Manitoba Boundaries Extension Act, 1881
An Act to provide for the extension of the Boundaries of the
Province of Manitoba
44 Victoria, S.C. 1881, c. 14
[Assented to 21st March 1881]
WHEREAS, by an Act of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba,
passed during the session thereof held in the present year of
Her Majesty's reign, and intituled "An Act to provide
for the extension of the boundaries of the Province of Manitoba"
the Legislature of that Province hath consented to the increase
of the same by the alteration of its limits, as hereinafter
enacted, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed:
Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate and House or Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:-
1. The Province of Manitoba shall be increased as hereinafter
defined, that is to say, so that the boundaries thereof shall
be as follows:-"Commencing at the intersection of the International
Boundary dividing Canada from the United States of America by
the centre of the Road Allowance between the twenty-ninth and
thirtieth ranges or townships lying west of the first principal
meridian in the system of Dominion Land Surveys; thence northerly,
following upon the said centre of the said road allowance as
the same is or may hereafter be located, defining the said range
line on the ground across Townships one to fortyfour, both inclusive,
to the intersection of the said centre of the said road allowance
by the centre of the road allowance on the twelfth base line
in the said system of Dominion Land Surveys; thence easterly
along the said centre of the road allowance on the twelfth base
line, following the same to its intersection by the easterly
limit of the District of Keewatin, as defined by the Act thirtyninth
Victoria, Chapter twentyone, that is to say, to a point where
the said centre of the road allowance on the twelfth base line
would be intersected by a line drawn due north from where the
westerly boundary of the Province of Ontario intersects the
aforesaid International Boundary Line dividing Canada from the
United States of America; thence due south, following upon the
said line to the International Boundary aforesaid; and thence
westerly, following upon the said International Boundary Line
dividing Canada from the United States of America, to the place
of beginning," and all the land embraced by the said description
not now within the Province of Manitoba shall, from and after
the passing of this Act, be added thereto, and the whole shall,
from and after the said date, form and be the Province of Manitoba.
2. The terms and conditions upon which such increase
is made are as follows:-
(a) All the enactments and provisions of all the Acts
of the Parliament of Canada which have, since the creation
of the Province of Manitoba, been extended into and made to
apply to the said Province, shall extend and apply to the
territory by this Act added thereto, as fully and effectually
as if the same had originally formed part of the Province
and the boundaries thereof had, in the first instance, been
fixed and defined as is done by this Act,-subject, however,
to the provisions of section three of this Act.
(b) The said increased limit and the territory thereby
added to the Province of Manitoba shall be subject to all
such provisions as may have been or shall hereafter be enacted,
respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway and the lands to be
granted in aid thereof.
3. All laws and ordinances in force in the territory
hereby added to the Province of Manitoba at the time of the
coming into force of this Act, and all courts of civil and criminal
jurisdiction, and all legal commissions, powers and authorities,
and all officers, judicial, administrative and ministerial,
existing therein at the time of the coming into force of this
Act, shall continue therein as if such territory had not been
added to the said Province; subject, nevertheless, with respect
to matters within the legislative authority of the Legislature
of the Province of Manitoba, to be repealed, abolished or altered
by the said Legislature.
4. This Act shall come into force only upon, from and
after a day to be appointed in that behalf by proclamation of
the Governor published in the Canada Gazette.
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