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1912-13

CHAPTER 14

An Act to amend The Corporations Taxation Act.

[Assented to January 11, 1913.]

IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts as follows:

1. Clause 2 of section 2 of The Corporations Taxation Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "and any corporation or joint stock company wheresoever incorporated whose business includes. receiving money on deposit at interest in the Province of Saskatchewan."

2. Section 3 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out clause (a) thereof and by substituting therefor the following as clause (a):

"(a) Every bank doing or transacting business directly or indirectly within Saskatchewan shall pay the following taxes namely:

"(i). The sum of three hundred dollars for every branch office of the bank in any incorporated city;

"(ii) The sum of one hundred dollars for every branch office of the bank in any incorporated town;

"(iii) The sum of twenty-five dollars for every other branch office of the bank."

3. Clause (b) of section 3 of the said Act is amended by inserting the words "in addition to all other taxes payable under this Act" after the word "bank" in the first line thereof.

4. Section 3 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out clause (f) and substituting therefor the following: "(f) Every telegraph company and every railway or other

company which owns, leases or operates a line or lines or part of a line or lines of telegraph operated in Saskatchewan and does thereon or carries on in connection therewith a general commercial telegraph business. in Saskatchewan shall on account of carrying on such business and in respect thereof pay the following taxes namely:

"(i) The sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for every branch office of the company in any incorporated city;

(ii) The sum of fifty dollars for every branch office of the company in any incorporated town;

(iii) The sum of twenty dollars for every branch office of the company in any incorporated village."

5. Clause (g) of section 3 of the said Act is hereby repealed.

6. Section 3 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out clause (h) thereof and by substituting therefor the following: "(h) Every express company doing or transacting business directly or indirectly within Saskatchewan shall pay the following taxes, namely:

"(i) The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for every head office of the company in any incorporated city; and the sum of fifty dollars for every branch office in any city;

"(ii) The sum of one hundred dollars for every branch office of the company in any incorporated town;

"(iii) The sum of forty dollars for every branch office of the company in any incorporated village."

1912-13

CHAPTER 15

An Act to further amend The Corporations Taxation

Act.

[Assented to January 11, 1913.]

[IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts as follows:

His and

1. Section 3 of The Corporations Taxation Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following as clause (j):

"(j) Every company that owns, controls or occupies any timber area or timber berth in the province by reason of any title, deed, lease, agreement or otherwise shall pay the following taxes:

"(i) A tax of one cent per acre for every acre of land comprised within the limits of such timber area or timber berth;

"(ii) An additional tax of three cents per acre for every acre of land comprised within the limits of every such timber area or timber berth on which timber has been cut during the preceding year."

S. 36 amended

S. 2, cl. 19 amended

S. 63 amended

New s. 76

1912-13

CHAPTER 16

An Act to amend The Land Titles Act.

[Assented to January 11, 1913.]

HIS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts as follows:

1. Section 36 of The Land Titles Act is amended by adding thereto the following as subsection (3):

(3) In no case shall a certificate of title issue for more than one hundred lots or for lots in more than one subdivision or for unsubdivided lands which are not contiguous or which contain more than 640 acres."

2. Clause 19 of section 2 of the said Act is amended by adding after the word "court" at the end thereof the words "or the master in chambers."

3. Section 63 of the said Act is amended by inserting before the word "in" at the commencement thereof the words "save as in The Assignments Act and any other Act provided."

4. Section 76 of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor.

"76. The registrar may require the owner of any land within his registration district desiring to transfer or otherwise deal with the same under the provisions of this Act to have the same surveyed by a Saskatchewan land surveyor and to furnish to the registrar a plan of such survey and one copy thereof, both plans and copy to be made on tracing linen in black India ink, having the several measurements made thereon and prepared upon one of the following scales:

(a) If the land proposed to be transferred or dealt with is of less area than 40 acres then the map or plan shall be on a scale of one inch to two chains or one inch to one hundred feet;

(b) If the land is of greater area than 40 acres then the map or plan shall be on a scale of one inch to four chains or one inch to two hundred feet.

"(2) The plan shall be signed by the owner and certified by the Saskatchewan land surveyor who made the survey rep

resented by such plan in form X in the schedule to this Act; the certificate of the surveyor shall be executed before a justice of the peace or commissioner for oaths in and for the Province of Saskatchewan and the signature of the owner shall be witnessed and attested in the manner hereinafter provided for the attestation of all instruments.

"(3) The plan shall show all the original boundaries of the section, settlement lot or surveyed parcel of land of which the land desired to be dealt with is a part, with all angular and lineal measurements thereof and all information as to the original monuments found on the ground which are necessary to establish the true position of such boundaries:

"Provided however that if in the opinion of the chief surveyor to the land titles offices it is not necessary to show all the said original boundaries in order to clearly determine the accurate position of the land desired to be dealt with it shall be sufficient to show only such information in regard to said boundaries as he may determine to be necessary; the parcel or parcels of land being dealt with shall further be designated by letters or numbers.

"(4) If the owner neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements aforesaid the registrar shall not proceed with the registration of the transfer or other instrument until the requirements are complied with."

5. The said Act is hereby amended by inserting therein after section 77 the following as section 77a:

added

"77a. All railway corporations shall deposit with the regis- New s. 77a trar of the land registration district within which such lands are situated, a plan and one copy thereof showing the land required for their right of way and station grounds before Ra way plans being granted certificate of title therefor, and such plan and copy shall be in accordance with the following provisions:

"(a) The plan and copy thereof shall be made on tracing
linen in black India ink and vermilion red and certified
by a Dominion land surveyor in the form XX or
by a Saskatchewan land surveyor in the form X
in the schedule to this Act according as the land dealt
with is Dominion or patented land; and the signature
of such surveyor shall be executed before a justice.
of the peace or commissioner for oaths in and for the
Province of Saskatchewan;

"(b) The area taken from each quarter section, settlement
lot or parcel of land, as the case may be, shall be
shown on the plan;

"(c) The original boundaries of sections, settlement lots
and parcels of land together with the information
as to monuments on which the position of such lines

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