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For imposing penalties not exceeding ten dollars Penalties. in any case, for the violation of any such regulation ;---and all such regulations shall, during the time for which they are intended to be in force, have the same force and effect as if contained and enacted in and by this Act. 16 V. c. 212, s. 3. months. 3 No license for any such Ferry shall hereafter be granted No license for for a longer period than twelve months, except by public com- more than 12 petition, and to parties giving such security as may be required by the Governor in Council, after notice inserted at least four times in the course of four weeks in the Canada Gazette, and in one or more newspapers published in the district in which such Ferry is situate, and if no newspaper is published in such district, then in the nearest district in which a newspaper is published; nor shall any such Ferry be leased or a license therefor granted for a longer term than ten years at any one time. 16 V. c. 212, s. 4. 4. The Provincial Secretary shall cause all regulations Regulations to made as aforesaid to be published in the English and French be published. languages in the Canada Gazette, at least three times during the three months following the date thereof, and any copy of the said Gazette containing a copy of such Regulations, or any of them, shall be evidence of such Regulation or Regulations. 16 V. c. 212, s. 5. 5. All fines or penalties imposed by this Act or by any How fines reregulations under the authority thereof, shall be recoverable in coverable. a summary manner before any one Justice of the Peace, on the oath of any credible witness other than the informer; and one half of every such penalty shall be paid to the informer, and the other half shall belong to the Crown for the Public uses of the Province. 16 V. c. 212, s. 6. be dealt with. 6. All moneys arising out of such Ferry Licenses and out of How proceeds penalties incurred in regard of the same, or otherwise, under of licenses shall this Act, shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund after deducting therefrom such portion thereof as may be necessary for the remuneration of the Revenue Inspectors, or other Officers employed in carrying out this Act, for their services in that behalf, and for defraying other expenses required for the purposes of this Act. 16 V. c. 212, s. 7. and privileges. 7. Nothing in this Act shall extend to the owner or master Act not to affect of any vessel plying between two ports in this Province, or certain persons regularly entered or cleared by the Officers of Her Majesty's Customs at any such port, or in any way to affect any privilege granted by the Legislature either of the late Province of Lower Canada or of this Province, to the proprietor of any Bridge or to any Railway Company, or other Road Company. 16 V. c. 212, s. 8. Meaning of term "chat tels." Liability of person in charge of ferry. 8. The term "chattels," when used in this Act, shall extend and apply to horses, cattle, grain, provisions and all other moveable property: 2. The owner, master or person in charge of any vessel used for the purpose of carrying any person or chattel over any such ferry as aforesaid, shall be deemed to have acted as a ferryman within the meaning of this Act, and shall be liable to all the penalties hereby imposed if he contravenes this Act in so acting; Meaning of 3. And the word "vessel" shall mean any steamboat, word "vessel." horseboat, boat, canoe, or craft of any kind used for the purpose of carrying passengers or chattels across any such ferry as aforesaid. 16 V. c. 212, s. 9. 9. This Act shall not prevent the effect of any By-laws or regulations lawfully made by the Corporation of the City of Quebec or of the City of Montreal, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or with any regulation made under it. See Local Acts concerning Quebec and Montreal. TITLE 2. MATTERS OF PUBLIC ORDER. Administering poses, how punishable. CAP. X. An Act respecting seditious and unlawful Associa tions and Oaths. ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: Assembly of Canada, chacts as UNLAWFUL OATHS AND SOCIETIES. 1. Any person who, in any form, administers or causes to be unlawful oaths administered, or is aiding or present at and consenting to the for certain pur- administration or taking of any oath or engagement, purporting or intending to bind the person taking the same---to commit any treason or murder, or any felony punishable with death,-or to engage in any seditious, rebellious, or treasonable purpose, or to disturb the public peace,--or to be of any associa tion, or confederacy, formed for any such purpose,--or to obey the order or commands of any committee or body of men not lawfully constituted, or of any leader or commander, or other person not having authority by law for that purpose,---or not to inform or give evidence against any associate, confederate or or other person,---or not to reveal or discover any illegal act, done or to be done,--or not to reveal or discover any illegal oath or engagement administered or tendered to, or taken by such person or persons, or to or by any other person, or the import of any such oath or engagement,---shall be guilty of felony, and may be imprisoned in the provincial penitentiary for any term of years not exceeding twenty-one years: oaths. 2. And every person who takes any such oath or engage- Punishment ment, not being compelled thereto, shall be guilty of felony, for taking such and may be imprisoned in the provincial penitentiary for any term of years not exceeding seven years. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 1,--and 6 V. c. 5, s. 4. on certain con 2. Compulsion shall not justify or excuse any person taking Compulsion not such oath or engagement, unless within eight days after the to be a justifitaking thereof, if not prevented by actual force or sickness, and cation: except then within eight days after the hindrance produced by such ditions. force or sickness shall cease, he declares the same, together with the whole of what he knows touching the same, and the person or persons by whom and in whose presence, and when and where such oath or engagement was administered or taken, by information on oath, before one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace for the district in which such oath or engagement was administered or taken. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 2. tors. 3. Any person aiding at, or present and consenting to the Punishment of administering or taking of any such oath or engagement or aiders and abetcausing any such oath or engagement to be administered or taken, though not present at the taking or administering thereof, shall be a principal offender, and shall be tried as such, although the person who actually administered such oath or engagement, has not been tried or convicted. