CHAP. 5. An Act to authorize a Subsidy for a Railway through the Crow's Nest Pass. [Assented to 29th June, 1897.] HE ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: Canadian Pass. 1. Subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, the Subsidy to the Governor in Council may grant to the Canadian Pacific Rail- Pacific Railway Company a subsidy towards the construction of a rail- way Co. for railway way from Lethbridge, in the district of Alberta, through the through Crow's Nest Pass to Nelson, in the province of British Columbia Crow's Nest (which railway is hereinafter called "the Crow's Nest Line,") to the extent of eleven thousand dollars per mile thereof, and not exceeding in the whole the sum of three million six hundred and thirty thousand dollars, payable by instalments on the completion of each of the several sections of the said railway of the length respectively of not less than ten miles, and the remainder on the completion of the whole of the said railway; provided that an agreement between the Government Agreement to and the Company is first entered into in such form as the into. Governor in Council thinks fit, containing covenants to the following effect, that is to say: On the part of the Company: (a.) That the Company will construct or cause to be constructed, the said railway upon such route and according to such descriptions and specifications and within such time or times as are provided for in the said agreement, and, when completed, will operate the said railway for ever; (6.) That the said line of railway shall be constructed. through the town of Macleod, and a station shall be established therein, unless the Governor in Council is satisfied by the Company that there is good cause for constructing the railway outside the limits of the said town, in which case the said line of railway shall be located and a station established at a distance not greater than five hundred yards from the limits. of the said town; be entered Covenants therein. (c.) That so soon as the said railway is opened for traffic to Kootenay Lake, the local rates and tolls on the railway and on any other railway used in connection therewith and now or hereafter owned or leased by or operated on account of the Company south of the Company's main line in British Columbia, as well as the rates and tolls between any point on any such line or lines of railway and any point on the main line of the Company throughout Canada, or any other railway owned or leased by or operated on account of the Company, including its lines of steamers in British Columbia, shall be first approved by the Governor in Council or by a Railway Commission, if and when such Commission is established by law, and shall at all times thereafter and from time to time be subject to revision and control in the manner aforesaid; (d.) That a reduction shall be made in the general rates and tolls of the Company as now charged, or as contained in its present freight tariff, whichever rates are now the lowest, for carloads or otherwise, upon the classes of merchandise hereinafter mentioned, westbound, from and including Fort William and all points east of Fort William on the Company's railway to all points west of Fort William on the Company's main line, or on any line of railway throughout Canada owned or leased by or operated on account of the Company, whether the shipment is by all rail line or by lake and rail, such reduction to be to the extent of the following percentages respect ively, namely: Upon all green and fresh fruits, 33 per cent; Coal oil, 20 per cent; Cordage and binder twine, 10 per cent; Agricultural implements of all kinds, set up or in parts, 10 per cent; Iron, including bar, band, Canada plates, galvanized, sheet, pipe, pipe-fittings, nails, spikes and horse shoes, 10 per cent; All kinds of wire, 10 per cent; Window glass, 10 per cent; Paper for building and roofing purposes, 10 per cent; Paints of all kinds and oils, 10 per cent; Live stock, 10 per cent; Wooden ware, 10 per cent; Household furniture, 10 per cent; And that no higher rates than such reduced rates or tolls shall be hereafter charged by the Company upon any such merchandise carried by the Company between the points aforesaid; such reductions to take effect on or before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight ; (e.) That there shall be a reduction in the Company's present rates and tolls on grain and flour from all points on its main line, branches, or connections, west of Fort William to Fort William and Port Arthur and all points east, of three cents per one hundred pounds, to take effect in the following manner :-One and one-half cent per one hundred pounds on or before the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and an additional one and one-half cent per one hundred pounds on or before the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninetynine; and that no higher rates than such reduced rates or tolls shall be charged after the dates mentioned on such merchandise from the points aforesaid; (f.) That the Railway Committee of the Privy Council may grant running powers over the said line of railway and all its branches and connections, or any portions thereof, and all lines of railway now or hereafter owned or leased by or operated on account of the Company in British Columbia south of the Company's main line of railway, and the necessary use of its tracks, stations and station grounds, to any other railway company applying for such grant upon such terms as such Committee