the proposed scheme subject to such modifications or conditions, if any, as he thinks fit, and thereupon the scheme shall have effect as if it had been adopted by the local authority and approved by the Minister. may enforce of scheme (2) If the Minister is satisfied on any representation Minister after holding an inquiry, that a responsible authority observance has failed to enforce effectively the observance of a scheme which has been confirmed, or any provisions thereof, or to execute any works, which under the scheme of this Act, the authority is required to execute, the Minister may order that authority to do all things necessary for enforcing the observance of the scheme or any provisions thereof effectively, or for executing any works which under the scheme or this part of this Act the authority is required to execute. (3) Any order under this section may be enforced by Mandamus mandamus. administering 9. Any expenses incurred by the Minister under this Act Expenses of including the payment of any Board or Commission shall Act be paid out of any funds appropriated from the general revenue fund to fund to the Department of Municipal Affairs for that purpose. 10. This Act may be cited as "The Town Planning How cited Act." SCHEDULE A. MATTERS TO BE DEALT WITH BY GENERAL PROVISIONS 1. Streets, tramways, roads and other ways, and stopping up or diversion of existing highways. 2. Buildings, structures and erections. 3. Open spaces, private and public. 4. The preservation of objects of historical interest or natural beauty. 5. Sewerage, drainage and sewerage disposal. 6. Lighting. 7. Water supply. 8. Ancillary or consequential works. 9. Extinction or variation of private rights of way and other easements. 10. Dealing with or disposal of land acquired by the responsible authority or by a local authority. 11. Power of entry and inspection. 12. Power of the responsible authority to remove, alter or demolish any obstructive work. 13. Power of the responsible authority to make agreements with owners, and of owners to make agreements with one another. 14. Power of the responsible authority or a local authority to accept any money or property for the furtherance of the objects of any town planning scheme, and provision for regulating the administration of any such money or property. 15. Application with necessary modifications and adaptations of statutory enactments. 16. Carrying out and supplementing the provisions of this Act for enforcing schemes. 17. Limitation of time for operation of scheme. 18. Co-operation of the responsible authority with the owners of land included in the scheme or other person interested by means of conference and other means. 19. Charging on the inheritance of any land the value of which is increased by the operation of a town planning scheme the sum required to be paid in respect to that increase and for that purpose applyiug with the necessary adaptations, the provisions of any enactments dealing with charges for improvements of land or making special provisions to govern the same. SCHEDULE B. 1. Procedure anterior to and for the purpose of an application for authority to prepare or adopt a scheme. (a) Submission of plans and estimates. (b) Publication of notices. 2. Procedure during, on, and after the preparation or adoption and before the approval of the scheme. (a) Submission to the Minister of the proposed scheme with plans and estimates. (b) Notice of submission of proposed scheme to the Minister. (c) Hearing of objections and representations by persons affected, including persons representing architectural or archæological societies or otherwise interested in the amenity of the proposed scheme. (d) Publication of notice of intention to approve scheme and the lodging of objections thereto. 3. Procedure after the approval of the scheme. (a) Notice to be given of the approval of the scheme. (b) Inquiries and reports as to beginning and the progress and completion of works and other action under the scheme. 4. Duty, at any stage, of the local authority to publish or deposit for inspection any scheme, or proposed scheme, and the plans relating thereto, and to give information to persons affected with reference to any such scheme or proposed scheme. 5. The details to be specified in plans, including wherever the circumstances so require, the restrictions on the number of buildings which may be erected on each acre, and the height and character of these buildings. 1913 CHAPTER 19. An Act to amend The School Ordinance, The School Assessment Ordinance and The School Grants Ordinance. HIS (Assented to March 25, 1913.) IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: The School Ordinance, being chapter 29 of the Ordinances of 1901 with amendments, is amended as follows: 1. Section 2: By striking out the words "and who has paid all taxes due by him to the said district" where the same appear in subsection 9 thereof. By repealing clause (c) of subsection 10 thereof and substituting therefor the following: "(c) In any rural municipality any person of the full age of twenty-one years actually residing therein whose name appears on the last revised municipal voters' list. "(d) In any other district any person of the full age of twenty-one years actually residing therein whose name appears on the last revised assessment roll of the district." 2. Section 12: By striking out the word "five" where the same appears in clause (a) thereof and substituting therefor the word "four." By striking out the word "five" where the same appears in the proviso to clause (b) thereof and substituting therefor the word "four." 3. Section 39 as amended by chapter 6, 1910 (2): By striking out the words "not exceeding five miles in length or breadth exclusive of road allowances" where the same appear in the first and second lines thereof. By striking out the word "twenty" where the same appears in clause (a) thereof and substituting therefor the word "fifteen." By striking out clauses (b) and (c) thereof. 4. By inserting after section 40 thereof the following sections: "40a. If the board of trustees of each of two or more contiguous districts pass a resolution requesting to be formed into a consolidated school district the Minister may authorize a vote of the resident ratepayers of each of such districts to be taken in the manner as nearly as may be as provided by sections 14 to 22 inclusive for the holding of a first school meeting for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the majority of such resident ratepayers are in favour of the union of such school districts into a consolidated school district. "40b. Upon the Minister being satisfied that the majority of the resident ratepayers voting in the manner hereinbefore provided are in favour of the union of such school districts as aforesaid he may by order, notice of which shall be published in the official Gazette, unite such school districts into a consolidated school district. Number.. .. "40c. Every such consolidated school district formed under the provisions of the preceding section shall be entitled 'The.. Consolidated School District, of the Province of Alberta,' and shall be given such name as the Minister shall designate in the order forming the same. Such consolidated school districts shall be numbered consecutively, the first of such districts to be established to be assigned the Number 1, and the Minister shall have power to change the name of any consolidated district in accordance with the provisions of section 35 hereof. "40d. Upon the union of two or more districts as aforesaid into a consolidated district none of the districts so united shall lose its existence as a corporate body; and the debts and liabilities of every such district shall continue to be a charge upon such district as fully and completely as if no union had taken place, but the business of each such districts shall be managed and conducted as provided in this Ordinance excepting in so far as variation is made herein applying to the administration of such districts when united into a consolidated school district. "40e. The trustees of each consolidated school district shall be a corporation under the name of 'The Board of Trustees of.. .. Consolidated School District Number.... of the Province of Alberta,' and shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties and be subject to all the liabilities conferred and imposed by this Ordinance upon the trustees of town school districts, and in addition thereto shall have power to provide for the conveyance of pupils to and from school and to pay the cost thereof. "40f. Upon the formation of any such consolidated school district as aforesaid the first board of trustees of such consolidated school district shall consist of the chair |