CHAP. 6. An Act to authorize the granting of Subsidies in land to certain Railway Companies. HE [Assented to 23rd July, 1894.] ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: ed. 1. The Governor in Council may grant the subsidies in Subsidies in land hereinafter mentioned to the railway companies and land authoriztowards the construction of the railways also hereinafter mentioned, that is to say : Mountain To the Rocky Mountain Railway and Coal Company, Dom- To the Rocky inion lands to an extent not exceeding six thousand four Railway and hundred acres per mile for a line of railway from a point at or Coal Co. near Olds Station on the line of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway in a westerly direction to the Red Deer River and thence along the said river in a westerly direction to the coal fields, a distance of about sixty miles. dian Pacific To the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Dominion lands To the Canato an extent not exceeding six thousand four hundred acres Railway Co. per mile for a line of railway from a point at or near Souris on the Souris Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in a westerly direction to the Pipestone Valley, a distance of about thirty-two miles. don and To the Brandon and South-western Railway Company, To the BranDominion lands to an extent not exceeding six thousand four South-western hundred acres per mile for a line of railway from a point in Railway Co. township one, in either range twenty-three or twenty-four west of the first principal meridian to a point at or near Deloraine, a distance of about seventeen miles. chewan and To the Saskatchewan and Western Railway Company, To the Saskat Dominion lands to an extent not exceeding six thousand four Western Ry, hundred acres per mile for a line of railway from Minnedosa Co. to Rapid City, a distance of about fifteen miles. subject to con 2. The said grants and each of them may be made in aid of Grants to be the construction of the said railways respectively in the pro- ditions fixed portion and upon the conditions fixed by the Orders in Coun- by O.C., and VOL. I-51 cil 67 cost of survey. As to grants to Canadian Pacific Railway Co. cil made with respect thereto; and, except as to such conditions, the said grants shall be free grants, subject only to the payment by the grantees respectively of the cost of the survey of the lands and incidental expenses at the rate of ten cents per acre in cash on the issue of the patents therefor. 3. The lands authorized by this Act to be granted to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company shall be taken and held, and may be disposed of, free and clear of any incumbrance on the lands or property of the said company created before the passing of this Act. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 7. An Act respecting the land subsidy of the Canadian [Assented to 23rd July, 1894.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: C.P. R. land tracts. 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in The Dominion Ungranted Lands Act, chapter fifty-four of the Revised Statutes, or in portion of chapter one of the Statutes of 1881, intituled An Act respect- subsidy may ing the Canadian Pacific Railway, or in any other Act, the be granted in Governor in Council may, with the consent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, grant so much of the subsidy in lands of the said Company as remains ungranted, wholly or in part in tracts of such area as he deems expedient, and including sections bearing even, as well as those bearing uneven numbers, on that portion of the main line of the said Company between Medicine Hat on the east and Crowfoot Crossing on the west, and within twenty-four miles on each side of the said portion of the said Company's line of railway; but such Hudson's Bay grant shall not include any land reserved under The Dominion Co. lands and Lands Act for the Hudson's Bay Company unless and until the said Company have consented thereto, or any lands reserved under the said Act as school lands, unless and until other public lands of equal extent and value, as nearly as may be, have been set apart in lieu thereof. school lands. ed instead to 2. Where any such grant includes lands reserved for the other lands Hudson's Bay Company, after such consent as aforesaid, the may be grantGovernor in Council may grant to the said Company other H. B. Co. lands equal in extent and value, as nearly as may be, in lieu thereof. roads. 2. The grants of lands so made may include the statutory Allowance for allowance for roads between sections in the areas so granted, but in such case shall be subject to a reserve of one acre out of every fifty acres for the establishment of public highways to be defined as hereinafter provided. Survey and opening of roads. No compensa 3. When the grants of land so made include the statutory allowance for roads between sections, the Minister of the Interior shall cause such public highways as he thinks expedient to be surveyed and set off through any tract of land granted under this Act, provided the area taken for this purpose does not exceed the one-fiftieth part of the aggregate area of such tract; and upon the approval by the minister of any such survey, the area set off thereby shall become and be a public highway and shall be subject to the direction, management and control of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories for the public uses of the Territories. 2. The legal title to the land comprised in such highway tion for lands shall be vested in the Crown, and the Company or its assigns shall not be entitled to compensation therefor. so taken for roads. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. |