I, A. B., of appoint C. D. of

SCHEDULE D.

FORM OF PROXY.

do hereby nominate, constitute, and to be my proxy, in my name and in my absence to vote, or give any assent to or dissent from any business, matter, or thing relative to the Grand Falls Railway Company, in such manner as he the said C. D. shall think proper and for the benefit of the said Company.

In witness whereof, I, the said A. B. have hereunto set my hand (or if a Corporation, say the Common Seal of the Corporation) the in the year of our Lord one

day of

thousand eight hundred and

A. B.

[This Act was specially confirmed. ratified, and finally enacted by an Order of Her Majestu in Council, dated the 24th day of September 1850, and published and declared in the Province the 23rd day of October 1850.]

14th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 11.

An Act to incorporate the Saint Stephen Railroad Com

Be it enacted, &c.-1. George M. Porter, Horatio N. Hill, Daniel Hill, John M'Adam, Joseph E. Eaton, George S. Hill, Nehemiah Marks, George J. Thomson, David Upton, Robert Watson, Samuel Gilmor, Ninian Lindsay, and Henry Eastman, their associates, successors, and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Saint Stephen Railroad Company," and by that name shall have all the general powers and privileges made incident to a Corporation by Act of Assembly in this Province, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have and enjoy all proper remedies at law and equity to secure and protect them in the exercise and use of the rights and privileges, and

in the performance of the duties hereinafter granted and enjoined, and to prevent all invasion thereof in exercising and performing the same; and the said Corporation are hereby authorized and empowered to locate, construct, and finally complete, alter, and keep in repair a Railroad, with one or more sets of rails or tracks, with all suitable bridges, tunnels, viaducts, turn-outs, culverts, drains, and all the necessary appendages, from the Upper Mills (so called) in the Parish of Saint Stephen, in the County of Charlotte, in this Province, over the most practicable route along or near the left bank of the River Saint Croix, to the mouth of Dennis Stream, and thence to extend the same to the Ledge, or to Oak Point, in the said Parish, whenever the said Company may deem it expedient to do so, and to make such branches thereof as they may think proper; and the said Corporation shall be and hereby are invested with all the powers, privileges, and immunities which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes and objects of this Act as herein set forth; and for this purpose said Corporation shall have the right to purchase or take and hold so much of the land and other real estate of private persons or Corporations as may be necessary for the location, construction, and convenient operation of said Railroad and branches thereof, and they shall also have the right to take, remove, and use for the construction and repair of said Railroad and appurtenances, any earth, gravel, stone, timber, or other materials on or from the land so taken; provided however, that said land so taken shall not exceed four rods in width, except where greater width is necessary for the purpose of excavation and embankment; and provided also, that in all cases said Corporation shall pay for such lands, estate, or materials so taken and used, such price as they and the owner or respective owners thereof may mutually agree upon; and in case said parties shall not otherwise agree, then said Corporation shall pay such damages as shall be ascertained and determined, in the same manner and under the same conditions and limitations as are provided by the second Section of an Act made and passed in the thirteenth year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, intituled An Act relating to the Saint Andrews and Quebec Railroad, as also for the recovery of the same; and the land so taken by said Corporation shall be held

as land taken and appropriated for highways; and all applications for damages shall be made within three years from the time of taking such land or other property, and not after.

2. When said Corporation shall take any land, or other estate as aforesaid, of any infant, person non compos mentis, deceased person, or feme covert, whose husband is under guardianship, the guardian of such infant, or person non compos mentis, or the executor or administrator of such deceased person, and such feme covert, with the guardian of her husband, shall have full power and authority to agree and settle with said Corporation for damages or claims for damages by reason of taking such land and estate aforesaid, and give good and valid releases therefor.

3. The capital stock of the said Corporation shall consist of fifty thousand pounds, to be divided into two thousand shares of twenty five pounds each, and the immediate government and direction of the affairs of the said Corporation shall be vested in seven Directors, who shall be chosen by the members of the said Corporation in the manner hereinafter provided, and shall hold their offices until others shall have been duly elected and qualified to take their places, a majority of whom shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, and they shall elect one of their number to be President of the board, who shall also be President of the Corporation; and shall have authority to choose a Clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty, and a Treasurer who shall be sworn, and also give bonds to the Corporation, with sureties to the satisfaction of the Directors, in a sum not less than one thousand pounds, for the faithful discharge of his trust.

