production

(t) prescribing the proportion of natural gas or oil that Proportion of may be produced from any one area whenever the from one area full production from any common source of supply of natural gas or oil is in excess of market demands;

(u) providing for the capping of or otherwise closing Capping, etc. wells for the purpose of preventing waste;

measures

(v) calculated, in general, to conserve gas and oil, or General to prevent waste or undue use thereof; to prevent the to prevent use of natural gas or oil in a manner calculated to waste threaten the common reservoirs thereof with premature exhaustion, or to compel the drilling for and marketing of gas and oil in accordance with the most approved practices, or controlling the production, transmission, distribution, sale, disposal and consumption of all natural gas or oil produced in Alberta;

matters

(w) respecting any other matter reasonably incidental Incidental to the production by or conduct of oil or gas wells; (x) prescribing penalties for the breach of any regula- Penalties tions made under this Act.

Reference

4. In making any such regulations the Lieutenant Gov- Board of ernor in Council may rely upon the technical advice of competent persons and may consult with operators of wells in order that the regulations may be as effective as possible, and impose no further hardship upon individuals than is necessitated by the prime importance of conserving oil and gas, and may constitute a Board of Reference consisting of operators, technical experts and other persons with such powers or duties as it may seem advisable to delegate or impose upon it.

5.-(1) All such regulations shall be laid upon the table Effect of of the Legislative Assembly within the first week of the regulations Session next held after the making of such regulations.

(2) All such regulations when made, shall, unless and until disallowed by the Legislative Assembly at its Session next held after the making of the same, have the same force and effect as if they were set out at length in this Act.

6. This Act is only intended to, and shall be deemed only Scope of Act to, operate as to matters which are within the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the Province of Alberta, and all matters not within such exclusive jurisdiction are hereby declared to be outside the provisions of this Act.

7. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Date of it is assented to.

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CHAPTER 7.

An Act to amend An Act to incorporate the Weno
Power and Light Company.

(Assented to April 8, 1926.)

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts

as follows:

1. Chapter 47 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1914, entitled An Act to incorporate the Weno Power and Light Company, is amended by striking out section 4 thereof and substituting therefor the following:

section 4

"4. Notwithstanding any other statutory provisions, the New company may lay gas mains and construct the necessary transmission lines for the transmission of electrical energy for lighting, heating, motive, or other power in particular in, along and upon the road allowances, public highways, bridges, streets, lanes and squares lying within sections nine (9), ten (10), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15) and sixteen (16) in township twenty-four (24), range twenty-nine (29), and section eighteen (18) in township twenty-four (24), range twenty-eight (28), west of the Fourth Meridian, and also the original road allowances immediately adjoining the said sections, the consent and approval of the Minister of Public Works first having been obtained before construction of any of its works on the said road allowances, public highways, etc., are commenced; provided that the rights and privileges by this section granted to the company shall terminate on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six."

2. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Coming into it is assented to.

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CHAPTER 8.

An Act respecting Advances to Beet-growers.

(Assented to April 8, 1926.)

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Beet Lien Act."

Short title

2.-(1) Any company or person supplying beet seed or Lien on crops advancing money for the purchase of beet seed to a grower of beets, or furnishing labour for the sowing of beet seed, or advancing money for paying for such labour, shall have a lien upon all crops of beets grown by such beet-grower from such seed for the value of the beet seed supplied or the amount of money advanced for the purchase of beet seed, and in addition for the cost of the labour furnished for sowing the said seed or money advanced for the purpose of paying for such labour.

(2) The amount of such lien shall not exceed four dollars Amount of per acre of the land upon which the seed is sown.

lien

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, no Priority document evidencing the said lien need be filed or registered, and the said lien shall have priority over every writ of execution, right of distress, encumbrance and charge of every description whatsoever, whether created or coming into existence before or after the passing of this Act.

4. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Date of it is assented to.

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