Registration, required for charges, &c. recovery of Idem for giving of certificates. Felon physician. Illegally two resident medical practioners, in the neighbourhood where he has practised, that he has succeeded in his profession, and is entitled to the consideration of the board, be entitled to a license to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery in this province and to registration without examination. 25. No person, unless otherwise duly authorized, shall be entitled to recover any charge, in any court of law, for any medical or surgical advice, or for attendance, or for the performance of any operation, or for any medicine which he shall have prescribed or supplied, nor be entitled to any of the rights or privileges conferred by this act, unless he shall prove that he is registered under this act, and has paid his annual contribution to the College. 26. No certificate required by this or any act now in force, from any physician or surgeon or medical practitioner, shall be valid, unless the person signing the same be registered under this act. 27. Any registered member of the medical profession, who shall have been convicted of any felony, in any court of law, shall thereby forfeit his right to registration, and, by the direction of the Provincial Medical Board, his name shall be erased from the Register; or, in case a person known to have been convicted of felony, shall present himself for registration, the registrar shall refuse such registration. 28. Any person not entitled to be registered in this practising. province, who shall be convicted, upon the oath of one or more witnesses, of having practised medicine, surgery or midwifery, in the province of Quebec, in contravention of the provisions of this act, after the passing of this act, for hire, gain or hope of reward, shall incur a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor exceeding one hundred dollars; Fine. Persons illegally assuming title, &c; Or seeking to 2. A like penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor exceeding one hundred dollars, shall be incurred by every person assuming, after the passing of this act, the title of doctor, physician or surgeon, or any other name implying that he or she is legally authorized to practise medicine, surgery or midwifery, in this Province, if unable to establish the fact, by legal proof as required by the present act, and the laws of the country; 3. Any person who, after the passing of this act, in an lead his qua- advertisement published in a newspaper, or in written be supposed. or printed circulars, or on business cards, or on signs, lification to assumes a title, name or designation of such a nature, as 4. In every prosecution under this act, the proof of proof. 5. The recovery of the penalties enacted by the present How and by section 28, shall be sued for in the same form as ordinary whom the penalties are simple civil actions, before any circuit or superior court recoverable. of the district, in which the delinquent may reside, or of the district in which the infringement of this act was committed, in the name of the : College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec;" and the court so seized of the suit, shall, if the proof appear satisfactory, condemn the delinquent or defendant to pay, in addition to the penalty, the costs of suit, and in cases in which the penalty and costs shall not have been paid, it shall order that the delinquent or defendant be imprisoned for a period not exceeding Imprisonthirty days,in the common gaol of the District in which the mnt in action has been instituted; provided always that he may, payment of at any time, claim his discharge, before the expiration of fine and the said thirty days, on paying the penalty and costs to which he shall have been condemned. default of costs. 6. The penalties imposed by this act, shall be reco- Employment verable with costs, and the same may be sued for and of fines. recovered by the said: "College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec," by its corporate name, and being recovered, shall belong to the said corporation for the use thereof. be competent And neither in any such suit nor in any other civil Physicians, to action, to or in which the said corporation may be a party witnesses. or interested, shall any member of the corporation be deemed incompetent as a witness by reason of his being such member. 29. In all cases where proof of registration under this act Certified is required, the production of a printed or other copy or copy of Register, to be extract from the register, certified under the hand of the evidence. registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, for the time being, shall be sufficient evidence that all persons therein named, are registered practitioners, in lieu of the production of the original Present board. Present by-laws, Present registers. register; and any certificate upon such printed or other copy of the register, or extract from such register, purporting to be signed by any person, in his capacity of registrar of the College, under this act, shall be prima facie evidence that such person is such registrar, without any proof of his signature, or of his being in fact such registrar. 30. The present board of governors elected under the provisions of the acts herein before repealed, shall be continued, and shall act until after the next triennial election, but subject in all other respects to the provisions of this act; and all by-laws, rules and regulations heretofore made by the said College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, shall remain in force until repealed or modified under the provisions of this act. 31. The officers appointed under the provisions of the officers and acts repealed, shall retain their respective offices, and perform their respective duties under the provisions of this act, and all books and registers heretofore kept by them in conformity with the acts hereby repealed, shall be continued in use for their respective purposes under this act. Property of former College, J 32. