Inland Revenue. 6th. The ferry boat shall be placed on the route fully completed and equipped, and the landing stages fully constructed immediately upon the opening of the navigation in the spring of 1876. 7th. The lease will be granted for a period of five years from the first of May, 1876. 8th. The lessee will be required to give two sureties, satisfactory to the Department of Inland Revenue, who shall be bound jointly and severally with the principal in the sum of $10,000 for the full compliance of the lessee with the terms of the lease. 9th. The right will be reserved to the Department of Inland Revenue of rejecting the ferry boat or landing wharves should they or either of them be deemed unsuitable to the service, unsafe or inadequate to meet the public wants. The right is also reserved to the Governor in Council to modify the maximum tariff, should it be deemed expedient in the public interest to do so; and the Governor in Council may declare the lease forfeited and void whenever it shall be satisfactorily shown that the lessee fails to comply with the conditions hereof. 10th. The lessee of the ferry boat shall, at all times during the continuance of the lease, carry over and across the ferry, without fee, toll or reward, all mail matter, militiamen, soldiers or sailors, when provided with proper passports or under the charge of the proper officer or officers, and it shall be lawful for the said lessee to commute the rate for passengers' fees. 11th. A notice of the rates of fares and tolls to be charged for ferriage shall be put up in a conspicuous place near the ferry landing, on both sides, and also on board the steam ferry boat employed. 12th. The lessee shall not at any time during the term of his lease, knowingly ferry, take or carry, or permit to be ferried, taken or carried over or across the said ferry, any contraband articles whatsoever. REGULATIONS Approved 14th June, 1876, for Ferry between Ottawa, Ontario, and Hull, Que 1ST.-LIMITS. On the Ontario side of the river the limits shall be conterminous wih. the limits of the city of Ottawa. On the Quebec side of the river the limits shall extend from the Union Suspension Bridge to the point known as the Haycock's Point, and on which a saw mill has been recently erected by Messrs. Gilmour & Co. 2ND.-LANDING STAGES OR WHARVES. Suitable landing stages or wharves must be constructed and maintained at the cost of the lessee, which must be safe and available at all states of the river and subject to the approval of the Department of Inland Inland Revenue. Revenue. Stages of a temporary character will be allowed, provided they are safe, during the season of 1876. Permanent landing places shall be constructed by the opening of the navigation in 1877. 3RD.-FERRY BOAT. The vessel used shall be a substantial seaworthy steamer of sufficient size, and must have a Government certificate as to safety of boiler and engine. The main deck must be suitably covered to protect passengers from the weather. Parties tendering are to specify the dimensions and character of the proposed boat, the power of the engines, and whether high or low pressure. They must also state the proposed location of the landing stages, and the manner in which they propose to construct them. 4TH.-NUMBER OF TRIPS. From the opening to the close of navigation the ferryboat shall commence running daily, Sundays excepted, at six o'clock a.m., and shall continue to cross from each side three times every hour thereafter until eight o'clock p.m. Earlier or later trips to be made at the option of the lessee, except from 10th June to 10th October, when four trips must be made in each hour. 5TH.-TARIFF OF CHARGES. The maximum charge for ferrying shall be as follows: For two horse cart or waggon with driver and load, each way, 30 cts. For one horse cart or waggon with driver and load 20 cts. 6th. The ferry-boat shall be placed on the route fully completed and equipped and the landing stages so far completed as to be safe for use immediately on the expiration of the present lease, viz.: 19th July, 1876, and the boat, as well as permanent landings, shall be ready on the opening of navigation each subsequent year during the continuance of the lease. 7th. The lease will be granted for a period of five years. 8th. The lessee will be required to give two sureties satisfactory to the Department of Inland Revenue, who shall be bound jointly and severally with the principal in the sum of $10,000 for the full compliance by the lessee with the terms of the lease. 9th. The right to be reserved by the Department of Inland Revenue of rejecting the ferry-boat or landing-wharves, should they or either of them be at any time deemed unsuitable to the service, unsafe or inadequate to meet the public wants, and to resume the ferry and re-let it. Inland Revenue, &c. The right is also reserved to the Governor in Council to modify the maximum tariff should it be deemed expedient to the public interest to do so, and the Governor in Council may declare the lease forfeited and void whenever it shall be satisfactorily shewn that the lessee fails to comply with the conditions thereof. 10th. The lessee of the ferry shall, at all times during the continuance of the lease, carry over and across the ferry without fee, toll or reward all mail matter, militiamen, soldiers or sailors when provided with the proper passports or under the charge of the proper officer or officers, and it shall be lawful for the said lessee to commute the rate for passenger fees. 11th. A notice of the rates of fares and tolls to be charged for ferriage shall be put in a conspicuous place near the ferry landing on both sides of the river, and also on board the steam ferry-boat employed. 12th. The lessee shall not at any time during the term of his lease knowingly ferry, take or carry, or permit to be carried, taken or ferried over or across the said ferry any contraband articles whatsoever. By Order in Council of the 5th day of March, 1877, the City of Victoria, B.C., was made a Port at which raw or Leaf Tobacco may be imported into Canada. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 10, p. 1145 By Order in Council of the 5th day of March, 1877, Yarmouth, N.S. was made a Port at which Raw or Leaf Tobacco may be imported into Canada. