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~408 vef sections were repealed. 'Thursday was sub-- n y LIEN AC! l ~af . . _ meeting of the Council, Section 5 provided Mr. ROBINSON moved the second read-- | . ~@l 4 for_the registration, on payment to the ing ofa Bili to amend the Mechanics' Lien | _ e 4 3 registrar of the college of a fee of $4, of any Act. _ He remarked that the Act passed in ' . person in business as a chemist or dx,'uggist 1874 did not go far enough for the prot?C- -- or who had served an apprenticeship of tion of the workman and mechanic, The u"f"" years and acted as a druggist's proposed measure provided that 10 pctcent. , assistant _ for one year, The _ Bill of the contract price should be retained by | f &_ltfo increased the fee of candidates for cer-- '® the owner of the property for .tcn days atter f tificates from $4 to $10. While the Act the work was completed to give the work-- a made the maximum penalty for infringing men a chance to take out a lien. A gret}t 3 the Act £50, it did not provide for a mini-- many contractors were in favour of this § 8 Inum penalty, which the present Bill pro-- Bill, which he thoug].nt.would remedy a | l posed should be $20 for the first, and $10 serious defect in the existing law. , i0or each subsequent offence. He mention-- Mr. O'DONQOGIHIUE said he had a Bili on t ed some further provisions with reference to the subject, and hbe asked the hon. me:aber A apprenticeships, for Kingston to allow his to stand so that Mr. LAUDER--Does the Pharmaceutical both measures mighs be considered together | J Association approve of the Bill ? in Committee., Mr. CLARKE--They do. * Mr. ROBINSON had !onked over the Bill 3 Mr. BOULTER objected to the Bill re-- f_)f the hon. member for Ottawa, and-- he § quiring all persons ".{lo dispens -dcdru is 16 found that not only did it cover a large | h"'ist(:' umlvr.lln.: I'hurmal' Acct as [;omc No ber of matters in the present Act, bub t How resistered under the '\Ie\d};cul oL that it went further than people generally 3 aAr * + would like to go, He was disposed to press 1 * Mr. MACDOUGALL (Simcoe) did not lus Bill. . now whether the Government approved of Mr. MEREDITH thought the House a :)m restrictive kind of legislation propo»cd should have some explanation of the Govern-- y this Bill ; but he thought they would re-- M tcy in reiatl e Rills. whi + quire better reasons for doing so than those ment policy in relation to those Bills, which f given by the bon. gclltlcmal; who proposed ]tli(:)'('(illhllitltd leaned in a dangerous direc. the second reading. Its object seemed to * ARAAEG: 24 s 3 be to interfere with the free course of trade ; Nr. CROOKS said the object of the Bill f they might as well attempt to interfere with proposed by the hon, member for Kingston ' f the _ business of ordinary | shopkeepers. was to make the protection of the workman The whole apparent intention of the more specific than it is under the present Bill was to compel all parties who sold law, to the extent of holding a drawhback of medicine to be subject to this Association, ten per cent, of t.he ('flntr:_lct Aérand Ti.mt | and to pay their fees, Me thought several provision did not interfere in the least with & of the sections were quite ultra vires, as | lhw' 'iu-\-md Statutes, and he thought it they were miended to restrict this particular cou!d not work injuriously, | tr: de. Mr. MEREDITIIL thought the provision | 4 Mr. CLARKE (Norfolk) said if the hon. would injure the employer, and not add | . gentiewman had studied medical jurispru-- much to the security of the employed. | dence he would have found that this kind Mr. SCOTT suggested that the Bills < «» of legislation was necessary for the protec-- ghould go to Committee together and that j C tion of t}" +' ublicagamnst the incompetency the question of whether any further logis-- l g of izgn~*8"t Cruggists. 'The Pharmacy Act lation on this subject was -- necessary ' $ was a trans©UD ; of the English Pharmacy at present should _ be carefully _ con--| j Act, flid'»'l"'",'.l\, to the necessities of this sidered . The Bill of the hon,. mem--| k country. _ aino amendments he proposed ber _ for Ottawa -- (Mr. _ O'Donoghue) l| were not for the benefit of pharmacists, but proposed to give the mechanic a lien not $s entirely in the interests of the public, and simply on real estate, but on any class of 3 did not hamper trade. Abuses had been personal property. That was a provision ~ fewer since the passmg of the Act, and the which required the attention of the Govern-- i ri proposed amendments would make them ment before it passed into law. But the | _ still fewer. _ iIe thought the comparison of Bill had anothber strong clause, which pro--| & this trade with ordinary trades was unfair. vided that the mechanic should have a lien | Mr. MOWAT said that as his hon. friend on all the property of his employer, 'This, | A opposite (Mr. Macdougall) did not object to he thought, simuld also receive the consider-- | s the second reading of the Bill, it would be ation of the Government, (Hear, hear.) unnecessary for him to make many remarks. Mr. ODONOGHUE eaid if both Bills 'The hon. gentleman had expressed doubts were sent to a Committee, the Government % as to whether the Bill was in the compet-- would have an opportunity of studying A ence of the Local Legislature, on the what course to pursue with reference to <f ground that it interfered with trade, A them. He thoroughly believed in all that ' _' man required now to be pretty bold who lhus Bill proposed, and perhaps a little more, $ would dogmatise as to what was under the and had he not thought it was a just mea-- s jurisdiction of the Local House; but when sure he would not have introduced it. h the Pharmacy Act was passed in 1871, it Mr. MEREDITH said the House should was generally assumed that they had juris-- be carcful in legislating in this direction. diction, and he did not think any harm had While endcavouring to secure to the work-- resulted in consequence,. He admitted man the reward for his labour, they should that there should be a,strong case to justify not attempt (to interfere with the | | any change being made in the revised building opcrations _ throughout the ' f statutes ; but the general object ot this Bill country. _ He thought the retention of was to secure & larger measure of public ten per cent. of the centract price by the ! f confidence in persons engaged in the busi-- | owner wouid interfere with the building, | j ness ot pharmacists, and instead of benefitting the mechanic | Mr. MACDOUGALL--I don't see any would work in the opposite direction, | I clause that looks that way, (Hear, hear ) | f Mr. MOWAT said the general tenor of Mr. ROBINSON was understood to say | ) ' 4 the Bill indicated it, The Bill might per-- that in all contracts above a certain amount . S haps require some further amendments, there was a clause that twenty per cent. of 4 which could be made by, the Committee to the contract price should not be paid until f whom it would be referred. He was quite the work was finished. _ Therefore the pro-- l willing that the second reading should take vision in his Bill could not interfere with 8 place. | building opcrations. | Mr. BARR took objection to the 17th | _ Mr. MEREDITH--But you take this ten clause, which, he contended, would give per cent, to pay the labourer, if necessary. t young chemists an advantage over the | _ Mr. ROBINSON--Well, the labourer has [ chemists who obtained their certificates as much right to be paid as the contractor, under the old Act. _ He thought the word The amendment, I think, is a perfectly rea-- I 9 #« examination " should be struck out of the sonable one, and one to which contractors clause, do not object, | The Bill was read the second time and re-- Mr, MACDOUGALL (Simcoe} asked if ferred to a Special Committee consisting of the measure, should it go into effect, would | R Messrs. Hardy, Macdougal!,4Baxter, Haney, * k ~I Harkin, Barr, Boulter, McMahon, Mostyn, : O'Sullivan, Wilson, Striker, Preston, Grange, Deroche, and the mover, ioi k 4 WA enfetrrera TT s e c ie o e icies it oi oe o J