poses may construct, erect and maintain all necessary buildings, machinery, appliances and conveniences. for the purpose of such tramways and works, including the erection of poles upon any and all streets and roads upon which the company deems it expedient, and also may construct and operate bridges or ferries across any river or stream for the purpose of said tramway; and with the consent of the Minister of Public Works or any municipal council having jurisdiction thereover, may construct and operate such tramways over and along any bridge which is now or shall hereafter be erected across any river or stream within the area in which this company is authorized to operate, which may now or shall hereafter be constructed, and which may be under the management of such minister or municipal council:

Provided that the company shall not be entitled to use any of the public streets, roads, highways or bridges within any incorporated city or town for the purpose of a street railway system or otherwise than for its main lines, spurs, sidings and switches immediately connected therewith unless it has first obtained the consent of the municipal council of the corporation to an agreement between the company and the municipal corporation which agreement shall be referred to the vote of the ratepayers of the said municipal corporation, and shall require the approval of the majority of the ratepayers voting thereon in such manner and subject to the same provisions as the voting upon money by-laws and provided further that nothing herein shall be deemed to dispense with the approval of the Minister of Public Works to the plans of the said railway nor to otherwise dispense with or supersede any of the provisions of The Railway Act of the Province of Alberta with reference to the filing and approval of plans, profiles and books with reference to such railway.

4. The persons mentioned by name in the first section of this Act are hereby constituted provisional directors of the

company.

5. The capital stock of the said company shall be $100,000, being one thousand shares of the value of $100 each, and may be called up by the directors from time to time as they deem necessary; but no one call shall exceed ten per cent. on the shares subscribed, and there shall be a period of at least two months between calls.

6. The annual general meeting of the shareholders shall be held on the first Monday in September in each year.

7. At such meeting the subscribers for capital stock assembled who have paid all calls due on their shares shall choose

five persons to be directors of the company one or more of whom may be paid directors of the company.

8. So soon as twenty-five thousand dollars of the capital stock have been subscribed and ten per cent. thereon paid up the provisional directors shall call a meeting of the shareholders for the purpose of electing directors, first giving two weeks' notice of such meeting by advertisement in The Alberta Gazette and a newspaper published in the City of Lethbridge.

9. The company may issue bonds, debentures or other securities to the extent of ten thousand dollars per mile of the railway and branches, and such bonds, debentures or other securities may be issued only in proportion to the length of railway constructed or under contract to be constructed.

10. The said company may enter into agreements with any person or company having right and authority to construct and operate street railways or tramways within eighty miles of the said boundaries of the said City of Lethbridge, for conveying or leasing to such person or company the whole or any part of the tramway of the company hereby incorporated or any rights or powers acquired under this Act; as also the surveys, plans, works, plants, material. machinery and other property to it belonging, or for an amalgamation with such company or for leasing, hiring or purchasing the plant, rolling stock or other property of such person or company, or for running arrangements by such person or company over the lines of the company hereby incorporated.

11. Such agreements may be on such terms and conditions as are agreed upon and subject to such terms as to the directors may seem fit:

Provided that any such agreement must first be sanctioned by two-thirds of the votes at a special meeting of the shareholders duly called for the purpose of considering the same, and that such agreement has received the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

12. The directors of the company may make and issue as paid up stock (or as partly paid up shares) in the company whether subscribed for or not, and may allot and hand over such stock (or shares) in payment for the right-of-way, plant, rolling stock or materials of any kind, and also for the services of contractors, engineers or in payment of fees, expenses and disbursements for procuring the passing of any Act relating to the said company; and such issue and allotment of stock or shares shall be binding on the company and such stock shall not be assessable for calls.

13. The vehicles of the company shall have the right to use the tracks of the company as against all other vehicles

whatever; and all other vehicles using the said tracks shall turn out of the said tracks and permit the vehicles of the company to pass and shall in no case and under no pretence whatever obstruct or hinder the passage on and the free use of the said tracks for the vehicles of the said company.

14. The fare shall be due and payable by every passenger on entering the car; and any person who refuses to pay the fare when demanded by the conductor or driver and refuses to leave the car when requested to do so by the conductor or driver shall on summary conviction thereof before a justice of the peace be liable to a fine of not less than $10.

15. The several clauses of The Railway Act of Alberta shall be and the same are hereby incorporated in and shall be deemed to be a part of this Act and shall apply to the said company and to the railway to be constructed by them, except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the express enactments hereof, or are inapplicable to a railway of the kind constructed by the company.

16. This Act may be cited as The Lethbridge Radial Tramway Act.

1907

CHAPTER 31.

An Act to Amend The Strathcona Radial Tramway Ordin

W

ance, 1904.

(Assented to March 15, 1907).

HEREAS a petition has been presented praying for amendment of The Strathcona Radial Tramway Ordinance 1904, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition;

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

1. The Strathcona Radial Tramway Ordinance 1904, being chapter 34 of the Ordinance of the North-West Territories, 1904, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "purpose," where it occurs in the fifth line of section three thereof, the words, in the town of Strathcona ;" and by striking out the word "three" where it occurs in the first proviso of the said section three, and substituting therefor the word "six;" and by striking out the word "seven" where it occurs in the second proviso of the said section three and by substituting therefor the word "ten."

Preamble

Section 2 of Ordinance 33 of 1893 as amended repealed

Limits of city of Calgary

1907

CHAPTER 32.

An Act to Amend Ordinance No. 33 of 1893 and Other Legislation respecting the City of Calgary.

(Assented to March 15, 1907).

WHEREAS the City of Calgary has prayed for amendments

to the Ordinance No. 33 of 1893 and the other various Ordinances of the late North-West Territories, and the Statute of the Province of Alberta of 1906 affecting its incorporation; and,

Whereas it is expedient to grant such prayer;

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

1. Section 2 of Ordinance 33 of 1893, N.W.T., as amended by section 1 of Ordinance 40 of 1901, and by section 1 of Ordinance 27 of the first session of 1903, N.W.T., and by the first paragraph of subsection 1 of section 1 of chapter 55 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1906, and said sections of said Ordinances are hereby repealed and the following substituted:

"The limits of the City of Calgary shall comprise the following lands and property and such other property as may be brought within the same under any other provisions of the Ordinances and Statute respecting the said city, to wit:

"That portion of the north half of section four (4) north of the Elbow River; the north half of section five (5); the whole of sections eight (8), nine (9), ten (10) and eleven (11); that part of section twelve (12) west of the Elbow River; that part of soction thirteen (13) south and west of the Elbow River; the whole of sections fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17); and the south half of each of sections twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), and twenty-three (23); that portion of the north-east quarter of section 18 south of the main line and right of way of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and six hundred and sixty feet in depth of the northern part of the south-east quarter of said section 18; all of said sections or parts thereof being in township 24 range 1 west of the 5th principal meridian in the Province of Alberta, according to the surveys made by the Dominion of Canada; and where any such lands are bounded by the Bow or Elbow Rivers the limits of the city shall go and extend to the centre of such rivers respectively and shall also include any islands