have obtained of progress made during the year in the several departments of the Fair as compared with previous years, and generally such means as have been used and measures taken by the Council under section 28 of this Act to promote improvement in agriculture and the useful arts. 49 V. c. 11, s. 30.

31. The corporation of a city or town may enter into an agreement with the Council, binding such corporation to erect buildings necessary for holding the annual exhibition of the Association; and in consideration thereof the Council may select such corporation as the one within whose territorial limits their exhibition shall be held; but in the event of such corporation failing to enter into a binding agreement as aforesaid on or before the first day of May in the year for holding such exhibition, the Council may change the place for holding the same, or may dispense with an exhibition for that year. 49 V. c. 11, s. 31.

32. The Council shall, on or before the 15th day of December in each year, submit for the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council an estimate of the sums required for the purposes of the Association for the ensuing year, giving in detail in such estimate as far as possible the particular object or objects to which the money is to be applied and the amount required for each. 49 V. c. 11, 8. 32.

33. The Council shall, on or before the first day of ́October in each year fix the date at which the next annual exhibition shall be held. 49 V. c. 11, s. 33.

THE VETERINARY COLLEGE.

34-(1) The Council may establish a veterinary College for the instruction of pupils, by competent and approved teachers, in the science and practice of the veterinary art, and may pass by-laws and adopt measures for the examination of pupils in Anatomy, Physiology, Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Chemistry, and as to the breeding of domesticated animals; and upon proof, to the satisfaction of the Council, that such pupils possess the requisite qualifications, may grant diplomas certifying that they are competent to practise as Veterinary Surgeons.

(2) Veterinary practitioners holding such diplomas shall be entitled to professional fees in attending any Court of Law as witnesses in such cases as relate to the profession; and no person who does not possess a diploma or proper certificate from some duly authorized Veterinary College, within or without this Province, shall append to his name the term Veterinary Surgeon, or an abbreviation thereof.

(3) Any person who wilfully and falsely pretends to be, or who wilfully and falsely takes or uses any name, title, addition, abbreviation or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer that he is, or is recognised by law as, a Veterinary Surgeon, within the meaning of the foregoing sub-sections of this section, or that he possesses a diploma or proper certificate from some duly authorized Veterinary College within or without the Province, shall, upon summary conviction before a Justice of the Peace, pay a penalty not exceeding $100, and not less than $25.

(4) All prosecutions under this section may be brought and heard before and by any Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction in the locality where the offence is alleged to have been committed, and the Justice shall have power to award payment of costs in addition to the penalty; and, in case the penalty and costs awarded by him are not upon conviction forthwith paid, to commit the offender to the common gaol, there to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months, unless the penalty and costs are sooner paid.

(5) All penalties recovered under this section shall be paid to the convicting Justice, and be paid by him to the Treasurer of the Agriculture and Arts Association, and shall thereupon form part of the funds of the said Association, and be accounted for as such.

(6) Any person convicted under this section who gives notice of appeal against the decision of the convicting Justice shall, before being released from custody, give to the said Justice satisfactory security for the amount of the penalty and costs of conviction and appeal.

(7) The Council or any person may be prosecutor or complainant under this section, and every prosecution thereunder shall be commenced within one year from the date of the alleged offence. 49 V. c. 11, s. 34.

53 VICTORIA, CHAPTER 65.

An Act to make further provisions for preventing the spread of Contagious Diseases among Horses.

[Assented to 7th April, 1890.

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

1. Where the words following occur in this Act, they shall be construed in the manner hereinafter mentioned, unless a contrary intention appears:

"Veterinarian" means a veterinary surgeon duly registered by the Council of the Agriculture and Arts Association of Ontario.

"Veterinary Inspector" means any veterinarian specially appointed by the Government of Ontario.

"Inspector" means any inspector appointed by the Government of Ontario or by a municipality.

"Place" means and includes any public highway, street, road, lane, alley, way, or other communication, any public place or square, also any common, field, stable, shed, or any and all premises where any disease under this Act is found to exist or to have existed.

"Horse" means a stallion or mare.

"Disease" means equine syphilis or other malignant venereal disease.

2. Where it appears to any person that any horse is affected with disease such person shall at once notify the Minister of Agriculture by transmitting to him a declaration made before a justice of the peace, commissioner, or notary public, that he has reason to believe that such horse is affected with disease, and shall also notify any other person known to such person to have jurisdiction in the matter. Any person who maliciously and without reasonable and probable cause gives the notice mentioned in this section, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $50.

3. Where the owner or other person having charge of a horse has reason to suspect the existence of disease in said horse, he shall at once take all reasonable precaution to prevent the spread of disease to other horses until it has been determined by a veterinary inspector that the horse is free from disease.

4. Where it appears to any inspector under this Act that any horse is affected with disease, he shall at once notify the owner or other person in charge of such horse, and shall also at once report the matter to the Department of Agriculture.

5. Where it appears to any inspector appointed under this Act that a horse is affected with disease, he shall cause the same to be safely kept where it will not be brought into contact with, or be in danger of transmitting the disease to other horses.

6. The Minister of Agriculture may from time to time appoint an inspector or inspectors under this Act. Veterinary inspectors appointed under this Act shall perform their duties within the limits of the district assigned to them under this Act. They may further, when so directed by the Minister, carry out any order or regulation made under this Act, in any other part of the Province than that for which they are specially appointed.

7. Any inspector under this Act shall have power to enter in or upon any premises in the performance of any duty laid upon him by this Act, or any regulation made under the provisions of this Act, and may call upon any constable or other person to aid him, under penalty hereinafter mentioned for default in so doing, in executing any action taken under this Act, or any regulation made under this Act.

8. Wherever it shall appear proper, the Minister of Agriculture may direct any veterinary or other inspector under this Act, to examine into any alleged outbreak of the said disease; to cause such scientific investigations to be made with a view to determining the nature and source of the outbreak as under the circumstances are deemed necessary, and to take (in case the investigation shows reasonable grounds for so doing) such measures for its suppression or limitation as are laid upon him by this Act, or by any regulations made under the provisions of this

Act.

9.-(1) The council of any county, city, or town separated from a county for municipal purposes, may, by by-law, make provision for the inspection and examination by competent veterinarians of all horses, or may limit the operation of such by-law to stallions alone intended for breeding purposes during any year, in such county, city, or town; the examination being for the purpose of ascertaining whether such horses or stallions are free from disease. The said council may also prescribe such regulations as may seem desirable in connection with the examination, and also direct how the expenses of the examination shall be paid.

(2) Where no by-law has been passed by any county under the preceding sub-section, the council of any township or incorporated village situate in such county may pass a by-law for the purposes mentioned in such sub-section; Provided that if the county council shall afterwards pass such by-law, the by-law in force in any township or village in said county shall become inoperative.

10. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to time make such regulations under this Act as may seem necessary for the carrying out of its provisions.

11. The certificate of a veterinary inspector to the effect that an animal is affected with disease, shall for the purposes of this Act, be prima facie evidence in all courts of justice and elsewhere of the matter certified.

12. Every penalty imposed by this Act shall be recoverable with costs, before any justice of the peace, having jurisdiction, or any magistrate having the powers of two justices of the peace under The Act respecting Summary Convictions before Justices of the Peace.