CHAPTER 144. An Act to Incorporate the Westport Electric Light, (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Derby I. Jack, Electrician; Charles M. Hicks, Incorporation. Master Mariner; Hubert P. Bowers, Merchant; Ralph Welch, Master Mariner; Thomas M. Hicks, Merchant; William A. Pugh, Customs Officer; and Arthur Moore, Master Mariner, all of Westport, in the County of Digby, and such other persons as may hereafter become shareholders in the Corporation hereby created, their successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate, by the name of "The Westport Electric Light, Heating and Power Company, Limited," and by that name shall have succession and a common seal, and shall and may sue and be sued, impead and be impleaded in any Court or Courts, and shall hereinafter be referred to as "The Company." 2. The objects and powers of the Company shall objects. be: to generate, manufacture, produce and deal in Electric and Galvanic Currents, and all materials and appliances and apparatus for the application, conversion and use of the same, and to use or sell and dispose thereof for heating, lighting and for power for any domestic or industrial purpose; to acquire, construct, maintain and operate all plant, plant-houses, buildings, mills, manufactories, dynamos, machinery and other things necessary in connection with the general undertaking of the Company; to purchase lands and otherwise acquire, hold and use and enjoy real and personal property of every description and to sell, convey, mortgage, let or otherwise dispose of the same; to erect and maintain, with the consent and under the supervision of the Superintendent of Highways for the Municipality of the District of Digby, usual and necessary wires upon poles along every and all ways, highways and streets in the District of Westport, in said Municipality, for the purpose of conveying said Electric or Galvanic Current from the point or points where the same is generated to the point or points of consumption; to enter into contracts with other companies or persons to supply the Electric Current they may require in their business, and to make contracts for any other purposes pertaining to the business of the Company; to acquire any exclusive or other right in letters patent or patent rights or privileges within the objects of the Company; to acquire any undertaking, contract or business within the objects of the Company; to sell or otherwise dispose of the whole or any branch of the Company's business or property to any company, person or persons carrying on or formed or associated for the purpose of carrying on any objects similar to those of the Company; to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, hold and enjoy all the property, franchises, rights and privileges held and enjoyed by any other company or companies carrying on any business similar to that which this Company is authorized to carry on within the said Municipality of the District of Digby. Said property, rights, franchises and privileges, when purchased, leased or otherwise acquired as above stated, shall be owned and enjoyed by this Company as fully and effectually as the same were heretofore held and enjoyed by the company from which the same were so purchased, leased or otherwise acquired subject to all existing valid liens and charges. authority. 3. The said Company shall have power and auth-Power and ority to do any matter or thing necessary to carry out any of the above objects or incidental or conducive to the same, subject, however, to the laws of this Province. 4. The capital stock of the said Company shall be Capital stock. ten thousand dollars divided into four hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each, with power to increase the same to any amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars upon a vote of a majority of all the shares issued by the Company at a special meeting called for the purpose or at any general meeting of the Company. bility. 5. No member or director of the Company shall be Limited lialiable in his person or separate estate for the debts or liabilities of the Company to a greater extent than the amount unpaid on the shares held by him, unless he shall have rendered himself liable for a greater sum by becoming surety for the debts of the Company. directors. 6. The persons named in the first section of this Provisional Act, and such persons as they may in writing associate with them, are constituted provisional directors of the Company. The provisional directors shall hold office as such until the first annual meeting of shareholders, which may be called at such time and place and upon such reasonable notice as they may determine, and until such meeting, the provisional directors shall have power to open a stock subscription list and to assign and allot stock of said Company, and have and exercise all the powers of ordinary directors of the Company under the provisions of this Act. Vacancies caused by death or resignation shall be filled by the directors until the next annual meeting. The number of the directors of the Company shall not be less than three or more than seven. Meetings. 7. The annual general meeting of the shareholders Shareholders and all other meetings of shareholders or directors shall be held at such time and at such place as may be appointed by the by-laws of the Company. 8. No person shall be elected a director of the Com- Director must pany unless he shall be holder and owner in his own be shareholder. By-laws. Paint and affix. When company may commence right, of at least two shares in the Company, and shall have paid up all calls made thereon. 9. The directors may from time to time make, alter and repeal by-laws not inconsistent with this Act or with the laws of the Province of Nova Scotia; such by-laws when approved by the Governor-inCouncil shall have the force of law. 10. The Company shall paint or affix and shall keep painted or affixed its name with the word “limited" after it 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 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. 11. The Company shall not commence operations operations. until fifty per cent of its capital stock is subscribed, and fifty per cent of such subscriptions paid up. Negotiable Instruments. extend plant. 12. The Company shall have power to draw, accept or endorse bills of exchange and promissory notes on behalf of and for the purposes of the Company. Company may 13. The Company shall have power under the authority of this Act to install, and extend its plant and system and business throughout the Districts of Freeport and Tiverton, in said County of Digby. Act ceases and determines. 14. This Act shall cease and determine if actual work is not commenced and continued within two years from the date of its passing. CHAPTER 145. An Act to Amend Chapter 198, Acts of 1903 entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the Cape Breton Barristers' Association" as Amended. (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 198; 1903; as 1. Section 10 of Chapter 198 of the Acts of 1903, Sec. 10; Ch. entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the Cape Breton enacted by Ch. Barristers' Association," as said section is enacted 96; 1906, repealed; subby Chapter 96 of the Acts of 1906, is repealed and the stituted. following substituted therefor: - 10. No barrister or solicitor shall be capable of maintaining any action for the recovery of any charge, fee, costs or disbursements for or in respect of any matter or thing done by him as a barrister or solicitor, nor shall he be capable of taxing or having allowed him by any taxing authority his costs in any action, cause, matter or proceeding, nor of entering judgment for any such charge, fee, costs or disbursements in any court of law, unless and until his fee and dues to the Association are fully paid and not in arrears; and the Secretary of the Association shall furnish the Prothonotary and Clerk of the County Court at Sydney, in the County of Cape Breton, with a list of barristers and solicitors in arrears for such fees or dues during the last week in the month of December in each year. |