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are appointed or are acting, and the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for such county shall, at its then next sitting, order all such recognizances to be forfeited and estreated, and the same shall be enforced and collected in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as any fines, forfeitures or amercements imposed by or forfeited before such court; and in the other Provinces of Canada, the "proper officer" to whom any such recognizance and certificate shall be transmitted, shall be the officer to whom like recognizances have been heretofore accustomed to be transmitted under the law in force before the coming into force of the said Act, and such recognizances shall be enforced and collected in the same manner as like recognizances have heretofore been.

7. No return purporting to be made by any Justice of the Peace under the Act last above cited, shall be vitiated by the fact of its including, by mistake, any convictions or orders had or made before him in any matter over which any Provincial Legislature has exclusive jurisdiction, or with respect to which he may have acted under the authority of any provincial law.

8. Any Judge of the Sessions of the Peace or any District Magistrate, in the Province of Quebec, shall in all cases have all the powers vested in two Justices of the Peace by any Act mentioned in Schedule A, or any other Act relating to criminal law, in force in that Province.

9. The foregoing provisions of this Act, and the

repeal of the Acts and enactments therein referred to, shall take effect on and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and not before, except as to such of the said Acts and enactments as are contrary to or inconsistent with the Acts mentioned in Schedule A, as being passed in the now last Session of the Parliament of Canada, which shall be held to have been repealed from the time when the Act or Acts to or with which they are contrary or inconsistent, came into force.

10. This Act shall be construed as having been passed after the Acts of the present Session mentioned in Schedule A, and as amending and explaining them.

SCHEDULE A.

ACTS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.

Acts passed in the Session of 1867-8, 31st Victoria.

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An Act to protect the inhabitants of Can-
ada against lawless aggressions from sub-
jects of foreign countries at peace with
Her Majesty.
An Act to prevent the unlawful training
of persons to the use of arms, and the
practice of military evolutions; and to
authorize Justices of the Peace to seize
and detain arms collected or kept for
purposes dangerous to the public peace.

CHAPTER.

SCHEDULE A.-Continued.

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An Act respecting the manufacture or im-
portation of copper coins or tokens.
An Act respecting Harbour Police.
An Act for the better security of the
Crown and of the Government.
An respecting Riots and Riotous Assem-
blies.

An Act respecting forgery, perjury and
intimidation in connection with the
Provincial Legislatures and their Acts.
An Act respecting accessories to and abet-
tors of indictable offences.

An Act respecting Police of Canada.
An Act respecting persons in custody
charged with high treason or felony.
An Act respecting penitentiaries and the
directors thereof and for other purposes.

Acts passed in the present Session of the Parliament of Canada.

An Act to remove doubts as to Legislation in Canada, regarding offences not wholly committed within its limits.

An Act respecting offences relating to the Coin.
An Act respecting Forgery.

An Act respecting offences against the Person. An Act respecting Larceny and other similar offences.

An Act respecting malicious injuries to Property.
An Act respecting Perjury.

An Act for the better preservation of peace in the vicinity of Public Works.

An Act respecting certain offences relative to Her Majesty's Army and Navy.

An Act for the better protection of Her Majesty's Military and Naval Stores.

An Act respecting Cruelty to Animals.

An Act respecting Vagrants.

An Act respecting Procedure in Criminal Cases and other matters relating to Criminal Law.

An Act respecting the duties of Justices of the Peace, out of Sessions, in relation to persons charged with Indictable Offences.

An Act respecting the duties of Justices of the Peace, out of Sessions, in relation to Summary Convictions and Orders.

An Act respecting the prompt and summary administration of criminal justice in certain cases.

An Act respecting the trial and punishment of Juvenile Offenders.

An Act respecting Juvenile Offenders within the Province of Quebec.

An Act for the more speedy trial in certain cases of persons charged with felonies and misdemeanors, in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Chapter 30 An Act respecting the Sale of In- The whole. toxicating Liquors near Public

Chapter 90

Chapter 91

Chapter 92

Chapter 93

Chapter 94

Chapter 96

Chapter 99

Works.

An Act respecting Offences against The whole.
the State.

An Act respecting Offences against The whole.
the Person.

An Act respecting Offences against The whole.
Person and Property.

An Act respecting Arson and other The whole.
Malicious Injuries to Property.

The whole.

An Act respecting Forgery.
An Act respecting Cruelty to Ani- The whole.
mals.

An Act respecting the Procedure The whole, except
in Criminal Cases.

sections eightyseven, ninety

seven, one hundred and twenty, and one hundred and twenty-one.

Chapter 102 An Act respecting the Duties of The whole, except

Justices of the Peace, out of
Sessions, in relation to persons
charged with indictable Offen-

ces.

section fifty-nine

Chapter 103 An Act respecting the duties of The whole, except

Justices of the Peace, out of
Sessions, in relation to Sum-
mary Convictions and Orders.

sections seventy-four, seventyfive, seventy-six, seventy-seven, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, eight-one and eighty-five.

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