When company may commence business.

Act ceases and determines.

and shall have its name, with the word "limited" after it mentioned in legible characters in all notices, advertisements and other official publications of the Company and on all bills of exchange, promissory notes cheques, orders for money or goods purporting to be drawn, made, signed, given or endorsed by or on behalf of the Company and in all bills, invoices, receipts, letters and other writings used in the transaction of the business of the Company, and the Company shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for every neglect or omission of the name of the Company in any of the above cases.

27. The said Company may commence business as soon as fifty per cent. of the capital stock is subscribed and twenty-five per cent. of the amount subscribed is paid up.

28. This Act shall cease and determine if active operations are not commenced and continued under it within two years from the date of its passing.

CHAPTER 136.

An Act to Incorporate the West Dublin Hall Com

pany.

(Passed the 13th day of April, A. D. 1922.)

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. Samuel Hurshman, Lemuel Corkum and James Incorporation. Veinot, the trustees of the hall known as the West Dublin Hall, and all persons interested in said hall at the time of the passing of this Act, are constituted a body corporate under the name of the "West Dublin Hall Company," hereinafter called the Company.

ed.

2. All real and personal property whatsoever Property vestwhich at the time of the passing of this Act was vested in or held by the persons named in the first section of this Act as trustees as aforesaid is vested in the Company hereby created.

be

3. The objects of the Company are to hold, improve, enlarge, repair, conduct and manage the said hall and the doing of all such other things as may incidental or conducive to the attainment of those objects.

Objects.

may be used.

4. The hall shall be used for meetings, public or For what hall private, and for such other purposes as the Company or its directors may deem expedient.

directors,

5. The affairs of the Company shall be managed Management, by a board of three directors to be appointed at each annual meeting. annual meeting of the Company from the members of the Company. The three persons named in the first section of this Act shall be the first or provisional directors of the Company and shall hold office until their successors are appointed. The first annual meeting shall be held on the last working day of the year or on such other day as the directors shall nominate and appoint by notice in writing and posted in the post office of West Dublin.

6. No member of the Company shall be liable for the debts or liabilities of the Company unless he shall have rendered himself personally responsible therefor.

7. The Company may at any annual meeting or at any special meeting called for the purpose, adopt bylaws regulating any matter connected with the internal affairs of the Company. A copy of such bylaws shall be filed in the office of the Provincial Secretary and they or any of them may at any time be disallowed by the Governor-in-Council.

8. The capital stock of the Company shall be $2000 divided into shares of the par value of $20. The stock shall be sold or allotted to such extent and in such manner as the present holdings, of the persons interested as mentioned in the first section of this Act, determine. The remainder of shares to be sold, allotted or distributed as a meeting of the Company decides.

9. No member may transfer or sell any shares without giving notice of such intention to the directors, who may buy such shares for the Company if the majority of the directors decide, but in no case shall the shares so bought exceed the par value.

10. The Company may sue and be sued in its own

name.

11. The Company may have a corporate seal and shall have power and authority by its proper officers to make and execute any deed, mortgage, lease or other conveyance of real or personal estate that may be held by the Company.

CHAPTER 137.

An Act to Amend Chapter 62, Acts of 1881, entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the Committee of Management of the St. John's Presbyterian Church in Halifax, as amended by Chapter 216, Acts of 1920.

(Passed the 18th day of April, A. D. 1922.)

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. Section 1 of Chapter 216 of the Acts of 1920 is Section 1. amended by striking out the figure 63 and substituting therefor the figure 62.

2. Strike out the figure 63 in the title of said Chap-Title of Chap. ter 216, Acts of 1920, and substitute therefor the figure 216, 1920, 62.

amended.

3. This Act shall be read and construed as if it had Act retroactive. formed part of the original Act.

CHAPTER 138.

An Act to Amend Chapter 71, Acts of 1881, entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the Nova Scotia Wood Pulp and Paper Company, Limited," as amended.

(Passed the 18th day of April, A. D. 1922.)

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

acted by Chap.

1. Section 18 of Chapter 71 of the Acts of 1881, en- Sec. 18, Chap. titled "An Act to Incorporate the Nova Scotia Wood 71, 1881, as enPulp and Paper Company, Limited," as that section is 204, 1920, reenacted by Chapter 204 of the Acts of 1920, is repealed tuted. and the following substituted therefor:

pealed, substi

Certain privileges and rights not conferred.

.. (1) prevail

18. (1) Nothing in this or any other Act shall be held or construed as giving to or conferring on or having given to or conferred on the Company any privilege or right by any act or omission,—

(a) to obstruct or interrupt in any way whatsoever or cause to be obstructed or interrupted in any way whatsoever, whether temporarily or permanently, the construction, maintenance or free use of any public highway or any part thereof or any matter or thing appertaining thereto or connected therewith;

(b) to injure or damage or injuriously affect in any way whatsoever or cause to be injured or damaged or injuriously affected in any way whatsoever any public highway or any part thereof or anything appertaining thereto or connected. therewith;

Provisions of 8. 2. If the provisions of the next preceding subwhere incon- section are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this or any other Act the provisions of the next preceding sub-section shall prevail.

sistent with other Acts.

Public High

Act subject to 3. This Act and every other Act relating to the ways Act; N. Company shall be read and construed as subject in all 1919 and Power respects to the provisions of the Public Highways Act, Comsn. Act. The Nova Scotia Water Act, 1919, and the Power

S. Water Act,

Commission Act since those Acts were enacted respectively, and in case of conflict the provisions of the Public Highways Act, The Nova Scotia Water Act, 1919, and the Power Commission Act shall prevail.