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MONTllEAL AISD CHAMPLAIN RAILROAD COMPANY. 
 
 The following is a Copy of the AGREEMENT to he 
 submitted to the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS, 
 on MONDAY, the TWELFTH day of OCTOBER, 
 
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 CLgljS ^Jittfllttnt^ made this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, by 
 and between the GKAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY OF 
 CANADA of the first part, and the MONTREAL and CHAMPLAIN 
 RAILROAD COMPANY of the second part. 
 
 Ull)CtCClS, acting under tl'o provisions contained in the one hundred and 
 thirty-first section of chapter sixty-six of the Consolidated Statutes of 
 Canada, and also under the provisions of the tenth section of the Act of 
 Parliament of Canada passed in the twenty -second year of Her Majesty's 
 reign and chapter fifty -two, and entitled " An Act to amend the Acts'relating 
 to the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada," the Directors |of the 
 above named Companies have made and entered into an agreement and 
 arrangement for the regulation and interchange of traffic passing' to and 
 from the Railways of the Companies they respectively represent,'and |for 
 the working of the traffic over the said Railways, and for the division and 
 apportionment of To ' \ Rates and Charges in respect of such traffic, and in 
 relation to the manaj^ement and working of said Railways for the term of 
 twenty-one years from the time this agreement shall come into operation, 
 and have also provided as is hereinafter contained for the appointment of a 
 Joint Committee for the better carrying into effect such agreement subject 
 as in said section expressed to the consent of two-thirds of the Shareholders 
 of the said Companies respectively present voting in person or by proxy. 
 
 <![|)trtfore this agreement witnessoth that the Directors of the said Com- 
 panies parties to this ageeement have and do hereby agree as follows : — 
 
 1. That all the traffic of the said Montreal and Champlain Raih-oad Com- 
 pany shall be managed and worked and fairly developed by the Grand Trunk 
 Railway Company of Canada, and that they shall have the emplovment and 
 control of all the officers, employes and servants used and engaged in work- 
 ing the said traffic. 
 
 2. That the said Grand Trunk Railway Company shall have the possession 
 management and control of all the said Montreal and Champlain Railroad 
 

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 Company'8 Lines, and of their Rolling Stock, Steam Ferry Boats, Plant, 
 Stores, Tools, and all material belonging to or appertaining to the Baid(,Line» 
 and said Company, all o*" which shall be by the Grand Trund Railway Com- 
 pany maintained and kept in the same order that they now are, reasonable 
 wear and tear excepted. 
 
 3. That the said Grand Trunk Railway Company shall keep correct ac- 
 counts of receipts and working expenses and expenditure of all kinds on both 
 their line and the line of the said Montreal and Champlain Railroad Com- 
 pany, and of all expenses, outlay and expenditure incidental and necessary 
 to the proper developenient and working of the traffic on said Railways of 
 both Companies respectively. 
 
 4. That after deducting working expenses, the net earnings of the two 
 lines shall be divided thus, viz. : one-fifteenth part to the Montreal and 
 Champlain Railroad Company and the other fourteen-fifteenths to the Grand 
 Trunk Railway Company, but for the years one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty-four, sixty-five, and sixty-six, the said Grand Trunk Railway Company 
 agree that the (said or.c-fiftecnth of) said net earnings shall not be less 
 than one hundred thousand dollars in each year payable half-yearly. 'Vr'V v.-\.\vvk.>. 
 
 , 5. That the repairing and restoring Plant, Rolling Stock, Steam Ferry 
 Boats, iind the like, shall all be taken from the gross earnings as working 
 expenses, it being understood that the same rule, as to working expenses, 
 shall apply and be carried out, for the purposes of this agreement, upon the 
 lines of both Companies. 
 
 6. That the party of the first part do appoint Charles John Brtdgks 
 and William Molson, and the Montreal and Champlain Railroad Company 
 do appoint Edwaed Martin Hopkins, and that these three shall be the 
 Joint Committee from the Boards of the said two Companies, and that their 
 powers shall be confined to the examination and certifying to the correct- 
 ness of the receipts and expenditure and the division of the net profits- 
 according to the provisions of the above agreement.^- ^^Siiii^tV i , ' 
 
 7. And the said parties further covenant and agree each with the other 
 in manner following, that is to say : that application shall be made to Par- 
 liament, as soon as it possibly can be done, for an Act giving to the said 
 Companies power to ma!.e the above agreement perpetual, and for givin'' 
 power to arrange for an amalgamation of the Direction in such way as 
 may be agreed upon, also for power to amalgamate the two Companies, or 
 for power to the Montreal and Champlain Railroad Company to sell, and 
 the Grand Trunk Railway Company to buy the entira property and fran- 
 chise of the said Montreal and Champlain Railroncl Company at any time 
 within five years from the time the above agreement shall come into opera- 
 tion by assuming all its Bonds of every class as also the new Preference 
 Stock_^d all Interest and Dividends on such Bonds and Preference Stock, 
 and undertaking the payment thereof as they mature according to the 
 terms on which they were respectively issued (of all which a schedule has 
 been prepared and is hereunto annexed and marked A), charges fox interest 
 and principal on Bonds and Preference Shares, and paying a sura not ex- 
 
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 ceeding Five Hundred Thousand DollarB for the ordinary Shares, such pur- 
 chase to cover Rolling Stock, SteainerH, Plant, Tools and material and 
 appliances, Stores, &c., at the time such purchuHe is made owned by the 
 ea id Montrea l and Chainplain Railroad Company. iaV_--<.X<, ;., ujf u 
 
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 Sj^Itisalso expressly agreed and declared, that until such legislation is 
 ^^^ad neither Company shall be liable for any of the debts or liabilities of the 
 \ otTier, contracted before this agreement comes into operation. 
 i<3 9. And it is also agreed, by and between the above parties, that before 
 possession is taken under thlfi agreement an inventory shall be taken of all 
 the moveable property of the party of the second part, including engines, 
 carriages of all kinds, machinery, steamers, and also all the stores, plant and 
 material of all kinds, handed over under this agreement, such inventory to 
 be taken by persons to be appointed by tho said parties hereto, and shall bo 
 made in duplicate, and shall be signed and certified as correct by the parties 
 80 appointed to take and who shall have taken the same, and when so signed 
 one co py thereof shall be attached to each of the duplicates of this agree- 
 ment, ^ncQasn^, that where required and necessary for the purpose of giving 
 full effect to the intentions of this agreement, to use the name of the Mont- 
 real and Champlain Railroad Company, the Grand Trunk Railway Company 
 of Canada may do so at their own risk, costs and charges, and saving the 
 Montreal and Champlain Railroad Company harmless, and that in all things 
 in which the co-operation of the Board of the Montreal and Champlain 
 Railroad Company is necessary for the effectual working and carrying out of 
 this agreement, the same shall be accorded by the Montreal and Champlain 
 Railroad Company. 
 ' I r\ r- '^^^^ present agreement shall be subject to ratification of the Shareholders 
 u!Stf ll*? *^^ ^^^^ Companies respectively, at special meetings to be called forth- 
 
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 In MliiHRim whereof the said Companies respectively have hereunto 
 afiGxed their corporate seals. 
 
 
 C. J. BRYDGES, 
 
 Managing Director. 
 
 JOS. ELLIOTT, 
 
 Secretary TreatxCrer. 
 
 J. FERRIER, 
 
 President, 
 
 W. A, MERRY, 
 
 Staretary, 
 
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