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ougni to nave expressed it tnus :“The Drainage, Dyking, and Irrigation Act, 1897, Chap. 64, Clause 17,” instead of Dyking Act, 1897, Clause. Nevertheless they do not injure the clause as the force and effect remains just the same, viz.,—-there cannot be any legal taxation registered against Dominion Land. But I would here further add, assessing those lands is one point, but collecting the tax is another. To verify my statement I will here insert a paragraph, copied from a letter of recent date, from Department of Interior at Ottawa, fully signed, which reads thus :“ Therefore I must further state that lands the property of the King in the Dominion of Canada cannot legally be taxed.”Now from agreement between Department of Interior, and one, J. H. Lewis, of Chicago, and his associates, I abstract the following :“That when they shall dyke Sumas Dyking District and reclaim Lake Sumas, either through a company or commissioners, and pump dry the bed and bottom of Lake Sumas, so that no person or persons who own land in the dyking district, whether in the bed and bottom of Lake Sumas or otherwise, shall be inconvenienced or injured from the re-flooding of the Lake at at any time from any cause whatever.'9 Then after that has been done to the satisfaction of the authorities at Ottawa and also here they are to receive letters patent for those Lands.
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Chillwack Fraser Advance
Chilliwack, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Jun 22, 1907
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