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or if no two other daily newspapers are published in or nearer to such place if in any other Province in Canada ; and if in any place where any such sale by auction is to be made, there be not any newspaper published daily in either language, but some newspaper or newspapers be published there in such language less often than daily, then such advertisement shall also be published in every issue of such local newspaper, or of at least one of such local newspapers, during the time in which it would otherwise be published in daily newspapers.
Advances on such security to give priority of lien.14. All advances made on the security of any such cove receipt or bill of lading, or receipt, acknowledgment or certificate as aforesaid, shall give and be held to give to the person, bank or other body corporate making such advances, a claim for the repayment of such advances on the timber, boards, deals, staves or other lumber therein mentioned, prior to and by preference over the claim of any unpaid vendor or other creditor, save and except claims for wages of labor performed in making and transporting such timber, boards, deals, staves, or other lumber, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Punishment of persons giving false receipts, &c., under this Act.15. If any Miller, Warehouseman, Master of a vessel, Forwarder, Carrier, Wharfinger, Keeper of a Cove, Yard, Harbour or other place for storing timber, deals, staves, boards or other lumber, Factor, Agent or other person, or any clerk or person in his employ, knowingly and wilfully gives to any person any writing purporting to be a receipt for or an acknowledgment of any cereal grain, timber, deals, staves, boards or other lumber, or other goods, wares, merchandize or property as having been received in his Warehouse, Vessel, Cove, Wharf or other place, or in any such place about which he is employed, or as having been in any other manner received by him or the person in or about whose business he is employed, before the goods or property named in such receipt, acknowledgment or writing have been actually so received by or delivered to him or his employer, with the intent to mislead, deceive, injure or defraud any person or persons whomsoever, although such person or persons may be then to him unknown ; or if any person knowingly and wilfully accepts or transmits or uses any such false receipt, acknowledgment or writing, Or accepting or using the same knowingly.— the person giving and the person accepting, transmitting or using such false receipt, acknowledgment or writing shall severally be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be liable to be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for the Province where the offence is committed for any term not exceeding three years nor less than two years, or to be imprisoned in any other gaol or place of confinement for any term less than two years but not less than one year, in the discretion of the Court before which the conviction shall be had.16.
