branch of their railway shall be held to all intents to be a may vote on 2. If any municipality shall subscribe for stock of the Mayor in company to a less amount than twenty thousand dollars, certain case the mayor thereof, or any other person thereto authorized stock of his by the municipal council, may vote upon such stock at all municipality. meetings of the shareholders of the company, to all intents as though personally the owner of such stock. completion of 3. The several delays of three years and ten years from Extension of the date of the passing of the act hereby amended, which time for are at present limited by law for the commencement and railway. completion respectively of the railway of the company, are hereby so extended as to count only from the date of the passing of this act. this and the 2. This act, and the act hereby amended, shall be held Short title for and construed as though forming one and the same act, amended act. and the expression "The charter of the South Eastern counties junction railway company," shall be a sufficient citation of the said act, as hereby amended. CAP. LXI. An Act further to amend the acts relating to the Stanstead, [Assented to 5th April, 1869.] HEREAS the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Rail- Preamble. certain amendments in their act of incorporation, and the 1. Notwithstanding anything in the one hundred and Notwithstand. seventeenth section of the act known as the Railway Act sec. 117 of the railway act and 27 V., c. 58. extension of time for completion of railway. Change of day of holding general meeting. Sec. 8 Colonìzation railway and the non-completion of the said railway within the period limited by the act twenty-seventh Victoria, chapter fifty-eight, amending the said Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly railway act, the corporate existence and powers of the said company shall be held to have continued and shall continue in full force and effect; provided the said rail-road be finished and put in operation within five years after the passing of this act. 2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the said act of incorporation, the next general meeting of shareholders of the said company, for the election of directors thereof, and for the transaction of the general business of the corporation shall be holden on the first Wednesday in November next after the passing of this act, and thence annually on the first Wednesday in November in each year thereafter; public notice of such annual general meeting and election to be given in the manner provided by the said act. CAP. XXX V. An Act to amend the Colonization Railway Aid Act of HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. The eighth section of the colonization railway aid act aid act of 1869 of 1869, is hereby amended, by substituting for the word "seventy" therein, the words "seventy-two," and for the words "seventy-three," the words "seventy-five." amended. Mont. North. entitled to aid 2. The Montreal Northern Colonization Railway Company Col. Railway, shall be entitled, upon its conforming to the provisions of although built the said act, to the aid assured by the said act, notwithstanding that the whole, or any part of the road of the said company shall have been constructed in iron. of iron. CAP. XX. An Act to amend the Quebec Railway Act, 1869. Assente to 24th December, 1870.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. The Quebec Railway Act, 1869, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph at the end of section fourteen of the said act : Quebec Rail "22. Whenever, by the terms of any special act incor- Sec. 14 of porating any wooden or iron railway company, it is re- way Act, 1869, quired that a certain proportion of the stock of such com- amended. pany shall have been subscribed before the calling of a meeting of shareholders for the purpose of electing directors, it shall be sufficient that such proportion of stock shall have been subscribed before such election takes place, even though it was not subscribed when such meeting was alled, and every election already had under any such special act shall be valid, provided that before it took place, such proportion of stock had been subscribed." elections of directors. 2. No mayor, warden or other chief officer, or other per- No mayor, &c., son or persons representing any municipality, or corpora- holding stock of municipality tion of any city having or taking stock in any railway com- to vote at pany shall, directly or indirectly, vote on the election or appointment of the directors of any railway company incorporated previous to the passing of this act, or which may hereaftr become incorporated. CAP. XXI. An Act to provide for the granting of certain lands in aid of the Railway Companies therein mentioned. [Assented to 24th December, 1870.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent apart for the this act 1. From and out of the public lands of this province cer- 3,208,500 acre s tain lands hereinafter mentioned, forming a superficies of of land set three million two hundred and eight thousand and five purposes of hundred acres, are hereby set apart for the purposes of this act, that is to say: all the lands described in the schedule to this act, under the designations of blocks A, B, C and D, and comprised within the four blocks or extents of territory colored in red and marked respectively A, B, C and D, upon a certain lithographed copy of a map of the province of Quebec, drawn at the crown lands department of this province, by Eugène Taché, assistant commissioner of crown lands, and dated Quebec, eighteen hundred and seventy, which lithographed copy is filed in the office of the clerk of the legislative council of this province, to remain of 200,000 acres of such land on certain conditions may be grant ed to North Shore Railway Company. Conditons on record for all the purposes of this act, and copies of which, in full, or on a reduced scale, certified by the said clerk shall be deemed authentic for all legal purposes. 