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The Real Truth

About the

Prohibition
Act

The

People's Prohibition Movement

of Britith Giliunbia

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The Real Truth About the
Prohibition Act

By the British North America Act practically the whole held
of legislative power In Canada was assigned to the Dominion
and Provincial Parliaments. By Sections 91 and 92 these powers
were (except as to agriculture and Immigration) diatribuled
between the Provinces and the Dominion, and a definite line o(
demarkatlon between the Federal and Provincial powers was
Intended to be pegged out. In practice, however. It has been
found 'hat some powers overlap. In resard to the liquor traffic
the line of division Is marked somewhat as follows:— Shop,
saloon, tavern, auctioneer and other licenses for the raising of
Provincial and Municipal revenue; property and civil rights
within the Province; and all matters of a merely local and
private nature are assigned to the Province, 'ihe rcguUitlon of
trade and commerce, and all matters not specifically assigned
to the Legislatures of the Provinces are withla the powers of
the Federal Parliament.

Up till 1902 many promment Judges and lawyers in the
Dominion of Canada were of the opinion that the prohibition of
the liquor traffic wa.s wholly within the field of Dominion legisla-
tion. In that year. In a decision In the case of the Attorney Gen-
eral of Manitoba versus the Manitoba License Holders' Associa-
tion It was declared by the Privy Council that the Manitoba
Liquor Act of 1900. being the prohibitory liquor act known a-
the Hugh John Macdonald Act, was within the legislative powers
of the Province. This Act contained the following provision,
copied in the British Columbia Prohibition Act as 57 (1); —

"While this Act Is Intended to prohibit and shall pro-
hibit transactions In liquor which take place wholly within
the Province of British Columbia, except as specially pro-
vided by this Act, and to restrict the consumption of
liquor within the limits of the Province of British Columbia,
It shall not affect and is not intended to affect bona-fide
transactions in liquor between a person In the Province
of British Columbia and a person in another Province or in
a foreign country, and the provisions of this Act shall be
construed accordingly."

Thl» Hectlon Is Intended to make It clear that the Provincial
Ai't docii not Invade the Held of leglHlatlon a>isltined to the Uom-
nlim I arllainent In ItB power to rcKiilate trade and commerce.
It l» probabl)- not neceuaary. but lent »ome Innenloun lawyer
should twist some clause of the Art so that It appear, to Invade
this field the section is put In In order to declare hat notwith-
slandlnK any Inept phrase, the Act shall not be considered as
trcnchlnK upon the Federal powers In this respect. .Vo careful
draftsman of a Provincial Prohll.lllon Act. with the Prlv, Council
decision before hlin. would think of oinltllnn this section Sec-
tion .^7 (21 of our Act adds nothluK. The di-tflsman apparently
added It Intending greater dcllnlteness.

The division bet-veen the fields of Provincial and Dominion
leglBlatlon |j, reuard to breweries and dlwllllcrles Is not quite so
clear it Is generall.v conceded that the licensing and regulation
of these ore within the powers of the Dominion, and large excise
ri'Venue Is derived therefrom. When the province of Ontario
atlcnipted to levy an additional tax upon these Institutions the
brewers and innltaters ^t once took the matter to the courts
The orlBlnal .Macdonnld Act caretiillv avoided dealing with brew-
eries and distilleries licensed liy the C.ovcrnment of Canada
Sections IS, 1!) (2). 20 and 21 of our Act are Indentlcal with the
sections of the Manitoba An. while Section 1!» (1) Is similar In
effect. These are Ihe sections dealing with breweries anc'
distilleries, and In these sections the draftsman of our Act haa
wisely and fairly kept within the limits so clearly marl<ed out
by the Privy Council decision and followed by the draftsmen of
the prohibitory acts In Manitoba and Alberta. No sound legal
opinion would do otherwise than highly commend the wisdom
of this course. The flamboyant advertisements of the liquor
people are making much of this care shown In the sections
quoted and put In our Act to in no way provide a loophole by
which our Prohibition Act would by the Courts be declared
ultra vires.

THE DOHERTY ACT.

