Bill No. 4, respecting The Alberta Central Railway Company.-Mr. Michael Clark. Bill No. 5, respecting The Athabasca and Grand Prairie Railway Company.-Mr. Green. Bill No. 6, respecting the Brantford and Hamilton Electric Railway Company.-Mr. Barker. Bill No. 7, respecting the British Columbia and White River Railway Company.- Mr. Stevens. Bill No. 8, respecting the Edmonton, Dun-vegan and British Columbia Railway Company.-Mr. Green. Bill No. 9, respecting the Essex Terminal Railway Company.-Mr. Wilcox. Bill No. 10, respecting the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada.-Mr. E. M. Macdonald. Bill No. 11, respecting the Hudson Bay, Peace River and Pacific Railway Company, and to change its name to ' Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Railway Company.'-Mr. W. H. Sharpe. Bill No. 12, to amend The Independent Order of Foresters Consolidated Act.-Mr. Glass. Bill No. 13, respecting the Montreal and Southern Counties Railway Company.-Mr. Bickerdike. Bill No. 14, to ratify and confirm a certain agreement between the Canadian Northern Railway Company and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company.-Mr. Oliver. Bill No. 15, respecting certain patents of Duncan Donald McBean.-Mr. Fripp. Bill No. 16, respecting The Title and Trust Company, and to change its name to ' Chartered Trust and Executor Company.'-Mr. Nesbitt. Bill No. 17, respecting The Canadian Pacific Railway Company.-Mr. W. H. Sharpe.

Bill No. 18, to amend the Criminal Code -Mr. Robert Bickerdike (St. Lawrence, Montreal)-introduced and read the first time.

Mr. GEO. E. McCRANEY (Saskatoon) moved for Leave to introduce Bill No. 19, to amend the Criminal Code. He said: The Bill is to protect purchasers of real estate who have paid in full for lands and are unable to get title. It is intended to apply particularly to cases where the person selling has bought under an agreement of sale and still owes money on the lands which he has sold and has no title except the agreement. It frequently happens that such a vendor does not use the money which he receives from his sale in getting title, but uses it for some other purpose. For this reason the man to whom he has sold and who has paid the purchase money cannot get title to the land nor can he get back the money which he has paid for it. ft is obvious that, until such a vendor has

himself acquired title, the moneys which he receives, unless devoted to that purpose, should be treated as trust moneys. The purpose of the Bill is to fix them with that character. It is an accepted principle of law that a person who has title to lands, sells them under contract, and has received the purchase money, holds the lands in trust for the purchaser until he gives title. The Bill would require him to hold the moneys in trust for the buyer if he could not give title-. The Bill proposes to add a -subsection to section 390 of the Criminal Code respecting criminal breaches of trust, as follows: Every one who contracts to sell real property and has not in himself the title which he has contracted to give to the purchaser, shall hold any moneys received by him on account of the purchase price, in trust for the purchaser, unless such moneys have been paid by the vendor in acquiring such title. Any violation of this subsection shall be deemed a criminal breach of trust within the meaning of this section. Motion agreed to, and Bill read the first time.

[Questions answered orally are indicated by an asterisk.] WAR CONTRACTS-PURCHASE OF BOOTS. Mr. LEMIEUX: 1. From what firms have the boots supplied by the Militia Department for the first expeditionary force been purchased? 2. By whom have they been reported upon? 3. What is the price to be paid for them?

Mr. Buchanan: For a return showing how much money was spent amongst the merchants of the city of Medicine Hat for government relief, to whom payments were made, and the total amount in each case. Mr. Buchanan: For a return showing the quantity of coal imported into Alberta. Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, respectively, from the United States in 1914, and the amount of duty collected in each province for coal imported during 1914.