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that J. P. W., license inspector of the

of the said

do forthwith destroy the said liquor and vessels.

Given under our hands and seals (or my hand and seal) this

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51 V., c. 34, sch. form Y.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty.

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CHAPTER 153.

An Act respecting the Lord's Day.

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as the Lord's Day Act.

INTERPRETATION.

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Short title.

Definitions.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) Lord's Day' means the period of time which begins Lord's
at twelve o'clock on Saturday afternoon and ends at Day.'
twelve o'clock on the following afternoon;

(b) person' has the meaning which it has in the Criminal Person.' Code;

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(c) vessel' includes any kind of vessel or boat used for Vessel.' conveying passengers or freight by water;

(d) railway' includes steam railway, electric railway, Railway.' street railway and tramway;

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ance.

(e) performance' includes any game, match, sport, con- Performtest, exhibition or entertainment; (f) employer' includes every person to whose orders or Employer.' directions any other person is by his employment bound to conform;

(g) provincial Act' means the charter of any municipality, Provincial or any public Act of any province, whether passed before Act.'

or since Confederation. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 1.

3. Nothing herein shall prevent the operation on the Lord's Dominion Day for passenger traffic by any railway company incorporated railways. by or subject to the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada of its railway where such operation is not otherwise prohibited.

railways.

2. Nothing herein shall prevent the operation on the Lord's Operation of Day for passenger traffic of any railway subject to the legis. provincial lative authority of any province, unless such railway is prohibited by provincial authority from so operating. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 13.

COMMENCEMENT.

4. This Act shall come into force on the first day of March, Commenceone thousand nine hundred and seven. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 16. ment of Act.

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PROHIBITIONS..

PROHIBITIONS.

No sales to be made or business or

Lord's Day.

5. It shall not be lawful for any person on the Lord's Day, except as provided herein, or in any provincial Act or law now work done on or hereafter in force, to sell or offer for sale or purchase any goods, chattels, or other personal property, or any real estate, or to carry on or transact any business of his ordinary calling. or in connection with such calling, or for gain to do, or employ any other person to do, on that day, any work, business, or labour. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 2.

Substitution of another holiday for the Lord's Day.

Restriction.

Games and performances

sion fee is charged.

6. Except in cases of emergency, it shall not be lawful for any person to require any employee engaged in any work of receiving, transmitting or delivering telegraph or telephone messages, or in the work of any industrial process, or in connection with transportation, to do on the Lord's Day the usual work of his ordinary calling, unless such employee is allowed during the next six days of such week, twenty-four consecutive hours without labour.

2. This section shall not apply to any employee engaged in the work of any industrial process in which the regular day's labour of such employee is not of more than eight hours' duration. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 4.

7. It shall not be lawful for any person, on the Lord's Day, where admis- except as provided in any provincial Act or law now or hereafter in force, to engage in any public game or contest for gain, or for any prize or reward, or to be present thereat, or to provide, engage in, or be present at any performance or public meeting, elsewhere than in a church, at which any fee is charged, directly or indirectly, either for admission to such performance or meeting, or to any place within which the same is provided, or for any service or privilege thereat.

Charges for

conveyance to perform

ance.

Excursions

by convey

fee is charged.

2. When any performance at which an admission fee or any other fee is so charged is provided in any building or place to which persons are conveyed for hire by the proprietors or managers of such performance or by any one acting as their agent or under their control, the charge for such conveyance shall be deemed an indirect payment of such fee within the meaning of this section. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 5.

8. It shall not be lawful for any person on the Lord's Day, ances where except as provided by any provincial Act or law now or hereafter in force, to run, conduct, or convey by any mode of conveyance any excursion on which passengers are conveyed for hire, and having for its principal or only object the carriage on that day of such passengers for amusement or pleasure, and passengers so conveyed shall not be deemed to be travellers within the meaning of this Act. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 6. 2918

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9. It shall not be lawful for any person to advertise in Advertisemanner whatsoever any performance or other thing prohibited prohibited by this Act.

performances, etc.,

2. It shall not be lawful for any person to advertise in wherever Canada in any manner whatsoever any performance or other taking place. thing which if given or done in Canada would be a violation of this Act. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 7.

