Inland Revenue. 9th. The right is reserved to the Department of Inland Revenue of rejecting the ferry boat or landing stages, or either of them, should any of them be deemed unsuitable for the service, or unsafe to the public, or inadequate to meet the public wants. The right is also reserved to the Governor in Council to modify the maximum tariff should it be found expedient in the public interest to do so; and the Governor in Council may declare the lease forfeited and void whenever it shall be satisfactorily shewn that the lessee fails to comply with the conditions thereof. 10th. A notice of the rates of fares and tolls to be charged for ferriage shall be put up in a conspicuous place near the ferry landing on both sides, and also on board the ferry boat employed. By Order in Council of the 9th day of April, 1879, the County of Colchester, in the Province of Nova Scotia, was constituted an Inspection Division for the purposes of the Inspection of Staple Articles Act. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1261. By Order in Council of the 25th day of April, 1879, the City of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, was constituted a Port of Entry at which raw or leaf tobacco may be imported in bond. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1334. By Order in Council of the 25th day of April, 1879, the Township of Argyle, in the County of Yarmouth, Province of Nova Scotia, was constituted a separate district for the inspection of Fish and Fish Oils. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1334. By Order in Council of the 27th day of April, 1879, the Town of Chatham, in the Province of Ontario, was added to the list of ports mentioned in the "Act for better securing the payment of duty imposed on Tobacco manufactured in Canada," at which raw or leaf tobacco may be imported into Canada. Vide Canaua Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1372. Justice. Justice. By Proclamation, dated 25th May, 1878, the Act 41 Vict., Chap. 17, intituled "An Act for the better prevention of crimes of violence in cer"tain parts of Canada, until the end of next Session of Parliament," was applied to and put in force in the City of Montreal and County of Hochelaga. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 11, p. 1219. (Act continued by 42 V., c. 31.) By a Proclamation, dated 8th August 1878, the tract of land situate in the Province of British Columbia and described as follows, to wit :— All that parcel of land situate in the District of New-Westminster, in the Province of British Columbia, known as the Penitentiary Reserve and described as follows: Commencing at a point marked with a stone post, situated on the west side of the public road from New-Westminster to the Reserve and on to the Pitt Meadows, thence, at a bearing by compass of north sixty-three degrees thirty minutes west, length two thousand six hundred links; thence north eighty-two degrees west, length three thousand one hundred and forty-five links; thence north twenty-seven degrees twelve minutes east, length one thousand links; thence north thirty-eight degrees fifty-five minutes east, length one hundred and twenty-five links, across the public road; thence north eighty-five degrees twenty minutes west, length nine hundred and thirty-eight links; thence north sixty-seven degrees thirtynine minutes east, length two thousand three hundred and sixty-five links; thence south twenty-two degrees twenty-one minutes east, length one hundred links across the public road; thence south thirty-two degrees twenty-one minutes east, length seven hundred and thirteen links; thence north eighty-one degrees forty-one minutes east, length nine hundred and thirty-seven links; thence north seven degrees forty minutes west, length two hundred and fifty links; thence south twenty-two degrees twenty minutes east, length seven hundred links; thence south twenty-two degrees twenty minutes east, length one hundred links, across the public road; thence north sixty-seven degrees thirty-nine minutes east, length four hundred and fifty-five links to right bank of Frazer River; thence along said right bank to a point distant four thousand and seventy-five links from said last mentioned point, and measured in a right line; thence at a bearing by compass of north sixty-three degrees thirty minutes west, length one hundred links, to the point of commencement; containing ninety-six acres and sixteen hundredths of one acre, more or less,-was declared and constituted a Penitentiary, and is to be so held within the meaning of the " Act respecting Penitentiaries and the inspection thereof," and for all the purposes thereof. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 212. By a Proclamation, dated the 20th day of December, 1878, it was ordered and declared that upon, from and after the first day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, all Justice, &c. the sections of the Act for the better preservation of the peace in the vicinity of Public Works, except sections two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, shall apply to and be in force in all those portions of the said Province of Ontario, of the District of Keewatin, and of the Province of Manitoba, lying within ten miles on each side of so much of the located line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, including the line itself, as is included within sections fourteen and fifteen thereof, now under contract to Messrs. Sifton and Ward, and Sutton, Whitehead and Thompson, respectively, which sections extend from Selkirk (Red River,) in Manitoba, Keewatin (Rat Portage,) in the Province of Ontario. