20. This Act shall be known and cited as the " Coteau and Short title. Province Line Railway and Bridge Act." 21. The power 'conferred by this Act to erect a bridge or When only a bridge may bridges over or across the River St. Lawrence shall not be exer- be erected cised by the Company until the Governor in Council has by over river St. Proclamation, declared that on, from and after a day to be therein Lawrence. named, such powers may be so exercised. of SCHEDULE A. FORM OF DEED OF SALE. Know all men by these presents, that I, A.B., in consideration paid to me by the Coteau and Province Line Railway and Bridge Company, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said Coteau and Province Line Railway and Bridge Company, their successors and assigns, all that tract or parcel of land (describe the land) to have and to hold the said land and premises unto the said Company, their successors and assigns for ever. Witness my hand and seal this one thousand eight hundred and Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of C.D. E.F. day of A.B. (L.S.) CAP. LXXXIV. An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Queenston [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] THEREAS the Queenston Suspension Bridge Company have, Preamble, by their petition, alleged that their suspension bridge, built and constructed under the authority of their Act of incorporation, has been so seriously injured by storms that a large sum 12 V., c. 199. of money is required to restore it; and that for such restoration; and for the purpose of increasing the facilities of travel, it is necessary that the capital stock of the Company be increased to an amount not exceeding one million dollars; and the said Company have also prayed that power shall be granted for railway crossings and other railway arrangements, and for union or connection with railway companies, or for the sale of the bridge to railway or other companies either in Canada or in the United States of Increase of capital. : of America; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of their 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 said Queenston Suspension Bridge Company may and are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock to an amount not exceeding one million dollars; and the same shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Notice of 2. Whenever it is intended to ask authority from the sharegeneral meeting to consider holders to increase the capital stock of the Company to an amount increase. not exceeding one million dollars, or to raise stock, scrip or bonds thereon, a notice of a general meeting of the shareholders for that purpose shall be given and inserted for at least two weeks prior to the time when such meeting takes place, in one or more newspapers published in the Town of St. Catherines and in the City of Toronto, Bridge may be made a railway bridge. make certain company or companies. 3. The said Company shall have power, under the authority of this Act, to construct and maintain the said bridge as a railway bridge, and to work trains by steam, and otherwise to operate a railway over the said bridge for local passengers and freight traffic, and to connect such railway and the trains so running over it with any railways in the State of New York and in the County of Lincoln. Company may 4. It shall be lawful for the said Company to enter into any arrangements agreement with any railway company or companies in the Dominion with any other of Canada, or in the United States of America, for the sale or leasing the said bridge, or the use thereof, at any time or times, or for any period, to such railway company or companies; or for leasing or hiring from such company or companies, any railway or part thereof or the use thereof; or for the leasing or hiring any locomotives, tenders, or moveable property; and generally to make any agreement or agreements with any such company or such companies, touching the use, by one, or the other, or others of the bridge or railway or railways or moveable property of either, or of any of them, or any part thereof, or touching any service to be rendered by the one company to the other or others, and the compensation therefor; and any such railway company or companies may agree for the loan of their credit to, or may subscribe to and become the owners of the stock of the Company created by the Act hereby amended, in like manner and with like rights as indiEffect of lease. viduals; and any such agreement shall be valid and binding, and shall be enforced by courts of law, according to the terms and tenor thereof; and the Company, accepting any such lease as aforesaid, shall be and is empowered to exercise all the rights and privileges of the Company granting such lease: Provided always that any agreement for the sale of such bridge shall be approved by a majority of the shareholders of the said Bridge Company present by proxy or in person at any meeting of such shareholders Proviso. specially specially called for such purpose, upon notice, for the time and to be published as in the second clause of this Act mentioned. 5. If the said bridge be sold by the said Company, the said Effect of sale of bridge. sale shall include all the rights, privileges, powers and franchises conferred upon the said Company by this Act; and purchasers of the said bridge may exercise the same in the name of the said Company as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as they could or might be exercised by the said Bridge Company. the said 6. When the said railway bridge is repaired and constructed All railway and ready for traffic, all trains travelling on railways terminating companies to be on an equal at or near the Village of Queenston, or in the State of New York, footing as to shall have the right to pass over the said bridge (including the passing over cars of any other railway company which may be brought over bridge. such railways), at corresponding tariff rates, for the persons and property transported, so that no discrimination in tariff rates for such transportation, shall be made in favor of or against any railway whose trains or business pass over the said bridge. greement. 