On motion of Mr. Demers (St. John and Iberville), House went into committee to consider the report of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons for the purpose of revising Rule 51 of the House of Commons and Rule 49 of the Senate, and making them agree. (Votes and Proceedings of House of Commons, August 18, 1903.)

Amendment agreed to. On section (b), (b.) When the application is for the purpose of amending anv existing Act : 1. For the extension of any line of railway, or of any canal ? or for the construction of branches thereto :-In the principal city, town or village in each county or district through which such extension or branch is to be constructed. 2. For the extension of the time for the construction or completion of any line or railway, or of any canal, or of any telegraph or telephone line, or of any other works already authorized :-In the place where the head office of the company is, or is authorized to be. 3. For the extension of the power of a company (when not Involving the granting of any exclusive rights) ; or for the increase or reduction of the capital stock of any company ; or for increasing or altering its bonding or other borrowing powers, or for any amendment which would in any way affect the rights or interests of the shareholders or creditors of the company :*-In the place where the head office of the company is situated. All such notices, whether inserted in the ' Canada Gazette ' or in a newspaper, shall he published at least once a week, for a period of five consecutive weeks ; and when , published in the provinces of Quebec and Manitoba, shall be in both the English and French languages ; and marked copies of each issue of all newspapers containing such notice shall be sent to the Clerk of the House, endorsed * Private Bill Notice ' ; or a statutory declaration as to due publication may be sent in lieu thereof.

The MINISTER OF FINANCE (Hon. W. S. Fielding) moved that the House do on Monday next go into Committee of the Whole to consider the following proposed resolutions : That it is expedient to enact as follows :- 1. The Governor in Council may grant a subsidy of $3,200 per mile towards the construction of each of the undermentioned lines of railway (not exceeding in any case the number of miles hereinafter respectively stated) which shall not cost more on the average than $15,000 per mile for the mileage subsidized, and towards the construction of each of the said lines of railway, not exceeding the mileage hereinafter stated, which shall cost more on the average than $15,000 per mile for the mileage subsidized, a further subsidy beyond the sum of $3,200 per mile of fifty per cent on so much of the average cost of the mileage subsidized as is in excess of $15,000 per mile, such subsidy not exceeding in the whole the sum of $6,400 per mile:-

Miles. 1. To the Tilsonburg, Lake Erie and Pacific Railway Company for a line of railway from the present terminus at Ingersoll to Woodstock, not exceeding 9 miles, in lieu of subsidy granted by chapter 7 of 1899, item 26 of section 2 92. To the Lindsay, Bobcaygeon and Pontypool Railway Company for a line of railway from Burketo® to Bobcaygeon, not exceeding 40 miles, in lieu of the subsidy granted by chapter 7 of 1899, item 11 of section 2 403. To the Toronto, Lindsay and PembrokeRailway Company for a line of railway from Golden Lake to Bancroft, not exceeding 51 miles, in lieu of subsidy granted by chapter 7 of 1901, item 6 of section 2 514. To the Central Ontario Railway for a further extension of its railway from a point at or near Bancroft to a point on the Canada Atlantic Railway at or near Whitney, not exceeding 40 miles, in lieu of subsidies granted by chapter S of 1900. item. 5 of section 2, and chapter 7 of 1901, item 16 of section 2. respectively 40 5. To the Strathroy and Western Counties Railway Company for a line of railway from a point at or near Caradoc Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway to Strathroy and from Strathroy northerly to Forest, Thedford or Park-hill, not exceeding in all 31 miles, in lieu of subsidies granted by chapter 7 of 1899, item 4 of section 2, and chapter 8 of 1900, item 2 of section 2, respectively 31 6. To the Montfort and Gatineau Colonization Railway Company to extend its railway from Arundel to a point in the municipality of the United Townships of Preston and Hartwell, not exceeding 30 miles, in lieu of subsidy granted by chapter 8 of 1900, item 31 of section 2 307. For a line of railway from Jonquifires to La Bale des Ha Ha, not exceeding 20 miles, in lieu of subsidy of 12 miles granted by chapter 7 of 1899, item 21 of section 2 208. For a line of railway from Lime Ridge northerly through the county of Wolfe into the county of Megantic, not exceeding 50 miles, being a revote of subsidy granted by chapter 4 of 1894 50 9. For a line of railway from Joliette to or near Lake Mar'vn, a distance not ex-ceding 60 miles, being a revote and in lieu of subsidies granted by chapter 4 of 1897 and chapter 8 of 1900.. 60 10. For a line of railway from St. Eustache to St. Placide in the county of Two Mountains, not to exceed 18 miles ; from St. Eustache to Sault au Recollet, 12 miles; and from St. Placide to St. Andrews. 8 miles, not exceeding in all 38 miles, being a revote of subsidies granted by chapter 24 of 1887 and chapter 5 of 1892, respectively.. 38

