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in ten years.

37. The work of construction shall be commenced within three Work to be begun within three years, years from the passage of this Act, and shall be prosecuted by the and completed with expenditure of a sum not less than two hundred thousand dollars per year, and the whole work shall be completed within ten years from such commencement, and in case default is made in any of the conditions of this section the provisions of this Act shall be void and of no effect.

38. It shall be lawful for the Company to take from any public Power to take stone, etc., from public lands adjacent to or near the line of the said railway all stone, timber lands. or gravel, and other material which may be necessary or useful for the construction of the railway.

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39. The clauses or sections of the "Railway Act" hereinafter Application of the enumerated shall, in so far as the Legislature of this Province has Canada. 'Railway Act" of power to enact same, apply to this Company in the same manner and to the same extent as if the same had been set forth clause by clause in this Act, save and except that in case of any conflict, inconsistency or repugnancy between the other clauses of this Act and the clauses or sections of the said "Railway Act," Chapter 109, Consolidated Statutes of Canada, so made a part of this Act, the other clauses of this Act shall prevail and override any clauses or sections of the "Railway Act" so incorporated herewith, to the extent of any such conflict, inconsistency or repugnancy; and provided further, that none of the provisions of the clauses or sections of such "Railway Act" so adopted shall in anywise restrict or curtail any of the powers, rights and privileges by the other clauses of this Act conferred upon the Company, but all powers and privileges referred to in the said clauses or sections of the said "Railway Act" shall be deemed to be in addition to and in furtherance of the powers, rights and privileges conferred upon the Company by the other clauses of this Act, and any restrictions imposed by any of the clauses or sections so adopted from the said Railway Act" shall not affect this Company unless set forth particularly in the other clauses of this Act. The following are the clauses or sections of the "Railway Act" so incorporated herewith:-Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, and sub-sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 of section 16; sub-sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of section 18; sections 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24; sub-sections 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of section 25; sections 27, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52 and 53, and sub-sections 1, 2 and 3 of section 56; sections 57, 85, 86, 87, 88, 105 and 106.

40. Provided further, that the notice required to be inserted in the Ditto. Canada Gazette shall, when the subject thereof is within the legislative authority of the Province of British Columbia, be inserted in the British Columbia Gazette; and provided further, that the words

(INCORPORATION).

"Railway Committee," in the said section of the Railway Act, shall, when the subject matter of the section is within the legislative authority of the Province of British Columbia, be understood to mean the Lieutenant-Governor in Council; and in like manner the words "Minister" shall be understood to mean the Chief Commissioner of Lands and works; "Minister of Finance and Receiver-General" shall mean the Minister of Finance and Agriculture of this Province; "Attorney-General" shall mean the Attorney-General of the Province. And provided further, that the said mortgage deeds authorized by this Act shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar-General of Titles, and notice of such deposit shall be given in the British Columbia Gazette, and no other registration shall be required; and provided further, that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall be substituted for the Governor-General in Council, when the subject matter of the Railway Act is within the legislative authority of the Province of British Columbia; provided further, that whenever a Province or Territory is referred to, it shall be deemed to mean the Province of British Columbia.

Stock personal prop- V 41. The stock of the Company shall be personal property. No erty. Liability of shareholder limited. shareholder of the Company shall in any manner be liable to or be chargeable or charged with the payment of any debt or demand due by the Company, or any sum beyond the amount unpaid on his, her or their subscribed shares in the capital stock of the Company.

Terminus of railway.

Short title.

42. The main terminus of the railway, the terminal workshops and other structures, works, docks and equipments, suitable for the terminus of a transcontinental railway, shall be erected in the immediate vicinity of the harbour of Victoria or Esquimalt.

43. This Act may be cited as the "Canadian Northern Railway Act."

VICTORIA, B. C. :

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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An Act to amend the "Columbia and Kootenay 1890, c. 62. Railway and Navigation Company Act, 1890,"

WHE

[23rd April, 1892.]

HEREAS a petition has been presented by the Columbia and Preamble. Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company, praying that the powers of the said Company may be increased and enlarged and the Act of Incorporation amended accordingly:

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of such petition :

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. Section 2 of the "Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navi- Amends s. 2. gation Company Act, 1890," is hereby amended by striking out the words "one million" in the first line thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following words "three millions and a half.”

2. Section 14 of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting after Amends s. 14.

the word "Columbia" in the sixth line thereof the following words,

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'and a line of railway from a point at or near where the aforesaid Columbia and Kootenay Railway crosses the Slocan River and making a junction therewith, thence along the bank of the Slocan River and the shore of Slocan Lake to a point at or near the north end of Slocan Lake, and thence to a point on the Upper Arrow Lake at or near the mouth of the Na-Kusp Creek and a branch line therefrom, making a junction at a point near the north end of Slocan Lake, and thence to the head waters of the Kaslo River, and thence following the course of the Kaslo River to a point near its mouth on the Kootenay Lake."

3. Section 21 of the said Act is hereby repealed,

Repeals s. 21.

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Application of the "B. C. Railway Act."

NAVIGATION (AMENDMENT).

4. The provisions of the "British Columbia Railway Act," except so far as they are inconsistent with or repugnant to the express provisions of the "Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company Act, 1890," and this Act, shall apply to the undertaking authorized by the "Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company Act Commencement and 1890," and this Act; provided, however, that the said railway authorcompletion of railized by this Act shall be commenced within two years, and completed within four years.

way.

Short title.

5. This Act may be cited as the "Columbia and Kootenay Railway Extension Act, 1892."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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An Act to Incorporate the Coquitlam Electric
Company, Limited.

[23rd April, 1892.]

HEREAS Donald McGillivray, contractor; John B. Pike, con- Preamble. tractor; and John Milner Atkins, druggist, all of the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, have by their petition applied to be incorporated as a Joint Stock Company, for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintaining Electrical Works, and establishing an Electrical Supply System in the vicinity of Burrard Inlet (hereafter referred to as "the said area,") and to have conferred on them power to take and use so much of the waters of the Coquitlam and Lynn Rivers as may from time to time be necessary for the purpose of generating power and generating electricity to be used as a motive or illuminating power for any purposes for which electricity may be applied or required, with power to do all things necessary or proper for the generating or transmitting electricity:

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of such petition:

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. Donald McGillivray, contractor; John B. Pike, and John Milner Incorporation. Atkins, and such other persons as may become shareholders in the corporation to be by this Act created, shall be, and they are hereby created, constituted and declared to be a corporation, body corporate and politic, by the name of "The Coquitlam Electric Company, Limited;" and the head office of the said Company shall be at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, or as may hereafter be determined upon by the directors of the Company.

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