and execution of notes, bills and instruments not requiring the corporate seal of the Company, and the affixing of such seal to those which may require it; the declaration and payment of dividends; the form and issuing of stock certificates, transfers and registration; the allotment and forfeiture of stock; the calling of special and general meetings of the Company; the form of proxies for voting at meetings of the Company; the appointment, removal and remuneration of all officers, agents, clerks, workmen and servants of the Company; and generally to do all things that may be necessary to carry out the objects and exercise the powers incident to the Company.

12. Any copy of any by-law or by-laws of the Company Proof of Bypurporting to be signed and certified as a true copy thereof by laws. the President, or one of the Directors of the Company, and under the seal of the Company, shall be prima facie evidence of such by-law or by-laws; and in any action to recover any call on the stock of the Company, it shall be sufficient to allege and prove that the call was made in the manner provided by the by-laws of the Company, that the defendant is the owner of one or more shares on which the call was made, and that the amount sued for is due to the Company accordingly; and it shall not be necessary to allege or prove any other matter or thing whatsoever.

13. The Company may purchase, lease, hold, acquire and The Company transfer all real and personal estate, necessary for carrying on may acquire the operations of the Company, and for transporting its fuel, manufactures or other property; and any stock paid up in part or in full, which may have been taken by parties conveying land to the Company, in part payment for such land, shall be held to have been so paid up in cash, for the purposes of the third section of this Act.

14. The stock of the Company shall be deemed personal Stock personal estate, and shall be transferable in such way as the Directors property. shall by by-law direct.

sions of ch.

15. The Company is hereby authorized to increase their Increasing capital. capital stock whenever a majority of the stockholders, called as provided in the Act relating to Joint Stock Companies, chapter sixty-three of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, section Certain provi thirty-nine, shall decide to make such increase; and the pro- 63, Con. visions of the said Act for increasing the capital stock, from Stat. to apply. section thirty-nine to section forty-six, both inclusive, are hereby incorporated with this Act in so far as they are not inconsistent with the same.

to a certain

16. The Directors of the Company may from time to time Company may borrow for the purposes of the Company, any sum or sums of borrow money money by the issue of bonds or debentures, in sums of not less amount, than one hundred dollars, on such terms as they may think and issue de

proper, bentures,

property.

and mortgage proper, and may pledge all the property, or income of the property of the Company, or any part thereof, for the repayment of the money so raised or borrowed, and the payment of the interest thereon; Provided always that the consent of threefourths in value of the stockholders of the Company shall be first had and obtained at a special meeting to be called and held for that purpose; And provided also, that the said Company shall not at any time borrow any sum or sums in the whole exceeding the amount of the capital stock then paid up.

Powers of extension,

where and

17. The Company shall have power to extend their peat excavations, canal, or railway tracks, upon, along and across any of the unoccupied road allowances in the immediate vicinity of their works, with the consent of the Municipalities within which or between which, said road allowances may be situated; and the said Municipalities are hereby authorized how exercised. to enter into agreements with the Company for the granting of so much of said road allowances as may be required in the manufacture and transportation of peat fuel, or for other purposes. The Municipalities of the townships of Humberstone. and Wainfleet, or of the County of Welland, are hereby authorized to promote the objects of this Company, either by taking stock in or granting a bonus to it, or by exempting the property of the Company from taxation to any extent they may deem advisable; and the said Municipalities may enter into arrangements with the said Company for the drainage of lands in the said townships, by means of the canals and other excavations of the said Company.

Powers to Municipalities.

Power to make

18. The Company may enter into arrangements with any arrangements water Transportation Company or Railway Company for the transportation of peat and manufactures, and the purchase and sale or towage or haulage of boats, barges and cars.

for transport.

Head-office of
Company.

19. The Company may establish its head office either in the city of Toronto or Ottawa, or in the County of Welland.

CAP. L.

An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the Cobourg Cemetery Company, and to extend to said Company the provisions of Chapter sixty-seven of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 24th December, 1869.]

WHEREAS the provisions of the Act, Chapter sixty-seven of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, known as the "Cemetery Act," are limited to cemeteries located without

the

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the limits of the corporations of cities and towns, and the Cobourg Cemetery Company, and others, inhabitants of the town of Cobourg, have petitioned that the same may be made applicable to the Cobourg Cemetery Company, located within the limits of the corporation of Cobourg, and it is desirable that said prayer may be granted; and whereas, the title of the lands occupied by the Cobourg Cemetery Company, was in the late Thomas Dumble, the younger, who died intestate, and who purchased said lands solely with the intent, and upon the agreement of conveying the same to the said Cobourg Cemetery Company; and whereas, the money so paid by Thomas Dumble, the younger, for said lands has been repaid since his decease, to his legal representatives; and it is desirable that said agreement and intentions in accordance with the petitions of the representatives and relatives of the said Thomas Dumble, the younger, and of the Cobourg Cemetery Company should be carried into effect; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

apply to lands

1. That all the powers and provisions of the said "Act re- Con. Stat. U. specting Companies for the establishment of Cemeteries in Up- C., ch. 67 to per Canada" shall apply to the said "Cobourg Cemetery Com- of Cobourg pany" as fully and perfectly as if the lands of the same were situ- Cemetery Co. ated without the limits of the corporation of the town of Cobourg.

late T. Dum

2. That Hester Ann Dumble, widow, and administratrix, and Power to conDavid W. Dumble, brother, and administrator of the estate of yey land of the the late Thomas Dumble, the younger, shall be, and are hereby ble to the Coauthorized and empowered to convey in fee simple, the plot of bourg Cometry Co. land purchased by the said Thomas Dumble, the younger, for cemetery purposes, to the Cobourg Cemetery Company, and such conveyance shall vest in the said Cobourg Cemetery Company all the title and interest in the said land that was vested in the said Thomas Dumble, the younger, at the time of his death.

