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An Act for the relief of Abraham Gleadall. An Act for the relief of Ann Pisano. An Act for the relief of Florence Louise Pretoria Pollock. An Act for the relief of Alma Vera Cochrane. An Act for the relief of Edith Jane Cartwright. An Act for the relief of Annie Hewitson Taunton. An Act for the relief of James Henry Loree. An Act for the relief of Cecelia Leta Rice. An Act for the relief of Audrey Lillian Connelly. An Act for the relief of Robert Webb. An Act for the relief of Lillian Martha Ceeile Martin. An Act for the relief of Antoine Joseph Bourdon. An Act for the relief of Irene Clarice Bunting. An Act for the relief of Lawrence Wellington Robertson. An Act for the relief of Gordon Robert Foster. An Act for the relief of Andrew Chauneey Sanders. An Act for the relief of Tsadore Simpson. An Act for the relief of Royal May Frances Hider. An Act for the relief of Margaret Caroline Watson. An Act for the relief of Myrtle Alice Niece. An Act for the relief of Broadus Baxter Farmer. An Act for the relief of Meryl Grigg Fizzell. An Act for the relief of Mabel Anne Dixon. An Act for the relief of Annie Pettit Nicholls. An Act for the relief of Thomas William Treadway. An Act for the relief of Pearl Robena Close. An Act for the relief of Ivy Lillian Echlin. An Act for the relief of Thomas Clifton Dawes. An Act for the relief of Herbert Dean Philip. An Act for the relief of William Pearson. An Act for the relief of William Woods. An Act for the relief of Mary Cameron McMillan. An Act for the relief of Bridget Gladys Vivian Tegart. An Act for the relief of Charles Coblens. An Act for the relief of Esther Gertrude Wooder. An Act for the relief of Eleanor Jane Moorhead. An Act for the relief of Aubrey Robert Alee. An Act for the relief of Edith Lerene Collins. An Act for the relief of Florence Ada Bark Simpson. An Act for the relief of Helen Theresa Baker. An Act for the relief of Harry Everett Markell. An Act for the relief of George Wellington Garfield Neal. An Act for the relief of Sarah Delia Baker Tribe. An Act for the relief of Elsie Emily Disney. An Act for the relief of Harry Douglas Towers. An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Warga. An Act for the relief of William Thomas Raines. An Act for the relief of Enos Nuttall Davis. An Act for the relief of Violet May Mac-Fadden. An Act respecting a certain patent of The R. M. Hollingshead Company. An Act respecting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. An Act to incorporate Pine Hill Divinity Hall. An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Canadian Bible Society auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society. An Act respecting a certain patent of Edgar D. Crump. An Act respecting a certain patent of George Yates. An Act to amend The Returned Soldiers' Insurance Act. An Act to incorporate Industrial Loan and Finance Corporation. An Act respecting a certain patent application of Thomas Bernard Bourke and George Percival Setter. An Act respecting a certain patent application of Harry Barrington Bonney. An Act to amend the Export Act. An Act respecting National Parks. An Act to amend the Fish Inspection Act. An Act respecting War Areterans' Allowances. An Act respecting Fair Wages and an Eight Hour Day for Labour employed on Public Works of the Dominion of Canada. An Act for the relief of Mary Ada St. George. An Act for the relief of Sam Finkelstein. An Act for the relief of Martha Barker. An Act for the relief of Janet Ella Pettigrew Thomson. An Act for the relief of Margaret Jean McClelland Dewar. An Act for the relief of Ada Margaret Rud-dick. Prorogation
An Act for the relief of Wilhelmina Emily Rudolph. An Act for the relief of Mabel Orion Baldwin. An Act for the relief of Antoine George Massabky. An Act for the relief of Dorothy Agnes Dowling. An Act for the relief of Arthur Leslie Catton. An Act for the relief of Ruth Lyford Smith. An Act for the relief of Rhona Elizabeth Shaw Richardson. An Act for the relief of Richard l'rawny Parsons. An Act for the relief of Armand Dufour. An Act for the relief of Jessie Lillian Gwen Riehmond-Parry. An Act for the relief of Christina Dale Kingsbury. An Act for the relief of Gladys Hollings. An Act for the relief of Nellie Louise Hughes. An Act for the relief of Minnie Roberts. An Act for the relief of Isabella Glennie Lefever. An Act for the relief of Aileen Somerville Thomas. An Act for the relief of Harris Charlton Eckmiere. An Act for the relief of Rhea Blanche Wilson. An Act for the relief of Edna Wall. An Act for the relief of Thomas Edwin War-burton. An Act for the relief of Thomas Garfield McCormick. An Act for the relief of Thomas Richardson. An Act for the relief of Leslie Gregory. An Act