13. (a) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any resident of any city, town or school district in New Brunswick, which does not maintain a Vocational or Pre-vocational School offering the type of training which he or she desires, may, through his or her local School Board make application to any Vocational Committee, maintaining a School of the desired type, for admission to said School. A Vocational Committee receiving such application, may approve or disapprove the same; but in event of disapproval, the applicant may appeal same; but in event of disapproval, the applicant may appeal to the Vocational Education Board whose decision shall be final. In making its decision, the Vocational Education Board shall take into consideration the opportunities for free Vocational and Pre-vocational training in the community in which the applicant resides; the financial status of the community; the age, sex, preparation, aptitude and previous record of the applicant and all other relevant circumstances.

(b) The School Board of the city, town or district in which the person resides, who has been admitted as above provided, to a Vocational or a Pre-vocational School, maintained by another city, town or district, shall pay such tuition fee as may be fixed by the Vocational Education Board, and the Province shall reimburse such School Board as provided for in this Act. If any School Board neglects or refuses to pay for such tuition, it shall be liable therefor in an action of contract to the Vocational Committee maintaining the School which the pupil, with the approval of the said Board, attended. 14. Vocational and Pre-vocational Schools established under this Act, shall, so long as they are approved by the Vocational Education Board, as to organization, control, location, equipment, courses of study, qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, employment of pupils and expenditures of money, receive Provincial grants as provided in Sections 15, 16 and 17 of this Act.

15. (a) The Province, in order to aid in the maintenance of Vocational and PreVocational education, shall, as provided in this Act, pay annually from the treasury to the Vocational Committee maintaining such School, an amount equal to one-half the sum to be known as the net maintenance sum. Such net maintenance sum shall consist of the total sum expended for instruction and heating and lighting of such School, less the amount for the same period, of tuition claims, paid or unpaid, provided always that no Provincial grants shall be paid on account of real estate, insurance, materials and supplies.

(b) School Boards that have paid claims for tuition in Vocational or Pre-vocational Schools, shall be paid Provincial grants to the extent of one-half the sums expended in payment of such tuition claims.

(c) Local or joint Vocational Committees maintaining Vocational and Pre-vocational Schools, under this Act, in communities of less than 5,000 people, shall receive Provincial grants to the extent only of one-half of the salaries paid the Director and Instructors.

(d) All moneys payable under the provisions of this Act shall be paid on requisition of the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Vocational Board upon the Provincial Secretary-Treasurer, provided always that the sum total of the amount paid under the Act shall in no year exced $50,000.

16. (a) Estimates shall be presented by the Vocational Education Board to the Governor in Council before each Session of the Legislature, for the school year beginning the first day of July next following.

(b) Estimates shall be presented by Vocational Committees to the Vocational Education Board, on or before the first day of January of the school year for which the estimate is made.

17. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any city, town or district unless compulsory school attendance therein shall have been adopted.

18. The Vocational Education Board shall have power to make regulations for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act.

Passed April 26, 1918.

QUEBEC.

Inspection and Regulation of Offices and Shops-Fire Prevention.

Chapter 51-1. The following subsection and articles are inserted in the Revised Statutes, 1909, after article 3781:

“ § 6a.-Protection of Public Buidings Against Fire.

"3781a. The words: public buildings " used in this subsection, mean and include the public buildings defined in article 3749, [charity workrooms, buildings of three stories or more over the ground floor occupied as offices and stores employing at least ten clerks] and the words, 'proprietors of public buildings,' mean and include the persons defined in article 3750.

"3781b. No electric installation in a public building in the Province for the transmission of light, motive power or heat shall be put in or altered except by a person or under the immediate supervision of a person duly authorized and holding a license to that effect.

"3781c. Every heating apparatus already installed in a building or to be so in future, must be approved by one of the inspectors of public buildings, who shall give the proprietor of the building a certificate to that effect. This certificate must be always posted up at the place indicated by the inspector.

'3781d. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may prescribe the conditions on which the license provided for in article 3781b shall be issued, its duration and the fee chargeable thereon. He may likewise prescribe such conditions as he may deem fair and reasonable respecting the installation of a heating system in a public building, as well as the conditions on which the certificate provided for in article 3781c shall be issued, its duration and the fees chargeable thereon.

"3781e. The chief inspector of public buildings may, with the approval of the Minister of Public Works and Labour, declare any electric installation or heating apparatus now in any public building, defective, and may order the necessary alterations to be made, and, if the proprietor does not comply with the said inspector's orders to that effect, he shall be liable to the penalties provided for in articles 3782 and 3783,

3781f. Articles 3782 to 3789 inclusive, shall apply to this subsection, mutatis mutandis.

2. This act shall come into force on a proclamation of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, after its publication in the "Quebec Official Gazette."

