Penalty for selling without licence. Recovery of penalties. Street letter Punishment of persons Boxes, &c. per cent. on the amount of their sales; and it shall not be lawful for any person to exercise the business of selling Postage Stamps or Stamped envelopes to the Public unless duly licensed so to do by the Postmaster General and under such conditions as he may prescribe; and any person who shall violate this provision by selling Postage Stamps or Stamped envelopes to the Public without a license from the Postmaster General, shall on conviction before a Justice of the Peace, incur a penalty of not exceeding forty dollars for each offence. 4. The penalties imposed by this Act shall be recoverable by the Postmaster General before any one Justice of the Peace in a summary manner, and if not paid may be levied by distress under warrant of such Justice, and the proceedings for the recovery of any such penalty shall be subject, as to evidence and proof of the offence, to the provisions contained in the sixty-second section of the Post Office Act. 5. The Postmaster General may, when in his judgment the public convenience requires it, establish Street Letter Boxes or Pillar Boxes for the reception of letters and other mailable matter in the streets of any City or Town in this Province, and from the time that a letter is deposited in any such Street Letter Box or Pillar Box it shall be deemed to be a Post Letter within the meaning of the Post Office Act. 6. If any person wilfully or maliciously injures or destroys damaging such any Street Letter Box, Pillar Box or other receptacle established by authority of the Postmaster General for the deposit of letters or other mailable matter, such person shall on conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour punishable by fine or imprisonment or both in the discretion of the Court before which the offender is convicted, and every person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of this offence shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and be indictable and punishable as a principal offender. Extension of money order 7. The Governor in Council may, by regulations to be from time to time made, extend the money order system so as to system to other include the granting of money orders on postmasters in the Provinces of B. N. A. Transmission of patterns, &c., by mail. other provinces of British North America, and the payment of money orders drawn by such postmasters on postmasters in this province, on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in such regulations. 8. The Governor in Council may, by regulations to be from time to time made, provide for the transmission through the Mails of this province, of patterns and samples of merchandize and goods for sale, and of packages of seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions or grafts, on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in such regulations. wilfully in 9. Wilfully and maliciously to destroy, damage, detain or Punishment delay any packet or package of patterns and samples of mer- of persons chandize and goods, or of seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and juring the scions or grafts sent by mail under the next preceding section, same. shall be a misdemeanor, and punishable in like manner as other offences declared to be misdemeanors by the Post Office Act. 10. This Act shall be construed as one Act with the Post How this Office Act, so that all the provisions of that Act shall apply to the Act shall be regulations to be made by the Governor in Council under this construed. Act, and to other things to be done under it, as being made or done under the said Act, and to all offences committed against this Act, and all penalties imposed by it, as being committed against and imposed by the said Act; and all words and expressions in this Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in the said Act. CAP. XII. An Act to amend An Act respecting the Volunteer HE [Assented to 15th August, 1866.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Preamble. follows: and new sect. 1. The second section of an Act made and passed in the Sec. 2, of 27 V. Session of Parliament, held in the twenty-seventh year of c. 3 repealed, Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled: An Act respecting the substituted. Volunteer Militia Force, is hereby repealed, and the following section shall be taken and read in lieu thereof, and as the second section of the said Act, that is to say: "2. The Commander-in-Chief may raise, organize, arm, New section. uniform and equip a Volunteer Militia Force to serve within the Province for the defence of the same in case of need, and out a Volun in aid of the civil power, as hereinafter mentioned; and the Governor may Commander-in-Chief may call out such Volunteer Militia Force raise and call or any part, or any corps thereof, for actual service, whenever teer Force, &c. it is in his opinion advisable so to do; Provided that the Proviso as to several corps of Volunteers organized and gazetted, prior to corps already this Act, shall be and continue as if organized and gazetted under this Act, and shall constitute part of the Volunteer Force before mentioned." organized. 2. The fourth section of the said Act is hereby repealed Sect. 4 reand the following section shall be taken and read in lieu pealed. thereof, and as the fourth section of the said Act, that is to say: "4. The Volunteers may consist of Troops of Cavalry, New section. Troops of Mounted Infantry, or of Mounted Rifles, Military of what corps Train, Field Batteries of Artillery, Garrison Batteries of Artil- the Volunteers lery, Companies of Engineers, Commissariat, Staff corps, Hospital may consist. Hospital and Ambulance corps, and Battalions or Companies of Rifles and of Infantry, and Naval Companies, to be armed and equipped according to their respective services, and to be formed at such places and in such manner as may from time Proviso as to to time be ordered by the Commander in Chief; Provided that corps in cities. in Cities, no number of men shall be accepted or gazetted as Volunteer Militia unless formed into a Battalion under the provisions of the seventh section of this Act." Sect. 5 repealed. New section. Forming and disbanding corps. Paragraph 1 of sect. 6 repealed. New para- Strength of Sect. 17 repealed, and new sect. substituted. Municipalities may provide armouries, &c., and expend poses connect ed with the couragement of 3. The fifth section of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following section shall be taken and read in lieu thereof, and as the fifth section of the said Act, that is to say: "5. All Corps of Volunteers shall be formed and may be disbanded by authority of the Commander in Chief, as may in his opinion best tend to further the purposes of this Act and the public good." 4. The first subsection or paragraph of the sixth section of the said Act is hereby repealed, and the following shall be taken and read in lieu thereof and as the first subsection or paragraph of the sixth section of the said Act, that is to say: "6. Each Troop of Cavalry, Troop of Mounted Infantry or of Mounted Rifles, Military Train, Garrison Battery of Artillery, Company of Engineers, or Rifles, or Infantry, shall consist, according to its respective service, of a Captain, a Lieutenant, a Cornet, a Second Lieutenant or Ensign, three Serjeants, three Corporals, a Trumpeter or Bugler, and not exceeding fortyeight Privates, except in cases