Preamble. Acts 50-51 V., c. 92 revived; and time for building rail way extended. Capital stock and calls thereon. 54-55 VICTORIA. CHAP. 91. An Act to revive and amend the Act to incorporate the Oshawa Railway and Navigation Company, and to change the name thereof to "The Oshawa Railway Company." (Assented to 28th August, 1891.) WHEREAS the Oshawa Railway and Navigation Company has, by its petition, prayed for certain amendments, as hereinafter set forth, to the Act incorporating the Company, and also that its name be changed to "The Oshawa Railway Company"; and whereas it is expedient to revive the said Act and 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. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Act incorporating the Oshawa Railway and Navigation Company, passed in the session held in the fiftieth and fifty-first years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter ninety-two, is hereby revived and declared to be in force, and the times limited by the said Act for the commencement and completion of the railway of the Company, are hereby extended for one year and four years respectively from the passing of this Act; and if the railway is not commenced and completed within the times so fixed, then the powers granted by the said Act and this Act shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the railway as then remains uncompleted. 2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act incorporating the Company, the capital stock of the Company shall be two hundred thousand dollars, and may be called up by the directors from time to time, as they deem necessary, but no one call shall exceed ten per cent on the shares subscribed; and so soon as twenty-five per cent of the said capital stock has been subscribed and ten per cent paid thereon, the provisional directors shall call the meeting provided for in section seven of the said Act. naine. 3. The name of the Company is hereby changed from "The Change of Oshawa Railway and Navigation Company" to "The Oshawa Railway Company;" but such change in name shall not, in any way, impair, 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 favour 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. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Preamble. 54-55 VICTORIA. CHAP. 92. An Act respecting the South Ontario Pacific Railway Company. [Assented to 10th July, 1891.] HEREAS the South Ontario Pacific Railway Company, hereinafter called the Company, has, by its petition, prayed that its Act of incorporation be amended as hereinafter 50-51 V., c. 85. set forth, and also that the time for completing its railway be extended, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of its petition Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 50-51 V., c. 85. : 1. Section three of the Act passed in the Session held in the s. 3, repealed. fiftieth and fifty-first years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter eighty-five, is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor : Lines of railway which may be built by Company. Ferry or bridge over Niagara river. Section 17 repealed. "3. The Company may lay out, construct and operate a railway from some point on the line of the Ontario and Quebec Railway at or near Woodstock, to some point in or near the city of Hamilton; and also one from some point on that railway to a convenient point on the Niagara river, and thence may connect by a ferry or bridge with any railway in the United States reaching such ferry or bridge; and also a railway from some point on the Ontario and Quebec Railway near Cooksville or Toronto, through the city of Hamilton, to some point further west on the line of railway first above described; and also a branch or extension from any point on the said railway first above described, via the village of Embro, in the county of Oxford, and the town of St. Mary's, in the county of Perth, to some convenient point on lake Huron, between Bayfield and Kincardine.” 2. Section seventeen of the said Act is hereby repealed. Extension of 3. The Company shall complete its railway within five years pletion of rail and its bridge within seven years from the passing of this Act; time for com otherwise the powers granted by the said Act and this Act shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the undertaking as then remains uncompleted. OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. Preamble. 51 V., c. 65. 51 V., c. 71, (Ont.) 54 V., c. 91 (Ont.) Amalgamation ratified. 54-55 VICTORIA. CHAP. 93. An Act amalgamating the Ottawa and Parry Sound [Assented to 31st July, 1891.] THEREAS the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company was duly incorporated by an Act of the Parliament. of Canada, passed in the fifty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered sixty-five; and whereas the Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew Railway Company was duly incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of Ontario, passed in the fifty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, chaptered seventy-one, which said last mentioned Act was amended by an Act of the same Legislature passed in the fifty-fourth year of the same reign, chaptered ninety-one; and whereas the said two companies have become amalgamated into one corporation under the name of "The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway Company, under a deed of amalgamation (of which a copy, with the four schedules annexed thereto, is appended hereto), which said deed has been duly confirmed by the respective shareholders of the said two amalgamating companies as provided by the said respective Acts of the said Parliament and Legislature relating thereto; and whereas the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway Company, by its petition, has represented that it is desirable that the said deed of amalgamation should be confirmed by the Parliament of Canada, and has prayed that an Act be passed for that and other purposes; 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. The said deed of amalgamation (a copy of which, with the said four schedules annexed thereto, is appended hereto), is hereby approved, ratified and confirmed, and shall be taken and read as part of this Act; and the said amalgamation thereby effected is hereby declared to be valid and operative as and from the date of the said deed. |