Repealed. 36. Except as hereinbefore is enacted and provided, the Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed in the now last session thereof, and entitled, "An Act for the temporary government of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Ter ritory when united with Canada," is hereby re-enacted, extended and continued in force until the first day of January, 1871, and until the end of the session of Parliament then next succeeding. MANITOBA SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS. CHAPTER 99. An Act respecting the Province of Manitoba. SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Manitoba Supplementary Provisions Act." INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-(a) "Province" means the Province of Manitoba; (b) "Minister" means the Minister of the Interior; and, (c) "commissioners" includes the commissioners in cases in which the commission is issued to one person only. R.S.C. c. 48, s. 1. PART I. GENERAL. 2 Geo. 5, c. 32, 3. All Crown lands in Manitoba which are shown to the Repealed. satisfaction of the Dominion Government to be swamp lands s. 5 (2), see shall be transferred to the Province and inure wholly to its post p. lxiv. benefit and uses. R.S.C. c. 47, s. 4. 4. An allotment of land, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand acres, of fair average quality, shall be selected by the Dominion Government and granted as an endowment to the University of Manitoba for its maintenance as a university capable of giving proper training in the higher branches of education, and to be held in trust for that purpose upon some basis or scheme to be framed by the university and approved by the Dominion Government. R.S.C. c. 47, s. 5. 5. Whenever, between the fifteenth day of July, one March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, interest was payable in the Province by the agreement of parties or by law, and no rate was fixed by such agreement or by such law, interest shall be allowed at the rate of six per centum per annum. 51 V. c. 33, s. 2. 6. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the laws of England relating to matters within the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada, as the same existed on the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, were from the said day and are in force in the Province, in so far as applicable to the Province, and in so far as the said laws have not been or are not hereafter repealed, altered, varied, modified or affected by any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, applicable to the Province, or of the Parliament of Canada. 51 V. c. 33, s. 1. PART II. ROADS AND ROAD ALLOWANCES. 7. All road allowances in townships surveyed and subdivided, and all road allowances set out on block lines surveyed, in the Province shall be vested in the Crown in the right of the Province; and it is hereby declared that all road allowances in townships heretofore surveyed and subdivided, and all road allowances set out on block lines heretofore surveyed in the Province, shall be deemed to have become the property of the Crown in the right of the Province upon the confirmation of the survey. 58-59 V. c. 30, s. 1. 8. On the survey and sub-division of any township within the Province, and the approval of such survey and subdivision of any township, the fact shall be notified to the Lieutenant-Governor by the Minister, and by virtue of such notification all section road allowances in such township shall become the property of the Province. R.S.C. c. 49, s. 2. 9. On the Government of Canada receiving notice from the Government of the Province of the particular thoroughfares or public travelled roads or trails in the Province which existed as such on the fiftenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and which the Government of the Province desires to have transferred to the Province, the Governor-in-Council may pass an order directing the same to be forthwith surveyed by a Dominion land surveyor, and thereafter may transfer each such thoroughfare, public travelled road or trail, according to the plan and description under patents for any lands crossed thereby, issued previously to the receipt of such notice: Provided that, except those public thoroughfares in the Province which are designated as great highways by the first section of the Act of the Legislature of Manitoba, passed in the thirty-fourth year of Her late Majesty's reign, chapter thirteen (the width of which shall be two chains), no such thoroughfare, public travelled road or trail as hereinbefore mentioned, transferred to the Province, shall be held to have a greater width than one and one-half chains, or ninety-nine feet. R.S.C. c. 49, s. 3. 10. The Minister shall cause roads to be laid out, in the survey of the outer two miles, known as the hay privilege, granted or proposed to be granted to the owners of the front lots in the old parishes, as follows: (a) a road one chain and fifty links wide in rear of the farms fronting on the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, and between the said farms and the corresponding lots in the outer two miles or hay privilege before mentioned; (b) a road one chain and fifty links wide in rear of the lots contained in the outer two miles or hay privilege before mentioned, and between them and the sections, or legal sub-divisions thereof, bounding the same, except in cases where the said rear boundary of the said lots proves to be a regular section line in the township survey; (c) roads, each one chain in width, at convenient distances, say every two miles or thereabouts, between lots in the said outer two miles, and running from the front to the rear thereof. (2) The roads provided for in the last foregoing paragraph shall be laid out between such lots as the Minister indicates with that view, and shall be taken off each of such lots, or the whole width off one of such lots, in the discretion of the Minister. (3) The persons to whom such lots have been granted or to whom it is proposed to grant such lots, may be compensated by the Minister for the quantity of land respectively contributed by them to any such road, by the issue of land scrip to them at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents for each acre of land so contributed. R.S.C. c. 49, s. 4. 11. The Governor-in-Council may, on the report of the Minister, transfer to the Crown in the right of the Pro (a) the several roads provided for by the last preceding section; (b) all road allowances around, adjoining or leading to park lots or portions of sections within the outer two miles of any parish in the Province, as such road allowances are shown on the plan of the Dominion Government survey of such outer two miles; (c) all road allowances between lots in the inner two miles of any parish in the Province, as such road allowances are shown on the plan of the Dominion Government survey of such inner two miles. 58-59 V. c. 30, s. 2. 12. The unpatented land forming part of any road transferred to the Crown in the right of the Province by or under this part, or declared by this part to be the property of the Crown in the right of the Province, shall be vested in the Crown as aforesaid. (2) No such road shall be closed up or its direction varied, or any part of the land occupied by it sold or otherwise alienated, without the consent of the Governor-inCouncil: provided that in the case of any such road situate within the limits of an organized municipality within the Province the consent of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council shall alone be necessary. 58-59 V. c. 30, s. 3. 13. The Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba-in-Council may at any time, with the consent of the Governor-in-Council, where it is deemed advisable to do so for the purposes of settlement and colonization, direct roads to be opened through any unpatented lands, whether occupied or not, and whether such lands have been homesteaded, pre-empted, set apart or reserved for the benefit or use of any person; and the Governor-in-Council may thereafter, on the report of the Minister, transfer such roads to the Crown in the right of the Province. 58-59 V. c. 30, s. 7. 14. Until the survey and transfer to the Crown in the right of the Province of any road, road allowance, trail, highway or great highway, the Attorney-General of Manitoba may take such proceedings as are necessary to keep open any road, trail, road allowance, highway or great highway heretofore used or opened. 58-59 V. c. 30, s. 8. 15. Except as hereinafter provided, upon the transfer to the Crown in the right of the Province of any road, trail, road allowance, highway or great highway, under this part, the boundaries and lines thereof, as shown on the plan of |