Annual report Legislative Persons liable to furnish Department. and execution of the provisions contained in "The Horse Power Machines Act," "The Animals' Diseases Act," "The Pollution of Streams Act," "The Fires Prevention Act," and "The Agricultural College Act," and in all other Acts relating to agriculture, statistics and public health. R.S.M. c. 2, s. 9. 10. A report of the work of the Department shall be prepared yearly, and laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly at the next ensuing session thereof after its publication; and it shall be the duty of the Department, from time to time, to issue such reports, publications, circulars, etc., as the Minister may deem advisable. R.S.M. c. 2, s. 10. 11. All officers of agricultural societies, municipal couninformation to cils, school boards, boards of trade and other public institutions, railway, navigation and other incorporated companies, and all public officers of the Province, and all medical practitioners and veterinary surgeons shall promptly answer all communications from the Department; and shall, from time to time, collect and tabulate facts according to instructions to be furnished them from the Department; and shall make diligent efforts to supply correct information on all questions submitted to them. Any such person neglecting or refusing to comply with the aforesaid provisions of this section, when requested to so comply by either the Minister or the inspector, shall incur a penalty of twenty-five dollars. R.S.M. c. 2, s. 11. Penalty for non compliance. Provincial exhibitions. Arbor Day. 12. It shall be the duty of the Minister to organize agricultural and industrial exhibitions open to competition from all parts of the Province; to arrange, when practicable, for the representation of the products of the Province at exhibitions in other Provinces, or in other countries; to supervise the management of agricultural societies; and, generally, to adopt all means possible to promote improvement in the agricultural interests of the Province. R.S.M. c. 2, s. 12. ARBOR DAY. 13. The Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may in each year, by proclamation, appoint as a public holiday, to be observed throughout the Province, a day to be known as Arbor Day, for the planting of forest and other trees. R.S.M. c. 2, s. 13. CHAPTER 5. An Act respecting Aliens. HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent follows: 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as "The Aliens Act." R.S.M. Short title. c. 3, s. 1. PRIVILEGES OF ALIENS. 2. Real and personal property of every description may Holding probe taken, acquired, held and disposed of by an alien, in the perty. same manner, in all respects, as by a natural born British subject; and a title to real and personal property of every description may be derived through, from or in succession to an alien, in the same manner, in all respects, as through, from or in succession to a natural born British subject; Provided (a) that this Act shall not qualify an alien for any office, Act not to or for any municipal, legislative or other franchise; for any office. rights of (b) that this Act shall not entitle an alien to any right Nor give or privilege as a British subject, except such rights and privi- British leges, in respect of property, as are hereby expressly given subject to him; generally. rights acquir Act taking (c) that this Act shall not affect any estate or interest Not to affect in real or personal property, to which any person has or ed prior to may become entitled, either mediately or immediately, in effect. possession or expectancy, in pursuance of any disposition made prior to the taking effect of this Act, or in pursuance of any devolution by law on the death of any person dying prior to the taking effect of this Act; Act. (d) that nothing in this Act shall be construed as in- Operation of tended to interfere with the force or effect of any Act or provision of the Parliament of Canada, now or hereafter to be passed, in reference to aliens, except in so far as the authority of the Legislature of this Province extends in relation to its jurisdiction over property and civil rights; and Mennonites. From what time Act has operation. (e) that no provision of this Act shall prevent any member belonging to the religious society called "Mennonites," and residing in those portions of the Province known as the "Mennonite Reserve," from being elected to or holding any municipal office, or from being appointed to or holding any office created by or in virtue of "The Agricultural Societies Act," "The Agriculture and Immigration Act," "The Vital Statistics Act," "The Public Health Act," "The Animals' Diseases Act," "The Game Protection Act," "The Noxious Weeds Act," or "The Marriage Act." R.S.M. c. 3, s. 2. DATE OF TAKING EFFECT. 3. This Act shall be deemed to have taken effect, so far as possible, from the twenty-eighth day of February, 1874. R.S.M. c. 3, s. 3. CHAPTER 6. An Act respecting the Study of Anatomy. HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Manitoba Anatomy Short title. Act." R.S.M. c. 4, s. 1. INSPECTORS OF ANATOMY. of inspector 2. The Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may appoint, dur- Appointment ing pleasure, a person, not being a medical practitioner nor of anatomy. connected with any school of medicine,, to be inspector of anatomy for any city or town or public institution in the Province. R.S.M. c. 4, s. 2. 3. It shall be the duty of the inspector of anatomy (a) to keep a morgue register and enter therein the name, age, sex, birthplace and religious denomination (if any, and so far as he may be informed thereof) of every person whose body has been received by him; (b) to enter in the morgue register, so far as he reasonably can, such a description of every body received by him, and of the clothing and other effects found thereon, as would enable relatives or friends to identify the same, and also the name of the medical college or school to which such body was transferred; (c) to deliver up all such bodies as are referred to in section 9 of this Act and as is thereby required of him; (d) to keep a register of medical schools duly qualified to receive and desirous of receiving bodies for the instruction of pupils; (e) to distribute all bodies, in rotation, to such schools in proportion to the number of persons actually engaged in the study of human anatomy in each school, as shown by their official registers, which he shall be allowed to inspect; Duties of inspector. Notice of appointment. (f) to inspect the several authorized practical anatomy rooms in his locality at least once in every six weeks, and to direct the removal and decent interment of any remains that he deems it advisable to have interred; (g) to keep his registers open for the inspection of any medical practitioner who may desire to inspect them. R.S.M. c. 4, s. 3. 4. Every inspector of anatomy, when appointed for any locality or institution, shall, without delay, give notice of his appointment to all persons mentioned in sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this Act, who may be required under said sections to notify him in respect of an unclaimed body. R.S.M. c. 4, s. 4. Coroner to give notice to bodies found exposed. NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED BODIES. 5. Every coroner, whether he does or does not hold an inspector of inquest on a body found publicly exposed or unclaimed, to which his attention has been called, and which is not afterwards claimed in accordance with section 9 of this Act, shall give notice to the inspector of anatomy of the locality, if there is one, failing which he shall cause the body to be interred as has been customary. R.S.M. c. 4, s. 5. Notice by person in charge of morgue. Notice by mayor. Notice by dents institutions. 6. When the body of a person not known to have any relatives or friends entitled to claim the same is placed in a public morgue, the person in charge of the morgue shall give notice of such unclaimed body to the inspector of anatomy, if any, for the locality in which the morgue is situated. R.S.M. c. 4, s. 6. 7. The mayor of a city or town brought under the provisions of this Act by the appointment of an inspector of anatomy for such city or town shall cause notice to be given within twenty-four hours to the inspector of anatomy of any dead body that is brought under his notice which is unclaimed by relatives or friends, as set forth in section 9 of this Act. R.S.M. c. 4, s. 7. 8. The superintendent of every public institution shall, upon the death of an inmate of the institution who is not known to have any relatives or friends entitled to claim the body, give notice within twenty-four hours of such death to the inspector of anatomy for the institution or for the locality in which the institution is situated, if any. R.S.M. c. 4, s. 8. |