2. The lieutenant-governor in council, may, subject to the provisions of the next following section, grant to the North Shore Railway and Saint Maurice Navigation and Land Company, now to be called the North Shore Railway Company, for building the north shore railway from Quebec to Montreal and the road to the Grandes Piles, and the establishment of a line of steamers on the St. Maurice, as mentioned in the act of the late province of Canada, intituled: "An act to incorporate the St. Maurice Railway and Navigation Company," two millions of acres of land, to be chosen and allotted by the lieutenant-governor in council on the report of the commissioner of crown lands, from within the said blocks A, B, C and D, in a corresponding proportion, as regards quantity and quality, to those granted under this act for the construction of a railway from Montreal to Aylmer. 3. The company shall be entitled to such grant on the which grant following conditions only: may be made. Former grants &c., revoked. 10,000 cres 1. The said railways shall have been completed and put in operation to the entire satisfaction of the lieutenant-governor in council, and steam navigation shall have been put into operation on the St. Maurice; but the lieutenantgovernor in council, if he thinks proper, may nevertheless, when it is established that the said company is actively engaged in the construction of its works, grant to it, for each twenty-five miles of road completed, a portion of the said lands proportionate in extent to such length of road; 2. The lieutenant-governor in council shall have the appointment of one-third of the directors of the said company, without counting the ex-officio directors, or directors representing municipalities, and no city, town or municipality shall be represented in the said company by a greater number of directors than the lieutenant-governor in council. 4. All grants of land made to the said Company or to the St. Maurice Railway and Navigation Company by different acts passed by the parliament of the late province of Canada, and the assurance of aid given by the colonization railway aid act of 1869 for the construction of a wooden railway between Three Rivers and the Grandes Piles, are hereby revoked and repealed. 5. The lieutenant-governor in council may, subject to be granted on the provisions of the next following section, grant to the per mile may tions to Colonization Montreal Northern Colonization Railway Company for certain condi building a railway from Montreal to Aylmer upon the North Montreal Shore of the Ottawa, ten thousand acres of land for every Northern mile of such railway, to be chosen and allotted by the Railway Comlieutenant-governor in council, on the report of the Com- pany, missioner of Crown Lands, from within the said blocks A, B, C and D in a corresponding proportion, as regards quantity and quality to those granted, under this act for the construction of the North Shore Railway as aforesaid. 6. The said Montreal Northern Colonization Railway Conditions on Company shall be entitled to the said grant on the follow- which grant ing conditions only: 1. The railway from Montreal to Aylmer shall have been completed and in operation; but according as the company shall have completed twenty-five miles of the railway, the lieutenant-governor in council may, if he think proper, grant to it a proportionate quantity of the said lands at the reduced rate of five thousand acres for each mile completed within the section extending from Montreal to Grenville, and at a proportionately increased rate for every mile completed within the section between Grenville and Aylmer; 2. The said railway shall connect with the said North Shore Railway from Quebec to Montreal at such point as shall be determined by the lieutenant-governor in council; 3. The lieutenant-governor in council shall have the appointment of one-third of the directors, of the company without counting the ex-officio directors or directors representing municipalities, and no city, town or municipality shall be represented in the company by a greater number of directors than the lieutenant-governor in council. may be made to a certain 7. The Colonization Railway Aid Act of 1869 shall no Q., 32 V., .. longer apply to such portion of the said Montreal Northern 52 not to apply Colonization Railway as shall form part of the route from portion of said Montreal to Aylmer. railway. be granted to wick Railway ships. 8. The lieutenant-governor in council may, subject to 10,000 acres the provisions of the next following section, grant to the per mile may Quebec and New Brunswick Railway Company ten thou- Quebec and sand acres of land for every mile of its railway built between New Bruns the frontier of this province and River du Loup, or Company, from Kamouraska, or any intermediate point between those two certain townplaces, to be chosen and allotted by the lieutenant-governor in council on the report of the commissioner of crown lands, from within the townships of Packington, Bottsford and Robinson, and the territory adjoining the boundary line between this Province and New Brunswick to the east of the said Railway. |