and interest in and to the same as I am or shall become seized or possessed of to hold the same to the said Company, their successors and assigns for ever, subject to redemption on payment to the said Company, their successors or assigns, of the said sum of 18 on the with interest for the same at the rate of hundred pounds by the year, payable half-yearly, on the and day of (Add any special powers which may be agreed on.) day of In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day of in the year of our Lord FORM OF BOND. By virtue of an Act of the Legislature of Canada, passed in the year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, intituled, (title of this Act), I, A. B., in consideration of the sum of to me in hand paid by the said North American Colonial Association of Ireland, do bind myself, and my heirs, executors and administrators, unto the said North American Colonial Association of Ireland, their successors and assigns, in the penal sum of pounds, to be paid to the said Company, their successors or assigns. The condition of the above obligation is such that if the said A. B., his heirs, executors or administrators, shall pay to the said Company, their successors, or assigns, on the year 18 the principal sum of for the same at the rate of half-yearly, on the day of day of which will be in the together with interest per centum per annum, payable and day of then the above written obligation is to become void, otherwise to remain in full force. of day SCHEDULE SCHEDULE C. I, A. B., the Attorney (or we, A. B. and C. D. the Attorneys) of the North American Colonial Association of Ireland, incorporated under and by virtue of an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session of the fifth and sixth years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, An Act for incorporating and granting certain powers to the North American Colonial Association of Ireland, being constituted and appointed such Attorney, (or Attorneys, as the case may be) by virtue and in pursuance of an Act of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, passed in the year of the Reign of Her of Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, (insert here the title of this Act) do hereby, in consideration of the sum of to me as such Attorney (or to us as such Attorneys) as aforesaid paid, grant, release and convey to E. F., of the in the said Province, all that piece or parcel of land, situate, &c., (here set forth the particulars and description of the land), and all the right, title and interest of the said North American Colonial Association of Ireland, to and in the same and every part thereof, to have and to hold unto the said E. F. heirs and assigns for ever. and As witness my hand (or our hands) and the seal of the said Company, this in the year of our Lord day of MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWARt Derbishire and GEORGE DESBarats, ANNO OCTAVO VICTORIE REGINÆ. CAP. LXXXVIII. An Act to Incorporate certain persons as The Niagara and Ten Mile [29th March, 1845.] WHE Plank Road. HEREAS certain inhabitants of the District of Niagara, and others, have Preamble. petitioned for the passing of a Law incorporating a Joint Stock Company, for the purpose of constructing a Plank Road commencing at Queen's Street, in the Town of Niagara, at the north-east corner of lot number seventy-four, then in Direction of a course about south thirty-five degrees west, along the street running in rear of the Presbyterian Church to the limit of the Town, where the swamp Road enters the same, then along the said swamp Road to the Ten Mile Creek in the Township of Grantham, diverging at what is styled the Stone Ridge near the Ten Mile Creek, to intersect the Road leading from Queenston to the Forty Mile Creek in the Township of Grimsby; And whereas it is expedient to incorporate a Joint Stock Company, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned: 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 Charles Richardson, Robert Melville, George Brock, H. E. Graham, William Bowers Winterbottom, W. G. F. Downs, William Johnston, James E. Johnston, William Armstrong, John Simpson, Joseph Crouch, Warren Claus, Walter Wilson, John Burns, William H. Garrett, John Burns, Alexander Davidson, Daniel McDougall, Certain persons incorporaPlank Road ted as Niagara Company." Proviso. Their powers. Company may contract, &c., with land ownera, McDougall, Bernard Roddy, Thomas Burke, Henry Burke, Henry Telford, Charles Copeland, Robert Miller, Thomas Hodgman, Joseph A. Woodruff, Stephen H. Follett, Cornelius Simmons, Jolin McBride, Robert Connor, Richard Wolfe, John Nisbet, Lewis Donnelly, Joseph Archer, Ezekiel Archer, Charles Fields, George Winterbottom, Alexander R. Christie, F. A. B. Clench, Robert Kay, Henry Charles, George D: Atkins, Thomas Flemming, John Davidson, P. Shaw, William Davidson, Walter Davidson, Duncan Forbes, William Senior, William Wills, James Munroe, John Graham, George Watts, Robert Cole, John McLean, John Andrew, William Lockhart, Andrew Finlay, Martin Kearn, John Swinton, Walter Follett, John Rogers, Francis Conner, Nicholas Watt, W. F. Cameron, with all such other persons as shall become Stockholders in such Joint Stock or Capital, as is hereinafter mentioned, shall be and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a Body Corporate and Politic in fact, by and under the name and style of The Niagara and Ten Mile Creek Plank Road Company, and by that name they and successors shall and may have continued succession, and by such name shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto in all Courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and concerns whatsoever; and they and their successors may and shall have a Common Seal, and may change and alter the same at their will and pleasure, and also that they and their successors by the same name of The Niagara and Ten Mile Creek Plank Road Company, shall be by law capable of purchasing, having and holding to them and their successors, any estate, real or personal or mixed, to and for the use of the said Company, and of letting, conveying, and otherwise departing therewith, for the benefit and on account of the said Company, from time to time, as they shall deem necessary and convenient: Provided always nevertheless, that the real estate to be held by the said Company shall be only such as shall be required to be held by them, for the purpose of making, using and preserving the said Plank Road, and for objects immediately connected therewith. II. And be it enacted, That the said Company, and their Agents or Servants, shall have full power under this Act to lay out, construct, make and finish a Plank Road, at their own costs and charges, on and over any part of the country lying between the Ten Mile Creek and Queen Street in the Town of Niagara; any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. III. And be it enacted, That the said Company are hereby empowered to contract, compound, compromise and agree with the owners and occupiers of any lands upon which they may determine to construct the said Plank Road, either by purchase of so much of the said land and privileges as they shall require for the purposes of the said Company, or for the damages which he, she or they shall and may |