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CHAP. 83.

An Act respecting the Thousand Islands Railway

Company.

[Assented to 14th June, 1900.]

WHEREAS the Thousand Islands Railway Company has, Preamble. by its petition, prayed that it be enacted 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 1888, o. 75; consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1896, c. 38.

1. The Thousand Islands Railway Company, hereinafter Powers. called "the Company," may, in connection with its railway and for the purposes of its business,—

(a.) acquire lands and erect, use and manage works, manu- Electric and facture machinery and plant for the generation, transmission other motive and distribution of electric power and energy and other motive

power;

power.

(b.) build and maintain power houses and stations for the Power houses. development of electrical force and energy and other motive power;

(c.) along the line of its railway and contiguous thereto, Mining. locate, acquire, work and dispose of mines, mineral lands, minerals, mining rights, timber and timber lands and the products thereof, and develop such mines, and crush, smelt, reduce, amalgamate and dispose of the ores and products of any mine;

(d.) acquire exclusive rights in letters patent, franchises or Patent rights. patent rights for the purpose of the works and undertakings hereby authorized, and again dispose of such rights;

power.

(e.) sell or lease any surplus power which the Company may Surplus develop or acquire, either as water power or other motive power, or by converting the same into electricity or other force for the distribution of light, heat or power or for all purposes for which electricity or other motive power can be used, with power to transmit the same.

Bond issue.

1888, c. 75.

Existing bonds.

Head office.

Annual meeting.

Time for construction of railway extended.

2. On that portion of its railway running from its present terminus on the river St. Lawrence at or near the town of Gananoque thence in a northerly direction for a distance not exceeding fifteen miles, the Company may, in lieu of the bonds authorized to be issued under the provisions of chapter 75 of the statutes of 1888, and subject to the provisions contained in section 3 of this Act, issue bonds to the extent of thirty thousand dollars per mile of such railway; but such bonds shall be issued only in proportion to the length of railway constructed or under contract to be constructed.

3. No bonds shall be issued under the powers contained in section 2 of this Act until all outstanding bonds or mortgages of the Company, and all interest coupons and interest due or to fall due thereon, have been paid and discharged on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the directors of the Company and the holders of the said bonds or mortgages

agree upon.

4. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Acts relating to the Company, the head office of the Company shall be in the town of Deseronto, or in such other place in Canada as the directors from time to time determine by by-law.

5. The annual meeting of the shareholders shall be held on the second Monday in September in each year.

6. The time limited for the completion of the railway, branches and extensions is extended for five years from the passing of this Act, and if the said railway, branches and extensions are not then completed the powers granted by Parliament for such construction shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the undertaking as then remains uncompleted.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

CHAP. 84.

An Act respecting the Timagami Railway Company.

WHE

[Assented to 7th July, 1900.]

WHEREAS the Timagami Railway Company has, by its Preamble. petition, prayed that it be enacted 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:

revived.

1. The Act to incorporate the Timagami Railway Company, 1898, a 87 chapter 87 of the statutes of 1898, is revived and declared to be in force.

construction

2. The times limited for the commencement and completion Time for of the railway of the Timagami Railway Company are extended. extended for two years and five years respectively, from the thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred; and if the said railway is not commenced and fifteen per cent on the amount of the capital stock is not expended thereon within the said two years, or if the railway is not finished and put in operation within five years from the said thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, then the powers granted by Parliament for such construction shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the railway as then remains uncompleted.

3. Section 4 of chapter 87 of the statutes of 1898 is repeal- 1898, c. 87, ed, and the following section is substituted therefor :

new s. 4.

railway

"4. The Company may lay out, construct and operate a rail- Line of way of the gauge of four feet eight and one-half inches, from described. a point at or near Verner station, or at or near Sturgeon Falls station, or between Sturgeon Falls station and Verner station on the Canadian Pacific Railway to a point on the southerly part of Lake Timagami in the township of Hobbs or due north thereof."

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

CHAP. 85.

An Act respecting the Western Alberta Railway
Company.

[Assented to 14th June, 1900.]

WHEREAS the provisional directors of the Western Alberta Preamble,

Railway Company have by their petition prayed that it be enacted 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:

of time for

1. The railway of the Company shall be commenced and Extension fifteen per cent of the amount of the capital stock expended works. thereon before the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and two, and shall be completed and put in operation before the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and five, otherwise the powers for the construction thereof conferred upon the Company by chapter 90 of the statutes of 1898, o. 90. 1898 shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the railway as then remains uncompleted.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

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