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 10, p. 1145. INTERIOR. On a memorandum dated 21st April, 1876, from the Hon. the Minister of the Interior, stating, with reference to the question of the withdrawal of lands in the vicinity of the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway from ordinary sale and settlement, to be disposed of at a future period in connection with the construction of the Railway, that in view of avoiding possible difficulties with persons taking up land upon or in the vicinity of the line, as surveyed, to the westward of the Battle River, it is, in his opinion, expedient to extend the reserve authorized by the Order in Council, in that behalf, dated the 28th February last, and recommending therefore that the lands for 20 miles on each side of the line of the railway, from a point 20 miles westerly of the Battle River to Jasper House in the "Yellow Head" Pass through the Rocky Mountains, be withdrawn accordingly. It was ordered accordingly on 22nd April, 1876. Interior. On a memorandum dated 21st February, 1876, from the Hon. the Minister of the Interior, reporting *That the late Surveys for the Canadian Pacific Railway and the construction of the Telegraph line, have developed the fact that the crossing of the Battle River some 250 miles west of Fort Pelly, possesses special advantages as a site for a Town; That the Battle River is said to be 175 feet across, in low water, with a depth of 12 feet, and is believed to be navigable for many miles towards its source; That the soil in the vicinity is excellent, and the country generally eligible for settlement, and the general position is central and convenient for the Territories; That in view of the above, he recommends that a block four miles square, making in all a block of 16 square miles, be reserved at such a point in the vicinity of the junction of the Battle and the Saskatchewan Rivers as may be found most convenient for a Town site. * ** He further recommends that the lands for 20 miles on both sides of the telegraph line, as laid out, extending from a point 20 miles westerly of Fort Pelly to a point 20 miles westerly of the mouth of the Battle River be withdrawn for the present from sale or settlement, as an extension of the reserve already set apart in connection with the construction of the Pacific Railway. It was ordered accordingly on 28th February, 1876. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 9 p. 1538. By Order in Council of 27th June, 1876, the following Regulations in respect to the division and settlement of the lands on the Rainy River were adopted, that is to say : 1. That lots be laid out with a frontage of ten chains on the said river, and of such a depth as the Minister may deem expedient; but, in no case, to exceed two miles. 2. That a settler be allowed to enter one of such ten chain lots as a homestead, and, if vacant, the adjoining one also, to which he shall have a preemption claim, the entries so made to operate in all respects as regards such two lots in the same manner as if they had been made upon regular quarter-sections under the homestead clauses of the said Act. 3. That each and every lot of land on the said river, claimed by virtue of settlement thereon previous to the survey, shall be made to conform to the terms of the first regulation as regards frontage and depth; provided, however, that, in any case in which a claimant may have more than twenty chains wide on the river under cultivation, the two lots covering such width to be selected by him shall represent his homestead and preemption right, and he shall, at his option, have the privilege of purchasing the lot or lots on which any excess of improvement exists over and above that made on the twenty chains, at the rate of one dollar per acre, in cash, or shall abandon such additional improvement on condition of receiving therefor the reasonable value thereof from the person who may, with the approval of the Minister of the Interior, obtain an entry for such lot or lots. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 10, p. 10. (See also under heading " Miscellaneous.”) Justice. JUSTICE. By Proclamation of the 19th day of January, 1877, the following tract of land in Manitoba was set apart as a Penitentiary 1. The south-west quarter of section 11, in township 13, in the 2nd range east of the principal meridian, containing, by admeasurement, one hundred and sixty acres, of which the boundaries are particularly defined as follows, viz.: Commencing at a post planted at the south-west angle of section 11, in township 13, in the second range, east of the principal meridian; thence due north, along the westerly limit of the said section forty chains, more or less, to a post planted at the north-west angle of the south-west quarter of the said section; thence due east forty chains, more or less, to the centre point of the said section; thence due south forty chains, more or less, to the southerly limit of the said section; and thence due west along the latter forty chains, more or less, to the place of beginning, containing 160 acres, more or less; also, 2. Legal subdivision one and the south half of legal subdivision eight in the section aforesaid, containing sixty acres, of which the boundaries are particularly defined as follows, viz.:--- Commencing at the south-easterly angle of the said section; thence due west along the southerly limit of the same, twenty chains, more or less, to the south-easterly angle of legal subdivision one of the said section; thence due north thirty chains, more or less, to the north-westerly angle of the south half of legal subdivision eight of the said section; thence due east twenty chains, more or less, to the easterly limit of the said section; and thence due south along the latter thirty chains, more or less, to the place of beginning, containing sixty acres, more or less; also, 3. Legal subdivisions fifteen and sixteen in section two of the township aforesaid, containing eighty acres, of which the boundaries are particularly defined as follows: Commencing in the easterly limit of section number two, in the said township, and at the south-east angle of legal subdivision sixteen thereof: thence due west forty chains, more or less, to the south-westerly angle of legal subdivision fifteen of the said section number two; thence due north, twenty chains, more or less, to the northerly limit of the said section; thence due east along the latter forty chains, more or less, to the north-east angle of the said section; and thence due south along the aforementioned easterly limit thereof twenty chains, more or less, to the place of beginning, containing forty acres, more or less, Is a penitentiary, and is to be so held within the meaning of the said Act, and for all the purposes thereof. Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. 10, p. 917. |