Procedure at meetings. Who entitled to vote 10. The procedure of the business meetings of the Church shall be governed by the rules and usages of the Parliament of Canada, in so far as the same are applicable; provided, always that such rules and usages may be varied at any meeting by a vote of the majority of the members present at such meeting entitled to vote on all matters touching the property of the Church. 11. All members of the said Church shall be entitled to vote on matters pertaining to Church property and for the election of trustees. Chap. 219, Acts 1906, amended. CHAPTER 134. An Act to Incorporate the Victoria Presbyterian (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D. 1922.) Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Chapter 219 of the Acts of 1906 is amended by inserting after the words "Victoria Presbyterian Church, Broughton," the words "and Birch Grove," wherever the words "Victoria Presbyterian Church, Broughton" appear in this Act. CHAPTER 135. An Act to Incorporate the Waterville and Cambridge (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D. 1922.) Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Alexander Durno and J. R. Webster, of Cam- Incorporation. bridge, in the County of King's, and F. M. Chute, of Waterville, in the same County, hereinafter called the corporators, and such persons as may become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, shall be a body corporate by the name of "The Waterville and Cambridge Electric Light and Power Company, Limited." 2. The objects of the Company shall be: (a) the development of hydraulic power, its transformation into electric energy and transmission for use for public and private lighting, for power purposes, for manufacturing industries, heating, domestic and other useful purposes; (b) to acquire, construct, maintain and operate water power or powers, with all dams, flumes, canals, viaducts, pipes, ponds, penstocks, appurtenances and easements. To acquire, construct, maintain and operate all plant, plant houses, buildings, mills, manufactories, water wheels, generators and all machinery desirable within the general undertaking of the Company; (c) to erect, subject to the supervision of the commissioner of streets or superintendent of highways for the municipalities in their respective districts, and maintain the usual wires upon poles along every and all ways, highways and streets, for the purpose of conveying the said electric current from the point or points where the same is generated to the point or points of sale or consumption; Objects. Power and authority. Boundaries of district. Agreements to etc. (d) to enter into a contract with any electric light, power, tram or other company to supply the current they may require in their business and for the use of their poles and wire and apparatus for distribution and other purposes; (e) to purchase, lease and otherwise acquire, hold, use and enjoy real personal property of every description and to sell, convey, mortgage, let or otherwise dispose of the same; (f) to construct, maintain and operate telephone lines in connection of the works of the Company; (g) to sell or otherwise dispose of the whole or any branch or part of the Company's business or property to any company or person or persons carrying on or formed or associated for the purpose of carrying out any objects similar to those of the Company. 3. The Company shall have power and authority to do any matter or thing necessary to carry out any of the above objects or incidental or conductive to the same, subject, however, to the laws of the Province. 4. For the purposes of this Act the boundaries of the district shall be as follows: Beginning at the east tine of land of Perry Dodge and running west along the old post road through Waterville as far as the west line of Arch Skinner's farm, then branching off the above named post road at the Presbyterian Church in Waterville and running as far west as D. L. Rechfords on the north post road; thence running north from Cook's store to Thos. Rawdings, then commencing at L. J. Whitman's and running south to W. A. Forseyth's commencing at Cambridge corner and running north to Cox's Bridge. apply towns, 5. It shall be lawful for the said Company, when duly organized and in operation, to supply any town, village, community or persons in or immediately contiguous to said district with electric light and power, both for public use, and the Company is hereby author ized to enter into such agreements upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. 6. The capital stock of the Company shall be Capital stock. twenty thousand dollars, in shares of $100 each or same multiple thereof. Aliens may be 7. Aliens, whether resident in the Province of shareholders or elsewhere as well as British subjects, may be share-officers. holders, officers or directors of the Company, and shall be entitled with British subjects to all rights as such shareholders, directors or officers, and any aliens or foreign or domestic corporations who are or may be holders of the bonds, stocks or debentures of the said Company shall for all purposes have the same rights, privileges and powers in respect thereto as if they were British subjects. not responsible etc., of com 8. The shareholders of the Company as such shall Shareholders not be held responsible for any act, default or liability for liabilities, whatsoever of the Company, or for any engagement, pany. claim, payment, loss, injury, transaction, matter or thing whatsoever relating to or connected with the Company beyond the amount unpaid on their respective shares in the capital stock thereof. lity. 9. No member or director of the Company shall be Limited liabi liable in his person or separate estate for the debts or liabilities of the Company to a greater amount in the whole than the amount of the stock held by him, deducing therefrom the amount actually paid on account of such stock, unless he shall have rendered himself liable for a greater sum by becoming surety for the debts of the Company, but no shareholder who may have transferred his interest in the stock of the Company shall cease to be liable for any contract of the Company entered into before date of such transfer, so as any action in respect thereof shall be brought within six months after such transfer 10. The number of directors of the Company shall Directors. be not more than five, and the directors from time to time may, by by-laws, delegate such of their powers as they see fit to an executive committee, consisting of not less than three members of the Board. Head office. Provisional directors. Director must be shareholder. Transfer of shares. Expropriation; arbitration. 11. The head office of the Company shall be at Cambridge, in the County of King's, or such other place in Nova Scotia as the Company may by by-law appoint, and all meetings of the shareholders and directors of the Company shall be held at or near the head office of said Company. 12. The persons named in the first section of this Ach shall be the provisional directors of the Company, and shall hold office as such until directors are elected at the first annual meeting, to be held as hereinafter provided. The said provisional directors shall have all the authority and power in relation to the affairs of the Company which directors of a company usually have, and shall have full power to open stock and to receive payments thereon; to call a general meeting of the subscribers for stock at such time and place as they shall determine, of which ten days' notice shall be mailed to each stockholder. They shall also have power to do all things that may be necessary to organize the Company, and to carry on its business, to issue bonds and debentures of the Company as hereinafter provided, to make by-laws for the government and management of the Company, and make all necessary contracts for the building and completion of the plant and to put the same in complete working order and efficiency. 13. No person shall be elected a director of the Company unless he shall be a shareholder in his own right and shall have paid all calls thereon. 14. The transfer of shares in the Company shall be valid and effectual only from the time such transfer is made and entered in the books of the Company. 15. Whenever it shall be necessary that the Company should be vested in lands within the said district or on or along the Tupper Branch flowing out of Lake Tupper, in the said County of King's, upon which to erect and construct dams, flumes, reservoirs and ponds, or to acquire land for any purpose in connection with the Company's works, or whenever it shall be necessary for the purpose of construction and maintaining and operating the works of the Company and no agreement can be made for the purpose of the same, |