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Punishment for

gets or butts,

&c.

46. If any person wilfully commits any damage to any damaging tar- butt or target belonging to or lawfully used by any Volunteer Corps or Battalion, or without the leave of the Commanding officer of the Corps or Battalion, searches for bullets in, or otherwise disturbs the soil forming such butt or target, he shall for every such offence be liable, on the prosecution of the Commanding Officer, to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, with or without imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

Volunteer
Corps or Bat-

talions may

hold property

poses, under

regulations.

47. The several Corps or Battalions may hold property for such purposes incident to their existence as the Commander in Chief may, by any General Warrant, enumerate and prescribe; for certain pur- and they may pass regulations relating thereto, subject to the approval of the Commander in Chief, which shall be binding on the several members thereof; and all grants shall be made to the Corps as a body, on the conditions that its effective members continue and remain effective in the proportion at least of threefourths to those inscribed on the roll; and the Commander in Chief may prescribe on what terms or by what means and form such property may be held and transmitted.

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48. All money subscribed by or for the use of a Volunteer Corps or Battalion, and all effects belonging to any such Corps or Battalion, or lawfully used by it, not being the property of any individual officer or volunteer, and the exclusive right to sue for and recover current subscriptions, arrears of subscriptions, and other money due to the Corps or Battalion, and all lands, property or effects acquired by the Corps or Battalion shall vest in the Commanding Officer of the Corps or Battalion for the time being, and his successors in office, with power for him and nis successors to sue, to make contracts and conveyances, and to do all other lawful things relating thereto; and any civil or criminal proceeding taken by virtue of the present section by the Commanding Officer of a Corps or Battalion, shall not be discontinued or abated by his death, resignation, or removal from office, but may be carried on by and in the name of his successor in office; and the property of all efficient Corps or Battalions, their Butts, and Ranges, and the Horses, Carriages, &c., actually used for the purposes of such Corps or Battalions, and all Armouries, Drillsheds, Rifle Ranges, &c., however furnished, shall also be exempt from all Municipal and local rates and taxes.

49. The Commander in Chief, with a view to the safety and convenience of the public, and of Volunteers, may make Bylaws for the regulation of shooting on grounds purchased, acquired or used by any Volunteer Corps or Battalion under this Act, and for the prevention of intrusion thereon during the times of shooting; any such By-laws may impose a reasonable pecuniary penalty, not exceeding twenty dollars, for any breach

thereof,

thereof, so that the By-law be so framed as to admit of part only of the maximum penalty being ordered to be paid, such penalties to be recoverable and applicable as penalties imposed by this Act are recoverable and applicable.

CAP. IV.

An Act to amend the Act respecting Duties of Customs and the collection thereof.

IN

[Assented to 15th October, 1863.]

N amendment of the Act respecting Duties of Customs and Preamble. the collection thereof: Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly

of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. The Governor in Council may, by proclamation or order Exportation of in council, at any time, and from time to time, prohibit the arms, &c., may be prohibited by exportation or the carrying coastwise or by inland navigation, of Order in Counthe following goods :-Arms, ammunition and gunpowder, cil. military and naval stores, and any articles which the Governor in Council shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man; and if any goods so prohibited be exported, Forfeiture for carried coastwise, or by inland navigation, or waterborne or of such order. laden in any railway carriage or other vehicle, for the purpose of being so exported or carried, they shall be forfeited.

contravention

of Con. Stat.

2. All forfeitures incurred under this Act shall be held to be Act to be conincurred under the said Act respecting duties of Customs and strued as part the collection thereof, of which this Act shall be held to form part, and any citation of the said Act shall be understood as including this Act.

Can., cap. 17.

CAP. V.

An Act to revive and continue, for a limited time, the several Acts therein mentioned.

[Assented to 15th October, 1863.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to revive and further to continue Preamble.

the Acts hereinafter mentioned, which, in consequence of the unexpected termination of the now last Session of the Provincial Parliament, were not continued in the usual manner : Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

Acts of Canada
10, 11 Vic.
cap. 1.

14, 15 Vic. cap. 159.

Acts of L. C., 2 G. 4, cap. S.

Laprairie.

La Baie St.
Antoine.

1. The Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the Session held in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled: "An Act to enlarge the powers of the Trinity House of Montreal, in certain cases where the Public Health of the City may be endangered;" the Act of the Parliament of this Province passed in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled: "An Act to incorporate the Grand Division and Subordinate Divisions of the Order of the Sons of Temperance in Canada West;" the Act of the Parliament of the late Province of Lower Canada, passed in the second year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled: "An Act for better regulating the Common of the Seigneurie of Laprairie de la Madeleine;" the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the same year of the same Reign, and 2G. 4 cap 10. intituled: "An Act to enable the inhabitants of the Seigneurie of La Baie Saint Antoine, commonly called La Baie du Febvre, to provide for the better regulation of the Common in the said Seigneurie," as amended and extended by the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the fourth year of the same 4 G. 4 cap. 26. Reign, and intituled: "An Act to authorize the Chairman and Trustees of the Common of the Seigniory of the Baie Saint Antoine, commonly called the Baie du Febvre, to terminate certain disputes relating to the limits of the said Common, and for other purposes appertaining to the same;" the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the ninth year of the same Reign, and intituled: "An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in 9 G. 4 cap. 32. the sixth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled: "An Act to Fief Grosbois. authorize the inhabitants of the Fief Grosbois, in the County of Saint Maurice, to make regulations for the common of the said Fief;" and all and every of the said Acts are hereby revised and continued and shall be in force from the passing of this Act until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and from thence until the end of the then next ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer ; and shall be held to have been in force from the end of the said now last session as if then continued, except only in cases where the expiration of any of the said Acts may have been pleaded before the passing of this Act.

