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Amount Point Grey to pay to Richmond.

Bridges.

If disagreement about bridges.

Taxes.

Validity of assessment.

Woods" Island, and "Richmond" Island shall be and be deemed to have always been within the said Corporation of the Township of Richmond and to be on the Richmond side of the said boundaryline defined in section 2 hereof, anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding; and the islands known respectively as "Deering's" Island, "Stewart's" Island, and "Cowan's" Island shall hereafter be deemed to be on the Point Grey side of the boundary-line defined in section 2 hereof, anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

4. The Corporation of Point Grey shall forthwith pay to the said Corporation of the Township of Richmond the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents ($9,752.50), which is hereby fixed as one-half the amount of moneys heretofore paid by the said Corporation of the Township of Richmond to the Province of British Columbia in respect to the bridges known as the Sea Island Bridge and the Lulu Island Bridge, together with interest thereon.

5. The Corporation of Point Grey shall, as its share of the maintenance and upkeep of the said bridges mentioned in the foregoing section during the next twenty-nine (29) years, pay to the Corporation of the Township of Richmond twenty-nine (29) equal consecutive yearly instalments of seven hundred dollars ($700) each, the first of such yearly payments of seven hundred dollars ($700) to become due and payable on the first day of August, 1913.

6. In case the parties hereto are unable mutually to agree as to their joint action in reconstructing the said bridges or either of them, or in maintaining the same or keeping the same in repair when constructed, or as to the share of the expenses of maintenance or repair to be borne by each one of the parties hereto, may apply under sections 375 and 376 of the "Municipal Act" and such amendments as may from time to time hereafter be made thereto.

7. Any taxes heretofore levied by the Corporation of the Township of Richmond on any lands north of the boundary-line described in section 2 hereof and unpaid shall be deemed to have been regularly imposed and levied by the Corporation of Point Grey, and shall be collected by it.

8. The southern boundary of the City of Vancouver as described in section 2 of the "Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1900," as amended by the "Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1900, Amendment Act, 1913," in so far as the same extends westerly from the easterly boundary of the Corporation of Point Grey, shall be, and shall be held to have at all times heretofore been, the north boundary of the Corporation

of Point Grey, and all taxes assessed or levied by said Corporation of Point Grey south of the said boundary shall be held to have been validly assessed and levied by the Corporation of Point Grey as if the boundary above referred to had always been the north boundary of the Corporation of Point Grey.

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1913.

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HEREAS Mother Mary Gorman, of the City of Vancouver, in Preamble. the Province of British Columbia, Superioress in the Province of British Columbia of the teaching Order or Association known as "The Religious of the Sacred Heart"; Mother Mary Louise Ryan, Mother Clare Walworth, and Mother Lillian Cable, all of the same place, being all members of the said Association in the Province of British Columbia (acting on behalf of the said Association), have by their petition represented that the said Association is in existence in the Province of British Columbia, having for its object the carrying-on of schools, academies, and convents of education, and that the said Association has now in operation in the said City of Vancouver a convent known as The Convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart":

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And whereas the members of the said Association have by the said petition presented in their name prayed that the said Association may be invested with corporate powers:

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition :

Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. The said Mother Mary Gorman, Mother Mary Louise Ryan, Incorporation. Mother Clare Walworth, and Mother Lillian Cable, and such other persons as are members of the said Association, or shall hereafter become members of the Corporation hereby incorporated in accordance with its by-laws, shall be and they are hereby constituted and

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declared to be a body politic and corporate by the style and title of "The Convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart" (hereinafter called "the Corporation "). .

2. It shall be lawful for any person or persons or corporation to convey and transfer any property, real or personal, held in trust by him or them for the aforesaid Order or Association, including all lands, tenements, hereditaments, and property, and all schools, academies, and convents now belonging to and used, held, occupied, possessed, or enjoyed by the said Order or Association, or by any of its members on its behalf, to the Corporation for the purposes thereof.

3. The Corporation shall have power to carry on orphanages, schools, academies, and convents of education within the Province of British Columbia.

4. The Corporation shall by the name of "The Convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart" have perpetual succession, and by such name may from time to time and at all times hereafter, by grant, will, conveyance, assignment, or deed of gift or other instrument, acquire and hold for the general purposes of the Corporation any lands, tenements, or hereditaments and personal property in the Province of British Columbia, and from time to time may, for the uses and purposes aforesaid, sell, exchange, mortgage, lease, let, or otherwise dispose of the same or any part thereof.

5. The revenue, issues, and profits of all property, real and personal, held by the Corporation and of the schools, academies, or convents operated by the Corporation shall be appropriated and applied solely to the maintenance of the members of the Corporation and the institutions carried on by the Corporation, and to the construction and repair of buildings, and the acquisition of property, real and personal, requisite for the purposes of the Corporation, and for the advancement of education and religion, and for the purposes of charity and benevolence.

6. The Corporation shall have full power and authority to invest all or any sums of money of or belonging to the Corporation, or given or bequeathed to it, in any bonds or securities of the Dominion of Canada or of any Province thereof, or of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any debentures of the municipalities of the said Province, and also to loan and invest any such moneys upon the security of any real or personal property; and the said Corporation may, under its corporate name or in the name of any person or persons as trustee or trustees, take and hold any real or personal property or any interest therein by way of mortgage to secure any such investment.

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