dule A. form of Sche- given in the Schedule to this Act marked A, and all Registrars are hereby authorized to enter in their Register Books such deeds on the production and proof of execution thereof without any memorial, and to minute such entry on the said deed; and the said Company are to pay to the said Registrar for so doing the sum of two shillings and six pence, and no more. Annual Meetings to be held at Hamilton, how to be notified. Directors may make provision for the union of the Company with any other, Company to convey Her Majesty's men, &c. at reasonable rates, to be fixed by the Governor in parties cannot agree. Proviso. Proviso: The XXXII. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and be lawful for the annual meetings of the Stockholders of the said Company, for may the election of Directors, to be holden at the Town of Hamilton, in the District of Gore, notice thereof being given at least thirty days prior to such election, in one or more newspapers in each of the Districts of London and Gore, and also in the Western District. 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 make such By-laws, Rules and Regu lations as they may think proper, for the junction or union of the said Company with any other Company or Companies or Association, 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. XXXIV. And be it enacted, That the said Company shall at all times, when thereunto required by Her Majesty's Deputy Post Master General, the Commander of the Troops, Police Forces, or any person having the command or superintendence of any Police Force, carry Her Majesty's Mail, Her Majesty's Naval or Military Forces, or Militia, and all artillery, ammunition, Provisions or other stores for their use, and all Policemen, Constables, and others travelling on Her Majesty's service on their said Rail-road, on such Council if the 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 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 also, that any further enactments which the Legislature of this Province may hereafter deem it expedient to make with regard to the carriage of the said Mail or Her Majesty's Forces, 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 be construed to authorize the said Company to take or enter upon any lands or real estate of any kind belonging to Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Suecessors, or vested in or held in trust by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ord nance, or any 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. Legislature may make fur ther regulations as to such matters. Proviso as to lands of the Crown or held in trust for the Crown. XXXV XXXV. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall affect or be construed to affect in any manner or way whatsoever the rights of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, or of any person or persons, or of any bodies politic, corporate or collegiate, such only excepted as are herein mentioned. Saving of the rights of the Crown and parties not ex pressly affected. SCHEDULE A. Know all men by these presents, that I, A. B., in consideration of the sum of to me 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 the said Great Western Rail-road Company, their Successors and Assigns for ever. Witness my Hand and Seal, this day of Signed, sealed and delivered, in the presence of 18 [L. S.] MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS, ΑΝΝΟ ΝΟΝΟ VICTORIE REGINE. CAP. LXXXII. An Act to incorporate the Montreal and Lachine Rail-road Company. WH [9th June, 1846.] Certain per sons and their successors in corporated for the purposes of this Act: and certain corpoconferred on them. rate powers THEREAS the construction of a Rail-road from the City of Montreal to La- Preamble. chine, would greatly contribute to the facility of intercourse between Upper and Lower Canada, and to the advantage of the City of Montreal and of the Province generally; and whereas the several persons hereinafter named are desirous to make and maintain the said Rail-road: 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 Thomas Allen Stayner, William Foster Coffin, William Collis Meredith, James Ferrier, Sir George Simpson, William Molson, William Macdonald, George Crawford, David Davidson, Duncan Finlayson, J. G. McTavish, John Silveright, N. Finlayson, John Ballenden, John Rawand, Allan Macdonnell, Edward P. Wilgress, Samuel Gall, John Boston, Benjamin Hart, Theodore Hart, John Carter, T. McCulloch, Andrew Cowan, John Matthewson, Walter Benny, John M. Tobin, John H. Evans, E. H. Mount, James H. Lamb, G. Wilkinson, W. Watson, John Torrance, Charles H. Castle, Isaac J. Gibb, J. G. McKenzie, Donald P. Ross, James Crawford, Robert Morris, W. Murray, James Henderson, M. McCulloch, Aaron H. David, M. E. David, John Ostell, G. P. Dickson, J. H. Birss, John Leeming, William Lunn, James Logan, Dougall Stewart, Jesse Joseph, G. Wilgress, D. L. Macpherson, William Molson, James Cormac, W. S. Macfarlane, Archibald Hall, A. Dow, Hugh Taylor, John Lavanston, Colin Campbell, Peter McKenzie, John Simpson, D. McKenzie, Thomas Taylor, John McKenzie, E. M. Hopkins, Hector