Constitution Act, 1930 (annotated)/Schedule (4)

Contents
Schedule to the Constitution Act, 1930: (3.) British Columbia
 * Memorandum of Agreement
 * Transfer of Railway Belt and Peace River Block Generally.
 * Ordnance and Admiralty Lands.
 * Public Works.
 * Harbours.
 * Sumas Dyking Lands.
 * Indian Reserves.
 * Parks.
 * Soldier Settlement Lands.
 * Seed Grain, Etc. Liens.
 * Historic Sites, Bird Sanctuaries, Etc.
 * General Reservation to Canada.
 * Subsidy Continued.
 * Records.
 * Amendment of Agreement.
 * When Agreement Comes Into Force.
 * Signatures.
 * Schedule One: Warf Locations
 * Schedule Two: National Parks

Schedule
Whereas pursuant to paragraph eleven of the Terms of Union between the Dominion of Canada and the then Colony of British Columbia and to certain statutes of the Legislature of the Province of British Columbia, being chapter eleven of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, chapter fourteen of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and chapter fourteen of the statutes of the year eighteen hundred and eighty­four, there were granted by the Province to Canada certain Crown lands in the Province by way of consideration for Canada's undertaking to secure the construction of a railway to connect the seaboard of the Province with the railway system of Canada and of Canada's paying to the Province from the date of the Union an annual sum of one hundred thousand dollars, the said Crown lands being defined in the statutes aforesaid and having become known as the Railway Belt and the Peace River Block;

And whereas a railway such as is described in paragraph eleven of the Terms of the Union has been duly constructed and is in operation, and the Province has requested the re­transfer to it of such of the lands in the said Railway Belt and Peace River Block as remain unalienated;

And whereas the Honourable W.M. Martin, one of the Judges of the Court of Appeal for the Province of Saskatchewan, having by Order in Council dated the eighth day of March, 1927 (P.C. 422) been appointed a commissioner under Part One of the Inquiries Act to receive and inquire into the arguments of the Government of the Province of British Columbia in support of its claim for the reconveyance of the said lands to the Province, submitted his report as such commissioner in which he expressed the opinion that the Province could not by reason of its own agreements and statutes advance any legal claim, but that its request should be considered from the standpoint of fairness and justice rather than from the strictly legal and contractual position, and in which he recommended that the said lands should be restored;

And whereas Canada has agreed accordingly to re­transfer the said lands to the Province on the terms hereinafter set out:

Now This Agreement Witnesseth that the parties have agreed as follows: