or use the holy name of God, or of Christ Jesus, or of the Holy Ghost, or of the Trinity, he shall forfeit £10-half to the king and half to him that shall sue.-3 J. C. 21.

BOARD OF HEALTH.

See "Public Health."

BOARD OF WORKS.

"See post title "Public Works."

BOUNDARY LINES.

By 12 V., c. 35, reciting that it was expedient to amend and consolidate the laws respecting land surveyors, and the survey and admeasurement of lands, by § 1, former acts (a) are repealed.

§ 26. Stone monuments, or monuments of durable materials, to be placed at the several corners, governing points or offsets of every township surveyed or hereafter to be surveyed; and also at each end of the several concession lines of such townships; and lines drawn as hereinafter prescribed therefrom shall be the permanent boundary lines of such townships and concessions. § 27. Such monuments to be placed under the direction and order of the Commissioner of Crown lands. § 28. That the courses and lengths of said boundary lines so ascertained and established, shall be the true courses and lengths of the boundary lines of said townships and concessions, whether the same do or not, on actual survey, coincide with the courses and lengths in any letters patent or other instrument. § 29. If any person shall knowingly and wilfully pull down, deface, alter or remove, any such monument so erected as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of felony; and if any person shall knowingly and wilfully deface, alter or remove any other land-mark, post or monument, placed by any land surveyor to mark any limit, boundary or angle of any township, concession, range, lot or parcel of land, such person shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and being convicted before any competent court, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both; fine not to exceed £25, nor imprisonment three months: but this clause not to prevent land surveyors, in their operations, from taking up posts or other boundary marks when necessary; after which they shall carefully replace them as before. §30. Monuments not to be placed under § 26, 27, except on application of the municipal council of the district. § 31. It

(a) 38 G. III., c. 1; 59 G. III,, c. 14; 2 V., c. 17; 4 & 5 V., c. 9.

shall be lawful for the district council, on application of onehalf of the resident landowners in any concession (or without such application if the council shall deem necessary), to make application to the governor to cause any such line to be surveyed and marked by permanent stone boundaries under the direction and order of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the cost of the proprietors of the lands in such concession or part of a concession interested; and it shall be lawful for such district council to cause an estimate of the sum requisite to defray the expenses to be incurred to be laid before them, in order that the same may be levied on the said proprietors in proportion to the quantity of land held by them respectively in such concession or part of a concession, in the same manner as any sum required for any other purpose authorised by law may be levied; and the lines or parts of lines so surveyed and marked as aforesaid, shall thereafter be taken to be the permanent boundary lines of such concessions or parts of concessions to all intents and purposes; and all expenses incurred in performing any survey or placing any monument or boundary under this section, shall be paid by the district treasurer to the person employed, on certificate of the Commissioner of Crown Lands: provided that the lines shall be drawn so as to leave each of the adjacent concessions of a depth proportionate to that intended in the original survey. § 32. All boundary lines of townships, cities, towns, villages, concession lines, governing points, and all boundary lines, of concessions, sections, blocks, gores, commons, and all side lines and limits of lots. surveyed; and all posts or monuments which have been placed or planted at the front angles of any lots or parcels (provided the same have been or shall be marked, placed or planted, under the authority of the executive government of the late province of Upper Canada, or under the authority of the executive government of this province), shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, the true and unalterable boundaries of the same, whether the same shall upon admeasurement be found to contain the exact width, or more or less, expressed in any letters patent, grant or other instrument in respect thereof; and such township, city, town, &c., shall embrace the whole width contained between the first posts, monuments or boundaries, planted or placed at the front angle of any such township, city, town, &c., so marked, placed or planted as aforesaid, and no more nor less. § 33. All allowances for roads or streets in any city, town or village, to be public highways. § 34. As to lands granted in blocks and subsequently surveyed by the grantees—such

surveys to be deemed original surveys. § 35. The course of the boundary line of each and every concession, on that side from which the lots are numbered, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, the course of the division or side lines throughout the several townships; provided that such division or side lines were intended in the original survey to run parallel to the said boundary; and all surveyors are hereby required to run division or side lines, which they may be called upon to survey, so as to correspond with and be parallel to that boundary line of the concession in which such lands are situate, from whence the lots are numbered as aforesaid: provided always, that such division or side lines were intended in the original survey to run parallel to the said boundary provided also, that when the end of a concession from which the lots are numbered is bounded by a lake or river, or other natural boundary, or where it has not been run in the original survey, performed under such competent authority as aforesaid, or when the course of the division or side lines of the lots therein was not intended in the original survey to run parallel to such boundary, the said division or side line shall run parallel to the boundary line at the other extremity of such concession, provided their course was intended in the original survey to be parallel thereto, and that such boundary line was run in the original survey: provided further, that when in the original survey the course of the division or side lines in any concession was not intended to be parallel to the boundary line at either end of such concession, they shall be run at such angle with the course of the boundary line at that end of the said concession from which the lots are numbered, as is stated in the plan and field notes of the original survey; provided such line was run in the original survey as aforesaid, or with the course of the boundary line at the other extremity of the said concession, if the boundary at that end of the concession from which the lots are numbered was not run in the original survey; or if neither of the aforesaid boundaries of the concession were run in the original survey, or if it be bounded at each end by a lake or river or other natural boundary, then at such angle, with the course of the line in front of the said concession, as is stated in the plan and field notes aforesaid: provided, nevertheless, that if any division or side line between lots, or proof line intended to be parallel to the division or side lines between lots, shall have been drawn in any such concession in the original survey thereof, the division or side lines between the lots therein shall be drawn parallel to such division or side line, or proof

