The said Grey ered to sell &c. 1. It shall be lawful for the said community of the Sisters of Charity of the General Hospital of Montreal to sell or otherwise alienate all the fiefs and seigniories generally belonging to the said community and all property to them belonging à titre de fief ou seigneurie in Lower Canada, and all islands and islets appertaining to the said community in Lower Canada,-also all mills, water powers, emplacements, lands and tenements whatsoever, with the buildings thereon and their dependencies, belonging to the said community within the limits of any fiefs or seigniories, islands or islets, belonging to the said community; also, all lands held en censive belonging to the said community, situated in the village of St. Henri in the island of Montreal, and which has been intersected by railways, with all its dependencies. Sales may be 2. It shall also be lawful for the said community of the Sisters made in block of Charity of the General Hospital of Montreal to make or effect or in parcels, the sale or other alienation of such fiefs, seigniories, islands or islets, mills, water powers, emplacements, lands and tenements, with all their appurtenances and dependencies, in block or at different times in parcels, for a fixed price or sum of money, or for constituted rents (rentes constituees) or redeemable ground rents, or by way of exchange for other lands in Lower Canada, and to be paid and receive the price or proceeds of such sales or alienations, and the capital of the constituted or ground rents resulting from such sales or alienations, or to leave the whole or any part thereof in the hands of the purchaser, payable by instalments. 3. It shall be lawful for the said community of the Sisters of Charity of the General Hospital of Montreal to purchase or acquire and hold at any time other immoveable property in Lower Canada, or constituted or ground rents charged upon real estate or immoveable property in Lower Canada up to the amount of the capital produced by the sale or alienation of the property which they are authorized to sell or alienate by this Act, and to sell or otherwise alienate at any time, in the manner prescribed by this Act, the real property, lands received in exchange, constituted or ground rents so acquired; the laws respecting mortmain or any other Act or law to the contrary notwithstanding. 4. The said community of the Sisters of Charity of the General Hospital of Montreal, shall, when required so to do by the Governor or person administering the government of this Province, make a report and submit to him a statement of the sales or other alienations, and of the acquisitions which they may have effected in virtue of this Act, and of all sums of money which they have received as and for the principal arising from the sales or alienations which they shall have effected under the authority of this Act. 5. This Act shall be deemed to be a Public Act. САР. CAP. XIX. An Act to incorporate the Montreal Mountain Boulevard Company. W [Assented to 30th June, 1858.] HEREAS it is desirable for the embellishment of the Preamble. City and Suburbs of Montreal, and for the health of the citizens thereof, that a Boulevard or Public Road should be formed on and around the Mountain adjoining the said City, and that suitable grounds should be set apart upon the sides or top of said Mountain for Public Grounds, Parks, Gardens, Squares or Ornamental Grounds; And whereas Chas. S. Rodier, Mayor, Jno. Boston, Wm. Murray, W. H. Bréhaut, Benj. Hall, Jno. Crawford, Gregor McGregor, Jas. H. Springle, E. A. Dubois, John Leeming, S. W. Monk, A. Robertson, William Workman, D. Lorn McDougall, T. Bouthillier, M. H. Gault, David Bellhouse, J. Glennon, H. L. McDougall, John G. Dinning, Peter Redpath, W. Badgley, J. Smith, S. C. Monk, Chas J. Coursol, James Court, for the heirs McCulloch, L. Villeneuve, for the Montreal Seminary, G. Moffatt, Wm. Dow, L. H. Holton, H. B. Smith, Wm. Lunn, Robt. Anderson, Wm. Watson, John Frothingham, J. S. McCord, M. E. David, T. C. Panton, Robt. McKay, John Young, and Sidney Bellingham, have petitioned to be incorporated, with such other persons as shall become associated with them, as a Company under the name of the "Montreal Mountain Boulevard Company:" Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: ated. 1. The said Charles S. Rodier, Mayor, John Boston, Wm. Certain perMurray, W. H. Bréhaut, Benj. Hall, John Crawford, Gregor sons incorporMcGregor, Jas. H. Springle, E. A. Dubois, John Leeming, S. W. Monk, A. Robertson, Wm. Workman, D. Lorn McDougall, T. Bouthillier, M. H. Gault, David Bellhouse, J. Glennon, H. L. McDougall, John G. Dinning, Peter Redpath, W. Badgley, J. Smith, S. C. Monk, Chas. J. Coursol, James Court, for the heirs McCulloch, L. Villeneuve, for the Montreal Seminary, G. Moffatt, Wm. Dow, L. H. Holton, H. B. Smith, Wm. Lunn, Robt. Anderson, Wm. Watson, John