Page 28 - Annuaire Statistique Québec - 1918

2 ACT ESTABLISIIING THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS

for the bureau, the statistics and information which he may think usefui
to the public.
"33. Vnder the direction of the Minister, the head of the bureau
shall colleet, condense and tabulate useful statistics and information
respecting this Province and more particularly respecting education,
industry, commerce, D.griculture, population, colonization, the natural
products of the soil and generally respecting everything which concerna
the Province and is of public interest.
"34. Whenever it appears to the Minister that the statistics and
information collected and condensed are sufficiently important and
reliable to make the publication thereof useful, he shall have them
published in the manner and form prescribed by the Lieutenant-Gover~
nor in Council.
Neither the Lieutenant-Governor in Council nor the Minister, in
the exercise of the powers conferred by this section, shall discriminate
between persons or companies to the prejudice of any of them.

"35. Every officer or employee under the control of the Govern-
ment of the Province, or under the control of a municipality, or of a
schooi board or of a society, association or corporation constituted in
virtue of a law in force in this Province, or receiving a subsidy from the
Government of this Province, and every person so subsidized, shaH
answer promptly aU official communications from the bureau and collect
and correctly classify the facts or statistics called for by the bureau.
"36..Any persan mentioned in section 35 who wilfully givea false
information or refuses or neglects to answer a question authorized by
this division, or to collect, classify or deliver the statistics which it is in
his power to colled, classify or deliver, when he has been duly called
upon so to do by the Minister or by the head of the bureau, shall be
liable for each offence, to a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
" Without prejudice to the above provision, in any case where the
information given is faise or where there is refusaI or neglect to give
any inlormation} the minister rnay authorize the head of the bureau or
any other employee under his control to collect and classify such infor-
mation, and to recover from any persan mentioned in section 35 the
expense incurred in procuring such information, saving, however, the
recourbe of any such person, before a competent tribunal, against his
employee at fault."

"37. The Minister, with the consent of the Lieutenant-Governor
in CounciI, may make aIl arrangements which he may think usefui
to establish a system of exchange of information or statistics between
the Government of Canada or one or more of its departments and the
"Bureau".