31. Section 58 of the said Act, as enacted by section 8 of chapter 11 of the statutes of 1888, is hereby further amended by striking out all the words from "candidate" in line four to "of" in line nine, and by inserting after the word "papers" in line ten the words "and of the ballot papers numbered and initialled by him under section 23 of this Act."

32. Subsection 1 of section 64 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out all the words from "or" in line fourteen to "be" in line twenty-eight, and by substituting therefor: "(3.) In the Province of Prince Edward Island that any person not duly qualified to vote in such electoral district has so voted."

2. Subsection 2 of said section 64 is hereby repealed.

3. Subsection 4 of the said section 64 is hereby amended by striking out all the words from 'including" in line eight to "appeals" in line thirteen.

4. Subsection 6 of the said section 64 is hereby amended by striking out all the words from "and" in line three to "thereat" in line twenty-four.

33. Form S in the first schedule to the said Act, as amended by section 11 of chapter 11 of the statutes of 1888, by section 16 of chapter 19 of the statutes of 1891, and by section 22 of chapter 14 of the statutes of 1831, is hereby repealed

34. Form X in the said schedule is hereby repealed.

35. The second schedule to the said Act is hereby amended by inserting after the item numbered 7 the following item:

"7a. For necessary disbursements under section 13, the fees to be paid for copies of documents furnished to the returning officer thereunder to be those provided for similar services under the provincial law, and where no provision is made by the provincial law, ten cents per folio of one hundred words, and for the certificate of the custodian, fifty cents."

36. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to prepare, as schedules to this Act, the oaths in the form required to be taken by voters at an election held under the authority of this Act.

CHAPTER 6.

An Act to provide for the Government of the Yukon District.

(Assented to 13th June, 1898.) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as The Yukon Territory Act.

2. The Yukon Judicial District, as constituted by the proclamation of the Governor-in-Council bearing date the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and contained in the schedule to this Act, is hereby constituted and declared to be a separate territory under the name of the Yukon Territory, and the same shall no longer form part of the NorthWest Territories.

3. The Governor-in-Council may, by instrument under the great seal, appoint for the Yukon Territory a chief executive officer to be styled and known as the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory.

4. The Commissioner shall administer the government of the territory under instructions from time to time given him by the Governor-in-Council or the Minister of the Interior.

5. The Governor-in-Council by warrant under his privy seal may constitute and appoint such and so many persons from time to time not exceeding in the whole six persons, as may be deemed desirable to be a Council to aid the Commissioner in the administration of the territory, and such persons so appointed to the Council shall before entering upon the duties of their offices take and subscribe before the Commissioner such oaths of allegiance and office as the Governor-in-Council may prescribe.

(2.) The majority of the Council including the Commissioner shall form a quorum.

(3.) Each judge of the court shall be ex officio a member of the Council, but the total number of members of the Council, including the judges, shall not exceed six.

6. The Commisioner-in-Council shall have the same powers to make ordinances for the government of the territory as are at the date of this Act possessed by the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly thereof to make ordinances for the government of the North-West Territories, except as such powers may be limited by order of the Governor-in-Council.

7. A copy of every such ordinance made by the Commissioner-in-Council shall be dispatched by mail to the Governor-in-Council within ten days after the passing thereof, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, and any such ordinance may be disallowed by the Governor-in-Council at any time within two years after its passage.

8. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Governor-in-Council may make ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the territory and of Her Majesty's subjects and others therein, but no ordinance made by the Governor-in-Council or the Commissioner-in-Council shall,

(a.) impose any tax or any duty of customs or any excise or any penalty exceeding one hundred dollars, or

(b.) Alter or repeal the punishment provided in any Act of the Parliament of Canada in force in the territory for any offence, or

(c.) appropriate any public money, lands or property of Canada without authority of Parliament :

Provided that this section shall not apply to any law extending or applying or declared applicable to the territory by any Act of the Parliament of Canada. 9. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the laws relating to civil and criminal matters and the ordinances as the same exist in the North-West Territories at the time of the passing of this Act, shall be and remain in force in the said Yukon Territory in so far as the same are applicable thereto until amended or repealed by the Parliament of Canada or by any ordinance of the Governor-inCouncil or the Commissioner-in-Council made under the provisions of this Act. 10. There is hereby constituted and appointed a Superior Court of Record in and for the said territory, which shall be called The Territorial Court. The said court shall consist of one or more judges, who shall be appointed by the Governor-in-Council by letters patent under the Great Seal.

(2.) Any person may be appointed judge of the court who is or has been a Judge of a superior or a County Court of any province of Canada or of the North-West Territories, or a barrister or advocate of at least ten years' standing at the bar of any such province or of the North-West Territories.

(3.) A judge of the court shall not hold any other office or emolument under the Government of Canada, or of any province of Canada or of the said territory, but this provision shall not prevent a judge from being eligible for appointment as a member of the Council of the said territory.

