(xi) The examination of papers in connection with
the admission and discharge of lunatics to and
from asylums;

(xii) The consideration of matters of a public nature
such as proposed legislation;

(xiii) The drawing of special conveyances and instru-
ments of a like nature in connection with the
sale or purchase of property under The Public
Works Act or otherwise.
[1906, c. 6, s. 3.]

Deputy

General, officers

4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint Appointment of a Deputy Attorney General and such other officers, clerks Attorney and servants as are required for the proper conduct of the and clerks business of the Department, all of whom shall hold office during pleasure. [1906, c. 6, s. 4.]

CHAPTER 11.

An Act respecting the Department of the
Provincial Secretary.

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

Short Title.

Short title

Organization

Duties of
Provincial
Secretary

Duties in

capacity of Registrar

1. This Act may be cited as "The Provincial Secretary's Act." [1906, c. 7, s. 1.]

Organization and Functions of Department.

2. There shall be a department of the Public Service of the Province to be called the Department of the Provincial Secretary, over which the member of the Executive Council appointed by the Lieutenant Governor under the Seal of the Province to discharge the functions of the Provincial Secretary for the time being shall preside.

[1906, c. 7, s. 2.]

3. The powers, duties and functions of the Provincial Secretary shall be as follows:

(a) He shall have all the powers, duties and functions which are assigned by law or custom to Provincial Secretaries and Registrars of the different provinces of the Dominion of Canada in so far as they or any of them may be applicable to the Province of Alberta;

He shall be the keeper of the Seal of the Province;
and shall issue all letters patent, commissions and
other documents under the said Seal and counter-
sign the same with the exception of those which
are countersigned by the Clerk of the Executive
Council; and all commissions under the Seal shall
run in His Majesty's name;

(c) He shall be the keeper of all registers and archives
of the Province.
[1906, c. 7, s. 3.]

4. The Provincial Secretary shall be the Registrar of the Province; and as such shall register all instruments of summons, commissions, letters patent, writs, and other instruments and documents issued under the Seal of the Province; and his signature shall be proof of the fact that such registers, archives, instruments of summons, commissions, letters patent, writs and other instruments and documents exist and are lawfully in his possession; and any copy signed by him of any document shall be equivalent

to the original instrument itself in any court in the Province;
and every document or copy of a document purporting
to bear his signature shall be deemed so to do until proof
of the contrary.
[1906, c. 7, s. 4.]

Deputy

Secretary,

5. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may at any time Appointment of appoint a Deputy Provincial Secretary and such other Provincial officers, clerks and servants as may be requisite for the officers and proper conduct of the business of the Department, all of clerks whom shall hold office during pleasure. [1906, c. 7, s. 5.]

Fees.

6. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from Tariffs of fees time to time make and alter tariffs of fees which shall be paid for the issuing and registering of commissions, letters patent, licences and other instruments and documents and for the delivery of certified copies thereof or of certified extracts from the registers and archives in the Provincial Secretary's Department as hereinbefore mentioned.

for moneys

(2) The Provincial Secretary shall account to the Accounting Provincial Treasurer for all moneys received by virtue of received such tariffs or of any Act in force in the Province, in such manner as may be prescribed by law or by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, as the case may be. [1906, c. 7, s. 6.]

CHAPTER 12.

An Act respecting the Treasury Department and the Auditing of Public Accounts.

HIS

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

Short Title.

Short title

Interpretation

Auditor
Board

Department

Public revenue,

revenue,

public money

Revenue officer

Treasurer

Organization

1. This Act may be cited as "The Treasury Department Act." [1906, c. 5, s. 1.]

Interpretation.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) "Auditor" shall mean the Provincial Auditor;
(b) "Board" shall mean the Treasury Board;
(c) "Department" shall mean the Treasury Depart-

ment;

(d) "Public revenue," "revenue" and "public money"
shall respectively mean all revenue and public
moneys arising from any source whatever, whether
such revenue and moneys belong to the Province,
or are held by the Province, or collected or held
by officers of the Province for, or on account of,
or in trust for any provinces forming part of the
Dominion, or for the Dominion or for the Imperial
Government, or for any other party or person;
(e) "Revenue officer" shall mean any person employed
in collecting, managing or accounting for revenue,
or in carrying into effect any laws relating thereto,
or in preventing the contravention of any such laws;
and so far as regards accounting for and paying
over such revenue, the expression shall include any
person who has received or has been entrusted with
any public money, whether such person was
regularly employed for such purpose or not;
(f) "Treasurer" shall mean the member of the
Executive Council appointed to act as Provincial
[1906, c. 5, s. 2.]

Treasurer.

Organization and Functions of Department.

3. There shall be a department of the Public Service of the Province to be called the Treasury Department, over which the member of the Executive Council appointed by the Lieutenant Governor under the Seal of the Province to discharge the functions of the Provincial Treasurer for the time being shall preside. [1906, c. 5, s. 3.]

4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time appoint a Deputy Provincial Treasurer and such other officers and clerks as may be required to conduct the business of the Department, all of whom shall hold office during pleasure.

5. The Department shall have the management and Functions control of the revenue and expenditure of the Province. [1906, c. 5, s. 4.]

General Revenue Fund.

6. All revenue whatever, however arising or received, General over which the Legislative Assembly of the Province has Fund power of appropriation, excepting moneys which may otherwise be specially disposed of by the Legislature, shall form one general revenue fund to be appropriated to the Public Service of the Province. [1906, c. 5, s. 5.]

general

7. The general revenue fund shall be permanently Charges on charged with all costs, charges and expenses incident to revenue fund the collection, management and receipt thereof, but such costs, charges and expenses shall be subject to audit and to legislative review and vote. [1906, c. 5, s. 6.]

revenue fund

8. The Legislative Assembly shall not adopt or pass any Appropriations vote, resolution, address or bill for the appropriation of from general any part of the general revenue fund to any purpose which has not been first recommended to the Legislative Assembly by message of the Lieutenant Governor during the session in which such vote, resolution, address or bill is proposed. [1906, c. 5, s. 7.]

Collection and Management of Revenue.

revenue officers

9.-(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from Appointment of time to time determine what revenue officers it is necessary to employ and determine their names of office and their salaries and the times and manner in which they are to be paid.

(2) Where the salary of any revenue officer is fixed by an Act, he shall not receive any higher salary.

(3) No salary of a revenue officer shall be paid unless voted by the Legislative Assembly. [1906, c. 5, s. 8.]

any duty to be

10. Every revenue officer employed on any duty or Officers service by the order or with the concurrence of the Lieuten- employed on ant Governor in Council shall be deemed to be the proper deemed proper officer for that duty or service. [1906, c. 5, s. 9.] duty, etc.