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54. INSPECTION LAWS OF THE BRITISH PROVINCES. 



DOMINION OF CANADA. 



[37 Victoria, Chapter XLV; Assented to 26tli May, 1874.] 



AN ACT to make better provisions, extending to the whole Dominion of Canada, re- 

 specting the inspection of certain staple articles of Canadian produce. 



GENERAL PROVISIONS. 



Governor may appoint inspectors of cei'tain articles, and at ivliat places. 



1. The governor in council may, from time to time, designate the sev- 

 eral cities, towns, and other places, or inspection divisions in Canada at 

 and for which, respectively, it is expedient to appoint inspectors of the 

 several articles hereinafter mentioned, or any of them; and the governor 

 may, from time to time, determine the limits of such inspection divis- 

 ions, and appoint, at and for such cities, counties, towns, places, or divis- 

 ions, an inspector of any of the following articles, that is to say : Flour 

 and meal ; wheat and other grain ; beef and pork j pot ashes and pearl 

 ashes ; pickled fish and fish oil ; butter ; leather and raw hides. Such 

 inspectors shall hold office during pleasure, and shall act, respectively, 

 within such local limits as the governor in council may assign to them; 

 and they and their deputies shall be appointed only from and among 

 duly qualified persons, certified as such by the examiners hereinafter 

 mentioned. 



Boards of examiners of inspectors. 



2. The board of trade at each of the cities of Quebec, Montreal, To- 

 ronto, Kingston, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, and St. John, N. B., and 

 the chamber of commerce at the city of Halifax, shall annually appoint, 

 in the said cities, respectively, and the governor may from time to time 

 appoint in any county in the Dominion, or for any inspection division, 

 five fit and skilful persons, any three of whom shall be a quorum, for 

 each class of articles to be inspected at such city or county, to examine 

 and test the ability and fitness of applicants for the office of inspector 

 or deputy inspector of such articles ; and no person shall be appointed 

 such inspector or deputy inspector who has not been examined by and 

 received a certificate of qualification from the proper board of exam- 

 iners: Provided always, That the governor may, in his discretion, ap- 

 point as an inspector under this act, without a new examination, any 

 person who has been an inspector of the same article under any act 

 hereby repealed. And the board may, at any such examination, permit 

 the attendance of any person or persons of experience and skill in the 

 subject of such examination, and allow them to propose questions perti- 

 nent thereto to the examinee, in order to test his knowledge and skill. 



It shall be the duty of every such board to grant such certificates, 



