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HEREAS it appears to be in the interest of the ratepayers of Preamble. the City of Sandon, and of the holders of debentures and of the other creditors of the city, that the management and control of the affairs of the city should be wholly vested in a Receiver to be appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council:

Therefore, His 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 "Sandon Receivership Act."

2. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall have power to appoint a Receiver for the City of Sandon, who shall have all the powers and authority heretofore vested in or exercisable by the Mayor and Council, Police and Licence Commissioners, and other officers of said city, and who shall be paid out of the municipal revenue collected by him such salary and all other expenses incidental to the Receivership as may be authorized by the LieutenantGovernor in Council.

Short title.

Powers of Mayor
Receiver.

et al. vested in

Council et al. to

force of this Act.

3. From and after the appointment of a Receiver under this Act Authority of Mayor, all the powers and authority heretofore vested in or exercisable by cease on coming into the Mayor and Council, Board of Police Commissioners, and Board of Licence Commissioners of said city, and in all other officers of the said city, shall cease and determine, and the said Mayor and Council, Police and Licence Commissioners, and all other officials of said city shall be deemed to have retired from office.

4. The said Receiver shall have power to pass such by-laws as By-laws. might be passed by the said Mayor and Council, and shall submit the

Court of Revision,
Assessor, Collector.

Receiver's powers to cease on 1st August, 1914.

Vesting of property in Receiver.

Reports.

Power to cancel appointment of Receiver.

Lieut.-Governor may

make provisions to carry out Act.

same for the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and such by-laws shall come into force and become valid and binding in all respects, and be by-laws of the City of Sandon upon being so approved.

5. All the powers vested in the Mayor and Council as a Court of Revision, and in the Assessor and Collector for said city, shall be vested in the said Receiver.

6. None of the powers vested in the Receiver shall continue after the first day of August, 1914.

7. Upon the appointment of the said Receiver all the property and assets of said city shall vest in said Receiver, and he shall have power to get in, sell, and dispose of the said property and assets, and out of the proceeds thereof to pay the debts of the city.

8. The Receiver shall make a report to the Minister of Finance whenever and upon such matters as shall be directed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

9. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may at any time cancel the appointment of the Receiver and from time to time appoint another Receiver in his place, whereupon all the property and assets of said city shall vest in the new Receiver, who shall possess all the powers above mentioned.

10. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall have power to make all necessary provisions, not inconsistent with this Act, to carry out the purposes of this Act.

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1913.

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[1st March, 1913.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

R.S.B.C. 1911, c. 206; 1912, c. 38.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Public Schools Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1913."

2. Section 18 of the "Public Schools Act," being chapter 206 of Re-enacts s. 18. the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:

"Mode of Support.

"18. (1.) The salaries of teachers shall be provided from the two Salaries. following sources, namely:

"(a.) The Provincial Treasury:

"(b.) District assessment.

"(2.) Except in the case of assisted schools, all other items of fixed Other expenses. and current expenditure shall be provided for by district or local assessment, and the purchase of school-houses and lands and erection of school buildings may be provided for by loan extending over a period not exceeding forty years in the case of schools in municipal school districts, and not exceeding twelve years in the case of all other schools except assisted schools: Provided, however, that the said periods of forty and twelve years respectively may be extended by special order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council."

3. Section 38 of said chapter 206 is hereby repealed, and the Re-enacts s. 38. following is substituted therefor :

"38. (1.) In city school districts of the first, second, or third class, Qualifications of any person being a British subject of the full age of twenty-one years, school districts.

trustees in city

In district schools.

Qualifications not to apply to present Boards.

Re-enacts s. 45, subsec. (b).

Power of trustees as to new schoolsites.

and having been for the six months next preceding the date of nomination the registered owner, in the Land Registry Office, of land or real property in the city school district of the assessed value, on the last municipal assessment roll, of five hundred dollars or more over and above any registered judgment or charge, and being other wise qualified to vote at an election of school trustees in the said school district, shall be eligible to be elected or to serve as a school trustee in such city school district.

"(2.) In district municipality school districts, any person being a male British subject, and having been for the three months next preceding the day of his nomination the registered owner, in the Land Registry Office, of land or real property situate within the municipality of the assessed value, on the last municipal or Provincial assessment roll, of two hundred and fifty dollars or more over and above any registered judgment or charge; or being a homesteader, lessee from the Crown, or pre-emptor who has resided within the municipality for the space of one year or more immediately preceding the day of nomination, and is assessed for five hundred dollars or more on the last municipal or Provincial assessment roll over and above any registered judgment or charge; or being a homesteader, lessee from the Crown, or pre-emptor who has resided within the municipality for a period of one year immediately preceding the nomination, and during the remainder of said year has been the owner of said land, of which he formerly was a homesteader, lessee from the Crown, or pre-emptor, and is assessed for five hundred dollars or more on the last municipal or Provincial assessment roll over and above any registered judgment or charge, and being other wise qualified by this Act to vote at an election of school trustees in the said school district, shall be eligible to be elected or to serve as a school trustee in such district municipality school district."

4. The next preceding section shall apply to such trustees only as are elected after the passing of this Act.

5. Subsection (b) of section 45 of said chapter 206, as enacted by section 5 of chapter 38 of the Statutes of 1912, is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:—

"(b.) To acquire, purchase, lease, expropriate, and hold lands or buildings for school purposes, and to sell or otherwise dispose of such lands or buildings."

6. Said chapter 206 is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following sections after section 45:

“45A. (1.) The trustees of every municipal school shall have power to select lands for the enlargement of school premises and to select a site for a new school-house or to agree upon a change of site for an existing school-house, and upon such selection shall