Proviso.

Not to issue
Bank Notes.

Company may

issue bonds

the railway,

&c.

quorum of the Directors, shall be binding on the said Company; and every such promissory note or bill of exchange so made shall be presumed to have been made with proper authority until the contrary be shewn; and in no case shall it be necessary to have the seal of the said Company affixed to such promissory note or bill of exchange; nor shall the said President or Vice-President, or the Secretary or Treasurer, be individually responsible for the same, unless the said promissory notes or bills of exchange have been issued without the sanction and authority of the Board of Directors as herein provided and enacted: Provided however that nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the said Company to issue notes or bills of exchange payable to bearer, or intended to be circulated as money, or as the notes or bills of a bank.

be

17. The Directors of the said Company are hereby authorised and debentures and empowered to issue bonds or debentures which shall be and sharged upon form a first charge on the undertaking, lands, buildings, tolls and income of the Company, or any, either or all of them, as may expressed by the said bonds or debentures; and such bonds or debentures shall be in such form and for such amount and payable at such times and places as the Directors from to time may appoint and direct the said bonds or debentures shall be signed by the President or Vice-President, and shall have the corporate seal of the Company affixed thereto: Provided that the amount of such bonds or debentures shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars per mile, or six thousand pounds sterling per mile,-to be issued in proportion to the length of railway under contract or to be constructed under and by virtue of this Act.

Amount limited.

Special general meetings.

Aliens may

vote, &c.

18. The Directors may call special general meetings of the said company, on notice lawfully given for that purpose.

19. All shareholders in the said Company, whether British hold stock and subjects or aliens, or residents of Canada or elsewhere, have and shall have equal rights to hold stock in the said Company and to vote on the same, and to be eligible to office as Directors in the said Company.

Form of deed of land to Company.

Power to

acquire land for snow fences.

20. Any deed of conveyance of land to the said Company may be in the form of Schedule A, to this Act annexed; and may be enregistered at full length upon the affidavit of a witness to the execution thereof made before the officers usually authorized to receive the same; and a deed in such form or in words of like import shall be a legal and valid conveyance of the land and

immoveables therein mentioned to all intents and

purposes.

21. Notwithstanding anything contained in section nine of "The Railway Act, 1868," the said Company may, with the assent of the Governor in Council, under the powers and provisions in the said Act, acquire and hold such width of land on the sides of the railway and its branches, at any point of the line, as may be needed

for

for the erection of snow-drift fences or barriers, at a sufficient distance from the track to prevent the obstruction of the line by drifting snow.

22. The Company may, with the consent of the owners, acquire Gravel pits. and hold land from which to obtain supplies of gravel, stone and filling required by them for their works, and may sell and convey the same or any portion thereof when no longer required.

appoint

23. Any Provisional Director may appoint any other Provisional Directors may Director, and any Director elected at any general meeting may proxies. appoint any other Director elected at any general meeting, to be his proxy, and to vote for them respectively at meetings of the Board. No Provisional or other Director shall hold more than one such proxy. The appointment may be as follows:

appointment.

"I appoint one of the (Provisional) Directors of Form of The Thunder Bay Silver Mines Railway Company" to be my proxy as a (Provisional) Director of that Company, and as such proxy to vote in my name and stead at meetings of the (Provisional) Directors of the Company, and to do all that I myself could do as such (Provisional) Director if personally present at such meetings. Dated his

day of

Witness,

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C. D.,

building road

24. The powers given by this Act shall be exercised by the com- Time for mencement of the said Railway, within two years after the coming limited. into force of this Act, and its completion within six years therefrom.

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25. This Act shall be known and cited as The Thunder Bay Short title. Silver Mines Railway Company Act."

visions shall

proclamation.

26. This Act shall have no force or effect until duly certified Foregoing pro copies of any Act passed by the Legislature of the State of Minne- come into sota incorporating any company for objects similar to those con- force only on templated by this Act and of any Act of Congress of the United States conferring necessary powers in respect to the same are filed in the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada, upon which the Governor in Council may by Proclamation order that, from and after a day to be mentioned therein, this Act shall be of full force and effect; and this Act shall accordingly thenceforth have full force and effect.

SCHEDULE A.

FORM OF DEED OF SALE.

Know all men by these presents that I, A. B., in consideration of paid to me by "The Thunder Bay Silver Mines Railway Company," the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged grant

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grant, sell and convey unto the said "The Thunder Bay Silver
Mines Railway Company." their successors and assigns, all that
tract or parcel of land (describe the land). To have and to hold
the said land and premises unto the said Company their successors
and assigns for ever.
wife of the said A.

And I

Preamble.

Declaratory.

Certain per

rated.

CAP. LXXXI.

An Act to incorporate The Quebec Frontier

Company.

ailway

[Assented to 14th June, 1872]

WHEREAS the Hon. L. H. Holton, M.P., Julius Scriver, M.P.,

Alfred Pinsonneault, M.P., François Bourassa, M.P., D. A. Macdonald, M.P., and François Béchard, M.P.,have by their petition represented that the Railway and branches hereinafter described would be of great benefit to the commerce and for the general advantage of the Dominion of Canada, and have petitioned for the incorporation of a Company, for the purpose of constructing such line and branches, and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. The Quebec Frontier Railway is hereby declared to be a work for the general advantage of Canada.

