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CAP. LXVIII.

Preamble.

A certain

authorized.

An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Canada
Central Railway Company.

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[Assented to 14th June, 1872.]

HEREAS the Canada Central Railway Company have by their petition represented that it is desirable that they should be permitted to vary to some extent the line of route indicated by their charter, and that they should be authorized to continue their railway to a point at or near Sault Ste. Marie, and have prayed that an Act be passed amending their Act of incorporation in these respects: And whereas it is expedient that the prayer of their said petition be granted: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:'

1. The said Company is hereby authorized to continue its line of railway from the Village of Renfrew to such point as may be found advantageous directly south of the Town of Pembroke, change of line but not more than seven miles south thereof on such line as may be adopted as affording a more direct route westward, and greater engineering facilities than that indicated by the Act of incorporation of the said Company; and such point shall be considered and known as the Pembroke terminus: Provided always that if the Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company should forfeit the right to exact payment of the bonuses voted in their favor by the County of Renfrew and the Town of Pembroke respectively or of any part thereof and if the said County and Town shall transfer the said bonuses or such part thereof or vote like amounts in aid of the Canada Central Railway Company, then the power hereby granted of diverging from the Town of Pembroke shall cease and determine.

Proviso.

Line may
extend to
Sault Ste.
Mary.

lines:

2. The said Company is hereby authorized to construct a branch line from any point on its existing line, between Ottawa and Carleton Place, to any point at or near the Village of Arnprior; and to extend its line beyond Lake Huron to such point at or near Sault Ste. Marie as may be fixed upon by the Company.

3. The Company may, under agreement, join with any cther railway company, in constructing such portion of the line, Company may hereby authorised, as shall be common to both companies; and join any other for that purpose, may contribute out of its stock to such common in constructing portions of railway, and may issue joint debentures for any balance of the cost of construction thereof, creating such liens and charges thereon as shall be designated in such debentures; and may agree with such company as to the mode of using such common railway; and of building a second track thereon, and may make all requisite arrangements for the management of such common railway, and for subsequently dividing their property in such common

railway

railway. All such agreements and arrangements shall be established from time to time by deed; which deed, however, shall have no By deed ap force or effect until approved by the shareholders at a special proved by meeting called for the purpose.

shareholders,

Railway Act

4. The provisions of "The Railway Act, 1868," are hereby to apply. made applicable to and incorporated with this Act.

CAP. LXIX.

An Act to grant certain additional powers to the Ottawa,
Vaudreuil and Montreal Railway Company.

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[Assented to 14th June, 1872.]

HEREAS the Ottawa, Vaudreuil and Montreal Railway Company have, by their petition, represented that it would be advantageous to them, and facilitate the completion and working of their line, if they were empowered to connect the same with any railway that may, at any time, be constructed from the City of Montreal in the direction of Grenville, north of the River Ottawa; and for that purpose to construct a bridge over the said river, at some point below L'Orignal; and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Preamble

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1. The said Company shall have power to construct a branch Power to confrom some point on their line below L'Orignal, to connect with struct Branch any railway that may be constructed between the City of Mon- Bridge over treal and Grenville, at any point in either of the Counties of the Ottawa, Argenteuil or Two Montains, or upon the Island of Montreal; and, for that purpose, to construct a railway bridge over the waters of the River Ottawa, at the most convenient point for crossing the same

2. The said Company shall not commence the said bridge, over Plans, &c., to the River Ottawa, or any work thereto appertaining, until they Governor in be approved by shall have submitted to the Governor in Council plans of such Council. bridge and of all the intended works thereunto appertaining, nor Proviso as to until such plans and the site of such bridge shall have been approved construction of by the Governor in Council, and such conditions as he shall have the said bridge and passage of thought fit for the public good to impose touching the said bridge vessels. and works shall have been complied with; nor shall any such plan be altered, nor any deviation therefrom allowed except by the permission of the Governor in Council, and upon such conditions as he shall impose: Provided always, that the said bridge shall be constructed so as not to obstruct the navigation of the said river, and bridge shall have a double swing opening in the main channel of the the river, which swings shall be of the width of eighty feet each, and shall otherwise give free and unobstructed passage to vessels of every description navigating the said river, and the said swings shall

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Bridge not to be erected until after Proclamation permitting it.

shall at all times during the season of navigation be opened when actually required for the passage of vessels, and shall otherwise be tended and moved at the expense of the said Company, so as not to hinder unnecessarily the passage of any vessel; and if at any time any steamboat or other vessel shall be detained for an unres sonable length of time, through any fault or negligence of the Company or its servants, the Company shall be liable to pay the owners of such vessel or of the cargo or freight thereof, all damages they may respectively sustain by reason of any neglect of any of the foregoing provisions.

3. The power conferred by this Act to erect a bridge or bridges over or across the River Ottawa shall not be exercised by the Company until the Governor in Council has by proclamation declared that on, from and after a day to be therein named, such powers may be so exercised.

Preamble.

Capital may, by vote of

and bonds for

$1,000,000

CAP. LXXI.

An Act to amend,the St. Francis and Megantic Railway

WH

Act.

