Mingle waters.

Distribution.

The work in common.

General.

Further joint powers.

To make contracts.

(b.) Mingle the waters held by each Company for their separate
or common benefit as they may deem expedient:

(c.) Arrange for the distribution of the waters now held by
each Company for their separate or common benefit:
(d.) Use the canals, ditches, and other works of each Company,
either for their separate or common benefit:

(e.) And generally to hold, enjoy, control, distribute and
manage the water and water rights and other property
used in connection with the water-works system of each
Company now held in severalty for their general or
common benefit.

2. It shall be lawful for the said Companies to jointly acquire other water rights according to law.

3. The said Companies, and each of them, are hereby further authorised and empowered to enter into any arrangement and make such contracts and agreements that they may agree upon in respect of the matters aforesaid, or any of them.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1909.

An Act to amend "The False Creek Foreshore Act, 1903-4, c. 60.

1904."

[12th March, 1909.]

W

HEREAS the Corporation of the City of Vancouver has, by Preamble.
petition, prayed that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth:

And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition:

Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. Section 13 of the "False Creek Foreshore Act, 1904," as Amends s. 13. amended by "The False Creek Foreshore Act, 1904, Amendment Act, 1908," is hereby further amended by striking out the word "January," and figures" 1908," in the sixth line of section 1 thereof, and substituting therefor the words and figures "February, 1910," and by striking out the figures "1909," after the word "February," in the eighth line of said section 1, and substituting therefor the figures "1910."

amended or new

2. The Council of the Corporation of the City of Vancouver may Plan may be amend and adopt any plan or scheme already adopted by such plan or plans adopted and Council and approved of by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, or approved. adopt any new plan or plans, or scheme or schemes, and apply for and have the same approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

3. This Act may be cited as "The False Creek Foreshore Act, Short title. 1904, Amendment Act, 1909."

VICTORIA, b.C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, I.S.O., V.D., Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1909

W

HEREAS a petition has been presented praying for the incor- Preamble. poration of a Company to construct and operate railways as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the petition :

Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:-

1. Daniel C. Corbin, Andrew J. Devlin, and James A. Harvey, Incorporation. together with such persons as become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of the Flathead Valley Railway Company, hereinafter called "the Company."

2. The head office of the Company shall be in the City of Cran- Head office. brook, British Columbia, but may be changed to such other place in Canada as is fixed by by-law passed at an annual general meeting

or at any special meeting.

3. The Company may lay out, construct and operate a railway of Line of railway. the gauge of four feet eight and one-half inches, from a point on the Eastern British Columbia Railway, at or near the Town of Corbin; thence in a southerly direction following the East Fork of the South Fork of Michel Creek to the summit between that creek and a tributary of the Flathead River; thence in a southerly direction down said tributary to the Flathead River; thence southerly along said Flathead River, or by the most convenient route, to the International

Capital stock.

First general meeting.

Notice of first general meeting.

Provisional directors.

Annual general meetings.

Boundary between British Columbia and the United States of
America, a distance of forty miles, more or less.

4. The capital stock of the Company shall be two million dollars, divided into twenty thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, and may be called up by the directors from time to time as they deem necessary.

5. So soon as one hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock shall have been subscribed and allotted, and ten per cent. of the amount shall have been paid into some chartered bank in Canada, the provisional directors shall call a meeting of the shareholders of the Company at the place where the head office is situate, at such time as they shall think proper, giving the notice prescribed by section 6 of this Act, at which meeting the shareholders who have paid ten per cent. on the amount of stock subscribed by them shall from the shareholders elect not less than five directors (of whom a majority shall form a quorum for the transaction of business), who shall hold office until others are elected.

6. Public notice of the first meeting of the shareholders of the Company shall be given by advertisement published for at least thirty days in the British Columbia Gazette, and in one newspaper published in the place where the head office is situate, and by a twenty days' notice in writing to each shareholder, delivered to him personally or mailed, properly directed to him at his last known place of abode, in which notice shall be specified the place and the day and the hour of meeting. All such notices shall be published at least weekly, and a copy of such Gazette and newspaper containing such notice shall, on production thereof, be evidence of the sufficiency of such notice.

7. The persons named in the first section of this Act shall be and are hereby constituted provisional directors of the Company-a majority of whom shall form a quorum-with power to add to the number, but so that the directors shall not in all exceed fifteen in number. The board of directors, so constituted, shall have all the powers hereby conferred upon the directors of the Company, and they shall hold office until the first election of Directors under this Act.

8. The first annual general meeting of the Company shall be held at such time as the directors of the Company may determine, and all subsequent annual general meetings shall be held at such time as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting; and if no other time is prescribed, the annual general meeting shall be held on the third Wednesday of October in each year, at which annual general meetings a board of not less than five directors (of whom at