4. The three persons first named in the first Section of this Act, are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of said Corporation, by giving notice in one or more Newspapers published in the said County of Charlotte, of the time and place, and purpose of such meeting, at least fourteen days before the time mentioned in such notice.

5. The said Corporation shall have power to make, ordain, and establish all necessary bye laws and regulations consistent with the laws in force in this Province, for their own government, and for the due and orderly conducting of their affairs, and the management of their property.

6. The President, Directors, and Company for the time being, are hereby authorized and empowered, by themselves or their agents, to exercise all the powers herein granted to the Corporation, for the purpose of locating, constructing, and completing said Railroad and branches, and for the transportation of persons, goods, and property of all descriptions, and all such power and authority for the management of the affairs of the Corporation, as may be necessary and proper to carry into effect the objects of this grant; to purchase and hold within or without the Province, land, materials, engines, cars, and other necessary things, in the name of the Corporation, for the use of said road, and for the transportation of persons, goods, and property of all descriptions; to make such equal assessments from time to time on all the shares in said Corporation, as they may deem necessary and expedient in the execution and progress of the work, and direct the same to be paid to the Treasurer of the Corporation, and the Treasurer shall give notice of all such assessments; and in case any subscriber or stockholder shall neglect to pay any assessment on his share or shares for the space of thirty days after such notice given as shall be prescribed by the bye laws of said Corporation, the Directors may order the Treasurer to sell such share or shares at public auction, after giving such notice as may be prescribed as aforesaid, to the highest bidder, and the same shall be transferred to the purchaser; and such delinquent subscriber or stockholder shall be held accountable to the Corporation for the balance, if his share or shares shall sell for less than the assessment due thereon, with the interest and costs of sale; and shall be entitled to the overplus, if his share or shares shall sell for more than the assessment due, with the interest and costs of sale; provided that no shareholder in said Company shall be in any manner whatever liable for any debt or demand due by said Company beyond the extent of his, her, or their shares in the capital stock of the said Company not paid up; and no assessment shall be laid upon any shares in said Company of a greater amount in the whole than ten pounds.

7. A toll is hereby granted and established for the sole use and benefit of said Corporation upon all passengers and property of all descriptions which may be conveyed or transported

by them upon said road, at such rate as may be agreed upon and established from time to time by the Directors of sid Corporation; the transportation of persons and property, the construction of wheels, the form of cars and carriages, the weights of loads, and all other matters and things in relation to said road, shall be in conformity with such rules, regulations, and provisions as the Directors shall from time to time prescribe and direct.

8. The Legislature may authorize any other Company or Companies to connect any other Railroad or Railroads with the Railroad of said Corporation, at any points on the route of said Railroad; and this Company is hereby authorized and empowered to connect any Railway they may construct under this charter with any other Railway existing, to be constructed within or without the Province; and the said Corporation shall receive and transport all persons, goods, and property of all descriptions, which may be carried and transported to the Railroad of said Corporation on such other Railroads as may be hereafter authorized to be connected therewith, at the same rates of toll and freight as may be prescribed by said Corporation, so that the rates of freight and toll on such passengers, goods, and other property as may be received from such other Railroads so connected with such Railroad as aforesaid, shall not exceed the general rates of freight and toll on scid Railroad received for freight and passengers at any of the deposits of said Corporation.

9. If the said Railroad in the course thereof shall cross any private way, the said Corporation shall so construct said Railroad as not to obstruct the safe and convenient use of such private way; and if such Railroad shall in the course thereof cross any canal, mill-pond, turnpike, railroad, or other highway, the said Railroad shall be so constructed as not to obstruct the safe and convenient use of such canal, mill-pond, turnpike, or other highway; and the said Corporation shall have power to raise or lower such turnpike, highway. or private way, so that the said Railroad, if necessary, may conveniently pass under or over the same, and erect such gate or gates thereon as may be necessary for the safety of travellers or persons on said turnpike, mill-pond, railroad, highway, or private way.

10. Said Railroad Corporation shall constantly maintain in