Meetings of share-
holders, where to be
held and how called.

1893.9.3 Sec. sub.

Power of Trustees

row money.

binding upon the Company, the Company, by resolution of the stockholders, to be passed by a vote representing not less than three-fifths of the stock actually issued, and to be passed at a meeting of which not less than five days' notice shall be given, stating that it is called under section 3 of this Act, may declare that any person or persons theretofore acting or assuming to act as Trustees (naming them) are the Trustees and Directors of the Company, and by the same or another resolution may confirm any act within the corporate powers of the Company done by them as such Trustees, although in excess of the usual powers of trustees, and thereupon and thereafter the persons declared by such resolution to be such Trustees shall from the date of their assuming to act as Trustees, or from a date to be named in such resolution, be, and be deemed to have been, and shall be, the Trustees and Directors of the Company, and their acts as aforesaid shall be valid and binding upon the Company.

4. Whenever any meeting of the stockholders or shareholders of the Company is to be held, either under the provisions of the "Companies' Act, 1890," or of this Act, the same shall be held in the city, town, or place where the Company's principal place of business is situate, and notice of any meeting shall be given by publication of such notice in not less than five successive issues of some daily newspaper published in the city, or town, or place where the principal place of business is situate, or if there be no daily newspaper published there, then by sticking up a copy of such notice in a conspicuous place outside the principal place of business aforesaid, and by inserting a copy in two issues of a weekly newspaper, if there be one published in such city, town, or place, or if none, then in five successive issues of a daily newspaper published nearest to the city, town, or place of the principal place of business. Any notice must purport to be signed by the Secretary (if there be one) or by one of the Trustees, or persons assuming to act as Trustees.

5. Unless there is some restriction to the contrary in the special or Directors to bor- Act, the Trustees or Directors of every Company heretofore incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under special Act of the Legislature shall have power (with the assent of the shareholders representing not less than two-thirds of the capital stock of the Company) to borrow money to such extent as they may think necessary, and may secure the repayment of such moneys, together with interest thereon, by such form of mortgage or debenture, and subject to such terms and conditions, and payable in such time or times as may be thought desirable. 6. This Act may be cited as the "Companies' Act (1890) Amendment Act, 1892."

Short title.

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

[23rd April, 1892.]

WHEREAS certain persons have been accustomed to make use of

the Provincial coat of arms, or of imitations thereof, in the course of their business or occupation, which practice tends to deceive the public and to bring Her Majesty's Government and authority in this Province into disrepute :

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Arms.

1. No person shall, after the commencement of this Act, assume or Unlawful to use use, in the course of his trade, occupation, or calling, or otherwise Provincial Coat of howsoever, the Provincial coat of arms, as now in use in the various executive departments of the Province, or any design in imitation of the same, or calculated to deceive by its resemblance thereto, or any paper or other material upon which the same or any design in imitation thereof, or calculated to deceive as aforesaid, may be or is stamped, engraved, printed, or otherwise marked; but nothing herein shall affect the accustomed use of the same by the members of the Legislative Assembly, or by duly authorized officers of the Provincial Government.

2. Any person offending against the provisions of the foregoing Penalty. section shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered in a summary manner before any two or more Justices of the Peace, and in accordance with the provisions of "An Act respecting Summary Proceedings before Justices of the Peace," 52 Vic., cap. 26.

Exemption.

Short title.

3. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, upon being satisfied that the justice of any particular case warrants such a course, to exempt any person from the preceding sections of this Act, for any period not to exceed one year from the passage of this Act. 4. This Act may be cited as the "Provincial Coat of Arms Act, 1892."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

C. A., 1888, c. 22.

HE

[24th February, 1892.]

ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Constitution Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1892."

2. The "Constitution Act" is hereby amended by inserting after

section 33 of the said Act the following section:—

"33A. Nothing in this Act contained shall apply or extend to render Removes certain disineligible or disqualify as a member of the Legislative Assembly

"(a.) Any shareholder or director in, or trustee of, any incorporated company having a contract or agreement with the Government of the Province; (but no such shareholder, director or trustee may vote at any general or special meeting of the company, or of the directors or trustees, for the making of such contract or agreement); or

"(b.) Any person on whom the completion of any contract or agree

ment, expressed or implied, devolves by descent, or limitation,
or by marriage, or as devisee, legatee, executor, or adminis-
trator, until twelve months have elapsed after the same has so
devolved upon him; or

"(c.) Any contractor for the loan of money, or of securities for the
payment of money to the Government of British Columbia,
under the authority of the Legislature, after public competition,
or respecting the purchase or payment of the public stock of
debentures of British Columbia, on terms common to all
persons."

qualifications.

3. Section 2 of the Constitution Amendment Act, 1891," is hereby amended in its sixteenth line by inserting between "Victoria" and Electoral" the word "City."

CiAy.”

4. The amendments enacted by this Act shall not be construed as altering the law, but as declaratory thereof, and shall be read with and form part of, and shall be deemed to have always formed part of, the "Constitution Act."

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.