registering the house; and to enquire into all matters concerning the house and the inmates thereof; and it shall be the duty of the person registered to give all reasonable information to persons making the inspection, and to afford them every reasonable facility for viewing and inspecting the premises, and seeing the inmates thereof. 50 V. c. 36, s. 9. 10. Every person guilty of an offence against this Act shall, Penalties. on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding $20 and costs, and in default of payment thereof, he shall be imprisoned in the common gaol of the county in which the offence was committed for a period of not less than six calendar months, and to be kept at hard labour, in the discretion of the Police Magistrate or other convicting Justices, and shall, in addition, be liable to have his name and house struck off the register. 50 V. c. 36, s. 10. 11. All expenses incurred in and about the execution of Expenses of this Act and the trial of offenders thereunder, shall be borne enforcing Act. by the municipality in which the registered house is situated. 50 V. c. 36, s. 11. 12. Every offence against this Act shall be tried summarily Trial of before a Police Magistrate or any two Justices of the Peace offences. having jurisdiction in the municipality in which the offence takes place, and all the provisions and powers as to summary trials contained in The Act respecting Summary Proceedings R. S. C. 1886, before Justices of the Peace, shall be applicable to prosecutions c. 178. and trials under this Act, and to the judicial and other officers before whom the same are hereby authorized to be brought, in the same manner, and to the same extent, as if such provisions and powers were incorporated in this Act. 50 V. c. 36, s. 12. 13. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to the Application of relatives or guardians of any infant retained or received as Act. aforesaid, nor to benevolent and charitable institutions established for the protection or care of infants, and receiving aid from the Province or authorized by the Lieutenant-Governor to exercise the powers conferred by The Act respecting Rev. Stat. c. Apprentices and Minors. 50 V. c. 36, s. 13. 142. Doors of to be hung so as to open outwards. CHAPTER 210. An Act to regulate the means of Egress from Public Buildings. ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. In all churches, theatres, halls or other buildings heretochurches, etc., fore or hereafter constructed or used for holding public meetings, or for places of public resort or amusement, all the doors shall be so hinged that they may open freely outwards, and all the gates of outer fences, if not so hinged, shall be kept open by proper fastenings during the time such buildings are publicly used, to facilitate the egress of people, in case of alarm from fire or other cause. R. S. O. 1877, c. 192, s. 1. Congregations and trustees under Rev. Stat. c. 237, and rectors, etc., holding under 3 V. c. 2. Congregations possessing corporate powers, and all trusincorporated tees holding churches or buildings used for churches under holding for The Act respecting the property of Religious Institutions, and congregations incumbents and churchwardens holding churches, or buildings used for churches under the Act of the Parliament of the late Province of Upper Canada, passed in the 3rd year of the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, chapter 74, intituled An Act to make provision for the management of the Tempor alities of the United Church of England and Ireland in this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and all other persons holding churches or buildings used for churches, under any other Act, shall be severally liable, as trustees for such societies or congregations, to the provisions of this Act. R. S. O. 1877, c. 192, s. 2. 74. liable for neglecting the provisions of this Act. and corpora 3. Individuals, companies and corporations, owning or pos- Individuals, sessing public halls, churches or other buildings used for public companies meetings, who violate the provisions of this Act, shall be liable tions liable to to a fine not exceeding $50, recoverable on information before fine for neglecting the any two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, or before the provisions of mayor or Police Magistrate of any city or town; one moiety this Act. of such fine shall be paid to the party laying the information, and the other moiety to the municipality within which the case arises and parties so complained against shall be liable to a further fine of $5 for every week succeeding that in which the complaint is laid, if the necessary changes are not made. R. S. O. 1877, c. 192, s. 3. 4. In cities, towns and incorporated villages, it shall be the Duties of duty of the high bailiff, chief constable, or chief of police, officers. municipal to enforce the provisions of this Act, and such officers neglecting the performance of such duties shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $50, recoverable in the manner and before the Justices of the Peace, and payable to the parties mentioned in the preceding section. R. S.