Chairman. Secretary. Expenses of commission. Powers as to battlefields. Expropriation. Powers of commission Expenditure of moneys. Buildings, less than one hundred thousand dollars to the purposes of the commission, such Government shall be entitled to appoint a commissioner, and such commissioner shall hold office during the pleasure of the Government which appoints him. 2. The Governor in Council shall name one of the commissioners appointed by the Governor in Council to be chairman of the commission, and he shall hold office as such chairman during pleasure. 3. The Governor in Council shall appoint a competent person to be secretary of the commission, who shall hold office during pleasure, and receive such salary as is fixed by the Governor in Council and provided by Parliament. 4. The commissioners, including the chairman, shall serve without remuneration, but shall be entitled to receive their actual disbursements for expenses necessarily incurred by them in the discharge of their powers or duties under this Act. 5. The commission may purchase, acquire and hold the lands or immovable property in the city of Quebec, or in the vicinity thereof, where the great battles were fought, or which were occupied by the various commands of the respective armies upon the battlefields. 6. If the commission is unable to agree with the owner of any lands or immovable property, or any part thereof or interest therein, so authorized to be purchased or acquired, as to the purchase, acquisition or transfer thereof, or the price to be paid therefor, the commission may acquire such lands or immovable property or interest without the consent of the owner, and shall in such cases, for all purposes of the taking, acquiring, ascertaining the value of, and making compensation for the said lands or immovable property, have all the powers of a railway company subject to The Railway Act, relative to the taking and using of lands, and the compensation and damages therefor, and The Railway Act shall, mutatis mutandis and in so far as applicable, apply to the taking and acquiring of, and the ascertaining and payment of the compensation and damages for, such lands or immovable property by the commission. 7. The commission may,— (a) receive and expend any moneys, whether appropriated by Parliament or the legislatures or contributed by any municipal or other body or private individual, for the purposes authorized by this Act; (b) remove all buildings and other structures upon the lands monuments, taken or acquired, and erect a museum and such monuments etc. and statues or other works as seem fitting or appropriate; and (c) lay out and construct on or through the said lands such National avenues, drives or paths, gardens, squares or other works as park. are, in the opinion of the commission, desirable for the improvement of the grounds and the conversion thereof into a national park of a character to commemorate worthily the great events which happened there. 8. The Minister of Finance is authorized to pay to the com- Payment of mission, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, for $300,000 the purposes authorized by this Act, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. authorized. 9. The Governor in Council is authorized to appropriate Approfor the purposes of the commission all the lands or immovable priation of public lands. property now vested in His Majesty for the military or other public purposes of Canada and forming part of the aforesaid battlefields. and 10. No land or immovable property shall be purchased or Approval of acquired by the commission except with the previous authority Parliament of Parliament, and no expenditure shall be made by the com- Governor mission until it has been approved by Parliament. in Council 2. The commission shall, before entering upon any work of Plans to be improvement or construction, or any other work involving the approved. expenditure of money, upon the lands taken or acquired under the authority of this Act, cause to be prepared plans of the proposed works showing locations, and submit the said plans for the approval of the Governor in Council, and the commission shall furnish such further descriptions or information to the Governor in Council as are required; and no such works shall be proceeded with until approved by the Governor in Council; and in like manner plans of the museum or any building to be erected within the park shall be subject, before the commencement of the work of building, to the approval of Parliament. to be 11. The commission shall from time to time, and before Estimates of making expenditures under this Act, submit to the Minister of expenditure Finance detailed estimates of the expenditures proposed to be submitted. made, accompanied by information sufficient to enable the Governor in Council to determine as to the necessity or advisability of the proposed expenditures and every portion thereof. statements. 12. The commission shall render to the Minister of Finance, Annual on or before the first day of June in each year, detailed statements of all its receipts and expenditures up to the thirty-first day of March in that year; and copies of such statements shall Accounts and inspection. Audit of accounts. Commis sioners and secretary not to be be laid before Parliament by the Minister of Finance within the first fourteen days of the next following session. 13. The commission shall, whenever required by the Minister of Finance, render detailed accounts of its receipts and expenditures for such period or to such date as he names; and all books of account, records, bank books and papers of the com.mission shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Minister of Finance, or of any person authorized by him. 14. All accounts, receipts and expenditures of the commission shall be subject to the audit of the Auditor General as in the case of public moneys, and subject to the provisions, so far as applicable, of The Consolidated Revenue and Audit Act. 15. No member of the commission shall have, nor shall the secretary have, any contract with the commission, or be pecuniarily interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or in contracts. Work with regard to which any portion of the moneys at the credit of the commission is being or is to be expended. interested Celebration of tercentenary of Quebec. 