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5. The provisions of this section respecting the possession of arms and ammunition shall not apply to any officer or man of Her Majesty's forces, of the Militia force, or of the North-West Mounted Police force.

6. The Governor in Council may, from time to time declare by proclamation that upon and after a day therein named this section shall be in force in the territories, or in any place or places therein in such proclamation designated; and upon and after such day but not before, the provisions of this section shall take effect and be in force accordingly.

7. The Governor in Council may, in like manner, from time to time, declare this section to be no longer in force in any such place or places, and may again, from time to time, declare it to be in force therein.

8. All Courts, Judges and Justices of the Peace shall take judicial notice of any such proclamation

R.S.C., CHAPTER 146.

An Act respecting Treason and other Offences against
the Queen's Authority.

6. If any person, being a citizen or subject of any foreign state or country at peace with Her Majesty, is or continues in arms against Her Majesty, within Canada, or commits any act of hostility therein, or enters Canada with design or intent to levy war against Her Majesty, or to commit any felony therein, for which any person would, in Canada, be liable to suffer death, the Governor General may order the assembling of a mili ia general court-martial for the trial of such person, under The Militia Act; and upon being found guilty by such court-martial of offending again-t the provisions of this section, such person shall be sentenced by such court-martial to suffer death, or such other punish

ment as the court awards.

7. Every subject of Her Majesty, within Canada, who levies war against Her Majesty, in company with any of the subjects or citizens of any foreign state or country then at peace with Her Majesty, or enters Canada in company with any such subjects or citizens with intent to levy war on Her Majesty, or to commit any such act of felony as aforesaid, or who, with the design or intent to aid and assist, joins himself to any person or persons whomsoever, whether subjects or liens, who have entered Canada with design or intent to levy war on Her Majesty, or to commit any such felony within the same, may be tried and punished by a militia court-martial, in the same manner as any citizen or subject of a foreign state or country at peace with Her Majesty may be tried and punished under the next preceding section.

R.S.C., CHAPTER 148.

An Act respecting the improper use of Firearms and other Weapons.

7. The Court or Justice before whom any person is convicted of any offence against the provisions of the preceding sections, shall impound the weapon for carrying which such person is convicted, and if the weapon is not a pistol, shall cause it to be destroyed; and if the weapon is a pistol, the Court or Justice shall cause it to be handed over to the corporation of the municipality in which the conviction takes place, for the public uses of such corporation.

2. If the conviction takes place where there is no municipality, the pistol shall be handed over to the Lieutenant-Governor of the province in which the conviction takes place, for the public uses thereof in connection with the administration of justice therein.

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R.S.C., CHAPTER 149.

An Act respecting the seizure of Arms kept for dangerous purposes.

5. All Justices of the Peace in and for any district, county, city, town or place, in Canada, shall have concurrent jurisdiction as Justices of the Peace, with the Justices of any other district, county, city, town or place, in all cases with respect to the carrying into execution the provisions of this Act, and with respect to all matters and things relating to the preservation of the public peace under this Act, as fully and effectually as if each of such Justices was in the commission of the peace, or was er officio a Justice of the Peace for each of such districts, counties, cities, towns or places.

7. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, by proclamation, sus pend the operation of this Act in any province of Canada or in any particular district, county or locality specified in the proclamation; and from and after the period specified in any such proclamation, the powers given by this Act shall be suspended in such province, district, county or locality; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the Governor in Council from again declaring,

again subject to this Act and the powers hereby given, and upon such procla

mation this Act shall be revived and in force accordingly.

R.S.C., CHAPTER 151.

An Act respecting the Preservation of Peace in the vicinity
of Public Works.

INTERPRETATION.

1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

are in force, by virtue of any proclamation, in the place or places with reference (a.) The expression "this Act" means such section or sections thereof as

to which the Act is to be construed and applied;

(b.) The expression "commissioner" means a commissioner under this Act:

(c.) The expression "weapon" includes any gun or other firearm, or air-gun or any part thereof, or any sword, sword blade, bayonet, pike-head, spear, spearhead, dirk, dagger, or other instrument intended for cutting or stabbing, or any steel or metal knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, and any instrument or thing intended to be used as a weapon, and all ammunition which may

be used with or for any weapon;

(d.) The expression "intoxicating liquor" means and includes spirituous, vinous, fermented or other intoxicating liquor, or any mixed liquor, a part of which is spirituous or vinous, fermented or otherwise intoxicating

any

alcoholic,.

