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An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act.

[Assented to, 19th May, 1909.]

HIS MAJESTY, by and wit.h the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as folio ws :

1. Paragraph ( b ) of section 13 of The Navigable Waters Protection Act, chapter 115 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, is amended by adding at the end of the said paragraph the words “and includes also everything forming part of the machinery, tackle, equipment, cargo, stores or ballast of a vessel.”

2. Section 14 of the said Act is amended by adding thereto the following subsection : —

“2. The owner of such vessel or thing shall forthwith begin the removal thereof, and shall prosecute such removal diligently to completion ; but nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the powers of the Minister under sections 16 and 17 of this Act.”

3. Section 16 of the said Act is amended by striking out the words “under the authority of the Governor in Council”, in the first and second Iines thereof, and by adding the words “partially sinking” after the word “sinking”,in the third line of paragraph (a), and by adding the words “partially sunk” after the word “sunk” in the second line of paragraph ( b ).

4. Paragraph (6) of subsection 1 of section 18 of the said Act is amended by striking out the words “with the authority of the Governor in Council” in the first line of the said paragraph.

5. The said Act is further amended by inserting the following section immediately after section 18 thereof

“18a. When any vessel or other thing is wrecked, sunk, partially sunk, lying ashore, or grounded in any navigable water in Canada, such vessel and its cargo and every part thereof or other thing shall be deemed to be abandoned at the

expiration of two years from the date of such casualty, and thereupon the Minister, under such restrictions as to him seem fit, rfiay authorize any person to take possession of and remove such vessel or other thing for his own upon benefit, upon giving to the owner, where known, one month’s notice, and, where unknown, by public notice for a similar period in a local paper published nearest to the place of the wrecked vessel or other thing.”

O. The said Act is further amended by adding thereto the following, as Part III thereof : — -