GENERAL

4. No bridge, boom, dam or aboiteau shall be constructed so as to interfère with navigation, unless the site thereof lias been approyed by the Governor in Council, nor unless such bridge, boom, dam or aboiteau is built and maintained in accordance with plans approved by the Governor in Council. R. S., C..92, s. 2.

5. Any bridge to which this Part applies, which is built upon a site not approved by the Governor in Council, or which is not built in accordance with plans so approved, or which, having been so built, is not maintained in accordance with such plans, may, in so far as the same interfères with navigation, be lawfully removed and destroyed under the authority of the Governor in Council. R. S., c. 92, s. 3.

<*. The provisions of the two sections last preceding shall not affect any bridge constructed before the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, which hereafter requires to be built or repaired, if such bridge, when so rebuilt or repaired, does not interfère to a greater extent with navigation than on the said day or theretofore. R. S., c. 92, s. 4.

7. The local authority, company or person proposing to construct any work in navigable waters, for which no sufficient sanction otherwise exists, may deposit the plans thereof and a description of the proposed site with the Minister of Public Works, and a duplicate of each in the office of the registrar of deeds for the district, county or province in which such work is proposed to be constructed, and may apply to the Governor in Council for approval thereof.

2. Such local authority, company or person shall give one month’s notice of the said deposit of plans and application by advertisement in the Canada Gazette, and in two newspapers published in or near the locality where such work is to be constructed. R. S., c. 92, s. 5.

8. Any local authority, company or person may proceed in like manner to obtain the appoval by the Governor in Council of the site and plans of any work constructed prior to the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine 62-63 V., c. 32, s. 1.

- O. Any lawful work may be rebuilt or repaired if the interférence with navigation is not increased by such rebuilding or repairing. R. S., c. 92, s. 8.