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

1. Notwithstanding the failure of the said Company to obtain a certificate approving its undertaking under the provisions of section 87 of the "Water Clauses Consolidation Act, 1897," and notwithstanding anything contained in said Act, it is hereby declared that the works and undertaking of the Company are hereby approved, and it is hereby enacted that the said Company is and shall be in the same position as if it had applied for such a certificate and had duly obtained the same before proceeding with the construction of its works.

2. Nothing herein contained shall affect any legal proceedings now pending.

VICTORIA, B C.:

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

Associations Act."

[19th February, 1909.]

R. S., 1897, c. 18.

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IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Dairy and Live Stock Associa- Short title. tions Act Amendment Act, 1909."

2. Section 20 of chapter 18 of the Revised Statutes, 1897, being Re-enacts s. 20. the "Dairy and Live Stock Associations Act," is hereby repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor :

"PART II.

"DAIRYING ASSOCIATIONS.

"20. Any five or more persons who desire to associate themselves Incorporation of Dairying Associatogether for either or all of the purposes following, that is to say: tions.

"(a.) The manufacturing of cheese and butter:

"(b.) The keeping of swine, and the manufacture and sale of the various products resulting therefrom:

"(c.) The dealing in poultry, eggs and all other agricultural products for patrons of such association:

"(d.) The dealing in foods for all kinds of farm stock, for the purpose of supplying such foods to patrons of such association: and,

"(e.) The erection and maintenance of a cold-storage plant,

and the sale of ice:

may make, sign and acknowledge before a Notary Public, Commismissioner, or Justice of the Peace, in duplicate, and file in the office of the Registrar of the Registry District in which the business is to be carried on, a certificate in writing, in the form mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, or to the same effect, together with the rules and regulations signed by such persons, respectively:

"Any association formed under the provisions of the "Dairy Associations Act, 1895," may extend its business so as to include the purposes and objects mentioned in sub-clauses (b), (c), (d) and (e), of this section:

"Provided the shareholders shall, by a vote of a majority of shareholders present in person or by proxy, representing at least twothirds in value of the subscribed stock of said association, at a general meeting of the association duly called for considering the subject, determine to extend its business to either or any of the said objects."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

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

Co-operation Act."

R. S., 1897, c. 20.

[12th March, 1909.]

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IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Farmers' Institutes and Co- short title. operation Act Amendment Act, 1909."

2. Section 15 of chapter 20 of the Revised Statutes, 1897," being Re-enacts s. 15. the "Farmers' Institutes and Co-operation Act," is hereby repealed,

and the following is enacted in lieu thereof:

"15. Co-operative corporations having capital divided into shares, Formation of cooperative corporaand with liability of shareholders limited to payment up by each tions. shareholder of the par value of shares subscribed for by him, may be formed under this Act in the manner, with the powers, objects and purposes, and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained and set forth:

ate.

"(1.) Any ten or more resident bonâ fide farmers of any district Right to incorpormay, by subscribing their names to a Memorandum of Association and otherwise complying with the requirements of this Act in respect of incorporation, form an incorporated co-operative corporation with limited liability:

Association.

"(2.) The Memorandum of Association shall contain the name Memorandum of of the proposed corporation, which name must include the words Incorporated Co-operative'; the district within which the corporation is to have its chief place of business; a declaration that each signer of the Memorandum is a resident bonâ fide farmer in such district, a statement of

Conditions applying

to Memorandum.

Certificate of
Incorporation.

Corporate existence and powers.

(AMENDMENT).

the amount of capital with which the corporation proposes
to be incorporated, divided into shares of a certain fixed
amount and numbered consecutively:

"(3.) Every Memorandum of Association shall be subject to
the conditions that no subscriber thereto shall take less
than one share; that each subscriber shall write opposite
to his name the number of shares he takes; and that each
subscriber shall be the bonâ fide holder in his own right
of the share or shares for which he has subscribed:
"(4.) Upon the filing of the Memorandum of Association in
the Department, the Minister may issue a certificate of
incorporation setting forth the corporate name of the
corporation, the amount of the capital of the corporation,
the number of shares into which the same is divided, and
the amount in par value of each share, and that the lia-
bility of each shareholder in the corporation is limited to
payment up by such shareholder of the par value of the
share or shares subscribed for or acquired by such share-
holder:

"(5.) Upon the issuance of a Certificate of Incorporation the
subscribers of the Memorandum of Association, together
with such other persons as may from time to time become
members of the Corporation, shall be a body corporate by
the name contained in the Memorandum of Association and
Certificate of Incorporation, capable forthwith of exercis-
ing all the functions of a body corporate, and having per-
petual succession, a common seal, power to contract and be
contracted with, sue and be sued, to elect or appoint officers
of the corporation, to delegate functions and authorities
by power of attorney under the common seal of the cor-
poration, to increase the capital of the company from time
to time by the creation and issuance of further shares,
subject to and with the approval of the Minister first had
and obtained; to acquire by purchase, lease, exchange or
otherwise, lands, tenements, buildings and hereditaments
of any tenure or description, and any estate or interest
therein, and any rights over or connected with land, and
to sell or otherwise dispose of, exchange, lease, rent, mort-
gage or otherwise encumber lands, tenements, buildings
and hereditaments of any tenure or description, and
any estate or interest therein, and any rights over
or connected with land; to purchase and other-
wise acquire and deal in, hold, sell, lease, mortgage and
hypothecate real and personal property of all kinds; to
carry on the business of a manufacturer of all mercantile
commodities and merchandise, and of a general merchant