2907. When the withdrawal or resignation of the certificate After withof a reformatory school takes effect, the youthful offenders drawal or resignation, detained therein shall be, by the order of the Lieutenant- children to be Governor, transferred to some other certified reformatory removed. school; and the Lieutenant-Governor may, at any time, order any youthful offender detained in any reformatory prison, to be removed to any certified reformatory school, or any youthful Removal at offender detained in such certified reformatory school to be removed to another. 32 V., c. 18, s. 9.

other times.

certificate to

2908. A notice of the grant of any certificate to a re- Notice of formatory school, or of the withdrawal or resignation of such granting, &c., certificate, shall, within one month, be advertised in the Quebec be published. Official Gazette. 32 V., c. 18, s. 10.

managers to

2909. The managers of any certified reformatory school Power of may, from time to time, make all necessary rules for the make rules. management and discipline of the school under their charge, but such rules shall not be contrary to the provisions of section fifth of this chapter, concerning reformatory prisons for young offenders, or of this section, and shall not be enforced until they have been submitted to and approved by the Lieu- Approval tenant-Governor in Council, and no alteration shall be made in any such rules without such approval. 32 V., c. 18, s. 11.

§ 4.-Inspection of the Schools.

thereof.

shall be

withdrawn.

2910. Every certified reformatory school shall, from time Such schools to time, and at least once in every year, be visited by one of visited and the said inspectors of prisons, and if the Lieutenant-Governor their certifibe dissatisfied with the condition of the said school as reported cates may be to him, he may order that the certificate be withdrawn, and the said certificate shall be deemed to be withdrawn at the expiration of six months from notice to that effect sent by the Provincial Secretary to the managers. 32 V., c. 18, s. 4.

SECTION VII.

LOTTERIES AND BAZAARS.

§ 1.-Interpretative.

2911. The term "personal property" in this section in- "Personal cludes every description of money, chattel and valuable secu- Real property." rity and every kind of personal property whatever; and the preperty." term "real property" includes every description of land, and all estates and interests therein. C. S. C., c. 95, s. 7.

§2.-Nullity of Sales, &c., by means of Lotteries.

2912. Any sale, loan, gift, barter or exchange of any real Sale, gifts, or personal property, by any lottery, ticket, card or other mode &c., founded of chance whatever, depending upon, or to be determined by be null and

on lotteries to

void.

As to pur

chance or lot, shall be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and all such real or personal property so sold, lent, given, bartered or exchanged, shall be forfeited to such person as will sue for the same by action, complaint, or information in any court of record in this Province. C. S. C., c. 95, s. 3.

2913. No such forfeiture shall affect any right or title to chasers with such real or personal property acquired by any bonâ fide purchaser for valuable consideration, without notice. C. S. Č., c. 95, s. 4.

out notice.

Section not to extend to bona fide

2914. Nothing in this section contained shall prevent joint tenants, or tenants in common, or persons having joint interdivisions of ests, droits indivis, in any real or personal property, from dividing such property by lot or chance in the same manner as if this section had not been passed. C. S. C., c. 95, s. 9.

property in

common.

Penalty for making or

publishing a lottery or

kind.

§3.-Penalties.

2915. If any person make, print, advertise or publish, or cause or procure to be made, printed, advertised or published, any proposal, scheme or plan for advancing, lending, giving, scheme of any selling or in any way disposing of any property, either real or personal, by lots, cards, tickets or any mode of chance whatever, or sell, barter, exchange, or otherwise dispose of, or cause or procure or aid, or assist in the sale, barter, exchange, or other disposal of, or offer for sale, barter or exchange, any lot, card, ticket, or other means or device, for advancing, lending, giving, selling, or otherwise disposing of any property, real or personal, by lots, tickets, or any mode of chance whatever. such person shall, upon conviction thereof, before any mayor, alderman, or other justice of the peace, upon the oath of one or more credible witnesses, or upon confession thereof, incur a fine of twenty dollars for each and every such offence, together How enforced with costs, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender's and applied. goods, by warrant under the hand and seal of any such mayor, alderman, or other justice of the peace, of the city, town, county or place where such offence has been committed; such fine shall be paid half to the informer, and the other half shall be paid to the treasurer of the municipality, in which such offence was committed, and shall form part of the funds thereof. C. S. C., c. 95, s. 1.

