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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 "Timber Manufacture Act, 1906, Short title. Amendment Act, 1909."

2. Section 5 of chapter 42 of the Statutes of 1906, being the Repeals s. 5, which "Timber Manufacture Act, 1906," is hereby repealed.

confines Act to timber cut east of Cascades.

3. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may authorise the export Export of piles, etc. by lessees or licensees of the Crown of the following kinds of timber cut on ungranted lands of the Crown, or on lands of the Crown which shall hereafter be granted, namely, piles, telegraph and telephone poles, ties and crib timber, although not manufactured nor to be used in the Province.

4. This Act shall come in force on the first day of July, 1909.

Commencement.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

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

1909.

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CHAPTER 45.

An Act to amend the Law of Vendor and
Purchaser, and to Simplify Titles.

[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 "Vendors and Purchasers Act."

Short title.

lands.

Recital, etc., 20

years old, of facts,

2. In the completion of any contract of sale of land made after Rights of vendors and purchasers in the passing of this Act, the rights and obligations of vendors and contracts of sale of purchasers shall (subject to any stipulation in such contract to the contrary) be regulated by the following rules, namely:(1.) Recitals, statements and description of facts, matters and parties contained in deeds, instruments, Acts of Parlia ment, or statutory declarations twenty years old at the date of the contract, shall, unless and except so far as they are proved to be inaccurate, be taken to be sufficient evidence of the truth of such facts, matters and descriptions:

(2.) The inability of the vendor to furnish the purchaser with a legal covenant to produce and furnish copies of documents of title shall not be an objection to the title in case the purchaser will, on the completion of the contract, have an equitable right to the production of such documents.

etc., prima facie

evidence.

Inability to furnish

Covenant to produce and furnish docu

ments of title.

3. In actions it shall not be necessary to produce any evidence Evidence in actions. which, by section 2 of this Act, is dispensed with as between vendor

Summary applications to Supreme

Court in respect to

requisitions, objections or compensation, etc.

Costs.

and purchaser; and the evidence therein declared to be sufficient as between vendor and purchaser shall be primâ facie sufficient for the purposes of such actions.

4. A vendor or purchaser of real or leasehold estate, or their representatives respectively, may at any time or times and from time to time apply in a summary way to the Supreme Court, or a Judge thereof, in respect of any requisitions or objections, or any claim for compensation, or any other question arising out of or connected with the contract, except a question affecting the existence or validity of the contract; and the Court or Judge shall make such order upon the application as appears just, by reference to the Registrar-General of Titles or any District Registrar appointed under the Land Registry Act or otherwise, and shall order how and by whom all or any of the costs of and incidental to the application shall be borne and paid.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1909.

An Act authorising the Lieutenant-Governor in
Council to grant to the City of Victoria Lot 921
in said City, used as the site of the Kingston
Street Fire Hall.

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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 "Kingston Street Fire Hall Act." Short title.

authorised to grant

site of Kingston

Street Fire Hall to

City of Victoria.

2. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, Lt.-Gov. in Council upon such terms and conditions as he shall see fit, to grant to the Corporation of the City of Victoria, for corporate purposes, all that piece or parcel of land in said City known as City Lot 921, and now used by the said Corporation as the site of the Kingston Street Fire Hall.

VICTORIA, B. C.

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

1909.