Manitoba Supplementary Provisions Act

An Act respecting the Province of Manitoba Short title This Act may be cited as the Manitoba Supplementary Provisions Act. Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Commissioners Commissioners includes the commissioner in cases in which the commission is issued to one person only; Minister Minister means the Minister of the Interior; Province Province means the province of Manitoba. Allotment of 150,000 acres for a university An allotment of land, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand acres, of fair average quality, shall be selected by the Dominion Government and granted as an endowment to the University of Manitoba for its maintenance as a university capable of giving proper training in the higher branches of education, and to be held in trust for that purpose upon some basis or scheme to be framed by the University and approved by the Dominion Government. Laws in force in Manitoba Subject to the provisions of this Act, the laws of England relating to matters within the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada, as the same existed on the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, were from the said day and are in force in the Province, in so far as applicable to the Province, and in so far as the said laws have not been or are not hereafter repealed, altered, varied, modified or affected by any Act of the Parliament of Great Britain applicable to the Province, or of the Parliament of Canada. [Repealed, 1992, c. 1, s. 146 (Sch. IX, item 35)]