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CHAPTER 29.

An Ordinance Respecting Alimony.

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

1. The Supreme Court of the North West Territories shall the Supreme have jurisdiction to grant alimony to any wife who would be entitled to alimony by the law of England or to any wife who would be entitled by the law of England to a divorce and to alimony as incident thereto or to any wife whose husband lives separate from her without any sufficient cause and under circumstances which would entitle her by the law of England to a decree for restitution of conjugal rights; and alimony when granted shall continue until the further order of the court. No. 14 of 1895, s. 1.

CHAPTER 30.

An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Slander.

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and con

Tsent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts

as follows:

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1. In any action of slander founded on words spoken of the Slander of plaintiff imputing unchastity, adultery or profligacy to a female, whether married or unmarried, it shall not be necessary to Special allege or prove any special damage but such words shall be actionable per se. No. 17 of 1894, s. 1.

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Actions on simple contracts

The Real Property Limitation Act (Imp.) in force

CHAPTER 31.

An Ordinance respecting Limitation of Actions in
Certain Cases.

THE

HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

1. All actions for recovery of merchants' accounts, bills, notes, and all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or other contract without specialty shall be commenced within six years after the cause of such action arose. R.O. c. 56, s. 1; No. 13 of 1890, s. 1.

2. The provisions of The Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, being chapter 57 of the Statutes of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth years of Her Majesty's reign, are hereby declared to be in force and to have been in force in the Territories since the passing thereof. 28 of 1893, s. 1.

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CHAPTER 32.

An Ordinance Respecting Justices of the Peace.

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HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts

as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Magistrates Ordi- sShort title nance." No. 36 of 1897, s. 1.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

2. The Lieutenant Governor may appoint justices of the Appointment peace for the Territories who shall have jurisdiction as such of justices throughout the same. No. 36 of 1897, s. 2.

3. Whenever a new commission of the peace shall be issued Commission all and such like former commissions shall become absolutely of the peace revoked and cancelled; and nothing in this Ordinance contained shall prevent the reappointment of any justice of the peace named in such former commission if the Lieutenant Governor shall think fit. No. 36 of 1897, s. 3.

4. No person who is not a British subject by birth or Alien not to naturalization shall be appointed as a justice of the peace. No. be appointed 36 of 1897, s. 4.

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5. When not otherwise especially provided for by law no No practising advocate shall be appointed or act as a justice of the peace be justice during the time he continues to practise as such.

(2) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any Proviso advocate appointed as a police magistrate under any Act of the Parliament of Canada. No. 36 of 1897, s. 5.

OATHS OF JUSTICES.

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6. Every justice of the peace before he is gazetted as such Oath of and takes upon himself to act as a justice of the peace shall allegiance take and subscribe the oath of allegiance and the following oath before any person authorised to administer oaths and declarations in the Territories, that is to say:

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district of Form of oath

I, A.B., of (as the case may be) do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the office of justice of the peace and that I will do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of these Territories without fear or favour, affection or ill will. So help me God. No. 36 of 1897, s. 6.

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7. Every oath of office or allegiance taken by a justice of Record of oath peace shall forthwith after the same is taken be transmitted

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