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STRESS SAFETY IN MINING ACT Amendment Introduced by Hon. Paul Leduc Provides Medical Tests, Also Hits 'High--Grading' A new code of safety regulations, brought up to date and designed to meet the newer ~=~ards of deep mining and the more extensive use of mechanical equipment, is con-- tained in an amend :n _to the Min-- ing Act given second reading in the U'"HB' LegislatUP®"TesTerday. Hon. Paul Leduc, Minister of Minés$, "éxplained Th« provisions of the amendment to + House. The final section is aimed at curbing "high--grading," and vests authority in the minister to license refineries. There were a number of places in the northern woods well equipped to reduce gold ore into bullion, he declared. In many cases these were located in kitchens and cellars. ISs SECOND READING It provided also that annual medical inspections be given to miners engaged in dust occupations, both from the standpoint of general health and as to their freedom from tuberculosis of the respiratory organs. If the applicant is found to be free of tuberculosis, he is to be granted a permit to work for twelve months and the certificate can be lextended if, at th: end of that period, he is found to be free of dis-- eases of the respiratory organs. The Ontario amendment, he said, was designed to help prospectors, by granting them authority to stake nine claims on each individual license, in place of the present code which allows three claims on each license and six on behalf of other licensees. It propose.. to extend the first year's assessment work. PHARMACY ACT . iPLANS CLAMP CHANGE SOUGHT -- ONLAWYERS ' G. C. Elgie (Cons., Toronto--Wood:-- bine) urged that penalties be left |wilhin the discretion of the courts. 'Hon. H. J. Kirby, Minister of Health, emphasized there were cer-- | tain druggists who persisted in sellot' | ing drugs after they were convicted. He claimed that if the rogulations' were _ abused _ persistently that . powers should be granted which would allow further disciplinary ac-- 'lion. The amendment, he said, was brought forward on the recommen-- dation of the Board of Pharmacy. At the suggestion of Premier Hepburn an amendment to the Pharmacy Act, which, if passed, would place in the hands of the disciplinary bodies of the medical, veterinary and druggists' profes-- sions power to suspend or cancel the licenses of members who broke regulations on the sale of drugs, was held over when it was brought before the committee of the whole House at yesterday's sitting of the Ontario Legislature. e MARCH 2l Benchers of the Law Society of Upper Canada are given authority under a proposed amendment to the Law Society Act, Mtroduced before the 'Ontarto--Legislature yesterday by Hon. Gordon Conant, Attorney-- General, to draft "rulés which would compel barristers and solicitors to maintain proper financial records and bank accounts. The additions to the act also provide for investigations to deter-- mine whether or not lawyers are complying with the rules of the society. Non--observance of the rules may be determined as "professional misconduct," it is suggested. A provision is also included under which the benchers might require any lawyer found guilty of pro-- fessional misconduct to pay the cost of the investigation into his affairs. Mr. Conant introduced also an amendment to the Insurance Act, Major change, he informed the House, was contained in a clause which would enable mercantile in-- surers to take a contract for any term which they might wish. The present act limited the contract to one vear.