The  other  Judges  concurred.
In  re  Can.  Temperance  Act,  "IS,  and  Co.  Perth  (20  C.I.J.  37o)-28th  Oct.  '84  •

4-    Case  referred   by  Governor  General  in  Conncll— Petition   for   bringing
secondpart  of  Act  into  force— Signatories— fFitlidrawal  of  names  by.
A  certain  number  ot  electors  of  the  county  of  Kent,  in  the  province  of

'    Ontario,  having  signed  a  notice  and  petition  under  the  provisions  of  "  The

Canada  Temperance  Act,  1878,"  bringing  into  force  in  the  said  county  of


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Canada  Temperance  Act,  1878-Confmued.
the  second  part  of  the  said  Act,  and  the  said  notice  and  petition  having  been
laid  before  the  Secretary  of  State  with  evidence  of  compliance  by  the  peti-
tioners with  the  formalities  prescribed  by  the  Act,  but  before  being  submit-
ted to  the  Governor  General  in  council  in  the  view  to  the  issuing  of  a  procla-
mation under  the  7th  sec.  of  the  Act,  some  of  the  signatories  have  laid  before
the  Secretry  of  State,  a  petition  asking  to  withdraw  their  names  from  the
said  petition.     Have  they  a  right  to  so  withdraw  their  names  ?

OpiNioif.— The  said  signatories  to  the  said  petition,  signed  under  the
provisions  of  the  said  Act  for  bringing  into  force  in  the  said  county  the
second  part  of  the  said  Act,  have  not,  under  the  circumstances  set  forth  in
the  said  question,  the  right  to  withdraw  their  acknowledged  and  deliberate
signatures,  or  to  have  the  same  withdrawn  from  the  said  petition.
In  re  Canada  Temperance  Act,  18M,  and  The  Connty  of  Kent— 12th  Not.  1884.
5.  Canada  Temperan^  Act,  sec.  107— Appropriation  of  penalties  for  contra*
ventlon  of-  31  Vic.  cli.  1  sec.  T  snb>sec.  88  (Interpretation  Act)— Appli-
cable to  Statutes  relating  to  P.  E.  I.
