CHAP. 52. An Act to incorporate the Manitoba and Pacific Assented to 29th June, 1897.] WHEREAS a petition has been presented praying for the Preamble. 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 Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: tion. 1. James Patterson of Winnipeg, Manitoba; Angus Joseph IncorporaMacdonell of Kingston, Ontario; Archibald J. Bannerman of Winnipeg, Manitoba; Alexander D. McRae of Alexandria, Ontario; Neil Keith of Winnipeg, Manitoba; Charles Whitehead of Brandon, Manitoba; Charles W. N. Kennedy, of Winnipeg, Manitoba; together with such persons as become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of "The Mani- Corporate toba and Pacific Railway Company," hereinafter called "the name. Company." 2. The head office of the Company shall be in the city of Head office. Winnipeg in the province of Manitoba. 3. The Company may lay out, construct and operate a rail- Line of railway of the gauge of four feet eight and one-half inches from way described the town of Portage la Prairie; thence in a south-westerly direction to a point in or near Belmont on the line of the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company; thence in a westerly direction to a point in the town of Lethbridge in Alberta. 4. The persons mentioned by name in the first section of Provisional this Act are hereby constituted provisional directors of the directors. Company. 5. The capital stock of the Company shall be one million Capital stock dollars, and may be called up by the directors from time to and calls thereon. Annual meet ing. Election of directors. Amount of bonds, etc., limited. Use of vessels. Bridge over Tolls. Agreements with other companies. time, as they deem necessary, but no one call shall exceed ten per cent on the shares subscribed. 6. The annual general meeting of the shareholders shall be held on the first Wednesday in the month of September in each year. 7. At such meeting the subscribers for the capital stock assembled who have paid all calls due on their shares shall choose seven persons to be directors of the Company, one or more of whom may be paid directors of the Company. 8. The Company may issue bonds, debentures or other securities to the extent of fifteen 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. 9. The Company may, for the purpose of transport, and to facilitate the said undertaking and traffic connected therewith, purchase, build, charter, sell or dispose of, control and keep in repair, steam and other vessels to ply upon any navigable waters on or along the route of said railway. 10. If the Company builds and completes a bridge for railway purposes across the Assiniboine River between Portage la Prairie and Belmont aforesaid, the Company may also, as part of the said bridge, in its discretion, at any time construct, alter or arrange the said bridge for the use of foot passengers and carriages, or either, as it may think best: Provided, that if the Company so constructs, alters or arranges the said bridge, then the tolls to be charged for the passages of foot passengers and carriages shall, before being imposed, be first submitted to and approved of, and may be amended and modified from time to time by the Governor in Council, but the Company may at any time reduce the same, and a notice showing the tolls authorized to be charged shall, at all times, be posted up in a conspicuous place on the said bridge. 11. The Company may enter into an agreement with the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company, the Alberta Railway and Coal Company, or the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company, for conveying or leasing to such company the railway of the Company hereby incorporated, in whole or in part, or any rights or powers acquired under this Act, as also the franchises, surveys, plans, works, 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 to such restrictions as to shareholders, the directors seem fit, provided that such agreement has been in Council. first approved by two-thirds of the votes at a special general Approval of and Governor 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 sanction of the Governor in Council. 2. Such sanction shall not be signified until after notice Notice of apof the proposed application therefor has been published in the plication for 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 in each of the electoral districts through which the railway of the Company hereby incorporated runs, and in which a newspaper is published. sanction. Parliament as to future 12. Any Act hereafter passed for the purpose of controlling Power of railway companies incorporated by or subject to Parliament as to the issuing of stock or bonds, and as to rates or tolls and legislation. the regulation thereof, and as to running powers over or other rights in connection with the railway of any company by any other company, and the exercise of powers conferred upon railway companies, shall apply to the Company from the time such Act goes into effect; but this section shall not be construed to imply that such Act would not apply to the Company without the enactment of this section. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 53. An Act respecting the Manitoba and South-eastern [Assented to 29th June, 1897.] WHEREAS & Railway Company praying for the WHEREAS a petition has been presented by the Manitoba Preamble. passing of an Act to amend, as hereinafter set forth, 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:- c. 53, s. 1. 1. The section substituted by section one of chapter fifty- 1895, c. 55, five of the statutes of 1895, for section one of chapter fifty- 8. 1; 1893, three of the statutes of 1893, is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor : for construc "1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Acts re- Time limited lating to the Company, or in The Railway Act, the Company tion of shall have until the first day of November, one thousand eight railway. hundred and ninety-eight, to complete that portion of their line of railway between the town of St. Boniface and the parish of Ste. Anne, and the Company shall construct not less than twenty miles additional each year after the said date until the whole line of railway is completed; 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 shall forthwith 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." company. 2. The Company may enter into an agreement with the Agreement Winnipeg, Duluth and Northern Railway Company or the with another Ontario and Rainy River Railway Company for conveying or leasing to such company the railway of the Manitoba and South-eastern Railway Company in whole or in part, or any rights or powers acquired under this Act, as also the franchises, surveys, plans, works, plant, material, machinery, and |