CHAP. 66.

Accounts sub

5. The commissioners shall annually submit an account of their expenditure and proceedings, and of the tolls colmitted annually lected, to the sessions for audit; and when approved it shall be filed by the Clerk of the Peace.

and audited by the sessions. Operation of

chapter restrict

ed.

Sessions empowered to make regulations.

Logs, &c., may be brought down

ulations.

6. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to sanction any claim on the provincial revenue in respect of the moneys so borrowed, or to authorize any interference with the navigation or fisheries of the river further than may be absolutely necessary for the purposes contemplated, or to injure or affect private rights further than as expressly provided.

7. The sessions shall, when necessary, make regulations respecting the bringing down of logs, timber and lumber on rivers, and the seasons of the year at which the same shall be brought down and the removal of obstructions thereto; and also as to the placing and upholding of booms with the consent of the owners of the soil on either side of the river, and the times of continuing such booms, and for preventing the booms from obstructing the navigation of the river, and may fix the rates of boomage that shall be paid to the owners of the booms on articles secured thereby, and the manner in which such boomage shall be collected and applied, whether for the repair of the booms or the use of the owners thereof, and also as to the taking of articles from one boom to another; and may appoint persons to take charge of the booms and collect such moneys as may be due under such regulations; and may impose penalties for breach of such regulations of not less than eight dollars nor more than forty dollars: but nothing herein contained shall authorize the removal of any milldam.

Persons may bring logs, timber and lumber down rivers under reg- rivers, in reference to which such regulations have been made; provided they shall in all respects conform to the regulations and do as little damage as possible to the owners of the soil adjoining.

Definition of the word river.

Not to contra

vene Canada law.

9. The word "river" when used in this Chapter shall include streams running into any river.

10. Nothing herein shall be construed to contravene any legislation (intra vires) of the Parliament of Canada.

CHAP. 67.

CHAPTER 67.

OF PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS.

bition how ob

1. The clerk of the license, with the consent of two License for exhi justices of the peace, shall grant a license to any person tained. applying, for holding any show, play or public exhibition, upon such person paying a sum not exceeding five dollars nor less than one dollar per day, at the discretion of the officer granting the license; the money to be paid for such license before the granting thereof, and to be paid for every day for which the license is granted, to be therein expressed, which license shall not be operative out of the county where granted.

license absent or

tance.

2. If the clerk of the licenses shall be absent or shall where clerk of reside more than five miles from the place where it shall living at disbe intended to hold the exhibition, two justices may grant such license, under and subject to the payments, restrictions and regulations in the first section mentioned; and they shall within thirty days after granting the license make return thereof to the clerk of the licenses, and at the same time pay over the amount of duties received therefor.

license.

3. The clerk of the licenses or justices granting any Fee on granting such license shall be entitled to receive therefor a fee of fifty cents.

cense, how recov

4. If any person shall hold any show, play, or public Fine for exhibiexhibition without previously obtaining a license, he shall tion without liforfeit twenty dollars for every day the same shall be held; ered." to be recovered in a summary manner before two justices of the peace, and to be by them within thirty days after receipt paid over to the clerk of the licenses.

to pay over fines.

5. The clerk of the licenses shall, within ten days before Clerk of licenses every sitting of the sessions, pay over to the County Treasurer for county purposes all duties and penalties by him. received under this Chapter.

6. The provisions of this Chapter shall not extend to City of Halifax the City of Halifax.

exempted.

CHAP. 68.

Stray horses, cat

be dealt with.

CHAPTER 68.

OF STRAY HORSES AND CATTLE.

1. Whenever between the first day of November and tle, &c., how to the first day of May any horses or cattle or any swine or sheep shall stray into the yard, barn or enclosure of any person, or be astray and on the premises of any person to whom the owner thereof is unknown, such person may detain the same; and if not claimed within twenty-four hours he shall forthwith thereafter transmit to the town clerk of the township, or, if the place be not within any township, then to the town clerk of the adjoining township, a description of every such animal, with the color, size, ear-mark if any, age, and particular marks thereof, so as the owner may be enabled to recognize it by the description; and shall at the foot thereof write a notice of the time and place of finding such animal, and also the place where the same is detained.

Town clerk's duty and fees.

Proceedings

ant appears.

2. The town clerk shall file the description and notice, and post up a copy thereof in his office aud in three or more public places in the township for at least ten days after he has received the same, for which services he shall be entitled to a fee of twenty cents for every animal.

