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hold a Court, but no Judge shall receive such Fee unless he shall be in actual attendance at the Court.

II. The Fees to be hereafter received for services and proceedings in the Court Regulation of Court. shall be according to the Table of Fees now allowed by the practice of the Court of Chancery, as nearly as circumstances will permit, and the Vice President is hereby empowered to prepare a Table accordingly; and no other or greater Fees shall be taxed or allowed therein.

CAP. XXXII.

An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Township of
Maxwelton to build a Lock-up House.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

appoint Com. for erection of Lock

up House

I. The Justices of the Peace in the County of Pictou, at the next General Sessions, or at any Special Sessions to be held on application being made by the Inbabitants of the Justices of Peace to Township of Maxwelton, by Petition, to such Justices for the purpose, shall nomiuate and appoiut a Committee, consisting of not less than Three Inhabitants of the Township, to select a suitable site for the erection of a Lock-up House in the Township, and to build and complete the same in such manner as to the Committee may appear expedient, by Public Tender and Contract or otherwise; and after the same is so built and completed, the Justices shall direct the cost thereof to be assessed, levied and collected, in such way as they shall see fit, together with and in the same manner as the County Taxes are assessed, levied, and collected.

Rules for regulation of Lock-up House.

II. The Justices at any such General or Special Sessions, may prepare and pass a Justices to make Set of Rules for the regulation and good government of the Lock-up House, and also for the regulation of the several expenses thereof; and the annual expense shall be regularly thereafter assessed, levied and collected, together with and in the same manner as the County Taxes are assessed, levied and collected.

CAP. XXXIII.

An Act to enable Suitors in the Supreme Court to obtain the Testimony of the Judges thereof.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

to be taken de bene esse.

I. Whenever any Suitor shall desire to obtain the Testimony of any Judge of the Evidence of Judge Supreme Court in any Cause pending therein, he may have the evidence of such Judge taken de bene esse before any other Judge of the Court, or any Commissioner, in the same manner as in the case of a Witness about to leave the Province; and such Testimony may be used on the Trial, although the Judge may not be out of the Province-provided he shall be necessarily absent from the County on Official Business.

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CAP. XXXIV.

An Act to provide for the Custody of certain Documents relating to the Township of Chester.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

I. After the passing of this Act, all Plans, Grants, Title Deeds, and Conveyances, have custody of all belonging to the Township of Chester, or in which all the Proprietors thereof have a Papers, &c. of Township of Chester.

To be open for inspection.

Common Interest, or whereby any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, have been granted to the Township, or the Proprietors thereof generally, shall be kept in the Custody of the Clerk of the Township for the time being, who shall have power to bring Suit in his own name for the recovery thereof.

II. Such Public Documents shall be open at all times to the inspection of all parties interested therein, on payment to the Clerk of a fee of Six Pence for each.

Maitland Tem. Hall Company incorporated.

Company may hold
Estate.

CAP. XXXV.

An Act to Incorporate a Temperance Hall Company at Maitland.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. The following Persons residing in the County of Hants, that is to say: David Frieze, Henry M'Dowell, Arthur M'Nutt Cochran, David Whidden, James Putman, Alexander A. McDougall, James Crow, Samuel Gourley, James Sterling, William Cox, John Graham, and Alexander Roy, and such other persons as shall become Proprietors of Shares in the Company hereby established, and their respective Successors, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, shall be a Body Politic and Corporate, by the name of the "Maitland Temperance Hall Company," and by that name shall have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and may sue and be sued.

II. The Company may take and hold Real and Personal Estate, and may Sell, Lease, Real and Personal Mortgage, or otherwise deal with the same as may be necessary, subject to the restrictions hereinafter provided, and may at any General Meeting make Bye Laws, and alter or amend the same, which, when not repugnant to the Laws of the Province, shall have force and effect.

Real Estate not to exceed £3000.

Division of Shares.
Do. Personal Pro-
perty.
Company may sue

for amonnt due on
Shares.

Shareholders not responsible for

III. The Company shall not hold at any time Real Estate to a greater value than Three Thousand Pounds.

IV. The Capital of the Company shall be divided into Shares of One Pound each, which shall be assignable as may be provided by the Bye Laws, and which, notwithstanding the Company may hold Real Estate, shall be deemed to be Personal Property. V. The Subscribers shall pay the amounts subscribed by them towards the Undertakings, at the times and places directed by the Bye Laws, and if any person shall not pay the same as so directed, the Company may sue therefor; but the Company shall not compel any Shareholder to pay more than the amount of his Shares and Costs of Suit.

VI. The Joint Stock or Property of the Company shall be alone liable for its Debts Debt beyond their and Engagements, and no Shareholders shall be in any way responsible for more than the amount of the Shares which he shall actually hold in the Company.