for the relief of Muriel Laburnum Christie. An Act for the relief of Edith Matilda Epp-lett. An Act for the relief of Ruth Victoria Spooner. An Act for the relief of John Henry Coulter. An Act for the relief of Gertrude Anne Williams. An Act for the relief of Leonard George Edward Bond. An Act for the relief of Grant Johnston. An Act for the relief of Burton Orland Boom-hower. An Act for the relief of Augusto Tranzzi. An Act for the relief of Claire Yale Laeourse. An Act for the relief of Marion Frances Blewett. An Act for the relief of Florence Edna Cur-liss. An Act for the relief of Hilda Walker Baker. An Act for the relief of Mary Violet Baxter. An Act for the relief of Harry Hutcherson Davis. An Act for the relief of James Lewis Watter-worth. An Act for the relief of Harvey Mennie Cross. An Act for the relief of Muriel Parke Wood. An Act for the relief of Albert Hull. An Act for the relief of Jessie Coles. An Act for the relief of Annie Almeda McCormick. An Act for the relief of Madeline Sehnarr Nichol. An Act for the relief of Phyllis Gertrude Smith. An Act for the relief of Josephine Laura Calder. An Act for the relief of Minerva Gray. An Act for the relief of Mary Jane McCros-san. An Act for the relief of Robert Bruce Hart. An Act for the relief of Hetmanska Bereta. An Act for the relief of Lillian Alberta Sparling. An Act for the relief of Ebenezer Ward Bussell. An Act for the relief of Schuyler James Alton. An Act for the relief of Mary Eva May Gourley. An Act for the relief of John William James. An Act for the relief of Elsie Aileen Clarke. An Act for the relief of Orwell Bishop Walton. An Act for the relief of Rosie Resniek. An Act for the relief of Jessie Grant. An Act for the relief of Ruby Helen Gordon. An Act for the relief of Mary Isabelle Bat-stone. An Act for the relief of Hanorah Margaret Phililemonia Atkinson. An Act for the relief of Margaret Ann Fyfe. An Act for the relief of Frederick John Wolfe. An Act for the relief of Elsie Roselan Maguire. An Act for the relief of Alice Reta Leadbeat-ter. An Act for the relief of Gladys Evelyn Sand-ford. An Act for the relief of Ethel May Henderson. An Act for the relief of Fred Townsley. An Act for the relief of Arthur Worrell Perkins. An Act for the relief of Walter Anderson Wood. An Act for the relief of Clara Delilah Latch-ford. An Act for the relief of Cora Beatrice Silk. An Act for the relief of Joseph Alphonse La-joie. An Act for the relief of Gertrude Alice Dorothy Lorimer. An Act for the relief of Margaret Bradley. An Act for the relief of Marion Ramsay. An Act for the relief of Nettie Maud Dixon. An Act for the relief of Hazel Victoria Watt-Hewson. An Act for the relief of Hubert Allan Frise. An Act for the relief of Gladys Elizabeth Kirby. An Act for the relief of Henry Maynard Smillie. An Act respecting the capital stock of Prudential Trust Company, Limited. An Act to incorporate The Hamilton Life Insurance Company. An Act respecting the Canadian National Railway's, and to provide for the refunding of certain maturing financial obligations. An Act respecting the Canadian National Railways, and to provide for certain financing in connection with certain lines of railway located principally in the State of Vermont. An Act to amend the Companies Act. An Act respecting Grain. An Act to incorporate The Portage la Prairie Mutual Insurance Company. An Act for the relief of Arthur Cameron. An Act for the relief of Gertrude Margaret Gilgour. An Act for the relief of Vera Irene Collins. An Act for the relief of Lena Hogarth. An Act for the relief of Isidore Sabbath. An Act for the relief of Gladys May Carter. An Act for the relief of Dorothy Stansfield. An Act for the relief of George Washington Latta. Governor General's Speech An Act for the relief of William Henry War-dell. . „ , An Act for the relief of Nellie Carr Weeks. An Act for the relief of Donald Burwell Ross. An Act for the relief of Cherry Ray Fletcher. An Act for the relief of Eleanor Somes. An Act for the relief of Hazel May Rowland. An Act for the relief of Reginald Ernest Ball. An Act for the relief of Marion Elizabeth Gamsby. An Act for the relief of Ethel Long Nightingale. . An Act for the relief of Winnifred May Cahill. An Act for the relief of Gertrude Lockhart. An Act for the relief of Frederick Max Quick. An Act for the relief of Daniel McQuistan. An Act for the relief of Anna Ruel. An Act for the relief of Ethel Adine Ross. An Act for the relief of Ronald Paterson. An Act for the relief of Rosanna Christena Jarrett. An Act for the relief of James Lean. An Act for the relief of Lyall John MacDonald. An Act for the relief of Essa Mulant Durry. An Act for the relief of Esther Eleanor Zryd. An Act for the relief of Ida Jane Gertrude Rea. An Act for the relief of