Preamble. Time for construction. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 45. An Act respecting the Manitoba and North-western WE [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] HEREAS the Manitoba and North-western Railway Company of Canada has, by its petition, prayed for an amendment, as hereinafter set forth, to the Acts relating to the Company, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition : Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in any of the Acts relating to the Manitoba and North-western Railway Company of Canada, the Company shall not, by reason of its failure to construct during the present year twenty miles of its railway, be prevented after the present year from extending its line of railway to Prince Albert, or for any further distance than the length of railway then completed, or from having and enjoying all the rights, powers, privileges and franchises which it now has and enjoys, if in other respects it complies with the provisions of the said Acts. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 55-56 VICTORIA. СНАР. 46. An Act respecting the Manitoba and South-eastern W [Assented to 12th April, 1892.] HEREAS the Manitoba and South-eastern Railway Com- Preamble. pany have by their petition prayed for an Act to amend, as hereinafter mentioned, the Acts relating to the Company, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Notwithstanding any Acts heretofore enacted, the works Time for conauthorized to be constructed by the Acts relating to the Mani- struction. toba and South-eastern Railway Company, hereinafter called "the Company," may be prosecuted from time to time as they deem necessary, or the circumstances of the case require, so long as the Company complete their line of railway between the town of St. Boniface and the parish of St. Anne, a distance of thirty miles, on or before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and shall construct not less than twenty miles each year thereafter; and upon the failure to construct the several lengths of line within the times above mentioned, then the power to continue the construction of the said railway thereafter shall cease and determine, but the right of the Company to the portion constructed and to the rights and privileges arising therefrom shall not thereby be affected. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions contained in section Proxies. fifty-five of The Railway Act, any director not resident in Canada may vote and act by proxy, such proxy to be held by a director only; but no meeting of directors shall be competent to transact business unless at least two directors are present Quorum. thereat in person, the remaining number of directors required to form a quorum being represented by proxies : 2. No appointment of a proxy to vote at any meeting of the Date of directors shall be valid for that purpose unless it has been made proxies. or renewed in writing within one year next preceding the time of such meeting. Mineral lands, &c. 3. The Company may buy, lease, acquire, sell and mortgage coal, iron and other mineral lands and mines, and may mine coal, iron and other minerals, and otherwise work such mines, and may manufacture and sell the products of such mines and lands; provided always that the Company shall not buy, lease or acquire more than ten thousand acres of such lands: and the Company may also purchase, sell, mortgage, construct and own all buildings, machinery and plant which are necessary for carrying on or operating their business. OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 47. An Act respecting the Midland Railway of Canada. W [Assented to 9th July, 1892.]· WHEREAS the Company known as the Midland Railway Preamble. of Canada, have by their petition prayed that the time for the completion of the several sections of their railway, that is to say the Grand Junction section, the Toronto and Ottawa section and the Victoria section, be extended; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: struction ex tended. 1. Notwithstanding anything in the Acts relating to the Time for conCompany or in any other Act contained, the time for the completion of the said sections of the Midland Railway of Canada, that is to say, the Toronto and Ottawa section, the Victoria section and the Grand Junction section, respectively, is hereby extended to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six; and if the said sections are not then completed, then the powers granted by the said Acts and this Act shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the said railway as then remains uncompleted. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. Preamble. Interpretation. Declaratory. Act of incorporation not affected. 55-56 VICTORIA. CHAP. 48. An Act respecting the Montreal and Lake Maskinongé [Assented to 9th July, 1892.] WHEREAS the Montreal and Lake Maskinongé Railway Company has, by its petition, prayed that its railway may be declared to be a work for the general advantage of Canada, and that the Company may be empowered to sell or lease its railway to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. In this Act the expression "the Company" means the Montreal and Lake Maskinongé Railway Company incorporated by chapter sixty-eight of the Satutes of 1887 of the province of Quebec. 2. The following works, which the Company has constructed, are hereby declared to be works for the general advantage of Canada, that is to say: A railway from a point of intersection with the Canadian Pacific Railway at St. Félix de Valois, in the county of Joliette, to Lake Maskinongé in the parish of St. Gabriel de Brandon, in the county of Berthier, with its station houses, engine houses, sidings, telegraph and telephone lines, and other works. 3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed in any way to affect or render inoperative any of the provisions of the said Act of incorporation of the Company; but hereafter the said The Railway Company shall be subject to the legislative authority of the Act to apply. Parliament of Canada and the provisions of The Railway Act. leased to the C.P.R. Co. Works may be 4. The Company may lease or sell to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company the said works, or any part or parts thereof, on such terms and conditions as are agreed upon between the boards of directors of the two companies: Provided, that the lease or deed of sale has been first sanctioned by the Governor |