without the furnishing of food and water, on any connecting railways or vessels from which they are received, whether in the United States or in Canada, shall be included: and space are 3. The foregoing provisions as to cattle being unladen shall Exception, if not apply when cattle are carried in any car or vessel in which proper food they have proper space and opportunity for rest and proper furnished. food and water. 38 V., c. 42, ss. 2 and 5, part. laden to be 9. Cattle so unloaded shall be properly fed and watered Cattle unduring such rest by the owner or person having the custody fed and thereof, or in case of his default in so doing, then by the railway watered company or owner or master of the vessel transporting the same, at the expense of the owner or person in custody thereof; and such company, owner or master shall, in such case, have a lien upon such cattle for food, care and custody furnished, and shall not be liable for any detention of such cattle. 38 V., c. 42, s. 3. cleaned out. 10. Where cattle are unladen from cars for the purpose of Cars to be receiving food, water and rest, the railway company then having charge of the cars in which they have been transported shall, except during a period of frost, clear the floors of such cars, and litter the same properly with clean sawdust or sand before reloading them with live stock. 38 V., c. 42, s. 4. section 8. 11. Every railway company, owner or master of a vessel, Penalty for having cattle in transit, as aforesaid, who knowingly and wil-violation of fully fails to comply with the provisions contained in the eighth section of this Act, shall, for every such failure to comply with its provisions, incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars. 38 V., c. 42, s. 5, part. may enter 12. Every peace officer and constable may, at all times, enter Constable any premises where he has reasonable grounds for supposing premises or that any car, truck or vehicle, in respect whereof any company vessel. or person has failed to comply with the provisions of the four sections next preceding is to be found. or enter on board any vessel in respect whereof he has reasonable grounds for supposing that any company or person has, on any occasion, so failed: refusing con 2. Every one who refuses admission to such peace officer or Penalty for constable, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty stable admisnot exceeding twenty dollars and not less than five dollars, and sion. costs, and in default of payment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding thirty days. 38 V., c. 42, ss. 6, 7 and 8. pena ties and 13. Every penalty recoverable under the two sections next Application of preceding, shall belong to the Crown for the public uses of limitation of Canada; and no proceeding for the recovery of such penalty suits. shall be commenced except within one month next after the commission of the offence. 38 V., c. 42, s. 10. 101 GENERAL. Right of suit for damages 14. Nothing in this Act shall prevent or abridge any not affected, remedy by action which any person has against the offender or his employer. 32-33 V., c. 27, s. 3, part ;-38 V., c. 42, s. 9, part. [12-13 V., C. 92, s. 4.] OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most CHAPTER 173. An Act respecting Threats, Intimidation and other A. D. 1886. Offences. HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: THREATS. money, &c., 1. Every one who sends, delivers or utters, or directly or Letters deindirectly causes to be received, knowing the contents thereof, manding any letter or writing, demanding of any person with menaces, with menaces. and without any reasonable or probable cause, any property, (24-25 Y., c. chattel, money, valuable security or other valuable thing, is 96, s. 44.] guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for life. 32-33 V., c. 21, s. 43. with menaces 2. Every one who, with menaces or by force, demands any Demanding property, chattel, money, valuable security or other valuable money, &c., thing of any person, with intent to steal the same, is guilty of or by force. felony, and liable to two years' imprisonment. 32-33 V., (24-25 V., c. c. 21, s. 44. 96, s. 45.] to accuse of 96, s. 46.] 3. Every one who sends, delivers or utters, or directly or Letters indirectly causes to be received, knowing the contents thereof, threatening any letter or writing, accusing or threatening to accuse or crime. cause to be accused any other person of any crime punishable 25 by law with death, or imprisonment for not less than seven years, or of any assault with intent to commit any rape, or of any attempt or endeavour to commit any rape, or of any infamous crime as hereinafter defined, with a view or intent, in any of such cases, to extort or gain, by means of such letter or writing, any property, chattel, money, valuable security or other valuable thing from any person, is guilty of felony, and liable to imprisonment for life: crime" de. fined. 2. The crime of buggery, committed either with mankind "Infamous or with beast, and every assault with intent to commit the said crime, and every attempt or endeavour to commit the said crime, and every solicitation, persuasion, promise or threat offered or made to any person whereby to move or induce such person to commit or permit the said crime, shall be deemed to be an infamous crime within the meaning of this Act: 3. Every species of parting with any such letter to the end that it may come, or whereby it comes into the hands of the person for whom it is intended, shall be deemed a sending of such letter. 