line; and when two or more such division or side lines, or proof lines, have been drawn in the original survey, that division or side line, or proof line nearest to the boundary of the concession from which the lots are numbered, shall govern the course of the division or side lines of all the lots in such concession, between the boundary of the concession from which the lots are numbered and the next division or side line, or proof line drawn in the original survey, which shall govern the course of the division or side lines of all the lots up to the next division or side line, or proof line, drawn in the original survey, or to the boundary of the concession towards which the lots are numbered (as the case may be): provided further, that in all those townships which in the original survey have been divided into sections, pursuant to an order in council, dated 27th March, 1829, the division or side lines in all concessions, in any section, shall be governed by the boundary line of such section, in like manner as the division or side lines in townships originally surveyed before that day are governed by the boundary lines of the concession in which such lots are situate. § 36. The front of each concession where only a single row of posts has been planted, and the lands have been described in whole lots, shall be that end or boundary of such concession which is nearest to the boundary of the township from which the concessions are numbered; provided, that in those townships bounded in front by a river or lake, where no posts were planted in the original survey to regulate the width in front of the lots in the broken front, the division or side lines of such lots shall be drawn from the posts or boundaries on the concession line in the rear, parallel to the governing line determined as aforesaid, to the river or lake in front; provided also, that when the line in front of any such concession has not been run in the original survey, the division or side lines of the lots in such concession shall be run from the original posts or monuments planted on the rear thereof, parallel to the governing line determined as aforesaid, to the depth of the concession, viz.: to the centre of the space contained between the lines in front of the adjacent concessions, if the concessions were intended in the original survey to be of an equal depth; or if they were not so intended, then to the proportionate depth intended in the original survey, having due respect to any allowance for road made in the original survey; and that a straight line joining the extremities of the division or side lines of any lot in such concession, drawn as aforesaid, shall be the true boundary line of that end of the lot which has not been run in the original

survey. § 37. That in townships in which the concessions have been surveyed with double fronts, that is with posts or monuments planted on both sides of the allowance for roads between the concessions, and the lands have been described in half lots, the division or side. lines shall be drawn from the posts at both ends to the centre of the concession, and each end of such concession shall be the front of its respective half of such concession, and a straight line joining the extremities of the division or side lines of any half lot, in such concession drawn as aforesaid, shall be the true boundary of that end of the half lot which has not been bounded in the original survey. § 38. That in those townships where each alternate concession line only has been run in the original survey, but with double fronts, the division or side lines shall be drawn from the posts or monuments on each side of such alternate concession lines, to the depth of a concession, viz., to the centre of the space contained between such alternate concession lines, if the concessions were intended in the original survey to be of an equal depth, otherwise to the proportionate depth intended; and each alternate concession line as aforesaid, shall be the front of each of the two concessions abutting thereon. $39. Every land surveyor running any side line beteen lots. shall, if not done before, or if done, and the course cannot be ascertained, determine by astronomical observation, the true course of a straight line between the front and rear ends of the governing boundary line of the concession or section, and shall run such side line parallel thereto, if so intended in the original survey, or at such angle therewith as stated in the plan and field notes. § 40. Relating to surveys when the original post or monument cannot be found is repealed by 18 V., c. 83, and other provisions made by § 10 of that statute. § 44. In cases where letters patent have issued for several lots, in concessions adjoining each other, the side lines shall commence at the front angles of such lots, and shall be run as herein before provided, and shall not continue on in a straight line through several concessions, unless the side lines, when run as aforesaid, shall intersect the corresponding post or monument in the front of the concession next in rear; each lot being surveyed and bounded independently of all other lots mentioned in the grant. § 48. False swearing under this act to be deemed perjury. § 49. If any action of ejectment shall be brought against any person who, after any line or limit shall have been established according to this act, shall be found, in consequence of unskilful survey, to have improved on lands not his own, the judge of assize shall