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TORONTO: HILL AW WEIR, PRINTEUS, f5, 1 7, AND I9 TEMi'ERANCB"STRBET. r88i, I s\ ,, A\ T /f IsTOTE. ■»> ;•=(■■*■ •" ■ / ■• rAv The Grand Junction Railway was incorporated in 1852 — the sdme year as the Grand Trunk — by r6 Vic. c. 43, as an independent line, having pow'on J*. R. Co. 10 ViCT. I It h: and Surveys," that is to say, that lands to the extent of twenty- acres may be taken by the said Company without the consent of the owner thereof, but subject to the provisions of the said Act in that behalf for Stations, Depots, or other works in any City or Town, containing mote than live thousand inhabitants, .'V that a like extent may be so taken at Peterborou.,di, and that fifty acres may be so tnken at the Terminus on Like Huron. ^h«^8'>»e HI. And be it enacted. That the said Company and their shall be Lmde. Agents or Servants shall have full power under this Act, to lay out,construct,make and finish a double cr single Iron Rail- road or Way, at their own cost and charges, on or over any or all of the tl.ree following sections,that is to say.on and overany part of the Country lying between Belleville and Peterborough, and thence from the said Town of Peterborough, south- westerly, to the City of Toronto, or to some point east of the said City of Toronto,to intersect the Main Trunk Lineof Rail-way proposed to be constructed, and also from Peterborough aforesaid, or some point west thereof on the preceding section, to such place on Lake Huron as may be decided upon by the said Company : Proviso. Provided always, that tl ^ said Company shall first obtain the sanction and approval ot the Government, to the line selected by them for the location of the said Road,and to the plans and specifications thereof, and that the said Company shall con- struct the said Rail-way on the lineand in the mannerapproved ,v( of by th" G^errment W' Conveyances IV. And be it enacled, That all Deeds and Conveyances for iMmy"'to^Se'in lands to be conveyed to the said Company for the purposes of a cert inform tjjjs ^^t, shall and may, as far as the title to the said lands or the circumstances of the party making such conveyances will admit, be made in the form given in the Schedule of this Act marked A. Andforthe purposeof a dueenregistrationof the same, all Registrars in their respective Counties are hereby required to procure a Book with copies of the form given in the said Schedule A,oneto be printed on each page,leaving the necessary blanks to suit the separate cases of conveyance.and in the said Book to enter and register the said Deed upon pro- ■ ^ duction thereof, and proof of execution, without any menjorial, and to minute such entry on the said Deed. And the said Company are to pay the said Registrars for so doing the sum of Two Shillings and Six Pence, and no more, which said enregistration shall be held and deemed to be valid in Law ; the provisions of any Act for the enregistiation of Deeds, now in force in this Province, to the contrary notwithstanding Capital stock. V. And be it enacted.That the Capital Stock of the said Com- pany shall not exceed in the whole the sum of One Million Pounds sterling, to be divided into Fift> Thousand Shares of Twenty Pounds sterling each, which amount shall be raised by the persons above named, or some of theni, together with such ther persons and Corporations as may become Shareholu- Fee to Re gistrar. f :t. ity £nt aid II y Us, hat on. \.t 1. 1852. Orand Junction li. li. Co. Cap. 43 8 ■ers in such Stock and the said money so raised shall be Application applied, in the fi: ;'. place, towards the payment and discharge "'•'''*"' of all fees, expenses and disbursements for procuring the pas- sage of this Act, and for making the Surveys, Plans and Esti- mates connected with the Rail-way, and all the rest and re- ■ • fnainder of such money shall be applied towards making, com- pleting and maintaining the said Rail-way and other purposes of this Act, and to no other purpose whatever : Provided ProTisw. always,rhat until the said preliminary expenses connected with the said Rail-way shall be paid out of the Capital Stock thereof, it shall be lawful for the Municipality of any County, City or Town on the Line of the said Road, to pay out of the General Fundsof the said Municipality.their fair proportion of such pre- liminary expenses, which sum shall be refunded to such Mu- nicipality from the Stock of the said Company, or be allowed to them in payment of Stock. VI. And be it enacted. That John G. Bowes, Thomas G. First im- Ridout, William Fabian Meudell, Edmund Murney, George name*3. Benjamin, Henry Bull, James Ross, Peter Robertson, James • Sanson the elder, Kenneth Cameron, John Langton, George Barker Hall, and Thomas Short, shall be and are hereby constituted and appointed the first Directors of the said Com- pany, and shall hold their office until others shall under the provisions of this Act be elected by the Shareholders, and shall until that time constitute the Board of Directors of the said Company, with power to open Stock Books and make a call on the .Shares subscribed in such Books,and cail a meeting of Subscribers for the Election of Directors in manner herein- after provided. '■p-v>\:i''ik^ i,r''-»J' - •■ vr,:./ ■^.f-?.,-> ;... i.'^^y ',-•-.■ ' *[ Vn. And be it enacted. That the said Directors are hereby subaoHpUon €mpowered to take all necessary measures for opening the o^.J^d!*' "^ Stock Books,for the subscription of parties desirous to become Shareholders in the said Company.and to determine and allot to parties subscribing for Stock in the said Company,the num- ber of shares,(if any,) that partfes so subscribing, may have and Proy|»,. hold in the Capital Stock aforesaid; Provided always, that no subscription in the said Stock Books shall create the party or parties so subscribing, a partner or- partners in the said Company, without and until the authorization thereof by the Directors of the Company for the time being ; Provided also, Proviso that no such approval or authorization as aforesaid, shall be , > required to confirm the subscriptions of Municipalities or other Corporate Bodies empowered to take Stock in Rail-way , Companies. f J VIII, And be it enacted. That the said Directors shall cause Entry ot ai an entty to be made in the Records of their proceedings andiha^"*** in the Shareholders' Book, of the Stock so allotted and aissigned to parties subscribing as aforesaid, and the Secretary of the said Company shall notify the respective parties, in writing, of such allocation and assignment. 'I Cap. 43. Grand Junction R. R. Co. 16 VlCT. \ Kffeftof iuch IX. And be it enacted, That upon such entries being made, *" ^^' the rights and liabilities of such Shareholder or Shareho!, that it shall not be lawful for the said Company to cause any obstruction in or to impede the free navigation of any river, stream or canal to or across which their Rail- way shall be carried : And if tne said JRail-way shall be carried across any navigable river or r i- nal, th<. said Company shall leave such openings between the piers of their bridge or viaduct over the same, and shall con- struct such draw-bridge or swing-bridge over the channel of the river or canal, and shall be subject t-o such regulations with ihftt. '^ICT, 11 be ily. :t!on not 1852. Grar^d Junction R. R. Co. Cap. 43. regard to the ' p -ning of such draw-bridge or swing-bridge, for the passage of vessels and rafts, as the Governor in Council shall direct and niake from time to tinie ; nor shall it be lawful for the said Company, to construct any wharf, bridge, pier or other work upon the public beach or bed of any navigable river or stream, or upon the lands covered with the waters thereof, until they shall have submitted the plan of such work to the Governor in Council, nor until the same shall have been ap- proved by him in Council as aforesaid. v';'5 -'V ■:'■ -^ XXI. And be it enacted. That the gauge of the said Rail-c»a«Ke- way shall be five feet six inches. »/:- 'r?u/ v?*) ; »; XXII. And be it enacted, That any Shareholder in the said Aliens may Company, whether a British subject or alien, or a resident in^°**'**'' Canada or elsewhere, has and shall have equal rights to hold stock in the said Company, to vote on the same,and be eligible to office in the said Company. XXIII. And be it enacted,That the Provincial Government aovemnient may at any time after the commencement of rhe said Rail-way, the Eaii-road assume the possession and property thereof, and of all the pro- perly which the said Company is empowered to hold and shall then have, and of all the rights and privileges and advantages vested in the said Company ; all of which shall, after such assumption, be vested in Her Majesty, on the Government giving to the Company four months' notice of the intention to assume the same. XXIV. And be itenacted,That theGovcrnmentshal!,withJn CT^Ttl'Pn" four months after the Company snail render an account in ciseofi^uch writing of the amount of money expended by the said Com- ****""■' pany, and all their then ascertained liabilities, up to the time uf such assumption, pay to the said Company the whole amount of the money so expended and of the liabilities so as- certained, together with interest at the rate of six per cent., and ten per cent, additional thereon after deducting the amount of any dividends before then declared, and the said Government shall also, from time to time, pay and discharge all liabilities of theCompany not ascertained at the timeof such assumption, as the same .shall be established against the said Company. Provided always, That in case of a difference between theproviao. . ; Government and the Company as to the amount so to be paid v >■, / by the Government, such difference shall be referred to two iff: ; Arbitrators, one to be named by the Government.the oth r by the Company ; and, in case of disagreement, such difference shall be referred to an Umpire,to be chosen by the said Arbitra- tors before entering into the consideration of the .said difference, and that the said award so made by the Arbitrators or the Un.pire shall be final ; and provided also that in ca.se of refusal Proviso, by the Company to ap^^oint an Arbitrator on their behalf.the same shall be appointed by any two of the Judges of either of 8 m ' i ! !;! Ci'p. 48. GtarA Junction R. R. Co. 16 Vict. the Superior Courts of Common Law for Upper Canada on application of the Government. SCHEDULE A. Form of Conveyance. Know all Men by these presents, that I, A.B., of {here, name the wifeif any),, do hereby in consideration of (here the sum) paid to me by The Grand Junction Rail-way Company, the receipt wher*;of is hereby acknowledged, grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm unto the said The Grand Junction Rail-way Company, their Successors and Ar signs for ever all that certain tract or parcel of land situate {here deacnbe the lan4)W\t same having been selected and laid out by the said Company for the purposes of their Road. To have and to hold the said land and premises, together with the hereditaments thereto, to the said The Grar.d Junct'-fn Rail-way Company, their Successors and Assigns for ever, {here dourer if any). Witness my Hand and Seal, this tliousand eight hundred and Signed, Sealed and delivered in presence of day of One L. S. Mil m !,1 «!*: :cT. L on ■n : : way -ant, and sfor rribe said hold ents [any, One r-:-i,h- '^^M ■I.' . ^'4*! , the following persons shall betiie Provisional Directors of the said Company ; Hon. Billa FHnt, William Hamilton Ponton, Alexander Robertson, Thomas Kelso, Abraham Diamond and Thomas Holden, of the Town of Beileville ; George H. Boulter, of the Village of Sterling ; John Carnegie, and W. H. Scott, of the Town of Peterborough ; Robert Cockburn, of Campbellford : James S. Fowlds, of the Village of Hastings ; James Dinwoodie.of the Township of Seymour; James Miller, of the Township of Otonabee ; and Robert D. Rogers of the Village of Ashburnham. S. The said Company shall have the nght,notwithstandin^' anything in the said Act contained, to build the said Railway with such erauge, on such line, and in such manner as the Directors of the said Company may think best. 4. The Directors in this Act named shall have all the powers assigned to the Provisional Directors of the Company by the said Act, sixteenth Victoria, chapter forty-three. I T870. Grand Junction li. R. Co, Cap. 63. 