Thomas Green. An Act for the relief of Inez Elizabeth Gross. An Act for the relief of Viola Turquand. An Act for the relief of Norville Alberta Gourley. An Act for the relief of Martha Brown Hems-ley. An Act for the relief of Edward Buker. An Act for the relief of Herbert Machen. An Act for the relief of Marjorie Mary Gwendolyn Dempsey Davis. _ An Act for the relief of Wilfred Nathaniel Bickle. An Act to amend the Dominion Elections Act. An Act to amend the Pension Act. An Act to amend the Income War Tax Act. An Act to amend the Special War Revenue Act. An Act respecting The Toronto Terminals Railway Company. An Act to place Canadian Coal used in the *manufacture of iron or steel on a basis of equality with imported coal. An Act to amend the Customs Tariff. An.Act respecting a certain patent of Staun-tons Limited. An Act to amend the Soldier Settlement Act. An Act respecting a certain Convention, signed the 26th day of May, 1930, between His Majesty in respect of Canada and the United States of America, for the preservation and extension of the Sockeye Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser river system. An Act respecting the Maple Sugar Industry. An Act to amend the Criminal Code. . An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the public service of the financial years ending respectively the 31st March. 1930. and the 31st March. 1931. An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the public service of the financial year ending the 31st March 1931. To these bills the royal assent was pronounced by the Clerk of the Senate in the following words: In his Majesty's name His Excellency the Governor General doth assent to these bills. Then the Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons addressed His Excellency the Governor General as follows: May it please Your Excellency: The Commons of Canada have voted supplies required to enable the government to defray certain expenses of the public service. In the name of the Commons I present to Your Excellency the following bill: An act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the public service for the financial year ending the 31st March, 1931. To which bill I humbly request Your Excellency's assent. To this bill the Clerk of the Senate, by command of His Excellency the Governor General, did thereupon say: In His Majesty's name, His Excellency the Governor General thanks his loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence, and assents to this bill. GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH After which His Excellency the Governor General was pleased to close the fourth session of the sixteenth parliament of the Dominion of Canada with the following speech: Honourable Members of the Senate: Members of the House of Commons: In bringing the present session to a close, I desire to congratulate you upon the expedition with which parliament has conducted its proceedings. and upon the extent and importance of the legislative enactments of the session. Matters which have been the subject of longstanding controversy have been successfully adjusted. In several other directions legislation of far-reaching significance has been enacted. _ It is a source of particular satisfaction that the public accounts of the fiscal year recently ended again disclose a large surplus and that it has again been possible to effect further material reductions in taxation, as well as a further reduction in the national debt. Especially gratifying is the fact that, in continuance of the policy of endeavouring to remove all substantial difficulties in the relations between the Dominion and the provinces, a settlement of the long-standing controversies respecting the natural resources of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta has been effected. The several agreements have received your approval, as well as the approval of the provincial legislatures. Approval has also been given to the agreement reached with the province of British Columbia concerning the restoration to the province of the lands comprising what is known as the railway belt and Peace River block. _ The recommendations of the royal commission on maritime claims have been further implemented by the legislation which has been enacted with respect to the coal and iron and steel industries. Extensive and comprehensive revisions have been made in the customs tariff with a view to bringing certain schedules more into line with modern business requirements, and existing economic conditions. Material and broad exten- Governor General's Speach
