Time for com

way.

4. The time limited for the completion of the several secpletion of rail- tions of the railway is hereby extended as follows: The first section shall be completed in four years, the second in five years, and the third in seven years from the passing of this Act; and upon failure to complete as herein provided, then the power thereafter to continue the construction shall cease and determine, but the right of the Company to the portion constructed shall not thereby be affected.

Failure to complete.

OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

55-56 VICTORIA.

CHAP. 52.

An Act respecting the Ontario Pacific Railway

WH

Company.

[Assented to 9th July, 1892.]

HEREAS the Ontario Pacific Railway Company has, by Preamble. its petition, prayed that the Acts relating to the Com

pany be amended as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majes ty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

tended.

1. The times limited for the commencement and completion Time for conof the undertaking of the Ontario Pacific Railway Company are struction exhereby extended for two and four years respectively from the first day of July next; and if the undertaking is not commenced and completed as herein provided, then the powers granted for the construction thereof shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the undertaking as then remains uncompleted.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

Preamble.

Extension of

tario into

Quebec.

55-56 VICTORIA.

CHAP. 53.

An Act respecting the Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company.

[Assented to 9th July, 1892.] HEREAS the Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company has, by its petition, prayed for certain amendments to its Act of incorporation, 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. The Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company, hereinline from On- after called "the Company," may extend, construct, maintain, complete, and, from time to time, remove and change a double or single track iron railway, with the necessary side tracks, switches and turnouts for the passage of cars, carriages and other vehicles adapted to the use thereof, from and connecting with the end of its present line of railway at or near the Union Bridge which connects the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, thence, subject to the provision hereinafter set forth, across the said Union Bridge and over, along and upon such streets in the city of Hull and of the municipalities adjoining said city as it may at any time be authorized to use under any resolution or agreement of the council of the city of Hull or of the aforesaid municipalities; Provided, that the Company shall not exercise any of the powers hereby conferred upon it in, over, or upon any part of the road of the Bytown and Aylmer Union Turnpike Company, or of any culvert, bridge or other work of or constructed by the said last mentioned company, whether within the city of Hull or the township of Hull, without first obtaining the consent and agreement thereto of the said last mentioned company; but this shall not prevent the said City Passenger Railway Company from crossing the road of the said Turnpike Company.

Proviso.

Use of Union
Bridge.

Terms.

2. The Company shall not take possession of, use or occupy the Union Bridge or any of the approaches thereto without the consent of the Governor in Council; but with such consent the Company may, upon such terms as the Governor in Council

prescribes, use and occupy so much of the Union Bridge and

of the approaches thereto as may be necessary for the railway of the Company.

2. Section ninety-two of The Railway Act shall apply to the Chapter 29 of Company; and the powers of expropriation (if any) of the 1888. Company shall be exercised subject to the provisions of The Railway Act.

3. The Company may take, transport and carry passengers General upon all the lines of railway owned, constructed or leased by it, powers. and may operate the said railway by the force and power of electricity, or of the atmosphere, or of animal, or of cable, or by mechanical power, or by any combination of them, but not by

steam.

ties.

2. As regards so much of its line of railway as is or as may Approval of be within the city of Ottawa, and other municipalities in municipali Ontario, the Company shall exercise any new or additional powers conferred by this Act, as to the location, construction and operation of the railway, only upon such streets, and on such terms and conditions, and for such periods as the councils of the said city and of the said municipalities respectively

approve.

4. The capital stock of the Company may, subject to the Capital stock. provisions contained in section thirty-seven of The Railway Act,

be increased to the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of twenty dollars each.

and issue de

5. The Company may borrow money and make and issue Company may therefor bonds, debentures, promissory notes or other securities, borrow money to the extent of five hundred thousand dollars, and the said bentures. bonds, debentures, promissory notes or other securities shall be made, issued and secured in the manner and to the extent provided by sections ninety-three to ninety-eight inclusive of The Part of "The Railway Act, and the said sections ninety-three to ninety-eight to apply. shall form part of this Act.

Railway Act"

province of

6. Except as in this Act is otherwise provided, the Act of Validity of incorporation of the Company, being chapter one hundred and Acts of late six of the Statutes of 1866 of the late province of Canada, and Canada, and of local legisthe Act of the Legislature of Ontario amending the same, being lature. chapter forty-five of the Statutes of 1868, and the powers thereby conferred, shall apply to every portion of the lines of the railway by this Act authorized to be constructed, and the undertaking of the Company is hereby declared to be a work for the Declaratory. general advantage of Canada; but the operation of so much of the Company's line of railway as may be within the pro- Operation of vince of Ontario by any new or additional powers conferred erned by by this Act, shall be subject to the Statutes of Ontario in vincial laws. force from time to time in relation to street railways, and the operation of so much of the said line of railway as may be within the province of Quebec, by any new or additional

railway gov

pro

Agreement with other companies.

Length of

term.

"Traffic "interpreted.

Agreement to convey or lease.

powers conferred by this Act, shall be subject to the Statutes of Quebec in force from time to time in relation to street railways.

7. The Company, subject to the approval of the Railway Committee of the Privy Council, may at any time make and enter into any agreement or arrangement with any other street railway company duly authorized thereto, for the regulation and interchange of traffic passing to and from the Company's railway, and for the working of the traffic over the said railways respectively, or for either of those objects separately, and for the division and apportionment of tolls, rates and charges in respect of such traffic, and generally in relation to the management and working of the railway, or any part thereof, and of any street railway or street railways in connection therewith, for any term not exceeding twenty-one years; and may provide, either by proxy or otherwise, for the appointment of a joint committee or committees, with such powers and functions as are considered necessary or expedient, for the better carrying into effect of any such agreement or arrangement, subject to the consent of two-thirds of the stockholders voting in person or by proxy.

8. The expression "traffic" includes not only passengers and their baggage, goods and things conveyed by the railway, but also cars, carriages and vehicles of any description adapted for running over any street railway.

9. The Company may enter into an agreement with any other street railway company duly authorized thereto, for conveying or leasing to such company the railway of the Company affected by this Act, in whole or in part, or any rights or powers acquired under this Act, as also the plans, work, plant, material, machinery and other property to it belonging, or for an amalgamation with such company on such terms and conditions as are agreed upon, and subject Sanction of to such restrictions as to the directors seem fit; Provided, that shareholders. such agreement has been first sanctioned by two-thirds of the votes at a special general meeting of the shareholders duly called for the purpose of considering the same, at which meeting the shareholders representing at least two-thirds in value of the stock are present in person or represented by proxy, and that such agreement has also received the approval of the Governor in Council.

Notice of application for approval.

2. Such approval shall not be signified until after notice of the proposed application therefor has been published in the manner and for the time set forth in section two hundred and thirty-nine of The Railway Act, and also for a like period in one newspaper published in each of the cities of Ottawa and Hull.