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CANADA.

ANNO REGNI DECIMO ET UNDECIMO

VICTORIÆ,

DEI GRATIA BRITANNIARUM REGINÆ.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONORABLE

JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, K. T.

GOVERNOR GENERAL.

BEING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SECOND PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.

RESERVED ACTS

To which the ROYAL ASSENT was subsequently promulgated by His Excellency JAMES, EARL OF Elgin and KincarDINE, K. T. &c. &c. &c. Governor General.

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An Act to incorporate The Woodstock and Lake Erie Rail-way and
Harbour Company.

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Reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure 28th July, 1847.

The Royal Assent given by Her Majesty in Council on the 15th April, 1848; and Proclamation made thereof

by His Excellency JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, in the Canada Gazette of the 24th June, 1848.

WHE

it Railroad THEREAS it is desirable for the benefit of the country that a Rail-road or Way Preamble. should be constructed, extending from Woodstock in the District of Brock to the shores of Lake Erie, and that the same should extend in as direct a line as practicable from Woodstock aforesaid to some harbour or harbours on the said Lake between Port Dover and Port Burwell inclusive: And whereas it is expedient to incorporate a Joint Stock Company for the said purpose and others hereinafter mentioned: And whereas A. W. Light, John Vansittart, P. Graham, S. F. Robertson, Henry Finkle, John Arnold, James Carrol, Edmund Deedes, Henry Vansittart, Thomas Cottle, William Lapenotière, H. C. Barwick, and others, Her Majesty's subjects residing in this Province of Canada, have petitioned for the passing of an Act incorporating a Company for the purpose of constructing a single or double track wooden or iron Rail-road or Way from the said Town of Woodstock to such harbour or harbours as aforesaid: 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 said A. W. Light, John Vansittart, P. Graham, S. F. Robertson, Henry Finkle, John Arnold, James Carroll, Edmund Deedes, Henry Vansittart, Thomas Cottle, William Lapenotière, H. C. Barwick, with all such other persons as shall become Stockholders in such Joint Stock Company as is hereinafter mentioned, shall be and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic in fact, and under the name and style of The Woodstock and Corporate Lake Erie Rail-way and Harbour Company, and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continued succession, and by such name shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto in all Courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and concerns whatsoever; and they Common and their successors may and shall have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their will and pleasure, and also that they and their successors by the same

Certain per

sons incorporated as a

Company.

name and powers.

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Holding property.

name of The Woodstock and Lake Erie Rail-way and Harbour Company, shall be by law capable of purchasing, having and holding to them and their successors, any estate, real, personal or mixed, to and for the use of the said Company, and of letting, conveying, and otherwise departing therewith, for the benefit and on account of the Proviso: Real Said Company from time to time as they shall deem necessary and expedient: ProEstate limited. vided always, nevertheless, that the real estate to be held by the said Company shall be only such as shall be required to be held by them for the purpose of making, using and preserving the Rail-way and Harbours they are hereby empowered to construct, and for the objects immediately connected therewith.

Company may

construct a

Woodstock to certain points

on Lake Erie;

II. And be it enacted, That the said Company and their agents or servants and Rail-way from workmen shall have full power under this Act, to lay out, construct, make and finish a double or single iron or wooden Rail-road or Way at their own costs and charges on and over any part of the country lying between the Town of Woodstock and the harbours of Port Dover and Port Burwell inclusive, on Lake Erie aforesaid, and to take, carry and transport thereon passengers, goods, merchandize and property of any kind, sort or description, either in carriages used and propelled by the force of steam or by any other power whether of animals or mechanical or by any combination of power which the said Company may choose to employ; and also full power and authority to construct one or more vessel or vessels whether propelled by steam, sails, or any other power, for the means of conveying (for the purposes of the said Road only) the said passengers, goods, merchandize and property from all or any of the said ports on the said lake to any And construct port or place necessary, and also to construct, complete and finish commodious Harbours, Wharves and Piers for the use and accommodation of the said vessels, goods, wares and merchandize.

May build
Vessels;

Harbours,

Wharves, &c.

Company may agree, &c. with owners of

same.

greement provided for.

III. And be it enacted, That the said Company are hereby empowered to contract, compound, compromise and agree with the owners or occupiers of any lands upon which Lands for the they may determine to construct the said Rail-road, Harbours and Wharves either by purchase of so much of the said land and privileges as they shall require for the purposes of the said Company, or for the damages which he, she or they shall and may be entitled to receive of and from the said Company in consequence of the said intended Rail-road, Harbours and Wharves being made and constructed in and upon his or their respective Case of disa lands; and in case of any disagreement between the said Company and the owner or owners, occupier or occupiers as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful from time to time for each owner or occupier so disagreeing with the said Company, either upon the value of the lands and tenements or private privileges proposed to be purchased, or upon the amount of damages to be paid to them as aforesaid, to nominate and appoint one indifAppointment ferent person, and for the said Company to nominate one other indifferent person, who, together with one other indifferent person to be chosen by the persons so named, before proceeding to business, or, in the event of their differing as to the choice of such other person, to be appointed by the Judge of the District Court for the District in which the lands are situate before the others proceed to business, shall be Arbitrators to award, determine, adjudge and order the respective sums of money which the said Company shall pay to the respective persons entitled to receive the same, the award of the majority of whom shall be final; and the said Arbitrators shall be, and they are hereby required to attend at some convenient place in the vicinity of the said intended Railroad, to be appointed by the said Company after eight days' notice for that purpose given by the said Company, then and there to arbitrate, award, adjudge and determine

of Arbitrators.

Third Arbitra

tor how appointed.

Award to be final.

Meetings of

the Arbitrators.

such

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