CHAP. 38. Names of Subscribers. A. B. Bums Subscribed. B. District number One shall include the City and County of Halifax. District number Two shall include the counties of Kings, Annapolis and Digby. District number Three shall include the counties of Lunenburg, Queens, Shelburne and Yarmouth. District number Four shall include the counties of Hants, Colchester and Cumberland. District number Five shall include the counties of Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough. District number Six shall include the counties of Cape Breton, Richmond, Inverness and Victoria. Agricultural corporations, how organized. association for lands. CHAPTER 38. OF AGRICULTURAL AND LAND CORPORATIONS. 1. Whenever twenty persons or more shall raise forty dollars per annum or upwards, to be applied for the im provement of agriculture, they shall thereupon become a corporate body by such name as they shall think fit, with all the privileges and obligations in the Chapter "Of General Provisions respecting Corporations" but such privileges shall continue only so long as there are twenty members or more in the society, and as they shall annually, raise the sum of forty dollars at the least, and apply it for the improvement of local agriculture. Formation of an 2. Whenever any British subjects desire to form an improvement of association for the purchase and improvement of crown lands on the lines of the trunk line of railroad from Halifax to Quebec, they may transmit the names of such per sons, not less than twenty, as they wish to represent them, to the commissioner of lands and emigration, to be trans- CHAP. 38. Imitted to the Lieutenant-Governor of this Province; who shall thereupon, if, with the advice of Council, it be determined to invest such persons with corporate powers, direct their names to be inserted in the Royal Gazette, and a patent to issue clothing such persons and their co-partners with the privileges and legal liabilities of a corporation, upon the following terms, subject to such restrictions as may by the Governor in Council be deemed necessary: First. The name of the company and the names of its directors to be lodged in the office of the Provincial Secretary, with an impression of its common seal. Second.-The directors to be liable to the whole extent of their fortunes for the debts of the company, being vested with power to sue and be sued in their corporate capacity. Third.-The shareholders to be liable only to the extent of their shares. Fourth.-The company to purchase fifty thousand acres of crown lands on the line of railroad at such price as may be determined upon by the Governor in Council; with power to purchase any further quantity, when one-half of the original purchase has been sold and settled. Fifth. The lands to be laid off in lots of one hundred acres at the expense of the Government, and numbered on the plans from one to five hundred, it being provided in the general grant, that every lot on which there is not a dwelling house actually occupied, and at least five acres of land cleared and improved, at the end of ten years from the date of its purchase, shall revert to the Crown and become a part of the public domain, upon a declaration of the Governor in Council to that effect, without office found. Sixth.-Where the lands purchased are in one block, and are not included in any township, they shall be formed into a township; and the inhabitants whenever they shall number one hundred heads of families shall be invested by law with all the privileges of township organization. Seventh.-The capital of the company shall be limited to two hundred thousand dollars, but may be increased by four dollars for every acre of land purchased from the Provincial Government above the quantity specified in the fourth condition. Privileges, lia-] strictions of the bilities and re company. 3. The company shall have power over such lands as Power of comthey shall purchase, over mines not subject to legal reser. pany over land. vations, over the standing timber, mill sites and water privileges; and may lay off and sell such lands in town lots or blocks of less or more than one hundred acres, at their option, and for the general advantage. Company may CHAP. 39. 4. The company may enter into contracts with any commissioners appointed to construct so much of the railcontract for rail- way as will run through the lands purchased, and to work and repair such railway after it is made; but no greater amount shall be charged for the construction and working of such sections of the railway than is paid for constructing and working other portions of the line. ways running through their lands. Bureau of Agriculture. Bureau of Agriculture may establish "Farmer's Clubs." Notice of forma tion of "Farmer's Clubs." Election of officers. Fees for mem- actions and pre CHAPTER 39. OF FARMERS' CLUBS. 1. The Central Board of Agriculture for the purposes of this Chapter shall be called the "Bureau of Agricul ture," to be governed and controlled as at present constituted. 2. The Bureau of Agriculture may establish one or more societies in the different counties of Nova Scotia, to be called "Farmers' Clubs," for the purpose of mutual agricultural and horticultural improvement. 3. Any number of persons not less than fifteen, may organize and form themselves into a Farmers' Club for any county or district in a county, by signing a declaration in the form in the Schedule to this Chapter, to be addressed to the Bureau of Agriculture. Such declaration shall be in duplicate, signed by the persons aforesaid, one part thereof to be held and filed with the secretary after his election, and the other to be filed with the Secretary of the Bureau of Agriculture. 4. The officers of the club so formed shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, to be elected by a majority of the club, who, with one other member to be chosen, shall constitute a standing committee. All such officers shall be elected annually. 