In introducing this bill Into the Dominion House of Com-
mons, the learned Minister of .lustlce, Mr. Dohertv. whose com-
petence is beyond dispute, used language which seemed to indi-
cate that it was his intention by the Act to confer additional
legislative powers upon the Provinces in regard to the subject
of prohibition. Whether the original bill would justify this con-
clusion drawn from .Mr. Doherty's remarks we cannot say but it
is absolutely certain that the Act aa finally paiaed confera no
additional power of legislation upon the Provincial Parliaments
and that the division between the legislative fields of the Dom-
inion and Provincial Parliaments remains now exactly where
it has been laid down and marked out for many years
past. The Province has no greater power of prohibitory legisla-
tion since the passage of the Dohcrty Act than it had before.

While this Act was before the Dominion House the able and
sincere leader of the Liberal party within this province seems to
have gained the idea that the Doherty Act conferred additional
legislative powers upon the Province, and this idea seems not

to have gone out of hia mind when he dUruHnert the Prohibition
Wll In the local I'Brllament In committee. dlsiusalnK Section r.T
Mr. Hrewntcr aald: —

"When tilll |)rohll)lllon la now poxnllile by '• drral law II la
aurely a remarkable thInK to llnd Ihia wide mien door for ilquor
proiided by thia Act. It la amn/InK to nic to read tlila and other
«e -na and And that no attention haa been paid to or ndvanlBKe
taken of the lloberty Art (Federal I^Klalalliin An i;i;i ■ All that
can be aald of tbe.ne remarka la that. Mr. Brewiter fell Into an
• rro r.

What, then, doca the Doheity Ail do? II inakc« It ncnul to
send Ilquor Into a Prohibition iirovlm p with Inicnilon to evade
a valid prohlbliiiry law within that liicivlnn.. ii iirovld^a that
packaKea of Ibinor aent Into a Piolilbllhoi prrHnci. slia'l be
plainly labelled ao aa to show the actual .ojiImiiIm and the name
and addreaa of the conalKnor, and It provldca tliat brcwcrlea
and dlatlllerlea within or without the provlnic shall ahow a
wholeaonie respect tor a valid provincial prohlbllorv act— but
only for an act within the provincial powera. Manv panen of
advertlaementa have been put In by the liquor partv to show the
•Truth about •IK'". ThIa atatement la the "truth about '(;<!■"
and no lawyer of repute will find In It any error In anv subatan-
tial Item.

LEGAL RIGHTS.

In paaalns any act. careful regard muat be had to the riKhta
affected. What, tl ire the IcKal rlchts?

FIrat, of the present Ilquor licence holders, rp till about
four centuries ap:o In co.mtrlcs Koverncd by the Knt'liah common
law everyone bad a rlKht to sell beer, wine and splrlta aa much
BB he had dry goods or groceriea. ThIa became a nulaance
An act was passed to suppress the numerous taverns and bars
and allow such to be operated only by special lie usees. The
aim was apparently not merely to raise a revenue but to put the
condy ' of such places In safer h-rnds. Is the ordinary licensee
at this esent time a man more to be trusted than his ordinary
fellow citizen? In any event, the common law right of tlie
ordinary citizen to sell beer, wine and spirits haa been abrogateii
by Statute for about four centuries.

By and by certain licence holders began to think that they
held a property In these licences and a right to renew The
w»"if=fl M '■>,™'"? "" '°I <'«'^l'""" I" the case of Sharp versus
J^ Sf ;'' "^ 'J ''"f """">' '"'"'^'' ""at the liquor licensee had
10 right of renewal and that the sole consideration for the licence
commissioners was the good of the community where the licensee
carried on his business. T,...i principle waa affirmed In nritish
Columbia in the case of Prudhomme va the Licence Commls-
s oners and the case of the Point Grey Hotels. The prin-
ciple Is expressly stated m the British Columbia Licence Act
when It is declared that: "Licences are granted subject alvvays
to the Intended exercise of further and other restrictions and
regulations than those contained and set forth" In that Act "or to
suppresBlon or prohibition and to other Increased fees as the

cua majr b«. Th» Mine principle u clearly Inillcated In tlia
llcanca bjlawa o« the principal cigea of t>ie Province paaaed under
their apeclal chartara or (he "Municipal Act."

