way at Dudswell, in the Province of Quebec, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole... To the Massawippi Junction Railway Company, for fifteen miles of their railway, from Ayer's Flat to Coaticook, in the Province of Quebec, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole......... To the Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company, for twenty miles of their railway, from a point at or near Newboro towards Palmer's Rapids, in the Province of Ontario, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole ....... To the Thousand Islands Railway Company, for four miles of their railway, from a point near the St. Lawrence River, in Gananoque village, to Gananoque Junction of the Grand Trunk Railway, and for thirteen miles of their railway, from Gananoque Junction of the Grand Trunk Railway, to a junction with the Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie Railway, in the Province of Ontario, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole.. For a railway from Cape Tormente towards Murray Bay, twenty miles, in the Province of Quebec, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole......... ...... To the Amherstburg, Lake Shore and Blenheim Railway Company, for twenty miles of their railway, in the Province of Ontario, a subsidy not exceeding $3,200 per mile, nor exceeding in the whole...... 48,000 00 48,000 00 64,000 00 54,400 00 64,000 00 64,000 00 2. So much of the subsidy of three thousand two hundred Application dollars per mile, which, under the provisions of the Act forty- of subsidy to ninth Victoria, chapter seventeen, and of this Act, may be Chaleurs paid to the Baie des Chaleurs Railway Company in respect Railway Co. of the thirty miles of their railway, from the seventieth to the hundredth mile, eastward from Metapediac, shall be applicable to the section of the said railway, comprised between the fortieth and the seventieth mile thereof, eastward from Metapediac, instead of to the said first mentioned section of thirty miles, making six thousand four hundred dollars per mile applicable to the secondly mentioned section of thirty miles; but the foregoing provision shall Condition. be subject to the condition that the said company undertake to complete the thirty miles of their railway from the seventieth to the hundredth mile eastward from Metapediac within a reasonable time, not to exceed four years, to be fixed by Order in Council, and without any further subsidy To whom and ditions subsi dies may be granted. from the Government of Canada, and that they deposit with the Minister of Railways and Canals, as security to the Crown that they will well and truly carry out their undertaking, their bonds to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars. 3. The subsidies herein before mentioned as to be granted on what con- to companies named for that purpose, shall be granted to such companies 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, and which 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; and all the said subsiHow payable. dies respectively shall be payable out of the Conso.idated Revenue Fund of Canada, by instalments, 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 respects the tunnel under the St. Clair River, in which case there shall be paid fifteen per cent. of the value of work done on monthly progress estimates, certified by the Chief Engineer, and upon the approval of the Minister of Railways and Canals. As to run ning powers. Declaratory as to a certain subsidy. 4. The granting of such subsidies respectively, shall be subject to such conditions for securing such running 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. 5. And for the removal of doubts it is hereby declared and enacted that the provision in the Act passed in the fiftyfirst year of Her Majesty's reign and chaptered three, relating to the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway Company extended and extends the several subsidies in aid of the said company for four years from the passing of the said Act, that is to say, from the twenty-second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most CHAP. 4. An Act to authorize the granting of subsidies in land to certain railway companies. [Assented to 2nd May, 1889.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: ized. 1. The Governor in Council may grant the subsidies of Subsidies in land hereinafter mentioned to the railway companies, and nd authortowards the construction of the railways also hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: Navigation To the North-Western Coal and Navigation Company To the N. W. (limited), in addition to the grant provided for by section Coal and one of the Act passed in the session held in the forty-eighth Co. and forty-ninth years of Her Majesty's reign and chaptered sixty, Dominion lands to an extent not exceeding two thousand six hundred acres for each mile of the Company's railway from Dunmore Station, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, to Lethbridge, on the Belly River, the present terminus of the said railway, a distance of one hundred and nine and one-half miles,-such additional grant to be made. only on condition that the gauge of the said railway be made standard width; and also to the said North-Western Further subsidy. Coal and Navigation Company (limited), Dominion lands to an extent not exceeding six thousand four hundred acres for each mile of the Company's railway from Lethbridge to the International Boundary, a distance of about fifty miles; To the Red Deer Valley Railway and Coal Company, Dominion lands to an extent not exceeding six thousand Railway and four hundred acres for each mile of the Company's railway Coal Co. from Cheadle Station, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, to its terminus at a point in or near township twenty-nine, range twenty-three, west of the fourth meridian, a distance of about fifty-five miles: To the Red To the North-Western Railway Company of Canada, To the N. W. Dominion lands to an extent not exceeding ten thousand Railway Co. acres for each mile of the Company's railway from Calgary, of Canada. on the Canadian Pacific Railway, northerly to a point on the North Saskatchewan River, at or near Edmonton, a Further sub- distance of about two hundred and ten miles; and also to sidy. the said North-Western Railway Company of Canada, Dominion lands to an extent not exceeding ten thousand acres for each mile of the Company's railway from Calgary, southerly to Lethbridge, a distance of about one hundred and twenty miles; To the Lake Grants to be subject to conditions in Council, and cost of survey. To the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. Dominion lands to an extent not exceeding six thousand acres for each mile of the Company's railway from Portage la Prairie to the southern boundary of Lake Manitoba, a distance of about seventeen miles. 2. The said grants and each of them may be so made in aid of the construction of the said railways respectively, in fixed by Order the proportions and upon the conditions fixed by the Orders in Council made in respect thereof, 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 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 Governor in Council may make the grant of land provided for by section three of the Act forty-ninth Victoria, chapter eleven, being for the line of the Wood Mountain and Qu'Appelle Railway, of about two hundred and forty miles in length, applicable to the line of railway of the said Company, as authorized by the Act respecting the Wood Mountain and Qu'Appelle Railway Company passed during the present session of Parliament, upon the like terms and subject to the like conditions as those upon which the grant hereinbefore mentioned was authorized to be made to the said Company by the Act in this section first cited. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most CHAP. 5. An Act respecting a certain agreement therein mentioned with the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad and Steamboat Company. [Assented to 2nd May, 1889.] HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: transport may 1. In order to enable the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Contract for Saskatchewan Railroad and Steamboat Company to com- be made with plete their railway from Regina to some point on the South the Company Saskatchewan River, at or near Saskatoon, and thence northward to Prince Albert, the Governor in Council may enter into a contract with such Company for the transport of men, supplies, materials and mails, for twenty years, and may pay for such services, during the said term, eighty thousand dollars per annum, in manner following, that is How consito say the sum of fifty thousand dollars to be paid an- deration may be paid. nually on the construction of the railway to a point at or near Saskatoon, such payment to be computed from the date of the completion of the railway to such point; and the remaining thirty thousand dollars annually on the extension of the railway to Prince Albert, such payment to be computed from the date of such last mentioned completion : Provided, that if the second portion of the said railway is Proviso. not built and operated to Prince Albert within two years after the completion of the railway to the South Saskatchewan as aforesaid, the payment of fifty thousand dollars shall cease until the whole railway is finished to Prince Albert. of Con. Rev. 2. Such sums shall be paid out of any unappropriated Payable out moneys forming part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Fund. Canada. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. |