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Act may be pleaded in bar..............

Not to apply to future sessions......

Not to affect then subsisting disqualification..............

Permanent building societies in Ontario........

Act 37 Vict., c. 50, amended as to change of name..
When companies may exercise powers under section 6..
Amount of debenture and deposit debts limited.
Yearly statement to Minister of Finance, amended

Person, offences against the, Act amended.......
Petroleum, Act for inspection of........

Definition-cases for inspection-mode of.
Fire-test-brand-application of test
Packages to be inspected and marked
Exception if for exportation........

Seizure and forfeiture for contravention

Fees for inspection, and recovery of

Penalties for effacing or forging brands, &c ....

Recovery and application of penalties.

Limitation of suits

Provision as to petroleum sold subject to inspection

Piers &c., transferred to Marine and Fisheries Department.

Harbours, 133.

Pilotage Acts of 1873 and 1875, amended..

As respects pilot lights....

And exemption from pilot dues at certain ports
No clearance until dues are paid.

Pilotage Act, 1873, amended as to Quebec Harbour....
Pistol, carrying unnecessarily made criminal

Pool-selling and betting, Act for repression of......
Post Office Act, amended

Abandoning or obstructing mail, how punishable

Prince Edward Island, certain criminal laws extended to.
Effect of such extension......

Not retroactive...........

Powers of existing courts and judges under them...
Provision in case of want of penitentiary........

Appeals under Acts extended.....

Returns of convictions, how made....

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Appropriation of fines and penalties........
Act to have effect only from 1st April, 1875.....
Schedule of Acts extended.....

66

Trade Marks Act, 31 Vict., c. 55, extended.
Prison discipline, for the improvement of.........
Conditions of application of Act to Ontario..
And to other provinces......

Prisoners, employment of outside of gaols......


safe custody of when gaol becomes insecure.
Prospectus, fraudulent. See Joint Stock Companies, 227.
Procedure in criminal cases....

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Section 28 of 32, 33 Vict., c. 29, restricted as to certain indict-
ments.......

158

The said section to apply to nuisances

158

As to evidence of former possession of stolen goods....
Or previous conviction for fraud, &c...

Section 95 amended as to whipping; sect. 101 amended........

158

159

159

Provinces, Great Seals of. See Great Seals, 24.
Public Works Department. See Harbours, &c., 133.

QUEBEC Harbour and Pilotage Act, 1873, amended.............
Rates of harbour dues amended............

Additional powers of harbour commissioners, fines, &c ....
Fines on pilots in place of suspension.......

RAILWAY Act, 1868, certain provisions to apply to provincial

Re-measurement of steamships. See Steamships, 138.

railways

Rockwood Asylum, transfer of to Ontario.

Consequent amendments in penitentiary Act.
As to land ceasing to be part of penitentiary

Schedule,-agreement of Dominion and Ontario Governments.

SHERIFF of Carleton to be an officer of Supreme and Exchequer

254

255

256

256

236

174

175

177

178

Courts ......

145

Smuggling and offences connected therewith.

See Customs, 83.

Steamboats, inspection of, Act 31 V., c. 65 amended.

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Other Acts, 32-33 V., c. 39,- 36 V., c. 63,-37 V., c. 30 amended

Steamships registered under repealed Act, Con. Stat Can., c. 41...

137

See Customs, 82.

138

To be re-measured for certain purposes....
No clearance unless re-measured.

138

139

Proviso as to tonnage dues up to 1st July, 1877.......

139

Penalty for obstructing surveyor-no fees payable

140

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Stills and apparatus, manufacturers of. See Inland Revenue, 115.

Supreme and Exchequer Courts Acts amended ....

145

As to witnesses...

145

Sheriff of Carleton to be an officer of.......

Supplies and appropriations for 1877-1878......
Schedule of same for 1877.......

And for 1878........

145

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5

9

TIMBER, culling and measuring of. See Culling, 131.
Tobacco grown for private use, no license required......
Trade-marks and industrial designs, Act extended to British Columbia

116

and Prince Edward Island....

30

Truro and Pictou Railway, transfer of on certain conditions...............

236

Bushel of certain articles to mean a certain weight..
Wine gallon may be used in certain cases
Verification of multiples and sub-multiples......
Yearly verification and fees thereon.

VICE-Admiralty powers in Ontario. See Maritime Jurisdiction, 141.

WAREHOUSING goods. See Customs, 106.

Weights and measures, Act 36 V., c. 47 amended.........
Imperial bushel to be the standard...............
Hundred-weight and ton defined.........

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Public weighers to use the said weights and measures
Contracts by weight to be by cental......

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127

127

127

127

128

128

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128

129

Penalties for using uncertified weights and measures..

129

Exception as to manufacturers....

129

Penalty for not producing for inspection..

130

Recovery of penalties and application

130

Custody of, and suits as to false weights. &c......

Officers not to be makers of weights and measures..

131

131

ACTS

OF THE

PARLIAMENT

OF THE

DOMINION OF CANADA,

PASSED IN THE

FORTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA,

AND IN THE

FOURTH SESSION OF THE THIRD PARLIAMENT,

Begun and holden at Ottawa, on the eighth day of February, and closed by Prorogation on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1877.

HIS EXCELLENCY

THE RIGHT HONORABLE, SIR FREDERICK TEMPLE, EARL OF DUFFERIN

GOVERNOR GENERAL.

VOL. II.

LOCAL AND PRIVATE ACTS.

OTTAWA:

PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN,

LAW PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

ANNO DOMINI, 1877.

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