It la thereture difficult to underatand what Mr. Rowaer
meant when he aald upon the aecond readlnx oC the Bill:— "It
aeema only rif ht and fair that It thia Prohibition Art paoaaa
there ahould be an inveitiiation into the claim for compeniation
o( licence holdera who will be driven out of buiineaa " Thia
opinion of Mr. Bowaer'a waa not put In the form of an Act and
ia not a condition attached to the paaiinn of the n. C. Prohibition
Act. It binda Mr. Rowjier alone, it does not bind the oppoaltlon,
morally or otherwiie. nor doea It control nor caat any oblUation
upon the future leislalature. It la the duty of Prohibltlonlata to
aee that men are elected on September the Hth who will Itnow

how to deal with thia queation

rrom the above it la quite clear that no legal right of the preapiit
licence holdera will be atTected by the paaaaxe of the Prohibition
Act.

Secondly, aa to the legal righta of the buying public. Thia
Involvea the aubject of "Peraonal Liberty" and can beat be die-
cuaaed elaewhere.

SCOPE OF THE ACT.
The province has no doubt the power to prohibit:

(a) The traffic In intoxicating liquor;

(b) The uae thereof, and

Federal powers in regard to trade and commerce
and breweries and distilleries) the possession of
Intoxicating liquors.

As regards the subheadlnga (b) and (c), the use and posses-
slon of Intoxicating liquors, our Act practically does not attempt
to legislate. Why? Simply because this would be in advance of
public opinion. No attempt, in the main, has been made to
auppreas the use or possession of liquors In Kansas, Maine
DakoU, Washington, Oregon, .Manitoba, AlberU, Saskatchewan'
or any other province. In all these places a man may still
decrease his efficiency or commit slow suicide by the use of
intoxicating liquors and the Inw does not interfere.

With regard to the traffic in intoxicating liquors. Section 10
of the Act, read along with the other sections, abolishes the
liquor bar and counter In the hotel, saloon, Phop and club. The
traffic In Intoxicating liquor within British Columbia for bever-
age purposes Is prohibited Those engaged In the liquor business
are fighting furiously to tefeat the Act and retain a great and
(to them) profltable business. That such prohibition will pro-
hibit Is shown by the experiences of other States and Provinces.

What, then, of the cry of "class legislation?" This cry is
based upon the reading of Section 11 and possibly 12, tlong with
Section 3 of the Act, which seem to prohibit the poaseasion of

liquor In "ny room or pUci> of rnMfnce hbm- in a private dw.-ll

IIOM in M,iilt„b» and AllwrU The Inienilon of ih.' draft.man

•nd to ( ve u llttlt chance aa |m, ,\Me for "blind iilga' and
Dooiieiwin*. No aane pemon ever believed that police power

V .V ", "" ""'P'''' <" lllewl tramc. Nevprthele... the way the

.(!!Llr. !^u"*- "'11," '" " '■•""'" •" "»>■ """ '■>■ ">"""• "ml I'"-
•l«tent police meddleiiimpneM the Indaer In a slngln room miKht
And hlin.elf in a aoinewliat dllTerent po«ltlim from tho -xcui.nnt
. 1'.'"'^"."' '•'"''""» hnu.e Thii li the whole atory of "claaa
leglalatlon" aa It appcara In the Act.

•OURCIt OF THE ACT.

In drafthiK an act of Parliament originality and peculiarity
liinituaite are not vlrtuea. but rather fmilta. Mn.st or the shc-
tloim ,,f the statutes of each Province iif Tanada and of the
tedoral l-arllamenl at Ottawa are copied. «<.mcllini.H almost
vorhatlm. from the n.l« of other Provinces, i.r from KnullBh
atatutes. To a leaser extent ihey are copied from the atatutes
of other Colonic,, or of the different States of the Kepubllc to the
South of us. \\ henever a section of any now Act of any I'rovln.e
comes before e courts for the first time, the almost Invariable
inquiry Is P n where was this section copied?"