16. Whereas the present year not only will, it is hoped, mark the setting apart of the battlefields as herein authorized, of founding but is also the tercentenary of the founding of the city of Quebec and the establishment of French government and civilization upon the shores of the St. Lawrence by Samuel de Champlain, and it is desirable that these events be appropriately commemorated: Be it therefore enacted that the commission may, under the authority and direction of the Governor in Council, arrange for and carry out at a convenient time a celebration, in every respect worthy and fit, of the tercentenary of the founding of Quebec by Champlain, and the dedication of the battlefields to the general public purposes of Canada as provided by this Act; and that the commission may, subject to the sanction and approval of the Governor in Council, expend and lay out, for the purposes of the said celebration, such portion of the sum of three hundred thousand dollars herein before appropriated as is authorized by the commission subject to such sanction and approval. OTTAWA; Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 58. An Act respecting the National Battlefields at Quebec. WHERE [Assented to 20th July, 1908.] WHEREAS the National Battlefields Commission has re- Preamble quested that it be empowered to purchase, acquire and hold the lands or immovable property hereinafter referred to, and it is expedient to comply with its request: Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: acquire 1. The National Battlefields Commission may, subject to Power to the approval of the Governor in Council, purchase, acquire and property. hold the lands and immovable property set forth and described in the schedule to this Act. SCHEDULE. 1. A tract of land on the north side of the Ste. Foye road, belonging to the heirs Tourangeau and others, (site of the battle of Ste. Foye,-a part of which surrounds the lot of land upon which is erected a monument to the memory of General Lévis and General Murray,-"Monument des Braves,") and which is bounded as follows, viz.:— In front to the south by the Ste. Foye road, in rear to the north by the brow of the hill (Cime du Cap), on one side towards the east by lot number twenty-five, belonging to I. A. Fortin, and, on the other side towards the west by lot number twentyeight, belonging to the representatives of the late J. W. Dunscomb. Which said tract of land was formerly known and distinguished as lot number twenty-six (26) upon the official cadastral plan for the Banlieue, parish of Notre Dame de Quebec, but which lot has since been subdivided, and the said tract of land is now known and distinguished by different numbers, all of which are subdivisions of the said original lot number twenty-six, together with and including all or any part of the said original lot number twenty-six, as the same is now laid out and shown on the plan of the subdivision of the said lot number twentysix as streets or avenues, and including all or any dwelling houses or other buildings of any kind erected on the said tract of land. 2. A strip of land on the south side of the said Ste. Foye road, to be taken off the front or northerly end of lots numbers sixty-eight (68), seventy-five (75) and seventy-six (76) and seventy-nine (79) on the cadastral plan for the said Banlieue, parish of Notre Dame de Quebec, the said strip of land to be of such a depth as, when the same is added to the present width of the said Ste. Foye road, will make the said road seventy-five feet wide in that locality. 3. A strip of land on the east side of the Belvedere road, to be taken off the west side of the said lot number sixty-eight (68) above mentioned, and off the front or west end of lots numbers sixty-nine (69), seventy (70), seventy-one (71), seventy-two (72) and seventy-three (73) on the cadastral plan for the said Banlieue, parish of Notre Dame de Quebec, the said strip of land to be of such a depth as, when the same is added to the present width of the said Belvedere road, will make the said road seventy-five feet wide from one end of the same to the other. 4. A strip of land on the north side of the St. Louis road (starting from the junction of the said Belvedere road and the said the St. Louis road and running in a westerly direction) to be taken off the south side of lot number two hundred and twenty-six (226)-the front or south end of lot number two hundred and twenty (220)—and about one-third of the whole frontage or south end of lot number two hundred and eighteen (218) upon the cadastral plan for the Parish of St. Colomba de Sillery. The said strip of land to be of such a depth as, when the same is added to the present width of the said St. Louis road, will make the said road seventy-five feet wide in that locality, with any houses or buildings to be found on the said strip of land. 5. A strip of land on the west side of "Gilmour's Hill" (which leads from the St. Louis road to "Wolfe's Cove") starting from the junction of said "Gilmour's Hill" with the said St. Louis road and running in a southerly and south easterly direction as far as the brow of the hill (Cime du Cap)—the said strip of land to be taken off the easterly side of lots numbers two hundred and fourteen (214)-two hundred and seventeen (217) and two hundred and twenty-eight (228), upon the cadastral plan for the said Parish of St. Colomba de Sillery. The said strip of land to be of such a depth as, when the same is added to the present width of "Gilmour's Hill," will make the |