The same

Revived and continued to

end of Session after 1st Jan.,

1864.

To be held not to have ex

pired. Exception.

Acts of Canada

2. The Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the 7 Vie. cap. 10. seventh year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled: "An Act to repeal an Ordinance of Lower Canada, intituled: 'An Ordinance concerning Bankrupts, and the administration and distribution of their estates and effects,' and to make provision for the same object throughout the Province of Canada," and the Act amending the same, passed in the ninth year of Her 9 Vie. cap. 30. Majesty's Reign, and intituled: "An Act to continue and amend the Bankrupt Laws now in force in this Province," in so far as the same are continued by and for the purposes mentioned in the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's 12 Vic., cap. 18. Reign, and intituled:" An Act to make provision for the continuance and completion of proceedings in Bankruptcy now

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pending," and the said last mentioned Act; and the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the Session held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled: "An Act to afford relief to Bankrupts in certain cases," shall 13 & 14 Vic., respectively be and they are hereby revived and continued, and cap. 20. shall be in force for the purposes aforesaid from the passing of continued for this Act until the said first day of January, one thousand eight certain purhundred and sixty-four, and thence until the end of the then next poses only. ensuing Session of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer;

Revived and

and shall be held to have been in force from the end of the To be held not now last Session as if then continued for the said purposes, pired. to have exexcept only in cases where the expiration thereof may have Exception. been pleaded before the passing of this Act.

Proviso:

Act of this

3. Provided, always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the effect of any Act passed during the present Session, Act not to repealing, amending, rendering permanent, or continuing to prevent the any further period than that herein appointed, any of the Acts effect of any hereinbefore mentioned and continued, nor shall continue any Session, &c. provision or part of any of the Acts in this Act mentioned, which may have been repealed by any Act passed during the present Session or in any previous Session.

cap. 97.

4. The period limited by the Act of the Parliament of this Period limited Province, passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, by 12 Vie., and intituled: "An Act to amend the Acts passed to remedy certain defects in the Registration of Titles in the County of Hastings," as that within which it shall be lawful for the Registrar of the County of Hastings to receive and index any memorial, under the authority of the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled: "An Act to remedy certain defects in the 9 Vic. cap. 12. Registration of Titles in the County of Hastings, in Upper Canada," or of the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the Session held in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled: "An Act to alter and amend an Act 10 & 11 Vic. intituled: An Act to remedy certain defects in the Registra- cap. 38. tion of Titles in the County of Hastings, in Upper Canada," or to endorse any Deed, Conveyance, Will or Probate, to which such memorial relates, shall be and is hereby extended to the Extended to said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- end of Session four, and thence until the end of the then next ensuing Session 1864. of the Provincial Parliament, and no longer; and shall be held To be held to to have been so extended from the end of the now last Session have been so extended, &c. until the passing of this Act, except only in cases where the Exception. non-extension thereof may have been pleaded before the passing of this Act.

after 1st Jan.,

САР.

CAP. VI.

Preamble.

Provision of

s. 9 of 4, 5 V.
c. 32, limiting
the amount of
investments in
ties, repealed.

certain securi

Amount of such invest

of the total deposits.

An Act to amend the Act of 1841, relating to Savings
Banks.

W

[Assented to 15th October, 1863.]

HEREAS it is expedient to extend a certain provision of the Act hereinafter mentioned: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. So much of the ninth section of the Act passed in the Session held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled: An Act to encourage the establishment of and regulate Savings Banks in this Province, (as the said Act is continued by the fifth section of the fifth chapter of the Statute of this Province, passed in the twenty-fourth year of Her Majesty's reign) as limits the amount of the moneys in the hands of the Trustees of any Savings Bank, established and now in operation in this Province, under the conditions, privileges and restrictions made, granted and imposed by the said Act, which it shall be lawful for such Trustees to invest in Debentures, or in Bank Stock, or other public security, as therein provided, to three quarters of the whole sum deposited in such institution at any one time, is hereby repealed.

2. From and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful ments extended for the Trustees of any Savings Bank established, and now in to nine-tenths operation, in this Province, under the conditions, privileges and restrictions made, granted and imposed by the said Act, to invest any moneys not exceeding nine-tenths of the whole sum deposited in such institution, at any one time, which has come or shall come into their hands by virtue of the said Act, so continued as aforesaid, in any Government securities issued under the authority of any Act of the Provincial Parliament of either of the late Provinces of Upper Canada or Lower Canada, or of this Province, or in any Bank chartered by any Act of the Legislature of either of the late Provinces of Upper Canada or Lower Canada, or of this Province, therein to avail for the purposes of the said Act.

Preamble.

CAP. VII.

An Act to amend the Act respecting the inspection of
Pot and Pearl Ashes.

[Assented the 15th October, 1863.] HEREAS in and by the Act hereinafter mentioned, provision is made for the appointment of Inspectors of Pot Con. Stat. Can. and Pearl Ashes in cities and places where there are no Boards of Trade, as well as in cities and places where there are such

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Boards,

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