eastern boundary of the province, shall have affixed, and the person or persons commanding, or having charge of the same, are required to affix one or more light or lights on the bow, or some conspicuous place of such steam-boat, schooner or other vessel, during every night that such vessel shall be navigating the said lakes, rivers, and channel, or either of them. § 2. For the purposes of this act, the night shall be construed to extend from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, at all seasons of the year. § 3. Every steam-boat, or vessel, carrying passengers, shall be provided with a good and sufficient gang board, or gang boards, with substantial hand rails; and the master thereof shall, ou stopping at any wharf or landing place, cause the same to be firmly secured to the vessel and wharf or landing place, for the safe and convenient transit of passengers; and shall cause to be affixed to the gangways (in the night time) good and sufficient lights; and the owners or occupiers of every such wharf or landing place, shall also (in the night time) cause to be shewn conspicuously on such wharf or landing place, and at every angle or turn thereof, a good and sufficient light. § 4. All vessels navigating as aforesaid shall be bound to take the starboard or right hand side of every channel in proceeding up or down the said lakes, rivers or channel, so as to enable vessels meeting each other to pass in safety; and when any two vessels are trying to windward, and there may be a doubt which vessel should pass to windward, the vessel on the starboard tack shall keep her wind, and the vessel on the larboard tack shall bear up or go to leeward. § 5. Whenever any steam-boat, schooner, or other vessel, or any raft, shall be going in the same direction with another steam-boat, schooner or other vessel, or with any raft or rafts a-head of it, it shall not be lawful to navigate the first mentioned boat, schooner, vessel or raft, so as to approach or pass the other, so being a-head, within the distance of twenty yards; nor to navigate the boat, &c., so being a-head as unnecessarily to bring it within twenty yards of the steam-boat, schooner, vessel or raft following it. 6. The master having charge of any steam-boat, schooner, vessel or raft, at anchor in the night time, shall cause a good and sufficient light to be shewn in some part of the rigging or other conspicuous place of the said boat, &c. § 7. Any person commanding or having charge of any steam-boat, schooner, or vessel navigating the said lakes, rivers or channel, or any or either of them, offending against the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of £5, to be recovered upon conviction of such offence upon the oath of one credible witness, before any two of his Majesty's justices of the peace; and in default of payment of such penalty, with the costs and charges of and incident to conviction, it shall be lawful for the said justice (a) or justices to commit such person or persons to the gaol of the county or district wherein such conviction shall be made for any period not exceeding 30 days, as the said justices in their discretion shall direct. § 8. The owner or owners of all steamboats, schooners, and other vessels, the persons commanding or in charge of which shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be liable for all damages to be sustained by any person or persons from any accident arising from non compliance, such damages to be recoverable by trial at law in the King's Bench. Form of Information against the Captain of a Steamboat under the 7 W. IV. c. 22, § 17. Penalty £5. Canada, County of to wit. Be it remembered that on the day of w in in the said the in the county aforesaid who, as well for our lady the Queen as for himself, doth prosecute in this behalf, personally cometh before us, two of her Majesty's justices of the peace for the said district, and informeth us that A. B., late of the township of, being at the time of the offence being committed as hereinafter mentioned, the person commanding and having charge of a certain steamboat commonly called or known by the name of navigating Lake Ontario, did on the night of day of, to wit at o'clock of the said night, and while the said steamboat was being navigated on and over the said lake, and within the limits of this 'province, to wit, between the port of in the county of, and the port of Toronto, in the said county ofthen and there navigate and cause the said steamboat to be navigated upon and over the said lake, between the said ports, and within the province aforesaid, without having any light or lights affixed on the bow or any conspicuous place of such steamboat, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, whereby, &c. [conclude as in the form given ante p. 376. For the forms of "Summons" and "Conviction" see ante p. 628, 200. VILLAGES. By 12 Vic. c. 81 (as amended by 13 & 14 Vic. c. 64), § 52, the villages in schedule A are to be incorporated, with a common seal. 53. Five councillors are to be elected for each village, on the first Monday in January every year; and a town reeve to be elected in like manner as in townships. § 54. In villages previously incorporated, or having a board of police, the clerk (a) So in the act. of such board, or town clerk, or inspecting trustee, shall be the returning officer for the first election, and at future elections the village clerk. § 55. In case of no such person, the Governor may appoint the returning officer. § 56. Ten days' notice of election to be given by the returning officer. § 57. The returning officer to procure a copy of the collector's roll village councillor to possess real estate, or for a term of twenty-one years (of which seven at least shall be unexpired) within the village, of the assessed value of £250; or to be a tenant from year to year or for a term of years, at a bona fide rental of £20 per annum; or in receipt of £20 yearly rent of real estate within such village; and male inhabitants, freeholders or leaseholders upon such roll, and residents, assessed at £12 10s. within the village, and none others, shall be entitled to vote. $ 58. Police or other villages (not incorporated), with a neighborhood containing over 1000 inhabitants, may be incorporated by petition to the Governor, of the police trustees or 100 inhabitants (as the case may be); and after incorporation, the first election to be held on the first Monday in January, and the village attached to the county to which it shall have been annexed, and subject to the same regulations and provisions of law, and to have the same privileges as a village named in schedule A. § 59. The municipality of such village to be formed in like manner as that of any township with the same powers, duties and liabilities; and the town reeve [and deputy town reeve, when from the number of freeholders and householders on the collector's roll, such municipality shall be entitled to elect such deputy town reeve] of such village, and other officers, to have the like powers, &c., as those of any township: and such [town reeve and deputy town reeve] to be a member of the county council. § 60. Municipality of incorporated villages empowered to make by-laws, viz. : Village By-laws. 1. For the opening, constructing, making, levelling, pitching, raising, lowering, gravelling, macadamizing, planking, paving, flagging, repairing, planting, improving, preserving