CHAP. 132. virtue of this Chapter, keep the cemetery, and the buildings, fences and drains thereof, in good order and condition. 1893, c. 49, s. 4. Company shall make regulations to ensure decent burials. Graves for poor and strangers. 19. The company shall, subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council, make regulations to ensure all burials within the cemetery being conducted in a decent and solemn manner. 1893, c. 49, s. 5. 20. The company shall furnish graves for strangers, and for the poor, free of charge, on the certificate in the latter case of a minister or clergyman of the denomination to which the deceased belonged, that the relatives of the deceased are unknown or poor and cannot afford to purchase a lot in the cemetery. 1893, c. 49, s. 6. Conveyance not 21. When a lot has been sold by the company for a to be registered. burial site, the conveyance shall not require to be registered for any purpose whatever, and shall not be affected by any Act respecting the registry of deeds, nor shall any judgment, mortgage or encumbrance subsist on any lot so conveyed. 1893, c. 49, s. 8. Form of deed. How company up. 22. The deeds from the company shall be in the form B in the schedule. 23.—(1.) If any company incorporated under this Chapter may be wound should, either on account of the burial of bodies in the locality being prohibited by the municipal authorities, or for any other reason, desire to be wound up, then, if no lot has been sold for the purpose of burial, or if such lots have been sold, with the consent in writing of every person to whom any lot has been sold, or of their heirs, or in case any such heir is a minor or insane, then with the assent of the heirs who are of full age and are of sound mind, the company may be wound up under "The Companies' Winding Up Act." Property may be (2.) All the real and personal property of the company may thereupon be sold by the officers of the company, or by the liquidators, and the proceeds, after payment of all claims against the company, distributed among the shareholders. sold. Discharge from trusts. (3.) The property so sold shall be freed and discharged from all trusts arising on account of its having been held for the purposes of a cemetery or a cemetery company, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize a distribution amongst those holders of the proceeds of lands devised or conveyed by way of gift to the company in trust for the purposes of a cemetery, but the proceeds of such lands shall be applied to such municipal or charitable purposes as the donor of the lands, if he is then living, or if he is dead, as the Governor-in-Council, directs. 1893, c. 49, s. 22 SCHEDULE. Form A. FORM OF INSTRUMENT OF INCORPORATION. (Sect. 4.) ... day of .... in the year we, the undersigned Be it remembered, that on this of our Lord one thousand nine hundred shareholders, met at in the province of Nova Scotia, and resolved to form ourselves into a cemetery company, to be called according to the provisions of in the county of "The Cemetery Companies' Act"; and we do hereby agree that the capital "Know all men by these presents, that the company, in consideration of of the said dollars paid to them by cemetery the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do grant unto cemetery of the said company, called of . which lot is delineated and laid down on the map of the said containing superficial feet; to have and to hold the cemetery, and is thereby designated by the name of by admeasurement above named premises," etc. CHAP. 133. CHAPTER 133. OF FISHERMEN'S BAIT ASSOCIATIONS. constituted. 1-(1.) Any number of persons, not less than twenty, company, ho may form themselves into company for the purpose of purchasing, building, owning, managing and operating, cold storage refrigerators for the purpose of preserving and trading in bait for fishing purposes, by signing their names to a memorandum of agreement in the form "A" in the schedule to this Chapter. (2.) The signatures to such memorandum of agreement shall be proved by the affidavit of a witness in the form "B" in the schedule, and made before any justice of the peace. 1900, c. 19, ss. 1, 2. CHAP. 133. 2. Upon the said memorandum of agreement having When company been filed in the office of the Provincial Secretary, and the incorporated. Capital stock. Directors. Election of directors. Notice of meetings. Votes at meetings. Officers. Power of company, signatures thereto duly proved as aforesaid, and twenty per cent. of the subscribed capital of the company having been paid up, the company shall be entitled by letters patent under the great seal of the province to a charter constituting the said company, and such other persons as become shareholders in the company, a body corporate and politic for the purpose of purchasing, building, owning, managing and operating cold storage refrigerators for bait, and buying, selling and trading in bait for fishing purposes. 1900, c. 19, s. 3. 3. The capital stock of any company formed under the provisions of this Chapter shall be not less than five hundred dollars, of which one half shall be subscribed. 1900, c. 19, s. 4. 4. There shall be not less than three, nor more than seven, directors. The persons named in the letters patent shall be the directors of the company until replaced by others duly elected in their stead. 1900, c. 19, s. 5. 