fender to be detained in safe custody until the day so to be appointed, unless such offender gives security to the satisfaction of the justices for his appearance on such day; and the justices may take such security by way of recognizance or otherwise at their discretion.

23. If at any time so appointed such penalty has not been paid, the same or any other Justices of the Peace may, by warrant under their hands and seals, commit the offender to the common gaol or other place of confinement within their jurisdiction, there to remain for any time not exceeding three months, reckoned from the day of such adjudication: such imprisonment to cease on the payment of the said penalty.

24. The justices before whom any person is prosecuted or tried for any offence cognizable under this Act, may, in their discretion, at the request of the prosecutor or of any other person who appears on recognizance or summons to prosecute or give evidence against such person, order payment to the prosecutor and witnesses for the prosecution, of such sums of money as to them seem reasonable and sufficient, to reimburse such prosecutor and witnesses for the expenses they have severally incurred in attending before them, and in otherwise carrying on such prosecution, and also to compensate them for their trouble and loss of time therein, and may order payment to the constables and other peace officers for the apprehension and detention of any person so charged.

25. And although no conviction takes place, the said

justices may order all or any of the payments aforesaid, when they are of opinion that the parties or any of them have acted bona fide.

26. Every fine imposed under the authority of this Act shall be paid to the justices who impose the same, or to the Clerk of the Recorder's Court, or the Clerk of the County Court, or the Clerk of the Peace, or other proper officer, as the case may be, and shall be by him or them paid over to the County Treasurer for county purposes, if the same was imposed in the Province of Ontario; and if it was imposed in any new district in the Province of Quebec, then to the sheriff of such district as treasurer of the Building and Jury Fund for such district, to form part of the said fund, and if it was imposed in any other district in the Province of Quebec, then to the prothonotary of such district, to be by him applied, under the direction of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, towards the keeping in repair of the court house in such district, or to be by him added to the moneys or fees collected by him, for the erection of a court house or gaol in such district, so long as such fees are collected to defray the cost of such erection; and if it was imposed in the Province of Nova Scotia it shall be paid over to the County Treasurer, for county purposes; and if it was imposed in the Province of New Brunswick, it shall be paid over to the County Treasurer, for county purposes.

27. The amount of expenses of attending before the justices and the compensation for trouble and loss of

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time therein, and the allowances to the constables and other peace officers for the apprehension and detention of the offender, and the allowances to be paid to the prosecutor, witnesses and constables for attending at the trial or examination of the offender, shall be ascertained by and certified under the hands of such justices; but the amount of the costs, charges and expenses attending any such prosecution, to be allowed and paid as aforesaid, shall not in any one case exceed the sum of eight dollars.

28. Every such order of payment to any prosecutor or other person, after the amount thereof has been certified by the proper Justices of the Peace as aforsaid shall be forth with made out and delivered by the said justices or one of them, or by the Clerk of the Recorder's Court, Clerk of the County Court or Clerk of the Peace, as the case may be, unto such prosecutor or other person, upon such clerk being paid his lawful fee for the same, and shall be made upon the officer to whom fines imposed under the authority of this Act are required to be paid over in the district, city, county or union of counties in which the offence was committed, or was supposed to have been committed, who upon sight of every such order, shall forthwith pay to the person named therein, or to any other person duly authorized to receive the same on his behalf, out of any moneys received by him under this Act, the money in such order mentioned, and shall be allowed the same in his accounts of such moneys.

29. The Act chapter one hundred and six of the

Consolidated Statutes of Canada is hereby repealed, except as to cases pending under it at the time of the coming into force of this Act, and as to all sentences pronounced and punishments awarded under it; as regards all which this Act shall be construed as a reenactment of the said Act with the amendments hereby made, and not as a new law.

30. This Act shall commence and take effect on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

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An Act respecting Juvenile Offenders within the Province of Quebec.

WHE

[Assented to 22nd June, 1869.]

HEREAS the Legislature of the Province of Quebec, during its now last Session, passed an Act making certain provisions for the establishment of certified reformatory schools, and the law respecting prisons for young offenders requires to be amended so as to meet the provisions of the said Act; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. In so far as respects the Province of Quebec, the

sections five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve of the chapter one hundred and seven of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, intituled: "An Act respecting Prisons for young offenders," are hereby repealed, except as respects persons under sentence when this Act comes into force.

2. Whenever, after the passing of this Act, any person apparently under the age of sixteen years is convicted before any court of criminal jurisdiction or before any Judge of the Sessions of the Peace, Recorder, District or Police Magistrate, of any offence for which he would be liable to imprisonment, he may be sen tenced on such conviction, to be detained in a certified reformatory school for any term not less than two years, nor more than five years, or he may be sentenced to be first imprisoned in the common gaol for a period not in any case exceeding three months, and at the expiration of his sentence to be sent to a certified reformatory school, and to be there detained for a period of not less than two years, and not more than five years.

3. The Lieutenant-Governor may at any time, in his discretion, order that any offender detained in such reformatory school under a summary conviction be discharged.

4. The Lieutenant-Governor may at any time, on the report of one of the inspectors of prisons for the Province of Quebec, order any offender undergoing sentence in any certified reformatory school, on a con