sions have been made in the British Preferential tariff schedules, as well as other adjustments which it is believed will serve to promote a larger measure of reciprocal trade between the component parts of the British Empire and with other countries. The interest which has been evinced during the session in all matters affecting ex-service men demonstrates once more that Canada stands in the forefront in continued appreciation of her soldier-citizens and their dependents. The legislation providing allowances for veterans who may be unemployable as a result of nonpensionable disabilities, the amended procedure and methods of administration under the Pensions Act, the extension of time to applicants under the Returned Soldiers' Insurance Act, and the more liberal treatment accorded soldier settlers, will bring a much sought for relief to numerous individuals and homes. The Fair Wages and Eight Hour Day Act gives statutory effect to the fair wages policy which, for some years past, has been observed on construction work under public contract. It provides also for the observance on such work of an eight hour day. The benefits of this legislation, both as- to wages and hours, have been extended, under government policy, to workmen employed on construction work by the government itself. The principle of the eight hour working day has also been made applicable by the government to employees in the public service. To aid in the solution of the problem of seasonal unemployment, provision has been made for holding at -an early date a conference of Dominion and provincial governments, of representatives of municipalities, of transportation companies, and of industrial and labour associations, to consider methods of cooperation in furthering continuous employment throughout Canada during the winter months. A federal-provincial conference for the purpose of furthering cooperation between the Dominion government and the governments of the several provinces of Canada on matters pertaining to immigration has also been arranged. _ The consolidation of the Canada Grain Act in accordance with the recommendations of the standing committee of the House of Commons on agriculture, the provision made for increased storage facilities for grain-, as well as the inquiry info the promotion of the live stock industry of Canada for which provision has also been made, should prove of substantial benefit to the agricultural industry. To ensure the development of the fisheries resources of the Dominion and of the industries based thereon, provision has been made for the appointment of a minister of the crown to preside over a separate Department of Fisheries. Conventions with the United States for the protection and extension of the sockeye salmon fisheries and for the preservation of the halibut fisheries of the Pacific coast have received approval. Forward steps in the field of international relations have been taken by the signature of the treaty for Reduction of Naval Armament, by the extension of arbitration through the acceptance of the optional clause, and by the revision of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, all of which measures have received your approval. Amendments to the Dominion Elections Act have been made which should further ensure fairness and the avoidance of partisanship in the administration of our electoral system. Among other enactments of the session have been important amendments to the Companies Act, the Export Act, and the Criminal Code. Members of the House of Commons: I thank you for the supplies granted for the carrying on of the public services of the Dominion. Honourable Members of the Senate: Members of the House of Commons: In the opinion of my ministers, iit is desirable that the judgment of the people upon the questions which now engage public attention should be obtained during the course of the present year. In order to permit of Canada being represented at the Imperial conference and the Imperial economic conference, which open their proceedings in London, on September 30th, and to afford to ministers of the crown as ample an opportunity as may be possible to prepare for the important work of these conferences, it has been deemed advisable that the present parliament should be dissolved without delay, and the day of polling fixed for the earliest date possible after dissolution. I have, accordingly, to announce my intention of causing Parliament to be dissolved immediately following prorogation. In taking leave of you at this time and under these circumstances, I desire to express the unqualified pleasure which I have derived from my association with you throughout the four sessions of this the sixteenth parliament of Canada. I pray that upon your labours the blessing of Divine Providence may be abundantly bestowed. This concluded the fourth session of the sixteenth parliament. Ottawa: Printed by F. A. Acland, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1930. ,