1. Every voter who shall, before or during any election, di- Contracting rectly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his to vote for behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any money, gift, loan or money, &c, valuable consideration, office, place, or employment, for himself or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election; &c. 2. Every person who shall, after any election, directly or in- Receiving directly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, re- money to vote, ceive any money or valuable consideration, on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting, or having induced any other person to vote or to refrain from voting at any election; And any person so offending shall be guilty of a misde- Penalty on meanour, and shall also be liable to forfeit the sum of two bribers. hundred dollars to any person who shall sue for the same, together with full costs of suit. &c., to be il 3. And whereas doubts may arise as to whether the hiring Hiring vehi- ! of teams and vehicles to convey electors to and from the Polls, cles to convey and the paying of Railway Fares and other expenses of voters, voters to polls, be or be not according to law, it is declared and enacted, that legal. the hiring or promising to pay or paying for any horse, team, carriage, cab, or other vehicle, by any candidate, or by any person on his behalf, to convey voters to or near or from the Poll or from the neighborhood thereof, at any election, or the payment by any candidate or by any person on his behalf of the travelling or other expenses of any voter in going to or returning from any election, shall be illegal acts, and the person so offending shall forfeit the sum of thirty dollars for each offence, to any person who shall sue for the same, together with full costs of suit;--And any elector who shall hire any horse, cab, And in Eleocart, waggon, sleigh, carriage, or other conveyance, to any tors as well as candidate or to any agent of a candidate for the purpose of conveying electors to or from the polling place or places, shall ipso facto be disqualified from voting at such election, and for every such offence shall forfeit the sum of thirty dollars to any person who shall sue for the same. 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Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself Persons using or by any other person on his behalf, make use of or threaten to violence or inmake use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflict, or elections to be threaten the infliction by himself or by or through any other guilty of unperson, of any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any manner due influence. practise intimidation upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election, or who shall, by abduction, duresse, or any fraudulent device or contrivance, impede, prevent, or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the franchise of any voter, or shall thereby compel, induce, or prevail upon any Penalty.; Persons not excused from answering be them. voter either to give or refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be deemed to have committed the offence of undue influence, and shall be guilty of a misdeameanor, and shall also be liable to forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars to any person who shall sue for the same, together with full costs of suit. 5. No person shall be excused from answering any question put to him in any action, suit, or other proceeding in any fore Commit- Court, or before any Judge, Commissioner, or Select Comtees, &c., on mittee, touching or concerning any election, or the conduct the ground of any person thereat, or in relation thereto, on the ground that answers of may criminate any privilege, or on the ground that the answer to such question will tend to criminate such person; but no answer given by any person claiming to be excused on the ground of privilege, or on the ground that such answer will tend to criminate him, shall be used in any criminal proceeding against such person, other than an indictment for perjury, if the Judge, Commissioner, or Chairman of the Committee shall give to the witness a certificate that he claimed the right to be excused on either of the grounds aforesaid, and made full and true answers, to the satisfaction of the Judge, Commissioner, or Committee. Contracts elections to be void. 6. Every executory contract or promise or underarising out of taking, in any way referring to, arising out of, or depending upon any Parliamentary Election, even for the payment of lawful expenses, or the doing of some lawful act, shall be void in law; but this provision shall not enable any person to recover back any money paid for lawful expenses connected with such election. Short Title of this Act. Preamble. Certain duties 7. This Act may be called and cited as "The Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1860." CAP. XVIII. An Act respecting certain Duties of Customs. [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. So much of chapter seventeen of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, intituled: An Act respecting Duties of Customs, and the Collection thereof, and of the table of Duties of Customs inwards, thereunto annexed, as imposes any duty on printed books, periodicals and pamphlets, not being reprints of British copyrights, nor blank account books, nor copy books, nor books to be written or drawn upon, nor school or other books which now now are or hereafter may be printed in this Province, is hereby repealed;---Provided always, that copies of such school and other books, shall be deposited with the Customs' Branch of the Department of the Finance Minister, before duty shall be levied upon the same. free. 2. Notwithstanding any thing in the said Act or Table of Articles for Duties, all articles imported bona fide for the use of any Consul certain purof a foreign country, being an alien, and a subject or citizen of poses to be the foreign country he represents, and not engaged in commercial business or professional pursuits, shall be admitted free of duty. 3. This Act shall be construed as one Act with that above Construction cited. of this Act. CAP. XIX. An Act respecting Trade with Foreign Countries. [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] order to promote a direct Trade with Foreign Countries, Preamble. Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Governor in Council, whenever he finds it expedient Governor in in order to promote such Trade as aforesaid, may, by Procla Council may mation, reduce the duty of Customs on the Articles hereinafter reduce the mentioned, to the rates also hereinafter mentioned, that is to tain articles. say: On Wine of all kinds, to twenty per cent. ad valorem ; On Brandy, to thirty per cent. ad valorem ; On Dried Fruits, Currants, Figs, Almonds, Walnuts and Filberts, to twenty per cent. ad valorem ; duty on cer And such reduction shall take place at such time, and be when such subject to such regulations and conditions, as may be prescribed reduction in the Proclamation by which it is made; Provided that the said regulations and conditions may from time to time be Proviso. altered by the Governor in Council. shall take effect. 2. This Act shall be construed as one Act with chapter This Act to be seventeen of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, intituled: construed as An Act respecting duties of Customs and the collection thereof, of Con. Stat. part of cap. 17 and to any Proclamation made under this Act, the enact- of Canada. ments and provisions of the said Act as to Regulations under it by Orders in Council, shall apply. 4* made CAP. CAP. XX. Preamble. Governor in An Act respecting Free Ports of Entry. [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: 1. The Governor in Council may, whenever he deems it Council may expedient, constitute, by Proclamation, a Free Port at some place on the Gulf of St. Lawrence,---and may, in like manner, by another Proclamation, and when he deems it expedient, constitute a Free Port at Sault Ste. Marie. constitute two Free Ports. And define &c. 2. The limits and privileges of each of the said Free Ports their limits respectively, and of any district to be attached thereto, shall be and privileges, defined by the Proclamation by which such Free Port is constituted, which may also contain such Regulations and provisions as the Governor in Council may deem it expedient to make for the protection of the Revenue and for preventing any abuse of the privileges conferred on such Free Port; Provided that the said regulations and provisions may from time to time be altered by the Governor in Council. Proviso. Act to be construed as one Act with cap. 17 of Con. Stat. of Canada. Preamble. 3. This Act shall be construed as one Act with chapter seventeen of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, intituled : An Act respecting Duties of Customs and the collection thereof,-and to any Proclamation issued under this Act, the enactments and provisions of the said Act, as to Regulations made under it by Orders in Council, shall apply, except that no such Proclamation shall be revoked or altered, as regards the establishment of the Port and its limits, at any time within ten years from the date thereof, unless by Act of the Provincial Parliament. CAP. XXI. An Act respecting the Line of Division between Upper and Lower Canada. [Assented to 19th May, 1860.] WHEREAS, on the twenty-fourth of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-one, His late Majesty King George the Third was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order that the then Province of Quebec should be divided into two Provinces, to be called the Province of Upper Canada and the Province of Lower Canada, by separating the said two Provinces according to a certain line of division; and whereas, by reason of certain inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the description of the said line of division in the Order in Council Council in that behalf, doubts have arisen as to the true course and situation on the ground of the said line of division; and whereas such doubts, and the consequent uncertainty as to the limits of electoral, judicial, municipal, territorial and other divisions on each side of the said line have been, and still are, notwithstanding the re-union of the said Provinces, productive of great inconvenience, loss and injury, and of serious impediments to the due administration of justice, and the exercise and discharge of political and civil rights and duties; And whereas it is expedient and highly desirable to remove such doubts, by correctly describing and defining the said line of division, and providing for its being laid down and marked in the field, and to apply a remedy to the evils to which such doubts have given rise; and whereas Commissioners were appointed to enquire into and report upon the said Line and the said Commissioners, being the Honorable Frederick Auguste Quesnel, of the City of Montreal, and Thomas Kirkpatrick Esquire, of the City of Kingston, have, in accordance with their commission in that behalf, made their report to His Excellency the Governor General upon the matters into which they were so commissioned to enquire, which Report bears date the sixteenth February, 1860: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, declares and enacts as follows: Lower Canada described. 1. The said Province of Upper Canada was separated from Line between the said Province of Lower Canada by a line of division Upper and which may now be described as follows, that is to say commencing at the water's edge on the North shore of Lake St. Francis, at a point where the prolongation of a line connecting the two stone monuments now existing at the cove West of Pointe au Baudet strikes the water of the said lake; thence along the line run in a north-westwardly course by Hyacinthe Lemaire St. Germain, sworn Land Surveyor, for the South-Western limit of the Seigniory of New Longueuil, and now bounding certain lots in the said Seigniory, and following the road between part of the Fifth Concession of the Township of Lancaster and the said Seigniory to a point at the distance of three leagues from the site of the former stone monument now under the waters of Lake St. Francis, being the westernmost angle of the said Seigniory; thence northwardly in a straight line to the monument planted by Colonel Bouchette, Surveyor General of Lower Canada, at the extremity of the line surveyed and prolonged by him agreeably to and connecting the five stone monuments now standing, planted by Louis Guy and Pierre Remy Gagnier, sworn Land Surveyors, near Point Fortune, on the Ottawa River, to mark the commencement and course of the Western limit of the Seigniory of Rigaud; thence along the said line, so prolonged, to the Bank of the Ottawa River; thence to the middle of the main channel of the said River; thence ascending along the middle of the said main channel of the said River into the Lake |