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An act in addition 20 and IN amendment OF an act
to incorporate the Vt. & Canada Railroad Co.
IS hTe5V enacted By the General assembly of
The State Of Vermont as foH0tcs
Sec. /. Section two Of the charter Of the Yer
mont 4 Canada Railroad Company, approved Oct.
81, 1915, is hereby so amended that it shall read
as follows:
"If said company shall not within five years,
commence the construction Of the road, and shall
not within eighteen years next after the 3lst day
Of October, A. d lS45, complete and put in oper-
ton said road from a point in the village OF Bur
llngton most convenient to connect at said village
Of Burlington with the Railroad running s1uther-
ly from said village, now called the Rutland Il
Burlington Railroad, connecting such s0utherly
road by a line Of said Vermont d Canada Rail-
road running from the most convenient point Of
connection in slid village of Burlington. with
said Rutland and Burlington road, and thence 20
connect with the present track Of the Vermont &
Canada Railroad at the most suitable and proper
point, thus connecting said southern line, as vol
as the Vermont Central line, by the NEST conyen-
lent and direct route, with the northern terminus
Of the said Vermont and Canada Railroad, then
this corporation shall cease and the charter thereof
be void"
Sec. .. The foregoing amendment of said
charter, and the extension Of five years beyond
the time originally given by said charter, for the
completion Of said road, is granted upon the cx-
press condition, that said Company conform %
and obey. the following acquisitions and provis-
ions as well as the other provisions of this act,
namely;
That said company shall within eighteen months
after the passage Of this act, construct and finish a
Railroad. from the most convenient point Of con-
ncction on the lake shore in said village Of Bur
lington with said Rutl. I'D and Burlington Rail-
road, thence n~ortherly and easterly through the
sand bank. 50 called, as near as practicable to the
route OF the Vermont Central Railroad as origin
ally surveyed and partly worked, 20 a point Of
junction with the present line Of the Vermont
Central at or near the railroad bridge NJ Wlncoski
over the WinoOski river, and that said company
shall within five years from the 3lst Of October
lsJs, complete and put in operation Its road so as
to make one continuous line Of said road from such
point Of connection in the village Of Burlington
70 the northern terminus of the Vermont and Can
ada Railroad; that said road when SO completed
shall be forever run and operated over said exten-
sion so as 10 put said Rutland and Burlington Rail-
road upon an equal footing in respect 70 the con-
venient transportation Of freight and passengers.
and tho charges therefor over and upon said Yer
mont and Canada Railroad, each way and in
connection Herewith, with the Vermont Central
line, subject in case Of disagreement to the decis-
ion Of the commissioners mentioned in the fifteenth
section Of the charter Of the Vermont and Canada
Railroad Company that all passengers passing
from Burlington over the extension to be built,
and over said Vermont and Canada Railroad, TO
the northern terminus of the last named
AN1AF Va W II ENlNAAAH
and all passengers passing over the same roads
from said northern terminus, or from any Of said
intermediate stations to said Burlington, shall be
carried without delay and without change Of cars
except in case Of accidental or other casualty =
that until said Vermont and Canada Railroad shall
connect with said Rutland & Burlington Railroad
as hereinbefore provided, said Vermont & Canada
Railroad shall so far as it has, or hereafter may
have the legal right, give to said Rutland & Bur-
lington the same rights, privileges and advanta-
ses 10 and from Burlington, over the Vermont
Central Railroad to and from Essex Junction, and
thence over the Vermont & Canada Railroad to
and from Bouses Point, as j, conferred upon said
Rutland & Burlington line, by the name Of the
Champlain and Connecticut River Railroad CON-
pany, over said Vermont & Canada, by the IF
tenth Section Of the act incorporating said Yer
mont g. Canada Railroad Company, and in case Of
disagreement, all questions in relation thereto,
shall be determined by Commissioner and the
Supreme Court on their report according to the
provisions Of said fifteenth section.
Sec. 3. Ifsaid Vermont g. Canada kailroai
Company shall not by a legal vote of its Directors
duly passed and filed with the Secretary Of State,
accept this act within six months, next after the
passage thereof, or if it shall fail to perform and
fulfil all the requirements, conditions and pro-
visions ofthis act, in either case said Company
~shalEtake no benefit Of any of the provisions there
of.
See. 4. This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.