Frothingham, J. S. McCord, M. E. David, T. C. Panton, Robt. McKay, John Young, Sidney Bellingham, and such other persons as shall, under the provisions of this Act, become subscribers to or proprietors in the For what purCompany hereby intended to be incorporated, shall be and are pose. hereby united into a Company for the constructing, maintaining, and managing the Boulevard or Public Road to be formed on and around the said Mountain adjoining the said City of Montreal, and the grounds to be set apart upon the sides or top of the said Mountain for Public Grounds, Parks, Gardens, Squares or Ornamental Grounds, as aforesaid, and shall be, and are hereby ordained, Corporate name. Amount of and shares thereof. ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic in fact, by and under the name of the "Montreal Mountain Boulevard Company," and the said Company shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered from and after the passing of this Act, by themselves, their agents, officers, workmen and servants, to make and complete the Boulevard or Public Road, Public Grounds, Parks, Gardens, Squares or Ornamental Grounds aforesaid for the embellishment of the said City and suburbs, and for the health of the citizens thereof. 2. The Capital Stock of the said Company shall be Fifty capital stock, Thousand Dollars, divided into Shares of Twenty Dollars each; such shares as aforesaid shall be, and the same are hereby vested in the Shareholders and their respective heirs, executors, administrators and assigns as personal estate; and such Shareholders respectively may sell, transfer, give or alienate the shares held by them respectively whensoever they think fit; Power to in- and the said Company shall have power to increase the Capital to One Hundred Thousand Dollars. crease. Votes by proxy or in person-one 3. At all Meetings of the said Company each Shareholder may vote in person or by proxy, duly appointed in for each share. Writing, and shall be entitled to one vote for each share. Subscription books to be opened, after 4. The persons here inbefore named, or the majority of them, shall cause books of subscription to be opened in the public notice. City of Montreal aforesaid, for at least thirty days previous to the Meeting of the Shareholders hereinafter provided for, for receiving the subscriptions of persons willing to become subscribers to the said undertaking; and for this purpose it shall be their duty, and they are hereby required to give public notice in two or more newspapers published in the said City of Montreal, in the English and French languages, as they or a majority of them may think proper, of the time and place at which such books will be opened and ready for receiving subscriptions as aforesaid; and further, the said persons, or a majority of them, are hereby empowered to appoint a Provisional Committee, if they should see fit, for the ends and purposes above specified. City of Montreal and other Municipalities may hold stock. 5. It shall also be lawful for the City of Montreal, or the Municipality of any locality through which the said Boulevard shall pass, or for any religious community or corporation, whose property may be traversed or affected by the said Boulevard, to hold stock in the said Company, or to lend money to the said Company, any Act or law to the contrary notwithstanding, and to appoint a person or persons to vote for such Municipality, Community or Corporation, upon the shares so held, or to exercise any of its other rights as a member of the Corporation, in such manner as said Municipality, Community or Corporation and the Company may agree upon. the election of 6. So soon as Five Thousand Dollars of the Capital Stock First general of the said Company shall have been subscribed as aforesaid, meeting for it shall be the duty of the persons before named, or a majority Directors. of them, or of the Provisional Committee appointed by them as aforesaid, to call a Meeting of the Shareholders for the purpose of putting this Act into effect; which said Meeting shall be held at the City of Montreal aforesaid; and eight days previous notice thereof shall be given in two newspapers published in the English and French languages respectively in Montreal, at which said General Meeting, the Shareholders shall choose nine Directors in the manner and qualified as hereinafter mentioned, who shall hold office until the first annual General Meeting for the election of Directors, and until others be appointed in their stead. 7. In each year after the said Meeting hereinbefore provided Annual meetfor the first election of Directors, the Annual General Meeting ings. of the said Shareholders shall be held on the first Monday in March in each year at the said City of Montreal, at such time and place as the Directors may appoint; and public notice Notice. shall be given thereof by notice inserted once at least, eight days previous to each said Meeting, in two newspapers, the one in the English, the other in the French language, published in the said City of Montreal. 