Part II - Enacted First Nations Legislation

Decision Information

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The Council of the Iroquois of St. Regis Band of Indians at a meeting held November 23, 1959 , makes the following by-law pursuant to paragraphs (c), (d), (q) and (r) Section 80 of The Indian Act, By-Law No.X A by-law to provide for the regulation of the activities of boys and girls actually or apparently under 16 years of age.on the St. Regis Indian Agency and living on Cornwall Island in the province of Ontario. (a) No boy or girl actually or apparently under 16 years of age on the Indian Reserves at the Cornwall Island in the Province of Ontario shall loiter any place within the said Indian Reserve-after nine o'clock in the afternoon from September the 15th till December the 15th, from January the 15th till June the 15th and minus a few days the school is not in session at Easter, and after ten* clock in the afternoon from June 16th till September the 14th, from December the 16th till January 14th and also the days that school is not in session' at Easter. 0>) No boy or girl actually or apparently under 16 years.’ of age on the Indian Reserve at the Cornviall Island in the Province of Ontario shall be in any place of entertainment, street, lane, by-way or common within the said Reserves or shall be in the course of returning from any place of entertainment off the said Reserve after the hour of nine o'clock in the afternoon from September the 15th till December the 15th, from January the 15th till June 15th and minus a few days that school is not in session at Easter, unless accompanied by hia or her parent or an adult appointed by a parent to accompany such child. (c) A boy or girl on the Indian Reserve at the Cornwall Island in the Province of Ontario found violating the provisions of paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) / may be warned and conducted home by a poliçe officer. <r r» \ , . ï t,
i > - 2 - . C<0 A parent who permits his children to violate paragraph (a} or paragraph (b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on siunmary con­ viction to a fine not exceeding $5.00 or imprisonment not exceeding seven days, or both fins and imprisonment » i' '
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