13. For the purpose of proceeding under this Act, every offence against it shall be deemed to have been committed, and every cause of complaint under this Act shall be deemed to have arisen, either in the place where the same actually was committed or arose, or in any place in which the person charged or complained against happens to be.

14. Every person who refuses to admit any inspector acting under this Act, or under regulations or orders made in conformity with this Act, to any common, field, stable or other premises within his district where such inspector has reasonable ground to believe that any horse affected with disease, or other matter or thing exposed to such infection, is to be found, shall for every such offence incur a penalty not exceeding $50.

15. Every person who obstructs or impedes an inspector or other officer acting in execution of the provisions of this Act, or of any order of, or regulation made by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, or the Minister of Agriculture thereunder, and every person who aids and assists him therein, shall for each offence incur a penalty not exceeding $100, and the inspector or other officer may apprehend the offender and take him forthwith before a justice of the peace to be dealt with according to the law; but no person so apprehended shall be detained in custody, without the order of a justice, longer than twenty-four hours.

16. Any person who exposes for sale or sells any horse which he has reasonable grounds for suspecting is affected with disease or which has been pronounced by any veterinary inspector as diseased and unfit for breeding purposes, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for the first offence and to the same fine and also imprisonment for a period of not less than two months for any second or subsequent offence.

17. Any person violating any of the provisions contained in this Act, respecting which no express penalty is provided herein, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall on conviction forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding $100 for each offence.

C.M.J.-13

54 VICTORIA, CHAPTER 53.

An Act to Encourage the Breeding of Trotting

H

Horses.

[Assented to 4th May, 1891.

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

1. No person shall enter or cause to be entered for competition for any purse, prize, premium, stake, or sweepstake, offered or given by any agricultural or other society, or association where the contest is to be decided by speed, any horse, colt or filly, under a false or assumed name or pedigree, or in a class different to which such horse, colt or filly, properly belongs by the rules of the society or association in which such contest is to take place.

2. The name of a horse, colt or filly, for the purpose of entry for such competition in any contest of speed shall not be changed, after having once been entered in any such contest, except as provided by the code of rules of the society or association under which the contest is conducted.

3. The class to which a horse, colt or filly, properly belongs, for the purpose of entry in any such contest of speed shall be determined by the public performance of such horse, colt or filly in some former, if any, contest or trial of speed, as provided by the rules of the society or association, under which the proposed contest is to be conducted.

4. Any person violating any of the provisions contained in this Act, shall be guilty of an offence thereunder and

shall, on conviction before any justice of the peace, under a prosecution to be commenced within two years from the commission of the offence, forfeit and pay a sum not less than $50 nor more than $200 for each offence, together with costs, and in case of non-payment shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

NOTE.-Prof. A. Smith, F.R. V. C. S., Principal of the Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, has kindly consented to review the foregoing Acts relating to the veterinary profession, for a subsequent issue of the JOURNAL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTE (Continued from page 103.)

Practical knowledge, added to a fairly well-balanced or educated mind, is a much superior recommendation in a candidate for any official position than a property qualification, however large, without the brain. power. In order to obtain such practical experience, it is essential that a man should occupy the position to which he has been elected or appointed for at least two or three years, when his competency may fairly be criticised. Under the Municipal Act members of councils are obliged to seek re-election from year to year, and frequently a municipality, through some local prejudice or popular notion, loses the services of some of its comparatively untried men, who have given evidence during a limited term of service, that they would become superior representatives in local council, or in the advisement of legislative matters.

It may be contended, that an extended term might induce corrupt practices, but the same objection would apply to members of the Legislative Assembly or House of Commons. The Municipal Act provides such good and sufficient safeguards against wrong-doing in councils, or among subordinate officials, that malfeasance or other misconduct can be readily detected and punished and the right of retaining office cancelled and determined.

Under the Public Schools Act, the system of electing trustees for a longer term than one year, has been adopted; and while it has, without doubt, given satisfaction, an election of all the trustees for an extended term, would meet with still greater approval.

There appears to be no valid reason, why municipal councillors should not be elected for a longer term, when more efficient management of public affairs might reasonably be expected, and a considerable saving in time and election expenses would be effected.

(To be continued.)

ORATION BY THE HON. T. D'ARCY MCGEE,

ON THE

UNION OF THE PROVINCES.

Delivered at Cookshire, County of Compton, Dec. 22nd, 1864.

At the start I cannot but congratulate the people of all the Provinces on the fortunate conjunction of circumstances which makes this the best possible time for a searching examination and a thorough overhauling of our political system. When I was in the Eastern Provinces last summer-when the Conferences were still a thing to come -I appealed on behalf of the project to the press and the public there, that it should not be prejudged, and I must say I think a very great degree of forbearance and good feeling was manifested in this respect. But I should be sorry, speaking for myself, now that the stage of intelligent discussion has been reached, now that we have got something before us to discuss, that such a vast scheme should pass, if that were possible, sub silentio. So far from deprecating discussion now, I should welcome it, for there could not be, there never can be, a more propitious time for such a discussion than the present. (Cheers.) Under the mild sway of a Sovereign, whose reign is coincident with responsible government in these colonies-a Sovereign whose personal virtues have rendered monarchical principles respectable even to those who prefer abstractedly the republican system-with peace and prosperity at present within our own borders-we are called on to consider what further constitutional safeguards we need to carry us on for the future in the same path of peaceable progression.

And never, surely, gentlemen, did the wide field of American public life present so busy and so instructive a