Penalty on persons resisting police.

Expenses of police to be paid by Lieutenant

Governor.

hended into the custody of the constable in attendance at the nearest watch-house, in order that such person may be secured until he can be brought before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law. C. S. L. C., c. 102, s. 7.

2882. Whosoever assaults or resists any person belonging to the said police force, in the execution of his duty, or aids or incites any person so to assault or resist, shall, on being convicted thereof before two justices of the peace, be condemned, for each offence, to a fine not exceeding five pounds sterling, as the justices of the peace think meet. C. S. L. C., c. 102, s. 8.

$ 3.-Expenses of the Police.

2883. The Lieutenant-Governor may pay, out of any moneys in the hands of the Provincial Treasurer, not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are required for the maintenance of the police under this section; and all salaries, allowances and contingent charges in that behalf shall be paid upon paylists to be made out on the first day of each month by the judge of the sessions of the peace, signed by him and approved by the Provincial Secretary. C. S. L. C., c. 102, s. 21.

SECTION V.

Reformatory prison to be erected.

Farm may be attached to such prison and con

sidered as part thereof.

Officers to be

REFORMATORY PRISON FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS.

§ 1.-Erection of such Prison.

2884. The Lieutenant-Governor may cause to be erected or provided a building in the Province, to be used as a prison for the confinement and reformation of such offenders as are hereinafter specified, and, so soon as the said building is completed and fitted for that purpose, may declare the same by proclamation to be a reformatory prison for the confinement of such offenders.

2. The Lieutenant-Governor may cause to be procured and provided, surrounding or adjacent to the reformatory prison, a tract of land fit for agricultural purposes not exceeding two hundred acres, and may cause the same to be securely enclosed, and the prison shall be held to include all the land contained within such enclosure. C. S. C., c. 107, ss. 1 and 16.

§2.-Appointment of Officers.

2885. The Lieutenant-Governor may appoint for the said appointed by prison, a warden, a Protestant chaplain, a Roman Catholic chaplain, a surgeon and a clerk, to hold office during pleasure. C. S. C., c. 107, s. 2.

the Lieuten

ant-Gover

nor.

2886. The warden of the said prison, by and with the Other officers. consent of the inspectors to be appointed under section seventh of chapter eighth of title sixth of these Revised Statutes, may appoint such other officers, assistants and servants as may be necessary for the service and discipline of the prison, and, at pleasure, remove the same and appoint others in their stead. C. S. C., c. 107, s. 3.

warden.

2887. The warden of the reformatory prison shall have Powers and and perform the same powers and duties, with respect to such duties of prison, as are vested in the warden of the penitentiary by law, except in so far as they may be altered by this section, or by the rules made under article 2889. C. S. C., c. 107, s. 14.

$ 3.-Powers of Inspectors.

spectors.

2888. The inspectors and each of them shall have and per- Powers of inform the same powers and duties, with respect to the said reformatory prison, as are vested in or to be performed by the inspectors of the Penitentiary of Canada, except in so far as the said powers and duties may be altered by this section, and any one of the inspectors shall have and perform the same powers and duties, with respect to such reformatory prison, (except as aforesaid) as are vested in one inspector by the act relating to the penitentiary. C. S. C., c. 107, s. 4. See R. S. C., c. 182, ss. 11 to 17.

make rules

2889. The inspectors may, from time to time, frame rules Inspectors to for the government and regulation of the said reformatory for such prison, and for the discipline of the offenders imprisoned there- prison. in, and shall submit such rules to the Lieutenant-Governor; and, upon such rules being approved by him, they shall thereupon be enforced.

before the

All such rules shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly To be laid annually within the first six weeks of the then next meeting Legislature. of the Legislature. C. S. C., c. 107, s. 15.

§4.-Establishment of a Receiving Ship.

be fitted up

2890. The Lieutenant-Governor may, at any time, should A hulk may he deem it expedient, cause to be procured and fitted up, at and used as a or below the city of Montreal, a hulk or receiving-ship, in reformatory prison. every respect fit for ocean service, and may appoint a captain and other officers thereto, and from time to time may cause to be transferred by warrant, from the reformatory prison, such offenders as may desire to embrace a seafaring life, and as the Lieutenant-Governor may think fit so to transfer; and such hulk shall be held to be a reformatory prison and be subject to the provisions of this section relating to reformatory prisons, so far as they can be made applicable thereto; and the captain so to be appointed shall be the warden of the same, and have and perform all the powers and duties incident to that office. C. S. C., c. 107, s. 17.

Interpretation.

Upon a satis

Lieutenant

Governor

certificate to a reformatory school.

SECTION VI

REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.*

§ 1. Interpretative.

2891. The word "managers" when used in this section means any person or persons having the management or control of any school to which this section applies. 32 V., e. 18, s. 1.

§ 2. Establishment of Reformatory Schools.

2892. The Lieutenant-Governor may, upon the application factory report of the managers of any reformatory school established for the better training of youthful offenders, direct one of the inmay allow a spectors of prisons to examine into the condition and regulations of the school, and to report to him thereon, and, if the Lieutenant-Governor be satisfied with such report, the Provincial Secretary shall, by writing under his hand, certify that such school is fitted for the reception of such youthful offenders as may be sentenced to detention in a reformatory prison, and the same shall be deemed a certified reformatory school. 32 V., c. 18, s. 2.

What certificate shall state.

It may be modified.

Reformatory

deemed re

2893. Every such certificate fixes the number of youthful offenders that may be received into such school, and determines the parts of the Province from which such offenders may be sent thereto; but the Lieutenant-Governor may, at any time, change such certificate with respect to such number of offenders or parts of the Province. 32 V., c. 18, s. 3.

