1902 Nova Scotia Chapter 175 - An Act to amend Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1896, entitled, “An Act to incorporate the Midland Railway Company, Limited.”

1902 Nova Scotia Chapter 175 - An Act to amend Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1896, entitled, “An Act to incorporate the Midland Railway Company, Limited.”

An Act was approved by the Nova Scotia legislature on March 27th 1902 to amend the incorporation of the Midland Railway Company Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1896. The amendment allowed the railway to build several new lines:

• from Windsor to a point on the Halifax and South Western Railway,
• from Windsor to a point on the Nova Scotia Central Railway,
• from Windsor to a point at or near Middleton,
• from Truro along the Bay Shore to Parrsboro.

A proviso in the original act of 1896 was deleted. The proviso read: Provided that the power to build branches of said railway connecting with a shipping port or ports on the Atlantic Coast and Gulf of St, Lawrence, granted by this Act, shall not be construed to interfere with any other railway company or companies now or hereinafter to be organized or incorporated, building a line or lines of railway over the territory which might be covered by said branches. The practical effect of the original proviso and its deletion are not clear to this editor.

There was a minor amendment to say the extension of the line from the Intercolonial towards Pictou could go near Eastville, not exactly through Eastville.

The full text of the act is shown just below, while a digital image of the one page of the act from the statute books in the Archives of Nova Scotia is shown at the bottom of this page.

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CHAPTER 175.

An Act to amend Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1896, entitled, “An Act to incorporate the Midland Railway Company, Limited.”

(Passed the 27th day of March, A. D., 1902.)

SECTION.
1. Sec. 1, cap. 85, Acts of 1896, amended.
2. Proviso contained in said sec. 1 repealed.
3. Sec. 1 of said Act further amended.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

[Sec. 1, cap. 85, Acts of 1896, amended.]
1. Section one of Chapter 85, of the Acts of 1896, is amended by adding the following to the end thereof :

“The company is further empowered and authorized to build, construct and maintain a line of railway commencing at Windsor, and running thence westerly to a point on the Halifax and South Western Railway Company, Limited; also from a point on the line of the company’s line now or hereafter to be built or constructed and running thence westerly to a point on the line of railway of the Nova Scotia Central Railway Company, or any extension thereof, or at a point at or near Middleton in the county of Annapolis, also from Truro along the Bay Shore to Parrsboro."

[Proviso contained in said sec. 1 repealed.]
2. The proviso contained in the last seven lines of clause one of the Act hereby amended is repealed.

[Sec. 1 of said Act further amended.]
3. Section one is further amended by inserting after the word “Eastville” in the seventeenth line thereof the following words. to wit: "or such point near Eastville as may be found most practicable or convenient.”

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