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of the province of Quebec is hereby vested with all the rights, transferred. powers, privileges, property and assets, heretofore belonging to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada and of the college of Physicians and Surgeons erected under the act 40 Vict., Chap. 26. Obligations already contracted, not discharged. Replacement of certain 33. No person licensed to practise as aforesaid, and enregistered under the said act 40 Vict., chap. 26, shall, by reason of anything contained in this act, be relieved or discharged from the fulfilment of all and every his requirements and obligations, fees, dues, fines and penalties, due and incurred under the said act, to and in favor of the heretofore College under the said late act, and specially in and by the 15th, 20th and 21st sections of the said act, all which shall be recoverable and enforceable against delinquents therefor, by the said College established by this act; and until the same shall have been complied with and settled with the said present College, such delinquents shall not be entitled to any of the rights and privileges conferred upon registered licenciates under this act. ཏིན། 34. It shall be lawful for the president of the College if he shall deem it expedient so to do, at any time, by an certain authority under his hand and seal, to authorize, name, officers for constitute and appoint any person or persons other than purposes. any of the officers of the said College, whoever he may select, to institute any proceeding against any person who may be supposed to have infringed any of the provisions of this act, and to collect any and all sums of money payable to the said College by any person under this act. not affected. 35. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed Rights of to affect the rights of any persons, under the provisions homopaths, of the act 28 Vict., chap. 59, and amendments thereto, 29 Vict., chap. 95. 36. This act will come into force on the day of the Act in force. sanction thereof CAP. XXX VIII. An Act to further amend chapter 76 of the consolidated statutes of Canada, respecting the practice of Medicine and Surgery, and the study of anatomy. HE [Assented to 31st October, 1879.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent 1. Section 4 of chapter seventy-six of the Consolidated S. 4, C.S.C., Statutes of Canada is amended so as to read as follows: amended. "4. The Lieuteuant Governor in council shall appoint Appointment of an inspecat pleasure, any coroner or physician, not attached to any of an public or private school of medicine, or any other qualified "natomy. person, to be inspector of anatomy for any city, town or locality where there is a public institution or school of medicine, as aforesaid." CAP. X X XIX: An Act to establish Mutual Assurance Companies, [Assented to 31st October, 1879.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent 1. The council of any rural municipality, may make a Mutual by-law establishing a Mutual Assurance Company in assurance companies. ties. Municipali- order to keep assured against accidents by fire, lightning or wind, any buildings situated upon taxable real estate within the municipality, as well as any grain, hay, fodder and household furniture contained in such buildings. Approval of by-laws by electors. Incorporation. Name. 2. The by-law establishing such company must be approved by the municipal electors before having full force and effect. 3. The owners of property assured in each mutual assurance company, established under the authority of the present act, shall form a corporation or body politic known under the name of: "The Mutual Assurance Company of the (here inserting the nume of the municipality ;)" and each such company shall be under the control of the municipal council of the municipality in which it is established. It shall be administered by the said council Their power and may sue and be sued, and its place of business shall be the same as that of the said council. AdmiListrators. Valuation of buildings on 4. After the coming into force of such by-law, the special roll, council may order the valuators of the municipality to make, under their oaths of office, an appraisement of the buildings, by inserting in separate columns, on a special roll prepared for that purpose: Amendments to said roll. Contents of said roll. Buildings which are considered insured. 1. A succint description of each building situated upon any taxable real estate in the municipality; 2. The value of each such building, and all information required by the council. 5. The special roll mentioned in the preceeding section, may be amended by the council. 6. The council, after the making of the said roll, shall, at a public meeting duly convened, enter on the said roll, opposite the description or valuation of each building which they shall not deem it advisable to assure, the words: "objected to by the council," and opposite the description or valuation of each building whose proprietor shall object to its being assured, the words: "objected to by the proprietor. "The latter may withdraw his objection when he thinks proper, by giving notice in writing, to the Secretary-Treasurer who shall, without delay, enter under his signature, under the words: 66 objected to by the proprietor," the words: objection withdrawn," and henceforward the said building shall remain assured. 7. Dating from the day inclusively of the meeting mentioned in the preceding section, all the buildings of |