where the Commander in Chief may specially sanction a greater number of Privates not exceeding seventy-five." 5. The seventeenth section of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following section shall be taken and read in lieu thereof and as the seventeenth section of the said Act: "17. For the safe keeping of any arms, accoutrements or ammunition furnished to any corps, the Corporation of every Muniand may raise" cipality within which such corps or any part of such corps may be organized, may, if they think fit, provide at the expense money for Pur of such Municipality, one or more good, safe and commodious fire proof Armouries, fitted with arm racks and other necessary support and enr and proper storage, and for the heating thereof; and may also the Volunteer build and construct or aid partially in the erection or construction of any fortified intrenchments or of any drill shed or exercise ground or range for rifle practice, and may purchase and hold any real estate or may appropriate any land or building belonging to or held by such Corporation, for any such purposes; and may provide moneys for such purposes or any of them, or for or towards compensating, maintaining or promoting the efficiency of the corps of volunteers within such Municipality, or for purchasing or aiding in the purchase Force. of of arms for any volunteer corps or for any drill association lawfully formed under the Acts in force in that behalf, and may grant gratuities or sum or sums of money to any corps on actual service, or to any officer, non-commissioned officer or private thereof, on actual service, or who may be wounded, injured, maimed or incapacitated from following his ordinary calling or employment in the performance of military duty as such volunteer, or to the family of any officer, non-commissioned officer or private on actual service or who. may be killed in the performance of such military duty as aforesaid, and may for the further encouragement and support of the Volunteer Force, enact by-laws granting such exemptions to enrolled men and horses therein, as to such Municipal Corporation may seem fit and proper; and the several Municipalities throughout Upper Canada shall have all and every the powers conferred upon them in respect to the raising and levying of all funds required for any of such purposes, which are provided by the two hundredth and two hundred and twenty-fourth sections of the fifty-fourth chapter of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada; and the several Municipalities in Lower Canada Power to raise shall have all the powers conferred on them in respect to raising money for such and levying of all such funds, which are provided by the Lower Canada Consolidated Municipal Act and the Acts amending it, or by the special Act or Acts incorporating and governing the Municipality (if any such there be), with regard to the raising of money for any purpose for which such Municipalities are by law empowered to raise the same: purposes. submitted to "2. A copy of every by-law passed under authority of this By-laws to be section duly certified under the corporate seal of the municipa- Minister of lity, shall be forthwith transmitted to the Minister of Militia; Militia for apand he may at any time signify his disallowance of the same, if proval. in his opinion any provisions thereof are likely to impair the efficiency of the Force; and any by-law so disallowed shall thereupon become null and void; shall be made. "3. All payments and allowances whatever, in any way How payments accruing under any such by-law to any Volunteer Officer, non- under By-law commissioned Officer or private, while on actual service, shall be made in such manner only, and through such channel, as the Commander-in-Chief shall from time to time direct." to be valid, &c. 6. For and notwithstanding any thing in the preceding section By-laws for contained, any by-law or resolution heretofore passed or which such purpose may be hereafter passed by any Municipal Corporation prior to the first day of January next after the passing of this Act, for any of the purposes in the preceding section mentioned, shall be held to be and shall be valid for the purposes thereof, and as respects Upper Canada, whether the same may or may not have been submitted for or received, or may or may not be submitted for or receive the assent required by the two hundred and twenty-fourth section of the Act in the next preceding section mentioned. Sect. 22, repealed. New Section. Commander in Chief may make regula tions for certain purposes. 7. The twenty-second section of the said Act is hereby repealed, and the following section shall be taken and read in lieu thereof and as the twenty-second section of the said Act, that is to say: "22. The Commander in Chief may from time to time make orders or regulations respecting anything in this Act, done or authorized to be done or provided by Order or Regulation, and also such Orders or Regulations as may seem fit (not being inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act,) respecting the appointment and promotion of officers and the assembling and proceedings of Courts of Enquiry to inquire into and report on any matter connected with the government, or discipline, or conduct of a Volunteer Corps or Battalion, or of any Officer, NonCommissioned Officer or private thereof, and for the full execution of this Act, and the general government and discipline of the Volunteer Force; and he may alter or repeal any such Regumay be altered lations, and may call for such Returns as may from time to time seem requisite." Courts of Regulations Sect. 27, repealed. New Section. articles of was, &c. Exception. 8. The twenty-seventh section of the said Act is hereby repealed, and the following section shall be taken and read in lieu thereof, and as the twenty-seventh section of the said Act, that is to say: "27. The volunteer force and every officer or man belonging to it, shall be subject to the Queen's Regulations and Orders called out, &c., for the Army, and shall from the time of being called out for to be subject to actual service, and also during the period of annual drill prescribed by this Act or by any Act amending the same or by. any Order of the Commander in Chief, under the authority thereof, and also during the continuance of any drill or parade of his corps at which he shall be present, be subject to the Rules and Articles of War and to the Act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and all other laws then applicable to Her Majesty's Troops in this Province, and not inconsistent with this Act; except that no man shall be subject to any corporal punishment except death or imprisonment for any contravention of such laws; and except also that the Commander in in Chief may direct that any provisions of the said laws or regulations shall not New proviso apply to the Volunteer Militia Force; Provided always, that any officer, non commissioned officer or man charged with any offence committed whilst a volunteer or whilst on actual service, shall be held liable to be tried, and if convicted to be punished therefor, within six months after ceasing to be a volunteer or after the corps to which he belongs or belonged is relieved from actual service, notwithstanding that he shall have so ceased to be a volunteer or the corps to which he belonged shall have been so relieved from actual service." Exception. added Liability of Volunteers to be tried within six months after leaving the corps, &c. |