768 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV 
The Commissioner in Council may now legislate on the 
following subjects :1 
(2) The establishment and tenure of territorial offices and 
the appointment and payment of territorial officers out of 
territorial revenues. 
(6) The establishment, maintenance, and management of 
prisons in and for the Territory, the expense thereof being 
payable out of territorial revenues. 
(¢) Municipal institutions in the Territory. 
(d) Shop, saloon, tavern, auctioneer, and other licences, in 
order to raise a revenue for territorial or municipal purposes. 
(¢) The incorporation of companies with territorial objects, 
excepting railway companies (not including tramway and 
street railway companies), and steamboat, canal, telegraph. 
and irrigation companies. 
(f) The solemnization of marriage in the Territory. 
(9) Property and civil rights in the Territory. 
(k) The administration of justice in the Territory, including 
the constitution, organization, and maintenance of territorial 
courts of civil jurisdiction, including procedure therein, but 
not including the appointment of judicial officers, or the 
constitution, organization, and maintenance of courts of 
criminal jurisdiction, or procedure in criminal matters. 
(¢) The defining of the powers, duties, and obligations of 
sheriffs and clerks of the courts and their respective deputies. 
(J) The conferring on territorial courts of jurisdiction in 
matters of alimony. 
(k) The imposition of punishment by fine, penalty, or 
imprisonment, for enforcing any territorial ordinances. 
(!) The expenditure of territorial funds and such portion 
of any moneys appropriated by Parliament for the Territory 
as the Commissioner is authorized to expend by and with the 
advice of the Council or of any committee thereof. 
(m) Generally, all matters of a merely local or private 
nature in the Territory. 
The powers of the Commissioner in Council as in the 
North-West with regard to these questions are not to exceed 
those given to Provincial Legislatures under the provisions 
of 8. 92 of the British North America Act. 1867. 
t Rev. Stat., 1906, o. 63; cf. 2 Edw. VIL. c. 34. The Minister of Justice, 
in a report of December 11, 1899 (Provincial Legislation, 1899-1900, p. 155), 
juestions the power of the Commissioner to enact retro-active ordinances.