3. The limit to the amount of securities specified in section 7 of the Act to incorporate the Central Canada Railway Company, being chapter 46 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1913, shall apply to the lines of railway and branch lines which the company is authorized to construct by this Act.

1917

CHAPTER 54.

An Act to incorporate The Crows' Nest and Tent Mountain Railway Company.

(Assented to April 5, 1917.)

WHEREAS a petition has been presented, praying for the incorporation of a company to construct and operate a railway, as hereinafter set forth, 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. John Cameron McDonald, of the City of Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta, barrister-at-law; William Grigs Atkinson, of the said City of Edmonton, student-at-law; Lorne McDonald, of the said City of Edmonton, clerk, together with such persons as become shareholders of the company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of "The Crows' Nest and Tent Mountain Railway Company," hereinafter called "the company."

2. The head office of the company shall be at Tent Mountain, in the Province of Alberta.

3. The several clauses of The Railway Act of Alberta shall be, and the same are hereby, incorporated with and shall be deemed to be part of this Act, and shall apply to the said company and to the railway to be constructed by them, excepting so far as the same may be inconsistent with the express enactments hereof, and the expression "this Act" when used herein shall be understood to include the clauses of the said Railway Act as aforesaid.

4. The company may lay out, construct and operate a railway of the gauge of four feet eight and one-half inches, commencing at a point at or near the station of Crows' Nest on the Canadian Pacific Railway line, west of Macleod, thence in a southerly direction through townships eight and seven range 6 west of the 5th meridian, to and across the south half of section thirteen, township seven, range six, west of the 5th meridian, in the Province of Alberta, a distance in all of about six miles.

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

6. The capital stock of the company shall be fifty thousand dollars, 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 share subscribed.

7. The annual general meeting of the shareholders shall be held on the first Tuesday of April in each year.

8. At such meeting the subscribers for the capital stock assembled, who have paid all calls due on their shares, shall choose three persons to be directors of the company, one or more of whom may be paid directors of the company.

9. The company may issue bonds, debentures or other securities to the extent of twenty 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 company may enter into an agreement with another company or companies for conveying or leasing to such company or companies the railway of the company hereby incorporated, in whole or in part, or any rights or powers acquired under this Act, as also the surveys, plans, works, plant, material, machinery and other property to it belonging, or for an amalgamation with such company or companies, on such terms and conditions as are agreed upon and subject to such restrictions as to the directors seem fit; provided that 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 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 Lieutenant Governor in Council.

11. The company shall, at all stations upon their railway, always permit the loading of grain into cars from farmers' vehicles or flat warehouses, subject to reasonable regulations to be made by the said company, and shall at all reasonable times afford proper facilities therefor.

12. The company agrees to afford all reasonable facilities to any other railway company for the receiving and forwarding and delivery of traffic upon and from the line of

railway belonging to or worked by such companies respectively, and the company shall not make or give undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever, nor shall the company subject any particular person or company or any particular description of traffic to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage whatsoever, and the said company shall afford all due and reasonable facilities for receiving and forwarding by its railways all the traffic arriving by such other railway or railways without any unreasonable delay, and without any such preference or advantage or prejudice or disadvantage as aforesaid, so that no obstruction is presented to the public desirous of using such railways as a continuous line of communication and so that all reasonable accommodation by means of the railways of the several companies is at all times afforded to the public in that behalf, and any agreement made between the company and any other company or companies contrary to this agreement shall be null and void.

13. The construction of the railway hereby authorized shall be commenced within two years and shall be completed within five years from the date of the coming into force of this Act.

14. The company shall also have power for the purposes of its undertaking to construct and operate an electric telegraph line or lines along the said railway, and to construct and maintain such bridges as shall be necessary or convenient for the use of said railway, not being bridges over any navigable river or rivers, unless such bridge or bridges. over such navigable rivers or waters has or have been authorized by the Governor General in Council:

Provided however, that nothing contained in this Act shall or will be construed as conferring on the company any right or power to operate a telegraph line, other than for the purpose of the company's internal business, or any right or power to transact a public telephone business, or any right or power to transact a public telephone business without express power or permission having first been obtained from the Minister of Railways and-Telephones.

15. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to.

1917

CHAPTER 55.

An Act to amend Chapter 51 of the Statutes of 1910 (Second Session), being An Act to incorporate High River and Hudson Bay Railway Company.

(Assented to April 5, 1917.)

WHEREAS a petition has been presented by the High River and Hudson Bay Railway Company, a company incorporated by chapter 51 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1910 (Second Session), praying that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petitioner;

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

1. The name of the High River and Hudson Bay Railway Company is hereby changed to the Alberta-Hudson Bay Railway Company.

2. The company may lay out, construct, and operate as lines of railway in addition to those authorized by section 4 of chapter 51 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1910 (Second Session), as amended by section 1 of chapter 33 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1914, the following lines of railway of the gauge of four feet eight and one-half inches, and said section 4 of chapter 51 as amended is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following:

"Also from a point at or near Black Diamond in the Province of Alberta in or about township twenty (20) range two (2) west of the fifth meridian, southerly to a point at or near Lundbreck or Cowley on the Crow's Nest Southern Railway in the said province, thence by the most feasible route to a point on the western boundary of the said Province of Alberta at the South Kootenay or Kishenehna Pass; also from a point at or near Lundbreck or Cowley aforesaid or elsewhere south of the said towns southerly to the international boundary at or near Waterton Lakes; also from a point at or near Lundbreck or Cowley aforesaid in a south-easterly direction by the most feasible route to the Town of Pincher Creek in the said province, thence south-easterly to the Town of Cardston in the said province, thence south-easterly to Coutts in the said province, thence easterly to the eastern boundary of the