11 Has fl». The Capital Stock of the said Company shall be one<^*P'**' "<"=''• million of dollars, to be divided into shares as in the said Charter provided. O. When and so soon as one-tenth of the capital required m^ti^7™* by the said Act shall be obtained by the subscription of stock e'ecuon of and bonuses from corporations or parties interested in the said ^'**''*'"' line of Railway, or by the subscription of stock alone, the Directors in this Act named shall have all the powers men- tioned in section ten of the said Act, sixteenth Victoria.chapter forty-three. And the first general meeting of the Company o' -. <. j for the election of Directors shall be held as prescribed by section ten of the said Act. ., f y. It shall be lawful for the said Company and the Grand me'nte^^th TrunK Railway Company of Caiuda, to make arrantyementsOrond Trunk for the use of a part of the line of the said Grand Trunk Rail- way Company at or near Belleville, and for station accom mo- V dation and fc such other purposes connected with the work- ing of the traffic from one line to the other as the said two Companies may think for their mutual interest and the public convenience, and for the payment of compensation for the said accommodation as they may agree upon. 8. The said Railway shall be commenced within two years, me™t"and^' and completed to Peterborough within six years from the completion of passing of this Act. The said Company shall have power une of raii- under this Act to lay out, construct, make and finish an Iron ^*^- Railway, at their own cost and charges, on or over any part of the country lying between Belleville and Peterboro', and then to such point on the Georgian Bay as may be decided on by the said Company : Provided always, that the said ^^''^^• Company shall not have power to build or make such Railway to the City of Toronto, O. Nothing in this Act contained shall, in any form, man- Q'«n idpfti company, and in the by-law granting such aid has provided ^I'^cto'"- that the head of such municipality shall be a director of the said company ; the head for the time being of such munici- pality so having given such aid, shall be ex-officio a director of the said company, and shall have all the rights and powers of a director of said company, and every municipality which has subscribed stock to an amount of twenty thousand dollars or upwards shall be entitled, in manner provided by the Municipal Act, to one director. l*^ Upon all matters the ex-officio directors of said com-g^ffl«^» pany shall have the same rights and powers as directors *^ elected by shareholders. J ' It Cap. 48. Grand Junction B. R. Co. 87 Vict. with^iSIId"'' * "• ^* *^*" ^ lawful for the said company and the Grand Trunk Rail Trunk Railway of Canada to nnake arrangements for the use ^'*^' of a part of the line of the said Grand Trunk Railway Com- pany, at or near Belleville, and for station accommodation, and for such other purposes connected with the working of the traffic from one line to the other, as the said two com- panies may think for their mutual interest and the public convenience, and for payment of compensation for the said accommodation, as they may agree upon. Bubacrlpt'ons forRtoclc. lO. All subscriptions for stock made before the passing of this AcL, and which at the time of the passing of this Act are sub.-isting, shall be taken and held to be valid and bind- ing as if duly subscribed and taken under this Act ; and all persons and corporations who at the time of the passing of this Act are bona fide shareholders in said company, shall be held and taken to be shareholders of the said company under this Act. Former ActH of directors oonflrmed. 1 T. All calls made, and acts heretofore done, under the said Acts in the first section of this Act mentioned, by the directors of the company, and otherwise legally made or done, are hereby declared to have been made and done by a lawfully constituted Board of Directois, and are hereby con- firmed, and the same shall, notwithstanding the passing of this Act, continue and be binding on all persons who are now lifible therefor, and any call made and act done by said directors shall be taken to have been made and done under the said Railway Art : Provided, however, that nothing in this Act contained shall affect or make valid or invalid any transfer of stock heretofore made. , . Calls to be paid 18. No shareholder shall have the right to vote at the voting!"* election of directors who has not before voting paid up all calls made upon the stock held by such shareholder. m m Aid from municipalities, :i Aid to com- pany from SoTemment, lO. The several municipal Corporations along the line of the said proposed railway, and also any municipal corpora- tion near to the said proposed line may grant to the said rail- way company such sum of money or debentures as may by the said municipal corporations respectively, be thought ad- visable in the way of bonus or donation, to aid in the con- struction or equipment of said railway, or for any of the works authorized under the charter of the said company to be undertaken ; and it shall and may be lawful for the saio company to accept of such bonus or donation, and to apply any such sums of money or the proceeds of such debentures, to the purpose for which the same were granted. «0. The said company may receive from any Govern- ment, or from persons or bodies corporate, municipal or I8T4. Orand Junction R. 7i. Co. Cap. 48. politic, who may have power to make or grant the same, aid towards the construction, equipment, or maintenance of the said railway, by way of bonus, gift, or loan in money, or deben- tures, or other securities for money, or by way of guarantee, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon. • 1. Any municipal corporation, or any portion of a mu- Aid n-om nicipality, which may be interested in securing the construe-**""''*'*''*""** tion of the said railw.i) , or through any part of which, or near which, the railway r works of the said company shall pass ■. or be situate, may uui 'he said company by giving money or debentures, by way of bonus, gift, or loan, or by the guaran- 'r y tee of the municipal corporation, under and subject to the '';^ provisions hereinafter contained, which are to be taken as applicable thereto, instead of sections four hundred and seventy-two, four hundred and seventy-three and four hun- . dred and seventy-four of the Municipal Institutions Act: Provided always, that no such aid shall be given, except after i the passing of a by-law for the purpose, and the adoption of i) i '. such-law by the qualified ratepayers of the municipality or portion of nmnicipality, (as the case may be,) as provided in the Municipal Act for ••he creation of debts. QS. Such by-law shall be submitted by the municipal Manner of council to the vote of the ratepayers in manner following, uw^to'ratt^^ namely :— p*^" 1. The proper petition shall first be presented to the coun- cil, expressing the desire to aid the railway, and stating in what way and for what amount ; and the council shall within six weeks after the receipt of such petition by the clerk of the municipality introduce a by-law to the effect petitioned for, ;' ,. and submit the same for the approval of the qualified voters ; ■! 2. In the case of a county municipality the petition shall be that of a majority of the reeves and deputy reeves, or of twenty resident freeholders in each of the minor municipali- ties of the county, who are qualified voters under the Muni- cipal Act ; 'i. In the case of other municipalities, the petition shall be that of a majority of the council thereof, or of twenty resident freeholders, being duly qualified voters as aforesaid ; 4 In the case of two or more minor municipalities, or sec- tions of two or more such municipalities, or of two or more such municipalities with a section or sections of one or more minor municipalities forming part of a county municipality, the petition is to be presented to the county council, describ- ing the portions to be grouped, and defining any section by metes and bounds, and shall be that of a majority of each of the councils of such minor municipalities respectively, or of twenty resident freeholders in each of the said minor munici- palities, or sections proposed to be grouped, being duty qualiiicKi voters as aforesaid. ii'1 20 Cap. 43 Grand Juno.ion Ji. B. Co. 37 Vict, Aid from portioDB of county miini- cip«U«te8. OroupiDg minor municipaUUefl. 88. Where a portion of the county municipality petitions to aid the railway, it shall be such portion only as shall con- sist of two or more minor municipalities or sections thereof through which the lire of railway is to be constructed, or which will be benefitted thereby, and such minor municipali- ties and sections thereof shall lie contiguous ; but no minor municipality or section thereof which is subject to a county or other by-lav/ in aid of the said railway, shall be thus grouped without the co :sent of the majority of the duly qualified voters therein expressed to that end, when voting upon the proposed by-law. Proceedings on C4L. In case of aid from a county municipality, or from a wi^missfonof groupcd portiou thereof, twenty resident freeholders of the by-laws. county or portion comprised in the proposed by-law (as the case may be) may petition the county council against submit- ting the said by-law, upon the ground that certaiu minor municipalities or portions thereof comprised in the said by- y law would be injuriously affected thereby, oi upon any other ground ought not to be included therein ; and upon deposit by the petitioners with the treasurer of the county, of a sum sufficient to defray the expense of such reference, the said council shall forthwith refer the said petition to three arbitra- tors, one being the judge of the county court, one being the registrar r f the county, or of the riding in which the county town is situate, and one being an engineer appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works for On- tario, who shall have power to confirm or amend the said by-law by excluding any minor municipality or any section thereof therefrom ; and the decision of any two of them shall be final ; an*:' the by-law so confirmed or amended shall thereupon, at the option of the railway company, be submit- ted by the council to the duly qualified Voters ; and in case the by-law is confirmed by the arbitrators, the expense of the reference shall be borne by the petitioners against the same, but if amended, then by the railway conipany, or the county, as the arbitrators may order. Arbitration. Rate to be levied only on the part of municipality (CrantinK bonus. 8fS. In the case of a portion of the county municipality being formed into a group, the by-law to be submitted shall be that of the county, but the rate to be levied for payment of the debentures issued thereunder, and the interest thereon, shall be assessed and levied upon such portions only of the county municipality ; and the voting thereon shall be limited to the duly qualified voters in such portions only. ^'JT^iJ* ««• Before any sUch by-law }« submitted, the railway make deposit i,i«. ... <«. •« «.. for expenses. Company shall deposit with the treasurer of the municipality a sum sufficient to pay the expenses to be incurred in sub- mitting said by-law. Interpretation of thatrards AT". The term " minor munidpality" shall be construed to 1874. Orctnd Junction H. B. Co. Cap. 48. 31 mean any town not separated from the municipal county ^^^/.y"'^- township, or incorporated village situate in the county municipality. 88. No by-law shall be valid, or shall be submitted to ^Ju^'^gJ^^ such vote for granting aid to the railway which shall require theannuai rate the levying of a greater aggregate annual rate for all purposes, cenu tnThe exclusive of school rates, than three cents in the dollar upon **""•'"• the value of the ratable property in each of the minor muni- cipalities or section affected thereby ; but for the purpose of such aid, the amount of the aggregate annual rate to be levied in any such municipality or section, may exceed the two cents in the dollar limited by the Municipal Act. «0. Such by-law shall in each instance provide. Reaoisites of 1. For raising the amount petitioned for in the municipal-''^ ity or portions of the county municipality, (as the case may be,) mentioned in the petition by the issue of debentures of the county or minor municipality, respectively, and shall also provide for the delivery of the said debentures, or the appli- cation of the amount to be raised thereby, as may be express- ed in the said by-law ; 2. For assessing and levying upon all ratable property lying within the municipality or portions of the county mu- nicipality defined in said by-law (as the case may be) an annual special rate sufficient to include a sinking fund for the repayment of the said debentures, within twenty years with interest thereon, payable yearly or half-yearly, or by equal annual instalments of principal and interest ; which deben- tures the respective municipal councils, warden, reeves and other officers thereof are hereby authorised to execute and issue in such cases respectively : Provided, that in case the sum raised under the authority of such by-law is invested in the capital stock or bonds of the railway company or loaned thereon, the council of the municipality holding such stock or bonds may sell and dispose of the same or any part there- of, and shall in such case apply the moneys received therefor in payment of the said debentures and interest. SO. In case the by-law submitted is not approved of, now by-uw de- other by-law which is in substance the same shall be submit- o^ time for ted to the voters of the same municipalif;y or portion of the|[j{^u^*5j^. county municipality, until after the expiration of six months from such rejection. coun- 81. In case the by-law submitted be approved of orci^^^e carried by a majority of the votes given thereon, then within ^^p*«»*'»« four weeks after the date of such voting, the municipal council which submitted the same, shall read the said by-law a third time and pass the same. and iaaue Oko 8». Within one month after the passing of such by-law SSbenni^ Cap. 48. Grand Junction R. R, Co. 37 Vict. TnutMsfor mualc!pal ebentuTM. |[ii the said council, and the warden, reeve, or other officers thereof shall issue or d ^pose of the debentures necessary to raise the sum mentioned in such by-law, and otherwise act according to the terms thereof. Corporation 33. The Corporation of any county municipality shall be ShS-de^B?