ed may be requir- randa, vouchers and all documents pertaining thereto in his possession; and he shall produce these vouchers and documents in the state they were when the pawn was received by him. If he neglect or refuse to appear and produce these documents, he becomes liable to the penalties hereinafter imposed, unless he show sufficient cause to the contrary. 41 V., c. 3, s. 151. Penalty. Powers of the collector of provincial revenue. Property of another pawned. Arrest. Pawning cer tured or other 986. On demand of the collector of provincial revenue, every pawnbroker shall exhibit to him all his books, and the entries therein, and afford to him an examination of the same; such officer may, during business hours, visit and examine the shop of such pawnbroker. 41 V., c. 3, s. 152; 46 V., c. 6, s. 1. 987. If any person pawn the property of another, without the authority so to do of the owner, any two justices of the peace may grant a warrant to cause the arrest of the offender, and, on conviction, he incurs the penalty hereinafter mentioned and forfeits the value of the property pawned, which is paid to the owner thereof, and may be recovered at the same time and in the same manner as the penalty. 41 V., c. 3, s. 153. 988. Every person, who knowingly receives in pawn from tain manufac- a journeyman mechanic any goods of any manufacture, either goods. separate or mixed with others, or materials plainly intended for manufacturing purposes, when these goods or materials are in course of preparation, but before completion and being exposed for sale, or any goods, materials, linens, or apparel, which have been entrusted to any person to wash, scour, iron, mend, or manufacture, or for any purpose of a like nature, and is convicted thereof, shall forfeit the sum lent thereon, and forthwith restore the goods to the owner. V., c. 3, s. 154. Search warrant. If the goods be found 41 989. In all the cases mentioned in the preceding article, if the owner establish by the oath or affirmation of a witness, before a justice of the peace of the district wherein the offence has been committed, that there is reason to believe that any person has taken to pawn any such goods, such justice of the peace may issue a warrant for searching, within the hours of business, the books, house, shop or any other place occupied by the person suspected; and, if such person refuse to exhibit to the officer charged with such warrant, and authorized to search his pledge-book, the goods pawned, or to allow admittance to such house, shop or other place, such officer may forcibly enter such house, shop or other place and dependencies and make such search where he thinks fit for the goods in question, taking care to do no wilful damage 41 V., c. 3, s. 155. 990. If the pawned goods, or any part of them, be found, and the owner thereof establish by proof, to the satisfaction of the justices of the peace, by the oath or affirmation of a witness, or by the admission of the suspected person, that they so belong to such owner, the justices of the peace shall cause the same to be forthwith returned to such owner, and the occupant of such house, shop and other place shall incur the penalty mentioned hereinafter. 41 V., c. 3, s. 156. presentatives. 991. The provisions of this section, regarding pawnbrokers Provisions and pawners, extend to their representatives, but the latter apply to reshall not be liable to any penalty, unless incurred through their own acts. 41 V., c. 3, s. 157. 992. Every contravention of the above articles relative to Penalty for pawnbrokers, wherein a penalty is not thereby specially im- divers contraposed, is punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars, or more than fifty dollars, in the discretion of the court. 41 V., c. 3, s. 158. VII.-FINES AND PENALTIES AGAINST PEDLARS. out license. 993. Every pedlar, travelling from town to town, and from Penalty for house to house in this Province, to sell or expose for sale goods selling withand merchandise, with the exception of those exempt by article 870, without being the holder of a pedlar's license, as hereinabove described, is liable to a fine of forty dollars for each article which he sells, barters or delivers, under any title whatsoever. 41 V., c. 3, s. 159. arrest. 994. Every collector of provincial revenue, constable or Summary officer of the peace, may arrest and detain every pedlar trafficking without a license asafore said, and bring him before two justices of the peace, nearest to the place where such contravention has been committed, for the purpose of immediately prosecuting him for such contravention; but he shall not be Duration of detained, without warrant of arrest, for any longer space of time than forty-eight hours. 