may fix and determine, and according to the provisions of The Railway Act and of such other general Acts relating to railways as are from time to time passed by Parliament; but nothing herein shall be held to imply that such running powers might not be so granted without the special provision herein contained; (g.) That the said railway, when constructed, together with that portion of the Company's railway from Dunmore to Lethbridge, and all lines of railway, branches, connections and extensions in British Columbia south of the main line of the Company in British Columbia shall be subject to the provisions of The Railway Act, and of such other general Acts relating to railways as are from time to time passed by Parliament; (h.) That if the Company or any other company with whom it shall have any arrangement on the subject shall, by constructing the said railway or any part of it, as stipulated for in the said agreement, become entitled to and shall get any land as a subsidy from the Government of British Columbia, then such lands, excepting therefrom those which in the opinion of the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada (expressed in writing) are coal-bearing lands, shall be disposed of by the Company or by such other company to the public according to regulations and at prices not exceeding these prescribed from time to time by the Governor in Council, having regard to the then existing provincial regulations applicable thereto; the expression "lands" including all mineral and timber thereon which shall be disposed of as aforesaid, either with or without the land, as the Governor in Council may direct : (i.) That if the Company or any other company with whom it shall have any arrangement on the subject shall, by constructing the said railway or any part of it as stipulated for in the said agreement, become entitled to and shall get any lands as a subsidy from the Government of British Columbia which in the opinion of the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada (expressed in writing) are coal-bearing lands, then the Company to carry out agreement. Issue of bonds. Company will cause to be conveyed to the Crown, in the interest of Canada, a portion thereof to the extent of fifty thousand acres, the same to be of equal value per acre as coal lands with the residue of such lands. The said fifty thousand acres to be selected by the Government in such fair and equitable manner as may be determined by the Governor in Council, and to be thereafter held or disposed of or otherwise dealt with by the Government as it may think fit on such conditions, if any, as may be prescribed by the Governor in Council, for the purpose of securing a sufficient and suitable supply of coal to the public at reasonable prices, not exceeding two dollars per ton of two thousand pounds free on board cars at the mines. And on the part of the Government, to pay the said subsidy by instalments as aforesaid. 2. The Company shall be bound to carry out in all respects the said agreement, and may do whatever is necessary for that purpose. 3. In order to facilitate such financial arrangements as will enable the Company to complete the railway as aforesaid without delay and to acquire and consolidate with it the railway from Dunmore to Lethbridge, hereinafter called "the Alberta Branch," which, under the authority of chapter thirtyeight of the statutes of 1893, it now operates as lessee, and is under covenant to purchase, the Company may issue bonds which will be a first lien and charge and be secured exclusively upon the said Alberta Branch and Crow's Nest Line together in the same way and with the same effect as if both the said pieces of railway to be so consolidated were being built by the Company as one branch of its railway within the meaning of section one of chapter fifty-one of the statutes of 1888, and that section shall apply accordingly, such first lien to be subject to the payment of the purchase money of the Alberta Branch, as provided for in the said covenant to purchase. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 6. An Act to provide for Bounties on Iron and Steel made in Canada. [Assented to 29th June, 1897.] HER ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Governor in Council may authorize the payment of Bounties for the following bounties on steel ingots, puddled iron bars and production in pig iron made in Canada, that is to say : Canada of On steel ingots manufactured from ingredients of which Steel ingots, not less than fifty per cent of the weight thereof consists of pig iron made in Canada, a bounty of three dollars per ton; On puddled iron bars manufactured from pig iron made in Puddled iron Canada, a bounty of three dollars per ton; bars, On pig iron manufactured from ore, a bounty of three And pig iron. dollars per ton on the proportion produced from Canadian ore, and two dollars per ton on the proportion produced from foreign ore. 2. The said bounties shall be applicable only to steel ingots, During five puddled iron bars and pig iron made in Canada prior to the years. twenty-third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two. 3. The Governor in Council may make regulations in Regulations. relation to the said bounties in order to carry out the intention of this Act. 4. Chapter nine of the statutes of 1894, intituled An Act to 1894, c. 9 provide for the payment of Bounties on Iron and Steel manufac- repealed. tured from Canadian ore, is hereby repealed. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. |