32-33 V., c. 21, s. 45. 4. Every one who accuses, or threatens to accuse, either the person to whom such accusation or threat is made or any other person, of any of the infamous or other crimes lastly hereinbefore mentioned, with the view or intent, in any of the cases last aforesaid, to extort or gain from such person so accused or threatened to be accused, or from any other person, any property, chattel, money, valuable security or other valuable thing, is guilty of felony, and liable to imprisonment for life. 32-33 V., c. 21, s. 46. 5. Every one who, with intent to defraud or injure any other person, by any unlawful violence to or restraint of, or threat of violence to or restraint of the person of another, or by accusing or threatening to accuse any person of any treason, felony or infamous crime, as hereinbefore defined, compels or induces any person to execute, make, accept, indorse, alter or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security, or to write, impress or affix his name, or the name of any other person or of any company, firm or co-partnership, or the seal of any body corporate, company or society, upon or to any paper or parchment, in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security, is guilty of felony, and liable to imprisonment for life. 32-33. V., c. 21, s. 47. 6. It shall be immaterial whether the menaces or threats hereinbefore mentioned are of violence, injury or accusation, to be caused or made by the offender or by any other person. 32-33 V., c. 21, s. 48. 7. Every one who maliciously sends, delivers or utters, or directly or indirectly causes to be received, knowing the contents thereof, any letter or writing threatening to kill or murder any person, is guilty of felony, and liable to ten years' impri sonment. 32-33 V., c. 20, s. 15. 8. Every one who sends, delivers or utters, or directly or indirectly causes to be received, knowing the contents thereof, any letter or writing threatening to burn or destroy any house, barn or other building, or any rick or stack of grain, hay or straw or other agricultural produce, or any grain, hay or straw, or other agricultural produce, in or under any building, or any ship or vessel, or to kill, maim, wound, poison or injure any cattle, is guilty of felony, and liable to ten years' imprison32-33 V., c. 22, s. 58. ment. .. INTIMIDATION. combination. 9. Every one who, in pursuance of any unlawful combina- Assaults tion or conspiracy to raise the rate of wages, or of any unlaw- arising from ful combination or conspiracy respecting any trade, business or manufacture, or respecting any person concerned or employed therein, unlawfully assaults any person, or, in pursuance of any such combination or conspiracy, uses any violence or threat of violence to any person, with a view to hinder him from working or being employed at such trade, business or manufacture, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and liable to imprisonment for any term less than two years. 32-33 V., c. 20, s. 42. intent to obstruct the sale or its free passage. 10. Every one who beats or uses any violence or threat of Assaults with violence to any person, with intent to deter or hinder him from buying, selling or otherwise disposing of any wheat or other of grain, &c., grain, flour, meal, malt or potatoes, or other produce or goods, in any market or other place, or beats or uses any such violence or threat to any person having the charge or care of any wheat or other grain, flour, meal, malt or potatoes, whilst on the way to or from any city, market, town or other place, with intent to stop the conveyance of the same, shall, on summary conviction before two justices of the peace, be liable to imprisonment, with hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months. 32-33 V., c. 20, s. 40. Repealed, and new section substituted by 50-51 V., c. 49, s. 1. contrary to free action. 12. Every one who, wrongfully and without lawful authority, Certain acts with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing anything which he has a lawful right to do, or to do anything from which he has a lawful right to abstain, (a) Uses violence to such other person, or his wife or Violence. children, or injures his property,— (b.) Intimidates such other person, or his wife or children, Intimidation. by threats of using violence to him, her or any of them, or of injuring his property, (e) Persistently follows such other person about from place Following. to place, (.) Hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or Hiding proused by such other person, or deprives him or hinders him in perty. the use thereof, (e.) Follows such other person, with one or more other per- Disorderly sons, in a disorderly manner, in or through any street or road, following. or (f) Besets or watches the house or other place where such Besetting other person resides or works, or carries on business or hap- house, &c. pens to be, Shall, on summary conviction before two justices of the peace, Penalty. or on indictment, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred |