after which day all Barrels shall be Inspected in conformity with such Fifth Sections, any thing herein notwithstanding, it being the intention of this Act to extend the time only.

CAP. VII.

An Act for the Weighing of Flour.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows :
I. The Court of General Sessions, or a Special Sessions, may, if they think proper,
annually appoint Weighers of Flour and Meal for their respective Counties, or for par-
ticular Townships or Districts therein, who shall, when Sworn into Office, have the
same Authority and perform the same Duty as the Weighers of Flour and Meal in the
City of Halifax.

Court of General

Sessions to appoint
Weigher of Flour.

curity.

II. All Weighers of Flour and Meal appointed by the City Council, shall before Weighers to give Seentering upon the Duties of their Office, give security by Bond to the City of Halifax, in such penal sum, and with two such sufficient Sureties as may be approved of by the City Council, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, and shall take the following Oath before the Mayor, or one of the Aldermen :

"I A. B., do swear that I will faithfully and impartially, to the best of my judgment, perform the Duties of Weigher of Flour and Meal according to Law."

III. All Flour or Meal Imported or brought into, or offered for Sale in the City, or in any of the Counties, Townships or Districts, for which Weighers of Flour and Meal may be hereafter appointed, in Barrels or Half Barrels shall, immediately, and before being used or offered for Sale, or carried out of the City, or any such other County, or Township or District, be Weighed by one of the Weighers of Flour and Meal, and each Barrel of Flour or Meal shall contain not less than One Hundred and Ninety-six Pounds net weight, and each Half Barrel of Flour or Meal not less than Ninety-eight Pounds net weight.

Oath.

Every Barrel of Flour to be weighed.

IV. Every Barrel or Half Barrel of Flour or Meal found to be of full Weight, shall Barrels to be branded be branded by the Weigher, with the Initials of his Christian Name, and his Surname

at full length, and with Figures denoting the Net Weight; and no Barrel or Half Bar

rel found to be deficient in Weight shall be branded until the Importer or Owner shall have the deficiency supplied.

V. Every person sending from, or offering for Sale within the City, or within any Penalty. such County, Township or District, any Barrel or Half Barrel of Flour or Meal deficient in Weight, or without the same having been previously branded as aforesaid, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings for each Barrel, and Ten Shillings for each Half Barrel, and the sum of Six Pence for every Pound Weight deficient.

VI. The Weighers of Flour and Meal shall receive from the person employing them Fees. to weigh the same, for each Barrel of Flour or Meal, One Penny, and for each Half Barrel One Half Penny.

VII. When any Barrel or Half Barrel of Flour or Meal shall, after having been Erasure of Brands. branded, be emptied of its contents, the Brands thereon shall be erased before the same shall be refilled for the purposes of Exportation or Sale; and any person refilling or causing to be refilled, any such Barrel or Half Barrel, without first erasing the Brands, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Shillings for each Barrel, and Two Shillings and Six Pence for each Half Barrel.

Tare to be fixed.

Penalty for unlawful
Branding.

Flour or Meal manufactured in the Province excluded.

City Council may make Bye Laws.

Recovery of Penalty.

Flour for exportation excepted.

VIII. In order to prevent damage or loss which might be sustained in unpacking Flour or Meal, to ascertain the Tare of the Barrels or Half Barrels, it shall be lawful for the Weigher to affix a tare, according to his best judgment, without unpacking or weighing the same-which judgment shall be final, unless disputed by the Buyer or Seller, in which case the Barrel or Half Barrel may be unpacked, but the reasonable expense attending the same shall be paid by the party complaining.

IX. If any Weigher of Flour and Meal shall brand any Barrel or Half Barrel contrary to the meaning of this Act, he shall be liable to a Penalty of Forty Shillings for every Barrel, and Twenty Shillings for every Half Barrel, and every Weigher offending in any other manner against the meaning of this Act, shall be liable to a Penalty of Ten Pounds.

X. These Provisions shall not extend to the Weighing of Barrels or Packages of Flour or Meal manufactured within the Province, if branded with the Name of the Proprietor of the Mill in which such Flour or Meal was manufactured, and have the net weight thereof distinctly branded thereon, unless the Purchaser thereof shall require that the same should be weighed by the Public Weigher; and if any such Flour or Meal shall be sold without being so marked, or the Barrel or Package so branded, shall not contain the full weight branded thereon, the Proprietor of such Mill shall be liable to the Penalties imposed by the Fifth Section of this Act.

XI. The City Council may pass such Bye-Laws, to be enforced by any Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, as may be deemed necessary for the further regulation of such Officers within the City of Halifax.

