Affidavit.

B

I, (here insert full name), a (here insert rank and name of corps), make oath and say as follows:

1. That within the six months immediately preceding the date when I was (enlisted or appointed as the case may be) in the military forces of Canada the last place in which I was resident for thirty days is (here insert place of residence before enlistment, giving where possible the street address, range, township, or such other precise indication thereof as may be practicable) in in the and that I am not qualified

province of

to vote in any other electoral district.

or

1. That immediately before I was (enlisted or appointed as the case may be) in the military forces of Canada I was qualified to be a voter at in the province

of

2. That I have not marked any ballot paper for this election in any electoral district.

3. That I am a British subject of the full age of twenty-one years.

Certificate. I hereby certify that the document contained in this envelope was written in my presence by (here insert name and rank and name of corps in which voter is serving), and according to the best information at my disposal I believe that the statements made in the affidavit are true. Dated at A.D. 19.

this

day of

D

I beg to notify you that I have received a package containing soldiers' votes, and that I will open the same

To

Notice.

day of

Returning Officer.

OTTAWA: Printed by JOSEPH DE LAB ROQUERIE TACHÉ, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty.

HIS

CHAP. 12.

An Act to amend the Criminal Code.

[Assented to 15th April, 1915.]

IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1907, cc. 7, 8,

9, 45; 1908, cc. 10,

18; 1909, c. 9;

1910, cc. 10, 1912, cc. 18,

11, 12, 13;

19; 1913, c. 13;

1914, c. 24.

1. This Act may be cited as The Criminal Code Short title. Amendment Act, 1915.

2. The Criminal Code, chapter 146 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, is amended by inserting the following section immediately after section 75:—

enemies to

Canada.

"75A. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Assisting, liable to two years' imprisonment who incites or assists etc., alien any subject of any foreign state or country at war with leave His Majesty to leave Canada without the consent of the Crown, unless the person accused can prove that assistance to the enemy was not intended, and provided that such inciting or assisting do not amount to treason."

3. The following section is inserted immediately after section 436:

in connection

military

"436A. Every person is guilty of an indictable offence Fraud, etc., and liable to imprisonment for two years, or to a fine not with sale, exceeding five thousand dollars, or to both imprisonment etc., of and fine, who knowingly sells or delivers, or causes to be stores. sold or delivered, to His Majesty or to any officer or servant of His Majesty, any defective military, militia or naval stores of any kind or description, whether such stores are for His Majesty in the right of His Government of Canada, or in the right of any other of His Majesty's dominions, or who in any way commits any act of dishonesty, fraud, or deception upon His Majesty or any of His Majesty's

Liability of officers of

company.

Performing dramatic, etc.,

copyright

works without

consent of author.

Unauthorized changing

title, etc., of copyrighted

to perform

same.

officers or servants in connection with the sale or lease or purchase or delivery or manufacture of such military, militia or naval stores.

"2. If any offence referred to in this section is committed by a body corporate, every director, officer, agent and employee of such body corporate who has knowingly taken any part or share in such fraud, dishonesty or deception, or who knows or had reason to suspect that such fraud, dishonesty or deception would be or was being committed, or knows or had reason to suspect that such fraud, dishonesty or deception has been committed, and does not at once inform His Majesty thereof, shall be liable as well as the body corporate to the penalties imposed by this section in all respects as if such offence was committed by said director or other person, and every such body corporate, director or other person convicted of such offence shall be thereafter incapable of contracting with His Majesty or with any of His Majesty's officers or servants or of holding any contract or office with, from or under Him or them, or of receiving any benefit under any contract so made."

4. The following sections are inserted immediately after section 508:

"508A. Any person who, without the written consent of the owner of the copyright or of his legal representative, knowingly performs or causes to be performed in public and for private profit the whole or any part, constituting an infringement, of any dramatic or operatic work or musical composition in which copyright subsists in Canada, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months, or to both.

"508в. Any person who makes or causes to be made any change in or suppression of the title, or the name of the author, of any dramatic or operatic work or musical drama, etc., composition in which copyright subsists in Canada, or who makes or causes to be made any change in such work or composition itself without the written consent of the author or of his legal representative, in order that the same may be performed in whole or in part in public for private profit, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four months, or to both."

5. The following section is inserted immediately after section 229:

being

house.

"229A. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence Penalty for and liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars inmate of and costs and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for bawdy a term not exceeding two months or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, who is an inmate of any common bawdy house."

6. Any one who has been convicted three or more times Penalty for of any of the offences mentioned in sections 228 and 229A, conviction. third, etc., shall be liable on the third or any subsequent conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than three months and not exceeding two years.

7. Paragraphs (j) and (k) of section 238 are repealed. Vagrancy

8. Paragraph (f) of section 773 as enacted by chapter 9 of the statutes of 1909 is repealed and the following is substituted therefor:

section.

"(f) with keeping a disorderly house under section Summary 228 or with being an inmate of a common bawdy house trial of keeper under section 229A.”

or inmates.

OTTAWA: Printed by JOSEPH DE LABROQUERIE TACHÉ, Law Printer
to the King's most Excellent Majesty.