pany are required to be done or may be done at the annual meetings therein mentioned, except the election of Directors and Auditors, as to which special provision is herein made, may be lawfully done and transacted at any ordinary general meeting of the Company.

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30. In addition to the notice prescribed by the Act of Incorporation as necessary for convening general meetings of the Company, notice thereof shall also be given by advertisement in one or more of the daily morning Newspapers published in London, and every such advertisement shall specify the place, the day, and hour of meeting, and in case of an extraordinary meeting the purpose for which the meeting is called.

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31. And whereas doubts have been entertained whether under the provisions of the said recited Acts the Company have power to purchase compulsorily land for stations and other railway purposes, where the lands so required would exceed six rods in width, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed, and that the Company should be empowered to purchase and take compulsorily lands for such purposes without such limit as aforesaid;-The Company shall have power to purchase and take compulsorily such lands as may be required for stations, approaches, sidings, warehouses, offices, sheds, and workshops, connected with and necessary for the undertaking; provided that the lands so taken shall not exceed six rods in width in addition to the six rods authorized to be taken by the original Act of Incorporation, and sixty rods in length, and in no case shall the stations taken under this Act on granted or ungranted lands be at less than five miles distance apart, and further that before taking the same, a distinct plan and description by metes and bounds, of the quantity required, shall be filed in the Provincial Secretary's Office, and a copy thereof furnished to the owner of such lands at least twenty days previous to any Order in Council made thereon, and that the lands so taken shall not be vested in the Company until the location and plan be approved and confirmed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

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32. Whenever any stream, river, water course, pond, or v lake may lie in the route of the said Railway or its branches, to drain, divert, or alter the course of which, may be necessary for the construction of the said Railway or its branches, or for

the security and preservation thereof when constructed, it shall and may be lawful for said Company to drain, divert, or change the course of any such river, stream, water course, pond, or lake, and for that purpose to enter upon and take any lands that may be necessary for such draining, diversion, or altered course, and construct such works as may be required for the construction, security, and safe working of said Railway and its branches, subject to the payment of such loss and damage as any person may sustain in consequence thereof, provided that before making such diversion, a plan, copy, Order in Council, and confirmation shall be first filed, served, and had as provided in and by the thirty first Section of this Act, with reference to lands.

33. The owners of all lands taken pursuant to this Act, and any person who may be injured by the diversion and drainage of any stream, river, water course, pond, or lake, shall be entitled to compensation, to be assessed and paid as prescribed in the thirty first Section of the Act of Incorporation in regard to lands, provided that in assessing such damages for any lands or diversion under this Act, no deduction shall be made for any direct or indirect advantage which may accrue to the owner by reason of such location or diversion.

34. The said Company shall be bound to fence all lands taken under this Act in the same manner as is provided for lands taken under the Act of Incorporation, and in all cases of the diversion of streams, shall be bound to secure the banks of the new cut occasioned by said diversion.

35. In case the lands so taken under this Act shall at any subsequent period be found by the said Company to be unnecessary for the purposes of the said Railway, then the original owner thereof, or his assigns, shall be entitled to the preemption thereof upon fair and reasonable terms, to be settled in case of disagreement by arbitration in the ordinary manner.

36. Three years from the time of taking any land, or making any diversion or drainage under the provisions of this Act, shall be allowed to the owner of the land taken or person' sustaining damage in consequence of such diversion or drainage, to make and submit his claim therefor in writing to the Company.

37. All the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be in

corporated into and form part of the Acts now in force relating to the Company, and so much of the said Acts respectively as are inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this Act, or in lieu of which other provisions are made by this Act, is hereby repealed.

38. This Act shall not come into operation or be in force until Her Majesty's Royal approbation thereof is first had und declared.

Shares numbered

in consideration of the sum of

paid

do hereby transfer to the said

in the undertaking called "The Euro

pean and North American Railway Company," (or £ consolidated Stock in the undertaking called the European and North American Railway Company,) standing in my name in the Books of the Company, to hold unto the said his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, (or Successors and Assigns) subject to the several conditions on which I held the same at the time of the execution hereof; and I the said do hereby agree to take the said shares (or stock) subject to the same conditions. As witness our hands and seals this day of

(B)

European and North American Railway Company. No. £100 Sterling. Company's Bond transferable under the authority of the Legislature of New Brunswick.

day of

The European and North American Railway Company hereby acknowledges to have received, and promises to pay in London to the bearer, the sum of £100 sterling, twenty five years from and after the 18 likewise the interest from the same date, at the rate of £6 per cent. per annum, to be paid half yearly on the presentation of the proper Coupons for the same, as hereunto annexed, on the

, and the

day of

day

in each year, at the

of
Offices or Bankers of the Company in London.

