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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1885
Page
5
A stage begins service from Birtle starting late April on Mondays and Fridays at 7 a m to link with the M and N W Railway trains at Minnedosa.
Editorial discusses the new exemption law in Manitoba, contrasting creditors and debtors. It criticizes moneylenders, bankers, and lawyers while praising cautious, upright borrowers and the potential to reduce costly lawsuits. The piece cites past land speculation losses and notes a likely smaller US winter wheat crop.
The Observer laments impunity for murder in Canada and the United States, contrasts trials of Riel and Fisk era figures, and warns that an execution or escape could ignite sectarian strife among Protestants and Catholics. It cites government delays and calls for firm action.
The Exemption Act declares several personal and real estate items immune from seizure under writs of execution. It lists bed clothing books tools livestock seeds and farm structures as exempt up to specified values and limits, including residence up to 160 acres outside city limits, with a choice among exempt items.
The Min iota council met in Beulah Hall with Reeve presiding. Minutes were amended to include J Galbraith’s Beulah Ferry tender and published in Observe. The council discussed contracts, taxation on homesteads, bridge work, by law readings, noxious weeds duties, and adjourned to August 10 1885.
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