PAPERS In relation to the British Columbia Southern Railway Company Land Grant.
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alternative: BRITISH COLUMBIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
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is part of: Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia
creator: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
issued: 2014-12-10
issued: [1900]
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note: 63 Vict. British Columbia Southern Railway Company. 439 PAPERS In relation to the British Columbia Southern Railway Company Land Grant. By Command. ALEXANDER HENDERSON, Attorn eg-General. Attorney-General's Office, 24-th January, 1900. MR. MARTIN'S LETTER SUBMITTING CASE TO COUNSEL. Re British Columbia Southern Railway Company. March 29th, 1899. Sir,—Enclosed I send you an abstract of a number of Statutes of this Province connected with the British Columbia Southern Railway Company land grant; also Orders in Council and several Dominion Statutes. I desire to submit certain questions for your consideration, and, in order to make the matter clear, will give you a general outline of the history of the question. In 1888, the Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Company was incorporated ; in 1890, an Act in aid of certain railways, called the "Railway Aid Act of 1890," was passed. The material portions of the Act are printed in the enclosure. You will notice that the land grant of 20,000 acres per mile given to the Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Co. by section 1 of said Act, was not given direct to the Company, as is customary under the Dominion Statutes, but the Lieutenant-Governor in Council was authorised to grant 20,000 acres per mile to this Company for each mile of railway completed, on taking satisfactory guarantees for the completion of the remainder of the railway. Section 9 provided for a reserve; section 14 applied the British Columbia Railway Act to the Company; section 16 is a very peculiar section, making special provisions with regard to a portion of territory in which at the time were known to exist immense beds of coal, which are now known to be of great value. In 1891, by chapter 56, the name of the Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Co. was changed to the British Columbia Southern Railway Co; in 1893, by chapter 36, there were certain provisions made with regard to the land grant of the British Columbia Southern Rail way, but you will notice…
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