2894. Every certified reformatory school shall be a reschools to be formatory prison, and section fifth of this chapter respecting reformatory prisons for young offenders shall apply to such reformatory school, except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the present section. 32 V., c. 18, s. 12.

formatory prisons.

Buildings not

2895. No substantial addition or alteration shall be made to be changed to or in the buildings of any certified reformatory school withproval of out the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor. 32 V., c. 18, s. 5.

without ap

Lieutenant

Governor.

School to be in accord

2896. When any youthful offender is sentenced to detention in a reformatory prison, the judge who orders the detention ance with re- shall direct that he be sent to a reformatory school, conducted as far as possible in accordance with the religious belief to which his parents belong or in which he has been educated. 32 V., c. 18, s. 15.

ligious creed of child.

*-Provisions respecting the placing out of children under the care of the managers of reformatory schools will be found in chapter fourth of title eighth of these Revised Statutes.

§ 3. Duties and Powers of Directors of the Schools.

mitment to be

2897. Within eight days next after the confinement of Copy of comany youthful offender in one of the certified reformatory sent to the schools of this Province, it shall be the duty of the managers Provincial of such school to forward to the Provincial Secretary a certified Secretary. copy of the commitment of such youthful offender. 49-50 V., c. 28, s. 1.

powers of

2898. The managers of each reformatory school, or such Managers of one of them as the Lieutenant-Governor shall appoint, shall school to have have the same authority conferred by section fifth of this wardens of chapter, respecting reformatory prisons for young offenders, as prisons. the warden of a reformatory prison. 32 V., c. 18, s. 13.

tain cases to

of constables.

2899. Every officer of a certified reformatory school, Officers of authorized by the managers of the school in writing under school in certheir hands or the hand of their secretary, to take charge of have powers any youthful offender, sentenced to detention, for the purpose of conveying him to or from the school, or of bringing him back to the school in case of his escape or refusal to return, shall, for such purpose and while engaged in such duty, have all such powers, authorities, protection, and privileges, for the purpose of the execution of his duty as reformatory officer, as any constable, duly appointed, has by law. 32 V., c. 18, s. 14.

receive offen

2900. The managers of a certified reformatory school shall Managers to be bound to receive any youthful offender under the age of ders sent. sixteen years sent to them within the number to be fixed in the certificate.

to education,

When they have received any such youthful offender they Obligations of shall be deemed to have undertaken to educate, clothe, lodge, and managers as feed him during the whole period for which he is liable to be de- &c. tained in the school, or until the withdrawal or resignation of the certificate takes effect, or until the contribution out of moneys provided by the Legislature towards the custody and maintenance of the offenders detained in the school is discontinued, whichever shall first happen. 32 V., c. 18, s. 7.

allow

2901. The directors of a reformatory school may, at any Directors of time after the first six months of the term of imprisonment of school may any child, if his conduct be satisfactory, authorize him, by children to means of a written permit under their signature, to live with be placed a person worthy of confidence, whose name shall be entered in the permit and who shall be willing to receive and take care of him.

out under permit.

Every permit so granted shall remain in force only for Duration of three months, and shall be renewed every three months, until permit. the expiration of such child's detention in the school.

of permit and

Such permit may be cancelled by the directors, and, upon Cancellation their written order to that effect, the child shall be brought effect thereof. back to the school.

Term of absence under permit to count. Escape.

Directors may

hire out

children.

The period during which a child is absent from the school, under such permit shall be considered as an integral part of the term of his detention in the school.

Any child who runs away from the dwelling of the person in whose charge he is placed as aforesaid, or who refuses to return to the school if such permit be cancelled or at the end of the term granted by such permit, shall be deemed to have escaped from the school. 47 V., c. 24, s. 1.

2902. The directors may hire out the children under their apprentice or care, either under indentures of apprenticeship or as domestic servants, but such contracts shall not stipulate that any sum of money shall be paid either to the directors or the child, and shall guarantee to the master the gratuitous services of such child, and to the latter, board, lodging and maintenance. 47 V., c. 24, s. 1.

Time during

which child is placed out,

2903. The period during which a child shall be under the care of the person to whom he was confided, or in service or &c., not to be apprenticed under the law, shall be deducted from the time paid for to for which the directors of the school are to be paid for the board and maintenance of such child. 47 V., c. 24, s. 1.

directors.

Regulations

to be made

2904. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make such under this act regulations upon this subject as he shall deem advisable and and by whom the inspectors of prisons and asylums are authorized to put the same into execution. 47 V., c. 24, s. 1.

executed.

Managers may, after

2905. The managers of any certified reformatory school notice, resign may, upon giving six months' notice, and the legal representathe certificate. tives of a deceased manager (if only one) of any certified reformatory school may, upon giving one month's previous notice in writing of their intention so to do, resign the certificate given to such school; and accordingly, at the expiration of six months, or one month (as the case may be), from the date of the notice (unless before that time the notice is withdrawn), the certificate shall be deemed to be withdrawn. 32 V., c. 18, s. 6.

Obligations of managers after certifi

drawn or

resigned.

2906. Whenever the certificate is withdrawn from or resigned by the managers of a reformatory school, no youthful cate is with- offender shall be received into such school after the date of the receipt by the managers of the school of the notice of withdrawal, or after the date of the notice of resignation (as the case may be); but the obligation of the managers to educate. clothe, lodge, and feed any youthful offender in the school, at the respective dates aforesaid shall, excepting so far as the Lieutenant-Governor may otherwise order, be deemed to continue until the withdrawal or resignation of the certificate takes effect, or until the contribution out of money provided by law towards the custody and maintenance of the offenders detained in the school is discontinued, whichever shall first happen. 32 V., c. 18, s. 8.