give to each quarter-section a breadth proportional to the breadth shown on the official plan of the township; (e) When a corner on either of the meridian boundaries of If on the section is also lost, such meridian shall be re-established meridian previously to re-establishing the east and west line. boundary allowance to 2. Whenever a surveyor places a monument, as aforesaid, to Road re-establish a lost corner, he shall duly take into account any be taken into allowance for a road or roads; and the corner, or division or limit account. so established, shall be the true corner, or division or limit of such township, section or quarter-section. 3. Notwithstanding anything in this section provided, re- Exception. surveys of Dominion lands may be made, on the order of the Minister, in such manner, not inconsistent with the other provisions of this Act, as he may direct. of plans to 67. The Minister shall cause to be transmitted to the regis- Transmission trar of every registration district or division or land titles dis- local trict in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and registrar. British Columbia, and in the Northwest Territories and in the Yukon Territory, as soon as possible after the confirmation thereof, to be lodged or filed with him, a copy of the official plan of the survey or re-survey of each township, settlement, town or village site, lot, plot or other survey or re-survey made under the authority of this Act, and of each plan amended or corrected under the authority of this Act, of Dominion lands in such registration district, or division or land titles district. EVIDENCE. 68. Copies of any records, documents, plans, books or Copies as papers, belonging to or deposited in the Surveyor General's evidence. office, attested under the signature of the Minister, or of the Surveyor General, or of any chief clerk or officer authorized thereto, shall be competent evidence in all cases in which the original records, documents, books, plans or papers would be evidence. 69. Lithographed or other copies of maps or plans pur- Plans porting to be issued or published by the Department of the as evidence. Interior, and to have a lithographed or copied signature of the Minister of the Interior or of the Surveyor General thereto attached, shall be received in all courts and proceedings as prima facie evidence of the original and of the contents thereof. etc., may be 70. All affidavits, oaths, solemn declarations or affirmations Before whom required to be taken or made under this Act, except as herein affidavits, otherwise provided, may be taken before the judge or clerk made. of any county or circuit court, or any justice of the peace, or any commissioner for taking affidavits, or any notary public, or any Dominion land surveyor, or any person specially authorized to take such affidavits by this Act or by the Minister. Minister may require sworn statement as to lands. 71. The Minister may require any statement in relation to any land to which any Act relating to Dominion lands applies to be verified by oath, affirmation, declaration or affidavit. Forms in schedule may be varied by Minister. GENERAL. 72. The Minister, with the approval of the Governor in Council, may, whenever he deems it necessary so to do, vary any of the forms in the schedule to this Act, or to any Act amending it, or he may from time to time, with the like approval, cause to be adopted such other forms to the like effect or sucn new forms as he considers applicable to or necessary in or for the purposes of any special case or class of cases. Molesting a surveyor. Destroying marks of original survey. Destroying other marks. Unlawful monuments. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES. 73. Every person who, in any part of the Dominion lands, interrupts, molests or hinders any Dominion land surveyor while in the discharge of his duty as a surveyor, is guilty of an indictable offence, and liable on conviction thereof, either summarily or upon indictment, to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months, or to both, in the discretion of the court. 74. Every person who, knowingly and wilfully, pulls down, defaces, alters, or removes any monument erected, planted or placed in any original survey or re-survey, is guilty of an indictable offence, and shall be liable on conviction thereof, either summary or upon indictment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years. 2. Every person who, knowingly and wilfully, defaces, alters or removes any other monument placed by any Dominion land surveyor to mark any limit, boundary or angle of any township, section or other legal subdivision, lot or parcel of land is guilty of an indictable offence, and liable on conviction thereof either summary or upon indictment, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both, in the discretion of the court. 3. Every person who, not being a Dominion land surveyor, possession of knowingly and wilfully has in his possession and custody, not for any lawful purpose in connection with a survey of Dominion lands, any such monument, or any post or monument intended, or apparently intended to be used for the purposes of any such survey, or to mark any such limit, boundary or angle, is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable on summary conviction or upon indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to both, in the discretion of the court. privilege as 75. Nothing in this Act shall be held to prevent Dominion Surveyors' land surveyors, in their operations, from displacing any monu- to displacing ments or other boundary marks when necessary, after which monuments. they shall carefully replace them as they were before; or from removing a monument and erecting a new one when making a re-survey under the authority of this Act. 76. Sections 16 to 80 inclusive, 206, 212, and 221 to 224 in- Repeal. clusive, of The