11. The law governing the residence, tenure of office, oath of office, rights and privileges of the judge or judges of the court, and the power, authority and jurisdiction of the court shall be the same, mutatis mutandis, as the law governing the residence, tenure of office, oath of office, rights and privileges of the judges, and the power, authority and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories, except as the same are expressly varied in this Act.

12. Sittings of the court presided over by a judge or judges shall be held at such times and places as the Governor-in-Council or the Commissioner-inCouncil shall appoint.

13. The Governor-in-Council may appoint such officers of the court as may be deemed necessary, and may define and specify the duties and emoluments of the officers so appointed.

14. The judge of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories assigned to the Yukon Judicial District at the time this Act comes into force, and the officers of that court for the said district, shall be the judge and officers of the Territorial Court until otherwise provided, but the said judge may at his option, at any time, within twelve months after this Act comes into force, resume his office as one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories, his transfer to that court being in such case made by Order of the Governorin-Council.

15. The procedure in criminal cases in the Territorial Court shall, subject to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada, conform as nearly as possible to the procedure existing in like cases in the North-West Territories at the time of the passing of this Act.

16. While in the said Yukon Territory the Commissioner of the territory, each member of the Council thereof, every judge of the court, and every commissioned officer of the North-West Mounted Police, shall ex officio have, possess and exercise all the powers of a justice of the peace, or of two justices of the peace, under any laws or ordinances, civil or criminal, in force in the said territory, and the Governor-in-Council may, by commission, appoint such other persons justices of the peace or police commissioners, having each the

authority of two justices of the peace within the said territory, as may be deemed desirable.

1 17. No person shall be summoned or sworn as a juryman on any trial in the Territorial Court unless he is a British subject.

18. Every lock-up, guard-room, guard-house or place of confinement provided by or for or under the direction of the North-West Mounted Police Force, or the regular military force, or a municipal body, or by the Commissioner or Commissioner-in-Council of the territory, shall be a penitentiary, jail, and place of confinement for all persons sentenced to imprisonment in the territory, and the Commissioner of the territory shall direct in which such penitentiary, jail or place of confinement any person sentenced to imprisonment shall be imprisoned.

(2.) The Governor-in-Council shall have power to make rules and regulations respecting the management, discipline and policy of every penitentiary, jail or place of confinement used as such in the territory.

19. All persons possessing the powers of two justices of the peace in the territory shall also be coroners in and for the said territory.

20. The Governor-in-Council may appoint such officers as are necessary for the due administration of justice in the territory, may fix the fees or emolu ments of such officers and may fix the fees or emoluments of coroners, justices of the peace, jurors, witnesses and other persons attending or performing duties in relation to the administration of criminal justice, and provide the' manner in which such fees and emoluments shall be paid.

21. In case of the death of the Commissioner the senior member of the Council shall act as Commissioner until a successor is appointed.

OFFICIALS OF THE YUKON.

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Under the above Act the following Council was appointed :-
Commissioner of Yukon-William Ogilvie.

Members of Council-

Judge of the District-Hon. Calixte Aime Dugas (appointed Sept. 12, 1898.) Registrar of Lands-Jos. E. Girouard, M.P.P. for Arthabaska.

Legal Adviser to the Council, Crown Attorney and Clerk of the CourtW. H. P. Clement.

Commissioner of Yukon Police-Lieut.-Col. Steele.

Sheriff-Lieut.-Col. Steele.

Controller of Currency-John T. Lithgow.

Accountant, Interior Department-H. A. Bliss.

MINING BRANCH.

Gold Commissioner-E. C. Senkler. (Appointed Oct. 17, 1898.)

Surveyors-James Gibbons, R. W. Cantley, J. A. Cadenhead, E. D. Bolton. Surveyors' Assistant-A. F. Hurdman.

Clerk-F. D. Pattullo.

Clerk, Oswald Fillie, $900; clerk, Mr. Conklin, $900; stenographer, Joseph Clark, $900.

Mining Inspector-J. D. McGregor, $1,500.

Mining Inspector-H. H. Norwood, $1,500.

Mining Inspector-William Madden, $1,500.

TIMBER AND LAND BRANCH.

Chief Clerk-George Layfield, $1,200.

Clerk-H. Landerkin, $900.

Clerk-Wallace Montgomery (Kingston), $900.

Inspector--J. W. Willison, $1,500.

Inspector-D. A. McRae, $1,200.

Inspector-F. D. McFarlane, $1,200.

Legal Adviser-W. H. P. Clement.

Registrar-J. E. Girouard, $2,000.

Stenographer and Clerk-John N. E. Brown, $900.

The appointment of the Commissioner, Mr. Ogilvie, dates from July 7, 1898. Major Walsh was the first Commissioner, and went in Oct. 27, 1897, and organized the territory, coming out Sept., 1898.

Mr. Fawcett was appointed Gold Commissioner in April, 1897.