty dollars on any person offending against them, and the regulations so made shall be in force from the date of their publication in the Royal Gazette, or from such other date as is specified in the Proclamation in that behalf.

CAP. XXXII.

An Act Respecting Pilotage Rates for the Port of St. John's.

SECTION

1. Power to commissioners to purchase pilot boat

WE

[PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910 ]

SECTION

2. Additional pilotage rate to main-
tain pilot boat.

HEREAS the Commissioners of Pilots for the Port of Preamble. St. John's are desirous of appropriating from the funds under their control the sum of four thousand dollars for the purpose of the purchase of a suitable pilot boat propelled by steam or other power, and are desirous of obtaining an increase of the pilotage rates for the purpose of the maintenance of the said pilot boat;

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Enacting clause. Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session

convened, as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Pilots to Power to commissioners to appropriate from the funds under their controi the sum of purchase pilot four thousand dollars for the purpose of the purchase and equipment of a pilot boat propelled by steam or other power.

boat.

2. In addition to the amounts already payable by all ves- Additional pilotage rate sels at present liable to pilotage entering or leaving the port to maintain of St. John's, there shall be paid for every such vessel a fur- pilot boat. ther sum equal to ten per cent. of its present rate, and the amount of such additional sum shall be taken and held by the Commissioners for the purposes of the maintenance of the said pilot boat.

Enacting clause.

Firemen to be licensed.

Boiler Inspector to be examiner.

Governor in Council shall make rules.

Respecting first class licenses.

SECTION

CAP. XXXIII.

An Act Respecting the Qualification of Firemen.

1. Firemen to be licensed.

2. Boiler Inspector to be examiner.

3. Governor in Council shall make
rules.

4. Respecting first class licenses.

BE

[PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910.]

SECTION

5. Respecting second class licenses. 6. Penalty.

7. Present firemen to receive licenses free.]

8. Commencement of Act.

E it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council, and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

1. No person shall be employed as a fireman or stoker on any steamer registered in this Colony or in connection with any boiler or engine in any mill, mine, factory or workshop in this Colony unless he is the holder of a license under the provisions of this Act, nor shall any person who is not the holder of a license as aforesaid be employed as an engineer on board any steamer or steam launch under twenty nominal horse power or be in charge of any engine in any factory or workshop in this Colony.

2. The Boiler Inspector for Newfoundland is hereby appointed an examiner to conduct examinations of such persons as shall apply for licenses under this Act and shall hold the said examination at such places and times as shall be prescribed in the regulations hereinafter mentioned.

3. The Governor in Council shall make rules and regulations respecting the holding of such examinations, and shall prescribe the subjects in which applicants for licenses of the first and second class, respectively, shall be examined.

4. Licenses shall be of two kinds, first class licenses and second class licenses, and may be granted by the said Boiler Inspector free of charge to such persons as shall have passed

the necessary examination to his satisfaction. Licenses shall be in force for one year from the date of issue, but may be annually renewed.

5. A second class license shall entitle the holder thereof Respecting secoud class to act as fireman on any steamer registered in this Colony licenses. and in connection with any boiler in any mill, mine, factory or workshop, and, in addition to the foregoing, a first class license shall entitle the holder thereof to act as engineer on any steamer or steam launch under twenty nominal horse power, and to take charge of any steam engine in any mill, mine, factory or workshop in the Colony.

6. Any person who shall be employed and the employer Penalty. of any such person, in contravention of the first section of this Act, shall be severally liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner upon the complaint of any person before a Justice of the Peace.

to receive

7 All persons who have been before the passing of this Present firemen Act employed as engineers or firemen shall have the right licenses free. to receive the licenses free of charge, whether first class or sccond class, to which in the opinion of the said Boiler Inspector their service shall entitle them, without being subject to any examination.

8. This Act shall come into force on the first day of Commencement July, 1910.

of Act.

CAP. XXXIV.

An Act to Prohibit the Prosecution of the Labrador Fishery in
Steam Vessels.

3. Appeal.

4. Saving treaty rights.

Enacting clause. DE it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

Fishery on Labrador in steamers prohibited.

Recovery of penalties.

Appeal.

Saving treaty rights.

1. It shall be unlawful to prosecute the codfishery within three marine miles of the coast of Labrador, and the islands adjacent thereto, in vessels propelled by steam, under a penalty not exceeding five thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars. Obtaining and distributing bait, and conveying crews, gear and outfits to the said coast shall not be held to be prosecuting the codfishery.

2. Penalties hereunder may be sued for and recovered in a summary manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate.

3. Either party to an action may appeal from the judgment of a Stipendiary Magistrate to the Supreme Court, on giving security to abide the result.

4. Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights and privileges granted by treaty to the subjects of any State or Power in amity with His Majesty.