CAP. LI.

An Act to Incorporate The Weston Church School.

[Assented to 24th December, 1869.]

THEREAS it has been represented to the Legislature of Preamble. this Province that the Reverend William Arthur Johnson has established a school in the village of Weston under the title of "The Weston Church School"; and whereas it would tend greatly to extend and perpetuate the usefulness of the said school that it should be incorporated; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Corporate

led "The Weston Church School."

Trustees.

1. There shall be, and there is hereby constituted and esbody to be cal- tablished in the village of Weston, in the Province of Ontario, a body politic and corporate, under the name of "The Weston Church School," which corporation shall consist of the said Reverend William Arthur Johnson, the Reverend William Francis Checkley, A.M., James Bovell, Esquire, M.D., George Kingston, A.M. and Thomas Moss, A.M., who shall be the trustees of the corporation, and shall have the control, management and government thereof, and shall also have power to make rules and regulations, not contrary to law or the provisions of this Act, for the government and management of the said corporation and the affairs and property thereof, as also for the guidance of themselves, the said trustees, in the execution of their duties; and all acts and doings of a majority of the said trustees shall be of the same force and effect as if all of them had joined in such acts or doings.

Power to ac

real estate.

2. Such corporation shall have power at all times hereafter quire and sell to purchase, acquire, hold, possess and enjoy such lands and tenements as may be necessary for the actual use and occupation of the said corporation, and the same to sell, alienate and dispose of, and others in their stead to purchase, acquire and hold, for the use and purpose aforesaid: Provided always, that the annual value of the real estate held by it at any one time shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars current money of this Province.

Appointment of new trustees.

Returns to be made when

required.

3. In case of any vacancy or vacancies occurring in the number of the said trustees by death, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled up in such manner as may be provided in the rules and regulations of the said corporation.

4. The said corporation shall at all times when thereunto required by the Lieutenant-Governor or by the Legislative Assembly of this Province, make a full and exact return of its property, real and personal, and of its receipts and expenditure for such period, and with such details and other information as the Lieutenant-Governor or Legislative Assembly may require.

Preamble.

CAP. LII.

An Act to Incorporate the Nazrey Institute.

[Assented to 24th December, 1869.]

WHEREAS the ministers and members of the British Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada and others, have long labored in those portions of Her Majesty's North American possessions known as the Dominion of Canada, for the educa

tion and spiritual welfare of their people therein; and it is deemed expedient to institute a system of education and instruction whereby the youth of the country may be liberally taught; and whereas application hath been made to incorporate the Nazrey Institute, in order to promote the above-named objects, and it is desired that the said school should be conducted on the industrial plan: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

corporate pow

ers.

1. That there shall be, and there is hereby constituted and Trustees apestablished in the township of Chatham, in the county of Kent, pointed with and Province of Ontario, a body politic and corporate, under the name of the Nazrey Institute, which corporation shall consist of the Reverend Willis Nazrey, of the township of Chatham, in the Province of Ontario, the Reverend Benjamin Stewart, and the Reverend Walter H. Hawkins, Isaac Holden and John William Taylor, of the town of Chatham, in the Province of Ontario, the Reverend Richard R. Disney and the Reverend Robert Miller, of the town of St. Catharines, in the Province aforesaid, the Reverend George R. Blount, of the city of London, in the said Province, the Reverend William J. Buller, of the village of Bronte, in the said Province, and the Reverend Charles A. Washington, of the town of Windsor, in the Province aforesaid, and William Chandler, James Ramsay, James C. Willmore and Henry Baynard, of the township of Chatham aforesaid, yeomen, with such other and additional persons as from time to time may become associated with them, or, by the constitution of the said corporation, may become members thereof; and the said persons shall be the trustees of the corporation, and shall have the control, management and government thereof during their continuance in office; and shall also have power to make rules and regulations, not contrary to law or the provisions of this Act, for the government and management of the said corporation, and the affairs and property thereof as well as the affairs and property relating to the said trustees in the execution of their duties: and all acts and doings of a majority of the said trustees, or their said successors, shall be of the same force and effect as if all of them had joined in such acts or doings.

and sell cer

2. The said corporation shall have power to purchase, ac- Power to purquire, hold, possess and enjoy the north half of lot number four, chase, hold in the sixth concession of the said township of Chatham, con- tain lands. taining one hundred acres of land more or less, and all such other lands and tenements as may be necessary for the actual use and occupation of the said corporation, and the same to sell, alienate and dispose of, and others in their stead to purchase, acquire and hold for the use and purposes aforesaid: Provided always that the annual value of the real estate, held by the said corporation at any one time, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars lawful money of this Province.