OF THE

PROVINCE OF MANITOBA

PASSED IN

The First Session of the Seventh Legislature of Manitoba,

BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WINNIPEG ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY

OF AUGUST, A.D. 1888 AND CLOSED BY PROROGATION ON

THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER FOLLOWING;

AND BEING

CHAPTERS ONE TO FOURTEEN INCLUSIVE AND CHAPTER FORTY-NINE,

AND ALSO THOSE PASSED IN

The Second Session of the Seventh Legislature of Manitoba,

BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WINNIPEG ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF
JANUARY, A.D. 1889, AND CLOSED BY PROROGATION

ON THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH FOLLOWING;

AND BEING

CHAPTERS FIFTEEN TO FIFTY-FOUR, both inclusive, EXCEPT CHAPTER FORTY-NINE.

BOTH SESSIONS BEING HELD IN THE

FIFTY-SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY,

QUEEN VICTORIA.

HIS HONOR THE HONORABLE JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHULTZ,

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

VOLS. 1 & 2.--PUBLIC & PRIVATE ACTS.

Winnipeg, Man.

THEOPHANE BERTRAND, QUEEN'S PRINTER.

A.D. 1889.

SCHEDULE A.

Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure of the Province of Manitoba for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1889.

CAP. II.

An Act respecting the Northern Pacific and Manitoba
Railway Company.

WH

[Assented to 4th September 1888.]

HEREAS an Agreement has been formulated for the pur- Preamble. pose of acquiring, constructing, aiding, maintaining and operating certain lines of railway described in said Agreement, a copy of which is appended hereto marked "Schedule A," together with a system of telegraph, telephone and express lines to be operated in connection therewith, and whereas it is expedient to approve and ratify said Agreement and to make provision for carrying the same into effect;

THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

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First The said Agreement, a copy of which is appended Agreement Approved hereto, marked "Schedule A," is hereby approved and ratified, and Governand the Government of the Province of Manitoba is hereby authorized to perform and carry out the conditions thereof form its conaccording to their purport.

Second That Thomas F. Oakes, John W. Kendrick, James McNaught, and all such other persons who shall or may be associated with them and their successors, are hereby created and erected into a body corporate and politic in deed and in law, by the name, style and title of the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall be able to sue and to be sued, to plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in Courts of Law and Equity within the Province of Manitoba, and may make and have a common seal.

ment authorized to per

ditions.

tion of "The

Third: The words "The Company" wherever used in this InterpretaAct, shall mean the "Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company." Company."

constructed

Fourth: The Company is hereby authorized and empow- Railways ered to acquire, complete, lay out, locate, construct, furnish, that may be maintain, operate and enjoy railway lines, with the appurten- and operated ances in the Province of Manitoba, viz: The railway known by "The as the "Red River Valley Railway," located between the In- Company." ternational Boundary line and the City of Winnipeg, and an extension thereof from a point at or near the City of Winnipeg to the town of Portage la Prairie, and also a line of railway between (a point at or near) the town of Morris and the City of Brandon, and also such other extensions and branches within the limits of the Province of Manitoba as the

Telegraph and Telephone lines.

Express business.

R'y Act of Manitoba part of this Act.

Provisional
Directors.

Capital
Stock.

Quorum and powers of Directors.

R'y Commis

Company and the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may hereafter agree upon, and may charge and collect fares, tolls and charges for transportation of persons and property over said railways or any part thereof.

Fifth The Company is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain and operate a system of telegraph and telephone lines along the said railways.

Sixth: The Company is hereby authorized and empowered to engage in and carry on the express business on said railway

lines.

Seventh The several clauses of the Railway Act of Manitoba shall be, and the same are hereby incorporated in, and shall be deemed to be a part of this Act; except in so far as the same are inconsistent with this Act.

Eighth The said Thomas F. Oakes, John W. Kendrick, James McNaught, the Railway Commissioner of the Province of Manitoba for the time, being, and one other person to be designated by the Government within ten days from the coming into force of this Act, are hereby constituted provisional directors of the Company.

Ninth The capital stock of the Company shall be one million dollars, divided into ten thousand shares of one hundred dollars each. At least twenty-five per centum of said stock shall be subscribed and at least ten per centum of the amount subscribed actually paid and deposited to the credit of the Company in a Chartered Bank in the Province of Manitoba, before the Company shall commence business. No subscription for shares shall be valid and binding until at least ten per centum thereof is paid up.

Tenth The Directors, of whom three shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, shall have full power to make and prescribe such by-laws and rules and regulations as they shall deem needful and proper touching the subscription, calls and disposition of the stock, and touching the disposition and management of the property, estate and effects of the Company, the transfer of shares, the duties and conduct of their officers and servants, touching the election and meeting of the Directors, and all matters whatsoever which may appertain to the concerns of the Company; and the said Board of Directors shall have full power to appoint such engineers, agents and subordinates as may from time to time be necessary to carry into effect the object of the Company, and do all acts and things touching the acquisition, location and construction, maintaining and operation of said railway, telegraph and telephone lines.

Eleventh That the Railway Commissioner of the Pro

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vince of Manitoba shall, ex-officio, be one of the Directors of sioner of the Company.

Manitoba an ex-officio

Director.

Twelfth That on or before the first Monday of December Director to of each and every year, the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council of be nominat'd the Province of Manitoba shall designate and name a person ernor-inby Lt.-Govwho shall be a director of the Company for the next ensuing Council. year. In case of the death or resignation of the said Director, the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may appoint a successor for the unexpired period.

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Thirteenth The annual meeting of the stockholders and directors shall be held on the first Monday in December of each and every year, at the head office of the Company which shall be in the City of Winnipeg, between the hours of eleven o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon on said day. It shall be the duty of the stockholders at the time of said annual meeting to elect three (3) Directors, but in case it shall so happen that the election of Directors shall not be made on said day or in the manner prescribed by the by-laws of the Company, the corporation shall not from that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but such election may be holden on any day which shall be appointed by the Directors, and the Directors so elected and designated shall hold their offices for one year and until others are chosen in their places and qualified.

When meetings of the Board of Directors are held, in places outside of the City of Winnipeg, written notice shall be given to each Director ten days before the date of such meeting, stating the time and place of such meeting, and no business other than that stated and described in such written notice shall be transacted.

Fourteenth: That no person shall be qualified to be a Director unless he be the holder of at least ten shares of stock in the Company, and unless he has paid all calls and assessments made thereon; provided, however, that the Railway Commissioner and the Government Director shall be eligible to the office without holding or owning any shares of stock in the Company.

one vote for

Fifteenth: In the election of the three Directors to be Shareholder elected annually by the stockholders, and in the transaction entitled to of all business at shareholders meetings, each shareholder each share. shall be entitled to one vote, either in person or by proxy, for each share of which he is a registered holder, and upon which all calls and assessments have been paid.

Who may

Sixteenth: That all persons except as hereinafter and in Schedule A provided, whether British subjects or aliens, or hold stock. residents of Canada or elsewhere, shall have equal rights to hold stock in the Company, and to vote on the same, and