CHAP. 77. An Act to incorporate the Collingwood Southern WHERE Railway Company. [Assented to 27th April, 1907.] WHEREAS a petition has been presented praying that it be Preamble. enacted as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Peter Paton, manufacturer, Francis William Bryan, manu- Incorporafacturer, Herbert Young Telfer, merchant, Frederick Walter tion. Churchill, agent, all of the town of Collingwood, in the county of Simcoe, province of Ontario, and Lachlan Alexander Hamilton, of the city of Toronto, in the said province, gentleman, together with such persons as become shareholders in the Company, are hereby incorporated under the name of "The Col- Corporate lingwood Southern Railway Company," hereinafter called "the name. Company." 2. The undertaking of the Company is hereby declared to Declaration. be a work for the general advantage of Canada. 3. The persons named in section 1 of this Act are hereby Provisional constituted provisional directors of the Company. directors. 4. The capital stock of the Company shall be five hundred Capital stock. thousand dollars. No one call thereon shall exceed ten per cent on the shares subscribed. 5. The head office of the Company shall be in the town of Head office. Collingwood, in the county of Simcoe. 6. The annual meeting of the shareholders shall be held on Annual the first Tuesday in September. meeting. Directors. Line of railway described. Special powers. Telegraph and telephone lines. R.S., c. 37. Tolls. 7. The number of directors shall be not less than five nor more than nine, one or more of whom may be paid directors. 8. The Company may lay out, construct and operate a railway of the gauge of four feet eight and a half inches, (a) from a point on the Georgian Bay at or near the said town of Collingwood, in the province of Ontario, thence southerly to a point at or near Baxter on the Sudbury branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway; (b) from a point at or near the said town of Collingwood on the Georgian Bay, southerly and easterly, to join the Canadian Pacific Railway at or near the town of Orillia, in the county of Simcoe. 9. The Company may, for the purposes of its undertaking(a) construct, acquire and navigate steam and other vessels. for the conveyance of passengers, goods and merchandise, and construct, acquire, lease and dispose of wharfs, docks, elevators, warehouses, offices and other structures to be used to facilitate the carrying on of business in connection therewith; (b) acquire and utilize water and steam power for the purpose of compressing air or generating electricity for lighting, heating or motor purposes, and dispose of surplus power generated by the Company's works and not required for the undertaking of the Company; and, for the purposes of such acquisition, utilization and disposal, construct, operate and maintain lines for the conveyance of light, heat, power and electricity; (c) acquire electric or other power or energy, which may be transmitted and delivered to any place in the municipalities through which the railway is authorized to be built; and receive, transform, transmit, distribute and supply such power or energy in any form, and dispose of the surplus thereof. 10. The Company may construct and operate telegraph and telephone lines upon and along its railway and branches, and establish offices for and undertake the transmission of messages for the public and collect tolls therefor; and for the purposes of operating such telegraph or telephone lines the Company may, subject to The Railway Act, enter into contracts, with any companies having powers to construct or operate telegraph or telephone lines, for the exchange or transmission of messages or for the working, in whole or in part, of the lines of the Company. 2. No tolls or charges shall be demanded or taken from any person for the transmission of any message by telegraph or telephone, or for leasing or using the telegraphs or telephones of the Company, until such tolls or charges have been approved of by the Board of Railway Commissioners of Canada, and such tolls and charges shall be subject to revision from time to time by the said Board. 3. Part II. of The Telegraphs Act shall apply to the telegraphic R.S., c. 126. business of the Company. 11. The securities issued by the Company shall not exceed Issue of thirty thousand dollars per mile of the railway, and may be securities. issued only in proportion to the length of railway constructed or under contract to be constructed. with other 12. Subject to the provisions of sections 361, 362 and 363 Agreements of The Railway Act, the Company may enter into agreements companies. with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the Grand Trunk Railway Company and the Canadian Northern Railway Company, or with any of the said companies, for any of the purposes specified in the said section 361. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 78. An Act respecting La compagnie du chemin de fer de [Assented to 22nd March, 1907.] HEREAS La Compagnie du chemin de fer de Colonisation Preamble. du Nord has by its petition prayed that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of 1899, c. 62; the said petition: Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice 1902, c. 55. and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: extended. 1. La Compagnie du chemin de fer de Colonisation du Nord Time for may, within five years after the passing of this Act, construct construction the railways authorized by section 7 of chapter 62 of the statutes of 1899; provided that as to so much thereof as is not constructed within that period the powers of the said Company shall cease and determine. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. |