Penalty for destroying property etc.

Resetting, etc. of headstones,

etc.

Poor Lot.

Permits for burials.

By-laws.

Records.

24. Any person who shall play at any game of sport in the cemetery or commit any nuisance therein shall be punished on summary conviction by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than forty dollars and expenses, or be committed to the common jail for the space of not more than sixty days.

25. In case headstones or monuments in any lot or lots in the cemetery shall require re-setting or straightening, the owner or owners of the lot may be notified in writing by the Secretary of the condition of such headstone or monument, and required to have the same attended to, and in case of their not attending to same within one month after said notice, the Trustees shall have power to straighten or re-set any such headstones or monuments and charge the costs thereof to the owner or owners of the lot, and the said costs shall be recoverable in the same manner as assessments are collected.

26. The Trustees in planning the cemetery shall lay out and keep in reserve and in good order a portion of the cemetery for the burial of the poor and strangers, and all graves in such portion of the cemetery shall be marked by a stone with a number cut on it, and such number shall be recorded in the books of the Company.

27. The Secretary shall issue permits for all burials free of charge, and any person who opens any grave or inters any corpse in any part of the cemetery without a permit shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or to imprisonment in the common jail for a period of sixty days.

28. The Corporation shall have power to make such by-laws, not inconsistent with this Act or any laws of the Province, as may be deemed necessary for its purpose, subject to the approval of the Governorin-Council.

29. The Trustees shall record in a book kept for that purpose all their by-laws and proceedings, and every lot holder shall have access to such book for the purpose of searching and making extracts therefrom without charge.

CHAPTER 137.

An Act Relating to Nova Scotia Finance and Discount

Lmited.

(Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923).

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

poses contained

dum of Associa

1. The following purposes of Nova Scotia Finance Certain purand Discount, Limited, contained in that Company's in MemoranMemorandum of Association registered by the Regis- tion not deemed trar of Joint Stock Companies under the Nova Scotia Banking, loan, Companies Act, 1921, that is to say:

(a) to purchase, discount or otherwise acquire, and to sell, assign, transfer and otherwise dispose of and deal in and with any conditional sale agreements, hiring and purchase agreements, lien notes, lien agreements, agreements for sale of real or personal property, mortgages of real or personal property, hyprothecs, bills of sale, chattel mortgages, charges, liens, pledges, bills of exchange, promissory notes, money orders, contracts for the payment of money or for the delivery of goods and chattels or other personal property, bills of lading, warehouse receipts, dock warrants, delivery orders and policies of insurance of all classes and descriptions,

(b) to purchase or otherwise acquire and to sell, assign, transfer and otherwise dispose of and to deal in and with automobiles and other vehicles and other goods, wares and merchandise of every sort and description, and any interest in such automobiles or other vehicles or such goods, wares and merchandise,

(c) to carry on the business of insurance brokers and insurance agents in all branches of the said business, whether marine, fire, life, accident, sickness, burglary, automobile or other branch of insurance,

purposes of

trust or insurance Company.

Copy of Act to
be filed with
Registrar of
Joint Stock
Cos.

shall not in respect of that Company be deemed to be the purposes of a banking, loan, trust or insurance company.

2. Within twenty days after the enactment hereof the Company shall cause a copy hereof to be delivered to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies who shall retain and register the same.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 138.

An Act to Incorporate the Pugwash Soldiers' Memororial, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

(Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923).

WHEREAS, after the conclusion of the Great War a committee of the citizens of the Village of Pugwash, in Polling District No. Seven, in the County of Cumberland, appealed to the inhabitants of the said polling district for contributions to a fund to be applied towards the erection and maintenance of a suitable monument to be erected at Pugwash aforesaid to the memory of the men from the said polling district who gave their lives for their country in the Great War;

And Whereas in response to such appeal contributions amounting to several thousand dollars were received;

And Whereas, lands have been acquired and a suitable monument has been erected thereon at Pugwash aforesaid for the purpose aforesaid;

And Whereas, the said lands are comprised in a conveyance dated the 25th day of November, 1919, and registered in the Registry of Deeds at Amherst in book 139 at page 374 and made between Hubert G. Brown of the one part and D. MacKintosh and H. F. Elliott, Trustee, of the other part;

And Whereas, the inhabitants of the said polling district are desirous of becoming incorporated for the purpose of holding the said monument and the land upon which the same was erected and for the further purpose of making provision by by-laws for the care of the said lands and of the said monument;

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

1. The inhabitants of the said polling district are Incorporation. hereby created a body corporate by the name of "Pugwash Soldiers' Memorial, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia," and such body corporate shall have perpetual succession and a seal.

2. D. MacKintosh, M. D.; Herbert F. Elliott and Trustees. Fred R. Dakin, merchants, all of Pugwash aforesaid, are hereby appointed Trustees of the said Corporation and they shall be entitled to hold such office until their successors are elected.

3. The said Trustees may make by-laws for the By-laws. following purposes:

(a) fixing the time and place for an annual meeting of the inhabitants of the said polling district;

(b) the investment of money belonging to the said Corporation;

(c) the employment of workmen to keep the said lands and the said monument in suitable condition;

(d) generally for any purpose in connection with the foregoing;

and such by-laws when approved by the LieutenantGovernor-in-Council shall be valid and binding.

4. An annual meeting of the inhabitants of the Annual Meetsaid polling district shall be held at such time and ing.

place as the Trustees may by by-law determine. The first annual meeting shall be held on the First

Notice of Meeting.

Who entitled to vote.

Accounts;
Auditors.

Election of
Trustees.

day of July, 1923, and if no other time is prescribed the annual meeting shall be held on the First day of July in every year.

5. Ten days' notice at the least, specifying the place, the day and the hour of meeting, shall be given by the Trustees to the inhabitants of the said polling district by posting at least three notices thereof in public places in the said polling district.

6.

All inhabitants of the said polling district whose names are registered on the list of voters of the said polling district entitled to vote at an election of a member to represent the said County of Cumberland in the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia shall be entitled to vote at such meetings. Votes must be given personally and not by proxy.

7.

The Trustees shall cause true accounts to be kept of the sums of money received and expended by them, and the matter in respect of which such receipt and expenditure takes place and the credits and liabilities of the corporation. Three auditörs shall be appointed at each annual meeting, and the books of account shall be open to the inspection of such auditors during business hours five days before the annual meeting.

8. Three Trustees shall be elected at the annual meeting. The retiring Trustees shall in each case be eligible for re-election.