** at liberty to take the debentures issued by any township in orSe toira^ aid of the railway company, and give in exchange therefor to aUik the said township, a like amount of the debentures of the said county, on a resolution to that effect b'^ing passed by the county council ; but the township municipality shall iw each case keep the county municipality fully indemnified against aiiy rate or liability in respect of said debentures. 34t. Whenever any municipality or portion of a county municipality shall grant aid by way of bonus or g»'' to the railway company, the debentures therefor, shall within six months after passing of the by-law authorizing the same, be delivered to three trustees to be named, one by the Lieutenant- Governor in Council, one by the said company, and one by the majority of the heads of the municipalities which have granted bonuses ; all of the trustees to be residents of the Province of Ontario : Provided that if the said Council shall refuse or neglect to name such trustee, or if the Lieutenant- Governor in Council shall omit to name such trustee within one month after notice in writing to him of the appointment of the other trustees, the company shall be at liberty to name such other trustee or other trustees ; any of the said trustees may be removed and a new trustee appointed in his place at any time, by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, with the consent of the company ; and in case any trustee die, or resign his trust, or go to live out of Ontario, or otherwise be- come incapable to act, his trusteeship shall become vacant^ and a new trustee may be appointed by the Lieutenant- Governor in Council, with the consent of said company. 8ff. The said trustees shall receive the said debentures or bonds in trust : firstly, under the direction of the company to convert the same into money ; secondly, to deposit the amount realized from the sale in some of the chartered banks, having an office in this Province, in the name of "The Grand Junc- tion Railway Municipal Trust Account," and to pay the same out to the said company from time to time, on the cettificate of the chief engineer of the said railway in the form set out in schedule "A" hereto, or to the like effiect, setting out the portion of the railway to which the money to be paid out Is to be applied, and that the sum so certified for, is in pursu- ance of the terms and conditions of the by-law ; and such certificate is to be attached to the cheques to be drawn by the said trustees ; and such engineer shall not wrongfully grant any such certificate under penalty of one hundred dollars, recoverable in any county court by any person who may sue tiierefor, Trusts on which deben- tures are to be held. 1«7#. Grand Junction Ji. R. Co. Caip*- MC SIS ^* The trustees shall be entitled to their reasonable fees Tni«^'f««. and charges from said trust fund ; and the act of any two oi'fovern.*'^ ** such trustees to be as valid and binding as if the three had agreed. 3'7'. Any municipality through which the said railway compMiy may may pass is empowered to grant by way of gift to the said uSdJ!* '*'*^ company any lands belonging to such municipality, v.hich may be required for right of way, station grounds, or other purposes connected with the running or traffic of the said railway ; and the said railway company shall have power to accept gifts of land from any Government or any person or body politic or corporate, and shall have power to sell or otherwise dispose of the same I'or the benefit of the said company. 38. It shall further be lawful for the council of anyMunioiwJit municipality in which any part of the railway of the company m«yn^^ is situate, by by-law specially passed for that purpose, Lt) cx-SSSSSt empt the said company and its property, within such munici* pality, either in whole or in part from municipal assessment or taxation, or to agree to a certain sum per annum or other- wise, in gross or by way of commutation or composition for payment, or in lieu of all or any municipal rates or assess- ments to be imposed by such municipal corporation, and for such term of years as such municipal corporation, may deem< expedient, not exceeding twenty-one years ; and any such by-law shall not be repealed unless in conformity with a con- dition contained therein. m 30. It shall and maybe lawful for the council of anycounoumar municipality that may grant a bonus to the company, and^tendc they shall have full power to extend the time for completion of the works, on the completion of which the said company would be entitled to such bonuses. 4LO. it shall be lawful for the council of any township or„ county municipality interest' d \r *;he said extension branches, contribute or any of them, and without complying with the requirements ^iSJi* """"^ of any Act providing for the creation of debts by municipal e*p«n«^ corporations on behalf of such township or county munici-> periities, to bear all or part of the costs, charge*;, and expenses of, and incidental to, the submission of any by-law to the said qualified voters for grmting a bonus to the said company, or may give the said company a bonus on account of such i;08t8, charges and expenses ; Provided alwiays that no one stich bonus shall exceed five thousand doUars. ^ I . Whenever any municipality or a portion of a munf- ^^^^ cipiality shall aid, loan, guarantee, of give money or bonds by mmj tS^m way of bonus to aid the making, equ^tttt, and completion J? tSSS?*^ 1 84 Cap. 43. Grand Junction B. R. Co, 87 VlrcT. of said extension and branches, or Any part or parts thereof, it shall be lawful for the said company to ente:' into a valid agreement with any such municipality binding the said com- pany to expend the whole of such aid so given upon works of construction, within the limits of the municipality granting the same. , . v*t' oomiMuiy may ^jg. The Said compaiiy shall have power to become pnHniflMry parties to promissory notes, and bills of exchange for sums notes, etc. ^^^ j^^g ^j^^^^^ ^^^ hundred dollars, and any such promissory note, made or endorsed, and any such bill of exchange dra^wn, accepted or endorsed by the president of the company, or vice-president, and countersigned by the secretary and treas- urer, and under the authority of a majority of a quorum of the directors, is and shall be binding upon the said company ; and every such promissory note or bill of exchange so made, drawn, accepted or endorsed by the president or the vice- president of the said company, and countersigned ' by the secretary and treasurer as such, either before or after the passing of this Act, shall be presumed to have been proper- ly made, drawn and accepted or endorsed, as the case may be, for the company, until the contrary be shown ; and in no case shall it be necessary to have the seal of the company affixed to any such bill of exchange or promissory note, nor shall the president, vice-president or the secretary and treas- urer of the company so making, drawing, accepting or endor- sing any such promissory note or bill of exchange, be thi;reby ProTiBo- subjected individually to any liability whatever : Provided always, that nothing in this clause shall be construed ^o authorize the said company to issue any note payable to bearer, or any promissory note intended to be circulated as money or as the notes of a bank. M")fi: . OonveyancM to the com- pany to be a certain form. Fee to rairU- tnr 4^3. All deeds and conveyances for lands to be conveyed to the said company for the purposes of this Act, shall and may, as far as the title to the said lands or the circumstances of the party making such conveyanres ^ill admit, be made in tiie form given in the schedule of this Act marked B. And for the purpose of a due registration of the same, all registrars, in their respective counties, are hereby required to procure a book with copies of the form given in the said schedule B, one to be printed on each page, leaving the necessary blanks to suit the separate cases of conveyance, and in the said book to ent^r and register the said deed upon production thereof, and proof of executton,without any memorial, andto minute such entry on the said deed. And the said company are to pay the said registrars for so doing the sum of fifty cents and no more, which said registration shall be held and deemed to be valid in law ; the provisions of any Act for the registration of deeds now in force in this Province, to the contrary notwithstanding. No. SCHEDULE A. Chief Engineer's Certificate. The Grand Junction Railway Company's Office Engineer's Department, A.D. 18 Cei'tifioate to be attached to chequee drawn on The Grand Junotton Railway Municipal Trmt Account. I, , Chief Engineer for The Grand Junction Railway Company, do hereby certify that the sum of $ is required to be expended in the construction of the portion of the line extending from mile No. to mile No. , and that payment should be made to the com- pany of such amount fromi the Municipal Trust Account, the same being in pursuance of the terms and conditions of the by- law of the Municipality of the of SCHEDULE B. Form of Convbyance. Know all Men by these presents^ that I, A. B.,oi (here name the wife, if any) do hereby in consideration of {here the sum) paid to me by the Grand Junctici Railway Company, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm unto the said the Grand Junction Railw=*.y Company, their successors and assigns for eyer, all that certain tract or parcel of land situate {here de- aoribe the land) the same having been selected and laid out by the said Company for the purposes of their road, to have and to hold the said land and premises, together with the here- ditaments thereto, to the said The Grand Junction Railway Company, their successors and as'iigns for ever, (here dower, if any.) Witness my hand and seal, this day of one thousand eight hundred and L. S. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Preamble. An Act respecting the Grand Junction Railway Company. Ont. Stat. 39 Vic Cap. 71. [AnenUd to Idth February^ 1878.] WHEREAS the Grand Junction Railway Company have by their petition asked that the time for tb? comple- tion of their railway may be extended, and that all the by- laws passed by the several municipalities on their line in aid of said company shall stand as if the time fok the completion of their railway had been the date to which the time for comple- tion is extended : And whereas, it is expedient to grant the prayer of th -aid petition : Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : 1 . The time for the completion of the Grand Junction RaiU pietion ofButii- way is hereby extended to the first day of May, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. Ixtenilon of time for com- way. Bonuaea heretofore granted. Beduoingthe number of Ure^ton. I;i Sill Mi ■ I i M gaommof Direeton. 