10. It shall not be lawful for any person on the Lord's Day Shooting. to shoot with or use any gun, rifle or other similar engine, either for gain, or in such a manner or in such places as to disturb other persons in attendance at public worship or in the observance of that day. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 8.

11. It shall not be lawful for any person to bring into Sale of foreign Canada for sale or distribution, or to sell or distribute within newspapers Canada, on the Lord's Day, any foreign newspaper or publica- on Sunday. tion classified as a newspaper. 6 E. VII., c. 27, s. 9.

WORKS OF NECESSITY AND MERCY EXCEPTED.

mercy not

12. Notwithstanding anything herein contained, any person Works of may on the Lord's Day do any work of necessity or mercy, and necessity and for greater certainty, but not so as to restrict the ordinary mean- prohibited. ing of the expression work of necessity or mercy,' it is hereby declared that it shall be deemed to include the following classes of work:

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(a) Any necessary or customary work in connection with Divine. divine worship;

worship.

(b) Work for the relief of sickness and suffering, including Relief of the sale of drugs, medicines and surgical appliances by sickness. retail;

and telephone.

any continu

(c) Receiving, transmitting, or delivering telegraph or tele- Telegraph phone messages; (d) Starting or maintaining fires, making repairs to fur- Fires and naces and repairs in cases of emergency, and doing any repairs to other work, when such fires, repairs or work are essential ous industry. to any industry or industrial process of such a continuous nature that it cannot be stopped without serious injury to such industry, or its product, or to the plant or property used in such process;

protection of life and property. Continuous

(e) Starting or maintaining fires, and ventilating, pumping Fires, pumpout and inspecting mines, when any such work is essential ing, etc., in to the protection of property, life or health; (f) Any work without the doing of which on the Lord's Day, pro electric current, light, heat, cold air, water or gas cannot supply of be continuously supplied for lawful purposes; (a) The conveying of travellers and work incidental thereto; Conveying (h) The continuance to their destination of trains and travellers. vessels in transit when the Lord's Day begins, and work Trains and incidental thereto;

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light, heat,

etc.

vessels in transit.

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(i) Loading and unloading merchandise, at intermediate
points, on or from passenger boats or passenger trains;
(j) Keeping railway tracks clear of snow or ice, making
repairs in cases of emergency, or doing any other work of
a like incidental character necessary to keep the lines and
tracks open on the Lord's Day;

(k) Work before six o'clock in the forenoon and after eight
o'clock in the afternoon of yard crews in handling cars in
railway yards;

(1) Loading, unloading and operating any ocean-going ves-
sel which otherwise would be unduly delayed after her
scheduled time of sailing, or any vessel which otherwise
would be in imminent danger of being stopped by the
closing of navigation; or loading or unloading before seven
o'clock in the morning or after eight o'clock in the after-
noon any grain, coal or ore carrying vessel after the
fifteenth of September;

(m) The caring for milk, cheese, and live animals, and the
unloading of and caring for perishable products and live
animals, arriving at any point during the Lord's Day;
(n) The operation of any toll or drawbridge, or any ferry
or boat authorized by competent authority to carry pas-
sengers on the Lord's Day;

(0) The hiring of horses and carriages or small boats for the
personal use of the hirer or his family for any purpose not
prohibited by this Act;

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(p) Any unavoidable work after six o'clock in the afternoon of the Lord's Day, in the preparation of the regular Monday morning edition of a daily newspaper;

(q) The conveying His Majesty's mails and work incidental thereto;

(r) The delivery of milk for domestic use, and the work of domestic servants and watchmen;

(s) The operation by any Canadian electric street railway
company, whose line is interprovincial or international, of
its cars, for passenger traffic, on the Lord's Day, on any
line or branch which is, on the day of the coming into
force of this Act, regularly so operated;

(t) Work done by any person in the public service of His
Majesty while acting therein under any regulation or
direction of any department of the Government;
(u) Any unavoidable work by fishermen after six o'clock
in the afternoon of the Lord's Day, in the taking of fish;
(v) All operations connected with the making of maple
sugar and maple syrup in the maple grove;
(w) Any unavoidable work on the Lord's Day to save pro-
perty in cases of emergency, or where such property is in
imminent danger of destruction or serious injury;
(x) Any work which the Board of Railway Commissioners
for Canada, having regard to the object of this Act, and

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