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Public Works.

" Person " includes a corporation, and also a company whether incorporated or not, and any partnership : " Public domain " has in this Act the same meaning as in Ine Public Domains Act, 1881 " : "Public notice" means a notice as herein defined published 5 in some newspaper circulating in the district in which the matter of the notice arises, or to which it relates; and, if there be no such newspaper, then by a printed or written placard posted in some conspicuous place on the land or 1 works affected by such notice or to which it relates : " Publicly notified " means notified by public notice : " Public reserve " has in this Act the same meaning as in The Public Reserves Act, 1881 " : " Public work " and " work " mean and include— (1.) Every work which His Majesty, or the Governor, 15 or the Government of the colony, or any Minister of the Crown or any local authority is authorised to undertake under'this or any other Act of the General Assembly or Provincial Ordinance, or for the construction or undertaking of which money is appropriated by Parliament; and in particular — . (2.) Any survey, railway, tramway, road, street, gravelpit quarry, bridge, drain, harbour, dock, canal, river-work, water-work, and mining-work (including therein the deposit 05 of tailings, or the construction of sludge channels or tailingschannels in connection with mining operations) ; . (3.) Any lunaticf asylum or hospital, including lands that may be necessary for the use, convenience, or enjoyment of any such asylum or hospital, or for any work or purpose on in connection therewith; „_ ou (4.) Any public school within the meaning of Ine Education Act, 1904," or any Native school, including lands that may be necessary for playgrounds or teachers' residences, or for any other purpose in connection with such school; or (5.) Any electric telegraph, fortification, rifle range, artillery range, lighthouse, or any building or structure required for any public purpose or use, including lands that may be necessary for the use, convenience, or enjoyment of the same ; 40 (6.) All Ministerial residences and other public buildings; and the Minister may acquire any land adjoining any such Ministerial residence or other public building for the purpose of securing the same from fire or any other purpose: "Public Works Acts" means and includes this and all other 45 Acts relating to public works, and all Proclamations, Orders in Council, and regulations made under any such " Special Act " means any Act of the General Assembly with which this Act or any part of this Act is incorporated 50 authorising the construction of a public work : " Stopping " of roads includes " diverting " : " Surveyor " means any authorised surveyor appointed by the

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