XII. Every Penalty incurred under this Act, or in the City of Halifax under this Act or any Bye-Law made pursuant thereto, may be recovered, with Costs of Suit, in the name of any person suing for the same, in the same manner as if it were a Private Debt due to him; and the amount of the Penalty so recovered shall, in the City of Halifax, be paid one half to the person suing for the same, and the other half to the City Treasurer, for the use of the City; and in other Counties, Townships or Districts, one half to the person suing for the same, and the other half to the use of the Poor thereof.

XIII. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to Wheaten Flour which may be Warehoused, and shall be taken therefrom for exportation from the Province.

Board to be appointed.

Board to prepare
Schedules, &c.

Board to prepa
Statistics, &c.

CAP. VIII.

An Act for taking the Census of the Province, and obtaining Statistical information.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows :

I. Two Members of the Executive Council, to be appointed by the Governor in Council, shall, together with the Financial Secretary for the time being, constitute a Board of Registration and Statistics.

II. The Board shall prepare and cause to be printed and circulated as hereinafter provided, all such Forms and Schedules as to them shall seem best adapted for the purposes of this Act, and such instructions as they shall deem necessary for the guidance of the persons appointed to take the Census or enumerations hereinafter provided for. III. The Board shall have the General Supervision of the Statistics of the Province, and shall cause to be prepared annually, and laid before the Legislature at an early period

period of the Session, a General Report of the Statistics of the Province. The Report shall also contain such information relative to the Trade, Manufactures, Agriculture,

and Population of the Province as they shall be able to obtain.

IV. The Governor in Council may appoint the Clerk of the Board of Revenue to Clerk of Board. be the Secretary of the Board hereby established, or assign the duties of that office to

any one of the Clerks in the office of the Financial Secretary, the Provincial Secretary

or Receiver General.

in 1851.

V. The First General Census and Returns shall be taken between the Months of Census to be taken June and December, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one; and a like General Census and Return shall be taken between the same Months in every Fifth Year hereafter. The Tables to be issued by the Board for the Census and Returns first to be taken, shall be in the Forms contained in the Tables annexed hereto, with such additional enquiries as to the Board shall seem requisite, and they may strike out any which in practice may be found inconvenient.

County.

VI. As soon as the Tables and Instructions shall be issued by the Board, the Justices Justices to divide of the Peace at a General Sessions, shall set off the several Counties into different Sections or Divisions, following the Divisions now set apart for Electoral purposes, but with power to unite two or more Electoral Districts, and shall forward a Return of the same to the Secretary of the Board.

of the Peace to make Returns.

VII. The Justices shall also at such General Sessions appoint Two Justices to act Justices and Clerks along with the Clerk of the Peace in preparing the Abstract of the Returns as hereinafter provided, and shall also appoint a sufficient number of persons resident in the County, and in each of such Sections or Divisions as Enumerators in each of such Sections or Divisions, and shall return the same to the Board.

Justices to examine Returns.

VIII. The Clerk of the Peace, together with the Two Justices, shall examine the Clerk of Peace and Returns made by the Enumerators, and cause any defect or inaccuracy that may be discovered therein, to be supplied or corrected by the Enumerators, as far as possible, and shall make therefrom an Abstract, in such form as may be required by the Board, and shall transmit Triplicate Copies of such Abstract to the Board, within One Month next after receipt of such Returns, and Copies thereof shall be laid before the Two Houses of the Legislature, within the first Ten Days of the Session then next ensuing, and the Original Returns shall be kept as Records of the County in the Office of the Clerks of the Peace, and the Clerks of the Peace shall each be paid in full for their services in relation to such General Abstract, the sum of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings, to be paid out of the Provincial Treasury, after the Board shall have certified that the services have been well and faithfully performed.

an Account in Writing.

IX. The Enumerators shall visit every House within their Division, and take an Enumerators to take Account in Writing, according to the Forms to be provided for that purpose by the Board, of the Number of Persons dwelling therein, their Ages and Occupations, and also of the Number of Inhabited Houses and Uninhabited Houses within the Division, and of every Particular Matter and Thing which may be specified in the Forms or Schedules to be provided for that purpose.

mand true answers to Questions.

X. The Enumerators may demand from the head of every Family residing within Enumerators to detheir respective Divisions, or from any member of the Family being more than twentyone years of age, and from the Owners or Managers of all Factories, Agents of Companies, and others, true answers to all questions necessary for the purpose of taking such Accounts; and any such person who shall not answer, or shall wilfully give a false answer to any such questions; and also any person who shall in any way wil-. fully obstruct an Enumerator in the execution of his duties, shall for every such offence, on conviction thereof before any two Justices of the Peace for the County, incur a Penalty of not less than Ten Shillings nor more than Fifty Shillings Currency and Costs to be taxed by the Justices; and if the Penalty and Costs be not forthwith

Clerks of the Peace and Enumerators to be sworn.

