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the vessel.

by a fine of twenty-five dollars for each occasion on which he so directs or permits the provisions of this section to be violated by any officer, seaman or other person employed on board of such vessel; provided always that the provisions of this section shall not apply to cabin passengers, or to any part of the vessel assigned to their use.

13. It shall be the duty of the master or commander of every posted up in ship or vessel bringing immigrant passengers to Canada, while the vessel is in such waters as aforesaid, to post a written or printed notice in the English, French, and German languages, containing the provisions of the next preceding section of this Act, in a conspicuous place on the forecastle and in the several parts of the said vessel assigned to immigrant passengers, and to keep the same so posted during the rest of the voyage, and upon neglect so to do he shall on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

New form of
passenger
list.

Penalties how

14. The passenger list required by section five of the Act hereby amended, to be delivered to the Collector of Customs at the Port of Landing, shall be in the form of Schedule A to this Act, which form is hereby substituted for Schedule A to the said Act, and a certified copy or duplicate of such passenger list shall be delivered to the Government Immigration Agent at the Port of Landing, nor shall any passenger be permitted to leave the vessel until such duplicate or certified copy has been delivered to such Immigration Agent, under the penalty provided by the said section for permitting passengers to land before the passenger list therein mentioned is delivered to the Collector of Customs.

15. All penalties imposed by this Act, or any regulations to be enforced and made under it, shall be enforced and applied in like manner as applied. penalties imposed by the Act hereby amended or the regulations made under it, are thereby directed to be enforced and applied; and this Act shall be construed as one Act with the Act hereby amended, and as regards all things to be hereafter done, as if the enactments herein contained were part of the said amended Act.

Interpretation clause.

Short Titles.

16. For the purposes of this Act, and of the Act hereby amended, any person shall be deemed to be a Dominion Immigration Agent or Sub-agent, or a Provincial Immigration Agent, whom the Minister of Agriculture shall recognize as such, with reference to any act done or to be done, under either Act, without any formal appointment being necessary; and the expression Immigration Agent" includes any such Sub-agent, in Europe or in Canada.

17. In citing this Act and the Act amended by it, it shall be sufficient to call them "The Immigration Acts of 1869 and 1872.”

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I hereby certify that the above is a correct description of the (Description of the Vesse' as Ship, Brig, &c.) (Name of Vessel), and a correct list of all the Passengers on board the same, at the time of her departure from (Place from whence she came), and that all the particulars therein mentioned are true.

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Signature of Master.

CAP.

CAP. XXIX.

Preamble.

Immigration Districts, agents and offices.

1

An Act to provide for the incorporation of Immigration Aid
Societies.

FOR

[Assented to 14th June, 1872.]

NOR the purpose of encouraging and facilitating immigration into Canada, from the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe; Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. The Minister of Agriculture shall from time to time, divide each of the several Provinces of Canada'into immigration districts; in each there shall be an immigration office and an Immigration Agent, and such division, and any alteration thereof shall be notified in the Canada Gazette, and each such district shall be known as the immigration district of the place where the immigration office is kept.

Formation of 2. In each immigration district, an Immigration Aid Society or Societies, and their purpose. Iminigration Aid Societies, for the purpose of assisting immigrants to reach Canada from Europe, and to obtain employment on their arrival in Canada, and of enabling persons in Canada in want of laborers, artisans, or servants, to obtain them by such immigration, may be formed under this Act; each such society consisting of not less than twenty-five persons, whether resident or not in the immiSubscriptions and capital. gration district, agreeing to form such society, and to subscribe among them, as the capital of the society, not less than five hundred dollars, in shares of twenty dollars each, one-half of which at least shall be paid, on subscribing the declaration of membership hereinafter mentioned, into the hands of a person agreed upon as their Secretary-Treasurer by the persons (not being less than twenty-five) present at the meeting at which it is agreed to form such society.

Formalities to be complied with for the purpose of such formation.

Agreement.

3. The persons agreeing to form such Society shall elect or agree upon a President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and Board of Management, composed of not less than five members, including the officers above mentioned, and shall adopt a constitution and by-laws, and shall respectively sign a declaration to the effect following: "We, the undersigned, hereby associate ourselves together as 'The Immigration Aid Society No......, of the Immigration district of ,' and we hereby bind ourselves to observe and obey all the requirements of 'The Immigration Aid Societies Act, 1872,' and to pay respectively into the hands of the Secretary-Treasurer the amount of stock set opposite our respective names, one-half on subscribing this declaration, and the other half by the instalments and in the manner hereinafter provided; and we further bind ourselves to observe and obey the constitution and by-laws of the Society, which are as follows:"

