Town of Co released from c. 33. CHAP. 6. An Act for the relief of the Corporation of the Town of [Assented to 2nd May, 1889.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Governor in Council may, on such conditions as bourg may be he deems expedient, release the corporation of the town of payment due Cobourg from the payment of the balance due by the said under 49 V., corporation under the Act of the Parliament of Canada, forty-ninth Victoria, chapter thirty-three, intituled "An Act for the relief of the Corporation of the Town of Cobourg," together with all interest now unpaid thereon: Provided always, that one of the conditions of such release shall be that the said corporation shall abandon all claims they have in respect to the Port Hope and Rice Lake Road, whether as to the collection of tolls or in any other respect. whatsoever. OTTAWA : Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most CHAP. 7. An Act to provide for the conveyance of certain lands to British Columbia. [Assented to 16th April, 1889 ] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: ferred to B.C. 1. The Governor in Council may, out of the lands known Certain lands as "The Canadian Pacific Railway Belt," in the Province may be transof British Columbia, transfer to such province lands not to exceed forty-five thousand and thirty-seven acres in extent, for the purpose of enabling the Government of British Columbia to make valid certain titles and interests which it has heretofore undertaken to create therein. OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Preamble. CHAP. 8. An Act in reference to the Western Counties Railway. W [Assented to 16th April, 1889.] HEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in the session held in the fiftieth and fifty-first years 50-51 V., c. 25. of Her Majesty's reign, chapter twenty-five, intituled "An Act to confirm a certain agreement between Her Majesty and the Western Counties Railway Company, and for other purposes," a sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars. was voted to Her Majesty for the purpose of carrying into effect the agreement in the said Act mentioned; and whereas it is provided by the said Act that, in the event of failure on the part of the company to carry out their agreement, the said amount might be applied by the Government for the construction of the railway in the said agreement mentioned; and whereas the Western Counties Railway Company has failed to complete the railway between Annapolis and Digby in the said Act mentioned, and has otherwise failed to carry out the agreement by the said Act confirmed, and the said sum of five hundred thousand dollars is therefore now available for the building of the said railway by the Government, or otherwise: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: Construction of railway. R.S.C., cc 38 and 39. 1. The Minister of Railways and Canals is hereby authorized, out of the said appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars, to build and complete the railway between Annapolis and Digby in the said Act mentioned, and to take all such proceedings therefor as may be necessary under the provisions of "The Government Railways Act" or Expropriation Act," or any Acts amending the same. "The OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 9. An Act further to amend the Revised Statutes, Chapter five, respecting the Electoral Franchise. [Assented to 2nd May, 1889.] N further amendment of "The Electoral Franchise Act," Preamble. jente, with s. 5. the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Section nine of" The Electoral Franchise Act" is here- Section 9 by amended by inserting in the sixth line, after the word amended. "of" where it first occurs, the words "and does not hold a "location ticket for," and also by adding the following subsection thereto :- corrupt praс "2. No person found guilty of any corrupt practice under No person the provisions of " The Dominion Elections Act," shall, during convicted of the seven years next after the time at which he is so found tices to be reguilty, be entitled to be registered on any list of voters, sub- gistered. ject however to the removal of such disqualification under the provisions of section ninety-nine of the said Act." 2. Section thirteen of The Electoral Franchise Act" is Section 13 rehereby repealed. pealed. . Sections fifteen, sixteen and seventeen of the said Act Sections 15, are hereby repealed and the following substituted there- pealed; new for : 16 and 17 re sections. lists and pro “15. On or as soon as possible after the first day of June Revision of in each year, the revising officer shall cause the list of voters ceedings to be compared with the last assessment rolls, and, with all there.or. the information that he can obtain from that source, and from provincial, municipal and other official lists, records and proceedings, and by means of solemn declarations made as hereinafter provided according to the statute relating to extra-judicial oaths, shall proceed to revise each list of voters then in force under this Act for the electoral district or portion of an electoral district for which he is appointed, and shall prepare two separate lists in like form as the Supplemenoriginal list, one entitled Names to be added and correc- tary lists. tions to be made,' and the other Names to be removed': by whom to be "2. The solemn declaration in this section referred to may Declaration, be made by any person claiming the right to be registered made. in the electoral district, or claiming that some other person therein named should be registered as a voter, and shall be to the effect that to his personal knowledge, or according to his information and belief (the grounds of which shall be stated), the person or persons in respect of whom such declaration is made, is or are entitled to registration; the qualification of the person claimed to be entitled to be added to the list shall be stated in the declaration, and such declaration, unless made by a person claiming that he, the declarant, is entitled to be added to the list, shall be made To be receiv- by an elector of the electoral district; the revising officer ed by revising shall receive all such declarations up to the time when he transmits the supplementary lists to the Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery as hereinafter mentioned, and he shall exhibit to any person requiring to examine the same all such declarations deposited with him, and shall permit copies thereof to be taken: officer. Entries on first of such lists. And on the second. How printed. Assessment rolls evidence. Erroneous entry to be corrected. 3. He shall enter on the former of such supplementary lists the names of all persons not already on the original list, who, according to the provisions of this Act, are entitled to have their names so entered, indicating in the proper column whether they are qualified in respect of real property, as owners, tenants, occupants or otherwise, and stating the numbers of the lots, portions of lots and concessions, streets or other available description of real property in respect of which they are qualified. and their post office addresses as nearly as can be ascertained by the said officer, or whether they are qualified in respect of income, and as to the sons of farmers or other owners' sons as aforesaid, and voters on income, stating also in such list in the proper columns thereof the residence and post office addresses of such persons as nearly as can be ascertained by him; and he shall also note on a separate part of such supplementary list any verbal or clerical corrections of the original list which seem necessary: "4. He shall enter on the latter of such lists the names of any persons whose names appear on the original list, and who are dead or who are not, according to the provisions of this Act, entitled to be registered as voters, stating the reason of such note: "5. He shall sign such two supplementary lists as revising officer and shall transmit them, not sooner than the first day of August to the Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, who shall at once cause the same to be printed, with the description of the polling districts to which they respectively relate, and shall transmit a sufficient number of copies thereof to the revising officer: "6. Such assessment rolls as aforesaid shall be primâ facie evidence of value and qualification. "16. The revising officer shall not enter on such second supplementary list as to be removed from the original list the name of any person entered on the original list of voters, |