Head office.

First general meet

ing.

Annual meetings.

Notice of meeting.

Quorum.

Calls.

Power to construct a railway.

Power to hold real estate.

Fares.

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Company, to obtain subscriptions for stock, and to open stock books, and to receive payments of stock subscribed, and to issue stock, and organize the said Company, and shall hold office until the election of Directors as hereinafter provided for.

4. The head office of the Company shall be in the City of Van

couver.

5. The first general meeting of shareholders for the appointment of Directors shall be on the second Tuesday in May, 1891, at the office of the Company in Vancouver.

6. The subsequent annual general meeting of shareholders shall be held at the office of the Company in Vancouver on the second Tuesday in May in each year.

7. All general meetings of the shareholders shall be called by a notice in writing mailed by the Secretary of the Company to the post office address of each shareholder two weeks before the date of each meeting.

8. The Board of Directors shall consist of five Directors, of whom three shall form a quorum.

9. No call upon the capital stock of the Company shall exceed ten (10) per centum of the subscribed stock of the shareholders, and two months shall elapse between each call and the succeeding call, and no more than (4) four calls shall be made in any one year.

10. The Company are hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, complete, and operate a single or double track line of railway, with all necessary switches, side-tracks and turn-outs, and other requisite appliances in connection therewith necessary for carrying on the operations of the Company, from some point in or near the City of Vancouver, to run southerly to the North Arm of the Fraser River; thence across the said river to Sea Island and Lulu Island, continuing southerly to some point on the south side of Lulu Island, and to make branch railways thereto, and to construct and operate a steam ferry between the said point on the south side of Lulu Island and Ladner's Landing and other places on said Fraser River.

11. The Company may purchase, lease, hold, or acquire and transfer any real or personal estate necessary for carrying on the operations of the Company.

12. The fare shall be due and payable by every passenger on entering the car, and any person refusing to pay the fare when demanded by the conductor or driver, and refusing to quit the car

ELECTRICAL (INCORPORATION).

when requested to do so by the conductor or driver, shall be liable to a fine of not more than twenty dollars, recoverable with costs before any two Justices of the Peace, Police Magistrate, or Stipendiary Magistrate in the said Province, in like manner as fines are recoverable before Justices of the Peace under any Act for the time being in force in this Province.

13. The provisions of the "British Columbia Railway Act," save as Application of "B. herein varied, shall apply to this Act and be read as if incorporated C. Railway Act."

herein.

14. All by-laws of the Municipality of Richmond which have been Certain by-laws and passed by the Council, and which have received the assent of the to the benefit of the agreements to enure electors of the municipality in accordance with the provisions of the company. Municipal Act, 1889 and 1890, in respect of by-laws for contracting debts, and all contracts, agreements, and engagements entered into between the "Vancouver and Lulu Island Electrical Railway and Improvement Company, Limited Liability," and any person or persons, body or bodies corporate, shall enure to the benefit of the Company as if such contracts, agreements, and engagements were made with the Company.

15. The said railway shall be commenced within one year and be Commencement and completed within two years from the time of the passing of this Act. completion.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty

An Act to Incorporate the Vancouver, Northern, Peace River, and Alaska Railway and Navigation Company.

WHE

[20th April, 1891.]

WHEREAS a petition has been presented praying for the incorpora- Preamble. tion of a Company to construct, maintain, equip, and operate a line of railway, and a telegraph and telephone line, commencing at the City of Vancouver, or some other convenient point on the south shore of Burrard Inlet; thence running in a northerly direction by way of Seymour Creek, the Pemberton Meadows, and the Chilcotin Plains, or the Fraser River Valley, from or near Lillooet to the neighbourhood of Fort George; thence running in a north-westerly direction to a point on the Stickeen River, with a branch line from Fort George, or the neighbourhood thereof, to Giscome Portage, and by way of Peace River to the neighbourhood of Fort St. John on the said River, with the further power to construct another branch line from some convenient point on the main line to the neighbourhood of Barkerville, in Cariboo, and thence to the Forks of the Quesnelle River, with power to the said Company to maintain and operate a line of ships and steamers on the waters of the Province of British Columbia in connection with the said railway:

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. That John Hendry, David Oppenheimer, Robert Clark, Gideon Incorporation. Robertson, Richard H. Alexander, Henry Tracy Ceperley, John C. MacLagan, Alan E. McCartney, Edward White, William Skene, E. Lindsay Phillips, Frank Granville, James Orr, Henry E. McKee,

Power to construct

railway.

Head office.

Power to construct telegraph.

RIVER (INCORPORATION).

Donald McGillivray, George E. Berteaux, Charles S. Douglas, Robert A. Anderson, Henry A. Jones, all of the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, and such other persons and corporations as shall, in pursuance of this Act, become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the "Vancouver, Northern, Peace River, and Alaska Railway and Navigation Company," hereinafter called "the Company."

2. The Company, their servants, agents, and workmen, shall have full power and authority to lay out, construct, equip, complete and operate a double or single line of railway of four feet eight and onehalf inches gauge, commencing at the City of Vancouver, or some other convenient point on the south shore of Burrard Inlet; thence running in a northerly direction by way of Seymour Creek, the Pemberton Meadows, and the Chilcotin Plains, or the Fraser River Valley, from or near Lillooet to the neighbourhood of Fort George; thence running in a north-westerly direction to a point on the Stickeen River, with a branch line from Fort George, or the neighbourhood thereof, to Giscome Portage, and by way of Peace River to the neighbourhood of Fort St. John on said River, with the further power to construct another branch line from some convenient point on the main line to the neighbourhood of Barkerville, in Cariboo, and thence to the Forks of the Quesnelle River, with power to maintain and operate a line of ships and steamers on the waters of the Province of British Columbia in connection with the said railway.

3. The chief place of business and head office of the Company shall be at the City of Vancouver.

4. The Company may construct, maintain, and work telegraph and telephone lines throughout and along the whole line of the railway and its branches, or any part or parts thereof, and may undertake the transmission of messages for the public by any such line or lines of telegraph or telephone, and collect tolls for so doing, or may lease such lines of telegraph or telephone, or any portion thereof; and they may use any improvement that may be hereafter invented (subject to the rights of patentees), and any other means of communication that may be deemed expedient by the Company at any time hereafter.

-Power to equip and 5. The Company may acquire, build, equip, maintain and navigate, operate steamships. sell and dispose of, charter and work steamers and other vessels in and upon the waters of British Columbia, and generally do all things necessary and incidental to the exercise of the powers, rights, and privileges granted by this Act within the Legislative authority of the Provincial Legislature.