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Then

Then shall follow the constitution and by-laws, which shall declare Constitution the objects of the Society to be those mentioned in section two and and rules of Society. such other special objects (if any) as it may be thought necessary to enumerate; and shall contain the names of the first President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, and members of the Board of Management; the place where the Society will have its office and hold its meetings; the manner in which the remainder of the stock of the Society shall be paid up; the annual subscription to be paid by members, if such subscription be deemed advisable; the admission of new members; the duties and powers of the Board of Management and officers; the time during which the officers and other members of the Board of Management shall remain in office; the regular meetings of the Society, and the mode of calling and holding special meetings, and the quorum, and mode of voting thereat; the mode of filling vacancies among the officers and members of the Board of Management, or the performance of their duties by others during their absence; the period for which the Society shall continue, and the mode of dividing its assets at the end of such period, or its profits from time to time during such period; and generally such provisions as may be deemed necessary or expedient for the well-working of the Society and the attainment of the objects for which it is formed: then shall follow the signatures of members, and in columns opposite thereto, the amounts of stock for which they respectively subscribe, and the amounts paid up: the declaration shall then be dated and attested by the signatures of the President or VicePresident and of the Secretary-Treasurer.

Attestation.

be sent to the

and certificate.

4. The declaration shall be made in duplicate, and the duplicates Duplicate of shall be delivered or sent by the Secretary-Treasurer to the Immi- declaration to gration Agent of the district, who shall compare it with this Act, district agent and with such instructions as may have been given him on the for approval subject by the Minister of Agriculture, and who, if he has any doubt as to its being conformable to this Act and to such instructions, may forward it to the Minister for his opinion; and if it be not found so conformable, the Immigration Agent shall return both duplicates to the Secretary-Treasurer, informing him of the fact and of the objection to which the declaration is liable; but if it be found to be so conformable, he shall certify the fact under his hand on both duplicates, and shall retain and keep one of them in his office, and shall return the other to the SecretaryTreasurer.

the Society.

5. If there be no other Immigrant Aid Society in his district, Agent to give the Immigration Agent shall treat the Society as number one, and a number to shall fill the blank left in the declaration for that purpose with that number; but if there be another or others, he shall give each a number in the order in which he certifies the declarations, and shall fill the blank in each with its proper number, according to such order.

6. As soon as the declaration is approved and certified as afore. On approval said, the Society shall be a corporation, or body politic and corpor- become a

Society to

ate, Corporation,

Evidence of duplicate.

Powers of

ing and bor

ate, by the name taken in the declaration, including the number given it by the Immigration Agent, and shall have all the powers, rights and immunities assigned to corporations by the Interpretation Act, including the right to have a corporate seal if they think fit, but it shall not be necessary that the corporate seal (if they have one) should be affixed to any document in order to make it the act or deed of the corporation, but it shall be sufficient for that purpose that the document be signed by the Secretary-Treasurer, and countersigned by the President or Vice-President of the Society, as such, or by the person or persons acting pro tempore in their stead, nor shall the authority or capacity of any person signing the same, or his signature, be called in question by any but the corporation, and if not so questioned shall be admitted in evidence without proof; and any document purporting to be the duplicate copy of the declaration signed by the proper Immigration Agent, shall be admitted as evidence of the facts stated therein, without proof of his signature, unless it be called in question by himself, or by the Minister of Agriculture, or by his authority.

7. The Society shall have power to enter into agreements and Society; lend contracts, either with members of their corporation or with others, rowing money, for any purpose relating to immigration, and to lend and to borrow money, and to take or give any security for the same, and to become a party to any promissory note, bill of exchange or other negotiable security or instrument, in the manner provided as to other documents by section six, and may receive assistance in money or otherwise from municipal or other corporations, or from any institution, society or person, towards enabling them to attain the objects of this Act, on such terms and conditions as may agreed upon, not inconsistent with this Act or with law: Provided Proviso, total always, that the total amount of the liabilities of the Society shall never exceed the amount of its capital subscribed, but not paid up, and the members of the Board of Management shall be personally liable for any excess.

liabilities

limited.

Society may receive appli

immigrants, and act upon them.

be

8. The Society may receive applications from persons desiring cations for the to obtain artisans, workmen, servants or laborers from the United employment of Kingdom, or from any part of Europe, and may enter into any lawful contracts with such persons, including the obligation on the part of such persons to employ the immigrants referred to on their arrival in Canada, in any manner, at any rate of wages, and for any period, under such penalty as damages for nonperformance as may be stipulated in such contract, and may receive in advance all or any part of the money to be expended by the Society, or take security for the repayment of all or any part thereof to the Society, by instalments, or in one sum, as may be agreed upon.

Applications

to be forward

9. The Secretary-Treasurer shall forthwith transmit every ed to district such application, with the requisite information and details, to the agent with re- Immigration Agent of the district, with the amount the Society ciety's action has undertaken to advance towards defraying the expenses to be

port of So

thereon.

incurred

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