19. It shall be the duty of the Force Duties of the crime. 1. To perform all duties which now are or shall be hercafter Prevention of assigned to constables in relation to the preservation of the peace, the prevention of crime, and of offences against the laws and Ordinances in force in the North West Territories, and the apprehension of criminals and offenders, and others who may be lawfully taken into custody; 2. To attend upon any Judge, Stipendiary Magistrate or Jus- Attending Judges, &c. tice of the Peace, when thereunto specially required, and, subject to the orders of the Commissioner or Superintendent, to execute all warrants and perform all duties and services in relation thereto, which may, under this Act or the laws and Ordinances in force in the North West Territories, lawfully be performed by cons tables; prisoners. 3. To perform all duties which may be lawfully performed by Conveying constables in relation to the escort and conveyance of convicts and other prisoners or lunatics, to or from any Courts, places of punishment or confinement, asylums or other places,— And for these purposes, and in the performance of all the duties Powers for assigned to them by or under the authority of this Act, they shall such purposes. have all the powers, authority, protection and privileges which any constable now has or shall hereafter by law have. what purposе. 20. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make Governor in rules and regulations for any of the following purposes, vize regula To regulate the number of the Force, not exceeding in the whole tions, and for the number of three hundred men as hereinbefore provided; to prescribe the number of men who shall be mounted on horseback; to regulate and prescribe the clothing, arms, training and discipline of the Police Force; to regulate and prescribe the duties and authorities of the Commissioner and Superintendents of the Force, and the several places at or near which the same, or the Force or any portions thereof may from time to time be stationed; and generally all and every such matters and things for the good government, discipline and guidance of the Force as are not inconsistent with this Act and such rules and regulations Penalties. may impose penalties, not exceeding in any case thirty days' pay of the offenders, for any contravention thereof, and may direct that such penalty when incurred may be deducted from the offender's pay they may determine what officer shall have power to declare such penalty incurred, and to impose the same; and they shall have force as if enacted by law. 21. All pecuniary penalties so imposed shall form a fund to be Application of managed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Governor pecuniary penalties. in Council; and be applicable to the payment of such rewards for good conduct or meritorious services as may be established by the Commissioner. Suspending officers or members. Delivery of party sus pended. 22. Any member of the Force may be suspended from his charge or dismissed by the Commissioner or by any Superintendent to whom the Commissioner shall have delegated the power to do so; and any Superintendent may be suspended from office by the Commissioner until the pleasure of the Governor in Council shall be known; and every such suspension or dismissal shall take effect from the time it shall be made known either orally or in writing to the party suspended or dismissed. 23. Any Superintendent or any member of the Force susarms, &c., by pended or dismissed shall forthwith deliver up to the Commissioner or to a Superintendent or to any constable authorized to receive the same, his clothing, arms, accoutrements and all property of the Crown in his possession as a member of the Force or used for police purposes; or in case of his refusing or neglecting so to do, shall incur a penalty of fifty dollars. Inquiries re specting conduct of members. Penalty for buying or selling accou without 24. Whenever the Commissioner shall deem it advisable to make or cause to be made any special enquiry into the conduct of any Superintendent or of any member of the Police Force, or into any complaint against any of them, he, or the Superintendent whom he may appoint for that purpose, may examine any person on oath or affirmation on any matters relative to such enquiry, and may administer such oath or affirmation. 25. If any person shall unlawfully dispose of, receive, buy or sell or have in his possession without lawful cause, or shall refuse trements, &c., to deliver up when thereunto lawfully required, any horse, vehicle, harness, arms, accoutrements, clothing or other thing used for police purposes, such person shall thereby incur a penalty not exceeding double the value thereof, in the discretion of the Magistrate before whom he is convicted. authority. Governor in rates. 26. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time remuneration, to time, to fix the sums to be annually paid to the Commissioner, within certain Superintendents and other Officers of the said Force, regard being had to the number of Constables and Sub-Constables, from time to time, actually organized and enrolled, and the consequent responsibility attaching to their offices aforesaid, respectively, and to the nature of the duty or service and amount of labor devolved upon them, but such sums shall not be less than or exceed the amounts following, that is to say : And each Constable shall be paid not exceeding the sum of one dollar per day; and each Sub-Constable shall be paid not exceeding the sum of seventy-five cents per day. 27. The Governor in Council may in lieu of the appointment Surgeon or Veterinary of a Surgeon or of a Veterinary Surgeon, authorize arrangements Surgeon. to be made with any person or Veterinary Surgeon to perform the duties of Surgeon or Veterinary Surgeon for the said Force as to any portions or detachments thereof, and may pay reasonable and proper remuneration for any services so rendered. &c. 28. The Governor in Council may also from time to time re- Purchase of gulate and prescribe the amounts to be paid, for the purchase of horses, arms, horses, vehicles, harness, saddlery, clothing, arms and accoutrements, or articles necessary for the said Force and also the expenses of travelling, and of rations or of boarding or billeting the force and of forage for the horses. 