An Act to amend the "Municipalities Incorporation R.S.B.C. 1924,

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Act."

[Assented to 19th December, 1925.]

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

c. 182.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Municipalities Incorporation short title. Act Amendment Act, 1925."

2. The "Municipalities Incorporation Act," being chapter 182 of Enacts s. 13a. the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1924," is amended by inserting the following as section 13A:

municipal limits

"13A. (1.) Where the limits of any city, township, or district Extension of municipality extend to any water, whether navigable or not, the to include foreshore. Municipal Council may by by-law, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, extend the limits of the municipality to include the adjoining foreshore and any area below lowwater mark which is deemed necessary or advisable, or in case of a river, stream, or lake, to include the foreshore or the foreshore and lands covered by water to the middle of the river, stream, or lake, or any part of such foreshore and lands. No application for the approval of the by-law shall be entertained by the LieutenantGovernor in Council until after public notice of intended application for such approval has been given by the Municipal Council by advertisement published in at least three consecutive issues of a newspaper (if any) published, or if none, then in a newspaper circulating, in the municipality. A notice of the extension of the limits of the municipality, and of the date of the approval of the by-law by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and setting out a full description

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of the limits of the municipality as extended shall be published by the Municipal Council in the Gazette.

"(2.) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act, no proceedings or notice in addition to those prescribed by subsection (1) shall be necessary to give effect to an extension of limits under this section."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by CHARLES F. BANFIELD, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1925.

An Act to amend the "Village Municipalities Act." R.S.B.C. 1924,

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[Assented to 19th December, 1925.]

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

c. 183.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Village Municipalities Act Short title. Amendment Act, 1925."

2. Section 2 of the "Village Municipalities Act," being chapter Amends s. 2. 183 of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1924," is amended

by striking out the words " in which the number of persons then resident does not exceed one thousand, and " in the third, fourth, and fifth lines thereof.

3. (1.) The Schedule to said chapter 183 is amended by adding Amends Sch. after clause (35) of section 19 the following as clause (35a) :

"(35a.) For regulating traffic within the municipality."

(2.) Said Schedule is further amended by adding to section 19 the following as clause (85):

"(85.) For purchasing, constructing, operating, and maintain

ing, either within or without the municipality, works for
supplying for any and all purposes water, water-power,
electric light, and electric power to the inhabitants of
the municipality and of localities adjacent thereto, and
for regulating the rates, conditions, and terms under or
upon which the same may be supplied and used: Pro-
vided that no by-law passed under the provisions of this
clause shall come into force until approved by the
Lieutenant-Governor in Council."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by CHARLES F. BANFIELD, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1925.

An Act to provide for the Granting of certain Public
Lands in Aid of the Construction of the Pacific
Great Eastern Railway.

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[Assented to 19th December, 1925.]

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 "Pacific Great Eastern Railway Short title. Aid Act, 1925."

Vancouver and

Prince George.

2. In aid of the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Land grant in aid of from the City of Vancouver to a point on the Canadian National railway between Railway at or near the City of Prince George, it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to grant to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company public lands not to exceed an extent of twenty thousand acres in respect of each mile of the main line of its railway now completed and in respect of each mile of the remainder of the main line between the termini mentioned in this section as and when constructed. All lands to be granted under the provisions of this section shall be selected within the Land Recording Districts of Clinton and Quesnel, and from public lands of the Province within the areas approximately described in Schedule A.

railway between

3. In aid of the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Land grant in aid of from point on the Canadian National Railway at or near Prince Prince George and George, the said point being the northern termini of the railway Pouce Coupe. mentioned in section 2, to the eastern boundary of the Province at or near the village of Pouce Coupe, it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to grant to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company public lands not to exceed an extent of twenty thousand acres in respect of each mile of its main line of railway