. d"..^?,".,''''"^'".''' .!'*'"" "" ^rtvantane to any Province adoptlnit
a Prohibition Act that ine Manitoba Act was before the Privy
D i'l?'il'v'!;"'',.." ^J"' "'"•'I'"' "f 'lie acts of Alberta, MnnlloLa or
British Columbia la attacked the Courts, the fact that It Is
Identical, almost Identical or i. ■ e same effet to that exisilna in
the other Provinces may give i the advantage of decisions of
the courts of that province upon the section In question, or If
appealed, will give us the binding authority of either the Supreme

beZ?e°theToS?? "' "' ''"'" ''°""'" '" "«""• '» ""^ "'«'""

In the analysis which apiiears In the schedule the aim
has been to And from whence the various sections have
come Having traced this we And that out of the 99
divisions Into which we have divided the Act up to
and ncludlng section .-,7. forty are either Identical or almost
Identical with corresponding sections in the Alberta or
Manitoba Act. the Identity being mostly with the Alberta Act;
26 divisions are to the same effect or very similar Ir.r- -ed lo the
corresponding sections in the Alberta and .Manitoba, acts, the
similarity being greatest with the Alberta sections. One division
Is adopted from the n. C. Summary Convictions Act; 16 divisions
are Identical or almost Identical with corresponding sections in
the B, C. Licence Act; 3 are to the same effect aa correspondlna
sections in the B. C. Licence Act; one section Is adopted froin
the Washington Act; 12 divisions are not copied from anv act
w th which the writer Is familiar. Of these. 7 are either practic-
ally unimportant or are concerned with book-keeping and the Ilka

The 5 Important divisions wlilcb are not copied are Sections
28, 29 (1), 29 (2), 40 (2) and 44. A glance at these sections
reTeais the fact that Section 28 provides the most severe punish-
ments tor the illegal sale of liquor to be found In any State or
Province witn whose act the writer is familiar. Sections 29 (1).
29 (2) and 44 deal with the duties of constables in enforcing the
Act. Section 40 (2) Is not wholly original but will be found to he
a most useful section In certain cases.

HISTORY OF THE DRAFTING AND RESULTS.

At the convention In August, 1915, and at all conventions
for the first six months the slogan of Prohibitionists was "The
Alberta Act." This was regarded as the model act. When
the Government decided upon prohibition, the Premier express-
ed his Intention to follow the Manitoba Act. Now, the main
difference between the Manitoba Act and the Alberta Act is
that In Alberta there are Government vendors, while in Mani-
toba such of the trafflc as remains is placed in the hands of
the druggists, wholesale and retail. When it was known that
the Manitoba provisions were likely to be adopted, the drug-
gists of .Ms Province raised a furore, and the Alberta pro-
visions for Government vendors had to be adopted. This made
it almost necessary that the first nine sections of our Act
should be much the same as the Alberta Act. Having set the
foundation of the draftsmanship in the Alberta Act, it became
easier to complete the superstructure of Sections 10 to 27 upon
the Alberta plan.

When it came to the Question of evidence, procedure and
penalties for infractions, it was found that the provisions In
neither the Manitoba nor the Alberta Acts were at all equal
to or as good as the very excellent provisions -contained in
the present B. C. Licence Act, so that Sections 31 to 39 (I)
inclusive and Sections 43 to 65 inclusive are copied almost
verbatim from the B. C. Liquor Licence Act.

It thus comes that we have the Alberta Act In the main,
with Improvements in many particulars. Roughly speaking
the first 9 sections of our Act are similar to the Alberta Act,
but much more clearly drafted. Sections 10 to 27 are Identical
or very similar to the corresponding Sections in Alberta and
Manitoba, the changes, if any, being to our advantage. On the
question of penalties and enforcement, our Act is easily
superior. In fact, we have the best Act that has been brought
to the writer's attention, either In Canada or tlie United States,
an Act which the liquor people dread to tee put upon the
Statute book*.

Are there no defects? Yes— but few. Probably no act is
much more faultless. The writer would regard It as a defect
that the record of all sales Is not open to inspection by the
public. Section 16 was not approved of by our Committee but
was copied from the Alberta Section. Section 29 was not
exactly to our liking, as we feared that it did away with the
right of private prosecution and taken with other sections
might not give the right to a private person to obtain a search
warrant. When we have made these comments upon the
defects we have exhausted the category, and if they really

"l ^° J'l defects, which la very doubtful, they can be amend-
ed, and being matters of procedure, •bould. In all fairness b-
amended when the principle has been approved by the electors'

SPECIAL MERITS.
The special merits of the Act are these:

..u ***. ',iJ°,"?''S 'esislaUon that has been tried and approved
either in British Columbia or the other provinces.

(b) The changes are mostly In the direction of greater
clearness and better drafting.

