Steam ferry boats may be employed. Bridge over the Ottawa river may be constructed. "3. The Company may construct, acquire, maintain and employ steam ferry boats to ply across the Ottawa River, in connection with their railway, for the purpose of carrying cars, freight and passengers over the same." 3. The Company may build and complete a bridge, for railway purposes, across the Ottawa River on the line of the railway at some suitable point in or near the village of Rockland, with one or more tracks, with the necessary approaches, machinery and appliances to enable the ComCarriage and pany to use the said bridge; and the Company may also, as foot bridge. part of the said bridge, in their discretion, at any time construct or arrange the said bridge as well for the use of foot passengers and carriages, or either, as they think best. Sanction of Governor in quired. Provision if construction of drawbridge is required. Lights. No discrimin ation as to passage or rates. 4. The Company shall not commence the said bridge over the Ottawa River, or any work appertaining thereto, until they have submitted to the Governor in Council plans of such bridge and of all the intended works thereunto appertaining, nor until such plans and the site of such bridge have been approved by the Governor in Council, and such conditions as he thinks fit for the public good to impose touching the said bridge and works have been complied with; nor may any such plan be altered nor any deviation therefrom allowed, except by the permission of the Governor in Council and upon such conditions as he imposes: 2 If the Governor in Council determines that such bridge shall be a drawbridge, the same shall be constructed so as to have one draw in the main channel of such river, -which draw shall be of such width as the Governor in Council determines, and shall otherwise give free and unobstructed passage to vessels of every description navigating the said river; and the said draw shall, at all times during the season of navigation, be kept open, except when actually required to be closed for the passage of railway trains, and shall be otherwise tended and moved at the expense of the Company so as not to hinder unnecessarily the passage of any vessel; and from sundown until sunrise during the season of navigation suitable lights shall be maintained on such bridge, to guide vessels approaching the said draw: 3. When the said bridge is completed and ready for traffic, all trains of all railways terminating at or near the said bridge, and now constructed or hereafter to be constructed, including the ears of any other railway company which may be brought over such railway, shall have, and be entitled to, the same and equal rights and privileges in the passage of the said bridge, so that no discrimination or preference in the passage of the said bridge and approaches thereto or in tariff rates for transportation shall be made in favor of or against any railway whose trains or business pass over the said bridge: agreement. 4. In case of any disagreement as to the rights of any Arbitration railway whose trains or business pass over the bridge here- in case of disby authorized to be constructed, or as to the tariff rates to be charged in respect thereof, the same shall be determined by arbitrators, one to be appointed by the Company hereby incorporated and another by the company with whom the disagreement has arisen, and a third, who shall be some person experienced in railway affairs, by one of the superior courts of the Provinces of Ontario or Quebec, upon application to such court,-due notice thereof having been given to the parties interested; and the award of the said arbitrators or a majority of them shall be final: Council. 5. If the ompany construct or arrange the said bridge Tolls on carfor the use of foot passengers and carriages, as well as for riage and foot bridge subject railway purposes, then the tolls to be charged for the pass- to approval of age of such foot passengers and carriages shall, before being Governor in imposed, be first submitted to and approved of, and may be amended and modified from time to time, by the Governor in Council; but the Company may, at any time, reduce the same; and a notice showing the tolls authorized to be charged, shall, at all times, be posted up in a conspicuous place on the said bridge. 5. The tenth section of the herein before cited Act is Section 10 of hereby amended by striking out all the words after the Act amended. word" undertaking" in the sixteenth line thereof to the end of the said section, and by adding the following subsections thereto : 2. The amount of such bonds so issued, sold or pledged, Amount of shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per mile of bonds limited. the said railway and branches, to be issued in proportion to the length of railway constructed or under contract to be constructed, and such bonds shall be called "A" bonds; Series A. and in addition thereto bonds to an amount not exceeding six hundred thousand dollars may be issued for the con- Series B. struction of the bridge and steam ferry boats herein before mentioned, and shall be called "B" bonds: "3. To specially secure series "B" bonds, tolls for the use Tolls to speciof the said bridge, not exceeding four dollars for each car, Series B ally secure and tolls for such ferry shall, from time to time, be fixed, bonds. imposed, changed, varied and regulated by the by-laws of the Company; but such by-laws, before being enforced, shall be first submitted to and approved of by the Governor in Council, and the tolls to be levied shall be uniformly imposed upon all companies and corporations using the said bridge, and shall be demanded and received as well from the Central Counties Railway Company as from all railway companies and other corporations and persons using the same, for all cars passing over the said bridge, time for construction of railway. and shall be paid to such persons and at such places, and under such regulations as the said by-laws direct." Limitation of 6. The eighteenth section of the herein before cited Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the railway authorized by the said Act and this Act shall be commenced within two years and completed within five years from the passing of this Act, otherwise the powers hereby granted shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the railway as then remains uncompleted. And as to bridge. 7. The bridge shall be commenced within three years and completed within five years from the passing of this Act; otherwise the powers granted under section three of this Act shall cease and be null and void. OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most CHAP. 81. An Act respecting the Lake Nipissing and James' Bay W +6 [Assented to 20th March, 1889.] HEREAS the Lake Nipissing and James' Bay Railway Preamble. they are desirous that the name of the Company be 1. The name of the Company is hereby changed from Name "The Lake Nipissing and James' Bay Railway Company" changed. to "The Nipissing and James' Bay Railway Company;" but such change in name shall not, in any way, alter or Existing affect the rights or liabilities of the Company, nor in any rights not wise affect any suit or proceeding now pending either by or against the Company, or judgment existing, 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. affected. 2. The members of the provisional board of directors Directors. may add three others to their number. called. 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in section When meeteight of the said Act incorporating the Company, the pro- ing may be visional directors for the purpose of commencing construction on the first section of their line of railway as defined by section one of the Act passed in the forty-ninth year of 49 V., c. 77 Her Majesty's reign, chaptered seventy-seven, may, so soon as twenty-five per centum of shares to the extent of four hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock has been When second section may be begun. When third section may be begun. subscribed and ten per centum paid thereon into one of the chartered banks in Canada, call a meeting of the subscribers in the manner provided by the said section: 2. Before commencing construction on the second section of the said line of railway as defined by section one of the Act mentioned in this section, twenty-five per centum of shares to the extent of five hundred thousand dollars more of the capital stock shall be subscribed and ten per centum paid thereon as aforesaid : 3. Before commencing construction on the third section of the said line of railway as defined by section one of the Act mentioned in this section, twenty-five per centum of shares to the extent of one million one hundred thousand dollars more of the capital stock shall be subscribed and ten per centum paid thereon as aforesaid. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most |