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 704. By a Proclamation bearing date the 19th day of May, 1879, it was proclaimed or declared that the "Act respecting the Offices of Receiver-General and Minister of Public Works" should come into and be in force on and after the twentieth day of May, 1879, Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1496. Fisheries. By Order in Council of the 6th day of July, 1878, the following additional Fishery Regulation for the District of Chester, in the County of Lunenburg, in the Province of Nova Scotia, was made and adopted :- "From Westhaver's Point to New Harbour Point, no nets for the taking of Gaspereaux, Herring or Mackerel, shall be set from sunrise until sunset in each day of the week, within two hundred and fifty yards of the shore, during the fishing season, except Salmon nets in their respective and proper berths. Seines shall not be trapped in the District of Chester." By Order in Council of the 13th day of March, 1879, the following Fishery Regulation was made and adopted : Lobster Fishery. All previous Orders in Council relating to the Lobster Fishery are hereby rescinded, and the following substituted therefor : 1. In that Part of the Province of Nova Scotia, comprising parts of the Counties of Cumberland and Colchester, on the Bay of Fundy, the Counties Fisheries. of Hants, Kings, Annapolis, Digby, Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queen's, Lunenburg, Halifax, Guysborough, Richmond, Cape Breton and Victoria; also in the Province of New Brunswick, comprising parts of the County of Westmoreland, and the Bay of Fundy, and the Counties of Albert, St. John and Charlotte; it shall be unlawful to fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or (without lawful excuse) possess any Lobsters from the first day of August to the first day of April in each year. 2. In that part of the Province of Nova Scotia, comprising the Counties of Inverness, Antigonish, Pictou, and parts of Colchester and Cumberland, on Northumberland Strait; and that part of the Province of New-Brunswick comprising the Counties of Westmoreland (in part), Kent, Northumberland, Gloucester and Restigouche, also, in the Provinces of Quebec and Prince Edward Island,—it shall be unlawful to fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or (without lawful excuse) possess any Lobsters from the 20th day of August to the 20th day of April in each year. 3. It shall be unlawful at any time to fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or possess any female Lobsters in spawn or with the eggs attached, soft shelled, or any young Lobsters of less size than nine inches in length measuring from head to tail, exclusive of claws or feelers; and when caught by accident in nets or other fishing apparatus lawfully used for other fish, they shall be liberated alive at the risk and cost of the owner of the net or other apparatus, or by the occupier of the fishery,—on either of whom shall devolve the proof of such actual liberation. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1099. By Order in Council of the 13th March, 1879, the place called Little Lake, off Mitchell's Bay, near the southern end of St. Ann's Island, in the Lake St. Clair, in the Province of Ontario, was set apart for the natural and artificial propagation of fish. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1099. By Order in Council of the 16th day of May, 1879, the use of trawls or bottom lines was prohibited in that part of the waters bordering on the south shore of Isle Madame, in the County of Richmond, Province of Nova Scotia, from Madame Island Point to Gros-nez. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1501. By Order in Council of the 16th day of May, 1879, the following Fishing Regulation was made and adopted : The close time for shad and gaspereaux shall extend from sunset on Friday evening to sunrise on Monday morning, in each week, during which time it shall be unlawful to fish for, catch or kill, any shad or gaspereaux in the Dominion of Canada." Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1501. Fisheries. By Order in Council of the 16th day of May, 1879, those parts of the General Fishery Regulations adopted by the Governor-General in Council on the 3rd day of April, 1875, fixing close seasons for bass, pickerel and maskinongé, were repealed, and the following Regulation adopted : "In the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec no person shall fish for, catch, kill, buy, sell or possess any bass, pickerel (dorée) or maskinongé, between the 15th day of April and the 15th day of May in each year." Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1501. By Order in Council of the 21st day of May, 1879, the streams known as North River, in the Counties of Argenteuil, Two Mountains and Terrebonne, and Salmon River, in the County of Huntingdon, in the Province of Quebec, with limits extending one half mile on either side of the mouth of each, were set apart for the natural and artificial propagation of fish. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1501. By Order in Council of the 11th day of June, 1879, the Order in Council of 27th August, 1877, setting apart the upper waters of the River Restigouche, in the Province of New Brunswick, for the natural and artificial propagation of fish, was rescinded, and the following Fishery Regulation was substituted in lieu thereof: "The upper waters of the River Restigouche, extending from and including the place called 'Jimmy's Hole' to and including the tributaries and sources of the same in the Counties of Restigouche and Victoria, in the Province of New Brunswick, are hereby set apart for the natural and artificial propagation of fish." Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1616. By Order in Council of the 11th day of June, 1879, the following Fishery Regulation was made and adopted : 66 Fishing for salmon in the Dominion of Canada, excepting under the authority of leases or licenses from the Department of Marine and Fisheries, is hereby prohibited." Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 12, p. 1616. |