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4. One moiety of any penalty recovered under this Act shall be moiety of penalty. paid to the informer or prosecutor, and the other moiety shall be accounted for as part of the consolidated revenue of the Province.

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5. This Act may be cited as the " Wide Tire Act, 1889."

VICTORIA, B C.:

ed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Exctellen Majesty.

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An Act to enable the Trustees of the Royal Columbian Hospital to sell the land now comprising the site of the Royal Columbian Hospital, and for other purposes.

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[6th April, 1889.]

HEREAS, by a deed poll, dated 16th March, 1864, a piece of land Preamble. described in Schedule A hereto, was granted by George Morison to the Registrar-General, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, and the Treasurer of British Columbia, and their successors in office for the time being, upon trust (as is therein mentioned) for the Royal Columbian Hospital; and whereas the lots mentioned in Schedule B hereto were, in 1862, reserved by the Crown for the use of the Royal Columbian Hospital; and whereas the lots mentioned in the Schedules A and B hereto comprise the present site of the Royal Columbian Hospital; and whereas it is deemed expedient to sell the said site, with the buildings thereon, and to obtain other land in a more suitable situation, and to erect a new hospital thereon, to be known as the Royal Columbian Hospital; and whereas the lands described in Schedule C hereto are the property of the Crown;

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the Hon. John Robson, Gordon Edward Trustees appointed Corbould, James Cunningham, William H. Keary, James W. Harvey, for sale of the Royal Columbian Hospital or the survivor or survivors of them, hereinafter styled the trustees, to site. sell or dispose of the said lands described in the Schedules A and B hereto, or any of them, or any part thereof, by public auction or private contract, in one lot or in several lots, with full power to the trustees to buy in any lot at any auction, and to rescind or vary any contract for sale, and to re-sell the land so bought in or comprised in any such

Proceeds of sale to be applied in erection of new hospital.

Grant of Crown lands for site of new hospital.

contract without being answerable for any difference or loss thereby occasioned, and to convey the said lands, or any part or parts thereof, in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, freed and discharged from each and all the trusts affecting the same, and the receipt of the said trustees shall be an effectual and absolute discharge to the purchaser or purchasers of the said lands, or any part or parts thereof, from the purchase money payable by him or them respectively, and shall exonerate him or them from seeing to the application of such purchase money, and from all liability as to the misapplication or nonapplication thereof.

2. The said trustees shall appropriate and employ the net proceeds of any and every such sale of the lands in the Schedules A and B hereto in and towards the erection, upon the lands described in Schedule C hereto, of a new hospital and other buildings, if required, in connection therewith.

3. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to grant, upon such conditions and trusts as he shall think fit, to the trustees for the time being of the Royal Columbian Hospital, all and singular, those pieces or parcels of lands in the City of New Westminster described in Schedule C hereto.

SCHEDULE A.

All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate, lying, and being in the City of New Westminster, and more particularly known and described as Lot Number Sixteen (16), Block Thirty-one (XXXI), as shewn on the official map of the said City of New Westminster.

SCHEDULE B.

All and singular those certain parcels or tracts of land and premises situate, lying, and being in the City of New Westminster, and more particularly known and described as Lots Numbered Thirteen (13), Fourteen (14), Fifteen (15), Seventeen (17), and Eighteen (18), of Block Thirty-one (XXXI), as shewn on the official map of the said City of New Westminster.

SCHEDULE C.

All and singular those certain parcels or tracts of land and premises situate, lying, and being in New Westminster District, and more particularly known and described as Suburban Lots Eight (8), Nine (9), Thirty-five) (35), Thirty-six (36), Thirty-seven (37), and Thirtyeight (38), of Block Six (VI), of New Westminster District.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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