13. Whenever, on application of any such parish, mission, congregation or society, after two months’ notice first duly given in French and English, in the Gazette officielle du Québec and in one or more newspapers published in or as near as may be to the district wherein such lands are situated, it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the Government that an exchange of other land for any land held for burial purposes by such parish, mission, congregation or society is on any public ground desirable, the Government may authorize such exchange, subject to all conditions and restrictions deemed advisable, whether as to removal of bodies interred or as to other operations; and such parish, mission, congregation or society may thereupon make the exchange so authorized, and do all other acts thereto requisite or pertinent, whether for removal of bodies interred or for other operations, subject always to such conditions and restrictions and to all charges and liabilities thence resulting.
R. S. 1964, c. 306, s. 13.