Stationery.. 2,487 27 Demonstration Orchards, including Demonstration Spraying and expenses incurred in 3,267 04 Department of Agriculture, including Inspection of Orchards, Preservation of Fruits, etc., and Compensation to Owners of Cattle slaughtered for Tuberculosis 9,653 14 Destruction of Wolves, Panthers, Coyotes, etc..... 1,574 00 740 86 5,339 19 872 21 613 02 193 23 1,258 53 338 00 126 21 14 39 3,952 54 15 40 2,108 01 120 00 VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1913. 42,201 59 $123,638 96 An Act to amend the "Special Surveys Act." R.S.B.C. 1911, c. 221. [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: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Special Surveys Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1913." 2. Section 2 of chapter 221 of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," being the "Special Surveys Act," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: 666 monument defined. Special survey monument' shall mean any monument of a "Special survey 3. Section 3 of said chapter 221 is hereby amended by adding the following as subsection (5) thereof: "(5.) In case the land directed to be specially surveyed be situate in an unorganized district, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may order that the cost of such special survey and other expenses in connection therewith shall in the first instance be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund upon the order of the Attorney-General." May in first instance solidated Revenue be paid out of ConFund. 4. Said section 3 is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following as subsection (6) thereof:"(6.) In cases where land in an unorganized district has been Where land incordirected to be specially surveyed, and before the completion of such survey such land or any portion thereof shall be incorporated into porated into munici pality after order made for special survey. Notice to Registrar of Titles that plan deposited. Cost may be paid out of Consolidated Revenue Fund in first instance. Amends s. 21. Special survey monument not to be removed. Surveyor-General to be notified if necessary to move monument. or included in any district or city municipality, then and in such cases the portion of such land so incorporated or included in such municipality shall pay such proportion of the cost of the survey and other expenses and fees, in respect of the area of land contained in streets, roads, and lanes, as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may determine." 5. Subsection (1) of section 4 of said chapter 221 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "The Provincial Secretary shall forthwith notify the AttorneyGeneral that such plan has been filed in his office; and the AttorneyGeneral shall thereupon instruct the Registrar-General or District Registrar, as the case may be, of the proper Land Registry Office that such plan has been so deposited; and thereupon such Registrar shall not for a space of three months thereafter receive on deposit any subdivision plan of any land or any portion thereof affected by such special survey unless otherwise instructed by the LieutenantGovernor in Council." 6. Section 16 of said chapter 221 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following as subsection (2): "(2.) In case the land affected be situate in an unorganized district, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may order that the cost of such special survey and other expenses in connection therewith shall in the first instance be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund upon the order of the Attorney-General." 7. Section 21 of said chapter 221 is hereby amended by inserting the following after the word "shall" in the tenth line thereof: "as and from the date when the same was filed with the Provincial Secretary as in the fourth paragraph hereof directed." 8. Said chapter 221 is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following as section 22: "22. (1.) No person shall, unless acting under the authority of the Surveyor-General in writing first obtained, pull down, deface. alter, or remove any special survey monument. "(2.) If in the carrying-out of any public or private work it is found necessary to temporarily remove any special survey monument, the person, firm, or corporation carrying on such work may give the Surveyor-General notice in writing that it is necessary so to remove such special survey monument, and the Surveyor-General shall forthwith take such steps as he may deem necessary for the ensuring of the correct re-establishment of such special survey monument upon the completion of the said work; and the entire cost and expenses incurred by the Surveyor-General in connection with the removal and re-establishment of any such special survey monument shall be paid to him by the person, firm, or corporation at whose instance the removal of the same is made. "(3.) Every one who wilfully pulls down, defaces, alters, or Penalty. removes any special survey monument in violation or breach of the provisions of this section shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars and not more than five hundred dollars; and every person, firm, or corporation in whose employ any servant or workman shall, while in the employ of such person, firm, or corporation, wilfully pull down, deface, alter, or remove any special survey monument in violation or breach of the provisions of this section shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to a penalty of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and not more than five hundred dollars." 9. Said chapter 221 is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following as section 23: correct error. "23. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall have power and Lieut.-Governor may is hereby authorized, by order, from time to time to correct any errors or omissions appearing in the plan of any special survey, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, and in any copies and duplicates thereof." VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. |