R. S., 1897, c. 136

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[12th March, 1909.]

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, 1909."

(e) of sec. 128.

2. Paragraph (e) of section 128 of chapter 136 of the Revised Re-enacts paragraph Statutes, 1897, being the "Placer Mining Act," is hereby repealed, and the following paragraph is substituted therefor

Commissioner.

"(e.) He may extend the limits of a claim in bench or dry Powers of Gold diggings beyond the limits of the bench or dry diggings, but not to exceed two hundred and fifty feet square."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,

1909,

1906, c. 32.

[12th March, 1909.]

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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 "Municipal Clauses Act Amend- Short title ment Act, 1909."

2. Section 2 of chapter 32 of the Statutes of 1906, being the Amends s. 2, c. 32. "Municipal Clauses Act," as amended by section 2 of chapter 36 of

the Statutes of 1908, is hereby amended by striking out the clause

defining "wild land" and substituting the following therefor :

"Wild land' shall mean land claimed by any person on which wild land.
there shall not be existing improvements to the value when
assessed of five dollars per acre, but the erection of build-
ings and machinery and the construction of skid roads for
temporary use in connection with logging operations or
taking lumber off lands (unless a statutory declaration be
made that such logging will be forthwith followed by clear-
ance of or settlement upon the land) shall not be deemed
improvement for the purpose of this Act; Provided always
that the improvements upon any part of land owned by
any person shall be deemed to be improvements upon as
many acres of the immediately adjoining land of such
person as shall be covered by the value of such improve-
ments at the rate of five dollars per acre to the extent of
one hundred and sixty acres, in like manner as if such
improvement had been equally distributed over the whole
of the said immediately adjoining land of such person, not
exceeding in the whole one hundred and sixty acres: Pro-

Amends s.-s. (5), 8. 50.

Subscribing for

stock in ferry company.

Amends s.-s. (6), s. 50.

vided, also, that the land included within the area reclaimed or being reclaimed under any dyking or drainage scheme and assessed for such reclamation work, for an amount representing a capital expenditure of not less than five dollars per acre, shall not be deemed wild land within the meaning of this section; and the total amount of such capital expenditure shall be considered to be an improvement on such land to the extent of such capital expenditure, whether it exceed or fall below the above amount of five dollars per acre."

3. Sub-section (5) of section 50 of said chapter 32 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "or of a ferry company giving means of communication directly, or from an adjacent Municipality or section, between the Municipality and any other Municipality or section."

4. Sub-section (6) of said section 50 is hereby amended by insert

Guaranteeing deben- ing after the word " tramway," in the third line thereof, the word

tures of ferry com- 66

pany.

Amends s.-s. (10), s. 50.

"ferry."

5. Sub-section (10) of said section 50 is hereby amended by insertBonus to ferry com- ing after the word "tramway," in the third line of said sub-section,

pany.

Amends s. 40.

Acting Reeve.

Amends s.-s. (117), 8. 50.

the word "ferry."

6. Section 40 of said chapter 32 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sub-section :

"(3.) The Council may, by resolution, in the absence from the Municipality of the Reeve, appoint from its number an acting Reeve, and whenever the word 'Reeve' is used in this Act there shall be read thereafter the words 'or Acting Reeve.'"

7. Sub-section (117) of section 50 of said chapter 32, as amended Road tax in cities. by section 8 of chapter 36 of the Statutes of 1908, is hereby amended by striking out the words "between the ages of twenty-one and sixty" in the fifth line thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "over the age of twenty-one "; and by inserting after the word "efficient," in the twelfth line thereof, the words "or any male person over sixty years of age."

Amends sub-sec. (138) of s. 50.

Fire protection in townsites.

Re-enacts sub-sec. (141) of s. 50.

Slaughter houses.

8. Sub-section (138) of section 50 of said chapter 32 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "tax," in the seventh line thereof, the words "upon the real property or personal property, or upon both real and personal property, situate in the townsite."

9. Sub-section (141) of said section 50 is hereby repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor:

"(141.) For designating or specifying such place or places within the Municipality for, or preventing and prohibiting

within the Municipal limits, the slaughter of cattle, sheep,
lambs, hogs and other animals usually used for food."

(170) of s. 50.

10. Sub-section (170) of section 50 of said chapter 32 is hereby Amends sub-sec. amended by striking out the words "five thousand," in the last line By-laws for examof said sub-section, and by substituting therefor the words "two may be passed by thousand."

ining, etc., plumbers, cities whose population exceeds 2,000.

11. Sub-section (179) of said section 50 is hereby amended by add- Amends sub-sec. ing thereto the following:

(179) of s. 50.

of townsites.

"In District or Township Municipalities, for regulating the Children on streets hours during which children under (to be fixed by the bylaw) years may be on the streets of any registered townsite in the Municipality without their parents or guardians.”

12. Section 115 of said chapter 32 is hereby amended by adding Amends sec. 115. thereto the following proviso:

licences not taxable.

"Provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall Timber leases and apply to lands of the Crown held under timber leases or timber licences."

13. Section 139 of said chapter 32 is hereby amended by striking Amends sec. 139. out the word "four," in the twelfth line and substituting the word Tax on wild land. "five" therefor.

allowed on certain taxes.

14. Section 151 of said chapter 32 is hereby amended by striking Amends s. 151. out the figures" 150," in the first line of said section, and by substi. No discount to be tuting therefor the figures "152," and by adding at the end of said section the words "or to school taxes or to other taxes on land or on improvements, when the taxes on such land or improvements for any previous year are unpaid."

s. 153.

15. Sub-section (4) of section 153 of said chapter 32 is hereby Amends s.-8. (4), amended by inserting after the word "taxes," in the fifth line, the Taxes. words" and subsequent taxes in arrear," and by striking out all the words in said sub-section after the word "taxes," in the seventh line thereof.

16. Section 154 of said chapter 32 is hereby amended by inserting Amends s. 154. after the word "taxes," in the fourteenth line thereof, the words Notice of sale. "subsequent taxes in arrear."

s. 154.

acquired by munici pality at tax sale.

17. Sub-section 3 of section 154 of said chapter 32 is hereby Amends s.-s. (3), amended by adding at the end thereof the words: "The Council Sale of lands may, by resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of the Council, sell any land which has become the property of the Municipality, under the provisions of this sub-section, at such price as may be specified in such resolution."