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baggage, wood or freight car, in violation of the printed regulations posted up at the time in a conspicuous place inside of the passenger cars, then in the train, shall have no claim for the injury, provided room inside of such passenger cars, sufficient for the proper accommodation of the passengers, was furnished at the time.

(10) No passenger shall be entitled to carry, or require the company to carry, upon their railway, aquafortis, oil of vitriol, gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other goods, which in the judgment of the company may be of a dangerous nature; and if any person sends, by the said railway, any such goods, without, at the time of so sending the said goods, distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the package containing the same, and otherwise giving notice in writing to the station-master or other servant of the company, with whom the same are left, he shall forfeit to the company the sum of five hundred dollars, for every such offence.

(11) The company may refuse to take any package or parcel which they suspect to contain goods of a dangerous nature, or may require the same to be opened to ascertain the fact.

(12) Any person who boards a train when drunk may be at once put out by the conductor or train servants before the train moves, and any person being drunk upon any railway train or behaving in a violent and offensive manner to the annoyance of others, may be put out of the train with his baggage at any station, the conductor first stopping the train and not using any unnecessary force; provided that any passenger so put out may, on presenting himself, within fortyeight hours after being so put out, at any of the trains of the company from whose train he has been put out, resume his journey without any additional charge.

(13) It shall be lawful for the conductor on any railway to take and destroy any intoxicating liquor in the possession of any passenger who is drunk or drinking to excess or supplying liquors to other persons on the train.

(14) It shall be lawful for any officer or servant of a railway to remove from a railway any person who is trespassing thereon and who refuses to quit upon request, and it shall be the

duty of every police constable, upon the request of any such officer or servant, to remove any person so trespassing and refusing to quit.

(15) No railway company or other person shall sell or deliver to any person apparently under the influence of liquor any ticket to travel on any of its trains under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered in a sum

mary manner.

32. In the two preceding sections the word "railway" shall include the land on which the railway is made and all buildings and erections thereon, and all stations, premises, wharves and works used in connection with the railway, and all railway engines, cars and carriages.

33. (1) If it is represented to the Government Engineer by or on behalf of the servants or any class of the servants of a railway company or company operating any railway in this Colony that the hours of labor of those servants or of that clas, or, in any special case, of any particular servants enga ed in working the traffic on any part of the lines of such company are excessive, or do not provide sufficient intervals of uninterrupted rest between the periods of duty or sufficient relief in respect of Sunday duty, the Government Engineer shall enquire into the representation.

(2) If it appears to the Government Engineer, either on such representation or otherwise, that there is in the case of any railway company reasonable ground of complaint with respect to any of the matters aforesaid, the Government Engineer shall order the company to submit to him within a period specified such a schedule of time for the duty of the servants or of any class of the servants of the company as will in the opinion of the Government Engineer bring the actual hours of work within reasonable limits, regard being had to all the circumstances of the traffic and to the nature of the work.

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such company fail to comply with any such order or to enforce the provisions of any schedule submitted to the Government Engineer and approved by him, the Government Engineer may refer the same to the Governor in Council,

the company to submit to the Governor in Council within. a period specified, such schedule as will, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, bring the actual hours of work within reasonable limits.

(4) If any such company fail to comply with any order made by the Governor in Council in pursuance of this section, or to enforce the provisions of any schedule submitted to the Governor in Council, and approved by him, the company shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day such default continues. Such fine shall be recoverable by an action in the name of the Minister of Justice in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(5) This section shall apply to the following servants only, namely: engineers or locomotive drivers, firemen, conductors, brakemen, signalmen, and telegraph operators.

34. If any officer or servant of, or person employed by any railway company, wilfully or negligently contravenes any bye-law or regulation of the company, lawfully made and in force, or any order or notice of the Governor in Council or of the inspecting engineer or engineers, of which a copy has been delivered to him, or has been posted up or open to his inspection in some place where his work or his duties, or any of them, are to be performed, then if such contravention causes injury to any property, or to any person, or exposes any property or any person to the risk of injury, or renders such risk greater than it would have been without such contravention, although no actual injury occurs, such person if convicted thereof, shall in the discretion of the Court before whom the conviction. is had, be punished by fine not exceeding four hundred dollars, and in default of payment of the fine, to be imprisoned for a term not to exceed two years.

35. If such contravention does not cause injury to any property or person, nor expose any person or property to the risk of injury, or renders such risk greater than it would have been without such contravention, then the officer, servant or other person guilty thereof, shall thereby incur a penalty not exceeding the amount of thirty days' pay, nor less than fifteen days' pay of the offender, from the company, in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace before whom the conviction is had; and such penalty shall be recoverable with costs before any one Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction where the offence has been committed, or where the of

fender is found, on the oath of one credible witness other than the informer.

36. One moiety of such penalty shall belong to His Majesty for the public uses of the Colony, and the other moiety to the informer, unless he be an officer or servant of, or person in the employ of the company, in which case he shall be a competent witness, and the whole penalty shall belong to His Majesty for the use aforesaid.

37. The company may, in all cases, under the three next preceding sections, pay the amount of the penalty and costs and recover the same from the offender, or deduct it from his salary or pay.

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(1) Unlawfully and maliciously put, place, cast, or throw upon or across any railway, any wood, stone or other matter or thing, or shall unlawfully and maliciously take up, remove or displace any rail, sleeper or other matter or thing belonging to any railway, or shall unlawfully and maliciously turn, move, or divert any point or other machinery belonging to any railway, or shall unlawfully and maliciously make or show, hide or remove any signal or light upon or near to any railway, or shall unlawfully and maliciously do or cause to be done, or assist in doing or causing to be done, any other matter or thing, or shall unlawfully and maliciously, by any overt act, attempt to do any matter or thing with intent in any of the cases aforesaid, to obstruct, upset, overthrow, injure or destroy any engine, tender, carriage or truck, using such railway; or,—

(2) Shall by any unlawful act, or by any wilful omission or neglect, obstruct or cause to be obstructed, any engine or carriage using any railway, or shall aid or assist therein; or,

(3) Shall unlawfully and maliciously throw or cause to fall, or strike at, against, into or upon any engine, tender, carriage or truck, used upon any railway, any wood, stone or other matter or thing with intent to injure or endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage or truck, or in or upon any other engine, tender, carriage or truck, of any train, of which such first mentioned en

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