21. Sections 40 to 61, both inclusive, section 90, sec. 1888, c. 29. tions 93 to 98, both inclusive, and sections 136 to 169, both inclusive, of The Railway Act shall apply to the Company and its undertakings in so far as the said sections are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and subject to the following:

(a.) Wherever in the said sections of The Railway Act the "Company word "company" occurs, it shall mean the Company hereby defined. incorporated.

(b.) Wherever in the said sections of The Railway Act the "Railway " word "railway" occurs, it shall, unless the context otherwise defined. requires and in so far as it applies to the provisions of this Act, mean the works, conduits, lines, cables or other works authorized by this Act to be constructed or acquired.

defined.

(c.) Wherever in the said sections of The Railway Act the "Land" word "land" occurs, it shall include any privilege or easement required by the Company for constructing the works authorized by this Act, or any portion thereof, over and along any land, without the necessity of acquiring a title in fee simple thereto.

22. Sections 9, 18 and 39 of The Companies Clauses Act R.S.C., c. 118. shall not apply to the Company.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's

most Excellent Majesty.

CHAP. 108.

An Act respecting the Trans-Canada Railway

Company.

[Assented to 15th May, 1902.]

WHEREAS the provisional directors of the Trans-Canada 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 His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, declares and enacts as follows:

1895, c. 68;

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in The Railway Act Time for or in the Acts relating to the Trans-Canada Railway Company, completion hereinafter called "the Company," it is hereby declared that extended. the Company shall have ten years from the passing of this Act 1888, c. 29; within which to complete the railway authorized by the said 1897, c. 65. Acts; and if the said railway is not completed within the said period the powers of construction conferred upon the Company by Parliament shall cease and be null and void with respect to so much of the said railway as then remains uncompleted.

2. Section 2 of chapter 68 of the statutes of 1895 is repealed, 1895, c. 68, and the following is substituted therefor :

new s. 2.

"2. The head office of the Company shall be in the city of Head office. Quebec or in such other place in Canada as the Company from time to time determines by by-law."

3. Section 6 of the said Act is repealed, and in lieu thereof Section 6 it is enacted that George Earl Church, Richard Biddulph amended. Martin and Frank Crisp, all of London, England, the Honourable Francis Clemow and J. A. Gemmill, of the city of Ottawa, George Tanguay, John T. Ross, Gaspard LeMoine, Victor Chateauvert, J. G. Scott, William Price, W. A. Marsh, T. A. Piddington, the Honourable P. Garneau, Vesey Boswell, William Shaw, the Honourable N. Garneau, L. A. Robitaille, N. Rioux, E. Beaudet, E. E. Ling, A. E. Doucet, the Honourable Jules Tessier, Guy Tombs, Alexandre Hardy and S. S. Oliver, all of the city of Quebec, B. A. Scott, of Roberval, George T. Davie, of Levis, J. D. Guay and J. E. A. Dubuc, of Chicou227 timi,

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timi, Joseph Girard, of St. Gédéon, Onézime Coté, of St. Alphonse, William Hanson, of Montreal, W. Reeves, of Montreal, James McNaught, of New York, H. H. Melville, of Boston, Massachusetts, A. Robitaille, of Quebec, John Farson, of Chicago, and Thomas L. Willson, of St. Catharines, Ontario, shall be the provisional directors of the Company, of whom seven shall form a quorum.

4. The Company may continue the construction of its main line which was commenced at Roberval on the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, from that point in a westerly or northBranch lines. Westerly direction, and may build a branch line from the nearest point ou its main line to deep water near the mouth of the Nottaway River, and also, a branch line from Chicoutimi to the mouth of the Saguenay River at or near St. Catharines Bay.

Running
powers over
Quebec and

Lake St. John
Railway.

Agreement with another

company.

2. The Company may, subject to agreement with the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway Company, exercise running powers over the said railway to Quebec and Chicoutimi.

5. The Company may enter into an agreement with the Great Northern Railway of Canada, the Quebec and Lake St John Railway Company, or the Canadian Northern Railway Company, for conveying or leasing to such company the railway of the Company, in whole or in part, or any rights or powers acquired under this Act, as also the franchises, surveys, plans, works, plant, material, machinery and other property to it belonging, or for an amalgamation with such company, on such terms and conditions as are agreed upon, and subject to such restrictions as to the directors seem fit; provided that and Governor such agreement has been first approved by two-thirds of the votes at a special general meeting of the shareholders duly called for the purpose of considering it, at which meeting shareholders representing at least two-thirds in value of the stock are present or represented by proxy, and that such agreement has also received the sanction of the Governor in Council.

Approval of shareholders

in Council.

Notice of application for sanction.

Agreement

to be filed

with Secretary

of State.

2. Such sanction shall not be signified until after notice of the proposed application therefor has been published in the manner and for the time set forth in section 239 of The Railway Act, and also for a like period in one newspaper in each of the counties or electoral districts through which the railway of the Company runs, and in which a newspaper is published.

3. A duplicate of the agreement referred to in subsection 1 of this section shall, within thirty days after its execution, be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Canada, and notice thereof shall be given by the Company in The Canada Gazette, and the production of The Canada Gazette containing such notice shall be prima facie evidence of the requirements of this Act having been complied with.

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

CHAP. 109.

An Act to incorporate the Union Life Assurance

Company.

[Assented to 15th May, 1902.]

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

tion.

1. Harry Symons, K.C., Hardy Pollman Evans, both of the Incorporacity of Toronto; Charles Percy, of the city of Montreal; Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Allen Jones, A. E. Vallerand, both of the city of Quebec; Franklin George Hughes, L.D.S., of the town of Galt, Ontario; and George Ernest Millichamp, M.D., of the city of Toronto, together with such persons as become members of and shareholders in the company, are incorporated under the name of "The Union Life Assurance Com- Corporate pany," hereinafter called "the Company."

name.

2. The persons named in section 1 of this Act, together Provisional with such persons, not exceeding six, as they associate with directors. them, shall be the provisional directors of the Company, a majority of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, and they may forthwith open stock books, procure Powers. subscriptions of stock for the undertaking, make calls on stock subscribed, and receive payments thereon, and 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 shall withdraw the same for the purposes only of the Company, and may do generally what is necessary to organize the Company.

3. The capital stock of the Company shall be one million Capital stock. dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.