ANNO OCTAVO

VICTORIE REGINE.

CAP. LXXXV.

An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the City of Toronto
Gas Light and Water Company.

WH

[29th March, 1845.]

THEREAS an Act was passed by the Legislature of this Province in the Preamblc. Session held in the fourth and fifth years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, An Act to Incorporate a Company under the Style and Tille of the "City of Toronto Gas Light and Water Company;" And whereas Albert Furniss, one of the Members of the said Company, with the consent of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto, has petitioned for certain alterations and amendments in the said Act; and whereas it is expedient to make such amendments: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled, An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, except the said Corporation of the said City of Toronto, to sue for and recover any forfeitures and penalties heretofore incurred, or hereafter to be incurred, by the said City of Toronto Gas Light and Water Company, under the eighth Section of the said Act, for not finishing the work, and replacing the streets, the Gas Comsquares and public places in the said City, in as good a condition as before the commencement of any work; and before any such penalty shall be recovered, it shall be necessary for the plaintiff or plaintiffs to prove that reasonable notice of. Notice, such neglect or default was given by the City Inspector to the said Company or their Agent, before action brought.

4 & 5 Virt.

Toronto Corporation only

authorized to

sue for forfeitures against

pany.

II. And be it enacted, That the tenth Clause of the said Act be, and the same Tenth clause of said Act is hereby repealed. repealed.

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE and GEORGE DESBARATS,

Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

"The

An Act to revive certain provisions of the Act incorporating
Great Western Rail Road Company," and to enable them to carry
on that work.

[29th March, 1845.]

W

4 Will. IV. c.

THEREAS it is expedient to revive, with certain exceptions and amend- Preamble. ments, the Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, passed in the fourth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and intituled, Act of U. C. An Act to incorporate certain persons under the style and title of "The London and 29, cited. Gore Rail-Road Company:" Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Act passed in the The said Act fourth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and intituled, revived with An Act to incorporate certain persons under the style and title of "The London and tions. Gore Rail-Road Company," shall be and is hereby revived, and shall be in full force and effect as if the several provisions thereof were herein repeated and re-enacted, subject to the provisions hereinafter made: Provided always, that the sixteenth, seventeenth and twenty-sixth sections of the said Act, and so much of the twentythird section or of any other part thereof, as limits the duration of the said Act, or as assigns the corporate name of the Company thereby established, or is in any way inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this Act, shall not be so revived, but shall be and remain repealed.

certain excep

Corporate

name of the

Company changed.

Powers of the

Company extended to certain other lines of Road.

Capital stock

of the Conpany £1,500,000.

Shares to be transferable.

First meeting of Direc

tors.

Proviso.

II. And be it enacted, That notwithstanding any thing in the said Act, the corporate name of the Company to be constituted under the authority thereof shall be" The Great Western Rail-Road Company," by which name, instead of "The London and Gore Rail Road Company," the said Company shall have and exercise the privileges granted by the said Act or by this Act.

III. And be it enacted, That, notwithstanding as aforesaid, the said Company shall have full power to make or continue their Rail-Road, from the Town of London to Point Edward, at the foot of Lake Huron, and to the Detroit River, and to any point on the Niagara River, and that they may contract, compound, compromise and agree with the owners or occupiers of any lands upon which they may determine to construct such Rail-Road, either for the purchase of so much of the said lands and privileges as they shall require, or for any damage done either to or by the said Company, in the same manner as is provided by the Act hereby revived

in cases of the same kind.

IV. And be it enacted, That notwithstanding as aforesaid, the whole capital stock of the said Company, inclusive of any real estate which the said Company may have or hold by virtue of the Act hereby revived, or of this Act, may be equal to, but shall not exceed one million five hundred thousand pounds, currency, to be held in sixty thousand shares of twenty-five pounds each; and that the shares of the Capital Stock may, after the first instalment thereon shall have been paid, be transferred by the respective persons subscribing and holding the same to any other person or persons, and such transfer shall be entered and registered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose by the said Company: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said Company to act as Bankers, or in way to carry on or use the business of Banking.

V. And be it enacted, That on the first Monday in February next, a meeting of the Stockholders in the said Company shall be held at London, at which meeting such Stockholders shall proceed in the manner provided by the Act hereby revived, to elect seven persons to be Directors, who shall elect by ballot one of their number to be their President, and shall continue in office until the first Monday in June after their election, and who, during such continuance, shall discharge the duties of Directors in the same manner as if they had been elected at the annual election Provided always, that if, on the said first Monday in February next, shares to the amount of twenty-five thousand pounds in the Stock of the said Company be not taken up, or if for any other cause the said meeting be not then held, then the said first meeting shall not be held until the said amount be taken up, and at least thirty days notice thereof given in any newspaper or newspapers published in the Districts of London and Gore; but at whatever time such first

meeting

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