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NEW BRIDGE ACROSS NIAGARA RIVER

Application for Charter

[People’s Press, 12 January 1909]

Notice is given that an application will be made to the Parliament of Canada, for an act to incorporate the Fort Erie and Buffalo Bridge Company with power to construct, maintain and operate a general traffic highway over and across the Niagara River, beginning at a point on the Niagara River within the corporate limits of the village of Fort Erie and extending to a point on the United States side of the river at or near Ferry street in the city of Buffalo, and with power to amalgamate with a company to be incorporated for similar purposes by the legislature of the State of New York of The United States of America, and with power to charge tolls for crossing and re-crossing the said bridge, and to operate over and across said railway bridge an electric railway line.

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