129, Acts of 1899, 8. Section 2 of said chapter 129 is hereby amended by Section 2 of cap. striking out the word "four in the second line thereof amended. and substituting therefor the word "six." CHAPTER 161. An Act to revive and amend Chapter 140 of the Acts of 1899, entitled, An Act to Incorporate the Canadian National Abattoir Refrigerator Company, Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: chapter repealed 1. Section one of chapter 140 of the Acts of 1899, Section 1 of said entitled, "An Act to incorporate the Canadian National and following Abattoir and Refrigerator Company, limited," is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor : (1) Havelock McC. Hart, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lewis F. Hill, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and Edmund P. Allison, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and such other persons as they may in writing associate with them, their successors, associates and assigns, and such other persons, firms or corporations as may become share or stockholders in the company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of The Canadian National Abattoir and Refrigerator Company, limited, with a common seal, and shall be hereinafter referred to as the company." substituted. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended by adding Section 2 of said thereto the following clause : (m) To carry on the general business of warehousing in all its branches, whether the same be in connection with refrigeration or otherwise. chapter amend ed. 3. Section four of the said Act is hereby repealed and Section 4 repealthe following substituted therefor : ed, following. substituted. Capital stock. Section 8 amended. Section 17 amended. Section 19 re (4) The capital stock of the said company shall be $80,000.00, divided into 8,000 shares of $10.00 each, with power to increase the same to an amount not exceeding $3,000,000, as the wants of the company may require, upon a vote of the majority of the stockholders at a special meeting called for that purpose, or at a general meeting of the company. 4. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words at the end thereof: "If at any time an election of directors be not made, or does not take effect at the proper time, the corporation shall not be held to be thereby dissolved, but such election may take place at any general meeting of the company duly called for that purpose, and the retiring directors shall continue in office until their successors are elected." 5. Section seventeen of said Act, and the sub-sections thereof, are hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor : (17) No director of the company shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the company either as vendor, purchaser, or otherwise, nor shall any such contract, or any contract or arrangement entered into, by, or on behalf of the company with any director of any company, or partnership of or in which any director shall be a member or otherwise interested, be avoided; nor shall any director so contracting, or being such member, or SO interested, be liable to account to this company for any profit realized by such contract or arrangement solely by reason of such director holding that office, or of the fiduciary relation thereby established; but no such director shall vote in respect of any such contract or arrangement, and the nature of his interest must be disclosed by him at the meeting of the board at which the contract or arrangement is determined on, if his interest then exists, or in any other case, at the first meeting of the board after the acquisition of his interest. 6. Section nineteen of the said Act is hereby repealed pealed, following and the following substituted therefor : substituted. Foregoing sec tions, how construed. (19) This Act shall cease and determine if business under it shall not be commenced on or before May 1, 1902. 7. The foregoing sections shall be construed as if originally in the said Act. CHAPTER 162. An Act to amend Chapter 127 of the Acts of 1900, entitled, "An Act to incorporate the Mabou Coal Mining Company, Limited." (Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901). SECTION. SECTION. I. Section 4 of said chapter 127 amended. 2. Section 16 amended. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: chapter 127 1. Section 4 of chapter 127 of the Acts of 1900 is Section 4 of said. amended by striking out the words "two thousand five amended. hundred" in the second and third lines, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "twenty-five thousand." amended. 2. Section 16 of said chapter is amended by adding Section 16 after the word "system" in the second line from the end the words "the company may secure any of the bonds or debentures so issued by a mortgage or deed or deeds of trust, creating such lien, mortgage, charge or incumbrance upon the mining property, assets, franchises, rents and revenues of the company, or any part of them, present or future, or both, as may be set forth in said mortgage or deed or deeds of trust. Such mortgage or deed or deeds of trust may contain the like provisions and confer the like powers as the mortgage or deed or deeds of trust referred to in the foregoing part of this section." CHAPTER 163. An Act to Amend the Charter Incorporating the Annapolis SECTION. (Passed the 4th day of April, A. D., 1901). SECTION. 6. Proceedings when it becomes necessary to expropriate lands. &c. Petition. Further powers conferred on company to build conduits, viaducts, &c. Title to lands expropriated. Payment when property encumbered. 14. Provision respecting injunction. Cars to have right to track, &c. Power to break up and open streets, Power to lease and purchase from 12. 13. Payment of balance. Whereas, the Annapolis Iron Company, limited, was duly incorporated under the provisions of the "Nova Scotia Companies' Act," on the second day of March, 1901; And whereas, said company is desirous of enlarging its powers; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. In addition to the powers now held by said Annapolis Iron Company, limited, the following powers are hereby conferred on said company: Providing that the consent of the council of any such municipality, city or town shall be first obtained. For the purposes and uses of the company, the company shall have power to build, construct or lay conduits, flumes, pipes, and viaducts for the carrying of water in, under, above, across or along streets, roads, highways or any private road or way, field or woodland, and for the purposes aforesaid, may break and open streets, roads, highways or any private road or way in said county of Annapolis, or any incorporated town in said county, and keep such streets, roads, highways, or private reads or way open for any such reasonable time as may be necessary, provided, however, that the company shall properly and completely close up and make good said streets, roads, highways, or private road or way, so opened, at its own cost and charges, to the satisfaction of the municipal council of said county or to the town council of any incorporated town. struct and main tramways, &c., electric energy, 2. For its own uses and purposes the company shall Power to con have power to construct, acquire, maintain and operate tain electric electric tramways or railways in the county of Annapolis, and to supply and shall have power to purchase, sell, lease, hire or let any c real estate necessary for the carrying out of the objects of the company, including factories, stations, laboratories, houses, wharves or tenements. The company is also authorized and empowered to supply electric energy for the purpose of carrying out any object of the company, and for that purpose the said company may carry on poles or otherwise across fields, woodlands, brooks, rivers and streams, and over or under the roads, streets, highways and other public places in the county of Annapolis, or in incorporated towns or towns which may be hereafter incorporated within said county, all wires and other conducting materials, conduits, pipes, wires, insulators, switches or other apparatus as may be necessary, and place and erect in convenient and fitting situations all such apparatus as may be proper or necessary. The company may also construct, maintain and operate by steam, electricity or other motive power, a line or lines of single or double track railway or tramway, with the necessary side tracks, switches, turnouts and other appliances, for the passage of cars, carriages and other vehicles, upon and along the streets, roads and highways of the county of Annapolis, or across fields, woodlands, brooks, rivers and streams situate in said municipality of the county of Annapolis, or incorporated towns or towns which may hereafter be incorporated within said county, subject to leave being first obtained from the council of any municipality or town through which the same may pass. right to track, &c. 3. The cars shall have a right to the tracks as against Cars to have any person, carriage, vehicle or encumbrance put, driven or being thereon, and no person shall obstruct the said tracks, or obstruct or prevent the cars from running or progressing thereon, or remain or keep any vehicle on said tracks in the way of any cars, if there shall be an opportunity to turn off of the same, under a penalty of a sum not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, to be collected under the provisions of chapter 161 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, entitled, "Of Summary Convictionss," or any amendment thereof. up and open 4. The company may further, for the purposes aforesaid, Power to break after permission from and under the supervision of the streets, roads, &c. municipal council and town councils of the respective towns, break up and open the roads, streets, highways, or other public places in the said county of Annapolis and in the said respective towns, and keep such roads, streets, high |