488 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [398] 



Returns or reports of official acts, under regulations to he made hy gov- 

 ernor in council. 



10. The governor in council may, from time to time, require any and 

 every inspector to make sucli returns or reports of bis or their official 

 acts to any public department or officer, board of trade or municipal 

 authority, and in such form and containing such i^articulars and informa- 

 tion as he may deem expedient, and may, from time to time, by order 

 in council, make such regulations for the governance of inspectors under 

 this act, or any of them, and of parties employing them as such, as he 

 may think jiroper, and may, by such regulations, impose penalties not 

 exceeding fifty dollars to any person offending against them ; and any 

 copy of such regulations printed in the Canada Gazette shall be prima 

 facie evidence of any such regulations, and that they are then in force j 

 and such regulations not being contrary to or inconsistent with this act 

 shall be obeyed by such inspectors and parties employing them as if 

 embodied in this act ; and any offence against them shall be deemed an 

 offence against this act and punishable as such. 



Disputes touching inspection, how settled, where there is no hoard of trade 



or chamher of commerce. 



11. If any dispute arises between any inspector or deputy inspector 

 and the owner or possessor of any article by him inspected, with regard 

 to quality and condition thereof, or relating in any respect to the same, 

 then, upon application by either of the parties in difference, to any jus- 

 tice of the peace for the place in which such inspector or deputy inspec- 

 tor acts, such justice of the peace shall issue a summons to three persons 

 of skill and integrity, one to be named by the inspector or deputy in- 

 spector, another by the owner or i^ossessor of the article in question, 

 and the third by such justice of the peace (who, failing the attendance 

 of either of the parties in difference, shall name for him), requiring such 

 three persons forthwith to examine such article and rej^ort their opinion 

 of the quality and condition thereof under oath (which oath the justice 

 of the peace shall administer), and the determination, or that of the 

 majority of them, made in writing, shall be final and conclusive, whether 

 approving or disapproving the judgment of the inspector or deputy in- 

 spector, who shall immediately conform thereto, and brand or mark 

 such article, or the package containing the same (as the case may be) 

 of the qualities or condition directed by the determination aforesaid; 

 and if the opinion of the inspector or deputy inspector be thereby con- 

 firmed, the reasonable cost or charges of re-examination (to be ascer- 

 tained by the said justice of the peace) shall be paid by the said owner 

 or possessor of the article in question, and, if otherwise, by the inspec- 

 tor or deputy inspector: [Proviso, for the re-examination of flour and 

 meal in cities where there is a board of trade or chamber of commerce.] 



Whenever any difference arises between inspectors as to the true 