(e.) The expression "district, county or place," includes any division of any province for the purposes of the administration of justice in the matter to which

the context relates;

road, bridge or other work of any kind, and any mining operation constructed (f) The expression "public work" means and includes any railway, canal, by any municipal corporation, or by any incorporated company, or by private or carried on by the Government of Canada or of any province of Canada, or

enterprise.

PROCLAMATION.

2. The Governor in Council may, as often as occasion requires, declare, by proclamation, that upon and after a day therein named, this Act, or any section or sections thereof, shall be in force in any place or places in Canada in such proclamation designated, within the limits or in the vicinity whereof any public work is in course of construction, or in such places as are in the vicinity of any public work, within which he deems it necessary that this Act, or any section or sections thereof, should be in force, and this Act, or any such section or sections thereof, shall, upon and after the day named in such proclamation, take effect within the places designated therein.

2. The Governor in Council may, in like manner, from time to time, declare this Act, or any section or sections thereof, to be no longer in force in any such place or places,—and may again, from time to time, declare this Act, or any section or sections thereof, to be in force therein.

3. No such proclamation shall have effect within the limits of any city.

4. All Courts, Magistrates and Justices of the Peace shall take judicial notice of every such proclamation.

WEAPONS

3. On or before the day named in such proclamation, every person employed on or about any public work, to which the same relates, shall bring and deliver up, to some Commissioner or Officer appointed for the purposes of this Act, every weapon in his possession, and shall obtain from such Commissioner or Officer à receipt for the same.

4. Every weapon found in the possession of any person employed, as aforesaid, after the day named in any proclamation and within the limits designated in such proclamation, may be seized by any Justice of the Peace, Commissioner, Constable or other Peace Officer,-and shall be forfeited to the use of Her Majesty.

5. Every one employed upon or about any public work, within the place or places in which this Act is then in force, who, upon or after the day named in such proclamation, keeps or has in his possession or under his care or control, within any such place, any weapon. shall incur a penalty not exceeding four dollars and not less than two dollars for every such weapon found in his possession.

6. Every one who, for the purpose of defeating this Act, receives or conceals or aids in receiving or concealing, or procures to be received or concealed, within any place in which this Act is at the time in force, any weapon belonging to or in the custody of any person employed on or about any public work, shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars and not less than forty dollars, and a moiety of such penalty shall belong to the informer and the other moiety to Her Majesty, for the public uses of Canada.

7. Any Commissioner or Justice of the Peace, Constable or Peace Officer, or any person acti under a warrant, in aid of any Constable or Peace Officer, may arrest and detain any person employed on any public work, found carrying any weapon, within any place in which this Act is, at the time, in force, at such time and in such manner as, in the judgment of such Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, Constable or Peace Officer, or person acting under a warrant, affords just cause of suspicion that it is carried for purposes dangerous to the public peace; and every one so employed, who so carries any such weapon, is guilty of a misdemeanor,-and the Justice of the Peace or Commissioner arresting such person, or before whom he is brought under such a warrant, may commit him for trial for a misdemeanour, unless he gives sufficient bail for his appear

ance at the next term or sitting of the Court before which the offence can be tried, to answer to any indictment to be then preferred against him.

8. Any Commissioner appointed under this Act, or any Justice of the Peace having authority within the place in which this Act is at the time in force, upon the oath of a credible witness that he believes that any weapon is in the possession of any person or in any house or place contrary to the provisions of this Act, may issue his warrant to any Constable or Peace Officer to search for and seize the same,—and he, or any person in his aid, may search for and seize the same in the possession of any person, or in any such house or place.

9. If admission to any such house or place is refused after demand, such Constable or Peace Officer, and any person in his aid, may enter the same by force by day or by night, and seize any such weapon and deliver it to such Commis sioner; and unless the person in whose possession or in whose house or pre mises the same is found, within four days next after the seizure, proves to the satisfaction of such Commissioner or Justice of the Peace that the weapon 80 seized was not in his possession or in his house or place contrary to the mean ing of this Act, such weapon shall be forfeited to the use of Her Majesty.

10. All weapons declared forfeited under this Act shall be sold or destroyed under the direction of the Commissioner by whom or by whose authority the same are seized, and the proceeds of such sale, after deducting necessary exto the Minister of Finance and Receiver-General, for the public uses of Canada.

11. Whenever this Act ceases to be in force within the place where any weapon has been delivered and detained in pursuance thereof, or whenever the owner or person lawfully entitled to any such weapon satisfies the Commissioner that he is about to remove immediately from the limits within which this Act is at the time in force, the Commissioner may deliver up to the owner or person authorized to receive the same, any such weapon, on production of the receipt

given for it.

