CHAP. 72.

An Act respecting the Canadian Northern Ontario
Railway Company.

[Assented to 27th April, 1907.]

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WHEREAS the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Com- Preamble. pany, formerly called the James Bay Railway Company, has by its petition prayed that it be 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. This Act may be cited as The Canadian Northern Ontario Short title. Railway Act, 1906–7.

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2. The Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Company, here- Lines of inafter called "the Company," may construct the following described. lines of railway:

(a) From a point on its authorized line near Washago to a point on Lake Huron at or near Kincardine;

(b) From a point on its authorized line at or near Arnprior, southerly to a point on the St. Lawrence River at or near the town of Gananoque;

(c) From a point on its authorized line at or near Pembroke, southwesterly to a point on Lake Ontario at or near the town of Cobourg or the town of Port Hope;

(d) From a point on its authorized line in the township of Pickering, northwesterly to a point on the Georgian Bay at or near Owen Sound;

(e) From a point on its authorized line at or within ten miles east of Toronto, westerly passing near or through Toronto, Hamilton and London to a point on the Detroit River at or near Windsor, with a branch from London to St. Thomas and also from London to a point on the St. Clair River at or near

Time for construction limited.

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Sarnia, and a branch or loop in the townships of York and Scarborough passing north of Toronto;

(f) From a point on the Niagara River at or near the international bridge northwesterly passing through or near Hamilton to a point on Lake Huron at or near Goderich;

(g) From a point on Lake Erie between Dunnville and Port Dover, northerly passing through Brantford and Berlin to a point at or near Owen Sound or Meaford on the Georgian Bay; (h) From a point on its authorized line at or near Washago to a point on the Georgian Bay at or near Midland; ·

(2) From a point on its authorized line at or near Hawkesbury, westerly to a point on its authorized line in the county of Leeds or Lanark.

(j) From a point on its authorized line at or near Parry Sound, northeasterly to a point at or near the town of North Bay.

3. Unless the Company commences within two years and completes and puts in operation within five years after the passing of this Act the lines of railway which the Company is hereby authorized to construct, the powers granted for construction shall cease with respect to so much of the said lines as then remains uncompleted.

4. Section 5 of chapter 50 of the statutes of 1895 is hereby repealed and the following is substituted therefor:

"5. The capital stock of the Company shall be fifty millions of dollars, and may be called up by the directors from time to time as they deem necessary; but no one call shall exceed ten per cent of the shares subscribed."

5. The limit to the amount of securities which the Company may issue and secure under sections 136 to 146, both inclusive, of The Railway Act, with respect to the lines of railway authorized by section 2 of this Act, shall be thirty thousand dollars per mile, and such securities may be issued only in proportion to the length of such lines of railway constructed or under contract to be constructed.

6. Subject to the provisions of sections 361, 362 and 363 of The Railway Act, the Company may enter into agreements with the Canadian Northern Quebec Railway Company for any of the purposes specified in the said section 361.

7. Unless the Company completes and puts in operation construction within five years after the passing of this Act the line of railway of railways heretofore authorized by section 3 of chapter 50 of the statutes of 1895, as authorized. amended by section 3 of chapter 114 of the statutes of 1906, from Parry Sound, in the province of Ontario, to French River at or near the Doke's Indian Reserve, thence in a northerly direction to a point at or near the mouth of Moose River on James

Bay, the powers granted for construction shall cease and determine with respect to so much of the said line as then remains uncompleted.

2. Unless the Company commences within two years and completes and puts in operation within five years after the passing of this Act the following lines of railway, the powers granted for construction shall cease and determine with respect to so much of the said lines as then remains uncompleted:

(a) The line of railway authorized by section 2 of chapter 65 of the statutes of 1902 from a point on its authorized main line at or near French River to a point on Batchewana Bay, Lake Superior;

(b) The lines of railway authorized by section 3 of chapter 110 of the statutes of 1905:

(1) from a point on the Company's line at or near Toronto, thence easterly to Ottawa;

(2) from a point on or near the French River, thence easterly, passing through or near Ottawa and Hawkesbury, to Montreal, branching on Montreal island to enter Montreal from both the northeast and southwest;

(3) from a point on the Company's line at or near Sudbury, thence westerly and south of Lake Nepigon to a point on the Canadian Northern Railway at or near Kashabaiwe west of Port Arthur, passing through or near Port Arthur or with a branch to Port Arthur;

(c) The line of railway authorized by section 2 of chapter 114 of the statutes of 1906 from a point on the Company's authorized line between Key River and French River in the province of Ontario to a point on the Georgian Bay at or near the mouth of Key Inlet.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty.

CHAP. 73.

An Act respecting the Canadian Northern Quebec
Railway Company.

[Assented to 12th April, 1907.]

WHEREAS the Canadian Northern Quebec Railway Com- Preamble. pany, the successor by amalgamation of the Great Northern Railway, of Canada, the Chateauguay and Northern Railway Company and the Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Railway Company, has by its petition prayed that it be 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. This Act may be cited as The Canadian Northern Quebec Short title. Act, 1906-7.

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2. The time for the completion of the branch line of railway Time from a point on the line between Montreal and Joliette to extended for Rawdon, touching at St. Jacques, which the Chateauguay and of branch Northern Railway Company was authorized to construct, is extended for five years from the passing of this Act, and if the said line is not so completed the powers granted for construction shall cease with respect to so much of the said line as then remains uncompleted; and the Canadian Northern Quebec Line of Railway Company, hereinafter called "the Company," may railway construct an extension of such branch beyond Rawdon to a point at or near Lake Archambault in the county of Montcalm.

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3. Unless the Company commences within two years after Time for the passing of this Act, and completes and puts in operation limited. within five years after the passing of this Act, the extension authorized by section 2 of this Act, and the lines of railway hereunder set forth, which the Company has been authorized to construct, the powers granted for the construction of the said