, .1 '°^ . J°„ matters of procedure and evidence it largely

follows the B. C. Liquor Licence Act, which is the best of its Itind.
(d) The penalty for Illegal sale is very severe, and should

put a stop to Illegal sales In the Province (see Sec. 28).
»_ '!.' ,?etting aside of the convictions on purely technical
Jgrounds by appeal or certiorari are imposstble (see Sections 63

and 54.)

(f) Constables must do their duty (Section 44).

PROVISIONS.

Some fault is found with the Act because It is not all
through a prohibition Act. These critics seem to think that
every section should commence with "Thou shalt not" As
noted in the heading above dealing with "Scope of the Act,"
the Act does not deal with the use or possession of liquor to
any appreciable extent. When we come to the traffic, the Act
takes the traffic out of the hands of all but Government vendors
and druggists and puts a stop to the traffic of liquor intended
as a beverage. In taking the traffic out of the hands of the
present licensees, and giving it to Government vendors and
druggists, provision had to be made for the sale of liquor for
mechanical, scientific, medical, dental, \eterinary and sacra-
mental purposes. Stringent provisions were made that the
liquor sold by vendors and druggists should be used tor these
purposes only. It would be wearisome to go through the pro-
ylslons in detail. They are mostly contained in Sections 7 and
14 of our Act. Nothing but crooks and a combination of crooks
could evade the provisions that liquor In this Province shall
be sold only for the purposes above enumerated. Such crooks
or combination of crooks will be deterred by the severe penal-
ties and the sections on evidence, procedure and anneal that
are found in this excellent Act.

OUR OPPONENTS' CRITICISM.
Many Prohibitionists pay altogether too great attention
to the paid advertisements and literature of the liquor dealers.
Since When did these people qualify themselves to become the
moral leaders of the community and the only truthful inter-
preters of the law? The leading Prohibitionists are well satis-
fled with the Act. The liquor dealers are furious because of
Its provisions. The ordinary citizen ought to be able to draw
his own conclusions. Their printed statements are frenzied

They dare not meet our men upon the public platform. Ther
anert that the Act will not prohibit the aale of liquor, but will
Increaae the sale and uie. If the Saskatchewan Act, with ^
Oovemment dispensaries decreases the use to 16 per cent, of
the former figure; if the Alberta, Manitoba and Washington
Acts practically wipe out the sale and use, then ours will do
better than any of these, because it Is a better act with
severer penalties. Their interprotatlon of the sections of the
Act such as when they assert that an office block with a physi-
cian's office In It or a bawdy house, will each become a
dwelling house to any lawyer reading the Act Is ilculous.
They measure others' corn in their own half bushel, ■ d paint
the wild scramble for Oovemment lobs selling whiskey. ^erhaps
thinking of the characteristics of the people they h e best
known, they paint vendors, druggists and physicians as a band
of conspirators trying to evade the provisions of the new Act
and distribute whiskey wholesale, everywhere and by the
barrel. They use such adjectives in describing the Act as
absurd and humbug. They Imagine that the police force and all
prohibitionists will at once embark on a campaign of espionage
and blackmail. They rave at the sections copied from the
present British Columbia Licence Act and call them "un-Brltish"
and "unfair," forgetting that if they defeat the Prohibition Act
at the poll, these very sections will remain in force as they
have been In force for some years. Knowing full well that if ^
they could get the framers of the Act to Invade the field of *
Dominion Legislation, they might have portions of the Act
declared ultra vires by the Court, they made the utmost en-
deavors to do this in the r.«glslature, and now with a wild r1
hope of fooling the electors up to September the 14th, they
cover o'lr bill boards by printing a part of Section 57 and refer-
ring to Sections 18, 19 and 20, knowing full well that their adver-
tisements are dishonest and that these sections are simply
drafted In our Act to preserve Its safety and not Invade the
Federal Held of legislation and thus avoid having the Act de-
clared In any particular unconstitutional.

REMEMBER

Prohibitionist leaders are doing all they possibly can to have
this Act adopted. If you believe the liquor advertisements these
same Prohibitionists, In doing so, have to be regarded as
knaves or fools. You do not believe this.

Tf our Act Is a humbug and absurd legislation, then also
(and more so) are the acts of Alberta, Manitoba and Washing-
ton, Now you do not believe that the electors of Alberta were
"gold bricked;" you know that It Is not so.

