Treasury to the Departments of Marine and Fisheries, Public Works and Public Charities, and the notes so furnished shall be debited against the Board, Commissioners or Relieving Officers, as the case may be, to whom such department shall allocate them, and shall be pro tanto a payment and discharge of the said grant or allocation to each Board, Commissioner or Relieving Officer.

of Notes.

4. The Chairman of each of the said respective Boards, Respecting issue the said Commissioners, and the said Relieving Officers, respectively, shall issue the said Cash Notes in payment for labor, material, relief of permanent and casual poor, and other obligations incurred by them by reason of their office.

supplied to

and others.

5. A supply of said notes in face value to the amount of Notes to be any allocation by the Department of Public Works on ac- Commissioners count of main lines of roads shall be furnished to the engineer, inspector or commissioner, who may be in charge of any work in constructing, improving or repairing any main line of road or any bridge or other work thereon, and the various provisions contained in the Act with respect to such notes, when furnished to a Board of Commiesioners on account of local roads, shall apply to such notes when furnished to such engineer, inspector or commissioner on account of main roads.

able at Bank.

6. The said Cash Notes shall be payable upon presenta- Notes to be paytion at the Bank named in the said notes, and every note on payment shall be immediately cancelled, and shall, after the lapse of one year from the close of the financial year in which they are issued, be destroyed in the presence of the Auditor General.

priated to be

ment of Notes.

7. The sums appropriated by the Legislature to local and Moneys appro main roads, marine works and permanent and casual poor, applied to payshall be held and applied to the payment of the said Cash Notes or so many of them as may have been issued to the several Departments referred to in section 3. When any of the said Cash Notes have been furnished by the Treasury Department to any of the said departments on account of

Notes to be legal tender.

Power of Gov

to make rules.

the serviees referred to in section 1, a cheque for the amount so furnished shall forthwith be drawn upon the funds of the department in some bank and the amount of the said cheque shall be forthwith placed by the Finance Minister to the credit of a Cash Note repayment account in some bank. The fund so created shall be a trust fund for the repayment of such Cash Notes and shall be held by the bank for the sole purpose of paying such notes when presented, but interest upon the said fund may be allowed and paid from time to time into the Newfoundland Exchequer Account.

8. The said Cash Notes shall pass current and be a legal tender in currency to the amount of the face values thereof respectively.

9. The Governor in Council shall have power to make ernor in Council rules and regulations for the governance of the Chairman and members of the several Road Boards, Commissioners of Roads, Commissioners of Marine Works, and Relieving Officers of the Colony in relation to the keeping of accounts, directing the making and furnishing of returns and statements relating to the expenditures under such Boards, Commissioners or Relieving Officers, and prescribing the forms of such returns and statements and the manner in which and the persons by whom they shall be certified or attested. The Governor in Council shall also have power at any time. to direct the Auditor General to examine and audit the books and accounts of any Board, Commissioner or Relieving Officer, for which purpose the Auditor General shall have the right to require the production of all necessary books, accounts, vouchers, correspondence and papers by the Chairman, Commissioner or Relieving Officer, or any other person having possession or custody thereof, and to require the attendance before him for examination of any person having or supposed to have information relevant to or necessary for such examination or audit.

Power to with

hold moneys in certain cases.

10. The Governor in Council shall have power to withhold from any Road Board, Road Commissioner, Commis

sioner of Marine Works or Relieving Officer making default in the furnishing of returns or statements, or whose accounts, returns or statements are incorrect or unsatisfactory, any part or proportion of any legislative vote or appropriation to be expended by or under such official or officials until such returns or statements are made and are found to be correct and satisfactory.

11. The residue of such notes remaining unissued in the Unused Notes to be destroyed. Treasury after the several Departments shall have been supplied with the quantity required by them shall, at the expiration of each financial year, be checked by the Auditor General and destroyed in his presence.

12. This Act shall not come into operation until the assent suspending of His Majesty thereto shall have been duly signified.

section.

13. Act 62 and 63 Vic., cap. 6, and Act 63 Vic., (Second Repealing Session), cap. 1, are hereby repealed.

section.

Enacting clause.

Amendment of

sec. 4 of Ed. VII,

jurisdiction of¡

CAP. XV.

An Act Respecting the Jurisdiction of Magistrates and

Justices.

PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910.]

SECTION 1. Amendment of sec. 4 of Ed. VII, cap. 5, extending jurisdiction of
Justices to cases involving $200.

BE

2. Repealing section.

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

1. Section 4 of the Act 1 Ed. VII., cap. 5, entitled “An cap. 5, extending Act to amend the law relating to Courts of Quarter Sessions, Magistrates and Justices of the Peace," is hereby amended by substituting the following in lieu of sub-section (a) of the said section:

Justites to cases involving $200.

Repealing section.

(a) The jurisdiction of a Stipendiary Magistrate shall include the hearing and determining, in a summary way, of all civil actions for the recovery of debt or damages to the amount of two hundred dollars, save actions for malicious prosecution and actions against Justices of the Peace or public officers for acts done in the execution of their duties. An appeal shall lie to the next sitting of the Supreme Court from the decision of a Magistrate or Justice under this sub-section in any case in which an amount exceeding twenty dollars shall be involved in the judgment; provided the party desiring to appeal shall give notice thereof in writing within fourteen days to the other party and to the Magistrate or Justice.

2. Section 5 of the said Act 1 Ed. VII., cap. 5, is hereby

CAP. XVI.

An Act to amend Chapter 54 of the Consolidated Statutes, (Second Series), entitled "Of the Law Society, Barristers and Solicitors."

[PASSED MARCH 22ND, 1910.]

W

SECTION 1. Respecting the right of Women to practice law.

HEREAS it is desirable that women should not be Preamble.

excluded from practising at the Bar nor from being

enrolled as Solicitors of any Court in this Colony.

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

convened, as follows:

1. Wherever in chapter 54 of the Consolidated Statutes, Respecting the right of Women (2nd Series), entitled "Of the Law Society, Barristers and to practice Law. Solicitors," the word "person" occurs, such word shall be held to extend to and to include a female person so as to confer upon all women the right to be entered as clerks, admitted as law students, enrolled as Solicitors, and called to the Bar, and to exercise fully all the rights and to impose upon them all the obligations which are conferred and imposed upon men under the provisions of the said chapter.