0, The several by-laws passed by theseveral municipalities on the line of said proposed railway, granting aid by way of bonus to the said compan}% and which have not now lapsed, shall stand and hsve the same effect as if the time in this Act fixed for the completion of said railway had been in the ActA now in force respecting said company named and fixed as the time for the completion of said coiiipany's railway, and thM': none of said by-laws shall lapse by reason of the said extension of time, or the said railway not being completed within thifr time heretofore fixed for the completion of the same. S. The shareholders of the company may, at any getittiX meeting called for the purpose, by by-law reduce the numbir of the directors of the said company to any number not less^ than five, and from and after the passing of said by-law the number of directors named therein shall be the number of directors of the said company to be elected by the shareholders of the said company at the next and all subsequent elections oT directors. 4k. From the passing of this Act, five directors shall forra a quorum for the transaction of business. Sajrmour bonua % ^;|i B, Whereas the Township of Seymour did by by-law grant aid by way of bonus to the said company to the extent of thirty-five thousand dollars, which by-law provides that the reeve of the said township shall be a director of the said com- pany, and that a portion of said bonus shall b : paid when the 1876. Grand Junction JR. H. Co. Cap. 71. 27 Hiw of railway is graded through the said township, and the balance, on the iron being laid through the said township ; And whereas the Village of Campbellford, formerly a part of the said Township of Seymour,has been erected into a separate municipality since the passage of the said by-law, and in liable to pay : portion of the said bonus ; And whereas it is expedient that the said village shall be represented on the "' said company'? board : therefore it is hereby enacted that instead of the reeve of Seymour, as provided in said by-law, S'P'^KS**" being an ex-^JIioio director of the said company, the said town- Townataiptot ship and the said village shall have the power by concurrent vffiS^V* resolutions of their respective council?, from time to time, to SJuSj^JlSd*' nominate and appoint an ex-offioio director of the said board in lieu of the said reeve of Seymour ; and further, that, not-Bonu«,how withstanding anything in the said by-law contained, the said p'^***'*- bonus 4o granted as aforesaid shall be payable in debentures, as mentioned in said by-law as tollows,that is to say: — Twenty thousand dollars upon the said railway being completed and in running order to the Village of Campbellford, and the balance, on the iron being laid through the said Township of Seymour, provided that the said line of railway shall be com- pleted and in running order to Campbellford on or before eighteen months from the passing hereof. «>. Whereas the Corporation o\ the County of Peter- ohaw rf Un« borough, by by-law, has granted aid by way of bonus to thetbeP«ter»oro' said company to the extent of seventy-five thousand dollars,**"""" and one of the conditions of said by-law was and is, that the* line of said railway shall pass by a route indicated in said by- law ; And whereas it may be found desirable to change the line of said railway ; Therefore it is hereby enacted that the directors of the said company may, if thereunto requested by the said Corporation of the County of Peterborough, change the line or route of said railway from that indicated in the said by-law, and that the said by-law shall remain binding and valid, and the said bonus shall be payable in the terms of the said by-law, notwithstanding the said line of railway may not pass through or on the route mentioned in said by-law. hvuible. BenerUle bonus. V' ProTiao. TlmeproTided in by-law* extended. An Act respecting the Grand Junction Railway Company. Ont Stat. 42 Vict. Cap. 57. , [Agaented to llth Maroh^ 1879.] WHEREAS the Corporation of the City of Belleville passed a by-law on the eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, granting further aid by way of bonus to the extent of fifty thousand dollars to the Grand Junction Railway Company, on the conditions in the said by-law contained ; and whereas the said corporation have, by a resolution passed on the fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, extended the time for the fulfilment of the said conditions, and have otherwise varied the same ; and whereas the said company have, by their petition, prayed that the said resolution may be sanctioned and legalized, and that other amendments in the Acts relating to the said company may be made: md whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition ; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : — 1 . The said bonus of fifty thousand dollars granted to the said railway company by the Corporation of the City of Belleville shall be payable as follows : one half thereof on the completion of the line of the said railway to the water's edge at the Village of Hastings, and its equipment to that village in the manner and style provided for in the said by-law for the equipment of the said railway to the Town of Peterborough, and the other half of the said bonus upon the completion and equipment of the line to the Town of Peterborough ; Provided always that the said railway shall be completed to the Vills^e of Hastings in the manner aforesaid by the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy -nine. St. The time for the completion of the said railway to the Town of Peterborough as provided for by the said by-law, is hereby extended to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty. Power further 3« "^^^ Corporation of the City of Belleville may, by by-law to^ztend to be passed by the council thereof, extend the time for ""*■ completion of the said railway to Hastings and Peterborough By-law con- flrmed. Power to inalK»inate withwao- to such later date or dates as may be thought proper. 4L. The said by-law subject to the alterations herein pro- vided for is hereby declared legal and valid. CS. The said railway company is hereby authorized and em- powered to enter into an agreement for the amalgamation of 1879. Grand Junction B. R. Co. Cap. 67. 29 the said company with the Belleville and North Hastings J^""*"^' Railway Company, or for acquiring the line of railway or any part thereof of the said last mentioned company, or with any other railway company whose line may join or connect with the line of the said Grand Junction Railway Company, to- gether with the property, privileges and franchises of such other company belonging to such part of its line as may be so acquired, on such terms and conditions as may be dehned by the agreement under the seal of the said companies entering into such agreement, which shall be ratified and approved of by a majority in number and value of the stockholders includ* ing any municipalities holding stock present or represented at a general meeting called tor the purpose of considering such agreement, which shall be valid and binding on the seve ral companies entering into the same after such ratifica- tion and approval. O, The Corporation of the Village of Hastings and of theorum Township of Percy and Asphodel are hereby authorized and ^"JSSTepw- empowered, by resolutions heretofore passed or to be passed abte when i- by the respective councils of the said corporations, to make Haatinga. the several bonuses, granted by them respectively to the said railway company, payable when the said line is completed and in running order to the Village of Hastings. ; y; i Preambla. An Act respecting the Grand Junction Railway Com- pany. Ont. Stat 43 Vic. Cap. 54. [A'teerUed to Hth Mcvroh^ 18i?0.] WHEREAS the Grand Junction Railway Company have petitioned tliat an Act may be prssed to amend the Acts relating to the said 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 Legislative Assc.r.bly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows ; — ;-1 s^iS^r'auth- \ . The Corporation of the township of Seymour may substi- ch^e^deben- t^t^ for the debentures already issued for the ?un: of thirty-five tures already thousand dollars and interest under and in pursuance of the ones. by-law of the said corporation passed in aid of the said railway, other debentures to be made payable on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and the eighteen following years, with interest annually on the said days for the several sums of principal money, with the yearly interest thereon, shown by the schedule to this Act, being for ' the balance of the said sum of thirty-five thousand dollars now ""i'^'. :":''>;.. -h' remaining unpaid ; and the reeve and treasurer of the said ':'';, township are hereby authorized to make and deliver to the trustees for the municipal debentures appointed under the pro- visions of the Act incorporating the said company, or to the said company, or to the holders of the said debentures alr^idy issued, such new debentures as aforesaid in substitution for the said debentures already issued, which shall thereupon besur- : ; ,, rendered and cancelled, and such new debentures to be so issued as aforesaid shall be legal, valid and binding on the said corporation as if issued and made payable according to the terms of the said by-law, and the agreement heretofore entered into between the said corporation and the said railway com- pany and E. O. Bickford and the Bank of Montreal, who are now the holders of and entitled to the said debentures, for such exchange of debentures and the substitution of such new debentures is hereby declared valid and binding on all the parties thereto. Time extend- ed. I i-M Location of line. «e. The time for the completion of the said railway to a point of junction with the Midland Railway of Canada at or near the village of Omemee or in the township of Emily, or to such other point as may be authorized by the existing charter of the said company, is .hereby extended to the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and the said the Grand Junction Railway Company is hereby author- ized to build and construct their said railway from the village of Hastings to suoh point of junction, and to the terminus of the said road, on such line or by such route as they may deem 1880. Orand JwMtion Ji. K. Oo, .Cap. 61. expedient, and to acquire by purchase, or lease, or to use by {^1^™,°** agreement for running powers, or by way of traffic arrang.;- oompanier ment, any part of the track, line, buildings, or works of any existing railway, legally authorized to enter into such an agreement,which the company owning the same may by agree- ment, conveyance, or lease, sell, lease, transfer, or grant the use of, to the said the Grand Junction Railway Compc^ny ; and every such company so legally authorized is hert-by cm- powered to enter into and make any such conveyance, lease, or agreement to or with the said the Grand Junction Rail- way Company ; Provided always that the same shall be ^"*'^***' sanctioned, ratified and approved of by at least two-thirds in value and a majority of the stockholders of such com- pany entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders specially called for that purpose, and thereupon any such conveyance, bonuS*"* °' lease, or agreement shall be legal and valid, and on the completion of the said the Grand Junction Railway to the town of Peterborough on or before the first day of June, one thou.sand eight hundred and eighty-one, by the use of any suCh existing railway for part of its line, any muni- cipal bonus made payable on the completion to Peterborough shall become due and payable to the said the Grand Junction Railway Company in the same manner as if the said company had constructed their line to the said town within the time heretofore fixed for the completion thereof by any statute or by-law relating thereto; Provided further, and it is heiebyP«^'^i««>- enacted, that the Grand Junction Railway shall, between Hastings and Peterborough, be constructed on the line now sui'veyed, as near as can be, but with the right to the Grand Junction Railway Company for their railway to acquire from the Cobourg, Peterborough and Marmora Railway and Mining Company part of the portion of their line north of Rice Lake and next Peterborough, either by purchase of the fee simple or by lease in perpetuity at a nominal rent, and the said Cobourg, Peterborough and Marmora Railway and Mining Company are hereby authorized to grant said lease or sell said portion of their line, which may be so acquired as afore- said ; and further, that the twenty-five thousand dollars of the bonus of fifty thousand dollars, granted by the City of Belleville by by-law number three hundred and sixty-nine, and which is payable on the construction and completion of the Grand Junction Railway to Peterborough, on the line above mentioned, in accordance with the terms and provisions of said by-law number three hundred and sixty-nine, shall not be payable unless and until the said Grand Junction Rail- way is completed by the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, on said line, and ift' accordance with all the requirehients of said by-law, except as to time for completion and payment of bonus, and all questions as to such compliance shall be determined as In the said by-law is provided. -9, The said the Grand Junction Railway Company isfwto^er hereby authorized and empowered to sell, transfer, or lease '""''•°*"- sa Cap. 54* Orand Juncium B. H Co. 48 Vict. its line of railway, or any part thereof, to any other railway company, legally authorized to nnake such purchase or enter into such agreement, together with the property, privileges and franchises belonging to it or to such part of its line as may be so sold, transferred, or leased, or to make any traffic, running, or joint working arrangements with any such railway company on such terms and conditions as may be defined hy the agreement under the seal of the companies entering into such agreement which shall be ratified and approved of by a majority in number and at least two-thirds in value of the stockholders in the said the Grand Junction Railway Com- pany present or represented at a general meeting called for the purpose of considering such agreement. £mu« of bonda. 