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 3. of the oath need 4. It shall not be necessary, in any indictment against any In indictments, person administering, or causing to be administered or taken, only the import or taking any such oath or engagement, or aiding at, or present be set forth. at and consenting to the administering or taking thereof, to set forth the words of such oath or engagement; but it shall be sufficient to set forth the import of such oath or engagement, or some material part thereof. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 4. 5. Any engagement or obligation in the nature of an oath, Engagements, shall be deemed an oath, within the meaning of this Act, in deemed oaths. whatever form or manner the same is administered or taken, and whether the same be actually administered by any person, or taken by any person without any administration thereof by any person. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 5. ties, &c., shall 6. Every society or association the members whereof are, What Socieaccording to the rules thereof, or to any provision, or any agree- be unlawful. ment for that purpose, required to keep secret the acts or proceedings of such society or association, or admitted to take any What persons shall be deemed or any oath or engagement, which is an unlawful oath or engagement, within the intent and meaning of the foregoing provisions, or to take any oath or engagement not required or authorized by law,--and every society or association, the members whereof of them take, or in any manner bind themselves by any such oath or engagement, or in consequence of being members of such society or association,---and every society or association, the members whereof or any of them, take, subscribe, or assent to any engagement of secrecy, test or declaration not required by law,---and every society of which the names of the members, or any of them, are kept secret from the society at large, or which has any committee or secret body so chosen or appointed that the members constituting the same are not known by the society at large to be members of such committee or select body, or which has any president, treasurer, secretary or delegate, or other officer, so chosen or appointed that his election or appointment to such office is not known to the society at large, or of which the names of all the persons and of the committee or select bodies of members, and of all presidents, treasurers, secretaries, delegates and other officers, are not entered in a book kept for that purpose, and open to the inspection of all the members of such society or association,---and every society or association which is composed of different divisions or branches, or of different parts acting in any manner separately or distinct from each other, or of which any part shall have any separate or distinct president, secretary, treasurer, delegate or other officer elected or appointed by or for such part, or to act as an officer for such part,---shall be deemed and taken to be unlawful combinations and confederacies: 2. And every person who becomes a member of any such confederates. society or association, or acts as a member thereof, and every person who, directly or indirectly, maintains correspondence or intercourse with any such society or association, or with any division, branch, committee, or other select body, treasurer, secretary, delegate, or other officer or member of such society or association, whether within or without the province, as such, or who, by contribution of money or otherwise, aids, abets or supports such society, or any member or officer thereof, as such, shall be deemed guilty of an unlawful combination or deracy. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 6. Punishment for unlawful confederacy, &c. confe 7. Any person who shall, in breach of the provisions of this Act, be guilty of any such unlawful combination or confederacy as aforesaid, and shall be convicted thereof upon indictment, shall be imprisoned in the Provincial Penitentiary, for a term not exceeding seven years, nor less than two years or be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term less than two years. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 7, and 6′ V. c. 5, 8. 4. 8. If any person knowingly permits any meeting of any so- Punishment fo ciety or association hereby declared to be an unlawful combi- allowing meetings of unlawnation or confederacy, or of any division, branch, or committee ful Societies, of such society, to be held in his house, apartment, barn, outhouse, or other building, such person shall, for the first offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, and shall, for any such offence committed after the date of his conviction for such first offence, be deemed guilty of an unlawful combination and confederacy, and shall be punished as hereby directed for that offence. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 8. 9. And whereas certain societies have been long accustomed Act not to exto be holden in this Province, under the denomination of lodges tend to Lodges of Freemasons, of free-masons, the meetings whereof have been in great &c. measure directed to charitable purposes:-nothing in this Act shall extend to the meetings of any such society or lodge, holden under the said denomination and in conformity to the rules prevailing among the said societies of free-masons; Provided such society or lodge has been constituted, by or under the authority of warrants in that behalf, granted by or derived from any grand master or grand lodge in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 V. (2) c. 8, s. 9. CAP. XI. An Act respecting Newspapers, and other like Publications. ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: Printers and &c. 1. No person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed Affidavit, &c., or published in Lower Canada any newspaper, pamphlet or to be made by other paper containing public news or intelligence, or serving Publishers of the purpose of a newspaper, or for the purpose of posting or Newspapers, general circulation in detached pieces as such newspaper,until an affidavit or affidavits, or affirmation or affirmations, made and signed as hereinafter mentioned, containing the matters hereinafter mentioned, have been delivered to the clerk of the peace, for the district in which such newspaper, pamphlet, or other paper is printed or published. 1 V. c. 20, s. 1. 2. Such affidavit or affidavits, affirmation or affirmations, Affidavit, &c., shall set forth the real and true names, additions, descriptions to contain certain particulars. and places of abode, of every person who is, or who is intended to be, the printer or publisher of the newspaper, pamphlet, or other paper mentioned in such affidavit or affidavits, affirmation or affirmations, and of all the proprietors of the same, if the number of such proprietors, exclusive of the printer and publisher, does not exceed two; and in case the same exceed |