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Act, 1921."

[Assented to 19th December, 1925.]

HEREAS a petition has been presented by the City of Vancou Preamble. ver praying that the "Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1921," be amended:

And whereas it is deemed expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition:

Therefore, His 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 "Vancouver Incorporation Act Short title. Amendment Act, 1925."

2. Section 173 of the "Vancouver Incorporation Act," being Amends s. 173. chapter 55 of the Statutes of British Columbia, 1921 (Second Session), is amended by striking out all the words after the word

"affected" in the tenth line thereof.

3. Section 175 of said chapter 55 is amended by inserting after Amends s. 175. the word "city," in the sixth line, the words "or out of capital funds raised by the issue of debentures upon the general credit of the city at large for the purpose of creating a general fund to provide the city's share of the cost of local improvements and works either before or after the initiation, commencement, or completion thereof." The provisions of this section shall be deemed to apply to any by-law initiated or passed by the Council for any such purposes subsequent to the first day of November, 1925.

4. Section 186 of said chapter 55 is amended by striking out the Amends s. 186. words" ten days" in the tenth line; and by inserting after the word

"publication," in the eleventh line, the following words: "for at least once in each week for two weeks."

Enacts s. 342.

Enacts s. 343.

5. Said chapter 55 is amended by adding thereto the following sections:

"342. The costs, fees, and expenses of and incident to the holding of any inquest upon any dead body found within the limits of the city shall be borne and defrayed by the city: Provided that this section shall not be deemed to impose any liability upon the city in respect of the death of any person not being a resident of the city resulting from an accident occurring outside the limits of the city.

"343. Every unclaimed human body found dead within the limits of the city shall be buried at the expense of the city, but the city may recover the amount of the expense from the estate of the deceased."

VICTORIA. B.C.:

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

An Act to ratify and confirm an Agreement between the Corporation of the City of Victoria and The Esquimalt Water Works Company, providing for the Expropriation of the Undertaking of the Water Works Company.

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[Assented to 19th December, 1925.]

HEREAS the Municipal Corporation of the City of Victoria Preamble. and The Esquimalt Water Works Company have joined in a petition praying for the enactment of legislation empowering the Corporation of the City of Victoria to carry out and complete an expropriation of the undertaking of The Esquimalt Water Works Company on terms providing for payment of instalments over a term of years, subject to the creation during such term of years of a Sinking Fund to pay off the purchase price, and also for the enactment of legislation vesting in the said Corporation all the franchises and corporate rights, powers, and privileges of the said Company, subject only to due payment of the agreed purchase price therefor:

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition:

Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

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1. This Act may be cited as The Esquimalt Water Works Short title. Company Winding-up Act, 1925."

notice.

2. The following Notice of Expropriation is hereby validated and Validation of declared to have been and to be lawfully and validly given and delivered as the act of the Corporation of the City of Victoria and its Water Commissioner, and to have full force and effect according

Notice of expropriation.

EXPROPRIATION.

to the tenor and effect thereof, but subject to the provisions of sections 9 and 10 hereof, that is to say:

Pursuant to the statutory powers in that behalf vested in me, as Water Commissioner of the City of Victoria, by Acts of the Legislature of British Columbia, notice is hereby given that I, as Water Commissioner, and for the Municipal Corporation of the City of Victòria, hereby expropriate and take the undertaking of The Esquimalt Water Works Company (except revenue and accounts receivable and bills and accounts payable as at August 1st, 1925, and bonds and cash on hand) on the terms, price, and conditions following, that is to say:— The total price is $1,450,000 on the following terms and conditions:

(a.) The City to assume the mortgage to the Royal Trust Company of $625,000, which falls due about 12 years from date. (b.) The City to take all the revenue of the Esquimalt Water Works system as from this day, 1st August, 1925, and to pay to your Company :

1. The sum of $40,000 per annum during the currency of the mortgage.

2. Thereafter the City to make semi-annual payments of $40,000, of which $21,656.25 is to be allotted to your Company and $18,343.75 to a Trust Sinking Fund to be handled by your Company. When the Sinking Fund amounts to $825,000, the principal sum shall be paid to your Company. The undertaking of your Company shall have been fully paid for by the City and all your Company's assets, rights, and privileges under your charter or by-law shall be transferred and assigned to the City, and your Company shall be shall be wound up, if requested by the City of Victoria.

3. The City to have the right to pay off your Company with $825,000 at any time by giving three months' notice in writing, and on said payment all your Company's assets, rights, and privileges under your charter or by law shall be transferred and assigned to the City, and your Company shall be wound up, if requested by the City of Victoria

4. The Company will join with the City of Victoria in applying to the Provincial Legislature (if requested by the City of Victoria) for an Act of Parliament for the purpose of confirming to the City of Victoria all the rights, powers, privileges, and undertakings of your Company; and for the purpose of winding up the Company (if desired by the City of Victoria).

(c.) As minor conditions of the agreement to purchase it will be provided:

1. All the moneys receivable from sale of timber during the year 1925 and subsequently shall be applied in reduction of the mortgage and thereby enure to the benefit of the City. 2. The Colwood Golf & Country Club shall have water, to capacity of present connections, for their own use for the purpose of maintaining the golf links and for no other purpose, for 10 years at $500 per year.

3. Mr. E. B. Halsall, manager of The Esquimalt Water Works Company, will be transferred to the employ of the City of Victoria at $175 per month, for a period of three years from August 1st, 1925.