and maintaining any new or existing highway, road, street, square, side-walk, crossing, alley, lane, bridge or other communication, or any public wharf, dock, slip, drain, sewer, shore, bay, harbour, river or water and the shores and banks thereof within the jurisdiction, of the corporation of such village, and for the entering into, performing and executing any arrangement or agreement with the municipal corporation of the county, or counties in which such village may lie for the execution of any such work, at the joint expense and for the joint benefit of the municipal corporations of such county or counties, and of such village and the people they represent; and for the stopping up, pulling down, widening, altering, changing or diverting of any such highway, road, street, bridge or communication within the same: Provided always, nevertheless, that no such new, widened, altered, changed or diverted highway, road, street, side-walk, crossing, alley, lane, bridge, or other communication, shall be laid out so as to run through or encroach upon any dwelling-house, barn, stable or outhouse, or any orchard, garden, yard or pleasure ground, without the consent in writing of the owner thereof. 2. For regulating or preventing the encumbering, injuring or fouling of any such highway, road, street, square, side-walk, crossing, alley, lane, bridge or other communication, and of any such wharf, dock, slip, drain, sewer and shore, bay, harbour, river or water, by any animals, wheelbarrows, cabs, carts, carriages or other vehicles, vessels, craft, lumber, stone, building or other materials or things whatsoever, or in any other manner whatsoever. 3. For directing and requiring the removal at any time of any door. steps, porches, railings or other erections, projections or obstructions. whatsoever, which may project into or over the boundary lines of any such highway, road, street, square, side-walk, crossing, alley, lane, bridge or other communication, or of any such wharf, dock, slip, drain, sewer, shore, bay, harbour, river and water, or the shores and banks thereof, at the expense of the proprietor or occupant of the real property in or near which such projection or obstruction may be found. 4. For surveying, by competent persons, and fixing, marking, determining and settling the boundary lines of such highways, roads, streets, squares, alleys, lanes, bridges or other communications, and of all such public wharves, docks and slips, for giving names to the same, and affixing such names on boards or otherwise on the houses at the corners of the same. 5. For granting to the county or counties in which such village shall be situate, by way of loan, or otherwise, such sum or sums of money, in aid of such other moneys as may be raised by the municipal corporation of such county or counties, or by voluntary subscriptions, for or towards the making, opening or erecting of any new road or bridge on the bounds of such village. 6. For regulating and managing any existing market, and for estab. lishing, regulating and managing any new market, for preventing the selling or vending by retail in the public highways any meat, vegetables, fruit, cider, beer or other beverage whatsoever; for regulating the place and manner of selling and weighing butcher's meat, hay, straw, fodder, wood, lumber and fish; for restraining and regulating the purchase and manner of selling all vegetables, fruit, country produce, poultry, and all other articles or things, or animals exposed for sale, or marketed in the open air; for preventing the forestalling, regrating or monopoly of market grains, meat, fish, fruits, roots and vegetables; for restraining and regulating the purchase of any such things by hucksters or runners living within such village or within one mile distant from the outer limits thereof; for regulating the measurement, length and weight of coal, lime, shingles, laths, cordwood and other fuel; and for imposing penalties for light weight, or short count or measurement in anything marketed; for appointing inspectors for regulating weights and measures in the markets, and within such village, according to the lawful standard; and for visiting all places wherein weights and measures, steelyards or weighing machines of any description are used within such village, and for seizing and destroying such as are not according to such standard; and for imposing and enforcing the collection of penalties upon any person or persons therein who shall be found in the possession of unstamped or unjust weights, measures, steelyards or other weighing machines; for regulating all vehicles, vessels and other things in which anything may be exposed for sale or marketed in any highway, street or publie place, and for imposing a reasonable charge or duty thereon, and establishing the mode in which it shall be paid; for seizing and destroying all tainted and unwholesome meat, poultry, fish, or articles of food; and for distraining butchers' meat for the rent of market stalls, and for selling the same after six hours' notice. 7. For regulating any harbour lying within the limits of such village, and the vessels, crafts and rafts arriving in it; for imposing and collecting such reasonable harbour dues thereon as may serve to keep such harbour in good order, and provide for the payment of a harbour master, and the erection and maintenance of the necessary beacons therein: for regulating and providing for the erection and rent of wharves, piers and docks in the said harbour, and for preventing the filling up or encumbering of any such harbour. 8. For regulating the assize of bread, and preventing the use of deleterious materials in the making thereof; and for providing for the seizure and forfeiture of bread baked contrary thereto. 9. For enforcing the due observance of the sabbath; for preventing vice, drunkenness, profane swearing, obscene language, and any other species of immorality and indecency in the streets or other public places, and for preserving peace and good order; for preventing the excessive beating or cruel and inhuman treatment of animals on the public highways of such village; for preventing the sale of any intoxicating drink to children, apprentices or servants, without the consent of their legal protectors; for suppressing and imposing penalties on the keepers of low tippling houses and houses of ill fame visited by dissolute and disorderly characters; for licensing and regulating victualling houses or other houses of refreshment where spirituous liquors are not sold; for the regulation of all public billiard tables, and for licensing, regulating or preventing bowling alleys or other places of amusement; for regulating or preventing, restraining or suppressing horse-racing and gambling houses, and for entering into them and seizing and destroying faro-banks, rouge-et-noir and roulette-tables, and other devices for gambling; for restraining and punishing all vagrants, drunkards, vagabonds, mendicants and street beggars, and all persons found drunk or disorderly in any street or public place in such village; for restraining or regulating the licensing of all exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, theatres, circuses, or other shows or exhibitions kept for hire or profit. 10. For abating and causing to be removed all public nuisances; for |