. Miles. 11. For a line of railway from Roberval westward towards James Bay, not exceeding 60 miles, in lieu of subsidy granted by chapter 7 of 1901, item 25 of section 2 60 12. For a line of railway from Yamaska to LotbiniOre, a distance not exceeding 70 miles, in lieu of the subsidy granted by chapter 7 of 1899, Item 27 of section 2 70 13. To the Ottawa, Northern and 'Western Railway Company for that portion of its line from a point at the east end of the Hull station yard of the Canadian Pacific Railway to a point of junction with the Interprovincial bridge approach in the city of Hull, not exceeding one mile; and for a line of railway into and through the city of Hull from a point on the Ottawa and Gatineau Railway, now the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway, not exceeding 4 miles, in lieu of the subsidies granted by chapter 7 of 1899, section 2. items 12 and 39 respectively ,. A. 5 14. To the International Railway Company of New Brunswick (formerly the Res-tigouche and Western Railway Company), for a line of railway from the western end of the ten miles of its railway, as already constructed from Campbeilton towards a point on the St. John river between Grand Falls and Edmundston, not exceeding 67 miles, being a revote, and in lieu of subsidies granted by chapter 4 of 1897, chapter 7 of 1899, item 42 of section 2 and chapter 8 of 1900, item 22 of section 2 67 15. For a line of railway from Woodstock to the International boundary, not exceeding 26 miles, being a revote of the subsidy granted by chapter 4 of 1894 26 16. To the St. John Valley Railway Company for a line of railway from a point on the Canadian Pacific Railway at or near Welford or Westfield or between said two points to Gage-town. not exceeding 30 miles, being a revote of the subsidy granted by chapter 4 of 1897 3017. To the Shediac and Coast Railway Company for a line of railway from Shediac to Sheonogue and towards Cape Tormentine. in Westmoreland county, not exceeding 38 miles, in lieu of subsidy granted by chapter 8 of 1900, item 25 of section 2 3818. To the Mabou and Gulf Railway Company, Limited, for a line of railway from Mabou Coal Mines to a point at or near Glendyer, thence to Orange-dale on the Intercolonial Railway, not exceeding 34 miles, a revote of subsidy granted by chapter 4 of 1894, and in substitution of the 25 miles subsidized thereby from Orangedale toBroad Cove.. ., 34

30. For a line of railway from Hawkesbury, Ontario, to South Indian, not exceeding 35 miles, in lieu of subsidy granted by chapter 7 of 1899, item 22 of section 2 3531. To the Tilsonburg. Lake Erie and Pacific Railway Company for a line of railway from Woodstock northerly to a point on the Grand Trunk Railway at Berlin, or from Ingersoll to Stratford, or to any point on the Grand Trunk Railway between these places, not exceeding 35 miles, being in addition to. and continuation of the nine miles mentioned in item one of this section 35 Miles. 35. To the Thunder Bay, Nepigon and St. Joe Railway Company for a line of railway from Port Arthur northeasterly, not exceeding 50 miles.. 50 36. To the Temagami Railway Company for a line of railway from a point at or near Sturgeon Falls in a northwesterly direction to a point on the westerly shore of Lake Temagami in the district of Nipissing, not exceeding 50 miles 50 37. To the Bay of Quints Railway Company for further extension of its line of railway, from the northern terminus thereof, commencing from a point at or near Actinolite. thence in a northwesterly direction via the villages of Queensborough and Bannockburn to a point in the township of Marmora or lake in Hastings county, not exceeding 20 miles in all 20 38. To the Bruce Mines and Algoma Railway Company for a line of railway from the end of its line, as subsidized by chapter 7 of 1901, northerly, not exceeding 19 miles ; and for a line of railway from Bruce Mines to Bruce Mines junction, not exceeding 2 miles. 21 39. To the James Bay Railway Company for a line of railway from Toronto, via the east side of Lake Simcoe, Parry Sound and Sudbury, towards. James Bay, not exceeding 265 miles, in lieu of two subsidies granted by chapter 8 of 1900, of 35 and 20 miles respectively, from Parry Sound towards James Bay 265 40. To the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway Company for one mile of railway from Roberval to the government wharf at Lake St. John 141. To the Montfort and Gatineau Colonization Railway Company for the extension of its line of railway from Morin Flats to St. JerOme to connect with the Great Northern Railway, not exceeding 22 miles 2242. To the Interprovincial and James BayRailw-ay Company for a line of railway from Lake Temiscamingue at the present terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway line, in a northerly direc-* tion. not to exceed 50 miles 5032. To the Irondale, Bancroft and OttawaRailway Company for a line of railway from the present terminus of its railway, near Bancroft, easterly to a point at or near Renfrew, not exceeding 75 miles 7533. To the Nepigon Railway Company for a line of railway from Lake Superior to Lake Nepigon, and from a point on the North Shore of Lake Nepigon northerly, not exceeding 80 miles.. 80 34. To the Manitoulin and North Shore Railway Company for a line of railway from Little Current on its present line, to Sudbury, and thence towards the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, not exceeding 30 miles, in lieu of the subsidy of 21 miles granted by chapter 7 of 1899, item 38 of section 2 30 43. For a line of railway from Waltham station to Ferguson Point, in the county of Pontiac, not exceeding 20 miles.. 20 44. For a line of railway from Lake Nominingue to La LiOvre, not exceeding 35 miles 35 45. For a line of railway in extension of the line from Lime Ridge into the county of Megantic to the bridge over the St. Lawrence at or near Quebec, not exceeding 30 miles 30 46. To the Quebec Central Railway Company for an extension of its line of railway from St. Francois to St. George, not exceeding 9 miles ; also for a railway from Scott Junction to the Quebec bridge, not exceeding 22 miles 31