HEREAS the St. Francis and Megantic International Railway Company have by their petition asked that the Act incorporating said Company may be amended, so as to enable said Company to increase their capital stock, and to issue their bonds to a larger amount than is now permitted by their charter, and to have power to establish a telegraph line on their road; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:-

1. The Directors of the St. Francis and Megantic International shareholders, Railway Company, upon being thereto authorized by a vote of a be increased majority of the shareholders present at any annual meeting to $2,000,000, whereof notice shall have been given as hereinafter mentioned, may increase the capital stock of said Company to a sum not to may be issued, exceed in the whole two millions of dollars, and under the provisions of the thirteenth section of "The St. Francis and Megantic Railway Act," and in the manner and for the purposes therein mentioned, issue their bonds for any amount required for the purpose of prosecuting their works permitted by their charter, provided the whole sum represented by such bonds shall not exceed one million of dollars.

Two weeks

2. Whenever it is intended to ask authority from the shareprevious notice holders of said Company to increase the capital stock of the either purpose Company, or to issue bonds beyond the amount now permitted by to be given.

of meeting for

their

their charter, a notice stating that such proposition will be made
to the shareholders at their annual meeting shall be inserted for
at least two weeks in one or more newspapers published in the
'City of Montreal and the Town of Sherbrooke, rior to the time
1
when such annual meeting will take place.

an electric.

3. The St. Francis and Megantic International Railway Company may Company may, whenever their Directors consider it necessary for erect and work their purposes to do so, erect, establish and operate an electric telegraph, telegraph on the line of their road, and make arrangements to connect the same with other railway or telegraph companies, and such telegraph may be used by the public for general purposes under such rules and regulations as the Company may adopt.

CAP. LXXI.

An Act respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway.

[Assented to 14th June, 1872.]

the terms and conditions the admission of Preamble.

British Columbia into union with the Dominion of Canada, set forth and embodied in an address to Her Majesty, adopted by the Legislative Council of that Colony, in January, 1871, under the provisions of the one hundred and forty-sixth section of "The British North America Act, 1867," and laid before both the Houses of the Parliament of Canada by His Excellency the Governor General, during the now last session thereof, and recited and concurred in by the Senate and House of Commons of Canada during the said session, and embodied in addresses of the said Houses to Her Majesty under the said section of the British North America Act, and approved by Her Majesty and embodied in the Order in Council admitting British Columbia into the union under the said Recital: Act, as part of the Dominion of Canada, from the twentieth day Agreement of July 1871, it is among other things provided, that the with British Government of the Dominion undertake to secure the commence- to Pacific ment simultaneously, within two years from the date of the Railway.. union, of the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains, and from such point as may be selected, east of the Rocky Mountains towards the Pacific, to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada; and further, to secure the completion of such Railway within ten years from the date of the union;-The Government of British Columbia agreeing to convey to the Dominion Government, in trust, to be appropriated in such manner as the Dominion Government may deem advisable in furtherance of the construction of the said railway, a similar extent of public lands along the line of railway throughout its entire length in British Columbia, not

Columbia as

to

to exceed, however, twenty miles on each side of the said line, as may be appropriated for the same purpose by the Dominion Government from the public lands in the North West Territories and the Province of Manitoba, subject to certain conditions for making good to the Dominion Government from contiguous lands, any lands within the said limits which may be held under preemption right or Crown grant, and for restraining the sale or alienation by the Government of British Columbia, during the Resolution of said two years, of lands within the said limits;-And whereas, the House of Commons of Canada resolved during the said now last session, that the said railway should be constructed and worked by private enterprise and not by the Dominion Government; and that the public aid to be given to secure that undertaking, should consist of such liberal grants of land, and such subsidy in money, or other aid, not increasing the present rate of taxation, as the Parliament of Canada should thereafter determine; and it is expedient to make provision for carrying out the said agreement and resolution: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

House of

Commons.

Canadian

Pacific Railway. Name, course and line.

How to be made and worked,

Capital of
Company.

Time limited
for construc-

tion.

1. A railway, to be called "The Canadian Pacific Railway," shall be made in conformity with the agreement referred to in the preamble to this Act, and such railway shall extend from some point on or near Lake Nipissing and on the south shore thereof, to some point on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, both the said points to be determined by the Governor in Council, and the course and line of the said railway between the said points to be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council.

2. The whole line of the said railway shall be made and worked by private enterprise, and not by the Dominion Government, and by one company having a subscribed capital of at least ten million dollars, and approved of and agreed with by the Governor in Council in the manner hereinafter mentioned, and shall be bona fide commenced within two years from the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and completed within ten years from the said day; and subject to the said provision as to commencement and completion, the company shall further be bound to commence and complete at such time or times as the Government may prescribe, any portion or portions of the railway lying between points on the line thereof to be defined in the Order or Orders in Council to be made from time to time in deposit of ten that behalf: Provided always that ten per cent. of the capital of the company shall be paid up and deposited, in money or Government securities, in the hands of the Receiver General of Canada, before any agreement is concluded between the Government and the company, and shall remain in his hands until otherwise ordered by Parliament; but if after the payment into the hands of the Receiver General by any company of the said deposit, such contract should not be finally executed, the Governor in Council shall order the said deposit to be returned.

Proviso:

per cent of

capital.

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