The Revised Statutes of the Province of Quebec: Promulgated and Published in Virtue of the Acts 50 Victoria, Chapter 5, A.D. 1887, and 51-52 Victoria, Chapter 2, A.D. 1888 ...

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C. F. Langlois, printer to the Queen, 1888
 

Contents

Billiard table licenses 87816
16
ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE
69
LEGISLATIVE POWER
76
Library of the Legislature
159
Amendments to title first of book third
179
TITLE III
181
GENERAL PROVISIONS 698
201
property
207
Deposit Office 769
210
Control of Legislative Grants 776
217
Liabilities of Accountants 811
224
Powder magazine licenses 87819
243
Circus and menagerie licenses 878 21
248
20 Licenses under the Canada Temperance Act 879
249
Provisions respecting rate of rent 885
250
Duties of collectors of provincial revenue as regards the issuing of licenses 892
251
Penalties for illicit sales of intoxica ting liquors and for certain fraudu lent practices 898
252
Obligations imposed upon licensees and penalties for contraventions 910
255
Other penal provisions 928
257
Obligations imposed upon auctioneers and penalties for contraventions 943
260
Duties imposed upon pawnbrokers and penalties for contraventions 954
263
Fines and penalties against pedlars 993
269
Regulations respecting fines and penalties for contraventions 997
270
Fines and penalties relative to powder magazines and the sale of powder 1004
271
Penalties relative to circuses and menageries 1021
273
Inquiry into infractions and the particular duties of collectors of provincial revenue relative thereto 1024
274
Prosecutions 1029
275
In whose name prosecutions are in stituted and procedure thereon 1037
277
Judgments 1055
279
Costs 1060
280
Execution of judgments 1064
282
Recourse by certiorari 1074
284
Additional provisions respecting pro
286
ARTICLE
307
Amendments to title fifth of book first
346
DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS
353
Public lands Jesuits estates and other
356
Duties of the clerk of the peace after the granting of the license 3248
363
Escheats and property confiscated to
380
Prosecutions and fines 1379
384
Fishery divisions and overseers 1388
385
Game Laws 1396
389
Beaver mink otter marten pekan hare muskrat 1399
390
Insectivorous and other birds bene ficial to agriculture 1401
391
Penalties proceedings c 1410
394
Appointments game licenses c 1413
395
Mines 1421
399
Privileges of aliens and reserve of mining rights 1422
400
Additional price exigible in certain cases before working a mine 1425
401
Royalty 1435
403
Method of acquiring mining lands 1439
404
Divisions dimensions and classification of mining divisions 1451
406
Price of locations reserves conditions 1457
407
Appointment of officers in mining divi
408
Inspectorstheir duties and powers 1468
409
Granting of mining licenses 1471
410
Sale of intoxicating liquors 1477
411
Powers to mine on private lands 1481
412
Powers of licensees with respect to claims 1503
416
Alluvial mines 1505
417
Confiscation of claims 1514
419
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COLON
442
directors 1649
458
CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS
464
Horticultural Societies 1676
466
Colonization works 1715
473
Tolls 4975
474
Colonization societies in the cities of Quebec
480
Judges of the Sessions at Quebec and Mont
484
PART FIRST
486
Insurances warrants
489
Tolls on public works
505
TITLE V
513
officers 1882
518
PENSION FUND OF OFFICERS OF PRIMARY
521
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1970
537
Powers of proprietors of licensed houses 3269
543
Amendments to book fourth of the second
549
SUPERIOR EDUCATION 2203
594
INQUIRIES CONCERNING PUBLIC MATTERS
596
ACADEMIES 2231
600
Forms
617
goods 5549
618
TITLE VI
627
CIVIL SERVICE
635
BAR OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 3504
643
Witnesses in civil cases before the Circuit Court 2380
645
Appeals 2386
646
Provisions respecting the Magdalen Islands 2394
647
Writs and orders 2454
662
Places of holding and terms of the court 2458
663
Courts of Oyer and Terminer 2463
664
Magistrates who may hold the court 2470
665
Special provisions respecting Gaspé 2475
666
Rules of practice and tariffs 2477
667
Fines and taxation of witnesses 2480
668
COURTS OF MIXED JURISDICTION 2498
672
Summary convictions under municipal
686
secutions 1082
687
Lists and panels of jurors 2633
700
DEPARTMENT OF THE PROVINCIAL SECRE
705
Summoning of jurors 2656
707
gistrar
715
Use of parchment dispensed with
721
CHAP VIIICOURT HOUSES AND GAOLS 2722
729
TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND MATTERS CON
732
Revenue of the Province
739
LOSSES CAUSED BY THE BURNING OF
743
JUDICIAL STATISTICS 2775
749
TITLE VII
785
Police force at Quebec and Montreal 2877
806
Public Exhibitions 2939
820
c 2710
1
AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF CIVIL
7
Amendments to book fifth of the second part
10
TITLE VIII
12
Amendments to title fourth of book third
15
Duties of proprietors upon the death of
17
Amendments to title seventh of book third
24
Additional duties and privileges of collectors
27
Provisions in connection with chapter sixth
30
Auctioneers licenses 87811
38
Responsibility of municipalities and com
45
CHARITABLE ASSOCIATIONS 3096
46
THE PLACING OUT OF CHILDREN UNDER
48
of provincial revenue 1086
50
Miscellaneous 1091
55
Powers of companies incorporated under
58
Companies for the construction of roads and other works 4998
59
Formation of the company 4998
60
Directors 5003
61
Companies for stoning roads 5064
62
Subscription to shares 5076
63
Directors 5097
64
Penalties and suits 5112
65
Gas and water companies 4794
67
General elections of mayor and councillors 4229
68
Powers respecting apparatus 4855
69
Mutual fire insurance companies in counties 5264
71
Natural gas companies 4892
75
RECTORIES 3439
76
Vacancy in the office of mayor or councillor 4273
78
Sessions of the council 4289
79
Officers of the council 4309
83
Valuators 4353
84
Municipal notices 4356
85
Bylaws of the council 4380
86
Public markets 4408
87
Water supply 4485
88
Electric telegraph companies 4898
98
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS 3127
107
Inspection of insurance companies 5377
108
INTERMENTS AND DISINTERMENTS 3458
109
Formation of the company 4921
123
Books to be kept 4947
125
LAND SURVEYORS AND THE SURVEY
134
LIBRARIES IN SCHOOL MUNICIPALITIES 2236
156
patient 3276
157
Admission of relatives to lunatic asylums 3295
158
Power of visitors to hold inquiries 3323
159
MATTERS RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE 5755
162
Amendments to title second of book fourth
163
NOTARIAL PROFESSION 3604
167
Pawnbrokers licenses 878 13
176
Damages 1522
179
Watercourses and excavations 1523
198
Loans shares and calls 4948
213
Amendments to title fifth of book fourth
214
Penalties for contraventions 1528
221
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 1881
234
Application of penalties 3339
254
Railways 5125
258
Privileges of railway companies 5131
263
Calls 5135
265
Miscellaneous 3354
267
Bylaws notices c 5139
270
Temperance law 1094
280
Provisions in connection with the Civil Code
284

