Retirement of
Directors.

Proviso: Di

rectors may be re-elected.

Failure to hold meeting

not to operate dissolution of Corporation.

When the

Plaintiff or Complainant, or any other party, to cause process to be served at the office of the said Corporation in the City of Montreal, or personally upon the President, or on any one of the Directors, or on the Secretary of the said Corporation, at any other place; and provided that at the first meeting of the Directors to be elected as aforesaid, holden after the passing of this Act, the said Directors shall choose and elect from among themselves, some one to be President, and also some one to be Vice-President of the said Corporation.

XV. And be it enacted, That at the first General Meeting of the Shareholders, and at the Annual General Meeting in each year thereafter, all the Directors shall retire from office, and their places shall be filled as provided in the next preceding section: Provided always, that all Directors retiring at any time shall be eligible for re-election, and the Directors immediately after the election at each Annual Meeting shall choose one of their own number to be President.

XVI. And be it enacted, That the failure to hold the said first General Meeting or any other meeting, or to elect such Directors or President shall not dissolve the said Corporation, but such failure or omission shall and may be supplied by and at any special Meeting to be called as the Directors, in conformity with the By-laws of the said Corporation, may see fit to appoint, and until such election of new Directors, those who may be in office for the time being shall be and continue in office and exercise all the rights and powers thereof until such new election be made, as hereinbefore provided.

XVII. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the said Corporation to Company may commence or proceed with their operations under this Act, unless they shall have first paid up the sum of ten per cent. on the amount of their capital stock.

commence

business.

Interpretation clause.

Rights of Her Majesty and others saved.

Public Act.

XVIII. And be it enacted, That the word "Lands" in this Act shall include all lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and real or immoveable property whatsoever; and all words importing the singular number or the masculine gender only shall extend to more than one person, party or thing, and to females as well as males, and the word "Shareholder" shall include the heirs, executors, administrators, curators, legatees or assigns of such Shareholder, or any other party having the legal possession of any share, whether in his own name or that of any other, unless the context shall be inconsistent with such construction; and whenever power is by this Act given to do anything, power shall be intended also to do all things which may be necessary to the doing of such thing; and generally all words and clauses herein shall receive such liberal and fair construction as will best ensure the carrying into effect of this Act according to its true intent and spirit.

XIX. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner derogate from or affect the rights of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, or of any person or persons, body politic or corporate, excepting so far as the same may be specially derogated from or affected by the provisions of this Act.

XX. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed a Public Act, and as such judicially noticed by all Judges, Justices and others whom it shall concern, without being specially pleaded.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE A.

FORM OF PROXY.

"I, A. B., of

hereby appoint C. D. of

to be Form of

my Proxy, and to vote and act for me as such at all Meetings of the Shareholders of The Echo Lake Mining Company, and in my name to do all things with regard to "the business of the said Company, which I may, by law, do by Proxy."

"Witness my hand, this

day of

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Proxy.

A. B."

SCHEDULE B.

FORM OF TRANSFER.

Transfer.

"I, A. B., for value received, do hereby bargain, sell and transfer to C. D. Form of share (or shares) of the Stock of The Echo Lake Mining Company, to hold to him the said C. D. his heirs, executors, curators, administrators " and assigns, subject to the same rules and orders, and on the same conditions that I "held the same immediately before the execution hereof. And I, the said C. D. do hereby agree and accept of the said

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share (or shares,)

A. B.

C. D."

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE Desbarats,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

An Act to incorporate The New City Gas Company of Mont: cal. .

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28th July, 1847. ]

