Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 15 amended. 1. The fifteenth section of the act passed at the session 29 and 30 Vict. of the Parliament of the late province of Canada, held in chap. 100, sec. the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty's reign, and intituled: "An Act to incorporate the South Eastern Counties Junction Railway Company," is hereby amended by striking out therefrom the words "in the month of September, for the purpose of electing directors," and substituting therefor the words "or special general meeting duly convened for that purpose, by public notice inserted for at least two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published on or as near as may be to the line of the said railway." 60, and the same act. 2. The act hereby amended, that passed at the session Said Act Q. of this Legislature held in the thirty-second year of Her 32 Vict., cap. Majesty's reign, intituled: "An Act to amend the act present to form incorporating the South Eastern Counties Junction Rail- one and the way Company," and this act shall be held and construed as though forming one and the same act; and the expression" the charter of the South Eastern Counties Junction Railway Company," shall be a sufficient citation of the same. CAP. XXIX. An Act to empower the Huntington Mining Company to work a certain tramway from their mine in Bolton to the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad and to the navigable waters of Lake Memphremagog. [Assented to 24th December, 1870.] WHEREAS the Huntington Mining Company has Preamble: petitioned the legislature setting forth that the said Company has made great progress in the construction of a Tramway connecting their mine in the township of Bolton with the eastern terminus of the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly railroad and with the navigable waters of Lake Memphremagog, and praying for the passing of an act to remove doubts as to their power to work the same for the public convenience; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: The company's tramway shall 1. The said mining company may exercise, as to the said be subject to proposed tramway, all and singular the powers conferred Railway Act of upon railway companies in this province by "The Quebec Railway Act, 1869;" and to that end the said tramway shall be a railway within the meaning of the said act. 1869. Company may make agree other Compa ments with nies for certain purposes. . The said company may enter into any agreement with any other railway company in this province for the leasing of the said railway or tramway or any part thereof, or the use thereof for any time or times or for any period to such other company; or for the leasing or hiring from such other company of any railway or part thereof, or the use thereof; or for the leasing or hiring of any locomotives, tenders or movable property; and generally may make any agreement or agreements with any such other company touching the use or sale by one or the other or by both companies of the railway or moveable property of either or of both, or any part thereof, or touching any service to be rendered by the one company to the other and the compensation therefor; and any such agreement shall be valid and shall be enforced by courts of law according to the terms and tenor thereof. Preamble. Company may cars. Proviso. CAP. LXV. An Act to amend the act incorporating the Montreal City [Assented to 24th December, 1870.] WHEREAS the Montreal City Passenger Railway Com pany of Montreal, has, by petition, represented that divers improved methods of propelling vehicles for the transport of passengers, have been discovered, of which the said company desires to avail itself in the interest of the public, and for the furtherance of its business, and has prayed for authority to use such improved methods in the city of Montreal, and in the municipalities adjoining the same; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: . It shall be lawful for the Montreal City Passenger Railway Company of Montreal to employ for the propelling of its vehicles and for the transport of passengers and their baggage, either upon rails or upon roads and streets in the city of Montreal, and in the municipalities adjoining thereto, motive power produced by steam, caloric, compressed air, or by any other means or machinery whatever; provided always, that before, however, exercising the said power in any street in the said city, the company shall 2. The said cars or traction engines shall not be allowed Rights of Turnpike to run on roads in charge of the trustees of the Montreal Trustees saved turnpike roads without the consent of the said trustees, who shall have the power to levy such tolls for the passage of the said cars or traction engines as to them shall appear fair and reasonable, subject to the approval of the lieutenantgovernor in council, and the said company shall be held liable to the said trustees for all damages that may arise. either directly or indirectly, from the running of said cars or traction engines on the said turnpike roads. stopped when 3. In case any horse on the street in the city of Montreal Cars to be or on the highway in any of said municipalities becomes horses are restive at the sight or from the noise of an approaching car frightened. or engine, it shall be the duty of the conductor or engine driver to stop the car or engine until such horse shall have passed the car or engine, or shall have been removed, and to render all reasonable assistance to the driver of such horse. 4. The said company is hereby authorized to increase Power to inits capital stock, by the issue of new stock to the extent of crease capital. three hundred thousand dollars above and beyond its present capital, making its capital to consist in all of six hundred thousand dollars, and such issue of new stock may be made in such manner and upon such terms and conditions and in such proportion as the company may fix and determine by by-law. 1869. CAP. XXXV. An Act to amend the Colonization Railway Aid Act of [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: Sec. 8, Coloni zation railway I. The eighth section of the colonization railway aid act ald 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. entitled to aid, Mont. North. 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. Full converted be paid in certain cases. CAP. XXII. An Act to amend the Act of this Province, thirty-second HE [Assented to 23rd December, 1871.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec. enacts as follows: F. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained subsidy may in the act of this province, thirty-second Victoria, chapter fifty-two, whenever one continuous half of any of the railways named in the said act, or of the length of the St. Francis and Megantic International Railway, defined in section thirteen of the act of this Province, thirty-fourth Victoria, chapter twenty-one, or any continuous portion of such railways, not less than twenty-five miles in length, shall be completed and in operation, the lieutenant-governor in council may, on demand of the company, pay for such half, or for every such length of road, the full amount of the converted subsidy granted by the said act, in proportion to the number of miles so completed. either in money or in capitalized debentur es. It may be paid 2. Such payment may be made either in money or by means of capitalized government debentures, and the provisions of sub-sections four, five, six, seven and eight, of section five of the said act, shall apply to the said debentures in the same manner as to the converted debentures mentioned in the said sub-sections, and shall subject the company and the railway, and all the properties and appurtenances thereof to the same obligations, conditions and lien, as they would have been subject to in the case of the payment of the annual subsidy or of debentures having been issued in virtue of the said act. An Act to provide for the granting of certain lands in aid [Assented to 23rd December, 1871.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of apart for the this act. 1. From and out of the public lands of this province, 1,935,000 acres certain lands forming a superficies of one million nine of land set hundred and thirty-five thousand acres, more or less, are purposes of hereby set apart for the purposes of this act, that is to say: all the lands described in the schedule of this act, under the designations of blocks E and F, and comprised within the blocks or extents of territory delineated in red, and marked E and F, 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 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. be granted on Francis and 2. The lieutenant-governor in council may, subject to 10,000 acres the provisions of the two next following sections, grant to per mile may the St. Francis and Megantic International railway company, certain condifor the construction of that portion of its railway, within tions to the St. this province, between the place where the said railway Megantic leaves the line of the Grand Trunk Railway and the International pro- R. Co. vince line, ten thousand acres of land for each mile of such portion of railway; the said land to be chosen within the limits of the said block E. 3. The company shall be entitled to the said grant upon Conditions of the following conditions only: The said portion of railway shall have been completed to the province line, and put into operation, to the entire satisfaction of the lieutenant-governor in council, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven; The lieutenant-governor in council, if he thinks proper, may, nevertheless, when it is established that the said company is actively engaged in the construction of its said grant. |