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CHAP. 6

An Act respecting the boundaries of the Province of

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Manitoba.

[Assented to 28th April, 1877.]

that Act.

HEREAS by section one of the Act thirty-third Victoria, Preamble. chapter three, intituled "An Act to amend and continue 33 v. c. 3, the Act 32 and 33 Victoria, chapter 3, and to establish and pro- cited. vide for the Government of the Province of Manitoba," the boundaries of the said Province are defined as follows, that is to say: "Commencing at the point where the meridian of Boundaries of ninety-six degrees west longitude from Greenwich inter- Manitoba by sects the parallel of forty-nine degrees north latitude; thence due west along the said parallel of forty-nine degrees north latitude (which forms a portion of the boundary line between the United States of America and the said North-Western Territory) to the meridian of ninety-nine degrees of west longitude; thence due north along the said meridian of ninety-nine degrees west longitude, to the intersection of the same with the parallel of fifty degrees and thirty minutes north latitude; thence due east along the said parallel of fifty degrees and thirty minutes north latitude to its intersection with the before-mentioned meridian of ninety-six degrees of west longitude; thence due south along the said meridian of ninety-six degrees west longitude to the place of beginning:" And whereas the boun

daries of the Province, as above described, upon the east and west converge as they extend northward from the fortyninth parallel and do not correspond with the system of rectangular survey which has been adopted in the said Province and the North-West Territories; And whereas it is expedient, in order to facilitate the correct registration of titles to real estate in the said Province, as also in the adjoining District of Keewatin and the North-West Territories respectively, that the limits of the Province should be altered as hereinafter described; And whereas, by the Imperial Act, Act of the Imperial Parliament thirty-fourth and thirty- 34, 35 V. c. 28 fifth Victoria, chapter twenty-eight, intituled "An Act, respecting the establishment of Provinces in the Dominion of Canada," the Parliament of Canada is empowered, with the consent of the Legislature of any Province, to alter the limits thereof; and whereas the Legislature of Manitoba has consented to the alteration of the boundaries of the said Province as hereinafter made upon condition that the Government of Canada will complete the survey of the boundaries of the Province upon the east and upon the north; and whereas the Parliament of Canada assents to this condition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent

Former boundaries repealed and new boundaries described.

consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. All that portion of section one of the above recited Act, thirty-third Victoria, chapter three, setting forth, as therein described, the boundaries of the Province of Manitoba, is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted in lieu thereof, and is intended to describe the true boundaries of the Province, that is to say :-Commencing at the intersection of the International Boundary or forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, by the westerly boundary of township number one in the twelfth range west of the principal meridian in Manitoba; thence due north, following the westerly boundary, respectively, of townships one and two, to the intersection thereof by the southerly limit of the road allowance on the first correction line; thence due west along the latter to the intersection thereof by the westeriy limit of township three in the aforesaid twelfth range west; thence due north following the westerly limit respectively, of townships three, four, five and six in the said twelfth range to the southerly limit of the road allowance on the second correction line; thence westerly upon the latter to the intersection thereof by the westerly limit of township seven in the aforesaid twelfth range; thence due north upon the westerly limit respectively of townships seven, eight, nine and ten, to the southerly limit of the road allowance on the third correction line; thence due west along the latter to the intersection thereof by the westerly limit of township eleven in the said twelfth range west of the principal meridian; thence due north along the westerly limit respectively, of townships eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, to the southerly limit of the road allowance on the fourth correction line; thence westerly along the latter to the intersection thereof by the westerly limit of township fifteen in the said twelfth range west of the principal meridian; thence due north along the westerly limit respectively of townships fifteen, sixteen and seventeen, in the said twelfth range west to the southerly limit of the road allowance, the northerly boundary of the said township number seventeen; thence due east following the said southerly limit of the road allowance between townships seventeen and eighteen in the system of Dominion land surveys, (the said line crossing Lakes Manitoba and Winnipeg) to the easterly boundary of township seventeen in the tenth range east of the principal meridian; thence due south along the easterly boundary, respectively, of townships seventeen, sixteen and fifteen to the southerly limit of the road allowance on the fourth correction line; thence due west along the latter to its intersection by the easterly limit of township fourteen in the aforesaid tenth range east ; thence due south along the easterly limit, respectively, of town-ships fourteen, thirteen, twelve, and eleven, to its intersec

tion with the southerly limit of the road allowance on the third correction line; thence due west along the latter to its intersection with the easterly limit of township ten in the said tenth range east; thence due south along the easterly limit, respectively of townships ten, nine, eight and seven, to the intersection thereof by the southerly limit of the road allowance on the second correction line, thence due west along the latter to its intersection with the easterly limit of township six in the said tenth range east of the principal meridian; thence due south along the easterly limit, respectively, of townships six, five, four and three, to the intersection thereof, by the southerly limit of the road allowance on the first correction line; thence due west. along the latter to its intersection with the easterly limit of township two in the said tenth range east; thence due south along the easterly limit, respectively, of townships two and one, to the intersection thereof, by the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude or the International Boundary line aforesaid; and thence due west following upon the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, or the International Boundary line, to the place of beginning.

2. The District of Keewatin shall be bounded on the Keewatin and west, and the Northwest Territories shall be bounded on the N. W. Territories how east, by the Province of Manitoba as herein before defined, bounded. the said District and Territories remaining bounded on the south by the Province of Manitoba as heretofore.

