Other accounts that auditor may be required audit referred by the department to the treasury board; and the board shall determine in what manner and to what appropriation or account such expenditure shall be charged. C.O., c. 10, s. 70.、 71. Besides the appropriation accounts of the grants of the Legislature the auditor shall examine and audit (if required to examine and to do so by the treasurer and in accordance with any regulations that may be prescribed for his guidance in that behalf by the treasury board) the following accounts, that is to say: The accounts of all receipts of revenues forming the general revenue fund of the Territories, the accounts current with any bank or financial agent of the Territories, and any other public accounts which (though not relating directly to the receipts and expenditures of the Territories) the treasurer or the treasury board may direct. C.O., c. 10, s. 71. Accounts under preceding section, by whom to be rendered 72. The accounts which by the last preceding section the treasurer is empowered to subject to the examination of the auditor shall be rendered to him by the department or officer directed by the treasurer so to do; and the expression "accountant" (when used in this and the following sections of this Ordinance with reference to any such accounts) shall be taken to mean the officer that may be so required by the treasurer to render the same; and every public officer into whose hands Officers collect public moneys (in the nature either of revenue or of fees of office) shall be paid by persons bound by law or by regulation to do so or by subordinate or other officers whose duty it may be to pay such moneys wholly or in part into the account of the treasurer or to apply the same to any public service shall (at such time and in such form as the treasury board shall determine) render an account of his receipts and payments to the auditor; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Executive Council to inform the auditor of the appointment of every such officer. C.O., c. 10, s. 72. ing money to account to auditor Auditor shall submit a statement of his audit to Treasurer Auditor to have access to books of departments 73. In all cases where the auditor is required by the treasurer to examine and audit any accounts under the last two preceding sections, he shall (on the examination of such accounts being completed) transmit a statement thereof or a report thereon to the Treasurer who shall (if he think fit) signify his approval of such accounts; and the auditor on receipt of such approval shall thereupon transmit to the accountant a certificate in a form to be from time to time determined by the treasury board which shall be to such accountant a valid and effectual discharge from so much as he may thereby appear to be discharged from. C.O., c. 10, s. 73. 74. In order that all examinations may as far as possible proceed simultaneously with the transactions of the several departments, the auditor shall have free access at all times to the books and other documents relating to the accounts of such departments and may require the several departments concerned to furnish him from time to time or at regular periods as may be directed by the treasurer with accounts of the transactions of such departments respectively up to such times or periods. C.O., c. 10, s. 74. report improper moneys 75. Every accountant on the termination of his charge as Auditor to such accountant or (in case of a deceased accountant) his rep- detention of resentatives shall forthwith pay over any balances of public money then due to the Crown in respect of such charge to the public officer authorised to receive the same; and in all cases in which it shall appear to the auditor that balances of public money have been improperly and unnecessarily retained by an accountant he shall report the circumstances of such cases to the treasurer who shall take such measures as to him may seem expedient for the recovery (by legal process or by other lawful ways and means) of the amount of such balance or balances together with interest upon the whole or on such part of such balance or balances as to the treasurer may appear just and reasonable. C.O., c. 10, s. 75. Legislature 76. If the treasurer do not within the time prescribed by Report to this Ordinance present to the Legislative Assembly any report made by the auditor on the appropriation accounts or any other accounts, the auditor shall forthwith present such report. C.O., c. 10, s. 76. revenue and 77. The auditor shall cause to be prepared for submission to Monthly statethe treasury board at the earliest possible moment after the end ment of of each month a statement of the revenue and expenditure as expenditure shown by his books on account of the various services up to the date named. C.O., c. 10, s. 77. Appointment of printer THE CHAPTER 11. An Ordinance respecting Public Printing. HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: 1. The Lieutenant Governor may appoint a [Government] [Government] printer for the Territories and may fix the salary and prescribe the duties appertaining to the office. C.O., c. 11, s. 1; 1901, c. 5, s. 1. [In any Ordi Printer" means [1a. Wherever the expression "Queen's printer" occurs in nance "Queen's any Ordinance it shall be understood to refer to the GovernGovernment ment printer appointed under the provisions of the said ChapPrinter"] ter 11 of The Consolidated Ordinances 1898 as amended by this Ordinance.] 1901, c. 5, s. 3. Publication of 2. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may authorise the official gazette publication [not less than] twice in each month of an official gazette, to be called The North-West Territories Gazette, for the publication of proclamations, official and other notices and of all such matters whatsoever as may be from time to time required. C.O., c. 11, s. 2; 1901, c. 5, s. 2. Printing and Publication of etc. 3. It shall be the duty of the [Government] printer (subject to the direction of the Lieutenant Governor in Council) to print and publish or cause to be printed and published the Ordinances of the Territories, The North-West Territories Gazette, and such documents and announcements as may from time to time be required. C.O., c. 11, s. 3. 4. All advertisements, notices and documents whatever readvertisements, lating to matters within the control of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories and which by any law are required to be published shall be published in the said official gazette; unless any other mode of publication is prescribed by law. C.O., c. 11, Gazette Conditions and charges for subscription s. 4. 5. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall prescribe the conditions of the publication of the said gazette; and shall publication and designate the public bodies, officers and persons to whom the said gazette shall be sent; and shall make a tariff of charges to be paid for the publication of notices, advertisements and documents to be published in the said gazette and the price of subscription to said gazette. C.O., c. 11, s. 5. Treasurer may to government [6. The Territorial Treasurer may advance from time to Territorial time out of the general revenue fund on the certificate of the make advances government printer such sums as may be required for the pur-printer for chase of stationery and other supplies for the use of the depart- purchase of ments of the public service not exceeding in the aggregate the amounts appropriated for departmental expenses. (2) The sums so advanced shall be accounted for under such regulations as may from time to time be made by the Lieuten ant Governor in Council.] 1901, c. 6, s. 1. stationery inquiry CHAPTER 12. An Ordinance respecting Inquiries Concerning Public THE Matters. HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: Commissions of 1. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, when he deems it expedient to cause inquiry to be made into and concerning any matter within the jurisdiction of the Legislative Assembly and connected with the good government of the Territories or the conduct of the public business thereof, appoint commissioners to make such inquiry and to report thereon. C.O., c. 12, s. 1. Powers of com missioners Inspection of public offices 2. The Lieutenant Governor may by the commission by which he appoints them confer upon the commissioners the power of summoning witnesses before them and to require such witnesses to give evidence on oath, orally or in writing or on solemn affirmation (if they are persons entitled to affirm in civil matters) and to produce such documents and things as the commissioners may deem requisite to the full investigation of the matters into which they are appointed to inquire; and the commissioners shall have the same power to enforce the attendance of witnesses and to compel them to give evidence as is vested in any court of record in civil cases. C.O., c. 12, s. 2. 3. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint one or more inspectors to visit and inspect the office of any clerk or deputy clerk of the Supreme Court, any sheriff or deputy sheriff or registration clerk and make all proper inquiries as to the maintenance, management and affairs of any such office; and by examination of the books and by such other means as he may deem necessary such inspector shall particularly satisfy himself as to the correctness of any returns required under any Ordinance or under any Order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council to be made by the officer whose office he is inspecting upon all which matters the inspector shall make report to the Lieutenant Governor. [(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may also from time to time when he deems it expedient appoint an inspector to examine into the affairs of any public administrator or any other public officer whether such person has ceased to be such public administrator or other public officer or not and report to him upon the conditions of such affairs.] C.O., c. 12, s. 3; 1903, c. 5, s. 1. |