Assented to February 9, 1918.

Weekly Rest Day for Hotel Employees.

Chapter 53.-1. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may order that every person who keeps, directs, runs or manages a hotel, restaurant or club as proprietor, tenant or occupant, shall be bound to give his employees one day of rest each week.

2. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may also make regulations for carrying out this act and determine to what establishments it shall apply, what persons may benefit by it and in what manner it shall apply.

3. Notice shall be given in the "Quebec Official Gazette of the coming into force of the above provisions, and, from and after the date of the said notice, all persons interested must comply with the same.

4. Any person infringing the provisions of this act or the regulations which the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may enact, shall be liable to a fine of not more than fifty dollars and costs, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for not more than one month.

5. Every prosecution under this Act or the regulations made thereunder, shall be taken by one of the inspectors before a judge of the sessions or a police magistrate, in the city of Montreal or Quebec, or before the district magistrate or any justice of the peace of the place where the offence was committed.

Such prosecution may also be taken by any other person, provided the prosecutor deposits beforehand with the person issuing the summons, the sum of twenty dollars as security for the costs of the prosecution.

6. The procedure to be followed shall be that prescribed by Part XV of the Criminal Code respecting summary convictions.

7. Any inspector of industrial establishments is authorized to enter, at any hour, any of the buildings referred to in this act, for the purpose of ascertaining how it is observed.

8. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanction.

Assented to February 9, 1918.

Co-operative Associations.

Chapter 65.-1. Article 6763 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, amended by the Acts 2 George V, chapter 43, section 1, and 5 George V, chapter 68, section 1, is again amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:

"Notwithstanding the foregoing, the territorial limit within which the association may operate, may be extended with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council."

2. This Act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. Assented to February 9, 1918.

Workmen's Compensation.

Chapter 71.-1. Article 7321 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, is amended by replacing the last paragraph thereof by the following:

"This subsection may be cited under the name of Workmen's Compensation Act of the Province of Quebec,' and it shall not apply to agricultural industries nor to navigation by means of sails."

2. Article 7322 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, is amended:

a. By adding, at the end of subparagraph c of paragraph 1 thereof, the following: "the said compensation not to be more than four dollars per week"; b. By replacing the words: " two thousand dollars," at the end of paragraph 2 thereof, by the words: "two thousand five hundred dollars";

c. By adding thereto, at the end thereof, the following paragraph:

3. In case the person injured has already suffered partial and permanent incapacity by reason of a previous accident, the compensation to which he shall be entitled, if he sustains another accident, shall be calculated after deducting the incapacity previously suffered."

3. Article 7323 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, is amended:

a. By replacing the words: "two thousand dollars," at the end of the first paragraph thereof, by the words: "two thousand five hundred dollars"; b. By adding, at the end of paragraph b thereof, the following:

they are invalids."

or more if

4. Article 7326 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, is replaced by the following:"7326. If the yearly remuneration of the workman exceed eight hundred dollars, no more than this sum shall be taken into account. The surplus up to twelve hundred dollars shall give a right only to one-fourth of the compensation aforesaid.

"This subsection does not apply in cases where the yearly remuneration exceeds twelve hundred dollars.'"

5. Article 7329 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, as amended by the Act 4 George V, chapter 57, section 1, is again amended by replacing the second paragraph thereof by the following paragraphs, to wit:

"The person injured or his representatives may, at their option, demand the payment to themselves of the amount of the compensation, or of the capital of the rent, which in no case of death, or incapacity, saving the case provided for in article 7325, shall amount to more than two thousand five hundred dollars.

The rent itself, saving the above exception, may not be calculated upon a capital of more than two thousand five hundred dollars."

6. Article 7330 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, is amended by replacing the word: "quarterly" in the second line thereof, by the word: "monthly.

7. This Act shall not apply to accidents happening before the 9th of February, 1918, and shall not affect pending cases.

8. This Act shall come into force on the day of its sanction.

Assented to February 9, 1918.

Workmen's Liens.

Chapter 75.-1. Paragraph 9 of article 1994 of the Civil Code, as contained in article 5825 of the Revised Statutes, 1888, and as amended by the Act 59 Victoria, chapter 41, section 1, is replaced by the following:

"9. Servants' wages and those of employees of railway companies engaged in manual labour, sums due under article 7340 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, and sums due for supplies of provisions."

2. This Act shall come into force on the day of its sanction.

Assented to February 9, 1918.

Chapter 29.-1. Section 6 of the Mechanics' and Wage Earners' Lien Act is amended by adding after the word " in the eighteenth line thereof the words

"

or adjacent to."

upon

2. Subsection (2) of section 16 of the said Act is amended by adding after the word upon" in the first line thereof, the words "or adjacent to."