Penalty for

buying or receiving lottery

tickets.

Imprisonment

2916. Any person buying, bartering, exchanging, taking. or receiving any such lot, card, ticket or other device as in the preceding article mentioned, shall, upon conviction thereof, in like manner as therein mentioned, forfeit the sum of twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered and applied as aforesaid. C. S. C., c. 95, s. 2.

2917. If any person so convicted as aforesaid have not for non-pay- sufficient goods and chattels whereon to levy the penalties

authorized by this section, or do not immediately pay the said ment of penalties, or give security for the same, such mayor, alderman, penalties. or other justice, convicting such person, shall commit him to the common gaol of the district in which the offence was committed, for a period not exceeding three months, unless such fine and costs be sooner paid. C. S. C., c. 95, s. 5.

§ 4.-Appeals.

2918. Any person convicted under the preceding articles Appeal from of this section shall have the same right of appeal from the convictions. judgment of the convicting justice, as in other cases of summary convictions, where an appeal is allowed by law. C. S. C., c. 95, s. 8.

§ 5.-Bazaars and Lotteries in the Province.

to raffles at

2919. The provisions of this section do not apply to any This section raffle for prizes of small value, at any bazaar held for any not to apply charitable object; provided, however, that to entitle any such bazaars for raffle to the exemption hereby declared, permission to hold charitable such bazaar must be obtained from the city or other muni- purposes. cipal council, or from the mayor, or other chief officer of the city, town or other municipality, wherein such bazaar is held, and the articles so thereat to be raffled for must be such only as have thereat first been offered for sale, and must none of them be of a value exceeding fifty dollars. 23 V., c. 36, s. 1.

permitted for

2920. Whenever it is intended to hold a bazaar or lottery, Lotteries, the object whereof is to assist in the construction or support or &c., may be to aid in the payment of the debt of any church, chapel, or certain other religious building, of an hospital, of an asylum, or any objects. charitable establishment whatever, or of any educational establishment, or of a colonization society, within the limits of this Province, such bazaar or lottery may take place without any restriction as to amount; provided the things offered or to Proviso. be disposed of by lottery do not consist of sums of money, notes, bank-notes, bonds, debentures or other negotiable securities of like nature. 32 V., c. 36, s. 1.

2921. Any person contravening any of the provisions of Penalty for the preceding article shall incur a penalty of fifty dollars. 32 contraV., c. 36, s. 2.

§ 6.-Foreign Bazaars and Lotteries.

vention.

2922. The advertising, printing, publishing or recommend- Foreign ing any project, proposition or scheme of drawing by lots, lotteries bazaar or lottery foreign to this Province, as well as the sale, prohibited. offer to sell, or the purchase of any ticket, chance or share in every such lottery, are absolutely prohibited, and whosoever shall offend in any manner whatsoever against this article, shall, for each offence, incur a penalty of fifty dollars, to be re

Penalty.

covered by summary process before a justice of the peace of the district wherein the offence shall have been committed, upon the oath of a credible witness other than the complainant.

Recovery and One half of such penalty shall belong to the party who shall application of have sued for the same, and the other half shall belong to Her penalty. Majesty, and shall form part of the consolidated revenue fund

payment.

of the Province.

Imprisonment If the said fine and the costs of the prosecution are not imin default of mediately paid, the offender, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned in the common gaol of the district in which the offence shall have been committed, for a period of time not to exceed three calendar months, unless the said fine and costs, and those of the imprisonment and conveyance of the offender to the said common gaol be sooner paid. 32 V., c. 36, s. 3.

Limitation of

§7.-Prescription of Suits.