CHAP. 7.

An Act to amend the "North-West Territories Act,

1875."

[Assented to 28th April, 1877.]

N amendment of the Act passed in the thirty-eighth year Preamble. of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to amend and 38. V. c. 49. consolidate the laws respecting the North-West Territories"; Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada,enacts as follows:

1. The second section of the said Act is hereby amended Section two by repealing sub-section two and inserting the following amended. sub-sections:

"2. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, Adminappoint an Administrator to execute the office and functions istrator may be appointed. of the Lieutenant-Governor during his absence, illness or other inability.

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"3. Every Lieutenant-Governor or Administrator so Governor or appointed shall, before assuming the duties of his office, trator to take take and subscribe before the Governor General or some oath of office. person duly authorized to administer such oaths, an oath of allegiance or office similar to those prescribed to be taken by a Lieutenant-Governor under "The British North America Act, 1867."

Section three repealed.

New section

of Council.

2. The third section of the said Act is repealed, and the following substituted for it :

"3. The Governor General with the advice of the Queen's substituted. Privy Council for Canada, by warrant under his privy seal, Appointment may constitute and appoint such and so many persons, from time to time, not exceeding in the whole six persons, of which number the Stipendiary Magistrates hereinafter mentioned shall ex officio, form part, to be a Council to aid the Lieutenant-Governor in the administration of the NorthWest Territories: Before entering upon the duties of their offices, the persons so appointed shall take and subscribe before the Lieutenant-Governor such oath of allegiance and such oath of office as the Governor in Council may prescribe; and the majority of the Council so appointed shall form a quorum.

Oaths of allegiance and office.

Quorum.

Clerk's oath.

Section seven repealed.

New section
substituted.
Powers of
Council.

Proviso.

Further proviso as to ordinances.

Fines.

"2. The Clerk of the said Council shall take before the Lieutenant-Governor such oath of office as the Governor in Council may prescribe."

3. The seventh section of the said Act is repealed, and the following substituted for it :

"7. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council or the LieutenantGovernor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly, as the case may be, shall have such powers to make ordinances for the government of the NorthWest Territories as the Governor in Council may, from time to time, confer upon him; Provided always, that such powers shall not at any time be in excess of those conferred by the ninety-second section of" The British North America Act, 1867," upon the Legislatures of the several Provinces of the Dominion :

"2. Provided that no ordinance to be so made shall,—(1) be inconsistent with or alter or repeal any provision of any Act of the Parliament of Canada in Schedule B. of this Act, or of any Act of the Parliament of Canada, which may now, or at any time hereafter, expressly refer to the said Territories, or which or any part of which may be at any time made by the Governor in Council, applicable to or declared to be in force in the said Territories, or, (2) impose any fine or penalty exceeding one hundred dollars:

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allowed.

"3. And provided that a copy of every such ordinance Copy to shall be mailed for transmission to the Secretary of State, Secretary of within ten days after its passing, and it may be disallowed May be disby the Governor in Council at any time within two years after its receipt by the Secretary of State; Provided, also, that Proviso: inall ordinances so made, and all Orders in Council disallowing formation to any ordinance so made, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, as soon as conveniently may be after the making and enactment thereof respectively."

Parliament.

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4. The Lieutenant Governor shall sit in Council with the Lieutenant Councillors as an integral part thereof, and not separately Governor to from them, and such ordinances as aforesaid shall be made Council. by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and shall be express- Form of ened to be so made; and wherever in the Act hereby amended acting ordithe expression--" The Lieutenant-Governor and Council", nances; occurs, the expression "The Lieutenant-Governor in Council" shall be understood, and is hereby substituted for it; but Until a Legisthis section shall cease to have effect when the number of lative Assemmembers of the Council elected under section thirteen of the bly is formed. said Act amounts to twenty-one, and a Legislative Assembly has been formed for the said Territories.

5. The word "Province," in the fourth line of the second Clerical error sub-section of the thirteenth section of the said Act is in section 13 hereby struck out, and the words "said Territories" substituted for it.

corrected.

6. Sections fifty-nine and sixty of the said Act are hereby Sections 59, repealed. 60 repealed.

7. Sections sixty-two, sixty-three and sixty-four of the Sections 62, said Act are hereby repealed and the following sections, re- 63, 64 respectively, substituted in lieu thereof :

pealed and new substituted.

"62. Each Stipendiary Magistrate having taken the fol- Stipendiary lowing oath before the Lieutenant-Governor or any Stipen- oath of office; diary Magistrate in the North-West Territories, that is to say: "I do swear that I will truly and faithfully execute the several powers, duties and trusts committed to me by or under The North-West Territories Acts, 1875 and 1877,' without fear, without favor, and without malice: So help

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me God;"--shall have jurisdiction throughout the North-West And jurisdicTerritories, as hereinafter mentioned, and shall also have tion." jurisdiction and may exercise within the North-West Territories, the magisterial, and other functions appertaining to any Justice of the Peace, or any two Justices of the Peace, under any laws or ordinances which may, from time to time, be in force in the North-West Territories."

"63. Each Stipendiary Magistrate shall further have Further powpower to try in a summary way, and without the interven- ers, for sum

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