may be

applied to such reconveyance.

Proceedings if such person

becomes chargeable

&c.

be applied to pay for such reconveyance of the person with respect to whom it has been paid, and when such person has been so reconveyed, the Bond so given may be cancelled, or the money paid in lieu thereof (deducting the passage money if any) may be returned, on the receipt by the said Agent for Immigration of a certificate of the safe arrival of the lunatic, idiotic, deaf and dumb, blind or infirm person at the port from which he was brought as aforesaid, under the hand of the Chief Emigration Officer or British Consul there, or on proof satisfactory to such Agent for Immigration of his having died during the voyage without any fault attaching to the Owner, Master or any of the Crew of such vessel.

13. If any Passenger, in respect to whom any Bond has been given as aforesaid, becomes at any time within three years from the execution thereof, chargeable upon Canada, or upon any upon Canada, Province, Municipality, Village, City, Town, or County, or upon any Charitable Institution within Canada, the payment of such charge or expense incurred for the maintenance and support of such Passenger shall be provided for out of the moneys collected on and under such Bond, to the extent of the penalty therein contained or such portion thereof as is required for the payment of such charges or expenses.

Penalty for

neglect or re

fusal to execute bond.

How such

bond shall be disposed of.

-how ascer

tained.

14. If the Master of any vessel, on board which such Passenger specially reported as aforesaid has been carried, neglects or refuses to execute the said Bond, or to pay the sum which he may pay instead of giving such Bond, forthwith after the said ship has been reported to the Collector of Customs, such Master shall incur a penalty of four hundred dollars, and the said Vessel shall not be cleared on her return voyage until the said Bond has been executed or the said sum paid, nor until the said penalty has been paid with all costs incurred on any prosecution for the recovery thereof.

15. After any such Bond as aforesaid has been executed, the Collector of Customs shall transmit the same to the Receiver General of Canada, to be by him kept and held, during the said period of three years from the execution of the said Bond, or until the payment of the penalty therein mentioned (if incurred) has been enforced :

Necessity of 2. For the purpose of ascertaining the necessity of such enforceenforcing bond ment, the Immigration Agents, upon representation made to either of them, in their respective portions of Canada, shall ascertain the right and claim to indemnity for the maintenance and support of any such specially reported Passenger, and shall report the same to the Governor through the Minister of Agriculture, and the said report shall be final and conclusive in the matter, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated;

Penalty to be 3. And the said penalty, or so much thereof as is sufficient sued for. from time to time to defray the expense incurred for the main

tenance

tenance and support of any Passenger for whom the said Bond was given as aforesaid, shall be prosecuted for and recovered by suit or information in Her Majesty's name, in any Court in Canada having jurisdiction in civil cases to the amount for which such suit or information is brought.

PAUPER IMMIGRANTS.

pauper or des

16. The Governor may, by proclamation, whenever deemed Landing of necessary, prohibit the landing of pauper or destitute Immigrants titute immiin all Ports or any Port in Canada, until such sums of money as grants may be prohibited. may be found necessary are provided and paid into the hands of one of the Canadian Immigration Agents, by the master of the vessel carrying such Immigrants, for their temporary support and transport to their place of destination; and during such time as any such pauper Immigrants would, in consequence of such orders have to remain on board such vessel, the Governor may provide for proper anchorage grounds being assigned to such vessel and for such vessel being visited and superintended by the Medical Superintendent or any Inspecting Physician of the Port or Quarantine Station, and for the necessary measures being taken to prevent the rise or spread of diseases amongst the passengers, in such vessel and amongst people on shore.

PROVISIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PASSENGERS.

remain on

after arrival in

17. Every Passenger on board any Vessel arriving in the Port or Passengers to Harbour to which the Master of such Vessel engaged to convey be entitled to him, shall be entitled to remain and keep his luggage on board board fortysuch vessel during forty-eight hours, after her arrival in such Port eight hours or Harbour; and every such Master who compels any Passenger port to leave his Vessel before the expiration of the said term of fortyeight hours shall incur a penalty of not exceeding twenty dollars, Penalty for for every passenger he so compels to leave his Vessel, nor shall the Master of the Vessel remove, before the expiration of the said forty-eight hours, any berthing or accommodation used by his Passengers, under a like penalty, except with the written permission of the Medical Superintendent at the proper Quarantine Station.

contravention.

to be landed

18. The Master of any Vessel having Passengers on board, shall Passengers land his Passengers and their luggage free of expense to the said and luggage Passengers, at the usual Public Landing Places in the Port of free of exarrival, according to orders which he may receive from the authori- pense. ties of the said Port, and at reasonable hours not earlier than six of the clock in the morning, and not later than four of the clock in the afternoon; and the Vessel shall, for the purpose of landing Passengers and luggage, be anchored in such convenient and safe place, or moored at such wharf as may be appointed for that purpose by the authorities of the Port.

Governor may appoint landing places.

Regulation as to the landing of passengers.

19. The Governor in Council may, by proclamation, from time to time, appoint the place at which all Immigrants and Passengers arriving at any Port in Canada, other than such as may be specially excepted in such proclamation, shall be landed, and may, in and by such proclamation, make such regulations as he shall think proper, for the government of the place so appointed, and for the protection of the Immigrants landed thereat, and such proclamation being published at least twice in the Canada Gazette, with an interval of at least six days between each publication, shall have the force of law, and shall be in force until suspended by a later proclamation for the like purpose, published as aforesaid; and at the place so appointed the Governor may cause proper shelter and accommodation to be provided for Immigrants until they can be forwarded to their place of destination; and any contravention of any such proclamation as aforesaid, or of any regulation therein contained, shall be deemed a contravention of this Act;

2. The Master of any vessel arriving in any Port in Canada and having on board the same any Immigrants or Passengers to whom any such proclamation as aforesaid then in force shall apply, shall land such Immigrants or Passengers and their luggage free of expense at the place so appointed, and at reasonable hours, not earlier than six in the morning nor later than four in the afternoon, and the vessel shall, for the purpose of landing such Immigrants or Passengers and their luggage, either be moored at the wharf at the place appointed for such landing, or anchored in the Port; and the masters of such vessels, so anchored, shall duly land, within the hours aforesaid, by steam tug, or other proper tender, their passengers at such wharf as aforesaid, and not elsewhere, under a penalty of forty dollars for each offence against the provicontravention. sions of this section or the next preceding section:

Penalty for

Penalty for

breach of law

master of vessel, with

respect to foreign immi

grants.

20. And for the purpose of securing to Foreign Immigrants, or contract by coming to Canada, the observance towards them during the voyage of the laws of the Country from which they are conveyed hither,if during the voyage of any Vessel carrying Passengers or Immigrants from any Port not within the United Kingdom to any Port in Canada, the Master or any of the crew of such Vessel, are guilty of any infraction of the laws in force in the Country in which such Foreign Port is situate, regarding the duties of such Master or crew towards the Passengers in such Vessel,—or if the Master of any such Vessel do during such voyage commit any breach whatever of the contract for the passage made with any Passenger or Immigrant by such Master, or by the Owner or Charterer of such vessel, or any person acting on his behalf,-such Master or such one of the crew shall for any such offence be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars independently of any remedy which the party complaining otherwise has by law.

case.

21. Proof under this Act of the law of a Foreign Country may Proof, how be made by the testimony of any Consul for the Country from made in such which the vessel sailed; and the proof of the contract for his passage made by any such Immigrant in any such vessel sailing from any European Port not within the United Kingdom, may be made in all cases by the evidence of the parties to such contract.

