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     An Act to enable the Government to secure 
     
    
   
   
    
     Telegraphic Communication. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     E it enacted by the Administrator of the 
     
     Government, Council and Assembly, as 
     
     follows :—- 
     
    

    
     I. If the New York, Newfoundland and 
     
     London Telegraph Company shall, on or before 
     
     the First day of July next, lay down, in pro- 
     
     per working order, a new submarine Telegra- 
     
     phic Cable across the St'aits of Northumber- 
     
     land, so as to connect this Island with the 
     
     Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 
     
     and the continent of America generally, that is 
     
     to say, at or near Capes Traverse and Tormen- 
     
     tine, respectively, or at some convenient points 
     
     on each side of the said Straits, and shall open 
     
     offices and provide operators at Capes Traverse 
     
     and Tormentine, or some other convenient 
     
     point on each side of the Straits, to the satis- 
     
     faction and approval of the Government of this 
     
     Island, then so long after the completion of 
     
     such Telegraphic communication and connection 
     
     as before mentioned as the said New York, 
     
     Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company 
     
     shall maintain a regular telegraphic communi- 
     
     cation be ween this Island and the Provinces 
     
     of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and the 
     
     continent of America generally, and shall, 
     
     likewise, during the same period, at the costs 
     
     and charges of the said Company, build, erect 
     
     and maintain telegraph offices and stations at 
     
     either end of the electric cable connecting this 
     
     Island with the Provinces of New Brunswick 
     
     and Nova Scotia and the continent of America 
     
     generally, that is to say, at Capes Traverse 
     
     and Tormentine, reapectively, and shall, like- 
     
     wise, maintain and provide preperly qualified 
     
     ope ‘ators at the said stations for the purpose of 
     
     transmitting intelligence from and to this 
     
     Island, and to the Post Offices in Charlottetown 
     
     and Summerside, respectively, at the same 
     
     rates and charges, as regards the transmission 
     
     of inland messages between one office and 
     
     another in Prince Edward Island, as heretofore 
     
     charged by the Company, and at a rate not ex- 
     
     ceeding fifty cents additional on former charges 
     
     on messages passing out and into this Island 
     
     through the submarine cable, and in the ordi- 
     
     nary proportiim for any additional number of 
     
     words in each message, and, also, in the event 
     
     of any of the people or the Government of this 
     
     Island erecting good and sufficient posts, free 
     
     of costs to the said Company, for an extension 
     
    
   
   
    
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     of the land line to Cascumpec or Alberton, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     said Company do furnish the wires and insula- 
     
     tors therefor and perfect telegraphic com- 
     
     munication to Cascumpec or Alberton, as the 
     
     case may be, and maintain said lines in preper 
     
     Working order, and also keep up and maintain 
     
     telegraphic offices and stations and operators at 
     
     Charlottetown, Summerside and Cascumpec or 
     
     Alberton for the transmission of messages, there 
     
     shall be paid to the said Company, from the 
     
     public Treasury of this Island, the sum 
     
     of six hundred pounds of lawful current 
     
     money of the said Island, in lieu of any 
     
     former contract, by half-yearly payments, and 
     
     for such sum the Lieutenant Governor, or other 
     
     Administrator of the Government of this Island, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     'for the time being, shall draw Warrants in 
     
     favor of the Company on the Treasurer of this 
     
    
   
   
    
     IIsland in the usual manner. 
     
    

    
     II. All the rights, privileges, profits and 
     
     monopolies, with respect to extending, erect— 
     
     ing, maintaining and building the said lines of 
     
     telegraphic communication within this Island, 
     
     or in connection with it externally, or of 
     
     erecting, maintaining and building any other 
     
     telegraphic line or communication in any other 
     
     part of Island, or between any two or more 
     
     points therein, or between any point or points 
     
     therein and any other point outside of this 
     
     Island, and all other rights, privileges, profits 
     
     and monopolies given to or conferred upon the 
     
     said Company, by the Act of the General As- 
     
     sembly of this Island, of the seventeenth Vic- 
     
     toria, Chapter four, are hereby confirmed, 
     
     restored and given to the said Company. 
     
    

    
     III. Any other person or persons, besides the 
     
     said Company,‘who, under the sanction ofthe Lieu- 
     
     tenant Governor, or other Administrator of the 
     
     Government of this Island, in Council, shall un— 
     
     dertake or be employed or engaged in the erecting 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     mentioned, for an extension ofthe land telegraphic 
     
     lines or communication to Alberton or Cascum- 
     
     ,pec, or to any other point or points in this 
     
    
   
   
    
     telegraphic posts, asin aformersection of this Act 
     
    
   
   
    
     Island, shall, in so doing, have all the rights, 
     
    
   
   
    
     protections and privileges given to and enjoyed 
     
    
   
   
    
     by the said Company under the provisions of 
     
     the said Act of the seventeenth Victoria, 
     
     Chapter four. 
     
    

    
     IV. In'case of the failure of the said Com- 
     
     pany to perform, keep up and maintain the 
     
     telegraphic communications aforesaid, it shall 
     
     be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor, or other 
     
     Administrator of the Government, for the time 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     being, in Council, to contract with any person