Canada Yearbook - 1920

736 LEGISLATION AND PRINCIPAL EVENTS
school day instead of six months as heretofore; chapter 86 provides
for the establishment of a subnormal boys' school to which transfers
are to be made from gaols and children's aid societies.
Miscellaneous.—In Prince Edward Island, chapter 7 increases
the salaries of the members of the Executive Council to $2,000 and the
sessional indemnity of the members of the Legislature to $500. In
Quebec, chapter 6 authorizes a loan up to $5,000,000 in aid of colonization:
chapter 16 provides that prorogation of the legislature need
not be for a fixed day: chapter 17 fixes the salary of the prime minister
at $12,000 and of the ministers at $6,000; it also provides for the
temporary transfer of the powers of members of the Executive
Council; chapter 21 defines the organization, powers and duties of
"The Quebec Public Service Commission": chapter 24 authorizes
the province to grant lands in exchange for those flooded by storage
dams; it also creates a Quebec Geographical Commission and
makes regulations in respect to timber cut without permission:
chapter 51 amends the statutes of 1909 respecting the preparation
and revision of jury lists and the aUowance to jurors: chapter 57
amends the statutes of 1909 respecting the work of the inmates of
reformatories and industrial schools, requiring a statement to show
the amount produced by each inmate, this to go towards his maintenance
and the balance to his credit: chapter 61 provides medical
treatment for indigent persons at the expense of the municipality
in which the person resides: chapter 63 provides that law students
who have been overseas may be admitted to practice after two
years in a law office if they were admitted to the study in or prior
to January 1920, and have obtained the degree of B.C.L. or LL.B.:
chapter 66 incorporates "The Corporation of Professional Engineers
of Quebec": chapter 79 gives the Court of King's Bench an appellate
civil jurisdiction throughout the province; it also defines the original
jurisdiction of the Superior Court and the ultimate jurisdiction of
the Circuit Court: chapter 81 makes it illegal for owner or occupant to
allow a building to be used as a disorderly house: chapter 118 provides
for the incorporation of the Accountants' Association: chapter 141
provides for the incorporation of registered nurses in the province.
In Ontario, chapter 2 amends the Election Law especially as regards
the preparation of voters' lists: chapter 3 amends the Legislative
Assembly Act, granting extra allowances over and above sessional
indemnities to leaders of oppositions and opposition groups; also
appropriations for increases in salaries of officers of the assembly;
chapter 14 authorizes the minister to suspend the "Manufacturing
Conditions" so as to permit the exportation of pulp wood: chapter
15 amends the Veterans' Land Grant Act; where the land granted to
veterans in the first year of King Edward has passed from its original
owners and is held" unimproved for speculative purposes and unreasonable
prices this land is subject to inspection and where the
owner does not one year after notice become a bona fide user or
occupant, the land is liable to forfeiture to the Crown; the province
is also authorized to make regulations as to the duties to be performed