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Governor in Council may raise loan of $6,000,000.

Application of loan.

General powers

of Governor in Council as to

loan.

1. The Governor-in-Council shall have power to raise upon the credit of the Colony a loan not exceeding the sum of Six million dollars, by the issue and sale of securities dated the first day of March nineteen hundred and twenty-two, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five and one-half per cent, per annum from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-two payable half-yearly on the first days of January and July in each year, the first payment of interest to be made on the first day of July nineteen hundred and twenty-two, which loan and securities with the interest thereon shall be chargeable upon and repayable out of the funds of the Colony in the manner hereinafter provided on or before the first day of July nineteen hundred and forty-two.

2. The said sum, or so much thereof as shall be necessary shall be applied to all or any one or more of the following purposes, that is to say:

(1) Public works throughout the Colony.

(2) The liquidation of the Railway Commission Account and for railroad purposes generally.

(3) The general purposes of the Colony.

3. Subject, as hereinbefore provided with regard to the amount of the said loan, to the maximum rate of interest management of payable thereon, to the time of payment of such interest, to the assets chargeable with the said loan and interest thereon and to the time within which such loan shall be payable, the Governor-in-Council shall have and may exercise all such powers as shall be necessary or proper for conducting all business connected with:

(a) The raising of the said loan, including the price and terms of the issue of securities therefor:

(b) The management of such securities and the payment of dividends or interest thereon; and

(c) The making of proper provisions for the tepayment

in accordance with the laws of any country or countries in which such loan or any part thereof may be raised.

may, Stock may be under ing fund under 58 13.be Vic., cap. 13.

available for sink

4. Any stock issued in accordance with this Act with the consent of the holders of the stock issued the provisions of the Act 58 Victoria (1895), Chapter made available for the sinking fund connected with that issue.

stock from

5. The obligations represented by securities of the Colony Exemption of issued in accordance with this Act and all payments taxation. in discharge thereof shall be exempt from all present and future taxes imposed by the Legislature, including any Newfoundland Income Tax, and the payment of the interest and the principal thereof shall be made in time of war as well as of peace.

6. This Act may be cited as The Loan Act, 1922.

Short title

CAP. II.

An Act for the Protection of Neglected, Dependent, and Delinquent Children.

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E it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council Enacting clause, and House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows.

Probation officers.

Respecting offences of cruelty.

Respecting arrest

1. The Governor in Council may appoint from the Constabulary officers, to be known as probation officers, wherever needed, whose duties shall be to attend to the welfare of neglected and delinquent children as hereinafter provided.

CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

2. (1) If any person over the age of sixteen years, who has the custody, charge or care of any child, wilfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes such child, or causes or procures such child to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned or exposed in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary suffering or injury to his health (including injury to or loss of sight or hearing, or limb or organ of the body and any mental derangement), that person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or alternatively, or in default of payment of such fine, or in addition thereto, to imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding six months

(2) A person may be convicted of an offence under this section either on indictment or by a court of summary jurisdiction, notwithstanding that actual suffering or injury to health, or the likelihood of such suffering or injury to health, was obviated by the action of another person.

(3) A person may be convicted of an offence under this section, either on indictment or by a court of summary jurisdiction, notwithstanding the death of the child or young person in respect of whom the offence is committed.

(4) An offence under this section is in this Act referred to as an offence of cruelty.

ARREST OF OFFENDER AND PROVISION FOR
SAFETY OF CHILDREN.

3. (1) Any probation officer or constable may take in t

(a) Who within view of such probation officer or
constable commits an offence under this Act,
or any of the offences mentioned in the Sche-
dule to this Act, where the name and resi--
dence of such person are unknown to such
probation officer or constable and cannot be
ascertained by such probation officer or con-
stable; or

(b) Who has committed, or who he has reason to
believe has committed, any offence of cruelty
within the meaning of this Act, or any of the
offences mentioned in the Schedule to this Act,
if he has reasonable ground for believing that
such person will abscond or if the name and
address of such person are unknown to and
cannot be ascertained by the probation officer
or constable.

(2) Where a probation officer or constable arrests any
person without
without a warrant in pursuance of this sec-
tion, the police officer in charge of the station to
which such person is conveyed, shall, unless in his belief
the release of such person on bail would tend to defeat the
ends of justice, or to cause injury or danger to the child
against whom the offence is alleged to have been com-
mitted, release the person arrested on his entering into
such a recognizance, with or without sureties, as may in
his judgment be required to secure the attendance of such
person upon the hearing of the charge.

of safety.

4. (1) When authorized by a justice, a probation officer Respecting places or any person may take to a place of safety any child in respect of whom an offence under sub-section (1) of section two of this Act has been committed, or in respect of whom an offence of cruelty within the meaning of this Act, or any of the offences mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, has been, or there is reason to believe has been committed.

(2) A child so taken to a place of safety, and also any child who seeks refuge in a place of safety, may there be

Respecting custody of young children

detained until it can be brought before a court of summary jurisdiction, and that court may make such order as is mentioned in the next following sub-section, or may cause the child to be dealt with as circumstances admit and require, until the charge made against any person in respect of any offence as aforesaid with regard to the child has been determined by the conviction or discharge of such person

(3) Where it appears to a court of summary jurisdiction or any justice that an offence of cruelty within the meaning of this Act, or any of the offences mentioned in the Schedule of this Act, has been committed in respect of any child who is brought before such court or justice, and that it is expedient in the interests of the child that an order should be made under this sub-section, the court or justice may, without prejudice to any other power under this Act, make such order as circumstances require for the care and detention of the child, until a reasonable time has elapsed for a charge to be made against some persons for having committed the offence, and, if a charge is made against any person within that time, until the charge has been determined by the conviction or discharge of that person, and in case of conviction for such further time not exceeding twenty-one days as the court which convicted may direct, and any such order may be carried out notwithstanding that any person claims the custody of the child.

(4) The cost of maintaining a child so taken to such place of safety shall be paid by the probation officer or person taking the child there, if, when the child is brought before a court of summary jurisdiction, the Court shall be of opinion that the taking of the child to the place of safety

was unnecessary.

5. (1) Where a person having the custody, charge or care of a child under the age of sixteen years has been:

(a) Convicted of committing in respect of such child an offence of cruelty within the meaning of this Act, or any of the offences mentioned

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