Directors may make

provision for

the union of

XXXIII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Board of Directors, or a majority of them, for the time being, to take such By-laws, Rules and Regulations as theCompany they may think proper, for the junction or union of the said with any Company with any other Company or Companies or Associ- other. ation, formed under any deed or deeds of settlement in England or elsewhere, or by Charter in this Province, and for the management, direction and carrying out of the objects of such junction or union, and for the securing to all parties to such junction or union the stipulations and agreements which may be mutually settled upon between them.

convey Her

Troops,

sonable

fixed by the

agree.

XXXIV. And be it enacted, That the said Company shall Company to at all times, when thereunto required by Her Majesty's Majesty's Deputy Post Master General, the Commander of the Forces, Police-men, or any person having the command or superintendence of any &c., at reaPolice Force, carry Her Majesty's Mail, Her Majesty's Naval rates, to be or Military Forces, or Militia, and all artillery, ammunition, Governor in Provisions or other stores for their use, and all Policemen, Council if the parties Constables, and others travelling on Her Majesty's service on cannot their said Rail road, on such terms and conditions, and under such regulations as the said Company and the said Deputy Post Master General, the Commander of the Forces, or person in command of any Police Force, respectively, shall agree upon, or if they cannot agree, then upon such terms and conditions and under such regulations as the Governor, or person administering the Government, shall in Council make: Provided, that by such regulations the Company shall Proviso. not be required to start any train or Steamboat at any other time than their ordinary time of starting the same; but they may be required to provide a separate carriage for the mail and the person or persons in charge thereof: And provided Proviso: The also, that any further enactments which the Legislature of may make this Province may hereafter deem it expedient to make with ulations as regard to the carriage of the said Mail or Her Majesty's to such matForces, and other persons and articles as aforesaid, or the rates to be paid for carrying the same, or in any way respecting the use of any Electric Telegraph, or other service to be rendered by the Company to the Government, shall not be deemed an infringement of the privileges intended to be conferred by this Act; and nothing in this Act contained shall Proviso as be construed to authorize the said Company to take or enter to lands of upon any lands or real estate of any kind belonging to Her or held in Majesty, Her Heirs or successors, or vested in or held in trust Crown. by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, or any

Legisla ture

further reg

ters.

the Crown

trust for the

Saving of

the Crown

and parties

public body, person or party in trust for the uses or service of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or successors, whether such real estate be held in fee simple or for any less estate, during the continuance of such estate, unless the entering upon or taking of such lands or real estate be authorized by the Governor in Council, or by the Commander in Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in this Province.

XXXV. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained the rights of shall affect or be construed to affect in any manner or way whatsoever, the rights of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and sucnot express-cessors, or of any person or persons, or of any bodies politic, corporate or collegiate, such only excepted as are herein mentioned.

ly affected.

SCHEDULE A.

to me

Know all men by these presents, that, I, A. B., in consideration of the sum of in hand paid by the Great Western Rail road Company, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm unto The said Great Western Rail road Company, their Successors and Assigns for ever, all that certain parcel or tract of Land and Premises situate and being (here describe the land,) the same having been selected by the said Company for purposes connected with their Road: To have and to hold the said Land and Premises, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, to ths said Great Western Rail road Company, their Successors and Assigns for ever.

Witness my Hand and Seal, this

day of

18

Signed, sealed and delivered, in the presence of

[L. S.]

12TH VICTORIA CHAP. 156.

AN ACT

TO ALTER AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE

GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY.

[PASSED 30TH MAY, 1849.

WHEREAS in and by the Act passed in the ninth year of Preamble. Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to alter and amend the Charter of the Great Western Railroad Company, certain extraordinary powers, rights and privileges were granted to the Stockholders resident in England, and a Corresponding Committee established in London, England, in consideration of the large amount of capital stock of the Company held in that country; And whereas the President and Directors of the said Company have by petition, by and with the consent of the English Stockholders, prayed for the repeal of so much of said recited Act as relates to the establishment of the said Corresponding Committee, and so place the said Stockholders on the same common ground with the other Stockholders of the Company; And whereas it is proper to grant such tition: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of the said recited Act, so far as they are inconsistent with this Act and the provisions herein contained, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

pe

II. And be it enacted, That so much of the first Section of the said Act as relates to affording protection to the English Part of Sec. Stockholders of the said Company, be, and the same is hereby 1 repealed. repealed.

repealed.

Sect. 2 to 22 III. And be it enacted, That the second, third, fourth fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second Sections of the said recited Act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Sharehold

equal rights.

IV. And be it enacted, That any Shareholder in the said ers to have Company, be he or she a British Subject or alien, a resident in Canada or elsewhere, 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.

Sharehold

ers may vote by proxy.

V. And be it enacted, That every Shareholder in the said Company shall be entitled to appoint any person whomso See 4 Wm. 4 ever, being also a Shareholder, to vote and act for him or chap. 29 Sec. her by proxy, at all general meetings of the Company, and for the election of Directors, and that each Shareholder shall be entitled to give one vote for each and every share of capital stock held by him or her.

18.

Eleven in

VI. And be it enacted, That the number of Directors in stead of 7 the said Company shall be, and consist of eleven instead of seven. (See 4 Wm 4, Sec. 12.)

Directors.

Public Act.

VII. And be it enacted, That this Act is and shall be for all purposes and in all Courts of Justice regarded as a Public Act, and the same as such shall be judicially noticed without being specially pleaded.

13TH & 14TH VICTORIA, CHAP. 130.

AN ACT

TO EMPOWER THE

GREAT WESTERN RAIL ROAD COMPANY

TO MAKE A BRANCH RAIL ROAD TO THE TOWN OF

GALT.

[PASSED AUGUST, 1850.

WHEREAS the Townreeve of the Town of Galt, in the Preamble. County of Halton, has petitioned the Legislature that the Great Western Raidroad Company may be empowered to construct a Branch Railroad from their main line to the said Town, and the said Great Western Rail Road Company have, by petition, expressed their readiness to construct such Branch, and have prayed to be empowered to construct the same, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said Petition : Be it therefore enacted &c. That the said Great Western Railroad Company shall have full power to construct and make, and to work and use a Branch Railroad from such point on the main line of the Railroad they are now empowered to construct, as may be found most suitable, to the said town of Galt; and that all the privileges, powers and rights vested in the said Company with regard to the Railroad they are now empowered to construct, and all the duties and obligations imposed upon them with regard to the same, by the Act incorporating the said Company and the Acts amending the same, and all the provisions of the said Acts which are susceptible of such extension, shall extend to and with regard to the said Branch Road, as fully and effectually as to the Railroad the said Company are now empowered to construct, to all intents and purposes; and the said Acts shall be construed and have effect as if the said Branch Rail Road had been mentioned and described in the said Act of Incorporation as part of the Railroad and Works which the said Company were thereby empowered to construct.

And be it enacted, That nothing in the Charter of the said Great Western Railroad Company or in any Act of Parliament affecting the same, enacted or contained, shall be construed to prevent the said Company from crossing any navigable rivers or waters with the said Railroad, upon duly providing against any unnecessary obstruction of the navigation thereof.