Sec. 42. Any company authorized under this Act may issue bonds, debentures or other securities to the amount of its subscribed capital, or double the amount of its paid-up capital, whichever is the smaller amount.* Sec. 43. Any company authorized under this Act may acquire land by purchase or lease for improvement by irrigation, and shall dispose thereof within fifteen years after its acquisition, otherwise such land shall revert to the Crown.* Sec. 44. Any company authorized under this Act may for the purposes of its undertaking construct or acquire electric telegraph and telephone lines or any other contrivances for the transmission of messages through or along wires, rods, tubes or other appliances, and may acquire any land necessary for the construction and operation of such lines or contrivances, and the lands necessary to be taken and acquired for this purpose may be acquired under the provisions of section twenty-one of this Act. Sec. 45. The Governor in Council may Define the manner in which the measure of water shall be arrived at. Define the duty of water according to locality and soil. Define the portion of the year during which water shall be supplied for irrigation. Fix the license fee or charge to be paid by companies applying for registration of water rights or for authority to engage in irrigation or other works under this Act-which fees or charges may be varied acording to the capital employed or volume of water diverted. Regulate the extent of diversion from rivers, streams, lakes, or other waters. Regulate the passage of logs, timber and other products of the forests through or over any dams or other works erected in rivers, streams, lakes and other water under the authority of this Act. Regulate from time to time the water rates which may be charged by companies, and the publication of tariffs of rates. Prescribe forms to be used in proceedings under this Act. (*N. B. The provisions of these two sections, 42 and 43, do not apply to any irrigation district incorporated under an Ordinance of the Northwest Territories. Vide sec. 8 of 58-59 V., c. 33. quoted in note 2, to this consolidation.) See page 543. Impose penalties for violations of any regulation made under the authority of this Act,-which penalties shall in no case exceed a fine of two hundred dollars or three months' imprisonment, or both. Regulate the manner in which water is to be supplied to persons entitled thereto, whether continuously or at stated intervals, or under both systems. Authorize some person or officer, whose decision shall be final and without appeal, to decide in cases of dispute as to what constitutes surplus water as mentioned in this Act. Make such orders as are deemed necessary, from time to time, to carry out the provisions of this Act according to their true intent, or to meet any cases which arise and for which no provision is made in this Act; and further, make any regulations which are considered necessary to give the provisions of this Act full effect. Sec. 46. All regulations made and forms prescribed by the Governor in Council under this Act shall be published in the Canada Gazette and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within the first fifteen days of the session next after the date thereof. Sec. 47. Any companies already formed to promote irrigation shall be subject to all the provisions of this Act, except so far as the powers mentioned in section forty-two of this Act are concerned. Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: Sec. I. From and after the passing of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person, company, partnership or corporation in any manner to prepay the transportation, or in any way to assist or encourage the importation or immigration of any alien or foreigner into Canada, under contract or agreement, parole or special, express or implied, made previous to the importation or immigration of such alien or foreigner, to perform labor or service of any kind in Canada. Sec. 2. All contracts or agreements, express or implied, parole or special, hereafter made by and between any person, company, partnership or corporation, and any alien or foreigner, to perform labor or service, or having reference to the performance of labor or service by any person in Canada, previous to the immigration or importation of the person whose labor or service is contracted for into Canada, shall be void and of no effect. Sec. 3. For every violation of any of the provisions of section one of this Act, the person, partnership, company or corporation violating it by knowingly assisting, encouraging or soliciting the immigration or importation of any alien or for eigner into Canada, to perform labor or service of any kind under contract or agreement, express or implied, parole or special, with such alien or foreigner previous to his becoming a resident in or a citizen of Canada, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars, which may be sued for and recovered by Her Majesty's Attorney-General of Canada or the person duly authorized thereto by him, as debts of like amount are now recovered in any competent court in Canada, the proceeds to be paid into the hands of the Receiver-General; and separate suits may be brought for each alien or foreigner who is a party to such contract or agreement. Sec. 4. The master of any vessel who knowingly brings into Canada on such vessel and lands or permits to be landed from any foreign port or place any alien, laborer, mechanic or artisan who, previous to embarkation on such vessel had entered into contract or agreement, parole or special, express or implied, to perform labor or service in Canada, shall be deemed guilty of an indictable offense and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each alien, laborer, mechanic or artisan so brought or landed, and may also be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months. Sec. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent any citizen or subject of any foreign country, temporarily residing in Canada, either in private or official capacity from engaging, under contracts or otherwise, persons not residents or citizens of Canada, to act as private secretaries, servants or domestics for such foreigner temporarily residing in Canada; nor shall this Act be so construed as to prevent any person, partnership or corporation from engaging, under contract or agreement, skilled workmen in foreign countries to perform labor in Canada in or upon any new industry not at present established in Canada, provided that skilled labor for that purpose cannot be otherwise obtained; nor shall the provisions of this Act apply to professional actors, artists, lecturers, or singers, or to persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed' as prohibiting any person from assisting any member of his family or any relative or personal friend, to migrate from any foreign country to Canada for the purpose of settlement here. Sec. 6. The Attorney-General of Canada, in case he shall be satisfied that an immigrant has been allowed to land in Canada contrary to the prohibition of this Act may cause such immigrant, within the period of one year after landing or entry, to be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came at the expense of the owner of the importing vessel, or, if he entered from an adjoining country, at the expense of the person previously contracting for the services. Sec. 7. The Receiver-General may pay to any informer who furnishes original information that the law has been violated such a share of the penalties recovered as he deems reasonable |