4^, The directors of the said company, after the sanction of the shareholders shall have been first obtained at any special general meeting to be called from time to time for such pur- pose, shall have power to issue bonds to any amount not exceeding twelve thousand dollars per mile of railway, to be signed by the president or vice-president of the said company, and countersigned by the secretary or treasurer, and under the seal of the s%id company, for the purpose of raising money for prosecuting the said undertaking, or paying for the construc- tion of the said railway, or paying any mortgage or other liabilities of the said company, and such bonds shall, without registration or formal conveyance, be taken and considered to be preferential claims and charges upon the said undertaking and the real property of the said company, including its roll- ing stock and equipments titan existing and at any time there- after acquired, subject only to two existing mortgages made by the said company to Wentworth James Buchanan and £. O. Bickford and others, respectively, and each holder of the said bonds shall be deemed to be a mortgagee and encum- brancer pro rata, with all the other holders thereof, upon the undertaking and property of the company as aforesaid ; and ProTiM. Provided also that in the event at any time of the interest upon the sai' bonds remaining unpaid and owing then at the next ensuing annual general meeting of the said company ,all holders of such bonds shall have and possess the same rights and privileges and qualifications for directors and for voting ProTiw. ^ of t!:e Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : — A"'«i«wn»tifn j ^ The deed of amalgamation of the said the Grand juncMon and Junction Railway Company and the Belleville and North lud^.^HM^ Hastings Railway Company, duly executed by the said com- ocmflrnieS'"'*^ pdnies respectively, in pursuance of the Acts relating to the said companies passed in the forty-second year of the reign of Her Majesty, and dated on the twenty-ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, is hereby declared legal and valid ; and it is hereby declared and enacted that the said two companies are amal- gamated and united under the name of the Grand J unction Railway Company, on the terms and subject to the provisoes and conditions in the said deed contained : Provided that the Acts incorporating the said respective companies and the Acts amending the same authorized such amalgamation and conditions. • mortga"* COT. ^« ^^^ bonds made and issued by the said company. Armed. bearing date the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, to the amount of nine hundred thousand dollars, payable on the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, with interest half-yearly at the rate of five per centun. per annum ; and the indenture of mortgage made and executed by the said company, bearing date the sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, to and in favor of John Macdougall, of the city of Montreal, iron manufacturer, and Edward Oscar Bickford, of the city of Toronto, iron merchant, as trustees, to secure the said bonds, are hereby declared to be legal and valid, and to be and constitute a lien and charge on the said railway and its property and undertaking, in accordance with the Statutes relating to the said two companies so amalgamated as aforesaid, and the terms and conditions of the said -- , .^,.„u indenture of mortgage. Istension Autlioti8«d, 3. The Company is hereby authoriz'"^ and empowered to extend its Hne of railway from a point at or near Chemong Lake to the village of Bobcaygeon, and thence to the village of Fenelon Falls and to a point of junction with the Victoria Road. '■Ai ■ sS^M-MSe'' *»**»(»«.>■# reign !une 1881. Chrand Junction U, H, Co, Cap. 64. O", it J ^. The indenture of lease made and executed by the Co-Jjg^ p bourg, Peterborough and Marmora Railway and Mining«»dM wiiwa.r Company to the said the Grand Junction Railway Company, '^°*'™''^- bearing date the sixteenth day of July, in the year of our ■< -;. Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and being that portion of the line and property of the said the Cobourg, Peterborough and Marmora Railway and Mining Company, in the said lease described, is hereby declared legal and valid to all intents and purposes, excepting in so far as it may be finally decided in the suit now pending between the Grand Junction Railway and the Midland Railway of Canada, that the said Midland Railway is entitled to any portion of the line or lands embraced in the said lease ; Provided always, and it is hereby declared that the said lease is only drrV.rc^ legal and binding subject and without prejudice to the bouJs jj^i of the Cobourg, Peterborough and Marmora Railway and ' Mining Company, and that nothing nerein contained shall in any wise affect, impair or prejudice the rights of any holder of such bonds. T'-f -I • ' il 4 -h^ {. if- \ ,:( ACTS RESPECTING The Belleville and North Hastings EAILWAY. (Now amalgamated with the Grand Junction,) ' „ .■; ■]:-■■: -■ ■■.■\f:v: 1 '■''■'-' '^ '^ ' - ' ' . -^ -■"^•■■^■■'■■'' 1 Ont. Stat. 37 Vic, Cap. 38. ; j <( (( 38 " *• 45. , j (< ti 30 «. 50. -,';/:■';■: T":- ^ U u 41 " 43. tt ,'iH i^U ml ^/ W^'*: ■ vluvvliyif o-U ' n T A.. ■ -f-. fl it % l"" A Ui t'AU A'- If, .- ^al^0p—— >>i-- ■.'^■i '.i»tr: '..'G ■ ■ Kit ' ' ^ii" m ;>t^'>?iV 'iV-vs^'fiiV^ 39 An Act to incorporate the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company. ., ^ ^^,. )%'' Ont. Stat. 37 Vic. Cap. 38. , , t^'r '.'::' [Aanented to ^ith Mareh, 187^.] WHEREAS, the construction of a Railway, from some Preamble, point on the Grand Junction Railway between Wall- bridge's Mills, in the Township of Sydney, and the Village of Stirling, to the Village of Madoc, or some point in the vicinity thereof, and thence to the Seymour Iron Mine, in tiic Township of Madoc, in the County of Hastings, and thence to the Free Grant Districts, in the rear part of the said County of Hastings, has become necessary for the develop- ment of the resources of the County of Hastings, and the country adjacent to that County : Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : , , . . , ., ^... 1. Henry C. Lloyd, A. F. Wood, Hon. Lewis Wallbridge,incoriH)iatio«i. James Brown, M.P., McKenzie Boweil, M.P., Tbos. Kelso, R.S. ■*' '" Patterson, N. B. Falkiner, S. B. Burdett, Thomas Emo, James Archibald, Edmund D. O'Flynn, Peter Vankleek, E. Mills. Henry Hogan, B. Furniss, S. B. Mower, J. B. Crosby, Robert Duf?; W. L. Forsyth, T. Judah, Duncan Robertson, M. Tait, • M^ ' -w^'' C. Bouthillier, R. Kane, G. H. Boulter, M.P.P.. and Jas. Urquhart, together with such persons and corporations, as . • ■ shall in pursuance of this Act, become shareholders of the said company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted and de- clared to be a body corporate and politic by the name of ' -' ' ''r " The Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company." ^a^*^'"*'* S. The several clauses of the Railway Act of the consolictertain^ausM dated Statutes of Canada, and amendments with respect to let to appiyf^ the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth clauses thereof, and also the several clauses thereof, with respect to "interpre- tation," "incorporation," "powers," "plans and surveys," "lands and their valuation," "highways and bridges," "fences," "tolls," " general meetings," president and directors, their election and - ....;,,;« duties," "calls," "shares and their transfer," "municipalities," "shareholders," "actions for indemnity and fines.and penalties. and their prosecution," "by-laws, notices, &c.," working of the , ;; v ; railway," and "general provisions," sl-^U be incorporated with, , -H V^' and be deemed to be a part of this Act, and shall apply to the said company and to the 'railway to be constructed by them, except only so far as they may be inconsistent witli the express enactments hereof ; and the expression "this Act," when used herein, shall be understood to include the Meaning of clauses of the said Railway Act, so incorporated with this Act ^ct/? *'" mm V'.:- ao Cap. 38. BeUevUU and N. Hcutingt R. R. Co. 87 ViCT. JlK>cmtionof Uae. m w ini M ^M[ ' Oauge. 'Form of con- •Teyances. 2teg J'<'-) ■ 5. Conveyances of lands to the said company for the pur- poses of this Act may be made in the form se*: out in the schedule "A." hereunder written, or to the like effect, and such conveyances shall be registered by duplicates thereof, in such manner, and upon such proof of execution as is required under the Registry Laws of Ontario ; and no registrar shall be entitled to demand more than seventy-five cents for register- ing the same, including all entries, and certificates thereof, and c iificate endorsed on the duplicate thereof. O. From and after the passing of this Act, the said Henry C. Lloyd, A. F. Wood, Hon. Lewis* Wallbridge, Jas. Brown, M.P., McKenzie Bowell, M.P., Thomas Kelso, R. S. Patterson. N. B. Falkiner, S. B. Burdett, Thos. Emo, Jas. Archibald, Edmund D. O'Flynn, Peter Vankleek, E. Mills,Henry Hogan, B. Furniss, S. B. Mower, J. B. Crosby, Robt. Duff, W. L. Forsyth, T. Judah, Duncan Robertson, M. Tait, C. Bouthillier, R. Kane, G. H. Boulter, M.P.P., and Jas. Urquhart, shall be the provisional directors of the said company. uh? • •y. The said provisional directors, until others shall be named, as hereinafter provided, shall constitute the board of directors of the company, with power to fill vacancies occur- ring thereon ; to associate with themselves thereon not more than three other persons, who, upon being so named, shall become and be provisional directors of the compai.y equally with themselves ; to open stock books, to make a call upon the shares subscribed therein ; to call a meeting of the sub- scribers thereto, for the election of other directors, as herein- after provided ; and with all such other powers, as under the Railway Act, are vested in such board. Hi I! 1874 BeUevuU and JH. Haatinga R. M. Co. Cap. 38. 4t 8. J. he capital of the company hereby incorporated shall <^p***'"**^''* be three hundred thousand dollars, (with power to increase the same in the manner provided by the Railway Act,) to be divided into six thousand shares of fifty dollars each, and shall be raised by the persons and corporations who may be- come . shareholders in such company, and the money so raised shall be applied, in the first place, to the payment and AppUoaUon of discharge of all fees, expenses and disbursements for pro- ^oney- curing the passage of this Act, and for making the surveys, .,,y ;/ plans and estimates connected with the works hereby author- t ized ; and all the remainder of such money shall be applied to the making, equipment and completion of the said railway, and other purposes of this Act, and to no other purpose whatever ; and until such preliminary expenses shall be paid out of the said capital stock, the municipality of any County, Town, Township or Village, on the line of such works, may pay out of the general funds of such municipality, its fair , " proportion of such preliminary expenses, which shall here- after be refunded to such municipality from the capital stock of the company, or be allowed to it in payment of stock. O. On the subscription for shares of the said capital stock JfThe^swok U) each subscriber shall pay forthwith to the directors for the ^^ p*** "p- purposes set out in this Act, ten per centum of the amount subscribed by him, and the said directors shall deposit the same in some chartered bank to the credit of the said com- , 1 o. Thereafter calls may be made by the directors for the F^tu'^ "alls. time being as they shall see fit, provided that no call shall be made at any one time of more than ten per centum of the am' unt subscribed by each subscriber. 