back and upon the counterfoil, as provided by "The Election Act, 1889," and shall keep a correct account of the number of ballot papers so furnished. He shall also furnish such Deputy Returning Officer with a number of copies of the printed directions for the guidance of voters, which said Deputy Returning Officer shall have posted in the manner prescribed.

4. The Deputy Returning Officer at such polling station Return of Ballot after poll. in St. John's shall seal up and deliver to the Returning Officer or his messenger the ballot box, ballots and counterfoils, as provided in section 85 of "The Election Act, 1889," provided that in the absence of the candidates or their agents the presence of any three persons shall be sufficient, whether they be electors of the Electoral District for which the polling station is appointed or not.

5. Section 158 of "The Election Act, 1889," is hereby Amendment as to counter-petition. amended by the addition at the end of sub-section 2, of said section, of the following:

Any candidate against whom a petition has been pre-
sented may, within thirty days from the presentation
of such petition, present a petition to the Court com-
plaining of the undue return or undue election of any
person, or of any unlawful act committed by any per-
son who has been a candidate at the election to which
such first mentioned petition relates.

Enacting clause.

Amendment as Salvation Army Officer's authorized solemnize marriage.

Amendment as to duties and rights of such officers.

CAP. XI.

An Act to amend Chapter 133 of the Consolidated Statutes (Second Series), entitled "Of the Solemnization of Marriage."

SECTION

1. Amendment as Salvation Army
Officers authorized to solem-
nize Marriage.

BE

PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910.]

SECTION

2. Amendment as to duties and rights of such officers.

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

1. Section 11 of Chapter 133, of the Consolidated Statutes, is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor:

(11) This chapter and chapter 28 of these Consolidated Statutes, entitled "Of the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths," shall be held to apply to the religious society called "The Salvation Army;" and any duly appointed commissioner, staff officer or captain of the said Society, being a man chosen or commissioned by the said Society to solemnize marriages, and resident within this Colony or its dependencies, and who shall have been duly licensed by the Governor to celebrate marriages in the place in which he may reside, shall have, for the time being, the same authority for that purpose as a person authorized under the first section of this chapter to celebrate marriages.

2. Section 12 of the said chapter is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor :

(12) All the duties imposed upon and rights given to per

chapter and the said chapter 28, shall be held to be imposed and given to such commissioners, staff officers and captains aforesaid, who shall be liable to all fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this chapter.

CAP. XII.

An Act to provide for the Extension of the Railway System of the Colony.

Preamble.

Enacting clause.

Confirmation

of agreements the schedules hereto.

WH

9. Respecting additional rolling
stock.

10. Remission of certain duties.
11. Lands exempt from taxation.
12. Government to provide all lands.
13. Application of existing Acts and
Contracts.

14. Approval of the Legislature.

HEREAS on the 7th day of December, 1909, the Government entered into an Agreement with the Reid Newfoundland Company to construct certain branch. lines of Railway in the Colony;

And whereas on the said 7th day of December, 1909, the Government entered into a further agreement with the said Reid Newfoundland Company for the maintenance and operation of the said branch lines of Railways;

And whereas it is necessary to approve of and ratify the said contracts and to make provision for carrying out the

same.

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

1. The Agreement made between Sir RALPH CHAMPNEYS WILLIAMS, Governor of the Island, on behalf of the Government, of the one part, and the Reid Newfoundland Company a Company incorporated by an Act of the Legislature, hereinafter called the Company of the other part, dated the 7th

Act, and the Agreement made between Sir RALPH CHAMPNEYS WILLIAMS, Governor of the Island, as aforesaid, of the one part, and the Company, as aforesaid, of the other part, and dated the 7th day of December, 1909, and forming Schedule B. to this Act, are hereby approved and confirmed, and all and singular the several clauses, provisions and conditions thereof, are hereby declared to be valid and binding upon the said parties thereto, and each of them, respectively; and all and singular the several acts, matters and things therein provided to be done or performed by or on the part of the parties respectively are hereby declared to be proper and lawful, and, in so far as as not herein expressly provided for, the parties, and each of them, shall have full power and authority to do and perform, or refuse to do and perform, all and singular the several acts, deeds, matters and things in and by the said Contracts provided to be done or not to done, as the case may be, in the manner and under the conditions stipulated and provided by the said Contracts.

survey.

2. For the purpose of selecting and surveying and mark- Powers to parties ing out the route for the said branch Railways comprised in for purposes of the Contract forming Schedule A. hereto, it shall be lawful for the Government or the Company, their engineers, surveyors, workmen and others to enter upon public or private property and to convey over the same all such vehicles, animals, materials and implements, and generally to do all and singular such acts and things as may be necessary for the purpose of such survey and marking out, and upon the same being marked out and defined, to enter upon and take possession of the same and to remove or cause to be removed there from all buildings or other property; and the land for the said track shall thereupon vest in and become the property of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, for the purposes of the said Railway and of this Act.

lands,

for

3. For the purpose of ascertaining the damage occasioned Respecting comto any person whose interests in any lands or tenements may pensation be affected under the provisions of this Act, unless the same be agreed upon between the said party and the Governor