(b) by adding thereto as subsection (5) the following: "(5) No treasurer or other person offering lands for sale under the provisions of this Act shall be required to obtain an auctioneer's license for the purpose of the sale." 10. Section 155r of the said Act is hereby struck out. Section 155r struck out 11. The schedule to the said Act is amended by adding Schedule thereto form F as follows: "FORM F. "Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the voters of .Drainage District will be held at ...o'clock..... (here fill in the day in January on which it is intended to hold the meeting) day of January, A.D. 19...at.... ...for the purpose of receiving the auditor's report of the finances of the district up to the preceding 31st day of December, and for the purpose of receiving the reports of the secretary-treasurer and trustees of the district. "Take notice further, that nominations for.... places on the board of trustees of the district will be received by the secretary at the said meeting and for one week thereafter. The nominations must be in the form prescribed by The Drainage Districts Act, and forms may be obtained from the secretary at the said meeting. (If more than one vacancy is to be filled, set forth here particulars of each, and direct that nominations must be received separately for each vacancy.) amended "Dated at.. ..this... .19... ..day of "Secretary." 12. The schedule to the said Act is further amended by Schedule adding thereto form G as follows: further amended "FORM G. "(Section 155l.) "In the matter of the Court of Confirmation of the drain age rate enforcement return of the..... Drainage District. "Take notice that His Honour Judge. judge of the District Court of the District of. will at a sitting of the Court at. or so soon thereafter as the application can be heard, confirm the drainage rates enforcement return of the..... Drainage District. Coming into force of Act west of the..... "And further take notice that you appear to be interested in... ...of section.... Township... Range.... .Meridian, in the Province of Alberta, and that the drainage rates outstanding against the said lands are as follows: Current $.. Arrears $.. ... "And that in default of payment of the said arrears of rates before the said... ..day of..... .19... the said lands will be included in the rates enforcement return; and that unless all arrears of rates and costs and expenses lawfully incurred are paid before that day, the lands will become the property of the Board of Trustees of the said district under the provisions of The Drainage Districts Act." 13. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. CHAPTER 69. An Act respecting the Transfer to the Province of the Public Lands therein. (Assented to May 22, 1926.) HIS IS 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 Transfer of Public Lands Act." 2. The agreement with the Dominion of Canada set out in the Schedule hereto is hereby approved, the following provisions to form part thereof: (a) That the school lands fund to be transferred to the Province as in the said agreement provided, and such of the school lands specified in section 39 of The Dominion Lands Act, being chapter 20 of seven and eight Edward the Seventh and amending statutes, as pass to the administration of the Province under the terms of the said agreement, shall be set aside and shall continue to be administered by the Province in accordance, mutatis mutandis, with the provisions of sections 39 to 42 of The Dominion Lands Act, for the support of schools organized and carried on therein in accordance with the law of the Province, and (b) That any interest in any lands included in the parks or forest reserves in the said agreement referred to, may, with the consent of the Province, be disposed of by Canada for any purpose other than the purposes specified in the said agreement, and (c) That nothing in the said agreement or in any subsequent agreements or statutes such as are therein provided for, shall in any way affect the rights or properties of the Hudson's Bay Company as contained in the conditions under which that company surrendered Rupert's Land to the Crown. 3. This Act shall come into force upon the day which it is assented to. BETWEEN: SCHEDULE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Made this Ninth day of January, 1926. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, represented herein by the Honourable Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, and the Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior, AND of the first part, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA, represented herein by the Honourable John Edward Brownlee, Premier of the said Province, and the Honourable Vernor Winfield Smith, Minister of Railways and Telephones thereof, of the second part. Whereas by section 21 of The Alberta Act, being chapter 3 of four and five Edward the Seventh, it was provided that "All Crown lands, mines and minerals and royalties incident thereto, and the interest of the Crown in the waters within the Province under The North-west Irrigation Act, 1898, shall continue to be vested in the Crown and administered by the Government of Canada, for the purposes of Canada, subject to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada with respect to road allowances and roads or trails. in force immediately before the coming into force of this Act, which shall apply to the said Province with the substitution therein of the said Province for the North-west Territories"; And whereas it was further provided by section 20 of the said Alberta Act that inasmuch as the Province would not have the public lands as a source of revenue there should be paid to the Province by Canada an annual subsidy as in the said section set out; And whereas it has been agreed between Canada and the said Province that the said provisions of The Alberta Act should be modified as herein set out; NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH: SUBSIDY IN LIEU OF LANDS TERMINATED. 1. Sub-section 1 of section 20 of The Alberta Act shall stand repealed as and from the date of the coming into force of this agreement, but Canada will thereafter pay to the Province by half-yearly payments in advance an annual sum of five hundred and sixty-two thousand, five hundred dollars in each of the three years next following such repeal, such payment being estimated as sufficient to meet the out lay which it will be necessary for the Province to make in order to carry out the provisions of this agreement and to arrange for the administration of the public lands which are to be administered by the Province as herein provided. If at the date of the coming into force of this agreement any payment has been made under the provisions of The Alberta Act above referred to in respect of any half-year commencing before but terminating after the date of the coming into force of this agreement, a proportionate part of the payment so made shall be taken as having been made under the provisions hereof. TRANSFER OF PUBLIC LANDS GENERALLY. 2. Subject as otherwise hereinafter provided, the interest of the Crown in all Crown lands, mines, minerals and royalties within the Province, and all sums due or payable for such lands, mines, minerals or royalties, shall, from and after the coming into force of this agreement, belong to the Province, subject to any trusts existing in respect thereof, and to any interest other than that of the Crown in the same, and the said lands, mines, minerals and royalties shall be administered by the Province for the purposes thereof, subject to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada relating to such administration only until the provisions of the said Acts are altered by the Legislature of the Province; any payment received by Canada in respect of any such Crown lands, mines, minerals or royalties before the coming into force of this agreement shall continue to belong to Canada whether paid in advance or arrear, it being the intention that, except as herein otherwise specially provided, Canada shall not be liable to account to the Province for any payment made in respect of any of the said Crown lands, mines, minerals or royalties before the coming into force of this agreement, and that the Province shall not be liable to account to Canada for any such payment made thereafter. 3. At the request of Canada made on behalf of all such persons as may have entered into any contract to purchase or lease any Crown lands, mines or minerals, or may have otherwise become entitled to any interest therein as against the Crown, the Province agrees to carry out every such contract to purchase, lease or other arrangement in accordance with the terms thereof, and further agrees not to affect or alter any term of any such contract to purchase, lease or other arrangement by legislation or otherwise, except so far as any legislation may apply generally to all similar agreements relating to lands, mines or minerals in the Province or to interests therein, irrespective of who may be the parties thereto, but any power or right, reserved by any such contract to purchase, lease or other arrangement to the Governor in Council or to the Minister of the Interior or any other officer of the Government of Canada, may be exercised by such officer of the Government of the Province as may |