9. The Minister, and any person employed to make colonization roads and bridges under his direction by means of grants of public money, or in part by such grants and in part by local grants, may lay out and construct, on any lands to whomsoever belonging, roads and bridges and other works which they may deem necessary for the development of colonization.
R. S. 1964, c. 105, s. 9; 1972, c. 54, s. 19.