088A
COUNTY OF ELGIN
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88
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By-Law
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Passed 7th November 1860
WHEREAS under the provisions of the Act 22nd
Victoria Chapter 54th Section 282 of the Consolidated
Statutes of Upper Canada power is given to the Council
of every County, City and Town to pass By-Laws for cer-
tain purposes and more particularly for those set forth
in the 282nd section of the said Act for the preserva-
tion of the public morals and for the due observance of the
Sabbath according to law.
BE IT THEREFORE enacted by the Municipal Coun-
the Corporation of the County of Elgin
cil of
That in pursuance and in accordance with the
provisions of the Act 22nd Victoria Chapter 104 of the
Consolidated Statutes of Upper Canada entitled "An Act
to prevent the profanation of the Lords Day commonly
called Sunday in Upper Canada" -
or per-
Workman,
the Lords
It shall not be lawful for any person
sons, Merchant, Tradesman, Artificer. Mechanic,
Labourer or other person whatsoever on
Day
To sell or publicly shew forth or expose or
offer for sale or to purchase any goods, chattels or
other personal property or any real Estate whatsoever,
or to do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work
of his ordinary calling (conveying travellers or Her
Majestys Mail by land or by water, selling drugs and Medi-
cines and other works of necessity and works of charity
only excepted)
lawful for any person on that day
to attend any public political
or to allow or permit tippling in
or House of Public Entertainment
exhibit himself in a state of
use profane language in the
so as to create any riot or
Her Majestys peaceable sub--
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(Cont'd
It is not
to hold; convene or
meeting or to tipple
any Inn, Tavern, Grocery
or to revel, or publicly
intoxication or to brawl or
public streets or open air,
disturbance or annoyance to
jects in the County of Elgin.
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88
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By--Law
It is not lawful for any person on the Lords
Day to play at skittles ball, football, racket or any
other noisy game, or to gamble with dice or otherwise,
or to run races on foot or on horseback or in carriages
or in vehicles of any sort in said County.
Except in defence of his property from any wolf
or other ravenous beast or bird of prey, it is not lawful
for any person on the Lords Day to go out hunding or shoot-
ing, or in quest of or to take, kill or destroy, any deer
or other game, or any wild animal or any wild fowl or bird,
or to use any dog, gun, rifle or other engine, net or trap
for the above mentioned purpose on Sunday in said County
of Elgin.
It is not lawful for any person on the Lords Day
fishing or to take, kill or destroy any fish or
gun fishing rod, net or other engine for that
to go out
to use any
purpose
It is not lawful for any person on the Lords Day
to bath in any exposed situation in any water within the
limit of any incorporated City or Town or within view of
any place of public worship or private residence
The foregoing clauses respecting profanation of
Day not to extend to the people called Indians
Lords
AND IT IS FURTHER enacted by the authority of the
282nd Section and subsection thereof of the Act first herein
recited Respecting Public Morals
the
That it shall not be lawful for any person to give
or sell intoxicating drink of any sort to any child, appren-
tice or servant within this County without the consent of
the parent, master or legal protector.
That it shall not be lawful for any person to
post or circulate any indecent placards, writings or pic-
tures or to write indecent words or to make indecent pic-
tures or drawings on walls or fences in any streets or pub-
lic places in this County
That it shall not be lawful for any person to
utter or make use of any profane Oath or any obscene, blas-
phemous or grossly insulting language in any of the streets
or public places or highways within said County.
That it shall not be lawful for any person or
persons to keep a tippling house or a house of ill-fame
within the said County.
(Cont'd)
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88
By-Law No
That it shall not be lawful for any person to
be drunk or guilty of any drunkenness or disorderly con-
duct in any of the public streets, highways or public
places in this County.
That it shall not be lawful for any person in-
decently to expose his or her person, or to be guilty of
any indecent or immoral behaviour in any street, highway
or public place within said County
be lawful for any person or
on any of the public streets
That it shall not
persons to be horse racing
or highways in the County.
That it shall not be lawful for any person or
persons to keep a gambling house in said County and that
all Faro banks, Rouge et Noir, Roulette Tables and other
devices for gambling found therein shall be seized and
destroyed
That it shall not be lawful for any person to
bathe or indecently expose his or her person by washing
in any water within this County lying or running near any
public highway between the hours of six o'clock in the
morning and eight at night unless provided with and clothed
in a proper bathing dress sufficient to prevent any inde-·
cent exposure of their persons
AND BE IT enacted by the authority aforesaid
that any person or persons guilty of a violation of any
of the provisions of this By-Law shall upon conviction
before any Justice or Justice of the Peace having juri-
diction in the said County of Elgin be liable to a fine
of not more than twenty dollars nor less than one dollar
to be collected by distress and sale of the goods and
chattels of any offender or offenders and in case no goods
or chattels are found belonging to the said offender or
offenders as aforesaid on which to levy any fines or fees
as aforesaid it shall be lawful for any such Justice or
Justices of the Peace in their discretion to commit the
offender or offenders to the common jailor lock up in
the said County of Elgin for a period not exceeding eight
days nor less than one day with or without hard labour as
the said Justice or Justices may determine
AND BE IT FURTHER enacted that all fines and
penalties imposed and collected under and by virtue of
this By--J-,aw shall belong to and be appropriated to the
use and benefit of the Municipality in which the offence
was committed (except when the offence is the profanation
of the Lords Day in which case one moiety thereof shall be
paid to the party charging the offence in writing before
the Justice and the other moiety to the Treasurer of the
County wherein the offence was committed.)
Cont'd)
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By--Law No. 88 (A) Page 4
AND IT SHALL be the duty of the County Clerk
to furnish Municipal Clerl\:, Councillors and Magistrates
in the County with printed copies of this By-Law for the
purpose of being put up in conspicuous places in the
several Municipalities.
AND IT IS enacted that this By-Law shall take
effect from and after the date of the passing thereof.
Passed in Council this ninth day of November in the year
of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
St. Thomas 9th November 1860
\llilliam McKay James Armstrong
Clerk Warden
County of Elgin
Read a first time 7 November 1860.
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a second time 7 November 1860.
Certified - W. McKay Clerk
Read a third time 7 November 1860
Certified - W McKay Clerk