11. The said the directors elected by the shareholders ^•^'^^'2;|*^ ; may pay or agree to pay in paid up stock or in the bonds of P^f^°^«p"^t^in^ the said company such sums as they may deem expedient to or in bunds, engineers or contractors, or for right of way, or material, plant, or rolling stock, and also, when sanctioned by a vote of the shareholders at any general meeting, for the services of the promoters or other persons who may be employed by the directors for the purpose of assisting the directors in the furtherance of the undertaking or purchase of right of way, material, plant, or rolling stock, whether such promoters or other persons be provisional directors or not, and any agree- ment so made shall be binding on the company. 1 8. As soon as shares to the amount of thirty thousand in| for the dollars'of the capital stock of the said company shall have Q".^ of been subscribed; and ten per centum thereof paid into some directore. chartered bank having an oftice in the County of Hastings, which shall on no account be withdrawn therefrom unless for i m Cap. 38. Belleville and N. Hustings R. R. Co. 37 ViCT. the service of the company, the directors shall call a general meeting of the subscribers to the said capital stock, who shall have so paid up ten per centum thereof for the purpose of electing directors to the said company. Hliaeholdera !• ay receive interest to be charKed againrt the capital. 1 3. From the date of the first general meeting hereinafter mentioned, during the construction of the said railway, it shall be lawful for the directors to pay to the shareholders interest at a rate not exceeding .seven per centum on the amount of the stock paid up, the same to be charged against the capital of the company as and deemed to be a part of the expenses of the construction of the said railway ; such interest to be paid half-yearly from the date of the said first general meeting. ill! Directors may accept pay- ment in full of stoclc. How meetinfr may be called if provisional directors nejr- lect to call the same. Notice of i;cu- eral meeting. Election of directors. Annual meet- ings. 14, It shall be lawful for the provisional or elected direc-' tors to accept payment in full for stock from any subscriber thereof, at the time of subscription thereof, or at any time, be- fore the making of a fmal call thereon, and to allow such per- centage or discount thereon as they may deem expedient and reasonable, and thereupon to issue to each subscriber scrip to the full amount of such stock subscribed. 1 s. In case the provisional directors neglect to call such meeting for the space of three months after such amount of the capital stock shall have been subscribed, and ten per centum thereof so paid up, the same may be called by any five of the subscribers who shall have so paid up ten per centum, and who are subscribers among them for not less than five hund ed dollars of the said capital stock, and who have paid up all calls thereon. ^ lO. In either case notice- of time and place of holding such general meeting shall be given in the Ontario Gazette, and in one local newspaper once in each week, for the space of, at least four weeks, and such meeting shall be held in the County of Hastings, at such place therein and on such day as may be named by such notice : At such general meeting the subscribers for the capital stock assembled who shall have so paid ten per centum thereof, with such proxies as may be present shall choose seven persons to be the directors of the said company, and may also make or pass such rules and regulations and by-laws as may be deemed expedient, provided they be not inconsistent with this Act. W. Thereafter the general annual meeting of the share- holders of the said company shall be held in such place in the County of Hastings, and on such days and on such hours as may be directed by the by-laws of the said company, and public notice thereof shall be given at least four weeks pre- viously in the Ontario Gazette, and in one local newspaper once in each week. ' .r .vi, , 1871. BclUvilU and .V. Ilaatinga li. R. Co. Cap. 38. 48 "' 1 8. Special general meetiiiffs of the shareholders of the riulleetinKt said company n^ay be held at such places in the County of Hastings, and at such times, and in such manner, and for such purposes as may be provided by the by-laws of the said company. 1 o. Every shareholder of one or more shares of the said s.aie of tote*. capital stock shall, at any general Tneeting of the shareholders be entitled to one vote for every share held by him ; and no shareholder shall be entitled to vote on any matter whatever unless all calls due on the stock upon which such shareholder seeks to vote shall have been paid up at least ono week before the day appointed for such meeting. •' ^ - «0. No person shall be qualified to be elected as such ^f"*!j.^?o|;^" director by the shareholders unless he be a shareholder hold- ing at least ten shares of stock in the company, and, unless he has paid up all calls due thereon. SI. Any meeting of the directors of the said company Sirectoref' regularly summoned, at which not less than four directors shall be present, shall be competent to exercise and use all and every of the powers hereby invested in the said directors. »S. The said company may receive from any Government, Aid to com- or from any persons or bodies corporate, municipal or politic, ^emment* &ci who may have power to make or grant the same, aid towards ' ,, the construction, equipment or maintenance of the s' id rail- • '.?; way by way of bonus, gift, or loan in money, or deb iture:;. or other securities for money, or by way of guarantee, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon. SJ3. Any municipal corporation, or any portion of a 1-' i-i. u- t u • i. *. J • • i.1- Aid from mu- municipality, which may be mterested m secunng the con- nicipaiities. struction of the said railway, or through any part of which, or near which, the -ailway or works of the said company shall pass or be situate may aid the said company by giving money or debentures, by way of bonus, gift, or loan, or by tlie guar- antee of the municipal corporation, under and subject to the »-* j provisions hereinafter contained, which are to betaken as ap- ,.-..-' plicable thereto, instead of sections four hundred and seventy- '■ ■? two, four hundred and seventy-three and four hundred and i seventy-four of the Municipal' Institutions Act : Provided al- y ways, that no such aid shall be given, except after the passing oi a by-law for the purpose, and the adoption of such by-law by the qualified ratepayers of the municipality or portion of municipality, (as the case may be,) as provided in Municip:ii f^'^'j^ Act for the creation of debts. --,a- «4,. Such by-law shall be submitted by the municipal coun- Manner of sub- cil to the vote of the ratepayers in manner foUowirg.namely: — laws to rate- 1. The proper petition shall first be presented lo the"*^'^"' u Cap. 88. BeUeviUe and JT. Haatinys E. R. Co. 87 ViCT. M. '" : council, expressing the desire to aid the railway, and stating in what way and for what amount, and the council shall within six weeks after the receipt of such petition by the clerk of the municipality, introduce a by-law to the effect petitioned for, and submit the same for the approval of the qualified voters; . f !if;i' V, 2. In the case of a county municipality the petition shall ■ be that of a majority of the reeves and deputy reeves, or of twenty resident freeholders in each of the minor municipali- es of the county, who are qualified voters under the Munici- pal Act ; 3, In the case of other municipalities, the petition shall be that of a majority of the council thereof, or of twenty resident freeholders being duly qualified voters as aforesaid ; 4. In the case of two or mere minor municipalities or sections of two or more such municipalities, or of two or more such municipalities with a section or sections of one or more minor municipalities forming part of a countj^ munici- pality, the petition is to be presented to the county council, describing the portions to be grouped, and defining any section by metes and bounds, and shall be that of a majority of each of the councils of such minor municipalities respec- tively, or of twenty resident freeholders in each of the said nuno) municipalities, or sections proposed to be grouped, being duly qualified voters as aforesaid- Aid from por- SC Where a portion of the county municipality petitions m^^idj^u't?^ to aid the railway, it shall be such portion only as shall con- sist of two or more minor municipalities or sections thereof, through which the line of railway is to be constructed, or which will be benefitted thereby, and such minor municipali- ties and sections thereof shall lie contiguous ; but no minor municipality or section thereof which is subject to a county or other by law in aid of the same railway shall be thus grouped without the consent of the majority of the duly qualified voters therein, expressed to that end, when voting upon the proposed by-law. r ; m" r*; 4SiV.' Proceeding on opposing sub- miasion of by- law, Arbitration. SO. In case of aid from a county municipality, or from a grouped portion thereof, twenty resident * freeholders of the county or portion comprised in the proposed by-law (as the case may be) may petition the county council against submit- ting the said by-law, upon the ground that certain minor nunicipalities or portions thereof comprised in the said by- law would be injuriously affected thereby, or upon any other ground ought not to be included therein : and upon deposit by the petitioners with the treasurer of the county of a sum sufficient to defray the expense of such reference, the said council shall forthwith refer the said petition to three arbitra- tors, one being the judge of the county court, one being the registrar of the county, or of the riding in v/hich the county town is situate, and one being an engineer appointed by the ■«1'Im( 1874. BeUwUU and N. HaaHnga R. R. Co. Cap. 3^. Commissioner of the Department of Public Works.for Ontario, who shall have power to confirm or amend the said by-law by excluding any minor municipality or any section thereof therefrom ; and the decision of any two of them shall be final ; and the by-law so confirmed or amended, shall there- upon at the option of the railway company be submitted by the council to the duly qualified voters ; and in case the by- law is confirmed by the arbitrators, the expenses of theooMa. reference shall be borne by the petitioners against the same, but if amended, then by the railway company, or the county as the arbitrators may order. fSfV. In the case of a portion of the county municipality R^'^^'^be being formed into a group, the by-law to be submitted shall thl part"o? °" be that of the county, but the rate to be levied for payment SaStiiK'"''' of the debentures issued thereunder, and the interest thereon,"*""** shall be assessed and levied upon such portions only of the county municipality, and the voting thereon shall be limited to the duly qualified voters in such portions only. «8. Before any such by-law is submitted, the railway com- Railway to pany shall deposit with the treasurer of the municipality a™? expensel' sum sufficient to pay the expenses to be incurred in submit- ting said by-law. - ' ' . SO. The term "minor municipality" shall be construed to interpretation mean any town not separated from the municipal county "miuorariSi. township, or incorporated village situate in the county '''p*''*^*' municipality. 30. No by-law shall be valid, or shall be submitted to such ^y./f^A,*** *¥ vote for granting aid to the railway which shall require the the annuSrate levying of a greater aggregate annual rate for all purposes, cfStatn^to exclusive of school rates, than three cents in the dollar upon ^o"*'"- the value of the ratable property in each of the minor muni- cipalities or section affected thereby ; but for the purpose of such aid, the amount of the aggregate annual rate to be levied in any such municipality or section, may exceed the two cents in the dollar limited by the Municipal Act. '.' 