41 V., c. 3, s. 160; 46 V., c. 6, s. 1. arrest. refusal to ex. 995. Every licensed pedlar who refuses to exhibit his Arrest for license to such collector of provincial revenue, constable or hibit license. peace officer, upon his request, and, after the lapse of a reasonable delay, may, in the same manner, be arrested and brought before two such justices of the peace, and be detained, until he has exhibited his license, provided that, in either case, he be not detained, without warrant of arrest, for more than Duration of forty-eight hours. Such pedlar becomes liable to a penalty of five dollars for each refusal to exhibit his license. 41 V., c. 3, s. 161; 46 V., c. 6, s. 1. arrest. Penalty. other cases 996. Every pedlar, who leases or lends his license, or traf- Penalty fics with a license granted to another person, or with a license in which his own name is not inserted, as the name of the son to whom such license has been granted, incurs a fine of forty dollars for each contravention. 41 V., c. 3, s. 162. per Regulations. Limits. Conditions and duties. Rates. Publication of the rates. Time for cross ing. Fines. Effect of regulations. Publication of VIII. REGULATIONS RESPECTING FERRIES, AND PENALTIES FOR CONTRAVENTIONS. 997. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make and revoke, as required, the regulations he deems proper for the following purposes, viz: 1. To establish the extent and the limits of ferries; 2. To define the modes and conditions of the issuing of licenses, the time for which they are issued, and the duty or sum payable for such licenses; 3. To fix the tariffs and rates for which persons and goods shall be crossed on such ferries, and the manner in which such tariffs and rates shall be published, and the places of such publication; 4. To fix the time, the hours and the fractions of hours, during which the vessels employed on such ferries shall cross and recross, or start from one side or the other of such ferry for that purpose; 5. To impose fines for every contravention of such regulations. Such regulations have, during the time for which they shall be in force, the same effect as if they formed part of this section. 41 V., c. 3, s. 163. 998. The Provincial Secretary shall cause to be published regulations. all the regulations established, as aforesaid, in the French and English languages, in the Quebec Official Gazette, at least three times during the three months which follow their date, and every number of the Gazette containing a copy of such regulations or of any of them, is proof of their existence. 41 V., c. 3, s. 164. Interpreta man." 999. The proprietor, master or person in charge of any tion of "ferry- vessel employed for the transport of persons or goods over a ferry, as above stated, is considered to have acted as ferryman, within the meaning of this section, and is liable to all the fines imposed under its authority, if he infringe the same, by acting in such manner. 41 V., c. 3, s. 165. Penalty. Interpreta tion of "gain." IX. PENALTIES RELATIVE TO KEEPING BILLIARD TABLES. 1000. Any one who keeps for gain a billiard table, without having a license still in force to that effect, as hereinbefore stated, renders himself liable to a fine of fifty dollars for each table so kept by him. 41 V., c. 3, s. 166. 1001. All sums of money or value paid, furnished or promised, directly or indirectly, by those who play upon such billiard tables to the keeper of the same, his employees or representatives, for so playing on the same, is considered gain within the meaning of this section. 41 V., c. 3, s. 167. ed to be upon 1002. Every person, holding a license for a billiard table, Number of the shall cause to be painted or engraved, upon such table, in license requirvisible and legible characters, the number of the license by each table. virtue of which he is authorized to keep such table; and he shall also cause the said license to be exposed, in a prominent exposed in a and visible manner, in the apartment in which such billiard visible mantable is placed. 41 V., c. 3, s. 168. License to be ner. 1003. Every such person incurs a fine of fifty dollars for Penalties. each week during which he contravenes the provisions of the preceding article; all persons likewise, who intentionally remove, deface or conceal any number so painted or engraved, incur a like fine of fifty dollars for each contravention. 