Shares.

VII.

sold under Execu

tion.

pany, how to be called, &c.

VII. The Real Estate of the Company may be taken upon any Writ of Execution Real Estate may be issued on a Judgment entered against the Company, and may be sold and conveyed by the Sheriff in the same manner as in the case of the Lands of private individuals. VIII. The General Annual Meeting of the Company shall be held at the Village of Meetings of ComMaitland, on the First Monday of March in every year, after the present year,-the place of Meeting to be notified to the Company by the Directors, by Advertisement, posted in at least Three public places in or near the Village of Maitland, for at least Ten days previous to the Meeting, and the Directors shall summon Special Meetings when they deem necessary, or whenever there shall be delivered to the Board a Requisition in writing therefor, signed by Twenty Shareholders, and specifying the object of the Meeting, and Ten days notice of any Special Meeting, and of the object thereof, shall be given by Advertisement, posted in at least Three public places in or near the Village of Maitland; and any General or Special Meeting may be adjourned as may be found expedient.

of Shareholders at Meetings.

IX. At any Meeting of the Company each Shareholder having paid all Calls on Regulation of Votes him made, then due and payable, shall be entitled to vote either in person or by proxy, as directed by the Bye Laws, as follows, namely: The Owner of One Share shall have one vote, the Owner of Four Shares shall have two votes, and the Owner of Eight or more Shares shall have three votes, and no more. At the Meetings of the Directors, each Director shall have one vote only, and every question shall be decided by a majority of the votes of those present; and if the votes shall be equal, the President, or in his absence, the Chairman of the Board shall have a casting vote in addition to his own personal vote.

of Company.

X. As soon after the passing of this Act as may be deemed expedient, the Twelve Election of Officers Persons first herein named, or any three of them shall, by Advertisement, to be posted in at least Three public places, in or near the Village of Maitland, appoint a day and place for the First General Meeting of the Subscribers, and at such Meeting, a Chairman being chosen from among the Subscribers present, with a Secretary, the Company shall be organized and go into operation, and shall elect Seven Directors, who shall choose one of their number, by ballot, as President, and shall appoint a Secretary— which Officers shall continue in Office until the First Annual General Meeting, and thence until a new choice of Officers be made by the Company; but no person shall at any time be eligible to hold Office in the Company unless he be a Member of some Temperance Society in the County of Hants.

annually elected by Ballot.

XI. At each Annual Meeting Seven Directors shall be elected by Ballot, in the fol- Directors to be lowing manner, viz: Three of the Seven who have served during the past year, if willing to serve again, shall be first elected, and the remainder shall then be elected from among the Shareholders indiscriminately.

XII. No person interested in a Contract under the Company shall be elected a Director, and no Director shall take a Contract under the Company. XIII. If any Director shall die, resign, or become disqualified or incompetent, the remaining Directors shall, from among the Shareholders, elect another Director in his stead.

XIV. If in any case the Annual Meeting shall not be held, the Directors shall continue to act until new Directors are appointed.

XV. The Company may sell additional Shares, from time to time, as may be necessary, and the purchasers thereof shall be entitled to all the privileges of Shareholders. XVI. The Directors may with the assent of two-thirds of the Shareholders to be given in writing at any Genaral or Special Meeting regularly convened, and not otherwise, borrow on Mortgage of the Real Estate of the Company, such sums as may be necessary for the uses thereof, or absolutely to sell and convey the same if deemed expedient, and to execute the Deeds necessary for such for such purpose.

Directors not to take

Contracts under the Company.

Vacancy-how

filled.

Directors to act till new ones appointed.

Company may sell

additional Shares.

Directors may bor

row Money on Mortgage of Real Estate, or sell do.

Restrictions.

Clauses in Act8th
Vict. continued

Governor to appoint
Commissioners.

Commrs. may remove Obstructions.

Commrs. may bor

row Money.

Commrs. to collect

Tolls to be ap

pointed by Sessn.

Commrs. annually

XVII. The Company shall not lend Money by way of Discount, or otherwise engage in any Banking operation, nor effect any Marine, Life, or Fire Insurance.

CAP. XXXVI.

An Act relating to the Pictou Academy.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

I. The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Clauses of the Act passed in the Eighth Year of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to amend and alter the Act to regulate and support the Pictou Academy," are hereby continued until the First day of May, which will be in the year of Our Lord One Thonsand Eight Hundred and Fifty-two, and no longer.

CAP. XXXVII.

An Act to provide for the Removal of Obstructions from the Liverpool River,

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:
I. The Governor in Council may appoint Five Commissioners for the purposes of
this Act.