2923. All prosecutions for offences against the provisions of prosecutions. articles 2920, 2921 and 2922, shall be commenced within the space of three months immediately following the commission of the offence, and not thereafter. 32 V., c. 36, s. 4.

Declaration, &c., to be made by printers and publishers of

newspapers, &c.

Declaration, &c., to contain certain particulars.

SECTION VIII.

NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER LIKE PUBLICATIONS.

§ 1. Declarations of the Printers, &c.

2924. No person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published in the Province of Quebec any newspaper, pamphlet or other paper containing public news, or serving the purpose of a newspaper, or for the purpose of posting or general circulation in detached pieces as such newspaper, until a declaration under oath or an affirmation, made and signed as hereinafter mentioned, containing the matters hereinafter mentioned, has been delivered to the clerk of the peace, for the district in which such newspaper, pamphlet, or other paper is printed or published. C. S. L. C., c. 11, s. 1.

2925. Such declaration under oath or affirmation shall set forth the real names, additions, descriptions and places of abode, of every person who is, or who is intended to be, the printer or publisher of the newspaper, pamphlet, or other paper mentioned in such declaration under oath or affirmation, and of all the proprietors of the same, if the number of such proprietors, exclusive of the printer and publisher, does not exceed two; and in case the same exceed such number, then of two such proprietors, exclusive of the printer and publisher; and also the amount of the proportional shares of such proprietors in the property of the newspaper, pamphlet or other paper, and the true description of the house or building wherein such newspaper, pamphlet or other paper is intended to be printed. and the titles of such newspaper, pamphlet or other paper. C. S. L. C., c. 11, s. 2.

2926. In every case where the number of such proprietors, When the exclusive of the printer and publisher, exceeds two, the names number of proprietors of two proprietors, the amount of each of whose proportional exceeds two. shares in the property of such newspaper, pamphlet or other paper, is not less than the proportional share of any other proprietor, exclusive of the printer and publisher, shall be specified and set forth in such declaration under oath or affirmation. C. S. L. C., c. 11, s. 3.

newed on

2927. A declaration under oath or affirmation, of the like Declaration import, shall be made, signed and given in like manner, as often &c., to be reas any of the printers, publishers or proprietors named in such change of declaration or affirmation are changed or change their re- proprietors, spective places of abode, or their printing house, place or office, and as often as the title of the newspaper, pamphlet or other paper is changed. C. S. L. C., c. 11, s. 4.

writing and

2928. Every such declaration or affirmation shall be in Declaration writing, and be signed by the persons making the same, and to be in shall be taken before any justice of the peace for the district signed. in which such newspaper, pamphlet or other paper is printed or published. C. S. L. C., c. 11, s. 5.

must be

four.

2929. Where the persons concerned as printers and pub- By whom it lishers of any newspaper, pamphlet or other such paper, signed, if together with such number of proprietors as are hereinbefore number does required to be named in such declarations under oath or not exceed affirmations as aforesaid, do not altogether exceed the number of four persons, the declaration under oath or affirmation required shall be sworn or affirmed and signed by all the said persons who are adults, and when the number of all such persons exceeds four, the same shall be signed and sworn or affirmed by four such persons, if so many of them are adults, ceed four. or by so many of them as are adults; but the same shall contain the real names, descriptions and places of abode of every person, who is, or is intended to be the printer or publisher, and of so many of the proprietors as are hereinbefore for that purpose mentioned.

If the number

of persons ex

2. The person or persons so signing and swearing or affirm- Notice to be ing to the truth of such declaration or affirmation in the last given by the signers to mentioned case shall give notice, within eight days after such other prodeclaration or affirmation is so delivered as aforesaid, to each prietors, &c. person not signing and swearing or affirming such declaration or affirmation, but named therein as a proprietor, printer or publisher of such newspaper, pamphlet, or other paper as aforesaid, that he is so named therein; and in case of neglect to give such notice, each person who has so signed and sworn or affirmed such declaration or affirmation shall forfeit eighty dollars. C. S. L. C., c. 11, s. 6.