If we should lose at the polls it will he solely owing to
the fact that our good citizens and church people read Tulk's
advertisements and not the Act Itself.

We have had experience with children brought up under ^
the liquor licence system; let us bring up the next generation
under Prohibition.

Our next campaign will be for Federal Dominion-wide Pro-
hibition.

ANALYSIS OP THE ACT

t Druggiit

2 Hospital

2 Justice

S Liquor

2 Prescrip-
tlona

2 Physician

2 Reffula-
tions

2 Sale

2 Superin-
tendent

2 Vendor

2 Veterin-

ary

S <a>

« (b)

4 (a)

4 (bi

4 (c)
6

■<

Is
Si

2 (e)

2 (c)

2 (a)
2 (f)

3 (a)

see 2

2 (a)

3 (a>
3 <b)

Same as Alberta Sec-
tion down to words
'■British Columbia,"
words added making
it more explicit.

Same as Alberta Sec-
tion, but more spe-
cific.

Identical with "Sum-
m ar y Convictions
Act." B. c. Statute*.

1915, 59, 3.

Identical with both
AlhtTta and Manitoba

Sections.

Same effect as Alberta
Section.

Same effect as Mani-
toba Section.

Same effect as Alberta
Section.

Same effect as Alberta
Section, but more ex-
plicit.

Identical with Alberta
and Manitoba Sec-
tions.

Almost identical with
Manitoba Section.

Almost identical with
Alberta Section.

Same effect as Alberta
Section.

Almost Identical with
Alberta Section.

Almost identical with
Alberta Section.

• (J)

• (2)

(3)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

7 (6)
7 («)

7 (7)
7 (8)

»
10

If
Ha,

u'S

_____

1,12,13

32.14,16

34
11

12,13,14

38,37
2 (f)

16&17
17 4 18
20

40 (1)

(38,43)
(44)

Remarks.

Almoiit Menllcal with
Alberta Section.

Same effect aa Alberta
Section. Our Bection
£S provides severer
penalty.

Identical with AlberU
Section.

§*"?? •"'"" »■ Alberta
Section but much bet-
draff"1? more clearly

Identical with Alberta
I Section.

^!j"°"t Identical with
Alberta Section.

This Sub-section and
Sub-sectlon 7 (1)
should be read to-
gether. They are to
the same effect as the
Alberta Sections
noted.

This combines the Al-

slc'tlon?."* "^""<""'

RInillar to Manitoba
Section; supplies an
aIE*''.""' omission In
Alberta Act.

Same effect as Albert^

A'"'"'" Identical with
Alberta Section.

Identical with AI-
I berta.

Almost Identical with
Alberta section; same
effect as Manitoba.

Almost Identical with
Alberta Section; same
effect as Manitoba.

Almost Identical with
both Alberta and
Manitoba Sections.

Similar to Washing-

16 (1)
16 (2)
1<

1» (1)

19 (2)

>-T

14 (1)
14 (2)
14 (3)
14 (4)
14 <6)

14 (S). (V),
(8)

23 (1)

24 (2)
32 (1)

32 (2)
32 (3)
17.18,19
24 (1)
24 (3)
23 (1)
2S

27 (1)

40 (1).
2(«>

49 (3)
67 <1)
67 (2)
57 (3)
38, 43
19 (2)
49 (4)

52 (1)

27 (2)

29
31
33 |58

(2)

Same effect as Alberta
but restricts amount
kept.

Similar but not so
strict as Alberta or
Manitoba Sections.

Same effect to first
part of Alberta and
Manitoba Sections.

Same effect as Alberta
and Manitoba Sec-
tions.

Same effect aa Alberta
and Manitoba Sec-
tions.

Same purpose accom-
plished as Alberta and
Manitoba Sections.

Almost Identical with
Alberta and Manitoba
Sections.

Similar to Alberta and
Manitoba Sections but
stricter.

Same effect as one
paragraph of Albena

Identical with Alberta
feection. Same effect
as Manitoba Section.

Identical with AlbeMa
and Manitoba Se<. ns

Identical with Ai a
Section; ufmilar o
Manitoba Section.

Identical with Alberta
and Manitoba Sections

Same effect as Alberta
and Manitoba Sections
but better drafted.

