1881.

LIQUOR LICENSES.

CHAP. 21.

5. The term "liquor" shall include all spirituous and malt liquors, Meaning of "liquor" and "licensed" perand all combinations of liquors and drinks and drinkable liquids which son." are intoxicating. The term "licensed person" shall mean any person who possesses a license to sell intoxicating liquor of any kind whatsoever.

6. Section 4 of this Act shall not come into force until the 1st day When Act comes into operation. of January, 1892.

7. This Act may be cited as the "Liquor License Regulation Act, Short title. 1891."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

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

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An Act to provide Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds for consolidating the Public Debt, and for other purposes.

[20th April, 1891.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide funds by loan for the consolidation of the existing debt of the Province and for

public purposes:

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council for Issue of "British Columbia Stock." the time being of the Province from time to time to issue and sell inscribed or registered stock, to be called "British Columbia Stock," for a sum not exceeding in the whole seven hundred thousand pounds in such amounts as he may deem expedient.

able.

2. All stock sold pursuant to this Act shall bear interest at a rate Interest, where paynot exceeding three pounds ten shillings per centum per annum, to be fixed at the time of sale and to be paid half-yearly. The principal of such stock shall be paid at a date to be fixed at the time of sale, not being less than twenty-five nor more than fifty years after the time of sale. Both principal and interest shall be payable in London.

Account."

3. All moneys raised under this Act shall be paid, in such manner as "Loan Act, 1891 the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall prescribe, to the Minister of Finance, and shall by him be placed to the credit of an account to be called the "Loan Act, 1891, Account," to be applied, in such amounts and in such manner as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to time authorize and direct, in redeeming the debentures issued under the "British Columbia Loan Act, 1877," and the "British Columbia Loan Act, 1887," and towards the public purposes of the Province, but

Interest to be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue.

Sinking Fund.

Short title.

no greater sum than two hundred and fifty thousand pounds shall be applied otherwise than in redemption of the said debentures so issued as aforesaid under the said Loan Acts of 1877 and 1887 respectively; and all moneys to be raised under this Act shall be accounted for in the same manner as if they formed part of the current revenue of the Province.

4. The Minister of Finance shall, and he is hereby required to do so, in each and every half-year from the first raising of any sums of money under authority hereof, until the whole amount so raised and all interest thereon shall have been duly paid, set apart out of the Consolidated Revenues of the Province such sum as shall suffice to pay the interest upon all stock which shall then bear interest, and shall apply such sum in payment of such interest aforesaid.

5. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to time, by Order in Council to be made before the issue and sale of any stock to be named in any such Order in Council, provide for the payment of such stock by authorizing and directing the Minister of Finance to appropriate yearly such sums of money out of the General Revenue of the Province as may be named in any such Order in Council, and as may be deemed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to be necessary for the creation and maintenance of a Sinking Fund for the final payment of such stock, and may by the same Order in Council make such provisions as may be deemed requisite for the investment from time to time of the amount of any such Sinking Fund and the accumlation thereof.

6. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "British Columbia Loan Act, 1891," and shall be incorporated and read as one with the "Inscribed Stock Act, 1891."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

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

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[20th April, 1891.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Mechanics' Lien Act, 1891."

Interpretation.

Short title.

2. In the construction of this Act

Interpretation.

(1.) "Contractor" shall mean a person employed directly by the "Contractor." owner, for the doing of work for any of the purposes mentioned

in this Act:

(2.) "Sub-contractor" shall mean a person not contracting with or "Sub-contractor." employed directly by the owner for the purpose aforesaid, but contracting with or employed by the contractor or under him by another sub-contractor, to do the whole or a certain portion of the work, but a person doing manual or mental labour for wages shall not be deemed a sub-contractor:

(3.) "Owner" shall extend to and include a person having any "Owner.' estate or interest, legal or equitable, in the lands upon or in respect of which the work is done, at whose request and upon whose credit, or on whose behalf, or with whose privity or consent, or for whose direct benefit any such work is done, and all persons claiming under him whose rights are acquired after the work in respect to which the lien is claimed is commenced: (4.) "Works or Improvements" shall include every act or under- "Works or Improvetaking for which a lien may be claimed under this Act: (5.) "Labourer" shall mean, extend to and include every mechanic, "Labourer." artisan, builder, or other person doing labour for wages.

ments.