Weapon to be returned to tain cases. tice or any other justice of the peace, to take such weapon, or cause the same to be taken from such person without his consent and against his will, by such force as may be necessary for that purpose. C. S. C., c. 82, s. 15. 2962. Upon reasonable request to any justice of the peace parties in cer- to whom any such weapon has been peaceably and quietly delivered as aforesaid, made on the day next after the meeting has finally dispersed and not before, such weapon shall, if of the value of one dollar or upwards, be returned by such justice of the peace to the person from whom the same was received. C. S. C., c. 82, s. 16. If accidentally lost, &c. Persons tery within two miles of the meeting, to be pun 2963. No such justice of the peace shall be held liable to return any such weapon, or make good the value thereof, in case the same, by unavoidable accident, has been actually destroyed or lost out of the possession of such justice of the peace without his wilful default. C. S. C., c. 82, s. 17. Every person who is convicted of a battery, committed within guilty of bat- the distance of two miles of the place appointed for the holding of such public meeting and during any part of the day whereon any such meeting has been appointed to be held, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both. R. S. C., c. 152, s. 4. ished by certain penal ties. No one to ap to within two Every person, except the sheriff, deputy sheriff, and justices of proach armed the peace for the district or county, or the mayor and justices of miles of meet- the peace for the city or town respectively, in which such meeting. ing is held, and the constables and special constables employed by them, or any of them, for the preservation of the public peace at such meeting, who, during any part of the day upon which such meeting is appointed to be held, comes within two miles of the place appointed for such meeting, armed with any offensive weapon of any kind, as fire-arms, swords, staves. bludgeons, or the like, is guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both. R. S. C., c. 152, s. 5. Suits to be brought § 6.-Prescription of Suits. 2964. Every action to be brought against any person for within twelve anything by him done under the authority of this section. must be brought within twelve months next after the cause of such action accrued. C. S. C., c. 82, s. 21. months. Horses not to be driven faster than a SECTION XII. MANNER OF DRIVING HORSES ON HIGHWAYS; EXEMPTION FROM TOLLS; § 1.-Manner of driving Horses on certain Highways. 2965. No person shall ride or drive any horse upon any of the public highways, within the distance of ten miles from either of the cities of Quebec, Montreal, or Three Rivers, at trot within a rate faster than an ordinary trot. C. S. L. C., c. 30, s. 1. certain limits. contraven S tion. 2966. If any person is convicted of any offence against the Penalty for preceding article, before any one or more of Her Majesty's justices of the peace for the district in which the offence was committed, upon the oath of one credible witness or more, or on view had of such offence by such justices of the peace, such person shall, upon conviction, forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, or less than four dollars, in the discretion of such justice or justices of the peace, with all reasonable costs, both before and after conviction. C. S. L. C., c. 30, s. 2. be enforced 2967. Upon any such conviction as aforesaid, the justice or Penalty may justices of the peace before whom such conviction is had, may by distress. forthwith issue his or their warrant of distress against the goods and chattels of the offender, directed to any constable in the said district, and commanding him to levy the said fine and costs of the goods and chattels of the offender. in default of payment. In default of payment of such fine and costs as aforesaid by Imprisonment such offender, and if no goods and chattels of such offender can be found whereof such fine and costs can be levied as aforesaid, such justice or justices of the peace shall commit such offender to the common gaol of the district, for a term not exceeding thirty days, unless the fine and costs are sooner paid. C. S. L. C., c. 30, s. 3. tion of fines. 2968. One half of all fines to be levied or collected by Appropriavirtue of this section shall belong to the informer and the other half shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer, for the public uses of the Province. C. S. L. C., c. 30, s. 4. 2969. No appeal shall lie from the decision of any justice No appeal. of the peace rendered under the four preceding articles. C. S. L. C., c. 30, s. 5. § 2. Exemption from Tolls. cattle, &c., toll. 2970. No vehicle laden or unladen, and no horses or cattle Certain belonging to the proprietor or occupant of any lands divided vehicles, by any turnpike road, shall be liable to toll on passing through exempt from any toll-gate on such road (at whatever distance the same may be from any city or town) for the sole purpose of going from one part of the lands of such proprietor or occupant to another part of the same, provided such vehicle, horses or cattle do Proviso not proceed more than half a mile along such turnpike road, either in going or in returning, and for farming or domestic purposes only. manure, pass 2. Every vehicle laden solely with manure, brought from Vehicles, &c., any city in the Province, and employed to carry the same into laden with the country parts for the purposes of agriculture, and the ing from horses, or other beasts of draught, drawing such vehicle, shall cities and Forbidden to a walk. pass toll-free through every turnpike gate or toll-gate on any turnpike road within twenty miles of such city, as well in going from such city or town, as in returning thereto, if then empty. C. S. C., c. 86, ss. 2 and 3. 2971. This subsection does not affect turnpike roads for which contrary statutory provisions exist, nor does it extend to any toll-bridge, the tolls of which belong to any other party than the Crown. C. S. C., c. 86, s. 4; 23 V., c. 69, s. 2. §3.-Toll-bridges. 2972. Every person, firm or company being proprietor of go faster than any toll-bridge, may cause to be posted on any such bridge a written or printed notice, in French and English, prohibiting any person from driving any vehicle faster than at a walk on such bridge. Fine for contravention and for cutting, &c., bridge. By and before whom suits to be brought. 2. Whosoever, after such notice has been so posted, drives any vehicle faster than a walk on any such bridge, or cuts, defaces or injures any part of such bridge, or the posts or any other object forming part thereof or depending therefrom, incurs a fine of not less than two or more than twenty dollars, in additition to the damages caused. 