!S (1)
is (2)
25 (3)
26

•■2

3<
37 (I)

37 (2)

37 (3)

62 (1)

«2 (2)

62 (3)

28 (1)
»8 (2)
t8 (S)

29 (1)
29 (2)
SO

Almoflt Identical with
Alberta Sectk : flam«
effect as Ikianltoba
Section.

Identical wltii Alberta
and Manitoba Sectlona

Identical with Alberta
Section. Same effect
as Manitoba Section.

Practically identical
with Alberta and
Manitoba Sectlona.

Same r ffect as AlberU
Section; Identical with
Manitoba Section. g

Identical with Alberta
and Manitoba Sec-
tions. M

Same effect as Alberta
»nd Manitoba Sec-
tions.

Difference made to
harmonize with our
other Statutes. Ours
better.

This Section ffivlnr
penalties for selling
more severe than any
other Act.

Our Act la superior as
to penalties to either
Alberta or Manitoba
Acta.

In our Act Munici-
palities receive fines
resulting from prose-
futions by their offl-
cera. In Alberta and
Manitoba all goes to
Province.

Rather peculiar to our
Act, but see Sections
cited.

Rather peculiar to our Ml
.^ct, but see Sections
cited.

M'-rely provides a "^
code of procedure.
UnoDjectionable.

^ ; ,A

•<

b o

•a

(1)

(2)

IS7

(1)

«)

57 (1)

(»).

(b)

59a,.

94 (a).

(c).

(d)

59 (3).
(4)

94 (c).
(d)

1.^

Remarks.

Practically Identical
with Section In our
Llcenee Act. 1913
Statute*, p. 237.

MfJ'cal with Section
337 Staiuiea.

Pf»?«'«My Identical

1913 Statutes, p. 237.

Practically Identical
J^,. „."""»" cited.
1913 Statutes, p. 237.

Identical with Section
p m ""■ «<»"««.

??."■.? "JS?'. *■ Section
p 237 ' Statutes,

Practically Identical
wl'n „ Section cited.
1913 Statutes, p. 237.

Identical with Section
p 238 SUtutea.

Idtfntlcal wit
cited. 1913
P. 838.

Section
atutea.

Secfl'JS!" """ *'"""'

SecfloS!" "'"' ''">"'»

Identical with Alberta
and Manitoba Sec-
tions.

A most useful See-
t on; see Sections
cited.

^""'cally Idf Ileal
with Alberta and
Manitoba Sect' ne.

Practically Identical
with Alb. ta and
Manitoba Lections.

Practically Identical
with Alberta and
Manitoba Sections.

47 (1)

47 (2), (3)

18 (I)

67 (1)

67 (2),
(3)

fe£

107 (1)

107 (2),
(4)

tl (1)
(2)

61 (3)
(4)

97 (1)

97 (2)
98

100 (1)
(2)

101 (1)
(2)

Same effect as AI-
Iierta section: Iden-
tlral with Manitoba
Spctlon.

This Section severely
demands strict an-
forcement of tha Aot
by officers.

Same effect as Alberta
and Manitoba Sec-
tions, btit provides a
fee for Justlco.

Prartlcally Identical
with Alberta and
Manitoba Sections.

Practically Identical
with Alberta and
Manitoba Sections.

Practically identical
with Section cited,
1913 Statutes, p. 233.

Same effect as Section
rlted. 1913 Statutes, p.

Practically Identical
with Section cited.
1913 Statutes, p. 233.

Same effect as section
cited, but does not or-
der destruction of
liquor, 1913 Statutes,
P 234.

Practically Identical
with sections cited,
1913 Statutes, p, 234.

Practically identical
nut does not order de-
.itructlon of liquor.
1913 Statutes, p. 234.

Identical with Section
cited, 1913 Statutes, p.

Identical with Section
cited, 1913 Statutes, p,
235.

4
i

Rcmarka,

'f.'li"?!!'..''"'' Section

Htcd, 1913 Statute, p.

Iflentlpal with Sfclion
•■lUd. 19H Statute., p.

i.'"fl? "'<"''■ Section
provldln? for proper
bookkeeplns.

Identical with
tlona cited.

Seo-

noes not add any.
thlnir. Put In by
draftsman for greater
certainty.

Provide for repeal, re-
bates, commencement
of operation of Act.
etc.

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