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TO THE HONORABLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE 
 PROVINCE OF C iNADA IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. 
 
 The humble petition of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company, 
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 I. That pi'ior to the incorporation of your petitioners, the Railway of your 
 petitioners was owned by the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich Railway Company, 
 which had in a very- imperfect manner constructed that part of the said Railway 
 extending from Fort Erie to Paris, a distance of eighty-two miles, so that the same 
 had been opened and used for traffic for about two years, and which had also 
 partly graded the rest of the «aid Railway, extending from Paris to Goderich, a 
 distance of seventy-six miles, but Avliich, in 1854, became so embarrassed and 
 involved that all works on the said Railway were stopped, and the Railway was, in 
 the Autumn of 1855, entirely closed ; the Railway and property being encumber- 
 ed by judgments and executions to uj.'V/ards of eighty thousand pounds (exclusive of 
 the Bonded Mortgage debt of upwards of five hundred thousand pounds sterling) 
 and the Company being hopelessly bankrupt. 
 
 II. That in tliis state of the affairs of the said Company, through the influ- 
 ence and by the persuasion of certain gentlemen residing in the Huron tract, and 
 therefore on public as Avell as private grounds, deeply interested in the final com- 
 pletion and successful working of the said Railway, and certain others who, as it 
 has since turned out, were creditors of the old Company, and therefore, on perso- 
 nal grounds, extremely desirous that a new Company should bo formed which would 
 purchase the said Railway and pay off the liabilities hanging over it. A provi- 
 sional Company was inaugurated in the City of London, England, and a provisional 
 agreement entered into between them and the said first mentioned Company, 
 for the purchase of the said Railway and property on the terms set forth in said 
 agreement, (which is now appended to and forms part of the Act incorporating 
 your petitioners hereinafter mentioned, to which your Petitioners beg leave to refer) 
 and the capital stock, amounting to five hundred thousand pounds sterling, esti- 
 mated to be amply sufficient to pay the purchase money of the said Railway, 
 (exolusivc of the said bonded mortgage debt of five hundred thousand pounds) and 
 to complete the said line of Railway from the City of Buffalo to the waters of 
 Lake Huron, was subscribed and taken up. 
 
 III. That afterwards, on the sixteenth day of May, 1856, by an Act of the 
 Parliament of this Province, 19th Victoria, chapter 21, yom- petitioners (the Pro- 
 visional Company aforesaid) became an incorporated Company, under the name of 
 the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company, and after many difficulties in the 
 arrangement and settlement of the numerous and heavy debts of the old Company, 
 forming charges and liens on the said Railway and property, your petitioners did, 
 on the twenty-eighth day of June, 1856, under the said Act and agreement, 
 take possession of the said Railway and property, and at once set about repairing 
 the said Railway >om Fort Eric to Paris, (it being then in such a state as to 
 
 I require to be aL.ost made anew) and opened it for traffic and business in the 
 ' month of November following. The construction and completion of that section 
 of the Railway from Paris to Stratford was pushed forward with such vigor that it 
 was opened for traffic and business in the month of December of the same year, 
 and the construction of that section thereof from Stratford to Goderich was in 
 like manner so accelerated that it was opened for traffic and business on the 
 twenty-eighth day of June, 1858, and the entire length of the said Railway has, 
 ever since the same was opened, been successfully worked and kept in operation. 
 
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 IV. That Your Petitioners constructed a first class Railway unsurpassed in 
 permanency and completeness of execution by any Railway on this continent, with 
 the necessary Stations and Buildings, extending from the City of Buffalo to the 
 Town of Godcrich, on the Waters of Lake Huron, a distance of one hundred and 
 sixty-three miles, stretching directly across the Peninsula of Canada, and running 
 through the most important part of the western portion of this Province, and 
 opening up a highway to trade and commerce from the East and South-East to the 
 North-West and the British possessions on the shores of Lake Superior, forming in 
 fact, an integral portion of the Grand Trunk Railway system of Canada. 
 
 V. That, in order to facilitate the trade and commerce at Goderich, and to 
 and with the north-west, and with the view of diverting from American waters and 
 territory, through Canada, the trade of the west and north-west. Your Petitioners 
 purchased from the Canada Company, the Godcrich Harbor at a cost of thirteen 
 thousand pounds, and became obligated thereby to expend within five years then 
 next ensuing, in constructing the said Harbor, and in building wharves and piers, 
 at least twenty-thousand pounds. 
 