HEREAS the great and increasing extent of the City of Montreal, and the Preamble. great demand for a cheap and effective mode of lighting the Public Squares, Streets and Places in the said City, as well as the Shops and private Dwellings therein, render it desirable that more than one Company should be established for the purpose of furnishing Gas for the lighting of the said City; And whereas the several persons hereinafter named, have by their petition prayed that they and such others as may be hereafter associated with them in their undertaking, may be incorporated under the style and title hereinafter also mentioned, for the purpose of supplying the said City with Gas in greater quantity, of better quality, and at a cheaper rate, than the same hath heretofore been supplied; And whereas the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Montreal, have signified their assent to the establishment of the said Company, and to their having the powers hereinafter given them with regard to the opening of the streets and other matters connected with the establishment, locality and construction of these works; And whereas a considerable proportion of the shares of stock of the said Company hath been already subscribed for, and at a General Meeting of the holders of such stock, held on the eighth day of the month of May, in the present year, pursuant to public notice given in that behalf, the following persons were duly elected as Directors to manage the affairs of the said Company for one year from the date of such election: namely, John Mathewson, William Lunn, James Ferrier, David Kinnear, Dugald Stewart, Alexander Urquhart, Archibald McFarlane, Thomas Molson, Joseph Savage, James Scott, George D. Watson, Henry Mulholland, and Canfield Dorwin; and at a subsequent meeting of the Directors above mentioned, they did from among their own number elect the said John Mathewson to be President, and the said William Lunn to be Vice-President of the said Company; and the said Petitioners desire that the above named Directors, President and VicePresident should continue in office and be confirmed as such Directors, President and Vice-President, until others shall be elected in their stead under the provisions hereinafter made; And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said Petitioners: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada,

Certain persons incorpo

rated.

Corporate name and powers.

and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Mathewson, Thomas Molson, William Lunn, James Ferrier, David Kinnear, Joseph Savage, George D. Watson, William Molson, William Parkyn, Johnston Thompson, Andrew Dow, George McDonald, Miles Williams, Carter, Robinson and Company, John Armour, James Scott, Archibald Macfarlane, Canfield Dorwin, Dugald Stewart, Alexander Simpson, Thomas Kay, David Torrance, Thomas H. Bryson, John Eadie, William Murray, Robert Campbell, Alexander Urquhart, and Henry Mulholland, or such of them, and such other persons as now are, or shall hereafter become Shareholders in the Company hereby established, shall be, and are hereby ordained and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of The New City Gas Company of Montreal, and by that name they and their successors being such Shareholders, shall and may have perpetual succession and a common seal, with full power to make, change, break or alter the same at pleasure; and shall and may by the same name, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all Courts and places whatsoever, and shall and may have full power to purchase, take and hold personal property, and lands, tenements and other real property for the purposes of the said Company, and for the erection, construction and convenient use of the Gas Works hereinafter mentioned, and also to alienate such personal property, lands and other property, and others to purchase, take and hold in their stead, for the purposes and uses aforesaid; and that any person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate may give, grant, sell, bargain or convey to the said Company any lands, tenements or hereditaments for the purposes aforesaid, and the same may re-purchase from the said Company: Provided always, that such lands, tenements and hereditaments to be holden by the said Company, shall be so holden for the purposes and business of the said Company, as set company may forth in this Act, and for constructing their necessary works for and about the same, and for no other purposes whatsoever; and that the total yearly value of the lands and real property to be so holden at any one time, shall not (over and above the value of the works thereon erected) exceed one thousand pounds currency.

Property.

Proviso: for

what purposes and to what value the

hold real property.

Capital of the
Company.

Increase allowed if necessary.

II. And be it enacted, That the said Company may raise and contribute among themselves, such sum as shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds currency, in shares of ten pounds currency each; and the money so raised shall be appropriated to the purpose of constructing, completing and maintaining their said Gas Works, and to the purposes of this Act, and to no other object or purpose whatever: Provided always, that if the said sum of twenty-five thousand pounds currency should be found insufficient for the purposes of this Act, it shall be lawful for the said Company to increase their Capital Stock by a further sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand pounds currency, either among themselves or by the admission of new shareholders, such new stock being divided into shares of ten pounds currency each: ProPower to bor- vided also, that in the event of difficulty arising in procuring subscribers for such increase of capital, it shall be lawful for the President and Directors, for the time then being, of the said Company, to borrow a sum or sums of money, for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand pounds currency, and to pledge and hypothecate the property and income of the said Company for the re-payment of the sum so borrowed and the interest thereon.

row and

pledge their property.

Present Directors and Officers con

III. And be it enacted, That the President, Vice-President, and Directors hereinbefore named, shall continue in office until the first Monday in March, in the year of

our