31. Such by-law shall in each instance provide: Provisions© 1. For raising the amount petitioned for in the municipality ^' ^! or portions of the county municipality, (as the case may be,) mentioned in the petition, by the issue of debentures of the county or minor municipality, respectively, and shall also pro- vide for the delivery of the said debentures, or the application of the amount to be raised thereby, as may be expressed in the said by-law ; 2. For assessing and levying upon all ratable property lying within the municipality or portions of the county municipality defined in said by-law (as the case may be) an annual special rate sufficient to include a sinking fund for the repayment of ._^- -H-,- 49 Cap. 38. lielUmilUi and N. Ilaatingh It, li. Co. 87 VlCT. the said debentures, within twenty years, with interest thereon, payable yearly or half-yearly, or by equal annual instalments of principal and interest ; which debentures the respective municipal councils, warden, reeves, and other officers thereof are hereby authorized to execute and issue in such cases respectively : Provided, that in case the sum raised under the authority of such by-law is invested in the capital stock or . bonds of the railway c lup.iny or loaned thereon, the council of the municipality hildiii^ such stock or bondo may sell and dispose of the same or any part thereof. ;iiul shall in any such case apply the moneys received therefor in payment of the said debentures and interest. If by-law de- SQ. In case the by-law submitted is not approved of, no uiiwfor'iub- "' other by-law which is in substance the same shall be submit- bv-'iaw^ *'""*'' ted to the voters of the same municipality or portions of the county municipality, until after the expiration of six months from such rejection. , * m' ffi .,..:< cftrried"coun ^^* ^" ^^^^ ^^^ by-law Submitted be approved of or carried ciitopaMthe by a majority of the votes given thereon, then within four **"'*'■ weeks after the date of such voting, the municipal council which submitted the same, shall read the said by-law a third time and pass the same. and issue the de))«nture8. 34. Within one month after the passing of 5 by-law, the said council, and the warden, reeve, or other Of. thereof shall issue or dispose of the debentures necessary to raise the sum mentioned in such by-law, and otherwise act according to the terms thereof. Corporation may exchange their deben- tures for those of the town- ships. A J)i» *"*■' 315. The corporation of any county niunicipality shall be at liberty to take the debentures issued by any township in aid of the railway company, and give in exchange therefor to the said township, a like amount of the debentures of the said county, on a resolution to that eflfect being passed by the count)' council, but the township municipality shall in such case keep the county municipality fully indemnified against any rate or liability in respect of said debentures, .a??^ -Mt m Trustees for municipal de- bentures. 30. Whenever any municipality or portion of a county municipality shall grant aid by way of bonus or gift to the railway company, the debentures therefor, shall within six months after passing of the by-law authorizing the same be delivered to three trustees to be named, one by the Lieuten- ant-Governor in Council, one by the said company, and one by the majority of the heads of the municipalities which have granted bonuses ; all of the trustees to be residents of the Province of Ontario : Provided that if the said Council shall refuse or neglect to name such trustee, or if the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall omit to name such trustee within one month after notice in writing to him jo 'I'tm 1874. BellooilU aiul N. Hu^tingH ii, li, Vq, Cap. 36. 47 the appointment of the other trustees, the company shall be at liberty to name such other trustee or other trustees ; any of the said trustees may be removed and a new trustee appointed in his place at any time, by the Lieutenant- Governor in Council, with the consent of the said company ; and in case any trustee die, or resign his trust, or go to live ' ' out of Ontario, or otherwise become incapable to act, his trusteeship shall become vacant, and a new trustee may be appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, with the consent of said company. 3'^'. The said trustees shall receive the said debentures orrrnHuonwhioh bonds in trust : firstly, under the direction of the company.to ^^''^eaeiT "'^* convert the same into money ; secondly to deposit the amount realizt'H may a^ree as to applioa ion of bonus. mk Issue oP bonds by the com- pany. 4a. It shall and may be lawful for the council of any municipality that may grant a bonus to the company, and they shall have full power to extend the time for completion of the works, on the completion of which the said company would be entitled to such bonuses. 43. It shall be lawful for the council of any township or county municipality interested in the said extension branch- es, or any of them, and without complying with the require- ments of any Act providing for the creation of debts by municipal corporations on behalf of such township or count)' municipalities, to bear all, or part of the costs, chaises, and expenses of, and incidental to, the submission of any by-law to the said qualitied voters for granting a bonus to the said company or may give the said company a bonus on account of such costs, charges and expenses ; Provided always that no one such bonus shall exceed five thousand dollars. 44. Whenever any municipality or portion of a munici- pality shall aid, loan, guarantee or, give money or bonds by way of bonus, to aid the making, equipment, and completion of said extension and branches, or any p^irt or parts thereof, it shall be lawful for the said company to enter into a valid agreement with any such municipality binding the said company to expend the whole of such aid so given upon works of cons^-.ruction, within the limits of the municipality g; anting the same. 4». The directors of the said company after the sanction of the shareholders shall have first been obtained at any special general meeting to be called from time to time for such purpose, shall have power to issue bonds to any amount not exc'jeding twelve thousand dollars per mile of railway, to be signed by the president or vice-president of the said company and counter .led by the secretary and treasurer, and under the seal of ih 'aid company, for the.purpose of raising money 'isK;m}^- 1?71. Belleville and N. Hastings R. R. Co. Cap. 38. 49 for prosecuting the said undertaking ; and such bonds shall without registration or formal conveyance be taken and con- sidered to be first and preferential claims and charges upon the said undertaking and the property of the company real and personal then existing.and at any time thereafteracquired; and each holder of the said bonds shall be deemed to be a RiRhts of mortgagee and incumbrancer ^w m provided that the bonds and any transfers thereof shall have ^i ! been fi.st registered in the same manner as is provided for the registration of shares ; and it shall be the duty of the secre- tary of the company to register the same on being required to do LO b;- any holder thereof. , ; . - -^ . > -* ,. .n 40. All such bonos, debentures, mortgages, and other secmties may securities and coupons, and interest warrants thereon respec- bearer* tively, may be made payable to bearer, and transferable by delivery, and any holder of any such so made pjyable to bearer may sue at law thereon in his own name. 47'. The said company shall have power and authority to J^'^^Pp^^^itf become parties to promissory notes and bills of exchange forsory notes, etc sums not less than one hundred dollars, and any such promis- sory note made or endorsed by the president or vice-president of the company, and countersigned by the secretary and trea- surer of the said company, and under the authority of a quo- rum of the directors, shall be binding on the said company ; > - ;- and every such promissory note or bill of exchange so made «; 1 shall be presumed to have been made with proper authority, *' ' until the contrary be shown ; and in no case shall it be neces- sary to have the seal of the said company affixed to such pro- missory i.ote or bill of exchange, nor shall the president or vice-president, or secretary and treasurer, be individually re- sponsible for the same unless the said promissory notes or bills of exchange have been issued without the sanction and ■ authority of the directors, as herein provided and enacted : Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be con-^f.^^^^;^^^ strued to authorize the said company to issue any note or bill money. of exchange payable to bearer, or intended to be cirrulaced as money, or as the notes or bUls of a batik. ^ v ' i ^ ^ ^. _, _ 4®. And whereas doubts may arise as to the extent of the Powen> to ao- powers* conferred by the ninth, tenth, and eleventh sections of^Sfa^rfes'^lac. chapter sixty-six of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and it is expedient to remove the same, be it therefore enacted and declared, that the said company shall have power to ac- 60 Cap. 38. Belleville and N. Hastings R. R. Co. 37 ViCT. quire or take, hold or alienate lands for borrowing pits, ballast pits and quarries, and for branch lines, or other access to any su^'i lands, and also for all other purposes mentioned in or it nded by the ninth sub-section of the said ninth section of the said Act, as fully in every respect as they may acquire or take, hold and alienate lands for the purpose ■ ". of constructing their railway, and it shall not be requisite for such lands to have been shown in the map or plan and book of reference of the said railway ; and the manner in which the same may be taken and acquired shall be as provided by the Acl passed in the thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, and chaptered twenty-five. lim ;. Powers as to lands for sta- tions, etc. -JrO. Whenever it shall be necessary for the purpose of pro- curing sufficient lands for stations or gravel pits, or for con- structing, maintaining and using the said railway, and in case by purchasing the whole of any lot or parcel of land over which the railway is to run, the company can obtain the same at a more reasonable price, or to greater advantage than by- purchasing the railway line only, the company may purchase, hold, use or enjoy such lands, and also the right of way there- to, if the same be separated from their railway, and to sell and convey the same or part thereof from time to time as they may deem expedient. Power to make agreements with other lines as to ' running powers, etc. Commence- ment and completion of railway. Power to acquire land on Bay of Quinte for docks, etc. SO. The company shall have power to enter into and make arrangements with the Grand Junction Railway Company and the Grand Trunk Railway Company for running powers over their roads, for the use of docks, wharves, stations, or for any other purpose that may be in the interest of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway. tut% •.(■£*r> I . £51. The said railway shall becotrmenced within two years, and completed within four years to the village of Madoc, and within five years to the Seymour Iron Mines, and within ten years to some point in the Free Grant Territory in the northern part of the county of Hastings, after the passing of this Act, or else the charter shall be forfeited as regards so much of the railway not completed. SfS. The said company shall have the right to acquire by purchase, or in the same manner that provision is made for ac- quiring right of V ay, land sufficient on the Bay of Quinte ad- jacent to or adjoining the docks at the terminus of the Grand Junction Railway, for the purposes of depositing iron ore, coal, lumber, cordwood and other freight, and the privilege of ac- quiring water front and constructing wharves and docks on the ::aid Bay of Quinte. 