Public Act. &c. XXIV. The Interpretation Act shall apply to this Act, nor shall enactment hereinafter to be made for the purpose of car rying out its several provisions according to their true intent, be deemed an infringement of the rights of any of the Companies aforesaid or of any person or party; and this Act shall be deemed a Public Act. SCHEDULE A. Know all men by these presents that I, (insert the name of the wife also, if she is to release her dower, Witness my (or our) hand (or hands) and seal (or seals this day of one thousand eight hundred and A. B. [L. S.] C. D. [L. S.] Preamble. First general Signed, sealed and delivered in САР. СХІІІ. An Act to amend and extend the Charter of the W [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] HEREAS the Amherstburgh and St. Thomas Railway Company have prayed for amendments to their Act Incorporation, and it is expedient to grant their prayer Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consen of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts follows: I. Notwithstanding any thing in the seventh section of meeting under Act passed in the eighteenth year of the Her Majesty's Re is V. e. 182, and intituled, An Act to incorporate the Amherstburgh and Thomas Railway Company, as soon as when to be held. two hundred and fi thousand thousand pounds of the Capital Stock of the said Company shall have been subscribed, and ten per cent. paid thereon, in the manner required by the said Act, a general meeting of the Shareholders shall be held at the Town of Amherstburgh or St. Thomas, or at some intermediate place, for the purpose of The said Act electing Directors and putting the said Act into effect, as if amended in the said sum had been that fixed by the said section, instead of the sum of five hundred thousand pounds. this respect. &c. II. And whereas it may be necessary for the said Company Company may to possess gravel pits, and lands containing deposits of gravel, hold land for as well as lands for stations and other purposes, at convenient gravel pits, places along their line of Railway, for constructing and keeping in repair, and for carrying on the business of the said Railway, and as such gravel pits or deposits cannot at all times be procured, without purchasing the whole lot of land whereon such deposits may be found; it is therefore enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Company, and they are hereby authorized, from time to time, to purchase, have, hold, take, receive, use and enjoy, along the line of the said Railway or separated therefrom, and if separated therefrom, then with the necessary right of way thereto, any lands, tenements and hereditaments which it shall please Her Majesty, or any person or persons, or bodies corporate, to give, grant, sell or convey unto, and to the use of, or in trust for, the said Company their successors and assigns; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Company to establish stations or workshops on any of such lots or blocks of land, and from time to time, by deed of bargain and sale or otherwise, to grant, bargain, sell or convey any portion of such lands not necessary to be retained for the purposes of the said Company. other, under III. The said Company are hereby empowered to unite with Company may any other Railway Company, whose Railway intersects that of unite with any the said Company, or touches a place which their road also 16 V. cc. 39 & touches, and to such Union the provisions of the Acts passed 76. in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and chaptered respectively thirty-nine and seventy-six, shall extend and apply. commencing IV. The Railway and works of the said Company shall be Period for commenced within three years and completed within six years and completafter the passing of this Act; any thing in the Act hereby ing the Railamended to the contrary notwithstanding. V. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. way. Public Act. CAP. Preamble. Certain per ated, CAP. CXIV. An Act to incorporate the Queenston and St. W [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] HEREAS certain persons have petitioned that an Act may be passed authorizing the construction of a Railway from Queenston in the County of Lincoln to or near to St. Catharines in the same County, so as to form a Railway connection between the said places as near as may be; And whereas a Railway so constructed would tend to the improvement of the section of country through which it would pass : Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: I. Joseph P. Boomer, Richard Woodruff, Senior, Joseph sons incorpor- Wynn, Peter B. Clement, Thomas Merritt, Calvin S. Phelps, W. H. Merritt, Junior, William A. Chisholm, James C. Woodruff, J. C. Rykert, William Woodruff, Job Chubbuck, and Adam Brown, Esquires, together with such other person or persons, Corporations and Municipalities as shall, under the provisions of this Act, become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, shall be and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic, by and under the name of the "Queenston and Saint Catharines Railway Company." Corporate name. Certain II The several clauses of the Railway Clauses Consolidation clauses of 14 Act with respect to the first, second, third and fourth clauses & 15 V. c. 51, thereof, and also the several clauses of the said last mentioned incorporated with this Act. Act with respect to "Interpretation," "Incorporation," " Pow Line of Rail ers," "Plans and Surveys," "Lands and their valuation," "Highways and Bridges," "Fences," "Tolls," "General Meetings," "Directors, their election and duties,"" Shares and their transfer," "Municipalities," "Shareholders," "Actions for indemnity and fines and penalties and their prosecution," "Working of the Railway," and "General Provisions," shail be incorporated with this Act, and shall accordingly apply to the said Company and the said Railway, except only in so far as they may be inconsistent with the express enactments hereof; and the expression "this Act" when used herein, shall be understood to include the provisions of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act which are incorporated with this Act as aforesaid. III. The said Company and their servants and agents shall way defined. have full power under this Act to lay out, construct and complete a Railway connection between Queenston in the County of Lincoln and St. Catharines