18. The joint stock and property of the Corporation shall be alone responsible for the debts and engagements of the Company, except as provided by the Sixteenth Section. 19. The existence of the Corporation may be proved by the production of the Royal Gazette containing the notice of the filing of the Memorandum of Association, or the Certificate of the Provincial Secretary. 20. A fee of fourteen dollars shall be paid to the Provincial Secretary for filing the Memorandum of Association and granting and publishing the certificate, and a fee of sixteen dollars for filing the certificate of payment. 21. Any number of stockholders who may be owners of one quarter of the capital stock of any such Company, may call a general meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of dissolving the said Company, giving at least three months notice in the Royal Gazette, and any newspaper published in the County where the place of business of such Company is established, of the time and place of such meeting, with the object thereof; and if at such meeting it is determined to dissolve the said Company, the stockholders are hereby empowered to take the necessary legal means to effect that object; the Directors then in office shall take immediate and effectual measures for closing all the concerns of the Corporation, and for paying the debts, and disposing of the property, and dividing the capital and property, which may remain,among the stockholders, in proportion to their respective interests. PART III.-INCREASE OF CAPITAL BY MEMORANDUM. 22. Any Company incorporated under and by virtue of Part Second of this Chapter, or said Chapter 28 of twenty fifth Victoria, may increase the capital stock of such Company, and the number of shares into which the stock may be divided, by filing in the Office of the Provincial Secretary a memorandum of increase of capital stock of the said Company, sigued by the President and Secretary, and under the corporate seal of the said Company. 23. The memorandum of increase of capital stock of the said Company shall be in form following, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit of, viz:- Memorandum of increase of Capital Stock of the (1) The Company. Company was, by memorandum of association aud certificate thereof, and publication of such certificate in the Royal Gazette, bearing date the , duly incorporated under twenty fifth Victoria, Chapter 28, (or as the case may be.) day of A. D. (3) The said Company is desirous of increasing the capital stock of said Company to the amount above named.— Dated the day of A. D. 18. 24. The Provincial Secretary may grant a Certificate of such increased capital stock as near as may be in the form following, or as near as circumstances will admit of: These are to certify that the Company, incorpo , has rated by Certificate in the Royal Gazette of this day filed in my Office a memorandum of increase of capital stock of the said Company, to the full amount of , being an increase in the capital stock of $ such increased capital stock to be divided into shares of $ $ each. Dated at Fredericton the day of , A D. 18 J. J. F., Provincial Secretary. 25. The Provincial Secretary shall give notice in the Royal Gazette of the granting of the Certificate mentioned in the last preceding Section, with the terms thereof. 26. Upon the granting such last mentioned certificate,and the publication thereof in the Royal Gazette, the said Company shall have power so to increase its capital stock. 27. The fees on filing the memorandum and for granting and publishing the certificate under Part III. of this Chapter, shall be the same as specified in Part II. of this Chapter. 28. All provisions of Part II. of this Chapter referring to liability of stockholders for calls and the transfer of stock, and to the liability of the joint stock and property of the Corporation for debts and engagements of the said Corporation, shall have full force and effect with reference to the additional capital stock issued under Part III. of this Chapter, as if such increased capital stock had been taken and subscribed at the formation of said Corporation. ex officio Councillors. Meetings of County Council. 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When orders for assessment may be made by Council. 109 Contingencies of County; assessment for, how ordered. 110 Parishes indebted to Municipality, assessment may be ordered for amount, in whole or in part, on Parish; Warrant therefor. Salaries to County Officers, out of what fund paid. Allowance to Sheriff, out of what fund paid. What other amounts chargeable to Contingent Fund. 112 113 114 Allowance to special Constables, how paid. 115 116 Council may offer reward for ap- County Property. County may order assessment for building or repairing County buildings; assessment, how paid. County may assess for erection of building with Safes, for safe keeping of Records,&c.; amount. Council may enter into contracts for erection, &c. of such Public Building. Buildings erected under Section 118, to what use applied. |