II. The Commissioners shall have power to remove from the Liverpool River all Obstructions existing between the Indian Gardens and Milton, and to erect WingDams at such places, and in such manner as they shall see fit, and do all other necessary things so as to facilitate the passing of Logs, Timber, and Lumber down the River; and for that purpose may enter upon the Lands of Private Individuals, doing no unnecessary damage.

III. The Commissioners may borrow upon their own credit, or upon the credit of The Tolls arising from the Undertaking, as hereinafter mentioned, such Sums of Money not exceeding Six Hundred Pounds in the whole, as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid.

IV. When the Undertaking is completed, the Commissioners may collect a Toll of such amount and in such manner, and under such Regulations for enforcing payment thereof as the Court of General Sessions, or any Special Sessions called for the purpose may from time to time direct, upon all Logs, Timber, and Lumber brought down the River between the Indian Gardens and Milton, and shall apply such Tolls to the payment of the Amount borrowed, for the completion of the Undertaking, with Interest but no Toll shall be levied after such amount is liquidated.

to submit Accnts., Proceedings, and of the Tolls collected, to the General Sessions of the Peace.

V. The Commissioners shall annually submit an Account of their Expenditures and

Restrictions.

VI. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to sanction a claim on the General Revenues of the Province, nor to authorize any interference with the Navigation or Fisheries of the River, further than may be absolutely necessary for the purposes above mentioned, nor to affect or injure the rights of private individuals, further than is herein expressly provided.

CAP.

1850.

ANNO DECIMO TERTIO VICTORIE REGINE. C. XXXVIII.

CAP. XXXVIII.

An Act to Incorporate the Halifax Association in aid of the Colonial Church Society.

(Passed the 28th day of March, A. D. 1850.)

BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

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in aid of the Colonial Church Society incorpo

rated.

I. The persons hereinafter named, that is to say: Robert Fitzgerald Uniacke, John Halifax Association W. Ritchie, James G. A. Creighton, William Howe, Henry Ince, Thomas A. Brown, and all such other persons as now are Members of the Society called the "Halifax Association, in aid of the Colonial Church Society," and their Successors, are hereby created a Body Corporate, by the name of "The Halifax Association, in aid of the Colonial Church Society," and by that name shall have Succession and a Common Seal, and by that name may sue and be sued, and may purchase, take, and hold Real and Personal Estate, and may let, sell, convey, or otherwise manage and dispose of the same, or any part thereof, and shall have power to make Bye-Laws for the rule and good management of the Association, the establishing of the Officers proper for the management of its Affairs, and generally for the promotion of the interests of the Society; but such Bye Laws shall not be contrary to the Laws of this Province or the provisions of this Act.

II. The Society shall not hold at any time Real Estate of greater value than Ten Thousand Pounds.

III. All persons paying an Annual Subscription of Ten Shillings or upwards, or making at one time a Donation of Ten Pounds, when admitted, pursuant to the ByeLaws, shall be Members of the Society; but if such Annual Subscription or Donation shall not be actually paid into the Funds on or before the First day of April in each year, such Member shall cease to be a Member of the Society until the same shall be paid, or until such person shall otherwise become a Member thereof, under some ByeLaw or Rule of the Society.

Real Estate.

Subscription of

Members of Society.

IV. The Association shall be governed, and its affairs managed, by a Committee of Officers of Society. not less than Fifteen Persons, comprising a President, Two Vice Presidents, and not less than Ten other Members, a Secretary and Treasurer-the Committee to be henceforth called the Executive Committee; and such other Officers as the Society may deem proper.

continue in office.

V. The persons who now hold the Offices of President, Vice Presidents, Committee, Present Officers to Secretary, and Treasurer, shall continue to be the President, Vice Presidents, Committee, Šecretary, and Treasurer until their Successors shall be elected under this Act. VI. The Society shall have power to appoint its Office-bearers at some General Meeting of the Society by a majority of the Members present, being not less than Twenty Members, according to the Bye-Laws to be made under and by virtue of this of this Act.

Society to appoint
Office Bearers at
General Meeting.

tee to invest donations and to submit Annual Report.

VI. All Donations to the Society shall be invested, under the direction of the Exe- Executive Commitcutive Committee, as a permanent fund for the benefit of the Society, and the Executive Committee shall be bound to account to the Society for all their Acts, Receipts, and Expenditures, and to make an Annual Report to the Society at its General Meeting, of the progress and state of the Society, and of its affairs generally.

VIII. A General Meeting of the Society shall be held once in each year, and as much oftener as may be directed by any Rule or Bye-Law of the Society. IX. The Executive Committee shall meet as often as there may be occasion, and any five of its Members may form a quorum.

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General Meetings.

Meetings of Execu

tive Committee.

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