3. Subsection (1) of section 8 of the said Act is amended by adding at the commencement thereof the words "save as herein otherwise provided."

4. Section 8 of the said Act is amended by adding thereto the following subsection: shall be deemed to be increased by the value of the work or service performed upon and (4) The selling value of land incumbered by a prior mortgage or other charge, of the material furnished or placed thereon or adjacent thereto.

mencement thereof the words, "Save as herein otherwise provided." 5. Subsection (2) of section 14 of the said Act is amended by adding at the com

Assented to March 26, 1918.

to necessitate their absence from time to time from the municipality, who are entitled 3. This Act shall apply only to railway employees whose employment is such as from the municipality on the day fixed for holding the poll at the annual municipal to vote at municipal elections and who have reason to believe that they will be absent

elections.

tions a poll shall be held and open from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock 4. For the purpose of enabling every person to vote at the annual municipal elecin the afternoon for the three days, exclusive of Sunday, immediately preceding the day for holding the poll at the annual municipal election at the city, town or village holding the poll shall be given by the clerk by publication in a newspaper for such hall or at some other place chosen by the clerk, and notice of the time and place of

time as may be thought proper by the council.

proceedings prior to the holding of a poll and at the poll and after the closing of the 5. Except as herein otherwise provided the provisions of the Municipal Act as to

poll shall apply.

6. In a municipality where the election is by wards there shall be a separate ballot

box for each ward.

person appointed by him shall act as Deputy Returning Officer, and in a municipality 7. In a municipality where the election is by general vote the clerk or some other or more wards or may appoint one or more persons to act as deputy returning officers where the election is by wards the clerk may act as Deputy Returning Officer for one for one or more wards, and may also appoint as many poll clerks as there are deputy

returning officers.

allowed to vote shall be required by the Deputy Returning Officer to make the following 8. (1) Every person offering himself as a voter at the polling place before being

declaration, which shall be kept by the Deputy Returning Officer with the other records of the poll:

I,

declare that I am at present employed by

railway company, and that I expect in the course of my employment to be absent from this municipality on the day for holding the poll at the annual municipal election. Dated at

(2) Any person signing any such declaration knowing that the statements therein are false shall incur a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $100.

"

(3) The poll clerk shall record in the poll book in the column headed "Remarks after the name of each person who votes a note that he has signed the declaration above set out.

9. No person shall be entitled to vote unless his name appears on the last revised voters' list for the municipality.

10. The Deputy Returning Officer and every candidate or his agent may require that the voter, before being handed a ballot, take the oath to be administered to a voter under The Municipal Act.

11. At the close of the poll each day the Deputy Returning Officer and any candidate or agent present who desires to do so shall affix his seal to the ballot box in such a manner that it cannot be opened or any ballots be deposited in it without breaking such seals.

12. On the day fixed for holding the poll at the annual municipal elections the Deputy Returning Officer at the polling place, in the presence of such candidates and their agents as may be present, shall at the hour fixed for the closing of the poll open the ballot boxes, count the votes and perform all the other duties required of a Deputy Returning Officer by the Municipal Act at the annual municipal elections.

Assented to March 26, 1918.

Liability of Employers for Taxes of Employees.

Chapter 35.-1. (1) Section 4 of The Statute Labour Act, as amended by 6 George V, chapter 42, section 1, and as further amended by 7 George V, chapter 46, section I, is further amended by adding the following as subsections (2) and (3);

(2) Where any such male inhabitant has been employed by the same person for not less than thirty days such employer shall pay over to the collector on demand out of any wages due to such employee the amount of such tax and such payment shall relieve the employer from liability to the employee for the amount so paid.

(3) The provisions of this section shall apply to and be in force in any township the council of which passes a by-law for that purpose.

1918.

Assented to March 26, 1918.

Inspection and Regulation of Factories, Shops and Office Buildings.

Chapter 44.-1. This Act may be cited as The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act,

Application of Act.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 7 of The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act, Part I of the said Act shall apply to every factory in which machinery is used which is operated by steam, electrical or any other power than hand power.

3. A building, or a part of a building, used and occupied by a municipal or school corporation or by any municipal commission for office purposes shall be deemed an office building within the meaning of the Factory, Shop and Office Building Act, and the provisions of the said Act applicable to office buildings shall apply thereto, and the municipal or school corporation or commission owning or occupying any such building or part of a building shall be deemed the owner thereof within the meaning of the said Act notwithstanding that no rents, issues or profits are derived therefrom.

Inspection.

4. Section 14 of The Factory, Shop and Office Building Act respecting the submission for the approval of the plans of any building, or alterations of a building which it is proposed thereafter to use as a factory, shall extend and apply to any building over two stories in height which it is proposed to use as a shop or office building and the said