Enumerators to certify Returns.

Penalty for neglect of Duty.

Pay of Enumerators.

Forms to be furnished.

Persons to keep
Registry.

Returns.

Coroner's Returns.

Prothy to return a list of Convictions.

paid, the same shall be levied by Distress and Sale of the offender's goods, under the Warrant of the Justices, or either of them; and in default of goods, the offender may be committed by the Justices to Gaol for a period not exceeding Seven Days; and one half of the penalty if recovered, shall belong to the Informer, and the other shall be paid to the Treasurer of the County or District, and form part of the funds thereof.

XI. All Clerks of the Peace and Enumerators, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall be sworn before a Justice of the Peace, who shall administer the Oath without charge, well and faithfully to perform the duties imposed on them by this Act.

XII. The Enumerators shall sign and certify their Returns, and make Oath, or solemn Affirmation in cases where Affirmation is allowed by law, before a Justice of the Peace, to the effect that the same have been truly and faithfully taken by them, and that the same are correct so far as they can ascertain, and shall lodge the same in the office of the Clerk of the Peace within One Month next after the account shall have been so taken.

XIII. Any Enumerator who shall not perform the duties required of him by this Act, shall for every offence forfeit a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds, nor less than Five Pounds, at the discretion of the Justices before whom such complaint is prose

cuted.

XIV. There shall be allowed out of the Provincial Treasury to each of the Enumerators who shall make and transmit to the Clerk of the Peace faithful Returns of the Schedules issued by the Board within the time limited for that purpose, such sums of Money as shall be agreed upon by the Justices of the Court of Sessions, and the Enumerators; and if the Service shall be agreed to be done by Day's Work, no greater Sum shall be paid than Six Shillings and Three Pence per day for every day that such Enumerator has been diligently and in good faith engaged in the performance of his Duties, and the Justices shall cause an Account of such Expense to be prepared and signed by the Clerk of the Peace, and by him returned to the Board.

XV. The Board shall cause a sufficient supply of the necessary Forms and Instructions to be forwarded to the several Clerks of the Peace, on or before the First day of September, in every year previous to any year appointed by this Act for taking the Census.

XVI. Every Clergyman, Teacher, Minister, Justice of the Peace, or other person authorized by Law to Baptize, Marry, or perform the Funeral Service, shall keep a Registry, shewing the names and ages of the persons whom he shall have baptized or married, or who have been born, or who have died within his Cure, or belonging to his Congregation-such Registry to be forwarded to the Clerk of the Peace in the County where he shall reside or officiate at the time, within five days after the First day of July and January in every year, and the Clerks of the Peace shall periodically transmit to the several parties above mentioned printed Forms of Registers.

XVII. The Returns shall be transmitted by the Clerks of the Peace to the Board on or before the Tenth day of January in every year.

XVIII. Coroners shall return lists of the Inquests held by them, together with the findings of the Juries, to the Board, on or before the Tenth day of January in every year.

XIX. The Prothonotary, Deputy Prothonotary, and Clerks of the Peace, shall return to the Board a list of all Convictions had before, and of all Fines and Penalties of whatever kind or nature imposed by the Supreme Court or Sessions, the amounts of Fines and Penalties collected, and how expended and appropriated-such Return to be made in Triplicate, on or before the Tenth day of January in every year.

XX.

against this Act.

XX. Any person neglecting or refusing to comply with the requirements of this Act, Person offending in any matter for which no punishment is herein specially provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to punishment accordingly. All Penalties incurred under this Section shall be distributed and applied in the manner herein before provided with regard to other Penalties; and any person who shall wilfully violate any Oath taken or Affirmation made under the provisions of this Act, shall be held to be guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury.

QUESTIONS.

BUILDINGS.

1. How many Inhabited Houses.
2. By how many Families inhabited.
3. Houses now building.

4. Uninhabited Houses.

5. Stores, Barns, and Out-houses.

INHABITANTS OF VARIOUS AGES.

6. Number of Males under 10 years of age.

7. Number of Females under 10.

8. Number of Males from 10 to 20.

9. Number of Females from 10 to 20.

10. Number of Males from 20 to 30. 11. Number of Females from 20 to 30. 12. Number of Males from 30 to 40. 13. Number of Females from 30 to 40. 14. Number of Males from 40 to 50. 15. Number of Females from 40 to 50. 16. Number of Males above 50.

17. Number of Females above 50.

23. Number of Males Deaf and Dumb. 24. Number of Females Deaf and Dumb.

25. Number of Males Blind. 26. Number of Females Blind.

27. Number of Male Lunatics. 28. Number of Female Lunatics.

29. Number of Male Idiots. 30. Number of Female Idiots.

BLIND.

LUNATICS.

IDIOTS.

Form.