cations to the deed of agreement of guarantee of interest for the construction of a grain elevator, said guarantee given by the Quebec Harbour Commissioners to the Great Northern Railway Company, by a deed passed before E. J. Angers, notary, on the 30th of June, 1899, and ratified by Act of Parliament of Canada, 62-63 Victoria, chapter 35, on the 11th of August, 1899, the said modifications being embraced in the clauses 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the present deed and provided that the allowances of the said modifications to the deed of the 30th. of June, are to be contingent upon the Act 62-63 Victoria, chapter 35, being so amended as to preserve to the $350,000 of bonds that were then authorized by the Act 61 Victoria, chapter 48, their preferential rank as set forth in the said deed of the 30th of June, 1899. The modifications to deed of 30th of June, 1899, subject to ratification by the Parliament of Canada. Resolution referred to in an agreement between the Quebec Harbour Commissioners and the Great Northern Railway Company passed before Cyrille F. Delage, Notary, on the eighteenth day of the month of April, nineteen hundred, and signed by the parties hereto, Ne varietur. True copy. (Signed) N. RIOUX. JAS. WOODS. LOUIS G. SCOTT, CYRILLE F. DELAGE, N.P. CYRILLE F. DELAGE, N.P. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 117. An Act respecting the River St. Clair Railway Bridge and Tunnel Company. [Assented to 7th May, 1900.] WHEREAS the Canada Southern Railway Company and Preamble. the provisional board of directors of the River St. Clair Railway Bridge and Tunnel 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: construct a 1. Section 2 of chapter 70 of the statutes of 1882 is repeal- 1882, c. 70, ed, and the River St. Clair Railway Bridge and Tunnel Com- s. 2 repealed pany is authorized to construct, maintain, and use a railway Power to bridge across or a tunnel under the River St. Clair, as may be bridge. found most suitable for railway purposes, from some point in the township of Moore, in the county of Lambton, towards the city of St. Clair, in the state of Michigan, subject, however, to the provisions contained in the Acts relating to the said Company. 2. The times limited for the commencement and completion Time of the works of the River St. Clair Railway Bridge and Tunnel extended. Company are extended for two years and five years respectively from the passing of this Act; and if the works are not so commenced and completed, then the powers granted by the Acts respecting the said Company and by this Act shall be null and void as respects so much of the said works as then remains uncompleted. 3. Henry B. Ledyard shall be a provisional director of the Provisional said Company in the place and stead of James Tillinghast, directors. deceased; and Frederick W. Vanderbilt shall be a provisional director of the said Company in the place and stead of Cornelius Vanderbilt, deceased. OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 118. An Act to incorporate the Royal Marine Insurance [Assented to 14th June, 1900.] WHEREAS the persons hereinafter named have, by their 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: tion. 1. John W. Molson, John E. Riley, Matthew James Farrell Incorporaand Thomas Harling, of the city of Montreal in the province of Quebec, together with such persons as become shareholders in the company, are incorporated under the name of "The Royal Marine Insurance Company," hereinafter Corporate called "the Company." name. directors. 2. The persons named in section 1 of this Act shall be the Provisional first or provisional directors of the Company, a majority of whom shall be a quorum, and they may forthwith open stockbooks, procure subscriptions of stock for the undertaking, make calls on stock subscribed and receive payments thereon, and they shall deposit in a chartered bank in Canada all moneys received by them on account of stock subscribed, or otherwise received by them on account of the Company, and may withdraw the same for the purposes of the Company only, and may do generally whatever is necessary to organize the Company. 3. The capital stock of the Company shall be two hundred Capital stock. and fifty thousand dollars divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. 2. The directors may, after the whole capital stock has been Increase of subscribed and fifty per cent paid thereon in cash, increase capital. the capital stock, from time to time, to an amount not excceding five hundred thousand dollars; but the stock shall not be |