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CHAPTER 48.

An Act to amend the "Placer-mining Act."

R.S.B.C. 1911,

c. 165; 1919, c. 60; 1920, c. 59; 1921

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.] (2nd Sess.), c. 34.

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Placer-mining Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1923."

2. Section 108 of the "Placer-mining Act," being chapter 165 of Amends s. 108. the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is amended by

inserting after the word "on," in the third line, the words "rivers

or on."

3. Section 118 of said chapter 165 is amended by adding thereto Amends s. 118. the words "After filing such declaratory statement the holder or holders of the leases shall be allowed in each year to perform, on any one or more of the grounds comprised in the leases, all the work that is necessary to be performed to hold all the leases."

4. Section 120A of said chapter 165, as enacted by section 10 of Amends s. 120A. the. "Placer-mining Act Amendment Act, 1920," is amended by

adding thereto the words "The holder or holders of any leases consolidated under this section shall be allowed in each year to perform, on any one or more of the grounds comprised in the leases, all the work that is necessary to be performed to hold all the leases."

5. Said chapter 165 is amended by inserting therein the follow- Enacts s. 120B. ing as section 120B:-

"120B. Where leases have been consolidated under the provisions of this Act, the Gold Commissioner, upon the written application of the holders of the leases so consolidated, may fix a uniform date on

which, in each year, the rentals on all the leases shall be paid, and may by alteration in writing on each lease, initialled by him and by the holder of the lease, amend the date of the lease accordingly."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1923.

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An Act to amend the "Motor-vehicle Act."

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

1920, c. 62; 1921
(2nd Sess.), c. 36;
1922, c. 50.

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IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Motor-vehicle Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1923."

2. Section 6 of the "Motor-vehicle Act," being chapter 62 of the Amends s. 6. Statutes of 1920, is amended by striking out the words "ninety days" in the seventh line of subsection (1), and substituting therefor the words "six months."

3. Section 13 of said chapter 62 is amended by striking out the Amends s. 13. words which were inserted after the word "highway," in the sixth line, by section 3 of the "Motor-vehicle Act Amendment Act, 1921," and substituting therefor the words "and shall slow down to ten miles an hour when approaching or passing, between the hour of eight o'clock in the forenoon and the hour of five o'clock in the afternoon of any day on which school is regularly held, any school where signs are displayed sufficient to warn a driver that he is approaching a school."

4. Section 26 of said chapter 62 is amended by adding at the end Amends s. 26. of subsection (1) the words "except that on and after the first day of January, 1924, the annual licence fees set forth in the table of fees in respect of motor-vehicles other than motor-cycles and in respect of motor-cycles shall be subject to a discount of twenty-five per centum of the amounts thereof respectively."

5. Section 36 of said chapter 62 is repealed, and the following is Re-enacts s. 36. substituted therefor:

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"36. Every officer or constable of the Provincial Police, or of the police force of any municipality, may arrest without warrant:"(a.) Any person driving a motor-vehicle upon which no

number-plate issued by the Superintendent under this Act is displayed whom the officer or constable finds committing any act in violation of any of the provisions of this Act or of the regulations:

"(b.) Any person whom the officer or constable finds committing any act in violation of section 13;

and may detain the person arrested until he can be brought before a Justice to be dealt with according to law."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1923.

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CHAPTER 50.

An Act to amend the "Municipal Act."

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1914, c. 52; 1915, c. 46; 1916, c. 44; 1916, c. 49, s. 59; 1917, c. 45; 1918,

c. 57; 1919, c. 63

1920, c. 63; 1921, c. 44; 1921 (2nd

Sess.), c. 36, s. 10;

1921 (2nd Sess.),

c. 37; 1922, c. 51.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Municipal Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1923."

2. Section 2 of the "Municipal Act," being chapter 52 of the Amends s. 2. Statutes of 1914, is amended by adding to the definition of "improvements" the following:

"Provided further that the Council of any district municipality

may by by-law provide that the definition of 'improve-
ments' as applicable to such municipality shall be the
definition herein set out with regard to city municipalities."

3. Clause (30) of section 54 of said chapter 52 is amended by Amends s. 54. adding the following after the fourth line of subclause (e) :—

"(f.) For constructing, maintaining, and operating drainageworks to drain lands within the municipality, and in cases where the Council considers it just and equitable to do so, for charging at a uniform rate per acre the whole or any part of the cost of the drainage-works against the lands benefited and the lands the irrigation of which in the Council's opinion contributes to the condition making the construction of the drainage-works necessary."

8. 54.

4. Clause (31) of said section 54 is amended by striking out the Further amends word and letter "and (e)" in the twenty-fourth line thereof, and

substituting therefor "(e) and (f)."

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