Penalty for

perty.

be held, shall, on the request of the Council of the Agricultural and Arts Association, or of the President or Executive Committee of any Agricultural or Horticultural Society, appoint as many policemen or constables as may be required, at the expense of the said Association or of such Society, said policemen or constables to be named by such Association or Society, whose duty it shall be to protect the property of such Association or Society within the Exhibition grounds, and to eject all persons who may be improperly within the grounds, or who may behave in a disorderly manner, or otherwise violate any of the rules or regulations of such Association or Society. 31 V. c. 29, s. 56.

115. If any person wilfully injures or destroys any proinjuring pro- perty within the Exhibition grounds of the Agricultural and Arts Association, or of any Agricultural or Horticultural Society, or hinders or obstructs the officers or servants of the said Association or of such Society, or any policeman or constable duly appointed as aforesaid, in the execution of his duty, or gains admission to the said grounds contrary to the rules of such Association or Society, he shall be liable to a fine of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars; said fine to be enforced and collected as fines are usually collected, and to be paid over to such Association or Society for its use and benefit; and in default of payment the said offender shall be imprisoned in the common gaol for a period of not more than thirty days. 31 V. c. 29, s. 57.

Gambling, &c. to be prevent

ed.

Penalty.

Horse-races

prohibited

116. The officers of any such Association or Society may by their rules and regulations prohibit and prevent all kinds of gambling, theatrical, circus, or mountebank performances, exhibitions, or shows, and also regulate or prevent the huckstering or trafficking in fruits, goods, wares, or merchandize, on the Exhibition grounds, or within three hundred yards thereof; and any person who, after due notice of such rules and regulations, violates the same, shall be liable to be removed by the officers, policemen, or constables of said Association or Society, and be subject to the penalty prescribed by the next preceding section. 31.V. c. 29, s. 58.

117. It shall not be lawful to carry on any horse-racing during Exhibi- during the days appointed for holding any Exhibition by the Agricultural and Arts Association, or by any Electoral District Society, within five miles of the place of holding the same. 35 V. c. 32, s. 10.

tions.

Penalty.

2. Any person who shall be guilty of a violation of this section shall be liable, upon summary conviction before a Justice of the Peace, to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the common gaol of the County for a period not exceeding thirty days. 35 V. c. 32, s. 11.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE A.

(Referred to in Section 19 of this Act.)

1. Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry, Prescott, and Cornwall. 2. Lanark, Renfrew, City of Ottawa, Carleton, and Russell. 3. Frontenac, City of Kingston, Leeds, Grenville, and Brockville.

4. Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox, and Addington.

5. Durham, Northumberland, Peterborough, and Victoria (including Haliburton.)

6. York, Ontario, Peel, Cardwell, and City of Toronto. 7. Wellington, Waterloo, Wentworth, Halton, Dufferin, and City of Hamilton.

8. Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand, and Monck.

9. Elgin, Brant, Oxford, and Norfolk.

10. Huron, Bruce, Grey.

11. Perth, Middlesex, and City of London.

12. Essex, Kent, and Lambton.

13. Algoma, Simcoe, Muskoka, and Parry Sound.

SCHEDULE B.

(Referred to in Sections 35, 51, and 61 of this Act.)

We whose names are subscribed hereto, agree to form ourselves into a Society, under the provisions of "The Agriculture and Arts Act," to be called the Electoral District (or Townsihp), Agricultural (or Horticultural) Society of the Electoral District (or Township, or City, or Town, or incorporated Village) of ; and we hereby severally agree to pay to the Treasurer the sums opposite our respective names and we further agree to conform to the by-laws and rules of the said Society.

I, A. B., of the (Township) of Treasurer of the Electoral District Agricultural Society of make oath and say that the sum of has been reported to me by the Treasurers of the Township Agricultural Societies and of the Horticultural Societies of the said Electoral District, under oath, as provided for in section sixty-eight of "The Agriculture and Arts Act," as and for the members' subscriptions for this year; and that the sum of has been paid into my hands, as subscriptions for this year, by members of the said Electoral District Society; and that the said sums amount in the whole to the sum of ; and that the amounts received as subscriptions to the Electoral District Society now remain in my hands, or have already been disposed of according to law.

I, A. B., of the Township of , Treasurer of the Agri

has been paid into

cultural (or Horticultural) Society of the (Township) of make oath and say that the sum of my hands, as and for the members' subscriptions for this year, in accordance with the list herewith sent to the Treasurer of the Electoral District Society (or to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts, as the case may be); and that the said sum is now in my hands, or has been already disposed of according to law.

Secretary (or Treasurer) of the

Mechanics' Institute, make oath and say that the sum of has been contributed, appropriated, or expended, for the object of a reading-room, for evening class instruction, and for the purchase of books for its library, or for one or more of these objects, for the current year, as provided for, and on the conditions named, in section seventy-seven of the Agriculture and Arts Act.

(Referred to in Section 110 of this Act.)

We, the President and Secretary of the Electoral District Agricultural Society (or Horticultural Society Mechanics' Institute or other Society, as the case may be) of the Electoral District, City, or Town, or incorporated Village) of, hereby certify that President (or other officer, as the case may be) of the said Society (or Institute), has been duly appointed by the said Society (or Institute) to represent it at the approaching Annual (or other) Meeting of the Agricultural and Arts (or other) Association of Ontario, at

day of

next,

CHAP. 18.

Appointment of Inspectors and License Commissioners.

37 V. c. 32, s.

An Act to amend the Acts respecting the Sale of
Fermented or Spirituous Liquors.

[Assented to 2nd March, 1877.]

WH
W the Sale of Fermented or Spirituous Liquors, passed

THEREAS it is expedient to amend the Acts respecting

respectively in the thirty-seventh year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter thirty-two, and in the thirty-ninth year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter twenty-six :

Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. The appointment of Inspectors and License Commissioners may be under the authority of the Lieutenant-Governor.

2. Section eight of the said Act thirty-seventh Victoria, 8, amended. chapter thirty-two, is amended, by substituting for the words "any issuer of licenses without any certificate or any of the terms, conditions, or formalities required in other cases," the words "the Inspector of Licenses for any License District to or from any port in which the vessel sails, or at any port in which she calls."

37 V. c. 32, s.

3. The twelfth section of the said Act is hereby amended by 12, amended. striking out the words "excepting in Townships," in the eleventh line, and by adding at the end of the section the words, " but this last provision shall not apply to taverns in Townships, unless so provided by by-law of the Township Council."

When petition

for license to be presented.

License limited to person and place for which it was granted.

37 V. c. 32,

4. Every petition for a tavern license, which is to take effect on the first day of May in any year, shall be filed with the License Inspector for the District wherein it is to have effect on or before the first day of April next preceding.

5. Subject to the provisions of the said Acts and of this Act as to removals and the transfer of licenses, every license for the sale of liquor shall be held to be a license only to the person therein named and for the premises therein described, and shall remain valid only so long as such person continues to be the occupant of the said premises and the true owner of the business there carried on.

6. The seventeenth section of the said Act, thirty-seventh 8. 17, amend- Victoria, chapter thirty-two, is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor:

ed.