Correspondence Relating to the Inter-Colonial Railway: Laid Before the Legislature by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor : (in His Continuation of Correspondence Laid Before the Legislature in 1863). |
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A. H. Gordon abandonment acknowledge the receipt agreed agreement entered agreement of 1862 approval arrangement Arthur Gordon ARTHUR H assent bear five-twelfths British Government Brunswick and Nova Canadian Cabinet Canadian Delegates Canadian Government Colonial Railway Committee communicated consideration considered construction convention Council of Canada desire Dorion Downing Street Duke of Newcastle Enclosure engagement Excellency the Viscount Excellency's advisers Excellency's Despatch Executive Council expense expressed Fleming Fredericton further Government of Canada Government of Nova Grace the Duke honor to acknowledge honor to enclose honor to transmit Honorable Arthur Imperial Government Imperial guarantee important Inter-Colonial Railroad intimation legislation Lieutenant Governor LORD DUKE,-I Lord Monck Lower Provinces Majesty's Government Memorandum ment Minute Mulgrave negotiations in England Nova Scotia October opinion Parliament parties preliminary Survey proposed Inter-Colonial Railway proposed loan proposed Survey proposition Quebec agreement question repudiation Secretary September 1862 Sicotte Signed Sinking Fund three Governments three Provinces undertaking Viscount Monck
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Page 36 - I have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of a Despatch which I have addressed to...
Page 41 - Copy of a report of a Committee, of the Honorable the Executive Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the llth May, 1866.
Page 19 - Majesty's government could undertake to recommend to Parliament must be determined by the particulars of any scheme which the Provincial governments may be disposed to found on the present proposal, and on the kind of security which they would offer. I fear that this course will not be so acceptable to the Provincial governments as that which the delegates were authorized to propose for consideration. It is, however, the only one in which Her Majesty's government, after anxious deliberation, feel...
Page 19 - ... an Imperial guarantee of interest towards " enabling them to raise by public loan, if they should desire" it, at a moderate rate, the requisite funds for constructing
Page 13 - September 23, 1864. Sir, I have the honour to transmit a copy of an approved Minute of the Executive Council of Canada, requesting me to invite the Governments of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, to send Representatives to a conference with the Ministers of Canada, at Quebec, to be held for the purpose of considering the question of the Union of these Provinces, and to digest a practical...
Page 50 - ... end of the decade. This amount, when remitted, to be invested as in the preceding decade. Should the sinking fund of any decade produce a surplus, it will go to the credit of the next decade. And in the last decade the sinking fund will be remitted or reduced accordingly. It is of course understood that the assent of the Treasury to these arrangements presupposes adequate proof of the sufficiency of the Colonial revenues to meet the charges intended to be imposed upon them. 6. The construction...
Page 30 - Atlantic and the westermost parts of Canada, and to assist the Provinces in a scheme which would so materially promote their interests, Her Majesty's Government are willing to offer to the Provincial Governments an Imperial guarantee of interest towards enabling them to raise by public loan, if they should desire it, at a moderate rate, the requisite funds for constructing the Railway.
Page 16 - I have the honor to transmit for Your Grace's information, a copy of a letter which I caused Mr.
Page 17 - Fitting provision to be made for carriage of troops. 9. Parliament not to be asked for this guarantee until the line and surveys shall have been submitted to and approved of by Her Majesty's Government, and until it shall have been shown to the satisfaction of Her Majesty's Government that the line can be constructed without further application for an Imperial guarantee.
Page 35 - TRANSMIT herewith, for your Excellency's information, a copy of a despatch which I have...