5. Directors shall be elected by the shareholders at a general meeting of the company. Such election shall. take place annually, all the members of the board retiring and, if otherwise qualified, being eligible for re-election. 1900, c. 19, s. 6. 6. Notice of the time and place of holding the annual meeting, or any general meeting, of the company, shall be given at least two weeks previously thereto by posting up a notice signed by the secretary in at least three public places in the locality where the business of the company is carried on. 1900, c. 19, s. 7. 7. At all annual and general meetings each shareholder shall be entitled to give one vote for each share held by him, and all questions proposed for the consideration of shareholders shall be determined by a majority of votes, the chairman presiding at any meeting having the casting vote in case of an equality of votes. 1900, c. 19, s. 8. 8. The directors shall from time to time elect from among themselves a president, and if they see fit, a vicepresident, of the company, and may also appoint all other officers. 1900, c. 19, s. 9. 9. The companies organized under the provisions of this Chapter shall have all the usual powers, rights and franchises incident to incorporated companies. 1900, c. 19, s. 10. directors. 10. The directors of the company shall have full power CHAP. 133. in all matters to administer the affairs of the company, and Powers of to make or cause to be made for the company any description of contract that the company may by law enter into, and may from time to time make by-laws not contrary to law or to their letters patent to regulate any matter connected with the internal affairs of the company. 1900, c. 19, s. 11. stock. 11. The directors shall have the power to cancel the Forfeiture of stock of any shareholder who refuses or neglects after sixty days' notice to pay any calls regularly payable upon the share or shares held by such shareholder, and any calls previously paid shall upon such cancellation be forfeited to the company. 1900, c. 19, s. 12. liability. 12. No shareholder shall be held personally liable for Limitation of any debt, default or liability of the company beyond the amount unpaid on his respective shares in the capital stock thereof, unless he has rendered himself liable for a greater sum by becoming surety for the debts of the company. 1900, c. 19, s. 13. SCHEDULE. in the county of We, the undersigned residents of and province of Nova Scotia, do hereby agree to form ourselves into a company for the purpose of building, owning, operating and managing bait refrigerators for fishing purposes. The proposed corporate name of the said company shall be limited. The chief in the dollars place of business of the said company shall be at divided into appoint said company. Name. 1 Address. Calling. I No. of Shares. Value. County of I certify that (B) `ss. } subscribing witness to the foregoing memorandum of association, made oath before me that the said memorandum was duly signed in his presence by the therein named, (Here insert all the names subscribed). Dated at the day of 19... 1 CHAP. 134. Interpretation. Bonds or policies of guarantee be accepted. CHAPTER 134. OF INCORPORATED SURETIES FOR OFFICIALS. 1. In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "guarantee company means an incorporated company empowered to grant guarantee bonds or policies for the integrity and faithful accounting of public officers or other officials, servants or persons occupying positions of trust, or for other like purposes, and approved of for such purposes by the Governor-in-Council. 2. When any public officer is required to give security companies may for the performance of his duty, or of any obligation undertaken towards the Crown, the bond or policy of any guarantee company may be accepted as such security upon such terms as are determined by the Governor-in-Council; and the provisions of law with reference to the legal effect of such securities when given by individuals, to the filing thereof, and to the mode of proceeding thereon, shall apply to the security to be given by any such company. Further provi sion respecting of guarantee companies. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment of bonds or policies the legislature of Nova Scotia with respect to any benevolent society, building society, incorporated insurance company, or municipal or other corporation, the bonds or policies of guarantee of any guarantee company may be accepted instead of or in addition to the bond or security required by the Act of incorporation, charter, by-law or rule of such society, company or corporation, to be given by any official or servant thereof, where the persons directed or authorized to take such bond or security see fit to take the bond or policy of such guarantee company, and approve the terms. and conditions thereof. such acts, All provisions of 4. All the provisions in any such Act, charter, by-law or charters, by-laws rule relating to such security to be given by any such official or servant or his sureties, shall apply to the bonds or policies of guarantee of such guarantee company. or rules shall apply. Bonds or policies of guarantee be accepted by judges, &c. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment of companies may the legislature of Nova Scotia, the bonds or policies of guarantee of any guarantee company may be accepted by a judge or other person authorized or required to take security for the due performance of any duty, instead of or in addition. to the bond or security of a surety or sureties, if such judge |