History of the New England Company, from Its Incorporation, in the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time: Including a Detailed Report of the Company's Proceedings for the Civilization and Conversion of Indians, Blacks, and Pagans in the Dominion of Canada, British Columbia, the West Indies, and S. Africa, During the Two Years 1869-1870Taylor, 1879 - 353 pages |
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Page 113 - Indian who is destitute of the knowledge of God and of any fixed and clear belief in religion or in a future state of rewards and punishments...
Page 104 - a return of the number and kinds of trees cut, and of the quantity and description of " sawlogs, or of the number and description of sticks of square timber manufactured and " carried away under such license...
Page 102 - Lands may order the purchase money of so much land as is deficient, with the interest thereon from the time of the application therefor, or if the land has passed from the original purchaser, then the purchase money which the claimant (provided he was ignorant of a deficiency at the time of his purchase) has paid for so much of the land as is deficient, with interest thereon from the time of the application therefor, to be paid to him in land or in money, as he, the...
Page 14 - Indians and slaves may be best instructed and invited to the Christian religion, it being both for the honour of the Crown and of the Protestant religion itself that all persons within any of our territories, though never so remote, should be taught the knowledge of God and be acquainted with the mysteries of salvation.
Page 103 - Indian lands at such rates, and subject to such conditions, regulations and restrictions, as may from time to time be established by the Governor in Council, such conditions, regulations and restrictions to be adapted to the locality in which such reserves or lands are situated.
Page 123 - Every owner or other person violating any provision of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred...
Page 115 - Indian, shall be liable, on conviction thereof before any judge, stipendiary magistrate, or two justices of the peace, upon the evidence of one credible witness other than the informer or prosecutor, to be fined not less than fifty nor...
Page 88 - intoxicating liquor " shall mean and include all spirits, strong waters, spirituous liquors, wines, fermented or compounded liquors, or intoxicating fluids ; and the expression " intoxicant " shall include opium, or any preparation thereof, and any other intoxicating drug or substance, and tobacco or tea mixed, compounded or impregnated with opium, or with any other intoxicating drug, spirit or substance, and whether the same or any of them be liquid or solid.
Page 107 - When tobe condemned, unless the person from whom it was seized, or the owner thereof, within one month from the day of the seizure, gives notice to the seizing officer, or nearest officer or agent of the Superintendent-General, that he claims or intends to claim the same ; failing such notice, the officer or agent seizing Sale.
Page 91 - ... days, without being entitled to the limits or the liberties of such jail ; and such judge shall cause such conviction to be drawn up and filed in the office of the county clerk, which conviction shall be final. In the execution of either of such warrants the sheriff shall have the same powers as in the execution of criminal process, and shall be paid by the state such compensation as the comptroller shall certify as reasonable. The district attorney of any county in which reservation lands are...