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181Governor in Council may proclaim commons
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181 Governor in Council may proclaim commons
S. 181(1) amended by No. 13/1990 s. 41(f).
(1) The Governor in Council may under regulations made for such purpose proclaim any Crown lands as a common and place it under the management of any municipal council or any person or persons or any two or more of the said councils or persons and direct the manner in which the fees shall be imposed paid collected and recovered for depasturing thereon and how such fees shall be disposed of, and at any time alter add to diminish revoke or abolish such common or unite two or more commons or add to such common any selection which may have been taken up within the area of such common and subsequently abandoned.
(2) The managers of any common may sue and be sued in the name of the managers of such common as though they were a corporation.
No. 3709 s. 145.