7. In case of any disagreement, and as often as the same may Arbitration in arise, as to the rights of any railway company whose trains or case of disabusiness shall pass over the bridge hereby authorized to be constructed, or the tariff rates to be charged in respect thereof, the same shall be determined by arbitrators, one to be appointed by each of the companies between whom the disagreement shall have arisen, and a third, who shall be some person experienced in railway affairs, by one of the superior courts of the Province of Ontario upon application to such court,-due notice thereof having been given to the parties interested; and the award of the said arbitrators, or the majority of them, shall be final: Provided that Proviso. the terms of the said award shall not be kinding for a longer term than five years. 8. "The Railway Act, 1868," in so far as the same can be made Railway Act applicable, is hereby incorporated with this Act, and shall form to apply. part thereof, and be construed therewith as forming one Act. CAP. LXXXV. An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Detroit River W [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] HEREAS, the Detroit River Tunnel Company have shewn Preamble. by their petition, Firstly. That the sum of one million dollars has been duly subscribed in the capital stock of the Company, and ten per centum centum for the purposes thereof, paid and deposited in the Canadian Bank of Commerce, being one of the chartered banks of Canada; and that the works intended to be built have been commenced: Secondly. That by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, entitled, "An Act to revise the Laws providing for the incorporation of Railroad Companies," approved April 18th, A.D. 1871, certain persons have been duly incorporated by the name of the Detroit River Railroad Tunnel Company with power to raise the sum of five hundred thousand dollars of capital by stock and also such further sum as may be deemed expedient by bonds, for the purpose of constructing a tunnel beneath the Detroit River, from the City of Detroit, by the most feasible and practicable route, within the State of Michigan, to a point in the dividing line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada: Thirdly. That the said Detroit River Tunnel Company are boring the drainage tunnel which they are empowered to construct, (as necessary and preliminary to the commencement of the tunnel for the passage of trains,) which is to be connected with the drainage tunnel which has been commenced by the Detrit River Railroad Tunnel Company: Fourthly. That when the progress or completion of the drainage tunnel shall have demonstrated that the tunnel for the passage of trains from the City of Detroit to some point at or near the Town of Windsor, in the County of Essex, can be accomplished (at no greater cost than the estimated earnings therefrom will make reasonable requital for the expenditure), it is intended to amalgamate the Detroit River Tunnel Company with the said Detroit River Railroad Tunnel Company, in pursuance of powers vested in both Companies by the legislatures which have respectively incorporated them: Fifthly.--That the petitioners and the said Detroit River Railroad Tunnel Company are making arrangements to lease the tunnel to one or more railway companies, to secure a sum by way of rental not less than sufficient to meet the annual interest of the bonds which may be issued for the construction of the tunnel, including an annual sinking fund for their redemption, with the guarantee of such railway companies to the bond-holders for such application of the rental: Sixthly. That the issue of bonds, by the thirteenth section of an Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed at a session held in the thirty-third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Detroit River Tunnel Company," is limited to the amount of instalments paid up on the subscribed share capital, while the right of the said Detroit River Railroad Tunnel Company to issue bonds, under the powers powers derived from the Legislature of the State of Michigan, is unrestricted; and the petitioners have prayed that their powers may be modified so that the bonds which they may issue under the guarantee of the railway company or companies who may lease the tunnel and secure the rental for the payment of the bonds, shall not be limited to a sum equal to the amount of paid up capital: And whereas The Great Western Railway Company have also shewn by their petition that they are stockholders in the Detroit River Tunnel Company, and, in pursuance of powers conferred upon them by the Act of Incorporation of the said Tunnel Company, are prepared to aid the work by the loan of their credit for the payment of the bonds and interest, to be issued by the Detroit River Tunnel Company or by the said tunnel companies when amalgamated : And whereas it has been made to appear that confidence will be given to the bonds of the Detroit River Tunnel Company or of the amalgamated companies, which may be issued under the guarantee of the said Great Western Railway Company or other railway or railroad companies; and also that the powers for which prayer has been made will enable the petitioners to raise capital promptly and advantageously; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: bonds under may be 1. Notwithstanding anything provided in the thirteenth sec- Amount of tion of the said Act of the Parliament of Canada, restricting the sect. 13, of 33 issue of bonds in excess of the amount of the paid up instalments Vic., c. 51, on share capital, the tunnel Company or the new corporation (if increased to any amalgamation or consolidation shall have been made and per- $3,000,000. fected in accordance with the said Act) having leased to The Great Western Railway Company or any other railway or railroad companies, which have agreed for the loan of their credit for that object (by direct guarantee or traffic contract or otherwise), may issue bonds, which shall bear the credit or guarantee of the said railway or railroad company or companies, to an amount not exceeding threemillions of dollars, and shall have the same charge and effect upon the undertaking and property, and to the same extent as is secured by the said section. the Tunnel tolls to Companies using 2. The said railway companies, being lessees, shall have the Kailway Comright to charge such fair compensation for the use of the tunnel panies leasing by the railway or railroad company or companies, or by any may charge Company using horse-power, whose business shall pass along and through it, as shall be found by experience requisite to enable them it. to pay, first-all the expense of keeping the works in repair, and interest upon the money borrowed for the construction thereof, and dividends not exceeding ten per cent. upon their capital stock, and |