48 V., c. 17, Form A.

Name and surname
in full.

The foregoing extract has been submitted to the council of

the municipality of

held on

rected and approved.

FORM A.

Extract from the assessment or valuation roll in force in the municipality of for the year , giving the names of all persons entered in such roll, who reside within the municipality and are qualified to act as grand or petit jurors.

FORM B.

MUNICIPALITY OF

The foregoing supplement has been submitted to the council of the municipality of special meeting convened on the

FORM C.

I, the undersigned

secretary-treasurer of the municipality of

being

duly sworn, affirm that I believe in the correctness of the foregoing extract or supplement (as the case may be), and of the information therein contained.

2678. Sheriffs are responsible to all persons for the acts of Sheriff, &c., their deputies or other servants acting under them, where such to be respondeputies or other servants are appointed by them.

sible for the acts of his deputies. Selection of

Every sheriff has the selection of the bailiffs to be employed by and to act for him in the several districts of the Province. bailiffs. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 9 §§ 1 and 2.

levied there

2679. In the service and execution of writs of summons, Duties of sheriff as of execution and other civil process, the custody and safe- regards keeping of goods and chattels under seizure, and the receipt, executions safe-keeping and payment of all moneys by them levied under and moneys any writ of execution, the several sheriffs of the Province are under. liable to the same extent in the same cases, as any huissier, gardien or receveur de consignations would have been liable under the laws of Lower Canada, previous to the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 10 § 1.

2680. When, under article 560 of the Code of Civil Proce- His liability dure, any defendant offers a good and sufficient guardian to devolved on guardian in the sheriff seizing the goods and chattels of such defendant, certain cases. under any writ of fieri facias, simple attachment or revendication, such sheriff shall accept of such guardian and shall not be answerable for the acts of such guardian, provided he can establish that such guardian, when accepted by him, was solvent, or reputed so to be, to the amount of the value of the articles

Sheriffs to

account on oath for moneys received.

Deposit of

over which he was appointed guardian. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 10 § 2.

2681. Every sheriff shall, on the first juridical day in every term of the Superior Court in the district for which he is sheriff, exhibit an accurate and detailed statement and account, upon oath, of all moneys in his hands by him received as sheriff, when and from whom received, and of all orders and judg ments directing any moneys to be paid by such sheriff since his last account rendered, specifying to whom the said moneys are or were payable, of all moneys paid by him as sheriff, within the said period and to whom, and of all moneys remaining unpaid, though ordered and adjudged to be paid, and of the reasons why the same have not been paid.

2. The said statements and accounts shall be deposited and such account. remain among the public records of the court, and shall be entered in a book or register, which shall be kept, for that purpose, by the prothonotary of the court. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 12.

Sheriffs to

of gaols.

2682. The sheriff's shall have the custody and keeping of have charge of all gaols, within their respective districts, and may appoint the gaolers or keepers of such gaols, for whose acts, and the conduct of such gaolers, the sheriff shall be liable. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 13.

And to make rules for

their government.

2683. The several sheriffs, having the custody of gaols in the Province, shall, from time to time, make general rules and regulations, for the interior order and police of the gaols situate within their respective districts, and for regulating the conduct of gaolers and other officers of justice, in the keeping and governing of gaols, and also for the safe custody, due care, and sufficient protection of all prisoners for debt therein being, and shall submit the same for revision and approval, to the Court of Queen's Bench or judge holding that court in the district, if in term, or to any two or more of the judges of the said court, in vacation; and all gaolers and other officers of justice, concerned in the keeping and government of gaols To be observ- within the said districts, severally and respectively, shall observe the said rules and regulations. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 14.

Approval thereof.

ed.

Sheriffs liable

for escape of

2684. The several sheriffs in the Province shall be liable

prisoners for only in damages and interest, for escapes of prisoners for debt debt in cer- happening through connivance or neglect, either from the custody of themselves or their deputies or from any gaol of which any sheriff has the custody and keeping. C. S. L. C., c. 92,

tain cases only.

Person who

acted as

s. 15.

2685. Every person who has been, or has acted as sheriff for any district, and the heirs, executors, curators and other to deliver all legal representatives of any such person, shall forthwith dedeeds of sale, liver and surrender unto the sheriff of the same district, all

sheriff, &c.,

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deeds or acts of sale of lands and tenements, which have been to the sheriff, made by such person as sheriff, or transmitted to him by his &c., for the time being. predecessor in office, and all writs, public books, registers and papers appertaining to the office of sheriff, as the case may be, in matters of a civil nature, in his or their possession, custody or power, judgments of distribution, receipts and vouchers for the payment of money and other legal acquittances and discharges and rules for the discharge of prisoners always excepted, together with a list or inventory of such deeds or acts, writs, books, registers and other papers, duly attested upon oath, by the person delivering the same. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 16 § 1.

refusal.

2686. Every person having been, or having acted as sheriff, Penalty on and every heir, executor, curator, or other legal representative of such late sheriff, who refuses or wilfully neglects to deliver and surrender all such deeds or acts of sale, writs, books, registers, and other papers, with such list or inventory thereof, and is thereof lawfully convicted, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two thousand dollars, one moiety of which shall go to Her Majesty for the public uses of the Province, and the other moiety to the person suing for the same. C. S. L. C., c. 92, s. 16 § 2 and s. 18.

§ 2. Coroners.

I. CORONERS' INQUESTS.

hold an

2687. No inquest shall be held on the body of any deceased When coroperson, unless the coroner shall, prior to the issuing of his war- ner shall rant for summoning the jury, have made a declaration in inquest. writing, stating that, from information received by him, he is of opinion that there is reason to believe that a crime has been committed, or that the deceased died from violence or unfair means or under such circumstances as require investigation; which declaration shall contain the reasons and facts upon which such opinion is based, and shall be returned and filed with the inquisition. 43-44 V., c. 10, s. 1.

2688. Upon the death of any prisoner, the warden, gaoler, Case of death keeper or superintendent of any penitentiary, gaol, reform- of a prisoner. atory, house of correction or lock-up, in which such prisoner dies, shall immediately give notice to the coroner, detailing the circumstances connected with the death. 43-44 V., c. 10, s. 2.

II. POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS.

2689. No coroner shall direct a post-mortem examination Post-mortem of any body upon which an inquest is being held, except upon examination the requisition of the majority of the jury, unless the coroner held during shall have made a declaration in writing, (to be returned and an inquest. filed with the inquisition,) that, in his opinion, the holding of a