18. The directors may from time to time make, alter, By-laws. amend or repeal by-laws, rules or regulations, as they may deem necessary and proper for the management of the affairs of the company generally; but every such by-law and repeal, amendment, or re-enactment thereof, unless in the meantime confirmed at a general meeting of the company duly called for that purpose, shall only have force until the next annual meeting of the company, and in default of confirmation thereat shall at and from that time cease to have force. Provided always, that the directors or one fourth part in value of the shareholders of the company shall at all times have a right to call a special meeting thereof for the transaction of any business specified in such written requisition and notice as they may issue to that effect, and ten days' notice of every such special meeting shall be given by such notice being mailed postage prepaid and registered to each shareholder.

served.

19. A notice or other document served by the company Notices, how on a member shall be taken to be served at the time when the registered letter containing it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post; to prove the fact and time of service it shall be sufficient to prove that such letter was properly addressed and registered, and was put in the post office, and the time that it was put in, and the time requisite for its delivery in the ordinary course of post.

of shares.

20. No assignment or transfer of any shares shall be Transter valid or effectual until such transfer is entered and registered in a book to be kept for that purpose by such officer, as the directors may from time to time designate.

transferred in.

21. The directors may decline to register any transfer Shares not of shares belonging to any shareholder, who is indebted to certain cases. the company.

situated.

22. The company shall at all times have an office at Blue Office, where Mountain aforesaid, which shall be the legal domicile of the company, and notice of any change therein shall be advertised in the Royal Gazette, one issue, and may establish such offices and agencies as they may deem expedient.

23. The shall have power to purchase, lease or company otherwise acquire and hold all such real estate, easements and rights therein, as may from time to time be deemed requisite for the purposes of the company; and may also sell, lease or otherwise dispose of, and to mortgage, pledge or encumber such real estate or any part or parts thereof,

Power to acquire

property.

"affixing."

from time to time, and in such manner and on such terms as may be deemed expedient, and the directors may at their discretion, acquire real and personal property, including easements in real estate, patents, franchises and electrical instruments, telephone lines and equipments or other property, including poles and labor, and pay for them in the stock of the company, and the stock so issued shall be deemed fully paid up.

Painting" and 24. The company shall paint or affix, and shall keep painted or affixed, its name, with the word "limited" after it, or forming part of said name, on the outside of every office or place in which the business of the company is carried on, in a conspicuous position, in letters easily legible, and shall have its name, with the word "limited" after it, or forming part of its name, 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 indorsed, 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, with the word "limited" after it, or forming part of said name, in any of the above cases.

Company may stop service in certain cases.

Workmen may enter houses.

25. If any person, firm or corporation supplied by the company with any telephonic instruments or any telephonic service, neglects to pay the rents, or charges due or payable to the company at any time when the same or any portion thereof shall become due, the company or any person acting under its authority, on giving three days' previous notice may stop the said electrical service by cutting off the service wires or conductors, and may recover the rent, rate or charge or the ratable proportion thereof due, owing, payable or accruing up to such time in any competent court, notwithstanding any contract to furnish for a longer time.

26. In any case where the company shall have cut off the conductors entering the premises of any subscriber and shall have stopped the telephonic service, the said company or its duly authorized agent or workmen, upon giving twenty-four hours' previous notice to the person in charge or the occupier thereof, may enter the house, building or premises between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, making as little disturbance and causing as little inconvenience as possible, and

may remove and take away any wire, conductor or telephonic instrument or apparatus the property of or belonging to the said company, and any servant of the company duly authorized thereto may between the hours aforesaid enter into any house where any of its instruments, apparatus or wire may be for the purpose of renewing, repairing or making good such instruments, wire or apparatus used for the purpose of said telephonic service, without let or hindrance by the proprietor or occupier of said building.

not subject

27. No telephonic instrument, wire, apparatus or Instruments material of or belonging to the company supplied or placed to distress. upon the premises of any person, firm or corporation by the said company for the purposes of its said business, shall be subject to distress for rent of the premises where the same may be used, nor shall the same be taken in execution under any warrant or process for the collection of taxes against the person in whose possession the same may be or be subject to any mechanics' lien.

certain cases.

28. No person shall, without the authority of the com- Wires cut in pany, break, molest, injure or destroy any instrument, wire, fuse or fitting, post, line, material or property of or belonging to the said company, or shall in any way obstruct, disturb or impede the action, operation or working of any line or instrument of the company, or in any way interfere with any workmen or employee of the company in the due execution of any duty authorized by the company or by the provisions of this Act. Any person moving a building or doing any other lawful thing which will require the temporary cutting or taking down the wires or poles of the company shall notify the company of their intention so to

do.

And if the company neglect or refuse to cut or remove such wires or poles in such manner as to permit such building to be removed, or other thing to be done within fortyeight hours after such notice, such person may cut or take down the company's wires or poles doing no unnecessary damage thereby.

destroying

29. Every person who wilfully or maliciously violates Penalty for the provisions of the next preceding sections of this Act property of shall for each offence, on conviction thereof, be liable to a company. penalty not exceeding forty dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one month, or both, at the discretion of the justice or justices of the peace before whom the conviction is had.

Conductor not to be laid.

Penalty.

Penalties, how collected.

Act, when in operation.

30. No person shall lay or cause to be laid any conductor the communicator of which shall communicate with any conductor belonging to the company, or in any way obtain, utilize or use the wires or electric current or telephonic service of the said company without the consent thereto of the company.

31. Any persons who wilfully or maliciously violate the provisions of the last preceding section shall for each offence be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, and also a further sum of forty dollars for each day during which such communication remains, which penalty, together with the cost of suit in that behalf incurred, may be recovered on complaint of any officer or member of the company.

32. The penalties imposed by the next preceding section of this Act may be collected and recovered under the provisions of chapter 161, Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1900, "The Nova Scotia Summary Convictions Act."

33. This Act shall not go into operation until fifty per cent. of the capital stock is subscribed and twenty-five per cent. of the capital stock paid up.

CHAPTER 150.

An Act to amend Chapter 210 of the Acts of 1903, entitled, "An Act to incorporate the Cumberland Telephone

Company, Limited."

Section 4 amended.

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

1. Section four of chapter 210 of the Acts of 1903, is amended by striking out of the tenth and eleventh lines of said section the words "in that part of Cumberland on the eastern side of the Intercolonial Railway provided," and substitutiong therefor the words "in the said county of Cumberland, provided such powers shall be exercised in any incorporated town in said county under the supervision and control of the council of such town and."

increase capital.

2. The said company shall have power to increase its Power to` -capital stock from time to time, by the issue of new shares to any amount not exceeding sixty thousand dollars.

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

Frederick W. Wickwire of Kentville, Kings county, Incorporation. William R. Potter of Canning, Kings county, and Thomas Lydiard of Kentville, Kings county, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Union Printing Company, limited, with a common seal, and hereinafter called the company.

2. The company shall have power and authority to do Powers. any matter or thing necessary, incidental or conducive to carrying out any of the following objects or purposes for which it is created:

(a) The acquiring, owning, leasing, selling, printing or publishing of any daily, tri-weekly or weekly newspaper or newspapers, or any magazine, pamphlet or book, the establishment and carrying on of a general job printing and publishing business, with the power of holding, acquiring, leasing, owning and mortgaging such real and personal estate as may be necessary for the efficient conduct of such printing and publishing business.

(b) The acquiring, owning, leasing and selling of any patent rights or copyrights of or relating to any newspaper, book, pamphlet or magazine.