CHAPTER 155. An Act to Authorize the Lake Copper Mining Company, Preamble. Shareholders may authorize sale Deeds, etc., how executed. 2 Deeds, etc., how executed. WHEREAS, the Lake Copper Mining Company, Limited, hereinafter called "the company," was incorporated under the "Nova Scotia Companies' Act"; And whereas, the the company has acquired large mineral lands and areas, and are now developing the same; And whereas, the company desires to have the right and power, should an opportunity offer, to sell or dispose of any mining or other property that it may own or have any interest in, and to give in case of a sale a good and sufficient title; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. The shareholders of the company, at a meeting either called and held for the purpose, or at any annual meeting of the company, by a two-thirds vote of the shares of the company represented at such meeting in person or by proxy, may authorize and empower the directors, or a majority of them, to sell, convey, assign, transfer and set over to any person or persons, corporation or corporations, all or any part of any property that the company may now own or hereafter own, or in which the company may now have, or hereafter have, any interest, including all property, real, personal and mixed, for such sum or price, or for part stock in any other company and part cash, or for any other consideration, and upon such terms as to payment as to the directors may seem advisable. 2. A majority of the directors may authorize the president and secretary or other directors of the -company to execute for and in the name of the com- legalized. 3. All contracts, agreements, deeds and documents Contracts, etc. filed by the company with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, or filed in the office of the commissioner of Public Works and Mines, shall be valid and effectual, notwithstanding the same were not filed within the time required by any statute of the province. meetings. 4. Due notice shall be given of the annual or any Noti e of special meeting called for the purpose of considering the vote under the first section of this act by mailing a written notice, setting forth the time, place and purposes of such meeting, with postage prepaid, to each of the registered shareholders of the company. and transfers 5. Notwithstanding any clerical or other errors Conveyances that have occurred and do appear in the transfer or legalized. conveyance on file in the office of the Commissioner of Works and Mines, conveying or transferring from James Stewart to the company the property now held by it, and not withstanding that a power of attorney, authorizing Alexander Fraser to transfer the property formerly held by him and now held by the company to Hector H. McKay, has been lost or mislaid, it is hereby declared that all conveyances and transfers of the property now held by the company, and on file in the office of the Commissioner of Works and Mines, shall be held to be valid and sufficient for the purposes for which the said documents and conveyances of transfer were made. CHAPTER 156. An Act to Incorporate "Lodge Chebucto," Number 223, of the Sons of England Benefit Society. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Incorporation. 1. F. P. Hayward, Charles Billington, William Reeves, John E. Hills, A. Brownlee, Joseph Wilson, William T. Peckham, all of Halifax, in the County of Halifax, and such other persons as are or shall become members of the lodge hereby incorporated according the to rules and by-laws thereof, are created a body corporate, under the name of Lodge Chebucto, Number 223, Sons of England Benefit Society, for the purpose of owning the property and managing the affairs of the lodge. May sell mortgage. By-laws. 2. The property, real and personal, of the lodge, and all debts due thereto are vested in the corporation hereby created, who may purchase, take and hold real estate not exceeding in value ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), and may sell, mortgage, lease, convey, or otherwise dispose of the same for the benefit of the lodge. 3. The said corporation may make, alter or amend such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the control and management of the said corporation, as are not inconsistent with the laws of the province, but such by-laws, rules and regulations, and all alterations or amendments thereto, shall be subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council, Power to make 4. The said corporation shall have power to make contracts, etc. contracts for the purposes of the said corporation, and to own, hold and enjoy personal property for the purposes of the said corporation, to sue and be sued in the corporate name, and the corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to sue for and collect all entrance fees, subscriptions, assessments and all other accounts and moneys due the said corporation, according to the by-laws, rules and regulations of the said corporation. CHAPTER 157. An Act to Incorporate the Master Plumbers' Association of Nova Scotia. WHEREAS, the persons hereinafter named have, Preamble. by petition, set forth that it is desirable that they, together with such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them, be incorporated into an association by the name of "The Master Plumbers' Association of Nova Scotia," having for its objects and purposes the following, namely: (a) Promoting the advancement of the trade in its (b) Protection against imposition, injustice and (c) The education of its members and the im- (d) The dissemination, among the people, of (e) The mutual assistance of its members. And whereas, the said persons have prayed that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the petition as follows; Incorporation. May purchase, tec Negotiable paper By-laws. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council,. and Assembly, as follows: 1. James G. Crump, John Meyers, John McFatridge,. Michael Burns, G. A. Wooten, George Perrier, W. S. Craig, John O'Toole, Richard Kinsman, James Farquhar, all of Halifax, in the County of Halifax; Frank Dexter, of Truro, in the County of Colchester, and John Ritchie, of Dartmouth, in the County of Halifax, and all other persons as hereafter may be associated with them, shall be and they are hereby constituted. a body politic and corporate under the name of "The Master Plumbers' Association of Nova Scotia." 2. The association shall have the right to purchase, acquire and hold all lands and property necessary in order to carry out the objects and purposes for which incorporation is sought, provided that the value of the real estate held at any one time for the actual use of the association shall not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000); and may mortgage, sell, lease, rent, assign or otherwise dispose of the same as may be deemed expedient and in the interests of the corporation. 3. The association shall have and possess the power to make or become parties to promissory notes, bills of exchange and negotiable paper made, drawn, accepted or endorsed or otherwise executed in accordance with any by-law of the association made in that behalf, and every such instrument executed as aforesaid shall in no case require the seal of the association to be affixed; and no officer of the association so making or drawing or accepting or endorsing any such instrument for the association shall be individually liable thereupon. 4. The constitution, rules and by-laws of the association now in force respecting the admission and expulsion of members and the management and conduct generally of its affairs and concerns, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the laws of this province, shall be the rules and by-laws of this association, provided, always, that the corporation may from time to time alter, repeal or change in whole or in part |