Choice of directors Qualification of shareholders to vote President Calls on stock Forfeiture for nonpayment Records Exclusive reservation Graves for strangers and poor 17. The first directors shall be chosen by ballot from among the subscribers to the instrument creating the company; and thereafter the directors shall be annually elected by the shareholders on the first Monday in June in every year. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 17. 18. Upon every election of directors, including the first, every shareholder shall be entitled to one vote for every share he holds or is possessed of up to ten and one vote for every five shares above ten; but no shareholder shall vote unless he has paid at least $2 upon each share upon which he votes. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 18. 19. The directors or a majority of them shall at their first meeting elect one of their number to be president of the company and the president if present or if he is not present then some director chosen for the occasion shall preside at every meeting of the directors and shall not vote except in case of an equality of votes when he shall have a casting vote. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 19. 20. The directors may also call for instalments on the sums subscribed for and may appoint a time for the payment thereof and if the same are not then paid the right of the subscriber and every instalment formerly paid shall be forfeited and he shall be held not to have subscribed unless the directors think it expedient to remit the forfeiture which they may do if the instalments are paid with interest within one year after the day when they ought to have been paid. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 20. 21. The directors shall record in a book kept for the purpose all their bylaws and proceedings and every shareholder shall have access to such book for the purpose of searching and making extracts therefrom without payment of any fee. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 21. 22. The directors may reserve for the exclusive use of any religious society or congregation such part of the cemetery and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 22. 23. The company shall furnish graves for strangers and for the poor of all denominations 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 poor and cannot afford to purchase a lot in the cemetery. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 23. GENERAL PROVISIONS. fences 24. The company shall within two years from its incorpora Walls and tion and the trustees shall within two years from their appointment by walls or other fences inclose every part of the cemetery held by them. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 24. property 25. The company or trustees, as the case may be, shall keep Repair of the cemetery and the buildings and fences thereof in complete repair and in good order and condition. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 25. sewers 26. The company or trustees, as the case may be, shall Drains and make all proper and necessary sewers and drains in and about the cemetery for draining it and keeping it dry; and they may from time to time as occasion requires cause any such sewer or drain to open into an existing sewer with the consent in writing of the persons having the management of the street or road and with the like consent of the owner or occupier of the land through which or part of which the opening is intended to be made doing as little damage as possible to the street, road or land wherein the same is made and restoring it to the same or as good condition as it was in before being disturbed. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 26. fouling water 27. If the company or trustees, as the case may be, at any Penalty for time cause or suffer to be brought to or to flow in any river, spring, well, stream, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, pond or watering place any offensive matter from the cemetery whereby the water is fouled the company or trustees, as the case may be, shall forfeit for every such offence $500. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 27. penalty 28. The said penalty with full costs of suit may by a civil Suit for action in any court of competent jurisdiction be recovered by any person having a right to use the water; but the penalty Limitation of and costs shall not be recoverable unless sued for during the action continuance of the offence or within six months after it has ceased. C. O. 1898, c. 68, s. 28. penalty 29. In addition to the penalty of $500 (and whether the Further same has been recovered or not) any person having a right to use the water may sue the company or trustees, as the case may be, in a civil action for any damage specially sustained by him by reason of the water being fouled or if no special damage is alleged then for the sum of $10 for every day during which the offensive matter has continued to be brought or to flow after the expiration of twenty-four hours from the time when the notice of the offence was by such person served upon the company or trustees, as the case may be. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 29. No grave near buildings Proper conduct of funerals Exemption from taxes Bylaws Record of regulations and burials Penalties Liability of trustees 30. No body shall be buried in a vault or other space under any chapel or other building in the cemetery nor within fifteen feet of the outer wall of any such chapel or building. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 30. 31. The company or trustees, as the case may be, shall make regulations to ensure all burials within the cemetery being conducted in a decent and solemn manner. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 31. 32. The real estate of the company or trustees and the lots or plots when conveyed by the company or trustees to individual proprietors for burial sites shall be exempt from taxation of any kind and shall not be liable to be seized or sold under execution. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 32. 33. The directors of the company may pass bylaws and the trustees may frame regulations for the laying out, selling and management of the cemetery and for regulating the erection of tombs, monuments and gravestones therein; and the directors of the company may pass bylaws empowering the president to execute conveyances of plots to shareholders. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 33. 34. The directors shall keep a record of the bylaws and the trustees shall keep a record of the regulations referred to in the next preceding section and the directors and trusters respectively shall also keep a separate record of all burials showing name, age, occupation and date of burial of all persons buried within the cemetery and in case they cannot get all the particulars a note of such must be made in the margin and every person shall have access to such last mentioned record for the purpose of searching and making extracts there from without payment of any fee. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 34. 35. Any person who in any cemetery: (a) Plays any game or sport; or (b) Discharges fire arms (save at a military funeral); or (c) Commits a nuisance therein; shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding $100 and costs of prosecution. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 35; 1908, c. 38, s. 7 (2). 36. The trustees shall be personally liable for any judg ment recovered against them as trustees. C.O. 1898, c. 68, s. 36. CHAPTER 83 An Act respecting Hail Insurance. SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Hail Insurance Act." Short title 1908-9 c. 12, s. 1. may carry on insurance 2. Notwithstanding any law in force in the province no what company shall carry on the business of insurance against loss companies or injury to crops by hail excepting with the approval of the hail Lieutenant Governor in Council; but subject to such approval business any such company may upon complying with the provisions of The Companies Act or The Foreign Companies Act, as the case may be, carry on such business within Saskatchewan. 1908-9, c. 12, s. 2. 3. There shall from time to time be published in The Publication Saskatchewan Gazette the names of all companies authorised to operate under the provisions of this Act. 1908-9, c. 12, s. 3. Short title Interpretation "Elector" "City commissioners" "Council" "Burgess" "Felony," etc. "Income" "Business" "Special franchise" CHAPTER 84 An Act respecting Cities. Preliminary. SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The City Act." 1908, c. 16, s. 1. INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires the expression: 1. "Elector" means a person entitled to vote at municipal and school elections in a city; 2. "City commissioners" means the commissioners, of a city; 3. "Council" means the municipal council of a city; 4. "Burgess" is an elector who is such in respect of freehold property; 5 "Felony" means any indictable offence which since the passing of The Criminal Code is punishable with death or imprisonment for a period of five years or over and "misdemeanour" means any offence for which under the said code the extreme penalty is imprisonment for a term less than five years and not less than two years; 6. "Income" means the profit or gain (whether ascertained and capable of computation as being wages, salary or other fixed amount or unascertained as being fees or emoluments or profits from a trade or commercial or financial or other business or calling) directly or indirectly received by a person from any office or employment or from any profession or calling or from any trade, manufacture or business during the year next preceding that in which the assessment is made and includes the interest, dividends or profits directly or indirectly received from money at interest upon any security or without security or from stocks or from any other investment and also profit or gain from any other source whatever; 7. "Business" includes any trade, profession, calling, occupation or employment; 8. "Special franchise" means every right, authority or permission to construct, maintain or operate within the city in, under, above, on or through any highway, road, street, lane, public place or public water within the jurisdiction of the city any poles, wires, tracks, pipes, conduits, buildings, erections, |