(f.) Notice shall be sent to the Registrar of any proceed-
ing to set aside the dissolution of a society not less than
seven days before it is commenced by the person by
whom it is taken, or of any order setting it aside within
seven days after it is made by the society.

15. With respect to penalties under this Act, the following pro- Penalties. visions shall have effect :-

(1.) If any person wilfully makes, orders, or allows to be made, any entry or erasure in or omission from any balance sheet of a registered society, or any contribution or collecting book, or any return or document requiring to be sent, produced, or delivered for the purposes of this Act with intent to falsify the same, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars:

(2.) If any officer of the society, or any person in its behalf, uses
any seal purporting to be a seal of the society whereon its name
is not so engraved as aforesaid, or issues, or authorizes the
issue, of any notice, advertisement, or other official publication
of the society, or signs, or authorizes to be signed, on behalf of
the society, any bill of exchange, promissory note, endorsement,
cheque, order for money or goods, or issues, or authorizes to
be issued, any bills of parcels, invoice, receipt, or letters of
credit of its society wherein the name is not mentioned in
manner aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
two hundred and fifty dollars, and shall further be personally
liable to the holder of any such bill of exchange, promissory
note, cheque, or order for money, or goods for the amount
thereof, unless the same is duly paid by the society:

(3.) Every society, officer, or member of a society, or other person
guilty of an offence under this Act for which no penalty is
expressly provided herein, shall be liable to a penalty of not
less than five dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars:
(4.) The penalties imposed, or to be imposed, (a) by this Act, (b) by
any regulations under the same, or (c) by the rules of a regis-
tered society, shall be recoverable, with costs, in a Court of
Summary Jurisdiction, and at the suit in cases (a) and (b) of the
Registrar, or of any person aggrieved, and in case of (c) of the
society.

16. The Registrar may from time to time appoint public auditors Public auditors for the purposes of this Act, and may determine from time to time the rates of remuneration to be paid by societies for the services of such auditors; but the employment of such auditors is not compulsory on any society.

Fees.

Provincial Secretary to make regulations as to procedure under this Act.

Copies of documents to be evidence.

17. The Provincial Secretary may determine a scale of fees to be paid for matters to be transacted, or for the inspection of documents, under this Act. All fees which may be received by the Registrar under or by virtue of this Act shall be paid by him into and form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

18. The Provincial Secretary may from time to time make regulations respecting registry and procedure under this Act, and the forms to be used for such registry, and the duties and functions of the Registrar, and the inspection of documents kept by the Registrar under this Act, and generally for carrying this Act into effect. All such regulations shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly within ten days after the signing thereof by the Provincial Secretary if the Legislative Assembly is then sitting, or if not then sitting, then within ten days from the then next assembling of the Legislative Assembly. Until otherwise provided for the forms contained in the fourth schedule to this Act shall be used.

19. Every instrument or document, copy, or extract of an instrument or document, bearing the seal or stamp of the Registrar shall be received in evidence without further proof; and every document purporting to be signed by the Registrar, or any Auditor under this Act shall, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, be received in evidence without proof of the signature.

SCHEDULE I.

Matters to be provided for by the rules of societies registered under this Act.

1. Object, name, and place of office of the society.

2. Terms of admission of the members, including any society or company investing funds in the society under the provisions of sub-section (4) or subsection (5) of section 12.

3. Mode of holding meetings and right of voting, and of making, altering, and rescinding rules.

4. The appointment and removal of a committee of management, by whatever name, of managers or other officers, and their respective powers and

remuneration.

5. Determination of the amount of interest, not exceeding one thousand dollars, in the shares of the society, which any member other than a registered society may hold.

6. Determination whether the society may contract loans, or receive money on deposit from members or others, and if so, under what conditions, on what security, and to what limits of amount.

7. Determination whether the shares, or any number thereof, shall be transferable, and if so, provision for the form of transfer and registration of

the shares, and for the consent of the committee thereto, and if it be determined that the shares, or any of them, shall be withdrawable, provision for paying the members the balance due thereon, on withdrawing from the society. 8. Provision for the audit of accounts.

9. Determination whether and how members may withdraw from the society, and provision for the claims of executors, administrators, or assignees of insolvent members, and for the payment of nominces in the case herein mentioned.

10. Mode of application of profits.

11. Provision for the custody, use, and devise of the seal of the society, which shall in all cases bear the registered name of the society.

12. Determination whether and by what authority, and in what manner, any part of the capital may be invested.

SCHEDULE II.

Form of Bond.

Know all men by these presents that we, A. B., of

the officers of the

in the district of

C. D. of

society, limited, established at

in the Province of British Columbia, and (as surety on behalf of the said A. B.) are jointly

and severally held and firmly bound to the said society in the sum of to be paid to the said society, or their attorney, for which payment well and truly made, to be made, we jointly and severally bind ourselves, and each of us, by himself, our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals.

Dated the

day of

Whereas the above bounden A. B. has been duly appointed to the office of of the society, established as aforesaid, and he, together with the above bounden C. D., as his surety, have entered into the above written bond, subject to the condition hereinafter contained: Now, therefore, the condition of the above written bond is such that if the said A. B. do render a just and true account of all moneys received and paid by him on account of the said society, at such times as the rules thereof appoint, and do pay over all the moneys remaining in his hands, and assign and transfer or deliver all property (including books and papers) belonging to the said society in his hands or custody to such person or persons as the said society, or the committee thereof, appoint, according to the rules of the said society, together with the proper and legal receipts or vouchers for such payments, then the above written bond shall be void, otherwise it shall remain in full force.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of (two witnesses).

SCHEDULE III.

The

Form of receipt to be endorsed on mortgage or further charge.
society, limited, hereby acknowledge to have received all

moneys intended to be secured by the within written deed.
Signed (two members of the committee).
Countersigned

Acknowledgment of Registry of Amendment of Rules.

The foregoing amendment of the rules of the

society, limited,

is registered under the "Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1891," this

day of

(Seal or stamp of Registrar.)

VICTORIA, B C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

An Act for granting certain sums of Money for the Public
Service of the Province of British Columbia.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN

[20th April, 1891.]

WHEREAS it appears by Messages from His Honour Hugh Nelson, Preamble.
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, and

the Estimates and Schedules accompanying the same, that the sums
mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the Public Service
of the Province for the dates therein stated, including certain expenses
of Civil Government of the Province, and of the Public service thereof,
for the fiscal years ending 30th June, 1890, 1891, and 1892, respectively:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, as follows:

1. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province Appropriations. there shall and may be paid and applied for the purposes set forth in the Schedules hereto, viz. :

A sum not exceeding in the whole twenty-four thousand seven $24,776.03 for year hundred and seventy-six dollars and three cents, expended for the ending 30th June, Public Service (as shown in Schedule A) for the fiscal year ending 30th

June, 1890.

1890.

A sum not exceeding in the whole one hundred and sixty-two $162,032.20 supplethousand and thirty-two dollars and twenty cents, to supplement the ment amount for year ending 30th amount granted by the "Supply Act, 1890," for the fiscal year ending June, 1891. 30th June, 1891.