3. If no person shall claim the animals within ten days. where no claim-after such notice is posted up, the finder may apply to a justice of the peace, who, upon proof of the notice having been duly posted, shall, by order under his hand, direct any constable to sell the animals; and the constable shall forthwith sell the same, having first given notice by adver tisements posted in three of the most public places within the township or settlement for at least six days. No sale shall, however, take place between the thirtieth of April and the first of December; but in case there shall not be sufficient time after the receipt of the order to advertise the sale for some day before the first day of May, the constable shall not proceed to sell until after the thirty-first of October.

Application of proceeds of sale.

4. After deducting from the proceeds of sale five per cent for the constable for his services in advertising and selling, and the reasonable expenses of keeping the ani mals, together with the town clerk's fee, the balance shall be paid to the overseers of the poor for the place where the animals were found, to be applied to the use of the poor thereof, unless claimed by the owner of the animals within twelve months after sale, in which case it shall be paid to the owner.

5. If the owner shall claim his property before sale, he CHAP. 69. shall be bound to pay the finder his reasonable expenses Fees payable of keeping, and also the town clerk's fee, and if advertised where property the reasonable expense of advertising.

claimed before

sale.

ownership or ex

tled.

6. If any question shall arise between the owner or Dispute as to overseers of the poor and the finder, either respecting penses, how setownership or expenses of keeping; either of the parties may apply to two justices of the peace, who shall determine the matter and make such order therein as may appear just.

ing cattle and not

rected.

7. If any person who may have detained any such Fines for detainstray animal shall not within a reasonable time transmit proceeding as in the description and notice to the town clerk as hereinbe- this chapter difore directed, he shall forfeit for every horse or head of cattle not more than eight dollars, and for every hog or sheep not more than four dollars.

make regula

8. The sessions of any county or district may make re- Sessions may gulations for preventing or regulating the going at large tions, and affix of horses, cattle, or sheep, and may affix penalties for the penalties. breach of any such regulations, not to exceed ten dollars, and may also appoint cattle reeves.

affix penalties.

9. The general or any special sessions of the peace for sessions to make any county or district may make bye-laws to prevent the bye-laws and running at large, on any public street, square, common or other public grounds within such county or district of any horses, asses, mules, cattle, sheep, or swine, and may affix penalties therefor, with powers of confiscation, forfeiture, and sale, if considered necessary. Such bye-laws Limited. may, if deemed advisable, be made to apply to particular portions of counties, districts or townships, to be set off by proper descriptions and boundaries. This section shall not apply to the City of Halifax.

CHAPTER 69.

OF THE GOING AT LARGE OF CERTAIN ANIMALS.

make regulations

dogs, &c.

1. The sessions shall make regulations for preventing Fessions shall the going at large of infected horses and cattle, and the respecting infect spreading of distempers among them, and also as to the ed cattle, geese, going at large of dogs, swine and of vicious animals and of geese, and shall affix penalties for breach of any such regulations, which penalties shall not exceed, as respects horses and cattle, twenty dollars, and as respects dogs, swine and geese four dollars.

CHAP. 71. Imprisonment

2. If judgment be given for any such penalty and the defendant shall not pay the same, and shall not have goods for want of goods whereon the same may be levied, he may be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one day for every one dollar of the penalty.

to pay fine.

Bessions may make regulations respecting

sea manure.

Private rights not affected.

CHAPTER 70.

OF THE GATHERING OF SEA MANURE.

1. The sessions may make regulations with regard to the collecting and taking away of sea manure which may be driven by the sea and lodged upon the shores and beaches; and if any person shall transgress such regula tions, he shall for every offence forfeit a sum not exceeding eight dollars.

2. Nothing in this Chapter contained shall extend to take away or abridge any private rights or interests in any of such shores or beaches.

Sessions may make regula

coasting.

CHAPTER 71.

OF COASTING ON HIGHWAYS, ROADS OVER ICE, AND GUIDE

BOARDS.

1. The sessions may make regulations for preventing tions respecting persons from coasting, skating or sliding on the snow or ice down the hills on highways or streets; and may impose a penalty not exceeding one dollar for breach of any such regulation.

ters responsible

Parents and mas- 2. The parents of minors and the masters of apprentices who shall transgress any such regulation shall be liable to the penalty therefor.

for penalties.

Sessions may make regula

over the ice.

3. The sessions may make regulations for ascertaining tions respecting the safest track for roads over the ice on harbors, rivers, tracks and roads creeks, lakes or bogs, and for putting down or continuing bushes or other marks for defining the course of such roads, and to prevent the removal or destruction of such bushes or other marks; and may affix a penalty for breach of any such regulations not exceeding four dollars for each offence, which shall be applied, one-half to the person sueing, and the other half for county purposes.