McKenzie, John Miles, Charles Geddes, G. D. Watson, John Macdonald, William Cunningham and E. T. Renaud; together with such person or persons as shall, under the provisions of this Act, become subscribers to and proprietors of any share or shares in the Railroad hereby authorized to be made and other works and property hereinafter mentioned, and their several and respective heirs, executors, administrators, curators and assigns, being proprietors of any such share or shares, are and shall be, and be united into a Company for carrying on, making, completing and maintaining the said intended Railroad and other works, according to the rules, orders and directions hereinafter expressed, and shall for that purpose be one body politic and corporate by the name of The Corporate naine. how under stood in this Act. The Montreal and Lachine Rail-road Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall have a common seal, and other the usual powers and rights of bodies corporate not inconsistent with this Act, and by that name shall and may sue and be sued, and also shall and may have power and authority to purchase and hold Word 'Lands' lands, (which word shall throughout this Act be understood to include the land and all that is upon or below the surface thereof, and all the real rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging,) for them and their successors and assigns, for the use of the said Rail-road and works, without Her Majesty's Lettres d'Amortissement, (saving nevertheless to the Seignior or Seigniors within whose censive the lands, tenements and hereditaments so purchased may be situate, his and their several and respective droits d'indemnité, and all other Seigniorial rights whatever,) and also to alienate and convey any of the said lands, purchased for the purposes aforesaid; and any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, or communities may give, grant, bargain, sell or convey to the said Company of Proprietors, any lands, for the purposes aforesaid, and the same may re-purchase of the said Company, without Lettres d'Amortissement : Rail-road may And the said Company shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered from and after the passing of this Act, by themselves, their deputies, agents, officers, workmen and servants, to make and complete a Rail-road, to be called The Montreal and Lachine Rail-road, with one or more sets of Rails or Tracks, and to be worked by locomotive engines, or on the atmospheric principle, or in such other mode as the said Company may deem expedient, from some place in the Parish of Montreal, to some place in the Parish of Lachine, and in as direct a line as may be found convenient, and to erect wharves, warehouses, stores and other buildings at either termination, and at such other places on the line of the said Rail-road as they may deem expedient, and to build, or purchase, hold and use one or more steamboats or other vessels to ply on the waters of the Rivers St. Lawrence and Ottawa from the upper termination of the said Railroad to any place above such termination, and not more than fifty miles distant from be made on any plan. Direction of the said Railroad. Company may hold Steamboats, &c, to ply to a certain distance from Lachine up wards. Power to the Company to set out and survey lands necessary for their works, &c. May get and place materiale. the same. II. And be it enacted, That for the purposes aforesaid, the said Company, their deputies, servants, agents and workmen, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into and upon any lands and grounds of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, not hereinafter excepted, or of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, or collegiate, or communities or parties whatsoever, and to survey and take levels of the same, or any part thereof, and to set out and ascertain such parts thereof as they shall think necessary and proper for making the said intended Rail-road, and other works hereby authorized, and all such works, matters and conveniences as they shall think proper and necessary for making, effecting, preserving, improving, completing, maintaining and using the said intended Rail-road and other works, and also to bore, dig, cut, trench, get, remove, take, carry away, and lay earth, clay, stone, soil, rubbish, trees, roots of trees, beds of gravel or sand, or any other matters or things which may be dug or got in making the said intended Rail-road or other works, on or out of the lands or grounds of any person or persons adjoining or lying convenient thereto, and which may be proper, requisite or necessary for making or repairing the said intended Rail-road, or the works incidental or relative thereto, or which may hinder, prevent or obstruct the making, using or completing, extending or maintaining the same respectively, according Erecting build to the intent and purpose of this Act; and to make, build, erect and set up, in or upon the said intended Rail-road, or upon their lands adjoining or near the same respectively, such and so many houses, warehouses, toll-houses, watch-houses, telegraphs or other signals, ings, machinery, &c. |