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operating and maintaining upon, or in the vicinity of, the pas sage or passages of the bridge, of piers, booms, buoys or other aids or safeguards to navigation-or otherwise designed to protect the interests of the public or the prevention of obstructions to navigation.

of regulations.

2. On the failure of the Company to comply, within such Enforcement time as the Minister deems reasonable, with any such regulations or orders the Governor in Council may, on the report of the Minister, either close the bridge and approaches until such regulations or orders are complied with, or cause them to be observed or executed at the expense of the Company; and all amounts expended under the order of the Governor in Council in giving effect to such regulations or orders shall be recoverable from the Company by proceedings in the name of the Attorney General of Canada in any court of competent jurisdiction.

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11. The Company may, with the approval of two-thirds of Union with the votes of the shareholders present at a special general meet- company. ing duly called for the purpose of considering the matters in this section referred to, at which meeting shareholders representing at least two-thirds in value of the capital stock are present or represented by proxy, and after obtaining the sanction of the Governor in Council in the manner provided by section 239 of The Railway Act, and subject to the provisions contained in this Act, unite with any other company incorporated for similar purposes under the laws of Canada or of the province of Nova Scotia, or with any body corporate, in building, maintaining, managing and using the bridge and approaches, and may enter into any agreement with such corporation respecting the construction, maintenance, management and use thereof.

12. The Company may issue bonds, debentures or other Bond issue. securities in aid of the construction herein mentioned to an amount not exceeding five million dollars.

13. The Company's work shall be commenced within two Time for years and completed within six years from the passing of this construction Act, otherwise the powers granted for the construction of the said work shall cease and be null and void.

limited.

14. The provisions of The Railway Act, so far as they are 1888, c. 29. applicable to the Company and its undertakings, and when not inconsistent with the provisions hereof, shall apply to the Company and its undertakings in the same manner as if they were included in and formed part of this Act

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

CHAP. 105.

An Act respecting the Tilsonburg, Lake Erie and
Pacific Railway Company.

[Assented to 15th May, 1902.]

WHEREAS the Tilsonburg, Lake Erie and Pacific Railway Preamble. Company has, by its petition, prayed that it be enacted

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as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer

of the said petition: Therefore His Majesty, by and with the 1890, c. 56. advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, declares and enacts as follows:

revived in

part.

1. The powers granted to the Tilsonburg, Lake Erie and Section 3 Pacific Railway Company by section 3 of chapter 56, of the statutes of 1890, to construct a railway from the town of Tilsonburg to some point on the Canadian Pacific Railway at or near the town of Woodstock or the town of Ingersoll in the county of Oxford, are revived and declared to be in force, and Time for the said Company shall commence the construction of the said portion of its railway within two years and complete it within five years from the passing of this Act, otherwise the powers of construction thereof shall cease and be null and void with respect to so much of the said railway as then remains uncompleted.

construction extended.

2. The said Company may lay out, construct and operate Extension to an extension of its railway from the town of Ingersoll, thence Collingwood. passing through the counties of Oxford, Perth, Waterloo, Wellington, Dufferin, Grey and Simcoe, or any of them, to a point at or near Collingwood on Georgian Bay.

3. The provisions of section 9 of chapter 56 of the said sta- Issue of tutes of 1890 as to the issue of bonds, debentures or other bonds. securities on the railway and branches of the said Company, shall also apply to the extension authorized under the provisions of section 2 of this Act.

Time for construction of extension limited.

4. The said extension to Collingwood shall be commenced within two years and completed within five years from the passing of this Act, otherwise the powers of construction thereof shall cease and be null and void with respect to so much of the said extension as then remains uncompleted.

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

CHAP. 106.

An Act respecting the Timagami Railway Company.

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[Assented to 15th May, 1902.]

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 His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

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1. Section 2 of chapter 84 of the statutes of 1900 is repealed. 1900, c. 84, s. 2 repealed. 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 passing of this Act, 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 passing of this Act, then the powers granted by Parliament for such construction shall cease and be null and void with respect to so much of the said railway as then remains uncompleted.

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

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