8. At such first, and at every subsequent Annual General Board of DiMeeting of the said Stockholders, the said Stockholders, or a and when to rectors, how majority of them there present, either by proxy or in person, be chosen. by vote, according to the said number of shares, shall choose nine persons then being Stockholders in the said Company which persons so chosen shall be the Board of Directors to manage, direct and carry on the affairs and business of the said Company for one year next following such annual meeting, or until another Board of Directors shall be appointed, and particularly such matters and things as are by this Act hereinafter directed and authorized to be done by such Directors, and as shall from time to time be ordered by such annual or other General Meetings of the said Shareholders; and shall have power to name and appoint from the Members Appointment of the said Board a President, a Vice-President and a Treasurer of Officers. and Secretary; and at any Meeting of the said Board duly held, any five members of such Board shall be a quorum, and may exercise the powers of the said Board: Provided always, Proviso. that such President, or Vice-President in the absence of the President, to be chosen as aforesaid, in addition to his own vote, shall have a casting vote in case of any equal division of votes at the Meetings of the aforesaid Directors: Provided Proviso. always, that such Board shall, from time to time, make reports of their proceedings to, and be subject to examination and control of, the said General Meetings of the Shareholders at any such General Meetings, such orders and directions not being contrary to the provisions of this Act or to the Laws of Proviso. Proviso. this Province: Provided also, that the Directors who are to be chosen at the first Meeting of the said Shareholders shall be a Board for the purposes aforesaid, until the said first Annual General Meeting, and shall have the like powers, and exercise all or any of the powers vested by this Act in the said Board to be chosen at such first or other general annual meeting : Provided also further, that the members of any such Board at any time going out of office may be re-elected: And provided also further, that security may be taken from any of the office bearers of the said Company for the due fulfilment of their duties And provided also further, that any Stockholder in the said Company, whether a British subject or alien, or a resident in Canada or elsewhere, shall have an equal right to hold Stock in the said Company, and to vote on the same, and Qualification to be eligible to office in the said Company; and no person of a Director. shall be qualified as Director unless he hold ten Shares of the Capital Stock of the said Company. Proviso. Failure to hold annual meeting not to dissolve Com pany. Duties of Board of Directors. As to agents or servants. Proviso. Shares and : 9. The failure to hold the first annual General Meeting, or another meeting, or to elect such Board of Directors, shall not dissolve the said Corporation; but such failure or omission may be supplied by and at any such special meeting to be called as the said Directors may appoint for that purpose; and until such election of a new Board, those who may be in office for the time being shall be and continue in office, and exercise all the rights and powers thereof until such new election be made as hereinbefore provided. 10. The said Board shall have and be invested with full power and authority to conduct, manage and oversee, and transact all and singular the concerns, affairs and business of the said Company, and all matters and things whatever in any wise relating to or concerning the same, and amongst other things Firstly. To appoint and employ, and remove all such officers, engineers, surveyors, agent or agents, servant or servants, of the said Company, as they may find from time to time expedient and necessary, and to regulate the duties, and fix the salaries and wages of such agents and servants, and the necessary expenditure for the management and working of the said Company; and such Officers, Engineers, Surveyors, Agent or Agents, Servant or Servants, shall have the right to enter on all lands whatsoever in the vicinity of the said Boulevard to enable them to make surveys; Provided the said Company shall be responsible for all damages thereby occasioned to the owners or occupiers of such lands; Secondly. To regulate the form of certificate of shares, and their transfer. all matters relating to their transfer; and to regulate the form of proxy to be used by shareholders, and the node of voting Proxies. by proxy. Thirdly. |