of the Commissioners and to examine their accounts at all times. how fixed. 21. The Governor in Council shall, in the first instance, Salaries and fix the rate of salary or compensation for the Commissioners compensation and the Chief Engineer, and shall approve of all other salaries to be awarded by the Commissioners, subject in all cases to the revision and confirmation of Parliament at its first session thereafter. 22. The Governor in Council shall have the power, at any Power to time to suspend the progress of the work until the then next suspend the session of Parliament. works. expenditure. 23. The Commissioners shall from time to time be paid, Provision for on their requisition, by the Receiver General, all monies that meeting may be required for the purposes of this Act, in such manner, at such times and in such sums as may, from time to time, be ordered by the Governor in Council. Commis 21. The Commissioners shall furnish quarterly accounts Quarterly ac(or oftener if required by the Governor in Council) to the counts by Receiver General, of all expenditures and liabilities under this sioners. Act. tions. 25. Whenever the Railway, or any portion thereof, shall be Working of completed, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to completed pormake suitable arrangements for the working of the same; but such arrangements shall not be for any longer period than the end of the Session of Parliament next after the making of the same. of H. M. 26. Her Majesty's Naval or Military Forces, and all Artil- Carriage lery, ammunition, baggage, provisions, or other stores for their Naval and Miuse, and all officers and others travelling on Her Majesty's litary Forces. Naval, Military or other service and their baggage and stores, shall at all times, when thereunto required by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or by the Commander of Her Majesty's Forces in Canada, or by the Chief Naval Officer on the North American Station, be carried on the Railway on such terms and conditions, and under such Regulations as the Governor in Council shall from time to time make, or as shall be agreed upon between the Government of Canada and one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Imperial gua road. 27. For the purpose of constructing the said Railway there Loan (with shall be raised by loan and appropriated a sum not exceeding rantee) for conthree million pounds sterling, bearing interest at a rate not struction of exceeding four per centum per annum, upon the guarantee of the payment of the interest of such loan by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the provisions of "The Canada Railway Loan Act, 1867.” વ્હેજે. Consolidated 28. The Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada shall be Revenue Fund and is hereby charged with the principal and interest of the charged. loan, immediately after the charges specifically made thereon by Sinking Fund provided for. sections one hundred and three, one hundred and four and one hundred and five, of "The British North America Act, 1867. 29. A sinking fund is hereby provided for the payment by the government of Canada of an annual sum at the rate of one per centum per annum on the entire amount of principal money whereon interest is guaranteed, which shall be remitted the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by equal halfyearly payments in such manner as they may from time to time direct, and shall be invested and accumulated under their direction in the name of four Trustees, nominated from time to time, two by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Its investment. and two by the Government of Canada; and such Sinking Fund and its accumulations shall be invested in securities of the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, issued before the Union of Canada, or at the option of the Government of Canada, in such other securities as may be proposed by that Government and approved by the Commissioners Its application. of Her Majesty's Treasury, and shall be applied under the direction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in discharge of the principal money whereon interest is guaranteed; and the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada shall be and the same is hereby charged with the amount of the said Sinking Fund immediately after the principal and interest of the Loan. Amount Further charge on Consolidated 30. The Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada shall be, and the same is hereby charged with any sum issued out of the Revenue Fund. Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, under the Canada Railway Loan Act, 1867, with interest thereon, at the rate of five per centum per annum, immediately after the Sinking Fund. Continuance of Loan (without Imperial Guarantee). 31. The Sinking Fund shall be continued until all principal and interest of the loan, and all sums issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, under the Canada Railway Loan Act, 1867, and all interest thereon are fully discharged, or until the Sinking Fund and its accumulations are adequate to discharge so much thereof as remains undischarged. 32. The Government of Canada is hereby empowered to raise, by loan, for the completion of the Railway, a further sum not exceeding one million pounds sterling (without guarantee by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury), and the How charged. Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada shall be, and the same is hereby charged with the money so raised and interest, immediately after the charges made thereon in pursuance of the five next preceding sections of this Act. 33. For the purpose of effecting the loan, the interest of Issue of debenwhich is to be guaranteed in manner herein before mentioned, tures for it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize Debentures to guaranteed eflecting the amount of three million pounds sterling, to be issued in loan. such form, and payable at such period, and for such sums, and at such rate of interest as shall be most convenient, and as shall be in accordance with the terms of the Canada Railway Loan Act, 1867. mentioned eflected. 34. For the purpose of effecting the Loan of one million How the pounds sterling mentioned in the thirty-second section of this loan secondly Act, or any part thereof, it shall be lawful for the Governor in may be Council to authorize the issue of Debentures either in currency or sterling money, in such form, bearing such rate of interest, not exceeding six per centum per annum, in such sums and payable at such periods as may be most convenient-or it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to issue Permanent Canadian Stock or Terminable Annuities, or Exchequer Bills, or securities in any other form that may be most convenient, and as shall be in accordance with The Canada Railway Loan Act, 1867. Accounts of out of other 35. Separate accounts of the monies raised under this Act Separate shall be kept by the Receiver General, and all sums required funds raised for the carrying out of this Act, shall be paid out of such under this Act monies, and not out of any other fund, except that the Governor Advances in Council may authorize the advance, out of the Consolidated funds and Revenue Fund, of such sums as it may be necessary to expend their repayfor the purposes aforesaid, before the said loans can be raised, such sums to be repaid to the Consolidated Revenue Fund out of the Loans. men CAP. XIV. An Act to protect the inhabitants of Canada against lawless aggressions from subjects of Foreign Countries at Peace with Her Majesty. W [Assented to 21st December, 1867.] HEREAS in and by the ninety-eighth chapter of the Preamble. Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, and further by an Act made and passed in the Session of Parliament of the late Province of Canada, held in the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and chaptered four, certain provisions are made for the protection of the inhabitants of that part of the said late Province of Canada called Upper Canada, against lawless aggressions from Subjects of Foreign Countries at Peace with Her Majesty; And whereas in and by two several Acts made and passed in the said Session of Parliament of the late Province of Canada, held in the twentyninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and chaptered two 284 Con. Stat., U. Vict. cc. 2, 3 & 4, extended. Cap. 14. Protection of the Inhabitants of Canada. 31 VICT. two and three respectively, certain provisions are made for the protection of the inhabitants of that part of the late Province of Canada called Lower Canada, against similar lawless aggressions; And whereas it is expedient to continue the operation of the said Acts respectively, and that similar provisions be enacted in respect to the Dominion of Canada Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The ninety-eighth chapter of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, the said Act made and passed in the Session of Canada, 29, 30 Parliament of the late Province of Canada, held in the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and chaptered four, and the said two several Acts made and passed in the said Session of Parliament of the late Province of Canada, held in the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and chaptered two and three respectively, are hereby extended and the provisions thereof declared to be in force throughout Canada as follows, that is to say : Citizens or subjects of a foreign power taken in arms in Canada may be tried and sentenced by a Militia Court Martial. Subjects of Canada levying war in company with foreigners, or aiding them in so doing, may be tried and sentenced in 2. In case any person, being a citizen or subject of any Foreign State or Country at peace with Her Majesty, be or continues in arms against Her Majesty, within Canada, or commits any act of hostility therein, or enters Canada with design or intent to levy war against Her Majesty, or to commit any felony therein, for which any person would, by the laws in force in any Province of Canada in which such offence is committed, be liable to suffer death, then the Governor may order the assembling of a Militia General Court Martial for the trial of such person, agreeably to the Militia Laws in force in such Province; and upon being found guilty by such Court Martial of offending against this Act, such person shall be sentenced by such Court Martial to suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be awarded by the Court. 3. If any subject of Her Majesty, within Canada, levies war Her Majesty in against Her Majesty, in company with any of the subjects or citizens of any Foreign State or Country then at peace with Her Majesty, or enters Canada in company with any such subjects or citizens with intent to levy war on Her Majesty, or to commit any such act of felony as aforesaid, or if, with the design or intent to aid and assist, he joins himself to any person or persons whatsoever, whether subjects or aliens, who have entered Canada with design or intent to levy war on Her Majesty, or to commit any such felony within the same, then such subject of Her Majesty may be tried and punished by a Militia Court Martial, in like manner as any citizen or subject of a Foreign State or Country at peace with Her Majesty, is liable under this Act to be tried and punished. the same manner. 1867. Protection of the Inhabitants of Canada. Cap. 14, 15 this Act to be 285 4. Every subject of Her Majesty and every citizen or subject Her Majesty's of any foreign state or country, who has at any time heretofore subjects or foreigners ofoffended, or may at any time hereafter offend against the pro- fending against visions of this Act, is and shall be held to be guilty of felony, guilty of felony and may, notwithstanding the provisions hereinbefore contained, and punishable be prosecuted and tried in any county or district of the Pro- accordingly. vince in which such offence was committed before any Court of competent jurisdiction, in the same manner as if the offence had been committed in such county or district, and upon conviction shall suffer death as a felon. be carried out C., cap. 113. 5. In case any person shall be prosecuted and tried in the Pro- Sentence may vince of Ontario under the provisions of the next preceding section in Ontario notand found guilty, it shall and may be lawful for the Court before withstanding which such trial shall have taken place, to pass sentence of death Con. Stat. U. upon such person, to take effect at such time as the Court may direct, notwithstanding the provisions of an Act of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, intituled: An Act respecting New Trials and Appeals and Writs of Error in Criminal cases in Upper Canada. CAP. XV. An Act to prevent the unlawful training of persons to the use of arms, and the practise of Military evolutions; and to authorize Justices of the Peace to seize and detain arms collected or kept for purposes dangerons to the public peace. H [Assented to 21st December, 1867.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: out lawful as instructors at 1. All meetings and assemblies of persons for the purpose Meetings for of training or drilling themselves, or of being trained or drilled drill, &c., with to the use of arms, or for the purpose of practising Military authority proexercises, movements or evolutions, without lawful autho- hibited." rity for so doing, shall be and are hereby prohibited, and declared unlawful, as dangerous to the peace and security of Her Majesty's liege subjects, and of Canada; and every Punishment of person who shall be present at or shall attend any such meeting persons acting or assembling for the purpose of training any other person or such meetings. persons to the use of arms or to the practice of military exercises, inovements or evolutions, or who, without lawful authority for so doing, shall train or drill any other person or persons to the use of arias, or to the practice of military exercises, movements or evolutions, or who shall aid or assist therein, being legally convicted thereof shall be liable to be imprisoned in a Provincial Penitentiary for the term of two years, or to be punished by fine and |