-O. 1877, c. 192, s. 4. 5. County and township municipalities may, by by-law Officer to enappoint an officer to enforce the provisions of this Act. R. S. O. force this Act, 1877, c. 192, s. 5. 6. This Act shall not be construed to apply to convents or Not to apply private chapels connected therewith. R. S. O. 1877, c. 192, s. 6. to convents, See Cap. 184, s. 479 (16). CHAPTER 211. An Act to require the owners of Threshing and other ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the as follows: protected as to near them. 1. All persons owning or running any threshing machine, Certain mawood-sawing or other machine, which is connected to a horse- chines to be sex power by means of a tumbling rod or line of shafting, shall prevent injury cause each of the knuckles, couplings or joints and jacks of to persons such tumbling rod or line of shafting to be safely boxed or secured while running, with wood, leather or metal covering, in such manner as to prevent injury to persons passing over or near such tumbling rod, and the knuckles, couplings or joints and jacks thereof; and shall cause all oiling cups attached to Penalty for non-compliance with provisions of this Act. No action for services rendered if provisions of this Act are not complied with. Disposition of fines. Proceedings to be com arbors or journals to which driving belts are attached, to be furnished with tubes of tin or other material, which shall extend above the belts in such manner as shall prevent damage from oiling when the machine is in motion; and shall further cause a driver's platform to be placed on any horse-power used for driving machinery, of such size as to cover the gearing constituting said horse-power, and in such manner as to prevent accident arising to any person from contact with said gearing. R. S. O. 1877, c. 193, s. 1. 2. Any person or persons owning or running any threshing, wood-sawing or other machine, connected to a horse power by means of a tumbling rod or line of shafting, who neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this Act, shall on summary conviction, on information or complaint before one or more Justices of the Peace, be liable to a fine of not less than $1 nor more than $20, over and above the costs of prosecution, and in default of payment of such fine and costs, the offender shall be imprisoned in the nearest common gaol for a period of not less than two or more than twenty days, at the discretion of such Justice or Justices of the Peace. R. S. O. 1877, c. 193, s. 2. 3. No action shall be maintained, nor shall any legal liabi lity exist, for services rendered by or with any machine, such as is mentioned in section 1 of this Act, when it is made to appear that the said section has not been complied with. R. S. O. 1877, c. 193, s. 3. 4. All fines imposed and collected under this Act shall be paid, one-half to the complainant or prosecutor, and the other half to the treasurer of the school section in which the offence was committed, for the use of the public school in such section. R. S. O. 1877, c. 193, s. 4. 5. All proceedings against any person for any violation of menced within section 1 of this Act shall be commenced within thirty days after the commission of the offence. R. S. O. 1877, c. 193, s. 5. thirty days. Convictions defective in form. 6. No conviction under this Act shall be annulled or vacated for any defect in the form thereof, or for any omission or informality in any summons or other proceeding under this Act, so long as no substantial injustice results therefrom. R. S. O. 1877, c. 193, s. 6. CHAPTER 212. An Act to make provision for the safety of Railway SHORT TITLE, s. 1. APPLICATION OF ACT, s. 2. PACKING, MEANING OF, s. 3. SPECIAL PROVISIONS AGAINST ACCI- | LIABILITY OF COMPANY FOR DEFAULT, ss. 6, 7. Limit of compensation, s. 8. H1 ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: : 1. This Act may be cited as " The Railway Accidents Act. Short title. 44 V. c. 22, s. 1. 2. This Act and the respective provisions thereof apply to Application of every railway and railway company in respect of which the Act. Legislature of Ontario has authority to enact such provisions respectively; and in this Act the expression "Railway Company includes the owner or lessee of any such railway, and the contractor working or operating the same. 44 V. c. 22, s. 2. 3. In this Act the word "packing" shall mean a packing of “Packing," meaning of. wood or metal, or some other equally substantial and solid material, of not less than two inches in thickness, and which, where by this Act required to be filled in, shall extend to within one and a-half inches of the crown of the rails in use on any such railway, shall be neatly fitted so as to come against the web of such rails, and shall be well and solidly fastened to the ties on which such rails are laid. 44 V. c. 22, s. 3. VOL. II.-57 |