2. The Hon. L. H. Holton, Julius Scriver, M.P., Thomas Sanders, sons incorpo- M.P.L., Dr. Laberge, M.P.L., A. Esinhart, M.P.L., Dr. Brigham, M.P.L., L. D. Lafontaine, M. P. L, François Béchard, M. P., F. G. Marchand, M.P.L., Sixte Coupal M.P., Louis Molleur M. P.L., James McGowan, George Cross, Daniel Macfarlane the younger, Joshua Breadner, James Wattie, Joseph Holbrook, William Cantwell, Peter Gardiner and Daniel Shanks, with all such other persons and corporations as shall become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, shall be, and are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of" The Quebec Frontier Railway Company," and shall have all the powers incident to railway corporations in general and the powers and privileges conferred on such corporations by "The Railway Act, 1868," subject to the provisions hereinafter

Corporat

name and powers.

contained.

build a certain

.3. The said Company, their agents and their servants may lay out Company may construct and finish a double or single track iron or steel railway, of railway. such width or gauge as the Company may see fit from the southern frontier of the County of Missisquoi, in a westerly or north-westerly direction through the counties of Missisquoi, Ib rville, St. John's, Napierville, Chateauguay and Huntingdon, to a point on the Province line on the south-western frontier of the said last named county, (subject, so far as the bridging of the River Richelieu is concerned, to the provisions of the fifty-fifth section of "The Railway Act 1868;" nor shall the power to build any bridge over Proviso: as to the said river be exercised by the said Company, unless, by a Richelieu and bridging River Proclamation previously issued under the authority of an Order of the branches. Governor in Council, they shall have been authorized to exercise such power), there to connect with a railway in the State of New York leading to Ogdensburgh; and also two branch railway lines,— one from the southern frontier of Huntingdon County, there to connect with a railway to be constructed in the State of New York, to Grand Isles on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, and the other from some point on the main line through the County of Chateauguay to a point on the Montreal and Champlain railway, near St. Lambert, or to the Victoria Bridge.

4. The capital stock of the said Company shall not exceed Capital and two million dollars, to be divided into forty thousand shares, of shares and application fifty dollars each, which amount shall be raised by the persons thereof. herein before named, and such other persons and corporations as may become shareholders in the said Company; and the money so raised shall be applied in the first place to the payment of all fees, expenses and disbursements for procuring the passing of this Act, and for making the survey, plans and estimates connected with the railway; and all the rest and remainder of such money shall be applied towards making, completing and maintaining the said Railway and other purposes of this Act: Provided always, Proviso: as to that until the said preliminary expenses shall be paid out of the preliminary capital stock it shall be lawful for any municipality interested in expenses. the said railway or otherwise to pay out of the funds of such municipality such preliminary expenses, which sums shall be refunded to such municipality from the stock of the said Company or be allowed in payment of stock, or on account of any sum granted in aid of the said railway by such municipality.

receive grants

perty in aid.

5. It shall be lawful for the said Company to receive either by Company may grant from Government, or from any individuals or corporations, of land or municipal or otherwise, as aid in the construction of the said other prorailway, any vacant lands, or any other real or personal property, or any sums of money, either as gifts or by way of bonus, or in payment of stock, and legally to dispose of the same and to alienate the lands and other real or personal property for the purposes of the said Company in carrying out the provisions of

this Act.

Provisional
Directors.

Powers.

May open stock books.

and election of Directors.

6. The Hon.L.H. Holton, M.P., Julius Scriver, M.P., Thomas Sanders, M.P.L., Dr. Laberge, M.P.L., A. Esinhart, M.P.L., Dr. Brigham, M.P.L.,L.D.Lafontaine, M.P.L., François Béchard M.P.,F.G. Marchand M.P.L., Sixte Coupal M.P., Louis Molleur M.P.L., James McGowan, George Cross, Daniel Macfarlane,the younger, Joshua Breadner, James Wattie, Joseph Holbrook, William Cantwell, Peter Gardiner and Daniel Shanks shall be and are hereby constituted a Board of Provisional Directors of the said Company and shall hold office as such until other Directors shall be elected under the provisions of this Act by the shareholders; and shall have power and authority to fill vacancies occurring therein; to open stock books and procure subscriptions for the undertaking, to make calls upon the subscribers; to cause surveys and plans to be made and executed; to call a general meeting of the shareholders for the election of other Directors as hereinafter provided; and generally to do all such other acts as such Board under the Railway Act may lawfully do. The said Provisional Directors are hereby empowered to take all necessary steps for opening the stock books for the subscriptions of parties desirous of becoming shareholders in the said Company; and all parties subscribing to the capital stock of the said Company shall be considered proprietors and partners in the same.

First general 7. When and so soon as one-tenth part of the said capital meeting of stock shall have been subscribed as aforesaid, either in municipal Shareholders, debentures, granted by way of bonus or otherwise, or in ordinary subscriptions by individuals to the capital stock, or partly in such municipal debentures and partly in such subscriptions, and one-tenth of the amount so subscribed paid in, the said Directors or a majority of them may call a meeting of the Shareholders at such time and place as they shall think proper,-giving at least two weeks' notice thereof in one or more newspapers published at Montreal and Huntingdon; at which said general meeting and at the annual general meetings in the following sections mentioned the shareholders present, either in person or by proxy, shall elect seven Directors in the manner and qualified as hereinafter provided; which said Directors shall constitute a Board of Directors and shall hold office until the second Wednesday in the month of February, in the year following their election.

Annual gen

8. On the said second Wednesday in the month of February eral meeting, and on the second Wednesday in the month of February in each and election. year thereafter, at the principal office of the said Company, there shall be held a general meeting of the shareholders of the Company; at which meeting the shareholders shall elect a like number of seven Directors for the ensuing year in the manner and qualified as hereinafter provided. And public notice of such annual meeting and election shall be published one month before the day of election in one or more newspapers in Montreal and in Huntingdon; and the election of Directors shall be by ballot; and the persons so clected, together with any ex officio Directors, shall form the Board of Directors.

Notice.

Election by ballot.