In witness whereof, the Company have hereunto affixed their

Form of the Coupon to be attached to the Company's Debenture. European and North American Railway Company.

Company's Debenture, No.

£3 Sterling. Three pounds Sterling will be paid to the bearer of this Coupon, on presentation at the Bankers of the Company in London, being six months interest on the Debenture numbered

due the

day of

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[This Act was specially confirmed, ratified, and finally enacted, by an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 11th day of August 1854, and published and declared in the Province the 20th day of September 1854.]

6th WILLIAM 4th-CHAPTER 31.

An Act to incorporate the Saint Andrews and Quebec Railroad Company.

Section.

1. Corporation, how instituted.

2. Capital, mode of payment; what shares deemed.

3. When Railroad may be commenced. 4. to 9. repealed.

10. What Board of Directors may transact business.

11. Votes of stockholders, when and how given.

12. When and where first General Meeting held; subsequent meetings; number of Directors; special meetings and powers.

13. Directors, how controlled; how votes given.

14. What Directors may do at General
Meeting, and at other times; Stock
how forfeited and disposed of.

15. When Directors may be removed; Bye
Laws, when may make, &c.
16. Shares, how may be sold, &c.
17. Form of transfer.

Section.

18. Treasurers, &c. how may be appointed, &c. Clerk's duties.

19. Tolls, how may be taken, and when Le-
gislature may reduce.

20. Tolls, how paid and compelled.
21. When land taken for Railroad to be
fenced, &c.

22. Where Railroad crosses highway, what
temporary roads to make.
23. When crossing places to make.
24. Subscribers, when to pay, and how com-
pelled.
25. Repealed.

26. Damaging works, against whom to pro-
ceed.

27. Limitation of suits.

28. Yearly dividend of profits, when made. 29. What responsible for debts of Corpora

tion.

30. Committees of Legislature, to have access to what books.

31. Corporation, what not to engage in.

Passed 8th March 1836.

WHEREAS the construction of a Railroad from Saint Andrews

in the Province of New Brunswick to Quebec in Lower Canada,

would be of great public utility: And whereas it is deemed advisable to grant encouragement to such enterprising persons as may be desirous and willing at their own cost and charges to make and maintain a Railroad in the direction aforesaid, by granting to them an Act of Incorporation ;—

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The Honorable James Allanshaw, Colin Campbell, Beverly Robinson, John M'Master, John Wilson, Harris Hatch, Thomas Wyer, the Honorable William F. Odell, Alexander Rankin, James Rait, the Honorable Ward Chipman, Charles Simonds, Hugh Johnston, John R. Partelow, the Honorable Thomas Baillie, William Walker, James Douglas, Adam Jack, E. D. W. Ratchford, James W. Chandler, A. L. Street, E. N. Kendall, Samuel Frye, Samuel H. Whitlock, Richard M. Andrews, J. G. Woodward, and Jeremiah M. Connell, all of the Province of New Brunswick, and Andrew Patterson, George Auldjo, George Pemberton, William Price, the Honorable George Moffat, William Walker, Henry LeMesurier, James Leslie, all of the Province of Lower Canada, and such other persons as shall from time to time become proprietors of shares in the Corporation hereby established, their successors and assigns, shall be and they are hereby ordained, constituted, and declared to be a Corporation, boly politic and corporate, by the name of "The Saint Andrews and Quebec Railroad Company," and shall by that name have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall and may by the said name sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all Courts and places whatsoever, and shall also have power and authority to purchase, hold, and enjoy lands, tenements, and hereditaments for them and their successors and assigns, for making the said Railroad, and generally for the purposes of carrying the provisions of this Act into effect; and also that they the said Company, or the major part of them, shall from time to time and at all times during the continuance of this Act have full power and authority to constitute, make, ordain, and establish such laws, regulations, and ordinances as may be deemed necessary for the good rule and government of the said Corporation; provided that such laws, regulations, and ordinances as may be deemed necessary be not contradictory or repugnant to the laws of this Province.