mendation and such countersigning shall be conclusive evidence of the validity of such debenture or debentures, the legality of the issue of such debenture or debentures shall be thereby conclusively established, and its or their validity shall not be open to question in any Court.

(2) Every such debenture so countersigned shall be valid and binding upon the municipality and upon the property held for the rate, if any, imposed under authority of the recommendation.

(3) The signature of the Deputy Minister may be written or stamped on the debenture. [1920, c. 28, s. 7.]

Appointment, etc., of Administrator.

of administrator and official trustee

8.—(1) In the event of any municipality, whether city, Appointment town, village, municipal district or school district failing to discharge any financial liability of such municipality or failing to comply with any of the provisions of section 6 hereof, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may dismiss the council of such municipality and appoint an administrator of its affairs.

(2) Where school taxes are collected by a municipality other than the school district in respect of which they are payable and an administrator is appointed, then such administrator shall also be official trustee of the said school district and upon his appointment the board of trustees of the said school district shall cease to hold office.

(3) An administrator may also be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council at any time after the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, when for any reason there is no council, or there is a council incapable of transacting business from want of a quorum.

(4) Any administrator appointed under this section may be removed from office at any time and a successor may be appointed to him who shall have the like powers and authority and shall be charged with the like duties and responsibilities as his predecessor in office.

(5) When an administrator has been appointed under this section, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time advance to the administrator out of the general revenue fund, without any further or other appropriation than is provided by this Act, such sum or sums not exceeding in any one year the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to discharge in whole or in part the liabilities of municipalities, in which an administrator has been appointed, and the expenses of such administrator.

(6) When any money is advanced to an administrator under the previous subsection the Provincial Treasurer may take such securities therefor as may seem fit to him and the administrator shall have power to issue a debenture

Powers of administrator

or debentures therefor without taking any vote with regard to such issue, and the debenture or debentures so issued shall have the same effect as a debenture or debentures issued in strict compliance with the provisions of the Act regulating the issue of debentures by the municipality in which such administrator has been appointed.

[1920, c. 28, s. 8; 1921, c. 26, s. 2.]

9.-(1) Notwithstanding anything in any Act, Ordinance or charter contained, the administrator shall have all the powers, and may perform all the duties of the council, mayor, reeve, commissioner, clerk, secretary-treasurer, assessor, collector of taxes and of any other official appointed or that might be appointed or elected under any Act, Ordinance or charter applicable to the government of the municipality for which he is appointed administrator, and he shall be responsible for the due performance of all such duties and may discharge any municipal official and appoint his successor, and may employ such assistants as he may deem advisable to assist him in the discharge of any and all such duties and shall fix the salary of each and every such official and assistant.

(2) All such salaries and the cost generally of administering the affairs of the municipality, including the salary of such administrator (which shall be fixed in the Order in Council appointing him and which may be varied by subsequent Order), shall be paid out of the funds of the municipality.

(3) Upon the removal of any administrator appointed under this Act the council of the municipality of the affairs of which he was administrator and, if necessary, the board of school trustees, may be reinstated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, or directions may be given by him as to the election of a council and if necessary a board of school trustees to take the place of the administrator so removed. [1920, c. 28, s. 9; 1921, c. 26, s. 3.]

CHAPTER 132.

An Act respecting Areas Situate Along the Borders of the Province.

HIS

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

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Border Areas Act."

Interpretation.

Short title

Interpretation

district

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) "Approved district" shall mean any district Approved
which, or the trustees of which, is or are a body
corporate under the provisions of a Statute of the
Province, and which is expressly approved by the
Lieutenant Governor in Council as being entitled
to take advantage of the provisions of the Act:
(b) "Council" shall include the Minister of Municipal Council
Affairs;

(c) "Institution" shall mean any hospital, school, Institution
library, show buildings or other building of any
nature whatsoever which in the opinion of the
Lieutenant Governor in Council is likely to be of
general benefit to the inhabitants of an approved
district;

(d) "Municipality" shall mean any city, town, village, Municipality
municipal district or improvement district.

[1921, c. 66, s. 1.]

Agreements by Border Municipalities, etc.

between

and extra

municipal

3. In the case of a municipality or any approved district Agreements adjoining any part of the boundary line between the inter-provincial Province of Alberta and any other province of Canada, provincial the council or board of such municipality or district may authorities make arrangements with the authority governing the local affairs of any part of such last mentioned province or governing any institution situated outside the Province for the extension to or to the inhabitants of the said municipality, district or any part thereof, of the benefits of any institution, works, construction, improvement or service by any of the said authorities or for a like extension of benefits to any of the said authorities by the said municipality or district or any part thereof. [1921, c. 66, s. 2.]

Submission

of scheme

of taxation, issue of debentures, etc., to Lieutenant Governor

Proviso

Publication and approval of scheme

Taxation, etc., under Agreements.

4. When any such agreement has been entered into the council or board entering into the same shall present to the Lieutenant Governor in Council a scheme providing by taxation, issue of debentures or otherwise, a method of raising any money stipulated for under the terms of the said agreement and containing such other provisions as may seem necessary or proper to the effectual carrying out of the intent of this Act:

Provided that no greater rate of taxation shall be imposed upon any of the inhabitants of the Province of Alberta, or upon property within the said Province, than could be imposed if the institution, works, construction or service aforesaid had been provided under the law of the said Province, apart from the provisions of this Act. [1921, c. 66, s. 3.]

5. Any such scheme shall be published once every week for four weeks in a newspaper in general circulation in the municipality or district concerned and thereafter may be approved by Order in Council by the Lieutenant Governor in Council with or without modification thereof, and upon such approval being published in The Alberta Gazette, the said scheme shall have effect, according to the terms thereof and of the said Order in Council, as if it had been set forth in this Act.

[1921, c. 66, s. 4.]

DIVISION XII.-REAL PROPERTY

CHAPTER 133.

An Act respecting Real Property in the Province

HIS

of Alberta.

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

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Land Titles Act."

Interpretation.

Short title

[1906, c. 24, s. 1.]

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation (a) “Affidavit” shall mean an affirmation when made Affidavit by a person entitled to affirm;

of title

(b) "Certificate of title" shall mean the certificate Certificate
(form E) granted by the Registrar and entered and duplicate
and kept in the register; and "duplicate" or
"duplicate certificate" shall mean the duplicate,
delivered or issued to the person entitled thereto,
of the certificate of title in the register;

(c) "Court" shall mean any Court authorized to Court
adjudicate in the Province in civil matters in which
the title to real estate is in question;

(d) "Court of Appeal" shall mean the Appellate Court of
Division of the Supreme Court of Alberta;

Appeal

(e) "Incumbrance" shall mean any charge on land Incumbrance
created or effected for any purpose whatever,
inclusive of mortgage, mechanics' liens, when
authorized by Statute or Ordinance, and executions
against lands, unless expressly distinguished;

and

(f) "Incumbrancer" shall mean the owner of any Incumbrancer
land or of any estate or interest in land subject to incumbrancee
any incumbrance; and "incumbrancee" shall mean
the owner of an incumbrance;

Indorsement

(g) "Indorsed" and "indorsement" shall apply to Indorsed
anything written upon any instrument or upon
any paper attached thereto by the Registrar;