Mode in which a com under section 13 of and pay the outstanding debts, settle all its affairs, and divide among the stockholders the money and other property that shall remain after the payment of the debts and necessary expenses. 46. Every company which, before the passage of this Act, shall have pany, having filed filed, under section 13 of the "Companies Act," a certificate, declaration, the "Companies Act" memorandum, or other document, by whatsoever other name the same orandum, may be may be called, containing or setting forth therein those matters and things incorporated under required by the said section to be stated in the certificate in the said a certificate or mem this Act. How other compan der any Act of the tion under this Act. section mentioned, and which shall express its desire to be governed by the provisions of this Act, by a notice in writing under its official seal, and by the consent of a two-thirds majority vote of its stockholders, passed at any meeting called for the purpose of expressing such desire, shall be deemed and taken to have been duly incorporated under Part II of the said Act, and shall be deemed to be duly incorporated under this Act, notwithstanding that the document filed is not, technically speaking, a certificate, and the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies shall, upon the request of any such company, and without payment of any fee, issue, under his hand and seal, to such company a certificate of incorporation, as described in section 5 of this Act, certifying that such company was incorporated on the day when such certificate, declaration, memorandum, or other document as aforesaid was filed, and such certificate of incorporation, when issued, shall be conclusive evidence that all the statutory requirements with respect to registration or incorporation, in force prior to the passage of this Act, have been complied with, and that the company was duly registered and incorporated under the "Companies Act, 1878," or Part II. of the "Companies Act, 1878" (Provincial), as the case may be, as and from the day of the filing of such certificate, declaration, memorandum, or other document, and every company to which this section applies shall be and be deemed to be, as and from the date of its registration, entitled to all the benefits and subject to all the duties imposed by this Act. 47. Whenever any company, other than a company referred to in ies incorporated un- the preceding section, heretofore incorporated, or purported or exProvince or late Col- pressed to have been incorporated under any Act of this Province, or onies may receive either of the late Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, from Registrar a certificate of registra shall have delivered to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies of this Province an official copy of the Act, charter or other document by or under which such company was or was intended to have been incorporated, certified under the hand and seal of a person duly authorized for the purpose, and the certificate (if any) of the incorporation of such company, or an official copy thereof certified as aforesaid, and shall have paid to such Registrar the sum of one hundred dollars, such company shall be entitled to receive from such Registrar a certificate of the registration of the company under this Act. shall be deemed to ated under this Act. 48. When such certificate as aforesaid shall have been delivered to When such certifisuch company, such company shall be deemed to have been incor- cate issued, company porated under this Act, and to have been duly incorporated as from have been incorporthe date at which it was theretofore incorporated, or expressed or intended to have been incorporated; and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence that all the statutory requirements with respect to registration or incorporation, in force prior to the passage of this Act, have been complied with, and that the company was and is duly incorporated. 49. The expressions "calls" and "assessments," wherever mentioned "Calls" and "assessin this Act, shall be construed as controvertible terms. ments" controvertible terms. SCHEDULE A. Table of Fees to be paid to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies by persons forming themselves into a company under this Act: Filing Certificate.. Every search... .$20 00 50 VICTORIA, B. C.: Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. H CHAPTER 7. An Act to amend the " Constitution Act." [26th April, 1890.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows: 1. Section 20 of the "Constitution Act" is hereby amended by Amends sec. 20. striking out the words "twenty-seven" in the first line of the said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words " thirty-three," and by striking out the word "thirteen" in the third line of the said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "eighteen.” 2. Schedule A, annexed to or referred to in the said "Constitution Repeals Schedule A. Act" is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the Schedule A annexed New Schedule A. to this Act, and hereinafter contained, shall be read. 3. Notwithstanding anything in the "Constitution Act," or in any After dissolution of amendment thereto contained, whenever a dissolution of the Legisla- bly, Electoral DisLegislative Assemtive Assembly shall be proclaimed, and from and after such dissolution tricts as constituted by Schedule to this the several Electoral Districts in the Province, as constituted by Act entitled to be reSchedule A to this Act, shall be entitled to be represented in the said presented in Assembly as provided in Legislative Assembly by the number of members severally provided said Schedule. for in the said Schedule A, and such members shall be severally chosen according and subject to the laws for the time being in force relating to members of the said Assembly, and for greater certainty as to the boundaries of the Electoral Districts created or constituted by the said Schedule, reference shall be had to two certain maps or plans of the Mainland of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, respectively, together with the several Islands and dependencies thereof, respectively, now deposited in the Land Office at Victoria, and signed by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the Provincial Secretary, as and being the boundaries of the Electoral Districts comprehended within the "Constitution Act" and amendments thereto. 4. Section 23 of the "Constitution Act" is hereby amended by Amends sec. 23. adding thereto, as sub-section (2), the following: Lieutenant Governor need not name day Assembly is "(2.) It shall not be necessary for the Lieutenant-Governor in to which Legislative proroguing the Legislative Assembly to name any day to which the pro- same is prorogued, nor to issue a formal proclamation for a meeting of clamation for meet the Legislature, unless it is intended that the meeting shall be for ing unless for disdispatch of business." patch of businss. rogued, nor issue pro Short title. 5. This Act may be cited as the Constitution Amendment Act, 1890." Westminster SCHEDULE A. WESTMINSTER ELECTORAL DISTRICT. All that tract of land bounded on the south by the southern boundary of the Province (the 49th parallel of north latitude) to a point about sixty-five miles east from the shore of the Gulf of Georgia, said point being the south-eastern corner of Westminster Electoral District, and the south-western corner of Yale Electoral District; on the east, by a line (being also the western boundary of Yale Electoral District) running north from the said south-eastern corner, crossing Fraser River about eight miles above the mouth of Harrison River, to a distance of about forty-five miles, and thence north-west by north about fifty miles, at an average distance of about ten miles east from the general course of the Douglas Portage, to the north-eastern corner of said District, which is also the north-western corner of Yale Electoral District; on the north by a line (being also the southern boundary, in part, of the Lillooet Electoral District, and, west of Jervis Inlet, the southern boundary of the Coast District) running west from said last named corner, crossing Lillooet Lake at a point about equi-distant from either end, and touching the extreme northern point of Jervis Inlet (which is the south-western corner of Lillooet Electoral District, and the south-eastern corner of the Coast District), about one hundred miles, to the shore of Desolation Sound; and on the west by the Gulf of Georgia, all the Islands in the said Gulf, south of Desolation Sound, which are dependencies of the former Colony of British Columbia, being included in this district; and also all that tract of land bounded on the east by the 124th meridian of west longitude, which is also the western boundary of Cariboo and Lillooet Electoral Districts; on the south by that portion of the northern boundary of Westminster Electoral District which lies west of the said 124th meridian; on the north by the 54th parallel of north latitude; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and the channel dividing Vancouver Island from the Mainland of British Columbia, and including all the Islands to the northward of Desolation Sound, which were dependencies of the former Colony of British Columbia, excepting Queen Charlotte Islands, and other than and except those portions of the said District next hereinafter defined as "New Westminster City Electoral District |