immigrants as

22. No person shall, at any port or place within Canada, for Soliciting and hire, reward or gain, or the expectation thereof, conduct, solicit, or recommending recommend, either orally, or by handbill or placard, or in any other to lodgings, manner, any Immigrant, to or on behalf of any steamboat owner routes, &c., or charterer, or to or on behalf of any Railway Company, or to or except by' prohibited, on behalf of any lodging house-keeper or tavern-keeper, or any licensed perother person, for any purpose connected with the preparations or sons. arrangements of such Immigrant for his passage to his final place of destination in Canada or in the United States of America or the territories thereof; or give or pretend to give to such Immigrant any information, oral, printed or otherwise, or assist him to his said place of destination, or in any way exercise the vocation of booking passengers or taking money for their inland fare or for the transportation of their luggage, unless such person has first obtained a license from the Mayor of the City or municipality in Canada within which such person resides, authorizing him to act in such capacity; and any person so acting without having first obtained such license, shall, upon every conviction, Penalty. incur a penalty of not less than fifty dollars:

obtained: du

2. Such Mayor may grant such license on such person producing License, how a recommendation from the Government Immigration Agent ration and nearest to the place where the license is granted, to the effect that cost. he is a proper person to receive such license, and on his giving à satisfactory bond to the Mayor, with two sufficient sureties in the penal sum of three hundred dollars, as security for his good behaviour; and such license shall not be for any period longer than one year from its date; and such person shall pay for such license to the Corporation of such City or Municipality such sum, not exceeding one hundred dollars, as the Mayor and Council shall

determine.

ed in taverns,

23. Every keeper of a Tavern, Hotel or Boarding-house in a Lists of prices City, or in any Town, Village or place to which the Governor by to be display. Proclamation published in the Canada Gazette, declares that this &c. section shall extend, who receives into his house, as a Boarder or Lodger, any Immigrant within three months from his arrival in Canada, shall cause to be kept conspicuously posted in the public rooms and passages of his house and printed upon business cards, a list of the rates of prices which will be charged to Immigrants per day and week for board or lodging, or both, and also the rates for separate meals, which card shall contain the name of the keeper of such house together with the name of the street in which it is situated, and its number in such street:

Penalty for contravention

Boarding

house keeper,

&c, not to have lien on

immigrants' goods beyond five dollars.

Duties, penal

a lien upon

the vessel.

2. Every keeper of any such Tavern, Hotel or Boarding-house, neglecting or refusing to post a list of rates, or to keep business cards, or charging or receiving, or permitting or suffering to be charged or received for boarding or lodging, or for meals in his house, any sum in excess of the rates or prices so posted and printed on such business cards, or omitting immediately on any Immigrant entering such house as a boarder or lodger for the purpose of taking any meal therein, to deliver to such Immigrant one of such printed business cards, shall, upon conviction of any of the said offences, be deprived of his license and incur a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars;

3. And no such Boarding-house Keeper, Hotel Keeper, or Tavern Keeper shall have any lien on the effects of such Immigrant for any amount claimed for such board or lodging, for any sum exceeding five dollars; and any such person detaining the effects of any immigrant after he has been tendered the said sum of five dollars or such less sum as is actually due for board or lodging, shall, on conviction thereof, incur a penalty of not less than five dollars, or more than twenty dollars, over and above the value of the effects so detained, if not immediately restored, and a search warrant may be issued for the same.

RECOVERY OF DUTIES AND PENALTIES.

24. Every duty, penalty or forfeiture, imposed or declared ties, &c., to be under the authority of this Act, shall be a special lien upon the vessel by reason whereof it has become payable and the master whereof has become liable in such penalty, and may be enforced and collected by the seizure and sale of the vessel, her tackle, apparel and furniture, under the warrant or process of the Justices or Court before whom it has been sued for and recovered, and shall be preferred to all other liens or hypothecations except mariners' wages.

Where prose

25. All prosecutions for penalties under section twenty-three cutions under of this Act, may be brought at the place where the offender then 8. 23 may be brought. is, before any Magistrate having jurisdiction in such place at the suit of any Agent for Immigration in the employ of Her Majesty, in Canada; and the penalties to be recovered under the said section shall be paid into the hands of the Receiver General, to form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada;

Magistrate may award

part of penalty to party ag

grieved.

2. The Magistrate before whom any such penalty is recovered may, in his discretion, award any part of the penalty to the party aggrieved by the infraction of law or breach of contract complained of, and may award costs against the offending party, as in the ordinary cases of summary proceedings, and may also award imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, to terminate on payment of any penalty incurred under the said section.