208 THE DOMINION ADMINISTRATION. 
limited to 1000 men, and all appointments are made by the 
Governor in Council. It is under the command of a com- 
missioner and assistant commissioners, who exercise all the 
powers of stipendiary magistrates. The Lieutenant-Governor 
of Keewatin has the local disposition of the force in that 
district subject to any order of the Governor-General, and the 
Governor-General is authorised to make arrangements with 
any province for the employment of the force in such 
provincel. 
11. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND STATISTICS. 
This department was constituted by the 81 Vie. c. 53 and 
is presided over by the Minister of Agriculture. He is 
assisted in carrying on the work of the department by a 
Deputy and a staff of officers and clerks appointed by the 
Governor-General. 
The The duties and powers of the Minister extend to the 
Minister. ovecution of the laws of the Parliament of Canada and of the 
Orders of the Governor in Council relating as well to the 
following subjects as to the direction of all public bodies, officers 
and servants employed in the execution of such laws and 
orders®:— 
I. Agriculture. 
Immigration and Emigration. 
Public Health and Quarantine. 
Marine and Emigrant Hospitals of Quebec. 
5. Arts and Manufactures. 
6. Census Statistics and the registration of Statistics. 
7. Patents of Invention®, 
8. Copyright®. 
9. Industrial Designs and Trade-marks®. 
10. Experimental Farm stations 
! See R. 8. C., ec. 45. 2 Ib. c. 24, 
? By the 50 & 51 Vic. ¢. 12, patents and copyrights may be transferred to 
she Department of the Secretary of State, and Industrial Designs and Trade- 
marks to the new Department of Trade and Commerce.