Dominion Lands Act, chapter 55 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, are repealed. SCHEDULE. FORM A. (Section 10.) OATH OF MEMBER OF BOARD OF EXAMINERS. I, A. B., do solemnly swear [or affirm, as the case may be] that I will faithfully discharge the duty of an examiner of candidates for admission as articled pupils, for commissions as Dominion land surveyors or for certificates as Dominion topographical surveyors, according to law, without favour, affection or partiality. ARTICLES OF PUPIL TO DOMINION LAND SURVEYOR. day of of Dominion land surveyor, of These articles of agreement, made the between A. B., of the one part, and C. D., of and E. F., son of the said C. D., of the other part, witnesseth as follows: The said E. F., of his own free will, and by and with the consent and approbation of the said C. D., doth, by these presents, place and bind himself pupil to the said A. B., to serve him as such from the date hereof, for and during and until the full end and term of three years from thence next ensuing, and fully to be completed and ended. And the said C. D. doth hereby, for himself, his heirs, execu tors and administrators, covenant with the said A. B., his executors, administrators and assigns, that the said E. F. shall well, and faithfully, and diligently, according to the best and utmost of his power, serve the said A. B. as his pupil in the practice or profession of a Dominion land surveyor, which he, the said A. B., now followeth, and shall abide and continue with him from the date hereof, for and during and unto the full end of the said term of three years: And that he, the said E. F., shall not, at any time during such term, cancel, obliterate, injure, spoil, destroy, waste, embezzle, spend or make away with any of the books, papers, writings, documents, maps, plans, drawings, field notes, moneys, chattels or other property of the said A. B., his executors, administrators or assigns, or of any of his employers; and that in case the said E. F. shall act contrary to the last-mentioned covenant, or if the said A. B., his executors, administrators or assigns, shall sustain or suffer any loss or damage by the misbehaviour, neglect or improper conduct of the said E. F., the said C. D., his heirs, executors, or administrators, will indemnify the said A. B., his executors, administrators or assigns, and make good and reimburse to him or them the amount or value thereof: And further, that the said E. F. shall, at all times, keep the secrets of the said A. B. in all matters relating to the said business and profession, and will, at all times during the said term, be just, true and faithful to the said A. B. in all matters and things, and, from time to time, pay all moneys which he shall receive of or belonging to or by order of the said A. B. into his hands, and make and give true and fair accounts of all his acts and doings whatsoever in the said business and profession, without fraud or delay, when and so often as he shall thereto be required; and shall readily obey and execute the lawful and reasonable commands of the said A. B., and shall not depart or absent himself from the service or employ of the said A. B. at any time during the said term, without his consent first had and obtained, and shall, from time to time, and at all times during the said term, conduct himself with all due diligence and with honesty and sobriety. And the said E. F. doth hereby, for himself, covenant with the said A. B., his executors, administrators and assigns, that he, the said E. F., will truly, honestly and diligently serve the said A. B. at all times, for and during the said term, as a faithful pupil ought to do, in all things whatsoever in the manner above specified. of lawful In consideration whereof, and of money by the said C. D. to the said A. B. paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged), the said A. B., for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, doth covenant with each of them the said C. D. and E. F., his heirs, executors and administrators, that the said A. B. will accept and take the said E. F. as his pupil, and that he, the said A. B., will, by the best ways and means he may or can, and to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed, the said E. F. in the course of study prescribed by The Dominion Lands Surveys Act, in practical surveying operations, and in the use of instruments, and generally in the art, practice and profession of a Dominion land surveyor, which he, the said A. B., now doth, and shall, at all times during the said term, use and practise; that he also will provide the said E. F. with all the necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in transacting or performing the business of the said A. B.; that at the expiration of the said term, he will make the affidavit of service required; and that he will use his best means and endeavour, at the request, cost and charges of the said C. D. and E. F., or either of them, to cause and procure him, the said E. F., to be examined before the Board of Examiners of candidates for commissions as Dominion land surveyors: Provided the said E. F. shall have well, faithfully and diligently served his said intended pupilage. And for the true performance of all and every the covenants. and agreements aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, each of them, the said A. B. and C. D., doth bind himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, unto the other, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, firmly by these presents. In witness whereof, the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written. swear that E. F. has served regularly and faithfully as my pupil from the to the Dominion land surveyor, do solemnly day of day of 19 19 ; day of that he has been engaged with me in the field on the following surveys, that is to say: from the to the on the survey of day of at |