Secretary of State of all weapons delivered to him, and by him detained under 12. Every Commissioner under this Act shall make a monthly return to the

this Act.

INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

13. Upon and after the day named in such proclamation and during such period as such proclamation remains in force, no person shall, at any place within the limits specified in such proclamation, sell, barter or, directly or indi

rectly, for any matter, thing, profit or reward,

any intoxicating liquor; nor expose, keep or have in possession any intoxicating

exchange, supply or

dispose of.

liquor intended to be dealt with in any such way.

2. The provisions of this section shall not extend to any person selling intoxicating liquor by wholesale, and not retailing the same, if such person is a

licensed distiller or brewer.

14. Every one who, by himself, his clerk, servant, agent or other person, violates any of the provisions of the next preceding section, is guilty of an offence against this Act, and, on a first conviction, shall be liable to a penalty of forty dollars and costs, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months,-and on every subsequent conviction, to the said penalty and the said imprisonment in default of payment, and also to further

imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

15. Every clerk, servant, agent or other person who, being in the employ ment of, or on the premises of another person, violates or assists in violating any of the provisions of the thirteenth section of this Act, for the person

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whose employment or on whose premises he is, shall be equally guilty with the principal offender, and shall be liable to the penalties mentioned in the next preceding section.

16. If any person makes oath or affirmation before any Commissioner or Justice of the Peace, that he has reason to believe, and does believe that any intoxicating liquor with respect to which a violation of the provisions of the thirteenth section of this Act has been committed or is intended to be committed is, within the limits specified in any proclamation by which this Act has been proclaimed to be in force, on board of any steam-boat, vessel, boat, canoe, raft or other craft, or in or about any building or premises, or in any carriage, vehicle or other conveyance, or at any place, the Commissioner or Justice of the Peace shall issue a search warrant to any Sheriff, Police Officer, Constable or Bailiff who shall forthwith proceed to search the steam-boat, vessel, boat, canoe, raft, other craft, building, premises, carriage, vehicle, conveyance or place described in such search warrant and if any intoxicating liquor is found therein or thereon the person executing such search warrant shall seize the intoxicating liquor and the barrels, casks, jars, bottles or other packages in which it is contained and shall keep it and them secure until final action is had thereon.

2. No dwelling-house in which, or in part of which or on the premises whereof, a shop or a bar is not kept, shall be searched, unless the said informant also makes oath or affirmation that some oflence in violation of the provisions of the thirteenth section of this Act has been committed therein or therefrom within one month next preceding the time of making his said information for a search warrant.

3. The owner, keeper or person in possession of the intoxicating liquor so seized, if he is known to the officer seizing the same, shall be summoned forthwith by the Commissioner or Justice of the Peace who issued the search warrant to appear before such Commissioner or Justice of the Peace; and if he fails so to appear, or if it appears to the satisfaction of such Commissioner or Justice of the Peace that a violation of the provisions of the thirteenth section of this Act has been committed or is intended to be committed, with respect to such intoxicating liquor, it shall be declared forfeited, with any package in which it is contained, and shall be destroyed by authority of the written order to that effect of such Commissioner or Justice, and in his presence or in the presence of some person appointed by him to witness the destruction thereof; and the Commissioner or Justice or the person so appointed by him, and the officer by whom the said intoxicating liquor has been destroyed, shall jointly attest, in writing upon the back of the said order, the fact that it has been destroyed.

4. The owner, keeper or person in possession of any intoxicating liquor seized and forfeited under the provisions of this section may be convicted of an offence against the thirteenth section of this Act without any further information laid or trial had, and shall be liable to the penalties mentioned in the fourteenth section of this Act.

17. If the owner, keeper or possessor of intoxicating liquor seized under the next preceding section is unknown to the officer seizing the same, it shall not be condemned and destroyed until the fact of such seizure, with the number and description of the packages, as near as may be, has been advertised for two weeks, by posting up a written or a printed notice and description thereof, in at least three public places of the place where it was seized.

2. If it is proved within such two weeks, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner or Justice by whose authority such intoxicating liquor was seized, that with respect to such intoxicating liquor no violation of the provisions of the thirteenth section of this Act has been committed or is intended to be committed it shall not be destroyed, but shall be delivered to the owner, who shall give his receipt therefor in writing upon the back of the search warrant, which shall

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