41 V., c. 3, s. 169. X-FINES AND PENALTIES RELATIVE TO POWDER MAGAZINES AND THE zine. 1004. Any person who keeps or makes use of a powder Penalty remagazine for the storage of powder, without a license, shall be lative to the keeping of a liable to a penal prosecution under which he may be condemn- powder maga ed to a fine of five hundred dollars, for all contraventions of this article committed up to the time of the institution of such prosecution, if it be the first, and, in case of a repetition of the offence, he may be again prosecuted and condemned to pay a like fine of five hundred dollars for all contraventions committed in the interval between the first prosecution and the second, and, so on, from one prosecution to another. 41 V., c. 3, s. 170. Interpreta tion of" powder maga 1005. Every building used for the storage or keeping of any quantity of powder, exceeding in weight twenty-five pounds, is held to be a powder magazine, within the meaning of this zine." section. 41 V., c. 3, s. 171. 1006. No person shall keep for his own use, and not for No one to sale or storage, in any building other than a powder maga- than certain keep more zine, any quantity of powder weighing more than ten pounds; quantity for and in keeping it he shall store it in a metal box or case, at his own use. a sufficient distance from all inflammatory agents, such as a lamp, candle, light, gas, stove, stove-pipe, hearth or fire, (and the above enumeration shall not be limitative,) or otherwise he shall be liable to a penal prosecution, in which he may Care required be condemned to the payment of a fine of twenty dollars in of every person keeping the same manner and in accordance with the rules mentioned powder. in article 1004 for all contraventions of this article. 41 V., c. 3, s. 172. 1007. No provision of this section applies to powder maga- Magazines of zines, or to the magazines of Her Majesty, nor does it affect Her Majesty, the transportation, by the troops of Her Majesty, on military &c., exempt. service, of the munitions of war, going into or coming from powder magazines of Her Majesty. 41 V., c. 3, s. 173. Regulations 1008. Every person who sells or keeps for sale, whether by wholesale or retail, any quantity of powder, without having obtained a license to that effect, renders himself liable to a fine of ten dollars for each sale; and a similar penalty for keeping powder for sale. 41 V., c. 3, s. 174; 43-44 V., c. 11 s. 34. 1009. Every person keeping powder for sale shall constantly keep, conspicuously designated, the part or parts of the building, where the powder is lodged, and keep placed, above the entry of such building, a sign bearing these words: 'Licensed to sell powder," under a penalty of a fine of five dollars, for each week, during which he contravenes this article. 41 V., c. 3, s. 175; 43-44 V., c. 11, s. 35. 1010. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, from time for transport- to time, make the necessary regulations conformably to the and delivery. provisions of this section, for the reception, transportation, storage and delivery of powder. 41 V., c. 3, s. 176. ation, storage General prohibition. Penalty. Responsibility of proprietor or tenant. Provincial powder magazine. Guardians of magazine. Guard or lease of such powder magazines. 1011. No quantity of powder shall be stored, kept, removed, received or delivered, except in conformity with the provisions of this section, and the regulations made or which shall be made by virtue of the preceding article. 41 V., c. 3, s. 177. 1012. These regulations may impose penalties for every infraction, or for all infractions of the provisions of this section, relative to powder, for which no penalty has been imposed. 41 V., c. 3, s. 178. 1013. Every proprietor and lessee of any powder magazine are personally liable for all the penalties imposed, for the contravention of any regulations made by virtue of this section, respecting the removal of powder coming from or going to such powder magazines. 41 V., c. 3, s. 179. 1014. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, through the intermediary of any functionary, or of such person as he may name for that purpose, acquire from the Government of the Dominion of Canada, or from any person whomsoever, or he may cause to be built, one or several powder magazines within the limits of this Province. 41 V., c. 3, s. 180. 1015. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may also appoint or employ the functionaries or persons he deems necessary for the care, maintenance and the general service of every powder magazine, with such remuneration as he considers reasonable. 41 V., c. 3, s. 181. 1016. These powder magazines may be kept and guarded, for the benefit of the Province, by the functionaries or persons, mentioned in the preceding article, or may be leased to private |