Passed 3rd April 1855.

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. That the stockholders of the said Company at any general or special meeting for that purpose holden, may increase the capital stock of the said Company to an amount in the whole not exceeding six thousand pounds; that the additional stock be divided into eighty shares of twenty five pounds each, making the capital stock of the Company after. the whole is called in to consist of two hundred and forty shares, and to be subject to such rules and regulations as the stockholders shall prescribe.

2. The Corporation shall only be required to pick up, collect together, and float down all timber, logs, masts, spars, and other lumber which may be floating in the River Saint John, or aground on any bar, shore, shoal, or flats in the said River below the Nashwaak, and then to drive the same into the Company's Booms, and secure and raft in the manner provided in the seventh and eighth Sections of the Act to incorporate the Fredericton Boom Company; for which the Company shall receive one shilling and three pence per ton for pine timber. and the sum of two shillings and six pence for every ton of hacmatac timber, the sum of not exceeding three shillings and six pence for every thousand superficial feet of spruce logs, masts, spars, and other lumber, the sum of not exceeding four shillings for every thousand superficial feet of pine logs.

3. The first and seventh Sections of the Act passed in the eleventh year of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act further to amend and continue the Act to incorporate the Fredericton Boom Company, are hereby repealed.

4. This Act, together with the Act passed in the seventh year of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to incorporate the Fredericton Boom Company, and an Act passed in the eighth year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Fredericton Boom Company, and an Act passed in the eleventh year of the same year, intituled An Act further to amend and continue the Act to incorporate the Fredericton Boom Company, are severally continued to the first day of May which will be in the year of

our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, except such parts thereof as are hereby repealed.

CAP XV.

An Act to continue and amend the several Acts relating to the Arestook Boom Company.

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. An Act made and passed in the seventh year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to incorporate the Arestook Boom Company, and An Act to continue and amend the Act to incorporate the Arestook Boom Company, made and passed in the eighth year of the same Reign, also An Act to continue and amend the Act to incorporate the Arestook Boom Company, made and passed in the eleventh year of the same Reign, are hereby severally continued and declared to be in force until the first day of October which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

2. When it shall be found absolutely necessary for the more speedy conveyance of the lumber to market, to open the Boom and drive the lumber down the River Saint John before being rafted, which shall be determined by the majority of votes of the lumber-holders, each owner having two hundred and fifty tons shall be entitled to one vote, and in like proportion for any greater quantity, and no person to have more than twenty votes; the quantity of each individual's lumber to be determined by the survey that has been first made; but when any dispute shall arise as to the quantity of the lumber claimed by each person, before voting upon the same he shall make oath before one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace to the quantity so surveyed; and should a majority of the votes of the lumber-holders be in favour of opening the said Boom, then it shall be the duty of the said Corporation to open the said Boom and to turn out said lumber into Saint John River, for which service they the said Corporation shall

receive the sum of four pence per ton on timber for boomage, and eight pence per thousand superficial feet of logs of any description, to be ascertained by the next survey made by any qualified Surveyor of lumber.

3. Instead of the toll or boomage provided by the seventh Section of the Act to incorporate the Arestook Boom Company, there shall be allowed to said Company upon all timber boomed, rafted, and secured as mentioned in said Act, one shilling and four pence per ton, and the sum of three shillings and six pence per thousand superficial feet of logs, masts, and spars of every description, and the Corporation shall have the lien and power of sale as therein mentioned.

CAP. XVI.

An Act to enable the Dorchester Manufacturing Company of the City of New York to hold Property in this Pro

vince.

Section.

1. Company may hold property; limit. 2. An office to be kept in Dorchester.

Section.

3. Act, when to come in force.

Passed 3rd April 1855.

WHEREAS John Cairns, Edward Allison, James E. Brown, and Frederick A. Peterson, have formed themselves, with their associates, successors, and assigns, into a Joint Stock Company, in the City of New York, in the United States of America, by the name of "The Dorchester Manufacturing Company of the City of New York," to quarry and manufacture Stone in this Province, and are desirous of being enabled to hold real and personal property in this Province as such Company ;

Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, as follows :—

1. The Dorchester Manufacturing Company of the City of New York aforesaid, and their successors, shall and may have full power and lawful right and authority to have, hold, own, and enjoy in any way real estate and lands of all kinds in this Province, whether in fee simple or by lease, or in any other way, and to have and hold personal estate of all kinds in this Province, in any way, and to alienate, encumber, lease, sell, or deal with the same in any manner; provided always, th t

the real estate so owned by the said Company shall not at any time exceed in value the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds.

2. The said Company shall keep an Office at Dorchester, in the County of Westmorland, and an Agent there for the transaction of business connected with the Company in this Province, service upon whom of all processes, notices, and other documents, shall be deemed sufficient service upon the said Company.

3. This Act shall not come into operation or be in force until the first day of September next.

WHEREAS the efficient opening and working of Mines in the Province of New Brunswick will be highly advantageous to the Province: And whereas the amount of capital necessary to be invested in such an undertaking renders it essential that the Company engaged therein should be incorporated;

Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. That William Stevens, his associates, successors, and assigns, shall be and they are hereby erected into a Company, and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name of The New Brunswick Mining Company," and by that name shall have all the general powers and privileges made incident to a Corporation by Act of Assembly of this Province, for the purpose of opening and working of Mines in the Province of New Brunswick, and establishing all necessary works therewith connected, and for the convenient carrying on and managing the same.

2. The first meeting of the said Corporation shall be held at Woodstock, in the County of Carleton, and Province of New Brunswick, and shall be called by any one Member of the said

Company, by giving at least twenty days notice in the Royal Gazette published in this Province previous to such meeting.

3. The capital stock of the said Corporation shall consist of the sum of thirty thousand pounds, to be paid in such money as shall at the time of the several payments hereinafter expressed be a legal tender in this Province; fifteen per centum of the said capital stock to be paid in before the said Corporation shall be entitled to purchase any property, real or personal, or incur any debts; and the remainder of the said stock to be paid at such time and times, and in such parts or portions as the business of the Company shall from time to time require, the whole amount of such capital stock to be divided into twelve hundred shares of twenty five pounds each.

4. The joint stock and property of the Company shall alone in the first instance be responsible for the debts and engagements of the said Company, and no creditors, or person or persons having any demand against the said Company, for or on account of any dealings with the said Company, shall have recourse against the separate property of any shareholder on account thereof, except in case of deficiency, or where the joint stock of the said Company shall fall short of or not be equal to the payments of any debt, due, or demand against the same, that then and in such case the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of each shareholder, shall and may be levied upon and seized respectively to satisfy such debt or demand, to the amount of the share or shares or interest of such shareholder in the joint stock of the said Company, but no more; and such amount, or so much as may be necessary to satisfy such debt, due, or demand, shall and may be levied and seized by process of execution in the same suit in which such debt, due, or demand may be recovered against the said Company.

5. Each and every shareholder in the said Corporation shall be held liable to the said Company for each and every call or assessment made (not however to exceed in amount the stock so subscribed for) for the purpose of enabling the said Company to pay the debts and engagements of the said Corporation, or to carry on the operations for which the said Company is incorporated, and shall and may be sued for by the said Corporation, and recovered in any Court of Record within the Province. 6. So soon as the said capital stock shall have been paid in