Towards the restoration or renewal of the railway bridge on the South-eastern Railway over the Yamaska River at Yamaska, a subsidy equal to one-third of the actual cost of the renewal of the bridge, but the grant not to exceed in the whole $ 50,000 To the Boston and Nova Scotia Coal and Railway Company, for 10 miles of their railway from the For a railway from Port Hawkesbury towards Cheti- 113,600 80,000 ... 320,000 For a line of railway from the junction of the Elk 108,800 67,200 89,600 121,600 70,400 96,000 64,000 32,000 9,600 To the New Glasgow Iron, Coal and Railway Company, for 5 miles of their railway, from Sunnybrae to Kerrogare, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole......$ 16,000 To the South Shore Railway Company, for 35 miles of their railway from Yarmouth towards Shelburne and Lockeport, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole..... 112,000 To the Cape Breton Railway Extension Company, for 30 miles of railway from Port Hawkesbury to St. Peter's, on their line of railway from Port Hawkesbury to Louisbourg, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole. For a railway from a point on the Intercolonial Railway between Norton and Sussex Stations towards Havelock, 20 miles, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole. For a railway from St. John to Barneville, for a distance of 10 miles, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole.... For a line of railway from Cap de la Magdeleine to connect with the Piles Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 3 miles, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole...... To the Canada Eastern Railway Company, for an extension of one mile from the western end of their railway, to connect with the Canadian Pacific Railway, a subsidy not exceeding......... To the Great Northern Railway Company, for 30 miles of their railway from its junction with the Lower Laurentian Railway near St. Tite, in the vicinity of the River St. Maurice, westward, in lieu of the subsidy granted to the Maskinongé and Nipissing Railway Company by chapter 2 of 1893, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole....... To the Lindsay, Bobcaygeon and Pontypool Railway Company, for 16 miles of their railway from Bobcaygeon to the Midland Railway, and for another 16 miles from the end of the first mentioned 16 miles to Pontypool, in lieu of the subsidies granted by chapter 2 of 1890, and chapter 5 of 1892, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole......... To the Montfort Colonization Railway Company, for 12 miles of their railway from the end of the 21 miles already subsidized westward to a point on the Rouge River, in the county of Argenteuil, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole....... 3,200 96,000 102,400 38,400 For a railway from a point on the Caraquet Railway, at or near Pokemouche siding, towards Tracadie 62 village, village, 12 miles, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole...... ..$ 38,400 ditions subsi 2. The subsidies hereinbefore mentioned as to be grant- On what coned to companies named for that purpose shall, if granted by dies may be the Governor in Council, be granted to such companies respect- granted. ively; the other subsidies may be granted to such companies as shall be approved by the Governor in Council as having established to his satisfaction their ability to construct and complete the said railways respectively; all the lines for the construction of which subsidies are granted, unless they are already commenced, shall be commenced within two years from the first day of August next, and completed within a reasonable time, not to exceed four years, to be fixed by Order in Council, and shall also be constructed according to descriptions and specifications and upon conditions to be approved by the Governor in Council, on the report of the Minister of Railways and Canals, and specified in an agreement to be made in each case by the company with the Government, which agreement the Government is hereby empowered to make; the location also of every such line of railway shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council. 3. The granting of such subsidies respectively shall be As to running subject to such conditions for securing such running powers powers. or traffic arrangements and other rights as will afford all reasonable facilities and equal mileage rates to all railways connecting with those so subsidized, as the Governor in Council determines. 4. The said subsidies respectively shall be payable out How subsidies of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, by instalments, shall be paid. on the completion of each section of the railway of not less than ten miles, proportionate to the value of the portion so completed in comparison with that of the whole work undertaken, to be established by the report of the said Minister, or upon the completion of the work subsidized, except as to subsidies with respect to which it is hereinbefore otherwise provided, and except also as to the subsidy granted to the Exceptions. Great Northern Railway Company by chapter two of 1893, for fifteen miles from Montcalm to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which shall be paid as follows: on the completion of the eighteen miles from New Glasgow to Montcalm and of two miles out of the fifteen miles from Montcalm to the Canadian Pacific Railway, an instalment proportionate to the value of the ten miles out of the total mileage subsidized by chapter two of 1893, to be established as aforesaid, and the balance of the said subsidy on the completion of the remaining thirteen miles of the said railway. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 5. An Act respecting certain subsidies granted to the Government of the Province of Quebec by chapter eight of the Statutes of 1884. [Assented to 23rd July, 1894.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lows: by chapter 8 of 1884 may be paid to GovQuebec. ernment of 1. Notwithstanding anything in chapter eight of the Statutes Railway subof 1884, intituled An Act to authorize certain subsidies and sidies granted grants for and in respect of the construction of the lines of railway therein mentioned, the Governor in Council may, at the request of the Government of the province of Quebec, pay to the treasurer of that province the principal of either or both of the subsidies which by the said Act the Governor in Council was authorized to grant, on the terms therein set forth, to the Government of the said province in consideration of their having constructed the railway from Quebec to Ottawa, that is to say for the portion between Quebec and Montreal, one hundred and fifty-nine miles, a subsidy not exceeding six thousand dollars per mile nor exceeding in the whole nine hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars, and for the portion between Montreal and Ottawa, one hundred and twenty miles, a subsidy not exceeding twelve thousand dollars per mile nor exceeding in the whole one million four hundred and forty thousand dollars. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. |