Sheriffs. Clerks of Cri to each before the above Court, sitting at Quebec and Montreal respectively, and exhibiting the localities with the name of the Court from which such appeals in civil matters, and the reserved cases in criminal matters were sent, giving, with respect to cases from each Court, all the information as above required, with reference to the total number of cases; (Form No. 4.) 5. By the Sheriff of each District in Lower Canada, a return, showing: The number of Writs of Execution received by him, distinguishing the number against personal from those against real property, and the number in which sales took place; the value of the property sold by him under Writs of Execution, distinguishing the real from personal property; the number of prisoners in gaol during the year, with their ages and qualities; the offence and the number of times each prisoner has been in gaol; (Forms Nos. 5 and 5a.) 6. By the Clerk of every Court of Criminal Jurisdiction in minal Courts. Lower Canada, a return, showing: The number of Bills of Indictment preferred, distinguishing the number of "true bills" and "no bills;" the number of each kind of offence, also showing in them the number in which a true bill has been found by the Grand Jury, or not, the number of convictions, distinguishing those on plea of "guilty " or after trial; the number of acquittals; the number of nolle prosequi filed and the number of cases untried; (Forms Nos. 6a and 66.) Inspectors or 7. By each Inspector or Superintendent of Police in Lower Superintend- Canada, and by each Recorder, a return of all prosecutions ents of Police. before them, showing : Registrars. Justices of the The number of plaints made, the number of each offence, the number of convictions, commitments and discharges, and in cases of summary convictions, the punishments awarded, showing the number of sentences of each class; (Form No. 7.) 8. By the Registrar of each County or Registration Division of Lower Canada, a return, showing: The number of documents registered in his office, distinguishing separately the number of Mortgages, Marriage Contracts, changes of properties and other documents; (Form No. 8.) 9. By each Justice of the Peace in Lower Canada, a return of prosecutions for offences of a public nature, or for the recovery of penalties for such offences, instituted before him, showing: The The number of plaints, the number of judgments rendered, and the amount of penalties imposed. (Form No. 9.) amount of in 2. The Governor may, by Order in Council, diminish or Governor in increase the amount of statistical information to be required Council may from any of the officers mentioned in this Act, and may alter alter the the forms accordingly; and he may also, by any Order in frmation reCouncil, require any other public officer to make annually or quired in suck periodically any return to be prescribed by such Order in returns. Council. 3. The Provincial Secretary shall provide printed forms Provincial suitable for the return required, and shall furnish two copies Secretary to thereof to each of the functionaries by whom they are to be provide printmade, at least fifteen days before the first day of the month of January of every year. ed forms. ture of office. 4. Each of the officers making a return as above required Returns to infrom them, shall include therein a statement of the receipt and clude receipts expenditure of his office, and such return shall be according to and expendithe form annexed to the present Act, or so altered as to contain any change that may be made in the returns required from him; and every such return shall be dated at the place where it is made, signed by the officer making the same, and be certified by him under oath; and any false statement in any such return so certified shall be perjury and punishable as such. 5. The said Returns shall be forwarded to the Provincial Transmission Secretary by the officers making them, and any officer hereby of returns. required to make such Returns, who shall fail to make the same within the time hereinbefore appointed, shall be liable to Penalty for a penalty of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, which default. shall be recoverable before any Court of competent jurisdiction, on the complaint of the Provincial Secretary or of any other person. cases in which 6. It shall be the duty of the Provincial Secretary to prepare Return by annually, within the delay above mentioned, a return of all Provincial cases in which the Royal prerogative shall have been exercised, Secretary of during the preceding year, in behalf of persons sentenced in the Royal PreLower Canada, containing the names of the criminals, the rogative of place and date of the sentence, the name of the Court before Mercy is which the criminal has been tried, the nature of the offence, the sentence, the nature of the pardon granted whether conditional or unconditional, and in cases of conditional pardon the nature of the conditions and the reasons for granting such pardon or commutation of sentence. (Form No. 10.) exercised. 7. The Provincial Secretary shall publish abstracts of all Abstracts of such returns once in the Canada Gazette in the month of returns to be February of each year. published. FORMS |