shall be designated as "Series B," and shall in like manner Series B. be secured by a deed of mortgage specifying the security therefor; and such last-mentioned deed of mortgage may contain provisions that all tolls and revenues derived from the use of such bridge or steam ferry boats by other corporations and persons shall be specially charged and pledged as security for such last-mentioned bonds constituting "Series B," and may also provide that the Company shall Tolls to specipay to the trustees of such mortgage similar rates and tolls ally secure to those fixed for the use of such bridge or steam ferry boats bonds. by similar corporations,-which rates and tolls shall also be charged as security for said bonds "Series B." Series B 11. The bridge shall be commenced within three years Time for conand completed within five years from the passing of this struction of bridge. Act; otherwise the powers granted under section four of this Act shall cease and be null and void. companies. 12. The Company may enter into an agreement with the Agreements Portage du Fort and Bristol Branch Railway Company, the with other Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway Company, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, or the Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company for conveying or leasing to one of such companies the railway of the Company hereby incorporated, in whole or in part, or any rights or powers acquired under this Act, as also the surveys, plans, works, plant, material, machinery, and other property to it belonging, or for an amalgamation with such company, on such terms and conditions as are agreed upon, and subject to such restrictions as to the directors seem fit; provided that such agreement Sanction of has been first sanctioned by two-thirds of the votes at a holders. special general meeting of the shareholders duly called for the purpose of considering the same, at which meeting shareholders representing at least two-thirds in value of the stock are present in person or represented by proxy, and And of the that it has also been approved by the Governor in Council: Council. 2. Such approval shall not be signified until after notice Notice of apof the proposed application therefor has been published in plication for the manner and for the time set forth in section two hundred and thirty-nine of "The Railway Act," and also for a like period in one newspaper in each of the counties through which the railway of the Company hereby incorporated runs, and in which a newspaper is published. the share Governor in approval. OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Preamble. Incorporation. Corporate name. Head office. Line of rail ed. CHAP. 64. An Act to incorporate the Three Rivers and Western [Assented to 16th April, 1889.] WHEREAS a petition has been presented praying for the incorporation of a company to construct and operate a railway as hereinafter set forth, and 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: 1. Pierre Benjamin Vanasse, Louis Adolphe Robitaille, John Ross, Télesphore E. Normand, William McDonell Dawson, Geo. Balcer and Edward V. Wright, together with such persons as become shareholders in the company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of "The Three Rivers and Western Railway Company," hereinafter called the Company. 2. The head office of the Company shall be in the city of Three Rivers. 3. The Company may lay out, construct and operate a way describ- railway of the gauge of four feet eight and one half inches, from a point in or near the city of Three Rivers, in as direct a line as is found practicable, by the head waters of the River Rouge, crossing the Rivers Lièvre and Gatineau and passing by the south end of Lake Kakebonga to the plateau dividing the waters that flow north to the upper Ottawa and south by the Coulonge and Dumoine rivers to the lower Ottawa, and on by the Quinze Rapids to a point at or near the third mile post, on the western boundary of the Province of Quebec, and thence to a connection with the line of the Nipissing and James' Bay Railway Company, in the Province of Ontario. Provisional directors. 4. The persons mentioned by name in the first section of this Act are hereby constituted provisional directors of the Company, with power to add two more to their number. thereon. 5. The capital stock of the Company shall be one million Capital stock dollars and may be called up by the directors from time to and calls time as they deem necessary; but no one call shall exceed ten per centum on the shares subscribed. 6. The annual general meeting of the shareholders shall Annual genbe held on the first Tuesday in June in each year. eral meeting. directors. 7. At such meeting the subscribers for the capital stock Number of assembled, who have paid all calls due on their shares, shall choose seven persons to be directors of the Company, one or more of whom may be paid directors of the Company. limited. 8. The Company may issue bonds, debentures or other Amount of securities to the extent of twenty thousand dollars per bonds, &c., mile of the railway and branches; and such bonds, debentures or other securities may be issued only in proportion to the length of railway constructed or under contract to be constructed. OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Preamble, Name changed. Head office. Directors. Paid up stock CHAP. 65. An Act respecting the Alberta and Athabasca Railway 66 of [Assented to 16th April, 1889.] W HEREAS a petition has been presented by the Alberta and Athabasca Railway Company praying that an Act may be passed granting to it certain additional powers as hereinafter set forth, and 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: 3. The name of the Company is hereby changed from "The Alberta and Athabasca Railway Company" to "The North-Western Railway Company of Canada"; but such change in name shall not, in any way, alter or affect the rights or liabilities of the Company, nor in any wise affect any suit or proceeding now pending or judgment existing, either by, in favor of, or against the Company, which, notwithstanding such change in the name of the Company, may be prosecuted or continued and completed and enforced, as if this Act had not been passed. 2. The head office of the Company shall be in the city of Montreal. 3. Mackworth Bulkley Praed, John Maurice Lloyd, John Dale and James Lloyd, all of the city of London, England; Charles T. Drummond, of the city of Winnipeg, William White, Q.C., of the city of Sherbrooke, and C. C. Colby, M.P., shall be the directors of the Company and shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the shareholders of the Company. 4. The directors shall make and issue as paid up stock may be issued shares in the Company, and shall allot and hand over such to certain per- stock to the present subscribers for the stock of the Com sons. pany, to an amount not exceeding the amount of money 5. Notwithstanding the provision contained in section Directors may fifty-five of" The Railway Act," the directors may vote and vote by proxy. act by proxy,-such proxy to be held by a director only; but no director shall hold more than two proxies, and no meeting of directors shall be competent to transact business unless at least two directors are present thereat in person,-the remaining number of directors required to form a quorum. being represented by proxies : 2. No appointment of a proxy to vote at any meeting of Renewal of the directors shall be valid for that purpose, unless it has proxy. been made or renewed in writing within one year next preceding the time of such meeting. ized. 6. The Company may extend its line from some point Extension of north of the Red Deer River in a northerly direction to the line authorPeace River, at or near Dunvegan; and also from its southern terminal point in a southerly direction to Lethbridge, or to a point on the International boundary line, and may build a branch line not exceeding fifty miles in length running easterly from a point on the main line at or near the Red Deer River: to location. 2. If the Company constructs the extension to the Inter- Proviso: as national boundary line, as authorized by the next preceding subsection, such extension shall be so located as not to approach within twenty miles distance the line of railway of the Alberta Railway and Coal Company authorized by an Act of the present session of Parliament. struction. 7. The Company shall complete one hundred miles of Time for conits line of railway, from its point of intersection with the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, in a northerly direction towards Edmonton, by the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety; and the remainder of the said line to a point at or near Edmonton by the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one; and shall also complete its line in a southerly direction to Lethbridge, or to a point on the International boundary line, by the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two; otherwise the powers granted by the Acts relating to the Company shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the railway as then remains uncompleted. |