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_ --_-. ' Ce".,.??.,",,..'.-,-,,-,-,,?,,'.".",,, W "I . -tetti'==.=_--%_-.-- Ml krGiir pr, " " m... t FRIDAY 3. I I.Fi l] c. . ia "1,3392- t , (Mjijilij i,gaitlitng, , i Anti-RebateClauses Added to the Insurance Bill. ' -----. , MR. MOWAT'S TOBACCO BILL. I .' Clause to Imprison Boy Smok. ers Withdrawn. , ----_.._ f as "curse PASSAGE-OF-ABMS BETWEEN , MB. TAIT AND am. MERRDIIK-V , muss assumes. _ t ) TORONTO, March M, 1892. t In the Legislative Assembly to-dsy the ', following bills were introduced and read a _ first time c--- Mr. Mowat--Retrpeoting county police magistrates. _ Dr. Gilmour-To amend the Municipal Act. . I The following bills were read a third _ time and passed ..--.To incorporate, the _ Hospital for Sick Children, Mr. H. E. Clarke ; respecting the Township of Seymour, Mr. Willoughby. THE use or TOBACCO BY MINORS. , l The House then went into committee on the Attorrtey-Geaeral'ts bill respecting the use of tobacco by minors. The first clause, to punish anyone who sells or gives "to a minor actually or apparently under 18 years of age cigarettes, cigars or to- acco," was adopted without discus- sion. Mr. Mowat proposed to amend the second clause by dropping the words "has in his possession," leaving it "any person actually or apparently under eighteen years of age who smokes or in any way uses on a public street or other pub- lie places cigarettes, cigars or tobaceo," etc. He also proposed that tor a first otl'encc the youth should be reprimanded in open court, and that for a second conviction the punish- ment should be a tine or imprisonment, and , that, in case of imprisonment, the prisoner shall be kept apart from criminals. Mr. Meredith spoke in favor of tho principle of the hill, but thought it would be cruelty to imprisonaboy for such an ottence. Mr. . Baxter. Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Davis, Mr. Waters and Mr. Awrey strongly opposed ' the itupriatntment, clause. ' Mr. Mowat said two of the States had already adopted such a clause. A person who had great experience in such matters assured him that there would be no second o0nee. in view of the opposition the clause was meeting with in the House he , did not intend to press it. He proposed to add instead a clause to the eifect that if a . . person should appear to the magistrate to l be under eighteen years he should be pre- sumed to he so, unless there was evidence to the contrary. This was adopted, and at Mr. Meredith's suggestion it was provided. that the act should not go into force until July 1,1892. The result of the amend- ments is that persons supplying youths with tobacco shall be punished, but not the youths using it. The bill was then re- ported. SUCCESSION DUTIES. The Home next went into committee upon, passed and re ported the resolution respecting the imposition of succession duties, alter which it went into committee upon the bill to provide for the payment of these duties. w. Meredith said that the effect of the bill would be to heavily tax the money lent, for example, to leading? societies in case the debenture holders dim ' and so would affect most disastrously the borrowing powers of l the country and drive capital out of thei I country.