Agents, the Minister of Agriculture, or such officer as he may depute for the purpose, may cause the effects of such parents or parent to be disposed of to the best advantage in his power, or in his discretion to be delivered over to any Institution or person assuming the care and charge of such child or children. may make 9. The Medical Superintendent at Grosse Isle may, from time Medical Suto time, with the consent and approval of the Minister of Agri-perintendent culture, make such regulations as he may deem necessary for regulations. enforcing crder and ensuring the health and comfort of immigrants there; and such regulations being published in the Cana- Publication. da Gazette, shall be in force, and any contravention thereof shall be deemed a contravention of this Act, and shall be punishable by such penalty as may be assigned by such regulations in each case. vicious immigrants may be Council. 10. The Governor in Council may by Proclamation, when- Landing of ever he deems it necessary, prohibit the landing in Canada of any criminal, or other vicious class of immigrants to be desig- prevented by nated in such Proclamation, except upon such conditions for Order in ensuring their re-transportation to the port in Europe whence they came with the least possible delay, as the Governor in Council may prescribe; and such conditions may, if the Governor in Council deems it necessary, include the immediate return, or the return with the least possible delay of the vessel and such immigrants to the said port, such prohibited immigrants remaining on board until such return of the vessel. 11. Every master or other officer, seaman, or other person em- Provisions ployed on board of any vessel, who, while such vessel is in any tion of female against seducwaters within the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada, immigrants. under promise of marriage, or by threats, or by the exercise of his authority, or by solicitation, or the making of gifts or presents, seduces and has illicit connection with any female passenger, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars; provided that the subsequent intermarriage of the parties seducing and Proviso. seduced, may be pleaded in bar of conviction. intercourse be seamen 12. Neither the officers, seamen, or other persons on board of Provision for any ship or vessel bringing immigrant passengers to Canada, or prevention of any of them, shall while such vessel is in such Canadian waters tween the as aforesaid, entice or admit any female immigrant passenger officers and into his apartment, or visit or frequent any part of such ship or and female vessel assigned to female immigrant passengers, except by the immigrants. direction or permission of the master or commander of such vessel, first made or given for such purpose; and every officer, seaman or other person employed on board of such ship or vessel, who violates the provisions of this section, shall incur a Penalty. penalty equal in amount to his wages for the voyage during which the said offence has been committed. Any master or And on Mascommander who while such vessel is in such waters as afore- ter permitting such intercourse. Provisions of 8. 12 to be the vessel. said, directs or permits any officer or seaman or other person on board of such ship or vessel, to visit or frequent any part of such vessel assigned to immigrant passengers, except for the purpose of doing or performing some necessary act or duty as an officer, seaman or person employed on board of such vessel, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars for each occasion on which he so directs or permits the provision 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 posted up in every 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 enforced and applied. Interpretation clause. 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 made under it, shall be enforced and applied in like manner as 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. 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 recognise 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 Short titles. be sufficient to call them "The Immigration Acts of 1869 and 1872." I hereby certify that the above is a correct description of the (Description of the Vessel, 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. Date, 18. Signature of Master. Preamble. Interpretation. Additional duty to that imposed by 35 V., c. 28. Maximum amount of duty. To be paid on entry, and Proclamation of duty, and when and 38 VICT. CAP. 15. An Act to amend "The Immigration Act of 1972." H [Assented to 8th April, 1875.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows 1. In this Act the word "Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation, not propelled by oars. 2. There shall be raised, levied and collected a duty payable in the manner hereinafter prescribed by the master of every ship arriving in any port in Canada from any port in Europe with passengers or emigrants therefrom at any time when this Act is in force as hereinafter provided, in addition to any duty payable by the master of such ship, under the provisions of the first section of "The Immigration Act of 1872; " And such duty shall be such sum not exceeding two dollars for every passenger or immigrant above the age of one year to be landed in Canada, as may have been specified in the proclamation giving effect to this Act, in force for the time being in the Province in which such port is situate. 3. The said duty shall be paid by the master of the ship, or by some person on his behalf, to the Collector of Customs at the port in Canada at which such vessel is first entered, and at the time of making such first entry, which shall contain on the face of it the number of passengers actually embarked on board the ship, and the number to be landed in Canada; and no such entry made at any such time, shall be deemed validly made, or have any legal effect whatever, unless such numbers are correctly stated and such duty has been fully paid. 4. This Act shall take effect upon, from and after the day, to fix amourt and in the Province or Provinces, and for the amount of duty (within the limit aforesaid) specified by Proclamation in that behalf issued under an Order of the Governor General in Council, and not before; and the Governor General may, from time to time, by Proclamation issued under an Order where this Act shall or shall not be in force. in Council suspend the operation of this Act in any one or And so from more or in all of the Provinces forming this Dominion; and time to time. from and after the period specified in any such suspending proclamation, this Act shall be suspended in such Province or Provinces; but nothing herein contained shall prevent or be construed to prevent the Governor General from again de- Proviso. claring by Proclamatian issued under an Order in Council, that this Act shall again have effect in such Province or Provinces, or in any of such Provinces, and for the amount of duty (within the limit aforesaid) in such last mentioned proclamation specified; and upon such proclamation this Act shall be revived and have effect again accordingly; and so on, from Publication. time to time, toties quoties :-And every such proclamation shall be published in the Canada Gazette. 11. SECRETARY OF STATE. 31 VICT. CAP. 42. This Act which provides for the organization of the Department of the Secretary of State, and which also relates mainly to the management of Indian and Ordnance Lands, will be found ante, page 146. The following Act, which amends that Act, is here printed as relating solely to the organization of the Depart ment. .38 VICT. CAP. 6. An Act to amend the Act providing for the Organization of the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada. [Assented to 8th April, 1875.] H ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice of the Senate Preamble. and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The following words are hereby added to, and shall Addition made form part of the fourth section of the said Act passed in the to sec. 4 of 31 V. c. 42. |