29. The Governor in Council may make regulations for the Regulations quartering, billeting and cantoning of the Force, or any portions the Force. for quartering or detachments thereof; and for the furnishing of boats, carriages, vehicles of transport, horses and other conveyances for their transport and use, and for giving adequate compensation therefor; and may, by such regulations, impose fines not exceeding two Fines. hundred dollars for breach of any regulation aforesaid, or for refusing to billet any of the said Force, or to furnish transport as herein mentioned. But no such regulations shall authorize the Proviso. quartering or billeting of any of the Force in any nunnery or convent of any Religious Order of females. 30. All sums of money required to defray any expense author- Payment of ized by this Act may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue moneys. Fund of Canada. 31. A separate account shall be kept of all moneys expended Accounts. nder this Act, and a detailed statement thereof shall be laid before Parliament at each session thereof. 32. All regulations or Orders in Council made under this Act Orders in shall be published in the Canada Gazette, and shall, thereupon Council or have the force of law from the date of their publication, or from, force of, &c. regulations, such later date as may be therein appointed for their coming into force; and a copy of any such regulations purporting to be printed by the Queen's Printer shall be prima facie evidence thereof. have the 33. The Department of Justice shall have the control and What departmanagement of the Police Force and of all matters connected ment shall therewith; but the Governor in Council may, at any time order control of that the same shall be transferred to any other Department of the the Force. Civil Service of Canada, and the same shall accordingly, by such order, be so transferred to and be under the control and management of such other Department. 34. The Commissioner and every Superintendent of Police, shall be ex-officio a Justice of the Peace, within the Province of Manitoba; and the constables and sub-constables of the Police Force shall also have and exercise within the Province of Manitoba, all the powers and authority, rights and privileges by law appertaining to constables under the laws of the Dominion, for the purpose of carrying the same into effect. 35. The Governor in Council may from time to time enter into arrangements with the Government of the Province of Manitoba for the use or employment of the Police Force, in aiding the administration of justice in that Province and in carrying into effect the laws of the Legislature thereof; and may, in any such arrangement, agree and determine the amount of money which shall be paid by the Province of Manitoba in respect of any such services of the said Police Force. Acts of Canada 31 V., c. 66 and 34 V., c. 22, extend ed and applied to British Columbia. Substitution of names of courts, in applying the said Acts. CHAP. 36. An Act respecting Aliens and Naturalization in the H [Assented to 23rd May, 1873.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Acts of the Parliament of Canada hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the Act passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, and intituled An Act respecting Aliens and Naturalization," and the Act passed in the thirty-fourth year of Her Majesty's reign, and intituled "An Act to amend the Act 31st Victoria, Chapter 66, respecting Aliens and Naturalization," shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be and are hereby extended and shall apply to and be in force in the Province of British Columbia, subject to the provisions hereinafter made, and shall thereafter be read and construed as if the Province of British Columbia were therein expressly mentioned or referred to when ever the other Provinces then forming the Dominion of Canada, or Canada generally, are or is therein mentioned or referred to. 2. In applying the provisions of the said Acts to the Province of British Columbia, whenever the Court of Quarter or General Sessions of the Peace, the Recorder's Court, or the Circuit Court, is mentioned therein, the Court of like name or jurisdiction in British Columbia or the County Court shall be understood to be substituted; and whenever the Supreme Court of any Province is mentioned therein the Supreme Court of British Columbia shall be understood to be substituted; and the Clerk or chief officer of of the substituted Court shall be understood to be intended whenever the Clerk of the Court for which it is substituted is mentioned. Ordinance continued for 3. The Act or law now in force in the Province of British "The Aliens Columbia intituled "An Ordinance to assimilate the law regarding 1867" of Aliens in all parts of the Colony of British Columbia," shall British remain in force until the first day of July, which will be in the Columbia, year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; one year. and every person naturalized under its provisions before the said day, whether before or after the passing of this Act shall be or become entitled, within any part of Canada, to the privileges of British birth conferred on persons naturalized under the Acts mentioned in the preceding sections of this Act; but, except as to such persons and the rights and privileges then acquired by them, which shall remain in force, the said Act or law shall, upon and after the said day be repealed, with the exception of the tenth and eleventh sections thereof. 4. In applying the Acts mentioned in the first section of this Application of 31 V.. Act, to the Province of Manitoba, to which they have been exc. 66 and 34 tended by an Act of the Parliament of Canada, the said Province V., c. 22 shall be understood to be included, whenever the other Provinces to Manitoba. then forming the Dominion of Canada, or Canada generally, are or is mentioned, and, whenever the Supreme Court, or the Court of Quarter or General Sessions of the Peace or the Recorder's Court. or the Circuit Court is mentioned, the Court of Queen's Bench of the said Province of Manitoba, and the County Court or the Court of Quarter or General Sessions of the Peace, or the Court of like name or jurisdiction for the place therein, in which the alien resides, shall be understood to be substituted; and the Clerk or chief officer of the substituted Court shall be understood to be intended whenever the Clerk of the Court for which it is substituted is mentioned. CHAP. 37. An Act to authorize Free Grants of land to certain Original Settlers and their descendants, in the territory now forming the Province of Manitoba. [Assented to 3rd May, 1873.] HEREAS by the Act passed in the thirty-third year of Her Preamble. the Act 32 and 33 Victoria, chapter 3, and to establish and pro- 33 V.c.3.. half-breed |