5. The fee for membership shall be two dollars a year. 6. It shall be the duty of such clubs to keep a record record of trans- of their respective transactions, to prepare statistics in all pare statistics. the branches of agricultural and horticultural industry in their several counties, and to publish in such manner and form as to secure the widest circulation in the Province among the clubs and agricultural societies, and farmers. generally, all such reports, essays, lectures, and other useful information as such clubs may respectively procure and adjudge suitable for publication. pare papers for 7. The Bureau of Agriculture shall from time to time CHAP. 39. prepare papers for the consideration of the clubs, to em- Bureau of Agribrace among others the following subjects: drainage; the culture to pre best fertilizers and manner of application; the improve- clubs. ment of dyked, marsh and swamped lands; rotation of crops; lands best adapted for cereals; grain crops in their various departments; horticulture, and the improvement of stock; together with such other matters as may from time to time in the judgment of the Bureau be considered necessary. &c. 8. Any club formed under this Chapter, having funds Prizes for essays, at its disposal, may offer prizes or premiums in the county for essays on questions of scientific inquiry relating to agriculture or horticulture; on the raising or improvement of stock, and the breed of horses, sheep and swine; the invention or improvement of agricultural or horticultural implements and machines; the production of grain, cereals, plants, flowers, and fruits, and generally for excellence in any branch of agricultural, horticultural, or floral industry. sions transmit 9. Such subjects shall be discussed at the different Results of discusclubs, and the results arrived at shall be transmitted by ted to Burean. the secretaries to the Bureau of Agriculture. results of dis 10. The Bureau of Agriculture shall annually epitomize Publication of the results arrived at in the various discussions before the cussions. clubs, and cause the same to be published for general sale and distribution. 11. The clubs shall meet semi-annually, or oftener. Meetings. Their proceedings and debates shall be conducted under such rules and regulations as the Bureau of Agriculture Rules and regmay prescribe. ulations. corporate. 12. Every club established under this Chapter, shall be Clubs to be bodies a body corporate, under such name as may be selected by a majority of the club; and such name shall be reported by the secretary to the Secretary of the Bureau. 13. There shall be allowed, for the purposes of this $400 allowance. Chapter, out of the agricultural grant from the Provincial Treasury, the sum of four hundred dollars, to be under the control of the Bureau of Agriculture. SCHEDULE. We, the undersigned residents of the County (or District) of - -, hereby undertake and agree to form ourselves into a Farmers' Club for such County (or District), under the provisions of Chapter 39 of the Revised Statutes. CHAP. 40. Commissions to continue in force. Commissioners, how appointed. and sworn in; clerk to be appointed and sworn. Commissioners, how chosen to carry on work; how dismissed. Powers of commissioners for carrying on works; new works, how begun, CHAPTER 40. OF COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS, AND OF DYKED AND MARSH LANDS. 1. All commissions issued for the appointment of commissioners of sewers shall continue in force till the Governor in Council shall otherwise direct. 2. The Governor in Council at the request of any of the proprietors of any marsh, swamp or meadow lands, may appoint one or more commissioners of sewers for the county, township or place where such lands lie, who shall be sworn into office by a justice of the peace, and such swearing shall be entered in the commissioners' book of record, which shall be evidence of the fact; and the commissioners shall appoint a clerk, who shall be sworn into office by one of the commissioners, and the swearing shall be entered in the book of record, which shall be evidence of the fact. 3. Two thirds in interest of the proprietors of any marsh, swamp or meadow lands, within the jurisdiction of such commissioners, may by themselves or their agents select one or more commissioners to carry on any work for reclaiming such lands; and they may at any time add to or diminish the number of commissioners selected or supersede any or all of them, and choose others instead; and the choice or dismissal of any commissioners for or from the management of any particular land shall be made in writing, under the hands of two-thirds of the proprietors in interest in such lands, and shall be entered in the book of record or filed by the clerk. Whenever any marsh, swamp or meadow lands lie partly in two counties, one or more commissioners of sewers may be chosen therefor out of one or both counties in which such lands lie. 4. The commissioners so chosen may require the proprietors of such lands to furnish men, teams, tools and materials to build or repair any dykes or wears necessary to prevent inundation, to dam, flow, or drain such lands, or to secure the same from brooks, rivers, or the sea, by aboiteaux or breakwaters, or in any way they may think proper, or for the erection of fences to protect the same; and, in case of neglect, may employ men and teams, and provide tools and materials for that purpose at the expense of such proprietors. The commissioner so chosen shall consult such other commissioners within the township, county or place as two-thirds in interest of the proprietors of the lands in question, personally or by their agents shall name, as to the practicability of the work, or anything relating to the same. In case of the commencement of any |