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Page lxix - The administration of justice in the Province, including the constitution, maintenance, and organization of provincial courts, both of civil and of criminal jurisdiction, and including procedure in civil matters in those courts.
Page lxix - Such Works as, although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.
Page lxix - In and for each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions: 1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union...
Page lxxvi - Either the English or the French Language may be used by any Person in the Debates of the Houses of the Parliament of Canada and of the Houses of the Legislature of Quebec; and both those Languages shall be used in the respective Records and Journals of those Houses ; and either of those Languages may be used by any Person or in any Pleading or Process in or issuing from any Court of Canada established under this Act, and in or from all or any of the Courts of Quebec. The acts of the Parliament of...
Page lxix - The establishment, maintenance and management of public and reformatory prisons in and for the province; 7. The establishment, maintenance and management of hospitals, asylums, charities and eleemosynary institutions in and for the province other than marine hospitals ; 8. Municipal institutions in the province; 9. Shop, saloon, tavern, auctioneer and other licences in order to the raising of a revenue for provincial, local or municipal purposes; 10.
Page lxviii - Provinces ; and for greater certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated, that is to say : — 1.
Page lxx - Union by Law conferred and imposed in Upper Canada on the Separate Schools and School Trustees of the Queen's Roman Catholic Subjects shall be and the same are hereby extended to the Dissentient Schools of the Queen's Protestant and Roman Catholic Subjects in Quebec...
Page lxviii - The criminal law, except the constitution of courts of criminal jurisdiction, but including the procedure in criminal matters. 28. The establishment, maintenance, and management of penitentiaries. 29. Such classes of subjects as are expressly excepted in the enumeration of the classes of subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the legislatures of the provinces.
Page lxvii - Property 2 The Regulation of Trade and Commerce 3 The raising of Money by any Mode or System of Taxation. 4 The borrowing of Money on the Public Credit. 5 Postal Service. 6 The Census and Statistics. 7 Militia, Military and Naval Service, and Defence. 8 The fixing of and providing for the Salaries and Allowances of Civil and other Officers of the Government of Canada.
Page lxviii - Tender. 21. Bankruptcy and Insolvency. 22. Patents of Invention and Discovery. 23. Copyrights. 24. Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians.

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