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.'--" A "\1 " 3 in h.¥ "¢n l | ves 2y , 1Tore:s 4 2. Quiet Day in Legislature Permits Formal Advance-- ment of Motions Most important of the measures| to be moved on a stage in ,\'esterda,\"sg short session of the Legislature was' Provincial Treasurer Price's tech--| nical amendments to the Succession . Duty Act, whose eight clauses went through _ committee with slight| amendment.. W . E. N. Sinclair., K.C.. paid tribute to the efficiency and| reasonableness of the officers of the, «Succession Dutv Department under| Mr. Price. | Toronto's 'bill providing for the levying of one mill for park purposes went through committee, as did Provincial Secretary Goldie's, to amend the Public Service Act, pro-- viding for rearrangements in his de-; partment; Mr. Price's Audit Act| amendment, and the bill empower--| ing the Government to guarantee | adout $25,000 worth of debentures : for Englehart. Second readings were given to A. C. Garden's bill em-- powering the Y.W.C.A. of Hamilton to 'hold certain properties, an Owen . Sound bill, and Mr. Keith's bill re-- specting the Township of York. Mr. Wright's Forest Protection Act was sent to Municipal Committee. and | Mr. Wigle's Marriage Act amend-- ments, demanding proof of age and 1three days' notice, was sent to the |\ Legal Committee. Mr. Raney said he saw some merit in the proof--oft-- ~© age clause, but none in the section demanding three days' notlce for a | certificate. i Before second reading was given to the bill} dealing with the cost of carrying for indigent persons in ill lhealth. Mr. Ferguson said that the problem is one that would have to ibe dealt with from a Provincial, «tandpoint.