 VI. That, in the constructing and completing of the said Railway in the 
 manner aforesaid, and furnishing the same with rolling Stock and other the pre- 
 mises, Your Petitioners exceeded in expenditure their original capital by three 
 hundred and fifteen thousand pounds sterling, having increased their Share Capital 
 to upwards of eight hundred thousand pounds sterling, and having made a tempo- 
 rary loan, on the credit of their Bonds, of fifty thousand pounds sterling. 
 
 VII. That the western terminus of the Railway of Your Petitioners was, at 
 this time, at the Huron Road, two miles easterly from the Goderich Harbor, and 
 Your Petitioners saw, that cost what it might, they must extend sind continue it 
 down to the waters of the Harbor, and that the Harbor must be made a good and 
 safe Port of entrance for vessels of all classes before the undertaking in which 
 Your Petitioners had embarked, could be fairly tested or any hope entertained, 
 that it would prove cither self-sustaining or remunerative to its proprietors ; there- 
 fore, additional capital was raised, and the first section of the said extension 
 reaching from the Huron Road to East Street, a distance of one mile, was put 
 under contract and completed and opened for trafl5c early in the spring of 1860, 
 the remaining portion of work to the Harbor was most difficult and expensive, yet 
 Your Petitioners nothing daunted, put it under contract, and the same will be so 
 far completed by the middle of the coming month of May, as to permit the trains 
 to run down to and along the side of the waters of the Harbor. Your Petitioners have 
 expended and are now under contract to expend upwards of one hundred thousand 
 dollars on the Harbor, — an expenditure absolutely necessary before any vessels, even 
 of the most shallow draught, can safely enter that port ; but to make the Harbor 
 what it ought to be and must be, before the ordinary vessels navigating the 
 waters of Lake Huron can be attracted to that port, a large additional expendi- 
 ture will have to be made, and as may easily be seen, much additional expense in 
 perfecting and completing the said Railway and Harbor Works, and other the in- 
 dispensable appurtenances thereto will necessarily have to be incurred by Your 
 Petitioners, in order to give their Railway a fair trial and this Province the full 
 benefit of its construction ; and having the same end in view, Your Petitioners have 
 entered into contracts with four Propellers to run during the approaching season 
 of navigation in connection with their Railway between Goderich and the Western 
 and North Western Ports on Lake Michigan, and by arrangements made with the 
 Grand Trunk and other Companies, the Railway of Your Petitioners will form a 
 link in one unbroken chain of communication between the Atlantic cities and the 
 boundless regions of the West, whereby Your Petitioners hope to attract through 
 Canada a vast amount of the carrying business which hitherto has been unnatural- 
 ly diverted to the Lake Shore and other American routes. 
 
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 VIII. That ill their oflbrts your petitioners have exhausted every resource 
 and expedient possible, and yet they find that they must have a temporary 
 loan of X100,000 to carry out tlie ohjecta and designs aforesaid, or all their exer- 
 tions Avill prove abortive, and their Railway undertaking a lamentable failure. 
 
 TX. That while all other Railways in Canada have, to a greater or less extent, 
 received assistance and encouragement from the Legislature, your petitioners 
 have never veceivod, either directly or indirectly, any aid from the Government of 
 this Province, but alone and single-handed, with their own money have constructed 
 iind completed the said Railway, which your petitioners submit is, of very great 
 advantage to Canada as a Province, an.l entitled to the favorable consideration ot 
 
 Your Honorable House. ■ , , • • i 
 
 X. And your ])etitioncrs submit that for the reasons aioresaul, that it is but 
 iust and ri"ht that tlie Legislature should to a limited extent, lend its aid to Your 
 Petitioners' in this their hour of trial and need, believing, as they do, that the se- 
 curity offered is a full equivalent for the aid asked, and that no loss whatever will 
 be sustained by the «iovernmcnt in acceding to the prayer of Your Petitioners. 
 
 Your Petitioners therefore pray that Your Honorable House will be pleased 
 to pass an Act authorizing the Governor in Council to loan to Your Petitioners 
 One Hundred Thousand Pounds, Sterling, in the Bonds of this Province, to run 
 from twenty to thirty years, bearing interest at six per cent, per annum, payable 
 half yearly, the Government taking in exchange therefor, and to secure the re- 
 payment thereof an etjual or greater amount of the Bonds of Your Petitioners upon 
 such terms, and under such limitations as to the Governor in Council may seem 
 necessary for fully securing the Province against any loss, or that in some other 
 way the aid asked for by Your Petitioners may be granted. 
 
 And Your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
 
 Brantford, April 12, 1861. 
 
 (Signed,) W. MACLEAN, Secretary.