1874. ,. J, j: ; Belleoille atid N, Uaat'm'ja U. R. Co. Cap. 38. ''V;.:';\.. ;J ::'';'. ■;, SCHEDULE A. juQi-^'::'. {See section 5.) . , „ Know all men by these presents, that I (or we) {inftert the name or names of the vendor or vendors) in consideration of dollars paid to me {or us) by the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, the receipt whereof is hereby acknovvledged, do grant, and convey, and I (or we) insert the name of any other party or parties) in consideration of dollars paid to me {or us) by the said company, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do grant and release all that certain parcel {or tliose certain parcels as tlie case may he' of land situate {describe the land), the same having been selected and laid out by the said company for the purposes of their railway, to hold with the appurtenances unto the said The Belleville and North Hastings RaiKvay Company, their successors and assigns {here insert any other clauses, covenants or conditionH required) ; and I {or we) the wife {or wives) of the said do hereby bar my {or our) dower in the said lands. As witness my {or our) hand and seil {or hands and seah) this day of , and one thousand eight hundred Signed, sealed and delivered ") in the presence of j L. S. u fU«39 Eve )' /., SCHEDULE B. oection 2,7 • Chief Engineer's Certificate. V i i- .ii,i.y. The Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company's Oifice. Engineer's Department, A.D. i8 No. Certificate to he attached to clieques drawn on the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Mtmicipal Trust Account, l^ , chief engineer for the Belleville and North Hastings. Railway Company, do hereby certify that the sum of $ is required to be expended in the construc- tion of the portion of the line extending from mile No, to mile No. , and that payment should be made to the company of such amount from the Municipal Trust Account, the sam: being in pursuance of the terms and conditions of the By-law of the "^Municipality of the of m ll l\l An Act respecting the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company. Ont. Stat. 38 Vic. Cap 45. ^' ' - ' ■' [Assented to 'ilst De'jember, ISTi.] Preamble. TXTHf-Rl^AS the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Vt Company, have by their petition represented that the large bulk of their expected traffic will consist of iron ore, and that their cars with said iron ore will, for a considerable dis- tance, pass over a part of the southerly end of the line of the Grand Junction Railway to the Bay of Quinte for shipment ; that the south end of the said Company's Railway passes along Pinnacle Street, in the Town of Belleville ; and that the peti- tioners, fear the traffic of both Companies passing over said street may be attended with inconvenience to all concerned ; and have prayed for power to make and construct a line of railway from a point on said Grand Junction Railway, north or south of the crossing thereby of the Grand Trunk Railway to the waters of the Bay of Quinte ; And whereas, it is ex- pedient to grant the prayer of the said petition : jf- Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : . W'-„,v*fvi -; .,i,M'^.>.„,,i. Power to con- I. The Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company fine'from"''^ shall have the power to construct a line of railway from some tt'^Raiiw"' point on the Grand Junction Railway, north or south of the Bay of Quinte. line of the Grand Trunk Railway, to the waters of the Bay of Quinte and for the purposes of the said Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, and of the branch hereby author- ized, the said the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company shall have the right to acquire by purchase or in the same manner that provision is made for acquiring right of way for the said Railway Companj' by the Act of incor- , poration thereof or by any other Act applicable thereto, land sufficient on the Bay of Quinte for the depositing of iron ore, coal, cordwood, lumber, and other freight, and also the privi- lege of acquiring water front on the said Bay of Quinte for the construction of docks and wharves Jor the purposes of the said Company ; and the said line or branch hereby authorized shall be part of the works and undertaking comprised in the said Act of incorporation of the said the Belleville and North Hast- ings Railway Company, and the provisions of said Act and all Acts which apply to the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company shall apply to the said line by this Act authorized as aforesaid. -f v Powertocon- «. The said Belleville and North Hastings Railway Com- lineto'BrfdKe- pany are hereby empowered to construct a Branch Line of water. Railway from some point south of Hog Lake on the Main line : ^ — on the said the Belleville and North Hastings Railway to the village of Bridgewater, in the Township of Elzevier, via the village of Tweed in the Township of Hungerford ; and the pro- visions of all Acts which apply to the main line of the said Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, shall apply to the Branch Line by this section authorized. ^^ 5lc An Act respecting a By-law No, 333, passed by the *^' Corporation of the Town of Belleville. ; Ont. Stat. 39 Vic. Cap. 50. \ Assented to 10th February, 1876.] WHEREAS the Corporation of the Town of Bellevilk»raambie have petitioned, praying that an Act may be passed to remove doubts which have been raised as to the legahty of a by-law of the said corporation numbered 333, and intituled "A By-law to authorize the granting a bonus of fifty thousand dollars to aid the Belleville and North Hast- ings Railway Company in constructing their Ime of railway, and a further bonus of seventy-five thousand dollars to Ario Pardee, of Pennsylvania, and Henry C. Lloyd, of Montreal, to aid and assist them in building smelting works in Belle- ville and to raise the said several sums by way of loan and for other purposes," and have by the said petition also repre- sented that it is a matter of importance to the said corporation that said doubts should be removed ; And whereas, it is ex- pedient to grant the prayer of the said petition : Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : ■ 1 The said by-law passed by the Corporation of the ^By-law No. Town of Belleville, and numbered 333, be and the same is Beaie^^ie hereby confirmed and declared legal and valid to all intents, -"fi''-'^- and for all and every purpose whatsoever, and to be binding on the said town and the ratepayers thereof ::,;7:,:'. ; ■■ Z S. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the rights Pending pro- of the parties to any proceeding now pendmg at law or in quash by-iaw. equity to quash the said by-law, to carry on the said proceed- ings for the purpose of recovering, and to recover their costs of such proceedings in the same manner so far as regards their right to costs, as if this Act had not been passed ; Pro- vided that it shall be competent to any party to such pro- cccdines at any time to procure taxation of such costs, and on payment thereof, before further costs after taxation are incurred, such proceedings shall cease. , , ... ^^, ,^ of - i 54 Preaniblo. 37 Vic, c. 88, 8ec. 51, amended. By-laws of liadoc and Hastings vaUd. •I PrOTise. v^ ;v,- An Act respecting the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company. 1 /^': , ^ Ont. Stat. 41 Vic. Cap. 43. * [Assented to th Jtcrch, IfiiS.j WHEREAS the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company have, by their petition, asked that the time for the completion of their railway may be extended, and that the bonuses voted in aid of the said road by the Muni- cipalities of the Township of Madoc and the County of Hast- ings be confirmed, and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition ; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and con- sent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : — if: )i,v Li, 1. The fifty-first section of the Act passed in the thirty- seventh year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter thirty-eight, intituled, " An Act to incorporate the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company," shall be, and the same is hereby amended by erasing therefrom the word "four" in the second line of the said section, and substituting the word "five," S. The by-law number eighty-one passed by the Corpora- tion of the Township of Madoc, granting a bonus of thirty thousand dollars to the Belleville and North Hastings Rail- way Company, and for the issuing of the debentures therefor to the amount of thirty thousand dollars, to be given by way of bonus to the said Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company by the Municipality of the Township of Madoc, also a certain by-law number three hundred and three, passed by the Corporation of the County of Hastings, intituled, "A By-law to authorize the granting of a bonus to the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, to the extent of thirty thousand dollars," and for the issuing of the debentures therefor, to the amount of thirty thousand dollars, to be given by way of bonus to the said Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company by the Municipality of the County of Hastings, be, and the said by-laws and all exten- sions thereof, are hereby declared legal, valid, and binding upon the said corporations respectively, and all others whomsoever, and that on the completion of said Railway and works mentioned in said by-laws, the said Company shall be entitled to such bonuses ; Provided always, if the said Railway is not completed and in running order by the first day of November next,the by-law for the Township of Madoc, granting a bonus of thirty thousand dollars to said Railway, shall lapse, unless the Municipal Council for said Township shall by by-law declare otherwise. .^■^ i -* 1 »■ ' V ,i;iiV i:\- ,on -K ;A vai",>. 'hn--r ;AV i>\ ,J{.^ f» f" »*': k^f \f !• ! '.--i- ■J;r'^^>s:'. ^' ''- ?''4 ''* y '^•**'^^ • *'*■ ''-'' ' .%^ 1}'^K' ''Ji''^S'^'i i'^'n -> '4"' S= ur^^'^n ■ If ,. ^ICT. and ition >m- rans- )f, to leges le as Gon- ial of shall Iders r the valid same 57 f|.'. An Act respecting the construction of a Branch of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway to the Village of Tweed. n \'j,,t -t Ont. Stat. 43 Vic, Cap. 50. * . [Ament^d to Hih Marok, 18S0.] WHEREAS the Corporation of the Township of preamble. Hungerford desire to have a branch line of Railway constructed from some point on the line of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway to the village of Tweed in said i Township ; and whereas the said Corporation by their petition have prayed that they may be granted power to enter into arrangements with the Bellevillt and North Hastings Railway Company for the construction of said Branch and f ' - the working of said line ; and whereas the said Corporation, by their said petition have also prayed for power to construct the said branch, and prepare the same for the rails, the said Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company agreeing to provide the rails and complete and work the Railway, or for power to make such agreement in the premises as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose in view ; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition ; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, enacts as follows : — 1 . It shall be lawful for the corporation of the Township corporaticm of of Hungerford to cause to be surveyed a branch line of rail- authwized to way from some point in the Village of Tweed, to some point |'5f^e^iine!' on the line of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway, and to grade and fit the same in all respects for the rails : Proviso. Provided, however, that the whole amount to be expended by said Corporation, shall not exceed the sum granted by way of bonus by said Corporation towards the construction of said branch railway. e. It shall be lawful for the said Corporation to enter into co»Torat^n arrangements with the Belleville and North Hastings Rail- Sgree with the way Company, for the doing of the said work, paying themRy^j^rpei.. the said sum towards the completion of the said branch, and '^rmance of for the workmg of the said branch m such manner and on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon ; and the said Railway Company is hereby authorized to er'^r into such agreement, and to do all acts and things necessary to give the same effect. 8. If the lands required for the said branch are obtained ^ers as to by the said Township Corporation, or by the said Belleville "^ "" ' and North Hastings Railway Company, in each and every such case, or whichever way it shall be, the party doing the work and working the said branch shall have all the powers 58 Cap. 50. Belleville and N. Hastings Jl R. Co. 43 ViCT- and be subject to all the liabilities contained in the Railway Act of Ontario, for all purposes connected therewith. Time for KiviDK 4. The bond which it is Stipulated in the by-law granting ^""^ aid to said branch shall be given as in said by-law mentioned, may be given at any time before the expiration of one year from the passing of this Act. By-law of Township of Hunsferford connrmed, R The by-Uw of the Corporation of the Township of Hun'gerford, entitled "A By-law> to provide for aiding and assisting the building of a branch line of railway from the Village of Tweed, in the Township of Hungerford, to some point on the line of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway, by granting thereto the sum of ten thousand dollars, by way of bonus, in debentures of the Township of Hungerford, and to authorize the levying of a special rate for the payment of the said debentures and interest," is hereby declared to be legal and valid to all intents and purposes whatsoever. Extension of ^,^ jj^g Township Council of said Township may have iKr-'ifw!"'' power from time to time to extend the time mentioned in said by-law for the commencement and completion of said branch as they may think proper.