ROYAL 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     JOHN INGS, QUEEN’S PRINTER. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LAWS OF PRINCE “EDWARD ISLAI‘ 3. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MA 
     
    
   
   
    
     CAP. 111. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act to prevent the Concealment of Arms or 
     
     Munitions of War, intended for unlawful pur- 
     
    
   
   
    
     poses. 
     
     - [Passed May 11, 1806.] 
     
    

    
     B it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council 
     
     and Assembly, as follows :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. When and as often as it shall appear, by any in- 
     
     formation, on Oath, laid before any one or more of 
     
     Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, that there is 
     
     sufficient reason to suspect (and of which suspicion 
     
     such Justice or Justices shall be thejudge orjudges,) 
     
     that there are concealed in the possession, actual or 
     
     constructive, of any person or persons, being within 
     
     the jurisdiction of, or belonging to or residing within, 
     
     this Colony, any Arms or other Munitions of War, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An; 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     capable of being used with danger to the persons of 
     
    
   
   
    
     any of Her Majesty’s subjects, it shall be lawful for 
     
     such Justice or Justices, by warrant, under his or 
     
     their hand and seal, or hands and seals, to authorize 
     
     any number of Constables, or other Peace Officers, 
     
     or any private persons, to search for, and alter de- 
     
     mand and refusal of admission, to break open any 
     
     doors, and enetr any house or building, and take and 
     
     retain possession of such arms, until an order shall 
     
     be made by the Lieutenant Governor, for the time 
     
     being, for the restoration or other disposition of such 
     
     arms; and, in the event of its being made to appear 
     
     to the said Lieutenant Governor, after due investiga- 
     
     tion, conducted before such person or persons, and 
     
     at such time or times, as he shall, for that purpose, 
     
     appoint, that such arms or other munitions, as afore- 
     
     said, were intended to be used for any treasonable 
     
     purpose, or for subverting, overawing, or disturbing 
     
     the Government of Her Majesty the Queen of Eng- 
     
     land, or the Government of this Island, or for or 
     
     with any intent to endanger the lives of any of Her 
     
     Majesty’s subjects, which, by the laws either of this 
     
     Colony or of Great Britain, would be a felonious in- 
     
     tent, all such arms shall be finally disposed of in 
     
     such manner as the said Lieutenant Governor shall 
     
     order and direct; and all parties who shall have un- 
     
     lawfully used any such arms or munitions, or shall 
     
     have intended to make use thereof, for any such 
     
     unlawful purpose, as aforesaid, shall be dealt with 
     
     as the law directs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     i1. Every person who shall have concealed, or 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, May 30', 1866. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     assisted in concealing, any arms or munitions, as 
     
     aforesaid, knowing that the same were intended to 
     
     be used for any such unlawful purpose as hereinbe- 
     
     fore expressed, shall be deemed guilty of felony, 
     
     and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to sufi'er 
     
     in'iprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, 
     
     with or without hard labour, during the whoie or 
     
     such part of the time of his imprisonment, as the 
     
     Supreme Court ofJudicature shall direct. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ill. The onus probandi; that any such arms or 
     
     munitions, concealed as aforesaid, were concealed, 
     
     manufactured, or imported, to be used for a lawful, 
     
     and not for an unlawful purpose, shall lie on the 
     
     person or persons claiming the same. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     CAP. IV. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act for the purpose of transferring the Fund 
     
     raised by the Sale of the Military Barracks lfl' 
     
     Charlottetown, to the purposes therein men~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     tioned. 
     
     [Passed May 11, 1866.] 
     
    
   
   
    
      HEREAS in and by an Act passed in the 
     
    

    
     ’/ Twenty-Sixth year of Her Majesty’s Reign, 
     
     intituled “ An Act to authorize the Government to 
     
     sell the Military Barracks in Charlottetown, “ it is 
     
     amongst other things enacted “that all moneys to 
     
     arise from the sale or sales of the said Lands, after 
     
     defraying the expenses attending the same, shall be 
     
     paid into the Treasury ofthis Island, to form a Fund, 
     
     the annual Interest of which shall be applied and 
     
     appropriated exclusively for and towards the main- 
     
     tenance and support of the Volunteer Force of this 
     
     Colony, or other military purposes.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     And whereas, since the passing ofthe said recited 
     
     Act, it became necessary to purchase Land, and 
     
     erect Barracks and other Buildings for the accom- 
     
     modation of Her Majesty’s Troops in this Island, and 
     
     it is deemed expedient that the said Fund, arising 
     
     from the sale ofthe Military Barracks in Charlotte- 
     
     town, should be appropriated towards the re-pay- 
     
     ment of the moneys advanced by the Government 
     
     for the erection of the said Barracks, and other 
     
     Buildings connected therewith; 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Gover- 
     
     nor, Council, and Assembly, that the Fourth Sec- 
     
     tion of the said hereinbefore recited Act, of the 
     
     Twenty—Sixth Victoria, Chapter Eight, be, and the 
     
     same is hereby repealed.