3. Any suit for the contravention of this subsection may be brought by the proprietor of any such bridge, before the magistrate's court or the Circuit Court of the county or district in the limits of which such contravention has taken place, or before any justice of the peace, residing in the municipality, if there be one, if not, before any justice of the peace residing in a neighboring municipality in the district. 43-44 V., c. 30, ss. 1, 2 and 3. CHAPTER SECOND. PUBLIC SAFETY. SECTION I. Doors of churches, &c., to be open out wards. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. § 1.-Manner of constructing doors of Public Buildings. 2973. In all churches, theatres, halls or other buildings in this Province constructed or used for holding public meetings, hung so as to or for places of public resort or amusement, all the doors shall be so hinged that they may open freely outwards, and all the gates of outer fences, if not so hinged, shall be kept open by proper fastenings, during the time such buildings are publicly used, to facilitate the egress of people, in case of alarm from fire or other cause. 29-30 V., c. 22, s. 1. &c., to have 2974. Congregations or others owning churches, and indi- Proprietors of viduals, corporations and companies owning halls, theatres, churches, or other buildings used for the purpose of holding public meet- doors to open ings, or places of public resort or amusement, shall have the outwards. doors of such churches, halls, theatres or other buildings so hinged as to open freely outwards. 29-30 V., c. 22, s. 2. § 2.-Penalties in cases of contravention. and corpora 2975. Individuals, companies and corporations owning or Individuals, possessing public halls, churches or other buildings used for companies public meetings, who violate the provisions of subsection one of tions liable to this section are liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, re- fine. coverable on information before any two justices of the peace, or before the mayor or police magistrate of any city or town, one moiety of such fine to be paid to the party laying the information, and the other moiety to the municipality within which the case may arise; and parties so complained against are liable to a further fine of five dollars for every week succeeding that in which the complaint is laid, if the necessary changes be not made. trustees hold 2. Incumbents, church-wardens or trustees holding churches Congregaor buildings used for churches under section first of chapter third tions and of title ninth of these Revised Statutes respecting lands held by ing for conreligious congregations, and all others holding churches or build- gregations, liable for ings used for churches, under any other act, are severally liable, neglect. as trustees for such societies or congregations, to the preceding provisions. 29-30 V., c. 22, s. 3. § 3.-By-laws respecting doors, &c., of such Buildings. 2976. Municipal corporations in the Province have power Municipal to enact by-laws to regulate the size and number of doors of corporations churches, theatres and halls, or other buildings used for places laws to regumay enact byof worship, public meetings, or places of amusement, and the late construcstreet-gates leading thereto, and also the size and structure of tion of doors, stairs and stair-railings in all such buildings, and the strength churches, of beams and joists, and their supports. 29-30 V., ss. 4 and 5. &c., of &c. c. 22, commis 2977. The commissioners appointed under section second Similar of chapter first of title ninth of these Revised Statutes, re- powers grantspecting the erection and division of parishes, have, for the ed to church churches and places used for worship, the construction of sioners. which is regulated by the said chapter, the same power to enact by-laws as is hereby conferred on municipal corporations; which said by-laws, when sanctioned by the ecclesiastical authorities mentioned therein, have full force and effect. 2930 V., c. 22, s. 5. 2978. In cities, towns and incorporated villages, it is the Duties of duty of the high constable or chief of police to enforce the municipal officers. Officer to en provisions of this section, and such officers neglecting the performance of such duties are liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, recoverable in the manner and before the justices of the peace, and payable to the parties, mentioned in article 2975. 29-30 V., c. 22, s. 6. 2979. The councils of county, township and parish muniforce this sec- cipalities may, by by-law, appoint an officer to enforce the provisions of this section. 29-30 V., c. 22, s. 7. tion. Exception as to convents. Regulations proved by Governor in Council. 29-30 V., c. 2980. This section shall not be construed to apply to convents or private chapels connected therewith. 22, s. 8. § 4. Regulations respecting Safety in Public Buildings. 2981. With the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in for safety, ap- Council regulations shall, from time to time, be made for the Lieutenant safety and protection of the public, in theatres, edifices or halls in which public meetings are held for amusement, public lectures or any performances whatever, concerning the mode of constructing such theatres, edifices or halls, the materials to be employed, and generally whatever may assure the security and facilitate the saving of the public in the event of a panic, fire or other accident whatever. 40 V., c. 19, s. 1. Amendment 2982. Any regulation made by virtue of the preceding or revocation article may be amended or replaced by another made in the same of regulamanner, or may be simply revoked by an order in council. 40 V., c. 19, s. 2. tions. Publication, lations. 2983. The regulations made under the authority of the two &c., of regu- preceding articles shall, together with the orders in council approving of them, be published in the Quebec Official Gazette. and shall have force of law as forming part of subsections four and five of this section, on the day fixed by the order in council. 40 V., c. 19, s. 3. Duties of tenants of edifices, &c. Certificates required. Annulling of certificate. 2984. It is the duty of every proprietor, tenant or person in possession of a theatre, edifice or hall mentioned in article 2981, to comply with the provisions of each and every such regulation in force, and to have a certificate to that effect from the Commissioner of Public Works or other officer specially appointed by him, establishing the fact that the regulations prescribed have been followed and executed. 40 V., c. 19, s. 4 : 50 V., c. 7, s. 1. 2985. It is lawful for the Commissioner of Public Works to annul any certificate already given, if he think proper. after inspection of the premises, by himself or by an officer of his department. 40 V,, c. 19, s. 5; 50 V., c. 7, s. 1. |