in the same County, with fuli power power to pass over any portion of the intermediate country, to intersect and unite with the Great Western or any other Railway at or near St. Catharines, in the manner provided in the ninth section of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act. IV. Deeds and Conveyances under this Act for the lands to Form of Deeds be conveyed to the said Company for the purposes of this Act, to the Compashall and may, as far as the title to the said lands or circum- ny and mode of registering stances of the parties making such conveyance will admit, be them. made in the form given in the Schedule to this Act marked A., and all Registrars are hereby required to register in their Registry Books such deeds on the production thereof and proof of execution, without any memorial, and to minute every such entry on the deed; the said Company are to pay the Registrar Fee to Regiefor so doing the sum of two shillings and six and no more. pence, trar. V. From and after the passing of this Act the said Joseph P. Provisional Boomer, Richard Woodruff, Joseph Wynn, Peter B. Clement, Directors. Thomas Merritt, Calvin S. Phelps, James C. Woodruff, J. C. Rykert, William Woodruff and Adam Brown, Esquires, shall be Provisional Directors of the said Company for carrying into effect the object and purposes of this Act. VI. It shall and may be lawful for the Provisional Directors Vacancies or the time being of the said Company or a majority of them, among thein o supply the place or places of any of their number from time how filled. to time dying or declining to act as such Provisional Director or Directors, out of the several subscribers for stock in their said Railway to the amount of at least two hundred and fifty pounds provincial currency each, during the period of their continuance in office; and such Provisional Directors, except Their powers is hereinafter is excepted, shall be and they are hereby invest- and duties. ed with all the powers, rights, privileges and indemnities, and hey shall be and are hereby made subject unto the like restricions, as the elected Directors of the said Company, upon their being elected by the stockholders of the said Company as hereinafter provided, would under the provisions of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act and of this Act, become invested with or subject unto respectively. Stockholders. VII. When and so soon as shares to an amount equivalent to First general sixty thousand pounds provincial currency in the capital stock meeting of of the said Company shall be taken, and ten pounds per centum hereon shall have been paid into some of the chartered Banks of this Province, it shall and may be lawful for the Provisional Directors of the said Company for the time being, to call a meeting at the Town of Queenston or St. Catharines, of the subcribers for stock in the said Company, and who have paid ten per centum thereon as aforesaid, for the purpose of electing Directors of the said Company; Provided always, that if the Proviso. aid Provisional Directors shall neglect or omit to call such neeting, then the same may be called by any five of the holders Proviso. Election of By-laws. Proviso. Term of office of Directors. Annual general meeting. Special gene ral meetings and powers thereof. Capital how to be raised. of shares in the said Company holding among them not less than an amount equivalent to four thousand pounds provincia! currency; And provided always, that in either case public notice of the time and place of holding such meeting shall be given during one month in some one newspaper published in the Town of St. Catharines; and at such General Meeting the shareholders assembled, with such proxies as shall be present, shall choose seven persons to be Directors of the said Company, being each a proprietor of shares in the said Company to an amount of not less than two hundred and fifty pounds provin cial currency, and shall also proceed to pass such rules, regu lations and By-laws as shall seem to them fit, provided they be not inconsistent with this Act; Provided also that such ten per cent shall not be withdrawn from such Bank or otherwise applied, except for the purposes of such Railway or upon the dissolution of the Company, from any cause whatsoever. VIII. The Directors so elected or those appointed in their stead in case of vacancy, shall remain in office until the first Wednesday in June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight; and on the said first Wednesday in June and on the first Wednesday in June in each year thereafter, or such other day as shall be appointed by any By-law, an Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders shall be held at the office of the Company for the time being, to choose eleven Directors in the room of those whose period of office shall have expired, and generally to transact the business of the Company; but if at any time it should appear to any ten or more of such Shareholders holding together two hundred and fifty shares at least, that a Special General Meeting of the Shareholders is necessary to be held, it shall be lawful for such ten or more of them to cause fifteen days' notice at least to be given thereof, in such newspapers as are herein before provided, or in such manner as the Company shall by any By-law direct or appoint, specifying in such notice the time and place and the reason and intention of such Special Meeting respectively; and the shareholders are hereby authorized to meet pursuant to such notice and proceed to the execution the powers by this Act given to them, with respect to the mat ter so specified only and all such acts of the shareholders the majority of them at such Special Meetings assembled, (such majority not having either as principals or proxies less tha two hundred and fifty shares,) shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the same were done at Annual Meetings. IX. For the purpose of making, constructing and maintainin £100,000, and the Railway and other works necessary for the proper use and enjoyment of the Railway by this Act authorized to be constracted, it shall and may be lawful for the Directors of the sa Company for the time being, to raise in such manner by loan. subscription of Stock, issuing of shares or otherwise, as to the Directors of the said Company, for the time being, shall from time to time seem fit, the sum of one hundred thousand pound |